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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
She's So Unusual Cyndi Lauper	5	3.48	+1.52
Tragic Songs of Life The Louvin Brothers	4	2.58	+1.42
3 + 3 The Isley Brothers	5	3.59	+1.41
In A Silent Way Miles Davis	5	3.62	+1.38
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	5	3.63	+1.37
Pictures At An Exhibition Emerson, Lake & Palmer	4	2.64	+1.36
Let's Get Killed David Holmes	4	2.67	+1.33
Music Madonna	4	2.68	+1.32
Songs From The Big Chair Tears For Fears	5	3.74	+1.26
Off The Wall Michael Jackson	5	3.8	+1.2

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Beggars Banquet The Rolling Stones	1	3.62	-2.62
Exile On Main Street The Rolling Stones	1	3.6	-2.6
Blonde On Blonde Bob Dylan	1	3.49	-2.49
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	1	3.48	-2.48
Underwater Moonlight The Soft Boys	1	3.06	-2.06
Purple Rain Prince	2	4.02	-2.02
Vauxhall And I Morrissey	1	2.96	-1.96
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm A Tribe Called Quest	2	3.61	-1.61
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	2	3.47	-1.47
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	2	3.45	-1.45

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Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Despite jazz being difficult to get into, I respect the vibes and skill. An intrepid album that makes for easy listening.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

1/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Starting off strong with a Sonic Rush reference. We have to stan. Night of the Living Baseheads ran so The World Ends With You could walk. I said what I said.

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Fire.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

LP1

FKA twigs

3/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Ctrl

SZA

4/5

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

3/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

2/5

The most "product of its time" album I've heard so far.

The Slider

T. Rex

2/5

Meh.

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

4/5

Finally, something interesting! Could've done without the addition of lyrics to well-known themes. Overall, silly and fun to listen to.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

Classic Soundgarden...

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

1/5

Couldn't finish it, just not for me!

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2/5

Not for me...

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

3/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

NEU! 75

Neu!

2/5

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

2/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

1/5

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

3/5

Goofy enough to inspire me to start recording my own music...thank you, Mr. Simon.

Phrenology

The Roots

4/5

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

3/5

Indie rock I could stand listening to!

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

5/5

AGAIN, finally some good fucking food. It's weeks at a time that something interesting turns up on this list. Devastating.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

1/5

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

3/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

Killer af, would listen again.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

Ehhh....

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

2/5

I wish I could give this a 2.75, it's not that bad!

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

2/5

They really let this guy have a career? I guess things were dire back then...

Music

Madonna

4/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

2/5

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

3/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

4/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

1/5

You can't make me listen to Bob again !!!

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

3/5

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

2/5

sssnzzzzz

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

2/5

Maybe I should've cherished Bob Dylan a little more while I had him.

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

I could never get into Bowie, alas...

Street Signs

Ozomatli

4/5

A breath of fresh air in comparison to the absolute slog I've had for the last week. Who doesn't love latin hip-hop from the early aughts?

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

3/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

4/5

So good!!

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

2/5

Low

David Bowie

3/5

3.75

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

5/5

FINALLYYYYY - such an easy listen, it's fire, nothing else on this list freaking MATTERS

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

3/5

Garbage

4/5

We have to stan. Except for the singular track that set off my tinnitus. Stellar overall!

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

2/5

I think this is what Bob Dylan would've sounded like if he was even a little bit good. 2.75.

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

2/5

ssnnnnzzzzz

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

Thank you Beastie Boys for saving my life amidst a dreary folk rock weekend. Thank you!!!!

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

1/5

Snooze fest. You would think this would be beyond exciting with how universally recognized this cover art is, for better or worse.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

Now this is real music. What a dream, what a journey. Loved every minute.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

So good!! 4.75.

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Classic. 4.5.

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

2/5

2.75.

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

4/5

Slow start, but I ended up really liking this album. Went a lot of places and didn't mind. 4.25. Favorite tracks: Rodney Yates, Radio 7, Slashers Revenge, Don't Die Just Yet.

Purple Rain

Prince

2/5

I remember trying to listen to Prince when I was younger and not liking what I heard. My dad would make references to Purple Rain all the time, so I thought it had to be good, surely. With this relisten, ~15 years later, I was hoping it was just my crappy teenage taste. I still don't find myself liking this unfortunately. I have to stan this icon on paper, at least, if not by ear.

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

2/5

I never would've expected this on here. I like Musgraves's voice, but I think this is due to the fact that I worked at Claire's between 2015-2018, which makes me predisposed to enjoying this kind of music in an almost Stockholm syndrome-like way. Unfortunately, I need more pop in my country to really land, and this album was leaning more in the dentist's office waiting room direction. Not terrible, but I can only stomach these tunes within their context. 2.75.

Dust

Screaming Trees

4/5

Go, white boy, go!! Finally, rock I can stand listening to and *enjoy*. This is probably the second album in my run of 50+ albums (so far) that I'm happy to have discovered through this exercise. Favorite track: Sworn & Broken.

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

2/5

A fun listen, but I think I would've appreciated it more if I watched the film this is from. Like many others have said, I wish there was more diversity in this godforsaken list, because this certainly isn't the end all be all of Indian music and I'd love to experience a fuller breadth of a culture's offerings. Dimery, it's on sight.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Fire. Loved the copious amount of instrumental tracks. 4.5.

Konnichiwa

Skepta

3/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

2/5

Not for me, alas...it took days to listen to this. Some of it was interesting, though.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

5/5

Beyond stellar. Loved every minute, but these were my favorites: Sunshine (Go away today), Summer Breeze, Highways of my Life.

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

4/5

I have a soft spot in my heart for this flavor of country. 3.75 but rounding up to an official 4 because of the beautiful harmonizing.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Stairway to Heaven is hard carrying, but this band, this album, is a staple for a reason. Yes, rock is predominantly hot ass, but even if my interest waned there and again during this listen, it's far and away some of the best I've heard on this list. Kudos for being even a little bit interesting!

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

3/5

3.75. Not bad!!

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Finally, an album you absolutely *must* listen to. I was hesitant because KL's voice is not...my favorite, but I never sat down to give an album the old college try. This is absolutely a product of its time and it's still relevant 11 years later. I was hooked throughout the album...something that is nearly impossible with all the dreck that is on this list, so that's an immediate win for me. I hesitate to name a favorite track because all of them held my interest, but it's probably (predictably) King Kunta. It's telling how many dismiss this album on the grounds of "profanity", "self-indulgence", and "typical fuck hoes get money" type shit. It will be no surprise to anyone that these people are probably those who swear up and down English rock bands (or, heaven forbid, Bob Dylan) are musical revolutionaries we should be so lucky to listen to. I can only hope the likes of you grow up one day. While TPaB is hardly original in its themes, it's unique, ambitious, and stupid catchy. Well deserved 5/5.

The Libertines

2/5

ssnnnzzzz...

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

3/5

Not what I expected. Pretty good! 3.5.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

What a classic. I've always liked how half the songs in here have a mid-2010's sound, despite being an album from 2007.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

3/5

Sigh.

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

4/5

Great album. Favorite tracks: Can It All Be So Simple, Verbal Intercourse, North Star. Shout out to the beat in Can It Be All So Simple for sounding like the foundation for Dive into the Mellow (Aquatic Mine) from Sonic Adventure 2.

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

2/5

I only like one OMD song and it's not even on this album. A shame.