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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
E.V.O.L. Sonic Youth	5	2.89	+2.11
Germfree Adolescents X-Ray Spex	5	3.05	+1.95
Roxy Music Roxy Music	5	3.1	+1.9
Since I Left You The Avalanches	5	3.28	+1.72
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.3	+1.7
Tidal Fiona Apple	5	3.46	+1.54
Rust Never Sleeps Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.51	+1.49
The Score Fugees	5	3.69	+1.31
The Low End Theory A Tribe Called Quest	5	3.7	+1.3
Grace Jeff Buckley	5	3.74	+1.26

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Exile On Main Street The Rolling Stones	1	3.6	-2.6
Who's Next The Who	2	3.9	-1.9
Roots Sepultura	1	2.79	-1.79
Now I Got Worry The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion	1	2.52	-1.52
Tusk Fleetwood Mac	2	3.47	-1.47
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	2	3.34	-1.34
Songs In The Key Of Life Stevie Wonder	3	4.08	-1.08
Kind Of Blue Miles Davis	3	4.05	-1.05

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1-Star Albums (3)

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Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

2/5

Album was a bit all over the place, and a bit long. Loved the one-two punch of Sara/ What Makes You Think You're The One

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Enjoyed some of this album, Sledgehammer is still awesome, but some sounded too dated/80s to be my favourite- really synthy

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

Great album- loved this one! I’m definitely going to revisit this one- if had me dancing, but it was also mellow enough to just have in the background.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

Dolly’s voice is beautiful, this was a nice listen! Travelling Man made me laugh with the plot twist as well. This felt really classic old school country/folk, and I enjoyed the sound, especially the vocal harmonies.

The Score

Fugees

5/5

An absolute classic, I loved relistening to this! I enjoy the way the whole album flows together as a whole, the transitions between songs and little intros really make do an awesome full album listen.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

I think this was a good album, but I also kept forgetting I was listening to it while it was on. That may have been Christmas busyness rather than album quality issue, but it was sort of gentle and soft and kind of just slid into the background for me.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

A classic! I love a lot of these songs and didn’t realise they were all on one album for me to access!

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Lots of great songs on this- fun for a party, but I might not just put it on to listen to at home.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Loved this one! I had heard some of these songs before, but not the album- this one is going to be added to my rotation

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

1/5

I did not like this one, it actively annoyed me. Maybe I was in the wrong mood for this album, but I just wanted it to end.

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

1/5

Nope! I found this album really obnoxious

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

I really enjoyed this one! There were a lot of beautiful melodies, and this just had a nice feel to it and overall album flow. I knew some of the songs but not the whole album- a nice discovery!

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

I enjoyed this album- but really preferred the more mellow songs. I enjoyed it more and more as I listened though!

1999

Prince

4/5

Prince is of course great, but I don’t actually listen to him that often. This was enjoyable, although an extremely horny album. Some of it sounded quite dated, but some classic sounds as well.

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

5/5

Absolutely loved this album- wasn’t expecting to like it so much! This one’s going in the rotation

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

3/5

Some pretty cringy lyrics, but he has a nice voice! I’m not sure I would consider this particularly deft political commentary, lol

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

I really enjoyed this album! Different from other ones that we have listened to. I liked the psychedelic sound, and the melodies and vocal harmonies were really pretty.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

This didn’t sound like country to me, but it was really gorgeous music! Ray Charles has a beautiful voice and I enjoyed that classic big band sound.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

5/5

I loved this album! Fiona Apple is such a great songwriter and has such a unique voice. The way she plays with atonal sounds in her melodies really scratches an itch in my brain.

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

4/5

I actually put on the live performance of this album rather than the original- when I realized I left it on because the live recording was really fun. Really talented musicians and really catchy music, I enjoyed this! I liked how when the music slowed down a bit and they brought in the piano it had a real glam rock sound.

Roots

Sepultura

1/5

This was not for me

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

I love Queen but wasn’t blown away by this album- I think they have better ones. Just okay for me!

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

3/5

It seems like I should like this more than I do, but I Oasis isn’t my favourite. Very nasal? Don’t Look Back in Anger is a great song though.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

An absolute classic- I love Simon and Garfunkel! Paul Simon’s amazing song writing and Garfunkel’s beautiful voice. Was such a treat for this to be the daily album! Also one of the best album covers ever, lol

Risque

CHIC

4/5

Not quite what I expected when I saw a disco album coming up in the lineup- I actually loved this! It was so smooth, with nice beats, but had a kind of mellow charm to it. And the vocals were beautiful! This would be a great album to put on for a chill party.

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

3/5

This album was fine? A bit all over the place. I find Ceelo to be really gross as a person, which I think influenced me to not like some of the explicit lyrics.

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

4/5

I wasn’t that familiar with the Kinks, and I loved this album! A nice mellow vibe and lots of great melodies, I will add this one to my rotation.

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

Great album! I knew the singles but not the album- and also I didn’t realise so many hit singles were on the same album! I like the strong melodies and anthemic quality- the kind of songs that are fun to sing along to in a crowd. Deducting a star for terrible lyrics.

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

Interesting to hear such early REM! It was a nice album, but to my ear they didn’t quite have the strong melodies yet that I associate with them. Some of their songs sound a bit like the Cure. Pretty good!

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

4/5

I enjoyed this album! They’re clearly very mix of rock with a bit of a bluesy, maybe a touch of country influence, sounds really good. It is fun to listen to with a fun, high energy vibe.

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

This album is a cool time capsule, but isn’t something I would actually want to put on to listen to. The style of rapping is just so dated and slow! This whole album is surprisingly slow. There were moments that I was really enjoying the intros and beats and then the slow rapping came in and the track loses momentum. Favourite track was Jam Master Jay.

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

5/5

What a great discovery! I loved everything about this album- the lead vocals were stellar, great lyrics, I loved the atypical arrangement of having brass included in more of a punk sound. Loved it! Looked up the lead singer Poly Styrene, and she had such an interesting, inspiring, but also sad life. There’s a documentary about her that I would like to check out.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

An absolute classic album! I love the way this album feels- it has good energy but also a relaxed feel. It just made me feel good to listen to, this is going in my rotation!

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

3/5

I can tell this is great musicianship, but this type of jazz is really not my thing. I don’t really like the saxophone, and I find it is a bit too intense to be mellow background music, but not exciting enough to be foreground music.

Third

Portishead

3/5

I like Portishead, and enjoyed this album- but it isn’t their favourite of mine. I really enjoyed the vocals, but sometimes found the electronic beats overly repetitive, and some of the background noises were a bit distracting.

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

2/5

This is another album that I found really dated, and didn’t enjoy that much. A lot of the background sounded like a video game or soundtrack, which was kind of interesting- but not my favourite. The rapping- similar to DMC- felt so slow to me!

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

An absolute classic! Gorgeous voice, beautiful melodies- a really beautiful album.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

This was a cool historical artifact! She had a lovely voice and I enjoyed it, but probably not one I would want to relisten to.

Roxy Music

5/5

A great album! Really surprised that this was a debut album, because it sounds so self assured and with a lot of complexity in the instrumentation. I really enjoyed the theatrical/glam rock flair to this one- my favourite was when the full backing vocals came in. I put this one on for a second listen right away.

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

5/5

I loved this album! Perfect “getting stuff done” music, a good beat, but mellow feeling. The different samples made for really fun and interesting listening- definitely going in the repeat pile!

Liquid Swords

GZA

3/5

I enjoyed this album! The martial arts movie samples were cool interstitial pieces, and the beats were fun to listen to. I really didn’t catch most of the lyrics, so I did feel like I was missing stuff- but that’s probably my fault.

Who's Next

The Who

2/5

I wasn’t sure I would like this but then I was enjoying some of it- some of the instrumental arrangements were cool and unusual, and the vocals were great. And then Behind Blue Eyes came on and it’s just the absolute worst, self involved dreck. Bleh.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

2/5

Obviously Trent Reznor is crazy talented, but I don’t enjoy this music. I find it really stressful to listen to. I also find the difference between the loud and quiet parts to be too big- if I had the volume at a good level for the loud parts, I couldn’t hear the quiet parts- it’s set up to make sure you blast it basically… maybe I’m just too old for this.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

So much blatant misogyny in this album- the Puff Daddy connection makes increasingly more sense as I listened. Unfortunately this album is a fantastic, all the songs are absolute bops. I’ll take one star off for hating and abusing women? I don’t feel good about this, lol