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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Infotainment Scan The Fall	5	2.71	+2.29
Murder Ballads Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.08	+1.92
Make Yourself Incubus	5	3.08	+1.92
Street Life The Crusaders	5	3.09	+1.91
Double Nickels On The Dime Minutemen	5	3.12	+1.88
Hejira Joni Mitchell	5	3.14	+1.86
Screamadelica Primal Scream	5	3.17	+1.83
Blood, Sweat & Tears Blood, Sweat & Tears	5	3.17	+1.83
Miriam Makeba Miriam Makeba	5	3.19	+1.81
In The Wee Small Hours Frank Sinatra	5	3.27	+1.73

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
At Budokan Cheap Trick	1	3.1	-2.1
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	2	3.65	-1.65
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	2	3.4	-1.4
First Band On The Moon The Cardigans	2	3.3	-1.3
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	2	3.29	-1.29
Since I Left You The Avalanches	2	3.28	-1.28

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Artist	Albums	Average
David Bowie	3	4.67
Led Zeppelin	2	5

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Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

I listened to this album a LOT when I was in high school. Still love it!!

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

2/5

Not really my cup of tea. Some good grooves created, but it all started lacking variety and sounded all the same to me.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

A Classic!!!!!

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

5/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

Phil Spector was a genius producer at a time when most releases were likely single. Compiled all in one album all the songs sound pretty much the same and the “wall of sound” becomes tiresome.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Okay. Maybe some good stuff, but not great.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

A CLASSIC!!!!

Make Yourself

Incubus

5/5

I was never a fan of Incubus. Never listened to them. This just changed my mind. Great band with a lot of punch!

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

Some good stuff, but somewhat repetitive from one song to the next.

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

5/5

I loved it! It was as though The Mothers of Invention were impregnated by Lou Reed and the baby was put on steroids.

Pretenders

5/5

So where has this been all my life. Oh, right there and I was not paying attention. Great stuff. I have a lot of catching up to do!!

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

What can you say other than Bravo to one of an artist’s last statements?

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

2/5

Street Life

The Crusaders

5/5

Great music! This was part of my 1980’s soundtrack!

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Some of her best work, although her Mingus album is my favorite!

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

Nice Brit-pop, but musically nothing earth shattering or forward thinking.

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

5/5

High energy buzz. The music really kicks. LED me to listen to other Linkin Park albums!!!

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

5/5

Raw, Punchy, Minimalistic. Definitely worth listening to!!

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

4/5

Nice music. Melodic and well crafted electronic backing.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

I like this recording a great deal. The cuts on the recording demonstrate to me how The Beastie Boys grew in the near decade since release of License to Ill which I loved when it came out. Check the Tuvan throat singing (or at least what sounds like Tuvan throat singing) on the track Shambala.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

Good stuff.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Awesome acid funk. I hear so many roots of music, especially jazz fusion in Funkadelic’s music.

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

5/5

I really dig this recording. Primal Scream goes in several directions musically and you don’t what is coming next. A very enjoyable and uplifting listen I highly recommend!!!

Odessa

Bee Gees

3/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Awesome album. Every song is a gem!!!

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

I did not care for the music at first, then it began to grow on me. Interesting musical ideas and thought provoking lyrics!!

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

This really captured my attention. The energy and drive of Punk with more melodic and intelligible lyrics. It lit a fire under me to listen to more Green Day!!!!

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

4/5

Hypnotic, low key with an edge.

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

2/5

I have never been a Mariah Carey fan. That’s okay she certainly has many, many others. She has a wonderful voice, it is just the style of music she makes is not to my tastes.

Black Sabbath

5/5

Deliciously Dark and Demonic. The work of. Black Sabbath is solidly following the tradition of English Gothic Literature. Loved It!!!!!

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

I liked it a whole lot more than I thought I would. Have been listening to other of their recordings as well now!!

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

4/5

A classic!! Seems like every woman I dated in college had this album—on vinyl, of course!!

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

I’m sure Kate Bush has many, many fans, however this recording was just not my cup of tea.

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

3/5

A very subtle, low key set of music representing a diversity of musical styles and influences

New Forms

Roni Size

3/5

I recognize this very well is great dance/rave music. While there are moments of interesting combinations of sounds overall I found the music overly repetitive.

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

Classic Neil Young! Good songs, vocal harmonies and overall comfortable vibe. I remember this recording from my high school and college years!

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

3/5

Some innovative sounds. Good electronica.

Faith

George Michael

3/5

Good pop/dance music

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

One of the albums that puts Getz on the map in the 1960’s

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Once you get past the first two cuts, average at best.

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

4/5

Great strip club rock and roll as loose and juicy as the women who dance to it!

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

A Classic. Johnny Cash in one of his finest moments in music!!!

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

A classic!

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

Some good stuff, however became tiresome after the first two or three tunes.

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Frank Sinatra is the Chairman of the Board and this album is one of the reasons why.

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

5/5

One of THE albums that put Frank Sinatra on the map!!

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Good danceable pop music popular during its capsule of time.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Good stuff. Nice tight playing.

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

A quaint reminder of the jingly jangly sound of mid 1960’s POP/rock.

Miriam Makeba

5/5

A wonderful original and refreshing change of pace!!

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

3/5

The Stone Roses

2/5

Very occasional blips of musical innovation, but for the most part, move along, nothing to see here.

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

1/5

Excitement of a live concert that made all the little girls scream. If what you want is one tune after another that has thumping bass, snare drum backbeats and unintelligible lyrics, this one is for you.

Snivilisation

Orbital

4/5

Verrry interesting sounds. Inventive electronica.

Follow The Leader

Korn

4/5

Gritty riffs, driving beats and some innovative sounds in the mix. I liked it!!!

Paul Simon

5/5

Great album. Classic Paul Simon. There is not a bad song on the album!!!

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

2/5

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

2/5

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

I’m not sure the rest of the album measures up after the title cut.

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

3/5

Nice acoustic folk/country music

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

4/5

I liked this album a lot more than I thought I would. Lots of interesting sounds!!

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Good, but not their best album.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Take Me Apart

Kelela

3/5

I enjoyed the recording, however found nothing that made the music unique from other artists.

Blood, Sweat & Tears

5/5

Great seminal jazz/rock album!!!

Nixon

Lambchop

2/5

Ho hum

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Gritty riffs, vocal harmonies and great hooks make this album one for the books!

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Awesome psychedelia, and a master of the electric guitar!!

Spiderland

Slint

4/5

Some very original sounds. Makes one wonder where this band would have gone had they lasted longer.

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

4/5

Heavy metal before there was heavy metal. Blue Cheer certainly came in loud, edgy and gritty.

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

David Bowie

5/5

Classic Bowie. Some of his best work!

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

5/5

One of Dolly’s incredible contributions to music!!

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

4/5

This record surprised me in a good way. Gritty, hard edged and on the verge of avant garde. The music was about textures and chunks of unique sounds rather than melody or harmony or a good hook.

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

4/5

Awesome gritty riffs, superior drumming, and an all around great album!

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

Enjoyable, yet not particularly artistically provocative

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

5/5

Greatest R and B album of the 1970’s!!

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

4/5

Good songs, novel sounds within the pop/dance style of the time.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

This is the real deal! Innovative and original music aligned with poetry!

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

I had forgotten how good this record is!! All man Brothers play blues songs just out of this world!!!

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

I had forgotten how good this album is!!

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

5/5

Classic from one of the Kings of Rock and Roll!!!!

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

4/5

Great voice!! Also, nice juxtaposition of acoustic guitar with electronics.

Debut

Björk

4/5

Wow! Wonderfully innovative sounds!! Artistic!!

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

One of the classic greats that was foundational to rock and roll!!

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Always good stuff

Play

Moby

3/5

Nice dance beats, otherwise ho-hum.

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

2/5

Not my cup of tea.

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

4/5

I liked this a LOT more than I thought I would. Soundtracks are not always great listening. This one had a crazy wonderfully eclectic mosaic of sounds!

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

An underrated genius. His sound was unique and musically forward thinking!

Abraxas

Santana

5/5

A treasure from the past. You MUST listen with headphones, like I did many many moons ago!!!!

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Ho hum pop rock.