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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club	5	3.66	+1.34
The Cars The Cars	5	3.67	+1.33

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	1	3.3	-2.3
Revolver Beatles	2	4.24	-2.24
I'm Your Man Leonard Cohen	1	3.09	-2.09
Exile On Main Street The Rolling Stones	2	3.6	-1.6
Blonde On Blonde Bob Dylan	2	3.49	-1.49
We Are Family Sister Sledge	2	3.48	-1.48
Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys	2	3.47	-1.47
Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem	2	3.42	-1.42
Stardust Willie Nelson	2	3.39	-1.39
Blur Blur	2	3.33	-1.33

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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

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Peter Gabriel

4/5

A few absolutely amazing tracks. Incredible production.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

3/5

Some really great songs, but a lot of bad ones too. Overall, would listen to some of these again. Nice to find.

Nevermind

Nirvana

4/5

I feel like I’ve heard Nirvana too many times and I don’t enjoy it anymore. But listening to this album, it has a bunch of good songs and it had a huge influence on music. A begrudging 4 that maybe should be 5.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

1/5

Christmas music is awful.

Dire Straits

4/5

Some strong tracks but not quite consistent enough for a 5.

The Cars

5/5

Let the good times roll. And the hits.

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Fine, not great.

Fun House

The Stooges

3/5

Kind of interesting. Probably pretty innovative for its time.

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

4/5

Tom Waits when he was more jazzy and hadn’t discovered pots and pans yet. Yes please.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

A few classic songs. This was fine. I wouldn’t choose to put it on though.

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

2/5

This is not how I thought Rod Stewart sounded. Not that catchy though.

A Northern Soul

The Verve

2/5

It doesn’t have Bittersweet Symphony. It’s fine but not good.

Odelay

Beck

4/5

A few great songs and an overall interesting album.

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

2/5

Dull. Not sure why this is here.

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

2/5

Kind of interesting, but kind of weird. I feel like maybe there is another album of his that I’d enjoy more.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

3/5

Decent rock tracks.

Revolver

Beatles

2/5

Eleanor Rigby is great. The rest of this is not for me.

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

The best. Immediately sets the mood. So many great memories listening to this album.

Ray Of Light

Madonna

2/5

Experimental and interesting, but not enough catchy tunes to listen again.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

This isn’t what I expected. One big hit, and a bunch of listenable others. Solid.

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

4/5

I like this. I liked it then. I like it now. I like his voice. Good times.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Boring wannabe poetry.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

2/5

This was long and it all sounded the same. Bob Dylan songs sound the best when performed by other people.

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

2/5

Some really well written songs, but the production sucks and Dave can’t sing.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

2/5

Do you like shouting? But not really catchy songs? This is for you. The samples sound interesting; I’d like to hear an instrumental version of this.

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

So many great songs.

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

4/5

I’ve never listened to much Brian Eno. I liked the first few. The production is great.

Blur

2/5

Song 2 and not much else.

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

2/5

Why is this here? It was fine at the time. It’s not great now.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

3/5

One banger, then a bunch of good singing on mediocre songs.

Signing Off

UB40

3/5

Interesting. I like the concept and what it represents. The music itself is fine for the background but not something I’d actively listen to again.

The Doors

3/5

This has a few huge tracks that I enjoy. I feel like I’m supposed to like it. But I wouldn’t choose to put it on. Meh.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

2/5

Slow, country tinged nothingness.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

I don’t know much about Janis Joplin. This was fun to discover. It has a feel of led zep about it, but the songs aren’t quite there.

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

Solid background vibes.

Technique

New Order

2/5

This album doesn’t know what it wants to be. The acid house is interesting, The Cure clone is boring. Overall, not cohesive and wouldn’t listen again.

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Several classic songs. It sounds great. Nothing else quite like it at the time.

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

3/5

Captured a moment in time. Some bangers. Some shit.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

2/5

Title track is good. Lost in music was ok. The rest of the album could have been the same song. It would be inoffensive in the background, but I wouldn’t put this on.

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

—0–3–5——0–3–6–5– A couple classic tracks. I can see the road it paved, but several songs are too close to the blues roots, where it feels like a copy of every other 12 bar song that came before.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

2/5

A couple nice songs, but this was twice the length it should have been. I don’t get the love for this album. Would not play again.

Bert Jansch

2/5

This lad can play guitar. Unfortunately, the songs and style weren’t really for me.

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

1/5

You know what, this was dumb. Dump it. Trash it. This one’s garbage. Some of the worst keyboard sounds and playing combined with comical lyrics. Jazz police. Oh man.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

Only one song really stood out to me. Some cool stereo mixing. 2 for now, but might listen some more to see if this grows.