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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Copper Blue Sugar	5	2.98	+2.02
Exile In Guyville Liz Phair	5	3.02	+1.98
Central Reservation Beth Orton	5	3.06	+1.94
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Sinead O'Connor	5	3.26	+1.74
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	5	3.32	+1.68
Murmur R.E.M.	5	3.42	+1.58
Nilsson Schmilsson Harry Nilsson	5	3.43	+1.57
Sign 'O' The Times Prince	5	3.45	+1.55
Surfer Rosa Pixies	5	3.49	+1.51
Moving Pictures Rush	5	3.56	+1.44

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	1	3.4	-2.4
The College Dropout Kanye West	1	3.31	-2.31
Hot Shots II The Beta Band	1	3.01	-2.01
Cupid & Psyche 85 Scritti Politti	1	2.39	-1.39
2112 Rush	2	3.37	-1.37
Led Zeppelin IV Led Zeppelin	3	4.34	-1.34
Tommy The Who	2	3.32	-1.32
Hunting High And Low a-ha	2	3.12	-1.12

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Artist	Albums	Average
Bruce Springsteen	2	5

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Rush	2, 5

5-Star Albums (19)

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

1-Star Albums (4)

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To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

This dropped while I was training for the 2015 Richmond Marathon and also the birth of our first son. The marathon playlist was a weird combo of both Kendrick and John Denver. Classic. Marathon at 45, 3:40 and change.

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Holiday magic. What else can you say?

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Probably best album from my birth year. Cecilia still such a banger.

Odelay

Beck

4/5

I’ve listened to this so many times pre-2000, that I don’t know if I need to give it another listen today. It might diminish it in ways that time does. I think it was a 9/10 then hopefully it still is. I’ll give it a solid four stars.

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

1/5

Got about half through. Maybe the second half gets beyond meh 😐. Not feeling it.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

God damn this album cover is great. Fairytale in NY will always speak to my time in Saskatoon, SK. And my desperate need to get out. Listening to this album for the first time all the way through seems a little silly now and a little repetitive. Does ‘Fall From Grace’ and ‘Fairytale’ work well in any number of compilations? Absolutely. Could I listen to this entire album twice a year? Doubtful.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

If you would have told me this was released in 1996, I would’ve totally believed you. Without Trainspotting, I don’t know how many people would have heard of this. One of the best, most appropriate soundtracks of all time. Renton channels Iggy and never has a soundtrack better accompanied the filmed source material.

Guero

Beck

3/5

Took a stroll down memory lane and found ‘Guerolito’ which was a compilation of the full album worth of remixes. Not as good as the originals, but they never are. Just different. Probably my third or fourth favorite Beck album. Solid 7/10. I always remember this tour, since it was right in the middle of the RC. Bonnie Y brought in all the iron-one that were sold at merch for me to stick on their own T’s. When asked at the concert whether she wanted them applied to tees - she just let them know that ‘she has a guy’.

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

2/5

Nothing stood out here. Would I give it another chance? Maybe.

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Classic.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Whoa. Tour de force. Prob shouldn’t have sat on this one for thirty years.

Copper Blue

Sugar

5/5

First year grad school. The first important CD of that new era for me. In the days before the internet it would be years before I had known of the web of music that preceded the latest Bob Mould offering. I am since much more Bob Mould aware. Special thanks to Marla in undergrad Chem lab that wrongly assumed I already knew who this was.

Kala

M.I.A.

2/5

Remember iTunes? This would have been exhibit A of nobody buying the album and spending $0.99 for Paper Planes. Nobody bought this album. And the 18 people that did, they just skipped down to Paper Planes and played it on repeat. Given all that, it’s pretty good. Probably couldn’t make it through twice.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

The Jeremy and Jeremy performance in Deliver Me From Nowhere was a great insight to this album. I had listened to this album off and on for the better part of forty years and the story behind it is likely much better than the following album. While it’s probably my fourth or fifth favorite Springsteen album, it’s still a five star banger.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

Pretty boring. Don’t get jazz. Yet.

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Alright - listened to this for the first time. Beginning to end. First time through thought it sounded super jazzy. The second time funky. Better the second time

2112

Rush

2/5

Played it as background. Probably better as an in your face alternative.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Classic

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

I’ll get around to listening to it. I should know most of it.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

Not sure how this one is aging. Maybe 3.5?

Spiderland

Slint

2/5

I just don’t get this one.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

5/5

This entire album sounds like it could be an entire Tarantino soundtrack. I’m guessing every cool cat in 1971 owned a copy of this on 8-track similar to 1994 when everyone had a copy of REM monster.

Metallica

4/5

It’s hard not to listen to this with jaded 55 year old ears and not hear tinges of parody. At the time this was a serious hard rock/ metal that would have at fist had a very distinct audience. As it softened like warm butter, or the world hardened this became a mega hit. Kudos Metallica for teaching future generations how to rock.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

1/5

Ugh. I own this. I had to check the date to remind me that even at 27 years old, the frontal lobe has not matured enough to decipher hype from excellence. I listened to exactly 1:49 min before I had to turn it off. To my credit, I don’t think I’ve listened to the entirety of this album.

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

3/5

I think solid. Listened to the first half.

Basket of Light

Pentangle

2/5

Pretty boring

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

4/5

What a beaut

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

Finally some Pixies. Not my favorite Pixies but the entire catalog is five stars aside from Trompe Le Monde and Caribou. IMHO. Tony’s Theme - does it get any better than that?

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

Didn’t realize how influential this album must have been for David Bowie.

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

3/5

Sounds a little dated now. But that was a thing back then. Incorporating some movie quotes into the music… It’s got a vibe.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

I think this is probably a four star album, but I only know one song. There’s got to be a reason I haven’t heard the entire thing in 50 years. And I still haven’t. I’m docking it a star for that.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Black Sabbath

5/5

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

I don’t really get blues either.

Reign In Blood

Slayer

2/5

Kenya

Machito

3/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

5/5

So good, listened to twice in a row.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

I had misremembered the sequencing of this album, so much so that by the time Tusk finally played I had thought I had missed it during the first hour. This is really a much more solid album than I remember and it is probably still only my fourth or fifth favorite from Fleetwood Mac. Solid member of the catalog. Maybe it will move up the rankings.

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Perfect. Will try to listen at home loud. Definitely a top 100 album of all time.

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

2/5

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

I probably think this is pretty boring now.

Hotel California

Eagles

5/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

Tommy

The Who

2/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

1/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

3/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

1/5

Gross. Threw up in my mouth.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Totally into early 70s these days. Keep em coming!

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

4/5

I got good JM Jarre vibes from the early 80s. It’s why CDs were invented.

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

4/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

4/5

I don’t own this CD. Though I’ve heard it hundreds of times. At first when I saw the cover I was thinking Georgia Satellites. At the time I probably would have given this a 3-star review just because it wasn’t my thing in 1990. It probably still isn’t, but it just seems so familiar, it seems easy. And now I guess it’s classic.

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

David Bowie

5/5

Third or fourth favorite Bowie album.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Core memory album. There probably isn’t a bigger, better album in my canon of defining albums. This one I discovered by myself, for myself. Stranger in a strange land, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. I’m thinking back to where I would have bought this, and I can’t place it. I see a dump bin in the front and I can’t quite place the facade or any of the particulars. I can’t even remember a record store in Saskatoon.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

4/5

Great music for doing taxes to. Thanks, Keith!

Chelsea Girl

Nico

4/5

More great music to file taxes to!

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

4/5

These Beau Brummels have absolutely nothing to do with Billy Joel’s Beau Brummel babies. I gave it have a chance. What a great album. Added it to the Library.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Had to knock it down a star since it killed the Oilers five game win streak. Not my favorite, but I mostly get it. Unlike jazz.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

This is a great fucking album.

Raw Power

The Stooges

3/5

I should like this more, but I don’t.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

5/5

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

5/5

There’s some famous quote about everybody that purchased the Velvet Underground album started a band. Something like that. Not sure about Liz Phair - but everybody who bought this loved loved fucking music. Not sure how many started bands. I didn’t.

Orbital 2

Orbital

3/5

Ambient. Background. Ok.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

I’ll default to four stars. It will take another few listens to establish this one.

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

Anything Canadian is likely going to get four stars and above. I’ll give this one five and verify later this week.

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

5/5

Coming of age shouldn’t mean twenty years old, but maybe I was a late bloomer, at least musically. This is definitely a landmark album and one that I add to my list.

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

5/5

This album will always remind me of my first year living in the city. $0 in the bank, mostly not a care in the world. Getting that first job and feeling like I won the lottery every two weeks. Discovering the city and always on the hunt for music. I bought this down in St. Marks Place and its newness vibed with mine.

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

2/5