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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Damaged Black Flag	5	2.86	+2.14
Kick Out The Jams (Live) MC5	5	2.92	+2.08
You're Living All Over Me Dinosaur Jr.	5	3.08	+1.92
Pink Flag Wire	5	3.21	+1.79
Bongo Rock Incredible Bongo Band	5	3.25	+1.75
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.3	+1.7
This Is Fats Domino Fats Domino	5	3.37	+1.63
Surfer Rosa Pixies	5	3.5	+1.5
Aladdin Sane David Bowie	5	3.61	+1.39
Mothership Connection Parliament	5	3.61	+1.39

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Who's Next The Who	2	3.9	-1.9
Come Away With Me Norah Jones	2	3.38	-1.38
Blue Lines Massive Attack	2	3.38	-1.38
Tommy The Who	2	3.33	-1.33
3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of... Arrested Development	2	3.15	-1.15
The Wall Pink Floyd	3	4.13	-1.13
...The Dandy Warhols Come Down The Dandy Warhols	2	3.13	-1.13
Tuesday Night Music Club Sheryl Crow	2	3.05	-1.05

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	2	5
Kendrick Lamar	2	5

5-Star Albums (20)

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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

60’s coded xmas songs. not bad for a xmas album

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

i know it was an impactful album, but it’s not to my taste. good production tho

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

5/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

5/5

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

4/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

5/5

it would be hard for me to give david bowie anything but 5-stars, especially aladdin sane

B-52's

The B-52's

3/5

college art rock from athens. these kids were smarter than they look. this is the only album of theirs i’ve really listened to, but i’ve listened to it quite a bit. i like them despite their fame and how overplayed certain songs were. 52 girls is one of my all time favorite songs

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

2/5

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Damaged

Black Flag

5/5

Who's Next

The Who

2/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

3/5

i know and love all these songs but it was a little intense to listen to them back to back on an album.

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

4/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

this was a fun album, and arcade fire’s first album was pretty awesome, but i’m not sure this was better, just more polished

Tommy

The Who

2/5

for a rock opera, this was fine, though i prefer pink floyd’s the wall to this. i feel like the who is all about big hits and being mainstrea,. and this is a nice breath of fresh air; more art for art’s sake. but at a certain point, i could only picture charlie day from its always sunny, singing the tommy songs. and then when it got all raspy, i realized that ‘the night man cometh’ must have been a parody of the who’s tommy

Pink Flag

Wire

5/5

i’m on week 3 of daily alliums from this list, and i finally got an album i’d never heard but now love! i was familiar with a few wire songs, but never listened to this album in full

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

2/5

i can appreciate the role she played for women in 90’s music, but overall, not a very interesting album

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

3/5

it’s hard to listen to this without thinking of the beatles or wishing it was the zombies, but upon a second listen, i was able to hear the ways in which they were unique. cool instrumentation and fun, whimsical songs.

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

2/5

very beautiful yet highly unremarkable. is it just me or is there something about this that just sounds like a christmas album?

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

3/5

definitely a unique sound and an exploration of many types of sound. it was jarring at first, but once i got into, it was pretty groovy. goin out west and black wings were my highlights. i appreciate this way more than an ultra smooth boring albums. +1 for creativity -1 for being on the side of unlistenable.

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

finally, one of my all time faves!! if you don’t like this albums, you’re just too straight-laced (jk)

The Wall

Pink Floyd

3/5

‘the wall’ was the perfect album to get me through my angsty adolescence. i have always preferred the earlier syd barrett/immediately post-barrett era of pink floyd, but i sure did wear out my vhs of ‘the wall’. listening to it today, it comes across as pretentious and obnoxious, but i can’t help but feel strong nostalgia for it. if memory serves, it’s a way better experience watching it as a movie, but maybe i’m just making excuses for my young self

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

5/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

beautiful and haunting. i’m giving this a 4.5 only so that i can give his other two albums 5’s

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

2/5

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

5/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

5/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

3/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

fight the power

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

2/5

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

2/5

inoffensive to the point of being uninteresting. not a bad sound, but very few remarkable moments. it certainly captures a moment of the late 90’s, but it could’ve been 20 minutes shorter.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

this album is legendary, and for good reason. even as someone who leans more rock and metal, i understand how significant this album is and how it informed black music for generations to come/lay the foundation for so much music in the 20th and 21st century. it is other worldly.

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

4/5

loved the smiths, never really listened to morissey. this album was surprisingly good, tho i still don’t endorse his politics

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

2/5

well, it certainly encapsulates a moment in time

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

2/5

i didn’t realize massive attack started out so reggae-coded. also, the electronic songs remind me a lot of moby. i love mezzanine, but this hardly compares

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

4/5

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

4/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

a masterpiece

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

it’s not as creative as piper at the gates of dawn or as vivid as sgt pepper, but it’s still ahead of the curve compared to a lot of other music from that era. i also really like the quality of sound they captured in the guitar. +1 for tales of brave ulysses

Dirty

Sonic Youth

4/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

a masterpiece

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

how could anyone turn their back on such a beautiful implosion? a chaotic meandering between voices and genres, no destination, but wasn’t the journey a hoot? probably the most honest beatles album.

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

4/5

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

4/5

i like the stripped down style of young tom waits. kind of sultry and intimate;?you can hear the spit leave his lips. maybe the cockiness of youth let him make songs without the vaudeville spectacle. it could’ve been 15 minutes shorter though.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

4/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

5/5

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Electric

The Cult

3/5

makese miss the old cult :(