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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Melodrama Lorde	5	3.32	+1.68
Garbage Garbage	5	3.38	+1.62
Stardust Willie Nelson	5	3.4	+1.6
Lam Toro Baaba Maal	4	2.73	+1.27
Medúlla Björk	4	2.73	+1.27
KIWANUKA Michael Kiwanuka	5	3.74	+1.26
Infected The The	4	2.92	+1.08

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Suburbs Arcade Fire	2	3.5	-1.5

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Melodrama

Lorde · 1 likes

5/5

A masterpiece of pop and a modern day classic. The whole album is great with stunning album art to boot, but I dedicate this review to the vision that is Green Light. To be 21 years old, deep in a crush, and listening to this song for the first time is one of the “do you remember where you were moments” of my young adult life. If I had to take an old mp3 player with limited space to a desert island, Green Light would absolutely be on it. Green light builds in a way that is so addicting - it captures what I love about bridges and manages to stretch that feeling close to 4 minutes, adding layers of sound expertly, culminating in a perfectly timed beat drop followed by the most explosive 47 seconds to close. This song is a prime example of why I will always love pop music. Also crucially featured in the “I’ve got to tell my best friend I’m in love with her!” New Girl elevator scene between Jess and Nick, I have chills just thinking about it! EUPHORIC!!

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Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

I was enjoying but slightly got distracted a then 5-Piece Chicken Dinner brought me right back what a song!

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

3/5

Not super my vibe but 3 stars as my fam played a lot of My Friend the Chocolate Cake growing up, who seem to be inspired by these Penguin folk. Penguin Cafe Single really reminded me of build mode in The Sims, and I would probably enjoy it more in that context

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

I really enjoyed this! Had definitely heard That Lady before not knowing who it was by and glad to have filled that knowledge gap and listened further! Particularly liked the sequence of Sunshine and Summer Breeze on this sweet summer day

Infected

The The

4/5

I listened to this while exercising and felt like I was in a montage of an 80s movie, which was a great way to work out. 'Infected' got me with the beat, 'Angels of Deception' got me with fade to bridge and build to the triumphant end

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

5/5

Oooo wow I loved this!! What a good journey, loved it from the start and continued to love it to the end. As someone who can get distracted in albums this held my attention as one smoooooth piece, keen to listen to more from him now

Stardust

Willie Nelson

5/5

Sweet sweet tunes <3

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

4/5

Name something more universal than a good beat!!!

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

2/5

I wanted to like this and get into the angsty space required but my angst just turned into angst against this album. Be Sweet would go well in a Buffy scene where Angel or Spike are being an emotionally villainous, with some good fake rain and too much hair gel. My Curse was the stand out song for me by far, but then I got angsty at Spotify for not listing the woman doing all the heavy lifting in it - love your work Marcy Mays!

Melodrama

Lorde

5/5

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

3/5

At no point did I know what was happened next but I quite enjoyed the ride!

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

2/5

I spent a lot of this album wondering what made it standout enough for this list, but also thinking about how I would have given it a higher rating in 2010 as I was seeking similar music out, though never an Arcade Fire fan. Which shows list relevance I suppose but unfortunately it has not aged well

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

This was fun, enjoyed the live element, and the energy and intimacy of that! 4 stars for the impressively long drumming solo

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

Apologies to the Parliament for the low effort review but this was fun!

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

I was excited to find out what my birthday listen would be and honestly had a great time with this one! Can see why La Grange is one of their top songs, imagine was an influence on The Black Keys. Would listen to again.

Iron Maiden

4/5

Listening to Iron Maiden, on Iron Maiden, by Iron Maiden, Ironception!! Iron Maiden is a name I have always known without actually knowing anything about, and I’m glad to have now heard! I quite enjoyed this, and challenged my assumption that heavy metal has a lack of light and shade moments, as feel like there were lots of nicely balanced moments, particularly in Remember Tomorrow and Phantom of the Opera.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Very glad to connect a few song to a name I criminally mainly just knew as a name previously (You Don’t Own Me has insanely always made me think of Jonathan LaPaglia due to the aggressive ad campaigns of channel 10’s 2014 Australian drama Love Child). Particularly loved the back end of the album, some incredible break up songs, I Wish I’d Never Loved You, with stirring strings and horns was beautifully moody. Summer Is Over was a great triumphant closer, and was sad when it was over.

Vivid

Living Colour

3/5

I listened to this at work and it made me want to DANCE! Loved the theme song energy within What’s Your Favourite Colour? Why should it only be Jason Derulo that gets to put his name within his songs (I’m sure there any many more examples of this). I really liked I Want to Know and think I am going to come out this listening project a bigger rock fan than expected

Garbage

5/5

Now THIS is how you do 90s angst. Love this genre with women’s vocals at the helm in particular and glad to now know Shirley Manson. This made me want to sneak out of my American suburban home via my upstairs bedroom window to go cruising for jocks to scare and some late night diner food with a badass girl gang. One of my favourite album artworks of the list so far too, very 90s but also feels very Brat-era current

Suicide

2/5

I was the fool listening to the front end of this album thinking it was falling short of the intensity I expected from a band called Suicide. A few early tracks would have been at home in the more off kilter moments of early Twin Peaks seasons and I enjoyed from that perspective. And then i obviously got to Frankie Teardrop…which could have fit into Twin Peaks season 3 when they took the darkness off the edge - both being media I endured but did not really enjoy (I’m sure it’s a not a song you are meant to “enjoy” and can appreciate the avante garde of it all but you know what I mean)

Medúlla

Björk

4/5

What a great and varied soundscape (even beatboxing!)

Who's Next

The Who

3/5

Confession, I was today years old when I found out Behind Blue Eyes is not a Limp Bizkit song (thanks So Fresh: Hits of Summer 2005 plus the Biggest Hits of 2004), oops! The whimsy of the end of Baba O’Reily was fun

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

4/5

This was beautiful, love choirs and voices on mass, Wawusho Kubani? was my fave