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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
90 808 State	5	2.7	+2.3
Freak Out! The Mothers Of Invention	5	2.81	+2.19
D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle Throbbing Gristle	4	1.88	+2.12
Leftism Leftfield	5	2.9	+2.1
Music Has The Right To Children Boards of Canada	5	2.91	+2.09
Supa Dupa Fly Missy Elliott	5	2.92	+2.08
Joan Baez Joan Baez	5	2.96	+2.04
Another Green World Brian Eno	5	3.11	+1.89
No Other Gene Clark	5	3.19	+1.81
Peter Gabriel 3 Peter Gabriel	5	3.29	+1.71

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Synchronicity The Police	2	3.41	-1.41
Come Away With Me Norah Jones	2	3.38	-1.38
2112 Rush	2	3.37	-1.37
2112 Rush	2	3.37	-1.37

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Artist	Albums	Average
Prince	3	5
The Velvet Underground	2	5
Funkadelic	2	5

5-Star Albums (43)

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With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

1999

Prince

5/5

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

3/5

2112

Rush

2/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

McCartney

Paul McCartney

4/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Bert Jansch

3/5

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

4/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

5/5

Os Mutantes

4/5

The Specials

4/5

The Velvet Underground

5/5

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

4/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

Joan Baez

5/5

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

3/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

Leftism

Leftfield

5/5

Virgin Suicides

Air

4/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

4/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

5/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

5/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Heroes

David Bowie

5/5

The Cars

5/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

4/5

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

4/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

2/5

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

5/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Opus Dei

Laibach

2/5

I enjoy industrial music but, for me, this is not it. The concept is interesting but over forty minutes the vocal affect becomes extremely irritating.

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

3/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

5/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

2/5

Too repetitive and too muzak-adjacent for me. I like a bit of edge in my trip-hop and I doubt even an altered state as per the title would make this sound any less cheesy to my ears. Even for 1995 this sounds out of date. It's a year after Massive Attack did some cutting edge things with a very similar sound palette on Protection, so I can't even really see the appeal of this historically.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

5/5

The Undertones

4/5

3.5/5 Catchy melodies and a slightly noisy, thick sound. Feels a bit too slight.

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

4/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

Palo Congo

Sabu

4/5

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

4/5

My Generation

The Who

4/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

4/5

Zappa's Mothers of Invention for the 80s and beyond. I can't hear this band without thinking of their late drummer Teresa Taylor's appearance in Richard Linklater's Slacker and how perfectly she encapsulated a kind of New Weird America represented by celebrity worship and droll descriptions of gun violence. This album is essentially a bunch of kids playing around with new, exciting toys to see what outrageous and funny sounds they could make, but there's also a real sense of disaffection and contemporary urban malaise. It's the kind of music you might make if you were just fucking around with some friends, but because of that it's so uncompromising that there's a kernel of the sublime to it.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

5/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

5/5

No Other

Gene Clark

5/5

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

3/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

5/5

An album that sounds like champagne tastes and just as bubbly. Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards' production is just as pristine as the best Steely Dan records but they don't fucking go on about it! These grooves have so much space and light around every element that it feels like you're in a marble discotheque.

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

3/5

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

The transition from Chump into Longview is the point at which I came around and realised that Green Day's song craft on this record is actually really solid. This isn't my style of music and it definitely passed me by in my adolescence, but I can definitely appreciate what a tight and often inventive band they are on this album. Mike Dirnt's bass lines are often the magic ingredient.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

5/5

Synchronicity

The Police

2/5

What a snooze.

808 State

5/5

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

3/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

5/5

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

Throbbing Gristle

4/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

5/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

5/5

2112

Rush

2/5

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

3/5

3.5/5 I love Ike, but to me this doesn't quite function as an album and the incidental music is interesting but not something I particularly want to return to.

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Guero

Beck

4/5

3.5/5 It's easy to see why this became a late-career highlight for Beck. It feels like an amalgam of all of his previous highs, with the post-modern blues of Mellow Gold and the irreverent pop craft Odelay meeting the downcast mood of Sea Change. A few tracks feel far too slight, like the catchy but forgettable "Hell Yes" and the plodding "Go It Alone". Overall, a solid record, but not one that's really transcended the moment of its release like some of Beck's other work has.

Third

Soft Machine

4/5

Odelay

Beck

5/5

The Blueprint

JAY Z

4/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

Berlin

Lou Reed

4/5

Diamond Life

Sade

5/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

Green

R.E.M.

3/5

Another Green World

Brian Eno

5/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

3/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Ever since I got this in a CD two pack back in high school (with I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You), this was my Aretha Franklin album of choice. This is such a solid selection of songs with so much grit and funk, alongside the handful of ballads. It perfectly encapsulates the range and power of Aretha as a performer.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

5/5

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

5/5

The Stone Roses

5/5