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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Basket of Light Pentangle	5	2.76	+2.24
If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Pogues	5	3.33	+1.67
The Band The Band	5	3.36	+1.64
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	5	3.4	+1.6
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	5	3.48	+1.52
Mask Bauhaus	4	2.85	+1.15
Electric Ladyland Jimi Hendrix	5	3.94	+1.06
Call of the Valley Shivkumar Sharma	4	2.94	+1.06
Viva Hate Morrissey	4	2.96	+1.04
Imperial Bedroom Elvis Costello & The Attractions	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Space Ritual Hawkwind	1	2.69	-1.69
Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club	2	3.66	-1.66
Gorillaz Gorillaz	2	3.53	-1.53
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim Frank Sinatra	2	3.27	-1.27

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Vento De Maio

Elis Regina · 1 likes

4/5

Listened to in the car. These albums are the exact reason why I wanted to do this project. I would have never heard this album otherwise. Sounded like a precursor for a lot of modern indie, like Geordie Greep, and genres like City Pop. Couldn't give it 5 stars because it's a bit of a weird posthumous compilation but really loved it.

The Blueprint

JAY Z · 1 likes

4/5

Listened while making and eating lunch. The best thing about this album is the beats, production, and Jay-Z mastery on the mic. The lyrics really have not aged well and the overall message I got from this album was "I'm the best, I get all the women, I'm the best" which didn't exactly resonate. Still a great record to listen to.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell · 1 likes

4/5

Listened on the drive to the mall and while walking around the mall. What an incredible story teller. Great range and variety of sounds on this record too. Down To You is a masterpiece of a song. Great record!

1-Star Albums (1)

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Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

Listened on the drive home from Hecla. Liked his vocal range. Nice and short. Don't have a great comparison point because I don't know much of his other stuff. Didn't blow me away overall. Good record though!

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

Listened at home. Just super fun. First half definitely stronger than the back half.

Gorillaz

2/5

Watched while making dinner and cleaning up. Honestly thought it was boring through most of it. I like Clint Eastwood and 19-2000 a lot but didn't really feel the rest of it. I've heard a bit of their later releases and liked them quite a bit more.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Listened while walking and playing Ball x Pit. Really liked her vocals and lyrics. Only ever heard Rehab before this and was really impressed. A modern take on a classic genre.

The Band

5/5

Listened on my drive to Selkirk. I mean it's considered a classic for a reason. Incredible storytelling, top notch musicianship, classic harmonies. Somehow never really heard much of The Band outside of The Weight and was pleasantly surprised.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Listened to while on a walk with little one. Groovy baby yeah!

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Listened in the car and while cleaning the kitchen. Never listened to Costello before. This one really grew on me. Started hearing the through line from Bowie to Costello to They Might Be Giants to Barenaked Ladies and more. Excited to hear more!

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

4/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

5/5

Listened on the drive to and from work. Certainly not a record for anyone with a weak stomach. But if you can get past the misogynistic and homophobic character acting the messages of celebrity worship, media hypocrisy, and male loneliness are as relevant today as they were in 2001.

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

1/5

Listened while driving running errands. Good lord by the end of the second track I was begging for it to be over and I had another hour and a half to go. Boring songs, trite lyrics that I couldn't discern from the poor delivery and mixing, embarrassing narrative set dressing, self indulgent yet amateurish improvisations. At times I thought I was hearing a Spinal Tap parody but I was missing the joke. I feel bad for any kid who's Dad subjected them to this drivel growing up. Don't do drugs, kids.

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

3/5

Listened while cleaning at home. Love getting these records that I never would have come across with this project. That said, I didn't love this one. It's beautifully made, but not exactly something I would reach for again. Glad I listened to it though!

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Listened while driving and cleaning the house. What a treat it was to revisit this one. I'm completely biased because Radiohead is my favourite band but I really enjoyed listening to their Brit rock roots again.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

5/5

Listened to while playing with my daughter. Having only ever heard Fairytale of New York previously I found myself entranced by this record. The instrumentation, the folksy harmonies, the biting humour, I loved all of it and I think this record is going to enter my regular rotation.

The Blueprint

JAY Z

4/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

3/5

Listened while playing with my daughter. Listened to the Deluxe version up to and including Halloween. I need to preface this by saying that Grunge is really not my thing. I get how this album paved the way for Nirvana and Pearl Jam to break out into the mainstream and I totally hear and understand the importance. I get it all, I just didn't particularly enjoy listening to it.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Listened while getting new winter tires put on. Way ahead of its time. I think the mixing was a bit weird on the version I listened to on YouTube music. Maybe a little bit too long but crescendos to an incredible ending with Watchtower and Voodoo Child. nWo 4 life

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

2/5

Listened while playing Ball x Pit. I get that this guy is the voice of a generation but man was this boring from front to back. Now I know where to turn when I'm having trouble falling asleep. The Girl From Ipanema isn't looking at you, Frank? She's probably covering her drink when you're near too.

Mask

Bauhaus

4/5

Listened while playing Ball x Pit and cooking dinner. I don't want to call this Joy Division at home, because I did enjoy this album on its own merits, but it sounds a lot kike Joy Division. Loved the darkly melodic bass lines and driving drums, as well as the moody vocal delivery. Call me a fan of gothic rock!

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Gris Gris

Dr. John

2/5

Listened on the drive home from the mall. Not for me. Didn't get the spooky vibes other talk about. Don't like long jammy improv sections that just go on and on. I just don't really enjoy this era of psychedelic music. At least it was short.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

Listened in the car to and from my parents. Finally after a bunch of boring, safe, or otherwise just pleasant music I get something that gets me blood flowing! From front to back it's just dripping in violent, angry, post-Thatcher British energy and I couldn't get enough. Still feels like listening to the future and I'm dancing in the club on Omega in Mass Effect 2. Almost 30 years later and maybe we need to start praising the Firestarters again. A classic.

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

2/5

Listened in the car driving to the University. I really wanted to like this record. I usually like bands that implement noise and unconventional sounds but this one just didn't do it for me. I liked the rhythms and drums but I wish there was more harmonic material for me to sink my teeth into. Disappointing.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Listened in the car while running errands. A heartbreakingly beautiful record. Didn't realize the timing of his death until about halfway through and it completely recontextualized the record for me. It was on the short side which left me wanting more.

Viva Hate

Morrissey

4/5

Listened while in and driving home from Costco. Went into this really wanting to hate it because Morrissey is a bigoted prick but found myself really enjoying it. It's got that 80s British rock stank on it that I love. Still loses a star because Morrissey is a bigoted prick.

White Light

Gene Clark

2/5

Listened while driving to work. Nine out of ten doctors agree: do NOT listen to this album while operating heavy machinery. Two stars because it wasn't actively painful to listen to, and I'm sure it goes hard in the sleep study waiting room.

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Listened while driving home from work. Perhaps the horniest album ever made. Sounds great!

Basket of Light

Pentangle

5/5

Listened while driving my wife to work. Was pleasantly surprised by this one! Beautiful vocal harmonies and incredible musicianship on their instruments. It's like I was sent back in time! I wish there were more of the oscillating times signatures in the opener and thought the departure from their style in Sally Go Round The Roses was a miss for me. Loved it!

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

4/5

Listened while driving to and from my parents' place. Always nice to get reminders that there's a whole world out there and that Western music isn't the be all and end all. Really interesting album to listen to and just beautiful all around.

Buena Vista Social Club

2/5

Listened while driving to and from work. Transported me from my current -20 degree Winnipeg day to a Cuban dance hall on the beach in the summer. Unfortunately for me the only things I hate more than dancing are beaches and summer heat. An excellently made record that is just not for me.

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

Listened while driving to Costco. Great bass grooves, excellent solos. Just a good old nice jazz record, can't say much more than that.

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

3/5

Listened while doing work on the computer. Didn't know Rod Stewart was in a competent but fairly boring band before he was a solo star. A competent but fairly boring and forgettable album.