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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Happy Trails Quicksilver Messenger Service	5	2.8	+2.2
Queen II Queen	5	3.48	+1.52
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes	5	3.5	+1.5
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	5	3.5	+1.5
Head Hunters Herbie Hancock	5	3.54	+1.46
Wild Is The Wind Nina Simone	5	3.65	+1.35
Can't Buy A Thrill Steely Dan	5	3.73	+1.27
Innervisions Stevie Wonder	5	3.87	+1.13

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins	2	3.68	-1.68
L.A. Woman The Doors	2	3.65	-1.65
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden	2	3.41	-1.41

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Violent Femmes

5/5

Raw, fun, surprisingly sexy

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

3/5

Surprisingly traditional rock save for some fairly anodyne satanic lyrics. Fun but not for me.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

I get how others can find this repellingly twee, but this is absolutely my thing.

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

At turns soaring and searing. A mix of romance and protest, but not disjointed.

Iron Maiden

2/5

Feels more influential than essential. By chance I got this only days after The Number of The Beast, obviously the fuller version of this vision.

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

5/5

Timeless in the purest way possible.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

Some of the best pop rock songwriting ever.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Seminal, a little overstuffed.

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

3/5

Just didn't really connect with it. Beautiful, though.

Medúlla

Björk

3/5

The conceit, an artsy electronic album almost completely composed of human voices, could be a gimmick in another artist's hands, but Bjork mostly makes it work. Still just kinda not my thing.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

The high points are obvious and undeniable, but it's sprawling, two hours long, and has some real emotional insights like "love is suicide." Didn't finish.

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

I think Coldplay's reputation is a little unfair. Here you can definitely see their ability to tap into emotion, both quiet and soaring.

Queen II

Queen

5/5

It's fun listening to this and noting the connections to bands like Iron Maiden I've listened to in past 1001 days. Great album.

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

5/5

Side 1, a saga-length cover of a Bo Diddley song, is incredible. I'd not heard of this album before, and I feel certain it will be in rotation for me long into the future.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

There's something almost sugar-y about the blend of pop and rock here. And you gotta love the horniness.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

There's a moment in the chorus of Simple Twist of Fate, as Dylan vacillates between a full throated wail and his signature mumble, where you can see all of him.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

I'd only ever heard "Living For the City" and "Higher Ground" as standalone tracks from playlists or best-ofs. Hearing them in their full context is incredible. Genius stuff

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

Probably more important the personally enjoyable, but undeniably great. The drive on "He's Always There" and the meandering solo in "Lost Woman" are highlights.

L.A. Woman

The Doors

2/5

Never been a Doors guy, and I still don't love Riders On The Storm or the titular track, but I found a new appreciation here for the bluesier stuff.