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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Tago Mago Can	5	2.79	+2.21
Second Toughest In The Infants Underworld	5	2.85	+2.15
Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective	5	2.91	+2.09
Slanted And Enchanted Pavement	5	3.04	+1.96
Dig Your Own Hole The Chemical Brothers	5	3.11	+1.89
The World is a Ghetto War	5	3.35	+1.65
xx The xx	5	3.35	+1.65
Sulk The Associates	4	2.35	+1.65
Court And Spark Joni Mitchell	5	3.35	+1.65
Back At The Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith	5	3.38	+1.62

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	1	3.39	-2.39
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	2	3.56	-1.56
The Holy Bible Manic Street Preachers	2	3.15	-1.15
Back To Black Amy Winehouse	3	4.02	-1.02

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Artist	Albums	Average
Talking Heads	3	5
Radiohead	2	5
Black Sabbath	2	5
Nirvana	2	5

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Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

One of the all time greats. Rhythmic beauty

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Game changer. Loud, emphatic.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Legendary. Classic.

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Legendary. Classic. Rythmic. Tribal.

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Incredible. Music defying. Top 10 of all time.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

African rhythms. Darker than the others.

Repeater

Fugazi

4/5

Post-punk, hardcore. Awesome bass lines. Not my normal music listening, but damn good.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

Not a Beach Boys album I’m familiar. Love the arrangements. A real focus on environmental issues it seems

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

3/5

Not for me at all.

The World is a Ghetto

War

5/5

Funky. Powerful. Pivotal. Political.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Legend of the game. Lots of voice effect. Movement music.

Tago Mago

Can

5/5

Kraut rock glory. Experimental, bizarre, landmark.

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

3/5

Interesting. Moody. Psychedelic. Not for me.

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

5/5

Quintessential British underground electronica.

The xx

5/5

Stunningly beautiful. Well-produced. Sparse in the best way possible.

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

5/5

10/10. Loud, abrasive, generational.

Sulk

The Associates

4/5

Interesting. Lots of Bowie, NIN, the cure. Never heard of it in my life

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

1/5

Awful. Does not age well. Whiny, teenage angst. Not for me.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

Fantastic. Techno madness.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

5/5

Wow. Biggest surprise so far. What a fantastic album. Funky and unexpected

Black Sabbath

5/5

Dark, black magic masterpiece. Pre-metal. No skips.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

5/5

A top 10 album for me. Delivers on all fronts. Incredible arrangements, beautiful song writing…it’s a real vibe. Laurel canyon brilliance

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

2/5

Nope.

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Better than I remember. Punky, catchy. Part of a time and moment.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Incredible. Flawless beauty. No skips

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

Great record. Lennon on his own. Great songwriting

Clandestino

Manu Chao

3/5

Different. First time hearing this artist. Not my favorite but enjoyable

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

3/5

First timer listener. Unique, playful. Not my style.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

Classic. Not my favorite doors by any means by a good place to get it in!

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

10/10 nothing more needs to be said. Pivotal, monumental album

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Classic Bowie. All the sounds. One of his many great records.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Good song, great singer. Good listen, doesn’t really move me though.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

Underwhelming. Disjointed. Not a fan.

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

An album for its time. Good players, good harmonies, but just not for me

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

An album for its time. Great at that time, but a little dated.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

Love some Steely Dan. So well produced.

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

Tough to give this anything other than 5. Classic and defining

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

3/5

I still don’t get the appeal

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Black magic.

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Beautiful singing. Not for me.

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

4/5

Great band, great record.

Signing Off

UB40

3/5

Good early reggae album. Much better than I expected. Had a great flow to it.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

Great to listen to a live album from a legend, but didn’t move me .

Suede

3/5

Headquarters

The Monkees

2/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

First time listening to to a pj Harvey album. So stark and beautiful.

Take Me Apart

Kelela

2/5

Didn’t know the artist. Nothing too exciting or interesting here.

Bad Company

3/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Interesting. Not my style but rather enjoyed it. Crazy vocals

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Different kind of Joni, but brilliant nonetheless.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

An under rated songwriter with beautiful crafted tunes. Very somber at times

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

5/5

Masterpiece. Sounds like nothing else.

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

A wonderful collection of songs. Such an original voice

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

3/5

A little dated. Some great songs. Love Steve Winwood. 3.5/5

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

10/10. Top 10

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

Great coming back to this one. So intense and tight

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

3/5

Been a long time. Not something I grew up with, but can definitely appreciate.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

3/5

Taking me way back. 3/5

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Huge album. Great songs all around.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

5/5

Wow. Bangers!

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

3/5

Not really my lane. But a good record nonetheless. Well produced.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

Decent, not as great as I was expecting.

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

3/5

Very enjoyable listen.

Traffic

3/5

Another one that was good, but maybe not what it once was at the time.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

5/5

Legend. Master. Still relevant and still kicks ass

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

A gem.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

5/5

Seminal hip hop album that all others are measured against.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

Jazz fusion. Incredible stuff

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

3/5

Better than expected

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

5/5

Classic album. Required listening.

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Top ten start to finish.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

Top ten start to finish.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

4/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Never been much of a Springsteen fan. Some great songwriting on here though.

Paul Simon

4/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

5/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

5/5

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

4/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

Thoroughly enjoyed. Lounge vibes

Damaged

Black Flag

2/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5