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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Pogues	5	3.33	+1.67
Be Common	5	3.35	+1.65
Kid A Radiohead	5	3.71	+1.29
Can't Buy A Thrill Steely Dan	5	3.72	+1.28
Pet Sounds The Beach Boys	5	3.93	+1.07
Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel	5	3.96	+1.04

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hotel California Eagles	2	3.59	-1.59
Doggystyle Snoop Dogg	2	3.37	-1.37

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Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A. · 1 likes

4/5

The famous iconic songs are indeed famous and iconic. There are some other great tracks here too. There’s also some very ugly misogyny. I could happily go without ever listening to ‘If I ain’t tha 1’ again.

White Denim · 1 likes

4/5

Hell yeah this rules

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Dire Straits

4/5

Groovy guitars. I feel like to truly appreciate this you need to be driving a convertible on Route 66. Enjoyed it more with a few listens, much groovier and less cheesy than Brothers in Arms

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

First listen and it wasn’t super special. But listen 3 I was boppin’ and groovin’.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Not as interesting as later Talking Heads but a good start. Basically every song that’s on Stop Making Sense is better on Stop Making Sense. Ditto for American Utopia

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

Obviously Ella is iconic and wonderful and many of these songs are stone cold classics. All the same, three hours of this vibe gets a bit samey.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Great voice. Preacher Man is an all-timer. Otherwise not really my scene

Palo Congo

Sabu

3/5

I’d dance to this in a bar but I can’t say I’d listen to it more casually.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

Crazy eclectic style and plenty of bangers

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

I’d listen to it in an American bar while drinking bourbon. It’s not going on my regular rotation though.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

Good sampling, good energy, stylistically maybe feels a little dated

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Honestly Graham is a very underrated guitarist, he makes the oddest sounds into such danceable jams

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

Title track has a killer solo. Otherwise, I’m sorry but this was *very* bland.

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

I have so much respect for Bowie as an artist who was always true to himself and constantly evolving. All the same, his music has rarely landed with me personally.

LP1

FKA twigs

3/5

She seems to be doing interesting things but I just don’t really vibe with this kind of ethereal falsetto singing style.

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

3/5

Rock and roll

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

I usually like prog but this was a bit drab

Green

R.E.M.

4/5

Early REM is neat

White Denim

4/5

Hell yeah this rules

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Much more up by street than the usual full-band-mode Springsteen

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Damn the cat really swings

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

3/5

In a word, twangly. In two words, very seventies. In the field of ‘Must Die’ works, this ranks above ‘John Tucker Must Die’ and probably ‘Romeo Must Die’ but below ‘Invaders Must Die’.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

The songs are pretty neat but after two listens through I’m not really getting ‘this guy was a game-changing seminal songwriter’. Maybe I need a few more spins. I hope something clicks for me cuz I heard there’s like five more Costello albums on this list.

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

3/5

Always interested to discover singers I’d never heard of who in their era sold millions of records and got one put into the library of congress. As for the songs themselves…they’re fine. Have A Heart was a stand-out. Too Soon To Tell was a low point. All in all, it is very VERY eighties.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

Very danceable. Obviously seminal. Sadly, to my ears, the tracks get a bit samey.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Hot take: Led Zeppelin are good. Even if the teenagers at my school circa 2006 who would not consider *anything else* as real music were the most annoying babies on the planet.

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

4/5

This was really great jogging music. In the era it was released this kind of sound must have felt like it came from space.

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Surprise surprise, I’m a white dude in my 30’s and I love Radiohead.

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

Jangly and dancey. Not as good as some of their later records but the juice is there.