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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Close To The Edge Yes	5	3.19	+1.81
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	5	3.32	+1.68
If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Pogues	5	3.33	+1.67
Be Common	5	3.35	+1.65
Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow	5	3.35	+1.65
Dirt Alice In Chains	5	3.46	+1.54
Kid A Radiohead	5	3.71	+1.29
Can't Buy A Thrill Steely Dan	5	3.72	+1.28
Beyond Skin Nitin Sawhney	4	2.76	+1.24
Time Out The Dave Brubeck Quartet	5	3.83	+1.17

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hotel California Eagles	2	3.59	-1.59
Doggystyle Snoop Dogg	2	3.36	-1.36

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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.

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

3/5

It’s nice. I’m just not that into reggae. I gave it the old college try but it’s never been my sound.

Like A Prayer

Madonna

3/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Da Capo

Love

3/5

I like Forever Changes more

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Just great vibes

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

3/5

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

4/5

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

3/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Common

5/5

Absolutely love this era and style of Chicago rap

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

Guero

Beck

4/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

3/5

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

I Against I

Bad Brains

3/5

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

4/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

3/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

2/5

I liked this better when I was 22 and high.

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Fragile

Yes

4/5

Classic prog

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

3/5

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

3/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

5/5

McCartney

Paul McCartney

3/5

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

3/5

Leftism

Leftfield

3/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

3/5

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

2/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

4/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

3/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Close To The Edge

Yes

5/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

4/5

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

5/5

Tommy

The Who

4/5

I’ve always enjoyed the musicianship in this, and found the story utter nonsense. This time round I watched the movie too, where the nonsense took centre stage and was kind of rad.

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

Take Me Apart

Kelela

3/5

Foo Fighters

4/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

3/5