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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Homework Daft Punk	5	3.29	+1.71
Juju Siouxsie And The Banshees	5	3.33	+1.67
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	5	3.38	+1.62
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	5	3.4	+1.6
Blackstar David Bowie	5	3.48	+1.52
Blue Joni Mitchell	5	3.5	+1.5
Devotional Songs Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan	4	2.59	+1.41
Hounds Of Love Kate Bush	5	3.62	+1.38
Pink Moon Nick Drake	5	3.65	+1.35
One World John Martyn	4	2.81	+1.19

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Pelican West Haircut 100	1	2.97	-1.97
Cafe Bleu The Style Council	1	2.88	-1.88
Southern Rock Opera Drive-By Truckers	1	2.81	-1.81
G. Love And Special Sauce G. Love & Special Sauce	1	2.74	-1.74
Hotel California Eagles	2	3.59	-1.59
Ellington at Newport Duke Ellington	2	3.43	-1.43
Back At The Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith	2	3.38	-1.38
Hot Rats Frank Zappa	2	3.36	-1.36
Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk	2	3.33	-1.33
Live And Dangerous Thin Lizzy	2	3.32	-1.32

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Artist	Albums	Average
Joni Mitchell	3	4.33

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Who's Next

The Who

4/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Thank you RNJesus, because without Kashmir I would still be trying to find that unbelievable riff ten years from now.

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Ubiquitous horny, romantic and sad staples all together on one album, therapeutic for Gaye and great stuff, but What’s Going On mogs Let’s Get It On entirely. That he was bold enough to name one song Let’s Get It On and another Keep Gettin’ It On, and both are fantastic, is amazing work and You Know How to Ball is absolutely smutty.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

3/5

Tracey Thorn’s voice is wondrous and I am a slave to the beat, but the production is less eclectic and absorbing than their contemporaries (see: Massive Attack/Tricky/Portishead etc). Textbook definition of Fine.

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

A wonderful old favorite. Not a soul or a voice on this spinning earth quite like Joni.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

Love 90s alternative rock/grunge, love the doom metal energy, love Chris Cornell and the slick time signatures on this. But… that’s all I’ve got. I expected to love this instead I can just barely differentiate it, a shame. The length is diabolical too.

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

1/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

Favorites: Love Her Madly, Been Down So Long (ish), Cars Hiss By My Window, Hyacinth House, Riders of the Storm. Mostly extremely fascinating despite not being my taste, but certain tracks I simply hate Morrison’s voice (The Changeling, L’America and again Been Down So Long).

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

it’s all downhill from the title track, which due to childhood indoctrination of classic rock radio I still enjoy… But the title track is track ONE. Ladies and gentlemen, the Eagles.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

I love getting this album now, of all times. It’s actively one of my very favorites. When I went on a month and a half long dive into Bowie’s music in 2025 I had already long since heard Blackstar, having dug into it when the man himself died mere days after its release, after his birthday. That didn’t by any means stop me from returning to it again and again as I tore through his material I hadn’t previously touched. Blackstar insists on staying with me now, as if it is now one of my increasing grey hairs. I listened to it once more on its ten year anniversary, making it all the funnier to get it from the 1001 albums randomizer just over a week later. The title track basks in circling the sound and distance of finalities, of Death, of time. I have seen it often noted that one of Bowie’s inspirations for this final album was Death Grips but nowhere is this more apparent than in the fraught, dark cacophony and violent power of ‘Tis a Pity She Was a Whore. I follow Girl Loves Me around like a stranger I’ve known all my life but cannot speak to, the opportunity long gone to clarify the why’s and how’s. Dollar Days is melancholic, brittle yet contains a bold finality so frank in retrospect it sometimes pains me to tears. We are ten years on now from David Bowie’s death yet I Can’t Give Everything Away still feels like a final farewell I will never really be ready for, still feels like a fresh wound. Yet it’s laced with so much enigmatic kindness, an injury given with a gentle touch and goodbye. I am generally at war with myself over getting too attached to musicians and artists because generally they aren’t your friends or family, they are people who are capable of mistakes and lives lived at a distance from you, that possess talents that can touch us in indescribable ways. But it can’t be helped some days. Blackstar has always made that apparent. I do in fact miss him greatly still. I wasn’t ready for his goodbye. But I am glad he was able to make one. I’m glad it was this.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

2/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

3/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

Good news: Shane McGowan is a poet Bad news: He needs lyrics/subtitles by default Good news: it’s a good album. Bad news: a little of it goes a very long way. I was burned out by track 8.

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Promising for a first album, but still sounds like reheated leftovers.

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

4/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

2/5

Sometimes fine, most times a thousand years long.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

3/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

5/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Soul Mining

The The

3/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

5/5

A classic, an old favorite. How Halloween isn’t a literal holiday staple everywhere (and not just in my own personal rotation) is beyond me.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Leftism

Leftfield

3/5

World Clique

Deee-Lite

2/5

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

4/5

Horses

Patti Smith

2/5

Whatever

Aimee Mann

3/5

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Enough potent imagery, poetic storytelling and frank intimacy to catch me falling madly in love with this man even after he’s long been gone. Like damn.

Follow The Leader

Korn

2/5

Scum

Napalm Death

2/5

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

2/5

I respect it, but it just reminds me of music you’d hear in the background of a bar in the tropics when you’re on vacation and too often does it overstay its welcome.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

2/5

Not remotely awful, but simply Not My Thing in any way.

Homework

Daft Punk

5/5

Exactly as good as I wanted it to be after decades of knowing songs but never actually listening to a Daft Punk album, despite my enjoyment of disco and house. Every track was like crack to my ADD infested brain.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Adele

3/5

Incredible voice, safe as houses album and lyricism. Just not interesting or particularly exploratory. I spent at least half the runtime wishing I was listening to Amy Winehouse instead. That Lovesong cover is quite good though!

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

3/5

Jailbait is completely rancid song, but otherwise most of this bleeds together into a lot of nothing too terrible.

Konnichiwa

Skepta

3/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Nothing less than the best for Marvin.

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

1/5

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

2/5

Outside of the absolute jumpscare that is that first track alone, it’s like giving a Muppet a full time job at a piano bar. I respect the wit and bite though.

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

Gris Gris

Dr. John

2/5

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

3/5

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

3/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

Better than I’m currently willing to give it credit for because Alanis’ shrill nasal vocals drive me completely up the wall.

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

3/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

Huge shame how utterly vile Kanye has become, but it’s a good album. Way too damn long though.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

3/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Occasionally fun. Never earthshaking and kind of forgettable outside of learning where Alright came from and who sang it. How much Brit pop is on this list again?

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

The most free space album you could give me up to this point. I adore this one. I went way too long (years ago) only knowing Kate Bush because of Placebo’s cover of Running Up That Hill and there was a brief stupid time where I thought the cover was better than the original. Ha! No. Not even remotely true. I know up through Waking the Witch (which is in lovely argument with Cloudbusting, The Big Sky, the title track and Running Up That Hill for which is my favorite song off the album) much better than I do Watching You Without Me into The Morning Fog, but this is an great excuse to revisit a mild blind spot.

War

3/5

Decent! Didn’t realize Brian Eno has producer credits on like six U2 records. Not much my thing though and even now I still have difficulty taking Bono remotely seriously and his melodramatic vacillating voice doesn’t help that.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

3/5

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

4/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

2/5

Filed under I certainly respect and I recognize the talent and craft involved but don’t have the patience for it. Peaches in Regalia is excellent. Willie the Pimp is great until you’re four and a half minutes in and He’s Still Going at that solo for another four. The Gumbo Variations desperately needed to End. Not the audience on this one.

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

It may have came out in 1977, but it sure feels timeless as hell.

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

Unironically good until Axl Rose’s “cat’s tail being stepped on” vocals kick in, every single time. Except when he wails, he’s rather good at that.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

3/5

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

2/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

2/5

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

2/5

Pelican West

Haircut 100

1/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Dog Man Star

Suede

3/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

3/5

Roxy Music

4/5

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

2/5

I can hear and respect the talent on wild display. I can understand and even appreciate why so many love jazz like they do, but frankly I just don’t particularly enjoy it. This is no exception. Stay tuned.

Wild Gift

4/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

The closest a britpop album ever got to me in my life. One everyone knows. And despite or because of Wonderwall, Noel’s whiny vocals nothing overstays its charm and who else has Champagne Supernova or Don’t Look Back in Anger?

The Poet

Bobby Womack

3/5

“I can't sleep at night, when you're on my mind Bobby Womack's on the radio Saying to me, "If you think you're lonely now" Wait a minute this is too deep (too deep) I gotta change the station” Thanks Mariah. Frankly his batshit deranged personal life is far more interesting (and unsettling) than this album is but the music is smooth yet distant and not absorbing. Not interesting. It’s left my mind as quickly as it entered it.

Miriam Makeba

4/5

One World

John Martyn

4/5

Calming and strange and occasionally the vibes are very reminiscent of Portishead. I dig.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

2/5

I am begging for more respites between all the jazz. I don’t ask for much.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

My Generation

The Who

3/5

The Doors

4/5

So much better and fully formed than LA Woman it makes the latter feel like an aberration. Except for Riders on the Storm. That one still goes. Best: Break On Through, Soul Kitchen, Alabama Song, Light My Fire, End of the Night, The End.

The Specials

2/5

Ska was never my thing. Reggae either. And unfortunately they still aren’t, folks.

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

4/5

The most relaxing thing the generator has given me so far.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

The Real Thing

Faith No More

3/5

Better than what I’m about to say suggests, but such a precursor and inspiration for nu-metal that it isn’t even funny.

Paul Simon

3/5

Not as bad as all that, I still sooner prefer him and Garfunkel together over this and as much as I do enjoy Mother and Child Reunion it is the whitest piece of reggae adjacency I’ve ever heard.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

1/5

Boring and completely goofy at the same time, well done!

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

2/5

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

3/5

A beautiful,bygone and ravaged voice. The orchestra is a bit syrupy at its worst, smoky and atmospheric at best.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

It’s and probably too long but also by turns fragile and brittle and frustrated and a band all up in their feelings about each other and everyone around them. It’s my shit. I do love Fleetwood Mac.

Connected

Stereo MC's

3/5

Sonically I love the idea of this, it’s a slick type of sound I’m often entirely into…. Except it’s much too long and circular. Nearly every song could benefit from 1-2 minutes being sliced off.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

Willie injecting melancholy and humor and his personal style and making every supposed cover his own in some small and memorable way. Great stuff.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

2/5

Occasionally has snatches of something great but otherwise is buried three deep and seventeen tracks in tedious shoe gaze .

Devotional Songs