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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Transformer Lou Reed	5	3.67	+1.33
Group Sex Circle Jerks	4	2.75	+1.25
Olympia 64 Jacques Brel	4	2.78	+1.22
Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman	5	3.79	+1.21

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
It's Too Late to Stop Now Van Morrison	1	3.25	-2.25
Funeral Arcade Fire	2	3.56	-1.56
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	2	3.4	-1.4
Eagles Eagles	2	3.29	-1.29
Only By The Night Kings of Leon	2	3.24	-1.24
Crazysexycool TLC	2	3.07	-1.07
Hunky Dory David Bowie	3	4	-1

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Funeral

Arcade Fire · 1 likes

2/5

Couldn't even remember what this sounded like by the end of the day.

1-Star Albums (1)

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Violent Femmes

4/5

Commendable first album boys.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Great mixing. Covers many styles and samples.

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

Very mild, a little boring. Would be better live.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Lots of hits, knowing they're from Berklee kind of clashes with the very intimate southern and blues themes.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

Outside of the hits it's pretty bland, Plastic Fantastic Lover is strange and clashes thematically.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

Last song is cool, good length.

Adele

3/5

Would be a 4 star if actively going through a breakup. Crazy how young she was when this blew up.

Eagles

2/5

It's all power chords, guitar tone is anemic. The "chugging" song is weird, were they forbidden to swear?

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

3/5

It's not for me. 2.5/5

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

What every 90s alt band wants to sound like. 4.2/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Pretty good indie rock, 3.8/5

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

2/5

All sounds the same. Bad love songs with messy lyrics.

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

4/5

Wasnt what I expected, interesting sound. 3.8/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Dont know what they're saying but it sounds good. 3.7/5

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

4/5

Probably scary as hell in 72, nowadays just fun goofy rock.

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

Funky 3.8/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

2/5

Tainted Love cant hold this up, "Seedy Films" had many flat vocal runs à la Yoko Ono. 1.5/5

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Important. 4.8/5

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

3/5

Average outlaw country sound, not terrible but there is certainly better.

Crazysexycool

TLC

2/5

Wah Wah is cool, didn't enjoy this.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Still goes dooweeoooo, but less goofy than earlier albums.

Odelay

Beck

3/5

Lots of sounds that kinda fit together. 3.2/5

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

4/5

Much better than 2008's Only By The Night. 3.8/5

Traffic

3/5

Dozed in and out, It's average rock.

Ramones

3/5

All sounds the same! But important nonetheless. 2.8/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

2/5

Couldn't even remember what this sounded like by the end of the day.

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

1/5

Yeah, im not listening to this man for 5 hours.

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

I liked this, could benefit from a re-listen. 3.7/5.

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

3/5

True neutral opinion on this, dont know if i'd call it essential listening.

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

Just cant match the energy of take on me. 2.7/5

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

3/5

If you like nick cave you'll love this. because he's in it.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

She needs to leave him alone, he can't take any more heartbreak!

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Looks like he's enjoying that banana.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

More matured than the early albums.

Iron Maiden

4/5

Softer than the cover would suggest.

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

4/5

Very passionate french music. Too bad I cant speak french. 3.8/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

3/5

Didn't enthrall me, but then again should ambient music?

The Slider

T. Rex

3/5

This was ok, a few strange vocal choices throughout. 3.3/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

It was fine, some songs lost me, but Life on Mars? Is great.

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

Excellent. 4.5/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Need to relisten with lyrics on front of me. Damn good.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

All sounded the same, couldn't relate. 2.5/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

2/5

Got kinda repetitive, not for me. 2.4/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Really??? three Arcade Fire albums? 2.8/5

Pink Flag

Wire

4/5

Pretty cool band I hadn't heard of. 3.7/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

Good album, quite heavy for the time.

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

4/5

Don't have much to say. 3.5/5

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

4/5

Short and sweet? Short and Slimey?

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Singer songwriter that keeps each song fresh. Gonna revisit sometime.