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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	5	3.43	+1.57
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen	5	3.63	+1.37

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Rock 'N Soul Solomon Burke	2	3.37	-1.37
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	2	3.34	-1.34
Who Killed...... The Zutons? The Zutons	2	3.14	-1.14
Eternally Yours The Saints	2	3.06	-1.06
Tuesday Night Music Club Sheryl Crow	2	3.05	-1.05

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Fragile

Yes · 1 likes

3/5

Doing this right after Emerson, Lake & Palmer is interesting, and reaffirms that part of the reason I like Emerson, Lake & Palmer is that I can feel them having fun, where as with Yes I get the old prog rock feeling of them being *serious*, and therefore harder for me to appreciate the noodling...but the breadth was good, and I very much enjoyed We Have Heaven, so ugh no I can't put this at the same level as Public Enemy or Curtis Mayfield, THREE FOR YOU

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Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Same as everyone else, two stone cold classics and then a lot of competent honky tonk and blues that deserve points for being in a clear coherent theme, and all very listenable, but not enough to make the album as a whole of 5

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

ugh I wish I could give it a 3.5, because it's incredibly listenable and sometimes very resonant, but I find it's too indulgent for Young's love of rambling introspective lyrics and looseness of form that ends up being poor man's Dylan

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

Fuck it, I'm going five. More than half the songs on the album have appeared at some point on my top 1000 list, and it just has a great lack of pretension and a joy for larger than life moments. It is too one note for listening straight through, like having too much straight sugar in one sitting. But if I can't give this five stars then I'm very rarely going to get to that level, and I'd like to be generous.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

A few of us talked about this over a beer on Saturday night: it still feels modern and part of the sound of the world in ways that Let It Bleed doesn't necessary. One of the few albums that announces its presence in such a large way and then delivers on that across its entire hour.

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Hey it's that song from all the commercials! And also a bunch of stuff that sounds vaguely similar to it, none of which is bad, but none of which really moves me.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

2/5

First album where I'm like "yeah there's nothing that's really sonically interesting or fun", which means it's my first 2, as I continue to suss out how I'm gonna score things

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

3/5

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

3/5

I admired it more than I liked it but it was interesting!

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Realizing that my criteria for 5 stars is "does it have multiple bangers that I enjoy" AND "does it have a unique and coherent sound that I appreciate" and the answer to both is yes, even if grunge as a genre was sort of a dead end because it fundamentally built on the same sort of principles as rock musically, if not attitudenly

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

2/5

Sheryl Crow is in her 60s now and that is upsetting. Anyhow it is sort of generic jangle guitar in the first half, and then gets more interesting in the second half, and is very pleasant even if I never got really excited.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Very fun! I listened twice, and on the second time it did feel a little more surface level goofy, as Trevor pointed out -- but it has a fresh sound with a lot of different lighter things going on, and Eye Know could crack my next Top 1000

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Boston

4/5

I had this as 3, but then I listened again, and it's a tight 40 minutes, creates an entire genre of music, has a decent range, a cool backstory with the endless tinkering of its maestro Tom Scholz, and it's not More Than A Feeling's fault that its been played 140% more than it should over the last 40 years. American Idiot you can't divorce from its moment, but Boston is timeless, so screw it, 4 it is.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

2/5

Eternally Yours

The Saints

2/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

it's like a 4.4 for me? great sound, tremendous opener/second half, lags in songs 2-4...ultimately it's a liiiiiitle too samey for a 5, and all of the songs are very accompished, without being completely *fun*

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

duh doy I have albums I like more as a cohesive product, but Thunder Road/Born To Run/Jungleland are perfect, and it paints such a perfect picture of young adult desperation to get out of this place, with such beautiful piano and saxaphone parts, that you can excuse the tonal similarities. or at least I can.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

East St. Louis Toodle-Oo is a hilarious encapsulation of Steely Dan is so frustrating. anyways rikki slaps and parker's place is fun but there are so many things that insist on itself that I can't go higher than 3

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

3/5

Such a fascinating and emotional voice, even stripped of so much of its power, but needs more hooks or snap for me to really love

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

3/5

The Beatles did make plenty of good music before Rubber Soul, but lots of it was singles-based. This is the most *historically* important of their early albums because of the movie tie-in and the fact all of the songs are original, but I prefer some of the rawness of With the Beatles/Please Please Me, and there's nothing here in my Top 30 Beatles Songs, so...am I giving this a 3? I think I'm giving it a 3.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

2/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

3/5

Blue Eyes is a Top 1000 song for me, I love Willie's general "pace", if that makes sense, but nothing else snapped enough for me to be like "yes, a 4 it is", so here we are

Illmatic

Nas

3/5