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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Zombie Fela Kuti	5	3.46	+1.54
Blackstar David Bowie	5	3.48	+1.52
OK Talvin Singh	4	2.56	+1.44
Palo Congo Sabu	4	2.69	+1.31
What's That Noise? Coldcut	4	2.77	+1.23
Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective	4	2.91	+1.09

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
With The Beatles Beatles	2	3.66	-1.66
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Ray Charles	2	3.5	-1.5

5-Star Albums (5)

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Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder · 1 likes

4/5

Essential to understanding the modern landscape of music

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Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

Interesting incorporation of operatic styles in hard rock

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Some stone cold classics and otherwise solid blues rock

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Listened to this album dozens of times in college. Very good but may have aged a little weakly given some of the critiques in "One of Them" also the conscious vs party rap feels a little in tension. Still a worthy addition

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Very good but only a stepping stone to better works. Still several classic songs.

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Heartbreaking and still resonant today

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Essential to understanding the modern landscape of music

With The Beatles

Beatles

2/5

Feels dated and has lesser versions of songs

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

It's not my favorite Beatles record but still a Masterpiece

The Blueprint

JAY Z

3/5

Good but not my favorite Jay-Z record

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

Better than o remembered

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My Bloody Valentine

3/5

Interesting but needs repeat listens

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Simple, classic bored white guy music

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Bombastic and lush but often a bit too ling

Roxy Music

3/5

Operatic and adventurous but it isn't really sticking with me

Vivid

Living Colour

3/5

Leftism

Leftfield

3/5

This felt like a dance album from the early 00s. I'm just sure I'd come back to it often

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Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Timeless

Goldie

3/5

Long but the length wasn't an issue but wasn't super enthralling either

Drunk

Thundercat

4/5

Fun jazzy R&B definitely worth listening to

Zombie

Fela Kuti

5/5

Not typically a fan of Jazz and it's derivations but this is a classic that should be heard by everyone.

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

3/5

Solid grunge but not a classic

Caetano Veloso

3/5

Lush and smooth but it didn't really engage me

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

3/5

Solid, worth a revisit

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Classic and enjoyable decades later

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

4/5

Fun, aggressive electronica

Talvin Singh

4/5

Definitely worth a relisten

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

Good

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

Invigorating and shockingly modern feeling

Palo Congo

Sabu

4/5

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

3/5

Good but unmemorable

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

4/5

Solid and fun

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Very good, will revisit

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

Good but dated

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Still great after some many years

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Good Dylan album

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Fairly standard but inoffensive

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

Competent but dull

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

Good but dated

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Good but missing something

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

4/5

Fun and unique, you can easily hear the influence on indie rock

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

3/5

Influential but cold

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

3/5

Only solid and probably shouldn't be on this list

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

Achingly beautiful still

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5

Timeless, poignant but fun

Me Against The World

2Pac

4/5

Thoughtful and engaging showing a conflicted persona

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Seminal and still enthralling after all these years

Beautiful Freak

Eels

3/5

Good but needs something

Rapture

Anita Baker

3/5

She has an incredible voice and while the music isn't for me it's still worth listening to.

Woodface

Crowded House

3/5

Good but soft rock isn't my thing

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

2/5

Not sure the larger sound works with these country songs

Hms Fable

Shack

3/5

Competent but inessential

Achtung Baby

4/5

Good but Joshua Tree is the better album

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

Kanye sucks as a human being but this is still good hip hop album

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

3/5

Alright but doubt I will revisit

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

Very enjoyable

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

4/5

Excellent, made me really appreciate goth ro mck

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

Grim but greatly enjoyable

Django Django

4/5

Had a good time with this album

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

4/5

Fun and engaging

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

Interesting and off beat but not too quirky