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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Strangeways, Here We Come The Smiths	5	3.44	+1.56
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground	5	3.53	+1.47
Getz/Gilberto Stan Getz	5	3.65	+1.35
Tapestry Carole King	5	3.91	+1.09

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Here's Little Richard Little Richard	2	3.56	-1.56
3 Feet High and Rising De La Soul	2	3.45	-1.45
Juju Siouxsie And The Banshees	2	3.33	-1.33

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Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

liked a lot more than i thought i would. think that the hits (one thing or another, heart of glass) are overrated, but was surprised at the depth of the musicality, especially on "Fade Away and Radiate" and "Picture This". Reminded me at times musically of Oasis or the Smiths, but with an interesting added dimension of the female vocals.

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

Album brings me right where I want to be mentally every time I listen to it. Desafinado

Dire Straits

3/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

2/5

Love the drum tuning of early songs. Spellbound, Into the Night, Arabian Nights a great 3 song run, but a lot of the other songs felt monotonous and either flat or just noisy. Arabian Nights Night Shift

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

3/5

Could be a 4, but maybe blinded by familiarity. R&B usually falls short for me, but Frank’s more straightforward style of singing communicates emotion a lot more to me than a more impassioned style. Great use of organ on Bad Religion and Forrest Gump

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

2/5

God this band pissed me off. Some very high highs, but also the lowest lows. Incredible ; time signature, instrumentation, etc. An exercise in tension and release

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

More of a 3.5. Carried by bootsy Collins and Give Up the Funk

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

3/5

Carried by Like a Rolling Stone, otherwise rambly and noisy. Harmonica felt extremely piercing

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

3/5

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Did not expect this at all, but was a perfect start to the day. Massive Attack, Air… almost sounded like songs before Pretty Lights remixed and ruined them

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

5/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Better than expected, wider range than expected. La Grange felt like an exception rather than the standard.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

2/5

Just sort of boring. Incredible voice, absolutely incredible, but the song writing, while maybe standard for the time or even progressive, is so weak and obviously not his

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

What an elite pop album. Some all time bangers here let down by the end of the album

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

Strong contender for 4 stars, but couldnT because of my lack of engagement with it. An easy, enjoyable listen, but not more than that

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Tapestry

Carole King