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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Microshift Hookworms	5	3.03	+1.97
Daydream Nation Sonic Youth	5	3.29	+1.71
Disraeli Gears Cream	5	3.47	+1.53
Damaged Black Flag	4	2.86	+1.14
The Dreaming Kate Bush	4	2.97	+1.03

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Can't Buy A Thrill Steely Dan	2	3.72	-1.72
Orbital 2 Orbital	1	2.69	-1.69
A Girl Called Dusty Dusty Springfield	2	3.33	-1.33
Live And Dangerous Thin Lizzy	2	3.32	-1.32
Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi	2	3.29	-1.29
Shaft Isaac Hayes	2	3.25	-1.25
Music For The Jilted Generation The Prodigy	2	3.07	-1.07

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Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips · 1 likes

4/5

I have heard this album before but forgot most of it. This album sends you to space, forces you to dance, then welcomes you back with a warm depressing hug.

Frank

Amy Winehouse · 1 likes

4/5

Winehouse's vocals take you on a journey and the band makes for a perfect caravan to support her travels. My head was bobbing along from the intro to the outro.

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Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

I have heard this album before but forgot most of it. This album sends you to space, forces you to dance, then welcomes you back with a warm depressing hug.

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Great harmonies. The guitar tone has a nice crunch to it. Wild drums. Songs are mostly forgettable. Title track slaps though.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

2/5

The songs are nice but one was enough.

The Cars

3/5

It's wild that the first three tracks were huge hits. My favourites were the last two songs.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

A really pleasant album for a Sunday afternoon. Plenty of talent and variety in the songs that I barely noticed it is a double album.

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

5/5

How can a record be both noisy and catchy? Pure raw energy.

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

I don't love the vocals but I love the mood it sets and the accompanying instrumentation. I've never heard anything quite like this. I don't know if that is a good thing or not.. but I did put it on for another listen. Birdland sounds like a Grateful Dead jam set to some snazzy poetry. OK on that second listen I've come to appreciate the vocals.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

This album gives me goosebumps. I've heard in many times and I will listen to it many more. I wouldn't change anything about it. I don't believe in perfection but this one is close to it.

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

4/5

The eclectic instrumentation is so cool. I love the prominence of the fretless bass and the guest appearance of a didgeridoo. This music is so bizarre whilst being cohesive. Bush's vocal range is incredible! She can pull of soft and sultry, powerful lingering vibrato and rageful screams.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

I can clearly see how they have influenced many bands that I love but this album just isn't hitting great.

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Beautiful song writing. Catchy melodies and memorable lyrics. A truly timeless record.

Orbital 2

Orbital

1/5

This is so boring. Why is it even on this list? Maybe it was influential to something grander? I don't know or care.

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Its a fun and catchy rock album. Not my favourite Beatles record but certainly not a bad one.

Damaged

Black Flag

4/5

Hard hitting energetic music that makes me want to thrash around.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

2/5

A pretty run-of-the-mill classic/hard rock performance. Not a bad listen but nothing special. Best part was Huey Lewis playing harmonica!

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Winehouse's vocals take you on a journey and the band makes for a perfect caravan to support her travels. My head was bobbing along from the intro to the outro.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

2/5

Peak dad rock. Not quite rock n roll. Not quite jazz. Not quite interesting.

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

2/5

The title track is great. The rest of it is good music but definitely feels like it is a soundtrack and doesn't stand very strongly on its own without the film.

Blood, Sweat & Tears

3/5

This one caught me off guard. I didn't expect it to go so hard! Great jazz lines blending in with nicely written rock leaning tunes. I even recognized a few tunes. So I guess I have heard this band before. If I'm in the mood for jazziness I'm probably going to put on other records but I will certainly be revisiting And When I Die and maybe a few others.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

3/5

Classic Bob Dylan. Don't always know what he means but he sounds cool saying it.

Ramones

3/5

Fun fast punk rock that doesn't overstay its welcome.

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

2/5

In a rave setting this would be a 5/5. As an album though it doesn't do it for me.

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

I don't know much about this style of music. This was a fun listen!

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

3/5

I don't dislike industrial music but a whole album of it is maybe too much for me. However when a song or part of a song hits right it goes HARD.

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

2/5

I liked some moments of this one which is more than I expected.

Microshift

Hookworms

5/5

Ethereal walls of sound hit you like waves stitched together with beautiful melodies. It has lots a psychedelia yet is well grounded. I had never heard of this group before but I am a huge fan of this. It will be a repeat listen.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

5/5

Now this is how you do a rock record!

Risque

CHIC

4/5

I would listen to this for the bass alone.