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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
World Clique Deee-Lite	5	2.87	+2.13
The Yes Album Yes	5	3.31	+1.69
Tommy The Who	5	3.32	+1.68
Stardust Willie Nelson	5	3.39	+1.61
Cloud Nine The Temptations	5	3.4	+1.6
Superunknown Soundgarden	5	3.64	+1.36
Club Classics Vol. One Soul II Soul	4	2.82	+1.18
Apple Venus Volume 1 XTC	4	2.83	+1.17
Songs The Lord Taught Us The Cramps	4	2.84	+1.16
Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul Otis Redding	5	3.92	+1.08

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	1	3.41	-2.41
Parachutes Coldplay	2	3.46	-1.46
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	2	3.43	-1.43
Achtung Baby U2	2	3.3	-1.3
Queens of the Stone Age Queens Of The Stone Age	2	3.29	-1.29

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It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

4/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

4/5

Van Halen

4/5

Achtung Baby

2/5

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

4/5

The Yes Album

Yes

5/5

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

2/5

I remember this was one of Kurt Cobains favorite albums and buying it It early in 1989 and noting it was all over the place in style and really jarring. I was expecting more like the Rembrandt pussyhorse album and was a bit disappointed. But this album cover was a favorite T-shirt of mine.

Led Zeppelin

4/5

“iconic album cover and cassette beloved by 1980’s Camaro driving kids”

Boston

4/5

1999

Prince

4/5

This was one of the game changers in genre

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

2/5

This was one of the game changers in genre good album and exceptional couple of songs but doesn’t seem like a game changers album

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

This album is all over the place in song style and some great songs and some in my opinion some not so great songs.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

I’m wishing for a half star voting system. While I don’t think this album deserves a full three I do not think it deserves a full two either. It was actually an interesting if overproduced album that along with Modest Mouse’s similar timeframe album did bring a lot of focus to the genre utilizing social media and clever internet marketing.

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

2/5

While I like this album I believe the later albums from them with lannegan singing are better. Solid album but not the pinnacle.

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

2/5

While this was interesting and enjoyable for it’s influence on lots of performers and artists I wasn’t fully engaged.

Metallica

4/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

I understand why this is on the list and it is a great album but I believe it is slightly overrated.

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

3/5

Interesting style mix and instruments and while at this moment it wasn’t my cup of tea, I can visualize the 1950’s swinging bachelor bringing someone back to their pad, putting this on the hi/fi and showing off the etchings. Not traditional tango, but something different

Face to Face

The Kinks

4/5

Songs from This Album started my introduction to the kinks back in the 70s I remember the storytelling sort of songs with the British feel that this album brings. Overall a great album.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

This is exactly what you would want to use as a descriptor of “blues”.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

This was one of the great albums that brought hip hop to everyone. Still seems to holdup for me.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

Bummed

Happy Mondays

2/5

It’s fine, I like liked their earlier album better back in the day. Not sure why this was included in the list.

Kid A

Radiohead

3/5

Good album but overrated and a bit of band self flagellation

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

1/5

I have trouble separating Kanye the person from the music. While the album is I guess good musically it’s not groundbreaking enough to make me give it anything but a 1

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

There is just something about this album.

Kenya

Machito

4/5

Frantic energy but in a cheeky way that still elicits emotion today but when released I’m sure was groundbreaking.

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

3/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

5/5

This is one of those albums where a genre existed but was perfected. Love this one.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

3/5

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

4/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

While I like this and it had a lot of Dylan’s popular songs. I think I like the earlier albums more.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

First Album where Blondie started to come together musically and production quality, while sort of expanding into different music genres

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Solid album. Not too standout but good.

Stephen Stills

3/5

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

Dire Straits

4/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Although I’m not the biggest Green Day fan, revisiting the album does remind me that it was a pretty good album. But the radio overplayed songs I can live without.

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

4/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

This was a solid album. Didn’t realize I knew so many songs off this album.

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

3/5

Fleet Foxes

2/5