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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Django Django Django Django	5	3.2	+1.8
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg Jerry Lee Lewis	5	3.27	+1.73
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	5	3.31	+1.69
Guitar Town Steve Earle	4	2.79	+1.21
The Contino Sessions Death In Vegas	4	2.9	+1.1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
New York Dolls New York Dolls	1	3.12	-2.12
Run-D.M.C. Run-D.M.C.	1	3.12	-2.12
The Sun Rises In The East Jeru The Damaja	1	2.91	-1.91
Group Sex Circle Jerks	1	2.75	-1.75
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	2	3.63	-1.63
Figure 8 Elliott Smith	2	3.33	-1.33
There's A Riot Goin' On Sly & The Family Stone	2	3.29	-1.29
Actually Pet Shop Boys	2	3.18	-1.18
Heartbreaker Ryan Adams	2	3.03	-1.03

5-Star Albums (4)

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Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

3/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

3/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

2/5

Gorillaz

3/5

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Le Tigre

3/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

Pretenders

3/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

4/5

Van Halen

3/5

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

5/5

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

2/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

1/5

The only good thing about it was that it was short. To me punk needs to be intense, clever, or have a fun singalong attitude. This had none of those.

Django Django

5/5

A great discovery. Equal parts fun, weird, clever, and groovy. Particularly Skies over Cairo and Hail Bop.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

American Gothic

David Ackles

3/5

Uneven. The title track was off putting, but the following ballads made up for it (Love’s Enough and One Night Stand). Like a strange cross of Randy Newman and Charles Aznavour. Not bad.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Even the songs I didn’t know were great. She’s a force of nature.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

4/5

A nice surprise. Good variety between classic folk pop, weird space, and eastern tuning psych leaning stuff. At least 3 great songs with maybe 1 clunker along the way.

Blood, Sweat & Tears

3/5

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

1/5

I think it’s not good. His voice is fine, but the lyrics are not clever or interesting and the production is weak. Sorry East Coast, this isn’t it.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

3/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

3/5

I’m a little surprised I didn’t like this more than I did. But still good energy and fun. I think the outtakes were some of the best tracks.

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

4/5

What a great album. Melancholy, weird, poppy. A nice mix, glad to be introduced to these guys.

New York Dolls

1/5

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

As a songwriter, Prince is maddeningly inconsistent. I wanted to like this album, but there are just a lot of clunkers in here. The high points like I Could Never and The Cross are great nonetheless.

NEU! 75

Neu!

4/5

Airy, fun, odd, made me smile. What more do you want?

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

What a cynical and empty album. Ok for the nostalgia listen I suppose but that’s it.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

2/5

It wasn’t actively bad, but I have already forgotten about it. 100% vanilla.

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

Run-D.M.C.

1/5

Maybe this was groundbreaking at the time but no extra credit for that. It doesn’t stand up. Corny and uninteresting.

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

4/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

Black Sabbath

4/5

Was expecting abrasive proto-metal but was surprised to hear more like classic rock tuned a little darker. Very good. Also, I’m a sucker for sick bass lines what can I say?

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

21 songs… I feel I’m on a one man crusade against double albums. If this was trimmed to the 9 or 10 best it would be perfect. Very high highs.

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

4/5

A standout album. Really interesting mix of songs that were enjoyable all the way through. With one exception - Aisha was a poor attempt at being edgy or something. A track to skip next time. Otherwise awesome.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Clear, simple, powerful. Is there a better songwriter in the world? Great voice too. Great album.

Garbage

3/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Creative, innovative, and displayed a wide variety of styles (almost to the point of losing coherence). Best stuff for me was Gallows, Loving You, and Roy Harper.

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

2/5

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

3/5

For early rap, it’s better than most. That’s not really a high bar to clear, but still. Clever and energetic.

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

4/5

The album has enough twang and introspection to separate it from straightforward Americana - all for the better. Enough variation to keep you interested in the next track. (I really could have done without Little Rock n Roller though…) A gem of an album otherwise.