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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
We're Only In It For The Money The Mothers Of Invention	5	2.46	+2.54
Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby Terence Trent D'Arby	5	2.98	+2.02
Queen II Queen	5	3.49	+1.51
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Ray Charles	5	3.49	+1.51
The Atomic Mr Basie Count Basie & His Orchestra	5	3.5	+1.5
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	5	3.5	+1.5
Moving Pictures Rush	5	3.57	+1.43
Sheer Heart Attack Queen	5	3.64	+1.36
Beyond Skin Nitin Sawhney	4	2.76	+1.24
Club Classics Vol. One Soul II Soul	4	2.82	+1.18

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Daydream Nation Sonic Youth	1	3.29	-2.29
Berlin Lou Reed	1	3.09	-2.09
Brown Sugar D'Angelo	1	2.93	-1.93
Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul Otis Redding	2	3.92	-1.92
Millions Now Living Will Never Die Tortoise	1	2.89	-1.89
Djam Leelii Baaba Maal	1	2.78	-1.78
Space Ritual Hawkwind	1	2.69	-1.69
Heaux Tales Jazmine Sullivan	1	2.68	-1.68
Heroes David Bowie	2	3.61	-1.61
Maggot Brain Funkadelic	2	3.6	-1.6

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Artist	Albums	Average
Queen	2	5

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Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

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The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

Nice Big Band vibe. Considering it was recorded at the dawn of the HiFi era sound is remarkably clear and crisp

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

Classic Jazz standard. The time signature changes in the title song seems to have inspired future generations or Progressive rock and jazz fusion groups

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

3/5

Didn't much care for it back when it was new but I'll give it another start after a good listen. It def rocks

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

Very good.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Interesting. Not sure how to classify it. Not a bad listen but a little too bass heavy, takes away from the other instruments and vocals

Headquarters

The Monkees

2/5

When I was in elementary school the Monkees were the thing. The show, the 1st few albums, the singles were all over the radio. Kinda started my musical journey. Anyway in hindsight I now know the Monkees were a made up band with studio musicians playing other peoples songs. This album wasn't up to the original Monkees that I remember from my youth.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

2/5

Couldn't finish it.

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

3/5

When it first came out I really didn't like it. Thought it a difficult listen. Hearing it now it's a little easier on the ears but I still find his vocalizations sleep inducing.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Good album. The new mix sounds better.

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

1/5

It was boring/ awful. Couldn't finish it. No point just synths.

Queen II

Queen

5/5

One of my favorite Queen Albums. Loved the sides labeled white and black. Very hard rock for queen. Queen was learning how to use a studio as an instrument. Best to listen thru headphones.

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

4/5

Knew this as the Beano album back in the day. Always a fun listen.

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

4/5

Don't usually like dance music but this was very good

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

One of the best R&B albums of the 70s

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

5/5

My father was a huge county music fan so I heard the originals of most of these songs but these fully orchestrated versions are on another level.

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

3/5

Reminds me of early Dylan.

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

2/5

A nice album if you want something low playing in the background. Nice live performance

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

I was working in a record store when this album came out, it was played constantly so listening again brought back old memories. That being said it's not an album the I have downloaded.

Dry

PJ Harvey

4/5

Not her best album but very good. She is a local from where I come from and use to see her live frequently. Great live show

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

1/5

Even if I could understand the lyrics, the music is repetitive beats and no dynamics.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

An album I owned. It's a shame she died so young.

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

4/5

Didn't know what to expect but wasn't expecting much but was pleasantly surprised. Interesting vocals, rhythms, and lyrics.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

I think the best MJ album. I actually have a download of this.

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

5/5

One of my favorite late 80s albums. Always wonder why he wasn't a bigger star.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

2/5

One of my friends, favorite group, never did get it, though, when your best song is girlfriend in a coma that should be enough

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

3/5

Never heard or Robbie Williams but enjoyed this record.

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

1/5

I really don't like jam bands. I couldn't finish this.

Heroes

David Bowie

2/5

Not Bowie's best. Not even in the top 10.

Soul Mining

The The

3/5

Typical fun early 80's synth pop.

Scott 2

Scott Walker

2/5

This a strange album. Think of 40's crooners singing Zappa.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

As a concept album, kind of weak, but as a collection of songs that were ahead of their time, one of the best albums made. The first two track, a brilliant opening to the concept but nothing else until The next to last track. Lucy in the Sky was one of my favorite songs way back when. Getting Better, Fixing and Hole and Mr Kite could be considered fillers except the vocal techniques and studio as another instrument make them great. She's Leaving Home is like good literature packed in to 3 1/2 minutes. When side two opens with Within You it sounds like nothing ever heard. When I'm 64, Lovely Rita are again exceptional story telling. When I was young a progressive FM station started every morning with Good Morning. It was fantastic. A day in the Life is another great song as literature. Add one of the coolest album jackets in history and this is the watershed album of the 60's.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

2/5

A message in the lyrics but the music, meh

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

2/5

Great song sung by a good singer, production could have been better though

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

1/5

I remember the folk music scare from the late 60's. The crap almost caught on. Anyway this was a difficult listen and I'll admit to listening thru maybe half a song before I skipped ahead.

Eagles

3/5

The album starts with some of the best two songs of the 70's. Then fizzles with a bunch of filler until the song Best of My Love. Friends of mine loved this record. I couldn't get into it after the first songs. The Eagles would have so many better albums.

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

2/5

Apparently this is the Elvis of Pakistan. The man can sing but without lyric translations it was a difficult listen.

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

An excellent example of Progresive rock that leans heavier on the rock side. Some of the best drumming ever put down on a record.

Among The Living

Anthrax

3/5

A little partial because I've seen them twice in concert at M3. If you like real heavy metal music you'll love this. I've never been a huge metal fan and this album doesn't capture their live energy but it's decent

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

One of the better late 60's albums. A shame they had such a brief run. The album had some filler but mostly great songs.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

3/5

Heard this album many times over the years. Some of the songs are fantastic. Some are ok at best. It would have made a great single album and as a matter of fact me and many of my friends did a self edit when we recorded it onto cassette tape. Making it a single album or good songs.

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

4/5

What a fun album. Punk you could dance too.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

One on the better albums from the 90s. A shame he passed away before he could make more music.

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

5/5

The best of the Mothers albums and one of the best Zappa albums. This album parodies everything and that's part of the fun

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

2/5

Once you get past the overly long awful title song it got more interesting

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Been a while since I heard this album and I forgot how good it was. A amazing voice gone too soon.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

I think this is one of the finest records to come out in the past 25 years.

Play

Moby

3/5

Eclectic and and easy listen, lots of good hooks

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

1/5

I know at the time it was released it was considered ground breaking. I've never been a punk rock fan and this is awful

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

5/5

This was the first Queen album I ever heard. Turned me on to them but I always listened to other albums from them when I needed a fix. Been a while since I heard it and it was just as good as remember.

Arular

M.I.A.

4/5

Listened to this on a spin bike and great music for that, got the heart pumping. Fun record

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

2/5

I would call this more garage rock, then punk rock but boy was there a lot of songs on this album overall not horrible

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

1/5

Not a good listen, the overwhelming bass hid any traces of decent vocal arrangement and the droning rhythm didn't help

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

This is the first non-compilation album I've ever listened too by Bob Marley, I had a couple of greatest hits records. Very good.

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

1/5

Some songs were ok, others not so much.

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

Good album. The forefathers of the California country rock sound. Lots of talented members of this group

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

One of Neil's best and more mellow albums.

Berlin

Lou Reed

1/5

I'm was never a Lou Reed fan and an album about drug addition just a turn off.

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

A good Bowie album. Not his best but still good.

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

2/5

I liked it takes a Nation of Millions better. This one started strong and got meh as it went on.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Slick production and clever videos propelled this album back in the MTV days and the songs are pretty good. The music does wear on you after awhile. Although this isn't part of the review there are one of the worst band to see live.

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

2/5

Ok, I little sleep inducing, be a good album to play for insomniacs.

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

3/5

Interesting album. Sounds great in headphones. I enjoyed it

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Always liked this album. Not his best by a long shot but good