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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Madcap Laughs Syd Barrett	5	2.62	+2.38
Chelsea Girl Nico	5	2.63	+2.37
Faust IV Faust	5	2.78	+2.22
Call of the Valley Shivkumar Sharma	5	2.93	+2.07
3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of... Arrested Development	5	3.14	+1.86
One Nation Under A Groove Funkadelic	5	3.43	+1.57
Strangeways, Here We Come The Smiths	5	3.44	+1.56
Blonde On Blonde Bob Dylan	5	3.48	+1.52
At Newport 1960 Muddy Waters	5	3.54	+1.46
Definitely Maybe Oasis	5	3.54	+1.46

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Woodface Crowded House	2	3.11	-1.11

5-Star Albums (17)

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3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

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Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

Lost Souls

Doves

3/5

actually prefer their follow-up The Last Broadcast quite a bit

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

melodic & chaotic, would definitely revisit [first listen]

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

5/5

you can really see the cracks forming but oh what a swan song

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

a great singer-songwriter at her peak gets a little help from her friends; an essential pop classic

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

overall a fairly listenable psychedelic rock classic & worthy Jeff Beck showcase bonus note: "Farewell" piano melody seems to match The Crystals "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" for a small segment 3.5/5 (first listen)

Different Class

Pulp

3/5

a bit bri-ish innit; couple standout tracks here but HIS 'N HERS clears pretty comfortably 3.5/5

Sheet Music

10cc

4/5

the Dilla samples! 3.5/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

probably one of the more drunken albums i can think of 4/5

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

not really my cup of tea but overall pretty ok i suppose 3/5

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

3/5

oddball psychedelic meandering from an apparently troubled soul 3/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

5/5

a mysterious force starts to overtake me, what is that, am i dancing and i don't even realize it 4.5/5

Hms Fable

Shack

2/5

did enjoy the closer, the rest was somewhat forgettable– this one feels like a bit of a sneak 2.5/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

stone-cold classic, an all-time great at his artistic peak, what more can you say

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

almost jarring in a way now, to hear something so earnest; also packs a wallop, we stan a champion for the working class 4.5/5

Faust IV

Faust

5/5

a definitive krautrock essential, doesn't get much better for 70s German experimental composition than this genre staple 5/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

5/5

who says a funk band can't play rock? 5/5

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

i can sorta understand why hearing Helter Skelter in 1968 would've fried somebody's mind 5/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

5/5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

he doesn't really hold back huh 4/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

5/5

The King of Pop at the peak of his powers 5/5

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

it's fine, just not really my cup of tea– having so many Costello in the book doesn't make much sense; they're fairly interchangeable for the most part 3.5/5

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

2/5

isn't music supposed to sound good 2/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

5/5

everybody must get stoned! 5/5

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

5/5

mostly hits the sweet spot of classic hip-hop for me, combining great backing tracks & samples with compelling verses 4.5/5

Highly Evolved

The Vines

3/5

i bought this one when it came out, listened to a fair but and it's gathering dust in the CD shelves now music press went pretty overboard too, with some hyping them as the "next Nirvana"; inclusion in the book was very much a 'prisoner of the moment' exuberance imo still some good tracks therein and i'm glad this project forced me to revisit 3.5/5

Caetano Veloso

4/5

¡fiesta! 4/5

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

5/5

bar none the best collection of children's songs there is 5/5

Atomizer

Big Black

3/5

i'm not personally much of a fan of this brand of abrasive punk rock but i'm told it was influential, good for them then 3.5/5

Mott

Mott The Hoople

3/5

seems they're doing their best Bowie impression; maybe that's just the glam scene writ large though 3/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

"he could throw that *speedball* by ya'.." i'm here to state that's absolutely not a term that's ever been used in baseball parlance 4.5/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

i do enjoy the chill out low key brand of hip hop here 3.5/5

Chelsea Girl

Nico

5/5

it may be polarizing but i love her brand of singing and this serves as a bonus Velvet Underground album of sorts to me this is an essential work and great entry into the extended Warhol (Factory) universe 5/5

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

5/5

i appreciate that it influenced some of the '60s pop acts' forays into psychedelia but the 70 minute extended cut of this borders on tedium at a certain point EDIT: nevermind! that was the spotify version, the youtube album is great– avoid the spotify cut for best results 4.5/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

classic Stones therein, 3 songs we've heard a thousand times or so and some copycat blues color by numbers to fill out the rest of it 3.5/5

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

4/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

there is such a thing as too much guitar, i feel like 3.5/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

personally i probably prefer their first two releases but we owe them a small debt of gratitude for adding an actually good stadium anthem to the culture 4/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

really wish she'd have said Yes, great voice with unique character; i'd have enjoyed getting more releases from Amy 4/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

"In the Ghetto" & "Suspicious Minds" are really load bearing tracks here, propping up an otherwise somewhat mediocre assortment of standard country cuts 3.5/5

Woodface

Crowded House

2/5

enjoyed the few moments with CSNY harmonies some and its optimistic sentimentality feels quite quaint, but otherwise a fairly uncompelling and forgettable iteration of pop rock to my ears 2.5/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

not quite the Beatles but then again, what is? "Live Forever" one of the best tracks of its decade and otherwise not much filler to be found here. a standout debut near worthy of its admittedly outsized hype. 4.5/5

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

3/5

it's not that i terribly mind the fuzzy stoner rock crunchy guitar droning but it just really meanders with nowhere to go; the killer album art suggests better material, but perhaps an eventual re-listen whilst high may make it all click 3/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

while Aja is perhaps a more cohesive document and the high point conceptually in their catalog, Can't Buy.. serves as the best collection of individual tracks from Steely Dan– a landmark achievement in jazz rock bonus note: "Do it Again" was a whole lot of fun to play on Guitar Hero: World Tour especially with the special guitar with the separate touch section on the neck 5/5

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

4/5

perfectly cromulent collection of 60s british pop remarkable mostly for its closing with one of the best tracks in rock history 3.5/5