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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
If I Could Only Remember My Name David Crosby	5	3.06	+1.94
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg Jerry Lee Lewis	5	3.27	+1.73
The College Dropout Kanye West	5	3.31	+1.69
A Grand Don't Come For Free The Streets	4	2.64	+1.36
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan	5	3.75	+1.25
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Elton John	5	3.92	+1.08
Vauxhall And I Morrissey	4	2.96	+1.04

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Melodrama Lorde	1	3.31	-2.31
Brothers The Black Keys	2	3.55	-1.55
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	2	3.4	-1.4
Queens of the Stone Age Queens Of The Stone Age	2	3.3	-1.3
Achtung Baby U2	2	3.3	-1.3
The Notorious Byrd Brothers The Byrds	2	3.05	-1.05

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Sunshine Superman

Donovan · 1 likes

4/5

Yes, I will take more pyschedelic songs about Fantasy and Arthurian Legend.

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Gorillaz

3/5

Had no idea that chorus line comes from this album. "Happy, feeling glad, sunshine in a bag" etc. Very good "doing work" album. Solid vibe but not incredibly alluring.

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Powerful. Haunting. She could sing about a nickel and I’d hang on every word. She would never make it today.

Brothers

The Black Keys

2/5

Sounds great, maybe too great? Mostly vibes. I had heard so many of the songs so many times before without knowing where I had heard them. The sound itself seems so indicative of an entire genre/era of the “indie rock” that I cut my teeth on, but this struck me as particularly devoid of soul, self, perspective,

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Context has to make this one of the greatest live albums recorded ever. Slightly repetitive towards the middle, but really cool connection between the prison folk music he’s singing and his audience’s reaction to it. Voice is raw and round and undeniably cool, he makes you smile even at songs like “Long Black Veil”

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

Particularly loved the last song. Going to melt into this album a few more times. How did I never hear this? But it doesn’t feel iconic or inevitable, like Kind of Blue? Fair to compare? I don’t know.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

2/5

Nothing bad about this album, but I didn’t feel anything Great about it either.

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

2/5

Grungy to start, glorpy at the end. Fun electronic influence on rock, industrial and moody. Sounded a lot like some influential Nine Inch Nails tracks.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Catchy, with tons of feeling. Many songs in this album feel rock-tumbled by the zeitgeist, their hard edges worn smooth through hard use. Close listening shows it still has much to say. Particularly enjoyed the sound of the bridge and ending to one way or another.

Melodrama

Lorde

1/5

Really don’t care for whatever the vibe is here. The exactness with which it emulates (or presages?) the very particular and sometimes cloying sound of Taylor Swift irritated me often.

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

4/5

Killer, unique, catchy. Felt like a Guy Ritchie movie you could listen to. Unexpectedly charming and sweet.

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

A little forgettable, but a decent sound to sink into. Reminded me of a band or a song that I really can’t put my finger on.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

4/5

Really groovy. Fuck Morrissey but this is fun, weird, catchy, and has a real perspective.

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

3/5

Fun, experimental, kind of lo-fi, but didn’t grab me.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Didn't realize this was basically a country album. Somehow this album is great with absolutely NO hits and I've never heard almost any of these despite being a Stones fan for 25 years.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

This does quite a lot of self-referencing other songs on the album in ways that feel a little shoe-horned, musically. I think it still sounds awesome, McCartney is an amazing song-writer, but the sound of the band as a whole lacks a punch and cohesion that the Beatles always, ALWAYS had.

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

I don't even like The Doors. Hard to deny the greatness of the album. Some of the songs I think are probably (?) misogynist and insipid, the keyboard can be droning. But there's a LOT here. Feels iconic and complete.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Against all odds, I think I have become a Smashing Pumpkins fan. That was fun and creepy and weird and rocked really hard.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Black Pink Floyd. Way more transgressive than I expected. Released two years before Dark Side of the Moon, clearly influenced that and Shine On, at minimum. Awesome but a little disappointed to be listening to actual flatulence over and over in the final track. I'm sure there's some symbolism there but man, it just doesn't feel right.

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

4/5

Yes, I will take more pyschedelic songs about Fantasy and Arthurian Legend.

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

5/5

60 years of American media have tried and mostly failed to recapture the Americana overflowing from this album alone.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

I think every guy who has a band wants to make this album. It’s just pure music. These are like ur-songs.

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Weirder than I remember.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

He keeps performing at prisons? A couple of songs might reach higher heights than Folsom. Is this gimmicky? Or awesome?

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

So much greatness here, but presented all in an album, I was disappointed to hear so many of the midsection songs take almost exactly the same rhythm and cadence. Subterranean, Maggie's Farm, On the Road sound almost repetitive here placed together. The final sequence of 3 songs was wonderful.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Does it get better than this?

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

Soft and nice and cute.

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

2/5

I don’t really know why I didn’t connect with this. Nothing struck me as very memorable, but the sound wasn’t ever too bad?

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

Interesting to hear this up against the greatest of the greatest and not only holding its own but swinging heavy. Fuck his nazi beliefs, hope he heals some day.

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

3/5

This was pretty fun, this kind of music has been kind of lost and so many of the greats have been fully exposed as terrible people. Ultimately not really to my taste but I can't really complain.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

Some iconic songs that I did not know were by the same artist. This album continues to subvert my expectations: it is delicate, nuanced, and precise. More often than not, it is also irresistible.

Achtung Baby

2/5

Seriously milquetoast. The last two songs kind of save it. I do not understand the massive appeal of this band.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

I think this beats out Bringing It All Back Home. Legendary, but it never feels repetitive or irritating. And I only go that far because of the way Dylan's image has been parodies and pastiched into oblivion. I still loved the dude.

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

2/5

Some songs were fun here but it never made me care.

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

4/5

This was awesome. I want to relisten, shocking how modern and listenable it soundedL it could have been made in the last 20 years but it's from the 60s.

Boston

4/5

Banger after banger. Hard to believe one album could so clearly capture a band's sonic fingerprint while also producing insanely classic hits. If the music were just slightly more to my actual taste this would be a 5 for sure.

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

4/5

Again, F Morrissey. This album was a really interesting vibe that I could for sure sink into.

Adele

3/5

This is great music for someone else. I recognize how important to mass market this album and its songs were, it's kindof weird that I can't even fit it into a genre? Ballads? Pop? I enjoyed some of the songs that were not massive billboard hits.

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

5/5

Oh my god, how did we get so lucky? The haunting vocals intermixed with protest rock. I’ve only really paid attention to CSNY before, but Crosby’s got it all.

B-52's

The B-52's

3/5

Goofy but there are some serious tunes in here that I liked or were musically inventive/challenging.

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

3/5

Pretty fun and funky, but freak-a-wently clunky. It’s hard to imagine rap’s evolution in 37 years

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

2/5

I found this stilted and strange. Not very cohesive musically and not very compelling lyrically. Interesting that it may have been an early adopter of synthesizer music, but it didn’t really shine through significantly or competently.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

Had no idea but this must have been a massive influence on Billy Joel’s Turnstiles album just 3 years later. This album is absolutely massive