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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan	5	3.75	+1.25
Pet Sounds The Beach Boys	5	3.92	+1.08

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	1	3.59	-2.59
White Light / White Heat The Velvet Underground	1	2.89	-1.89
Superunknown Soundgarden	2	3.64	-1.64
Morrison Hotel The Doors	2	3.58	-1.58
Surfer Rosa Pixies	2	3.49	-1.49
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	2	3.4	-1.4
There's No Place Like America Today Curtis Mayfield	2	3.37	-1.37
Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow	2	3.35	-1.35
The Specials The Specials	2	3.29	-1.29
Exit Planet Dust The Chemical Brothers	2	3.15	-1.15

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Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

2/5

It's a Doors record...

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

2/5

Musically, it was great. But not a memorable album.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

Great soul/R&B album. Not a lot of variety but it does what it does really well.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

This was a fun listen. Like being in a jazz club.

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Its a classic.

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

2/5

If you likw grunge its a near perfect album. Turns out I like Soundgarden less than I thought (Aside from a couple amazing songs on thje album).

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Enjoyable Yes album. Some songs are way too long. Two versions of 'I've Seen All the Good People Your Move' is excessive. Too much filler.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

1/5

This was crap.

The Specials

2/5

A good ska album. Not very memorable but it had some good jams

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

4/5

The intro music to Paul Simon's Graceland. What more can I say? African music that is funky, approachable, and full of soul.

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

Not Coldplay's best, but I do love me some Coldplay.

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

It's Pearl Jam.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Black Sabbath

4/5

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

2/5

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

2/5

Too much warbling, not enough substance. This album did nothing for me.

Nowhere

Ride

3/5

Track 1 & 2: Ok this isn't for me. Track 3: Ok, there's something here. Maybe not an album I love, or something I'd listen to again, but enjoyable if unmemorable. Like Oasis but without the magic.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Free Bird, Simple Man, Tuesday's Gone. An album full of classics and one of the all-time debut records.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Great album with great songs. It would be better if it wasn't all covers.

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

2/5

Definitely weird and not exactly to my tastes. Some songs grabbed me, like 'I'm So Proud'. But there was not much here for me to grab on to.

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

1/5

Not my jam. Mostly noise, and weirdly experimental. There's a 17 minute song about a blowjob with the lyrics "You're busy sucking on my ding-dong. You busy sucking on my ding-dong." For fucks sakes.

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

2/5

Post-punk pop vibes. Not bad, not great.

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

A little sad. Overall good but a bit to downbeat and melancholy. The track Lost Cause was a standout.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

It's Pet Sounds. An absolute banger album. That's Not Me is a standout on an album of great music. It changed the game at the time and still holds up.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

One of the greatest from one of the greatest. Poetry to music.

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

3/5

Fun and upbeat. It would be good for a backyard bbq or outdoor chill.

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

3/5

A little slow, but great for background.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

2/5

A great collection of samples but not something I would listen to again. It was kind of boring to be honest.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

2/5

At times, bizarre, disjointed, and rough. Still it was weirdly enjoyable at times and always interesting. It felt more "garage" than say, Nirvana but the theme remains the same.

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

3/5

This was a fun album that acts as a perfect time capsule into late 90's/early 2000s R&B hip hop. It might not be the best example of the genre but it brought me back in a wave of nostalgia.

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

2/5

Not a lot here for me. Background electronic music. Blase

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

A consistently enjoyable album, but it's almost too safe. A great first effort but it lacks the depth, power, and experimentation of their later stuff.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

2/5

If you like 90s UK techno, then you must love this album. I do not. It wasn't bad, but it's not my kind of album. It's dirty, it's grungy(good), but it's also repetitive and every song is 1-2 minutes longer than it needs to be.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Great live album, even if the sound quality isn't the best.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

It's stunning, soulful , and beautiful in every way. Her voice is incomparable, the production is perfect and the album is a complete work of artistry. Listening to it now in hindsight gives the album a whole new and tragic patina. It made me mournful for what could of been, but incredibly grateful for what was.

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

2/5

An interesting look at one of the first "rock operas". It's an interesting album that tells a complete story, but unfortunately it pales in almost every way to Tommy.

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

3/5

This was a fun album. Beautiful, pop inspired, a little jazzy.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

One of the best albums ever. MJ is a pedophile though.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Good album to half listen to. Late era Elvis, nothing revolutionary here.

Nixon

Lambchop

2/5

It's an album. Apparently I listened to most of it but I'm not really sure when that took place. Nothing stood out and I wouldn't go back to it.

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

2/5

Another album that just wasn't my style. At times I hated it, at times I was intrigued. A few times it pulled out of the heavy industrial sound to give me something I enjoyed immensely.

Mask

Bauhaus

2/5

Weird, sad noise. It had some fun parts, but overall, it was very mediocre. The sound quality was fine at best, but the whole album was extremely underwhelming.

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

A sad and moving final album

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

2/5

A punk album that isn't really punk. It has the sound but not the anger. Although it isn't a bad album it doesnt give me what I need from a "punk" album. I could see these songs being used in a commercial to great effect.

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

2/5

Sad 90s music. An indie band, but not one I would listen to. I can see the appeal but there are many, many bands that do the same thing better.

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

4/5

The Flaming Lips are a lot less intense than I thought. There were some slow parts, but overall it was an upbeat, tight, and thoroughly engaging album. I would definitely listen to it again. Race for the Prize, A Spoonful Weighs a Ton, and Buggin were particular standouts