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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Live / Dead Grateful Dead	5	2.82	+2.18
Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson	5	3.35	+1.65
Stardust Willie Nelson	5	3.39	+1.61
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground	5	3.53	+1.47
Aladdin Sane David Bowie	5	3.61	+1.39
At Folsom Prison Johnny Cash	5	3.97	+1.03
Hunky Dory David Bowie	5	4	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Funeral Arcade Fire	2	3.56	-1.56
The Beach Boys Today! The Beach Boys	2	3.26	-1.26

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Artist	Albums	Average
Willie Nelson	2	5
David Bowie	2	5

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At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Always loved this classic and it was definitely worth a re-listen. As a fan of Robert Hunter's lyrics, this set of songs really shows Cash's influence on Hunter and the Dead. American music, through and through.

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Amazing — can’t believe I missed this when I was in my psychedelic music phase in college. Unbelievably influential on so much contemporary and subsequent rock.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

2/5

Pretty, but not my style. More like soundtrack music than an album I’d choose to listen to.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Always meant to but never got around to really listening to Wilco. I’ll be listening to more for sure.

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

Fun British pop punk band from the 90s that I never heard of before! Any ‘70’s - ‘80’s Ramones fan would like this group.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

5/5

Definitely never heard these old standards played by Willie. What’s not to love?

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Listening to this album from start to finish is like visiting my younger self. It was like going home.

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

5/5

So nice to listen to this one again, recorded here in my city when I was two years old. Headphones on, it transports you to another time.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

I only knew the hits from this Bowie album and man, have I been missing out. It’s a playful, hippie Bowie, and such gorgeous songs! I have been playing this on repeat since it came up in the list. It’s a new old favorite.

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

4/5

What fun to go back and listen to this band, reminding me of the days in the late 80s when we'd frequent South Florida's "alternative music" dance clubs. We took ourselves so seriously, as does this album. Good music from a simpler time, when it was fun to act depressed.

The Joshua Tree

4/5

I had this on vinyl and listened to it over and over, but it has been decades since I heard the whole thing from start to finish. What talent, coming out of a really tumultuous time in Ireland.

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

3/5

Excellent electronic music out of Australia. I can’t believe I was totally unaware of this group.

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

3/5

Artistically very sound, but definitely not my favorite Genesis album. This one takes itself way too seriously, and the frenetic keyboards end up being overwhelming. I find it more cheesy than epic.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

This album is perfection from start to finish. It’s Willie’s 18th and is the 1st where he was given creative control. It’s simple: guitar, piano, drums, and Willie’s voice, and it’s just perfect.

Music

Madonna

2/5

Musically sound dance tunes, but when it’s not auto tuned, she relies on a vibrato that’s so consistent I’m not sure whether it’s actually another effect. This is not my kind of pop.

Pretenders

3/5

Funny that this is the first time I’ve listened to a Pretenders album in its entirety! I love Chrissie Hynde’s voice as much as ever, and the music is great, though it does bring home how musically simple pop songs were in this era.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

2/5

This is the cleanest cut goody two shoes album imaginable. It’s like if a Ken doll were a record. It was fun to listen to a whole album of Beach Boys songs, but I much prefer the more experimental music from this era.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

5/5

There’s just so much great Bowie music and I’m not familiar with a lot of it. This is another great album.

Arular

M.I.A.

2/5

I only knew her hit, Paper Panes, before this. I’m not a big fan of this genre.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

This album and I are exactly the same age and it’s one I’ve heard from beginning to end my whole life. I can’t imagine a world without the influence of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. A masterpiece .

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

A truly great songwriter with another album I never heard in its entirety. Bedrock of so much beloved music which followed.