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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	5	3.4	+1.6
Tres Hombres ZZ Top	5	3.41	+1.59
Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits	4	2.94	+1.06

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Master Of Puppets Metallica	1	3.72	-2.72
New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84) Simple Minds	1	2.96	-1.96
Go Girl Crazy The Dictators	1	2.84	-1.84
Blur Blur	2	3.33	-1.33
Django Django Django Django	2	3.2	-1.2

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Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Some classics, maybe a bit repetitive overall?

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

I love lots of elements of this album. In no particular order, the jazzy elements, James Murphy’s drumming. It’s hard to look beyond the emotional significance of the timing of its release but then again maybe you’re not meant to.

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

I never engaged much with The Offspring, but I liked a lot of this. Self Esteem was a standout. Kinda loses steam in the last 3-4 songs, but I read they wrote those in like 2 days so not surprising.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

5/5

H town on top! Awesome from start to finish

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

Mostly recorded in South Africa iirc. The SA jazz and jive influence is very present and adds quite a lot to the album imo.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

I probably listened through 5 times and loved every one.

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

1/5

I don’t really care that it’s the first punk album ever. Not for me.

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

3/5

Didn’t really give it a fair shot but Waterloo Sunset has been one of my fave songs. Would like to revisit.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

4/5

Really liked this. I hadn’t given the verve much time beyond bittersweet symphony but sonically this sits alongside oasis and Radiohead in a really pleasant way.

Harvest

Neil Young

3/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

Love Crosby Stills and Nash, was cool to hear his solo work

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

I love the Dan but not their best album bar some highlights like Ricky and Dude

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

Some of the best songs of all time. But is it a perfect album cover to cover? Can’t give it a 5 but it’s better than a 4.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

There’s something to listening to this on the bleak English public transport that makes it feel like a soundtrack. Some seminal tracks here, I loved Narayan which was new to me. Hard to find many faults other than you could say it’s a bit repetitive but that’s just electronic music in general.

Django Django

2/5

On paper this should be the kind of thing I like, but I think I’ve moved on from this sort of thing. I liked a couple tracks, but without a clear nostalgic link, I don’t think I’ll be coming back.

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

1/5

Didn’t get through it. The new wave-y singing doesn’t really do it for me

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

1/5

I just never got the wider Metallica thing apart from a few songs. I really really dislike Lars’ drumming on this album, he sounds sloppy and weak.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Decent 3 because some songs are great and some songs just sound a lot like the great ones.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

Hard to rate this alongside other albums on this list as it’s over 3 hours long. I don’t think the expectation should be to rate the 5 or whatever disks as a whole but the general vibe of what was put down. I liked it mostly.

Vulnicura

Björk

3/5

Not always the easiest album to engage with, but rewarding in places - the build towards the end of “Black Lake”, the chopped vocals of “Stonemilker”. Some songs probably take too long to develop? But I rarely found this album boring. Kudos to Björk for being like no one else.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

A modern classic and so fun cover to cover

Blur

2/5

I’m more of an Oasis guy

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

5/5

Alright alright AS AN ALBUM, it’s one of my favorites ever. I am rating the ALBUM.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Sorcha really got me into Bruce, mainly via going to his concerts. Safe to say, I’m a convert. His blending of rock, big band jazz elements, blues etc is so American in the best way possible. Not many duds on this album but I won’t give it a perfect 5 as I think other albums of his deserve it more.

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

4/5

Weird but good.

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

4/5

Fuzz, reverb, nice drums, I like