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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Talk Talk Talk The Psychedelic Furs	5	3.03	+1.97
Pacific Ocean Blue Dennis Wilson	5	3.08	+1.92
Soul Mining The The	5	3.17	+1.83
Live! Fela Kuti	5	3.43	+1.57
Play Moby	5	3.45	+1.55
Power In Numbers Jurassic 5	5	3.47	+1.53
Fear Of Music Talking Heads	5	3.47	+1.53
Pink Moon Nick Drake	5	3.65	+1.35
Getz/Gilberto Stan Getz	5	3.66	+1.34
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You Aretha Franklin	5	3.93	+1.07

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Justified Justin Timberlake	1	2.67	-1.67
Beggars Banquet The Rolling Stones	2	3.61	-1.61
Debut Björk	2	3.38	-1.38
Selling England By The Pound Genesis	2	3.19	-1.19

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I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

This is embarrassing but I’ve only heard Respect before- god I was missing out. The talent, the love, the romance??? Amazing.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Summer breeze was the highlight and I really loved the interview- I think this would’ve been 5 stars if I wasn’t comparing it to yesterday’s!

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

It’s cool to learn where a lot of famous samples came from! A little too one-note for me though

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

I can go either way on live albums, but this really added to it! I think I’m not a huge blues guy though. This was still really catchy and fun.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

5/5

Makes me think of summer, calling your friends on landlines, and what it was like to have friends and neighbors before the iPhone age. Also realizing the supreme debt owed by all the 2020’s hip hop artists I listen to.

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

4/5

I need a garage, and a car that I’m ‘going to fix up soon’, and a six pack, and the sluttiest little jorts the world has ever seen.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Sympathy for the Devil is probably one of my all-time favorite songs but the rest of this album didn’t hold up for me.

Metallica

4/5

As a metalhead this is foundational- heavy, skillful and powerful. It’s not five stars because ironically I prefer a lot of Metallica covers to actual Metallica songs; near the end all I could think about was Miley Cyrus’s ‘Nothing Else Matters’.

Play

Moby

5/5

Perfect balance of catchy and atmospheric! South Side was probably the first trip hop song I really liked years ago and the rest of the album 100% holds up.

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

3/5

The difference between Van Morrison’s live and studio energy is really big- I think I prefer his studio albums more but this was still very easy listening.

Debut

Björk

2/5

Not liking Björk is my generation’s version of men not liking Yoko Ono…so it gives me great pain to admit I don’t really enjoy her vocals. I’m so sorry Björk your outfits are always fire though

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

3/5

Perfectly fine Rock and Roll- a good reminder of why it was banned/had so many social objections at the time

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Very middle of the road for me!

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

3/5

Only knew them for the disco- but really enjoyed this one on the drive to work! I also told the really scary site super at one of my jobs about listening club and he sang me one of the songs off this album acapella. It was surreal

Dummy

Portishead

3/5

I feel like this is a fantastic album for a very very specific mood, but it’s too thin to have listening to it be your only activity. Unfortunately makes me think of the nonzero number of weird sexual encounters it has probably scored too

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

Everyone get more weird this instant

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

2/5

I usually really like this genre, but something in a lot of the tracks didn’t really hit for me. Skin has an amazing voice though!

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

Electric

The Cult

3/5

Pleasant classic rock! I know I’m saying a lot of these are middle of the road, but once again this album was catchy and perfectly fine.

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

4/5

Great album for desk work/studying! Not quite lofi but very easy listening- the kind of thing I want on at a coffee shop or maybe a club when it’s closing.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

4/5

Really pleasant! Made me think about the level of skill it takes to sit down and play a piano for this long.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

I don’t usually enjoy or really understand jazz, but this was very fun!

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

The big songs from this album are classics for a reason, but again I’m running into the ‘all the songs kind of sound the same’ wall.

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

5/5

I looooove new wave and talk talk talk is required listening. Been very angsty this month and this album was just what I needed

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

This is what I want from live albums! Absolutely spectacular

Justified

Justin Timberlake

1/5

Was catchy but gave me the ick big time

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

5/5

Incredibly wide range for one album- I liked some songs more than others but as a whole really enjoyed it! In a word: moving.

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

3/5

Very funky, very 90s, enjoyed about 50% of it

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

I was only really familiar with message in a bottle before this- this is a solid album! It is also funny to see Sting with this much hair on the album cover.

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

The first half of this album was a bop, the second half just got on my nerves a little

Infected

The The

2/5

I used to play The The a lot on my new wave radio show, but I feel like Infected is kind of horny in a sinister way.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

I’ve never listened to this much soundgarden at once- made me realize some doom metal and punk influence id never noticed before! Very pleasant

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

3/5

This was a thinker! I kind of love ‘songs about dances that aren’t line dance songs’ as a genre so a fun first track. As a whole though, I felt like the album jumped around a little too much to be more than the sum of its parts. This whole listening experience has given me a new appreciation for entire album runs!

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

Listening to this album was like soaking in a hot spring I feel healed

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

4/5

A really good concept album! Classic for a reason

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Groovy in the extreme

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

3/5

Incredibly weird retro sleaze that managed to bust out a slutty baseline every time I was about to turn it off for being annoying.

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

This made me kind of emotional! I’m not usually an acoustic guy but I loved this it was so pretty.

The Coral

3/5

Really could not place the genre on this one- I enjoyed it!

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

2/5

I think I just don’t like Genesis. The instrumental sections were pretty though

Vulnicura

Björk

2/5

I will be honest I could not finish- I’m sorry Björk. Extra star bc the instrumentals were very moving

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

Very one note but Radiohead makes great ‘soundtrack’ albums!

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

Groove so strong I can’t believe I’m still standing- Chameleon was the highlight for me.

Lost Souls

Doves

4/5

Really great moody indie!

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

For whatever reason I really preferred are you experienced to electric ladyland

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

I was familiar with the story of the album and Lazarus, but not the rest of the track list. Bowie is truly the master of the concept album, and Blackstar is so funky and so, so sad- but surprisingly joyful.

Soul Mining

The The

5/5

First wave is my fav genre and this album is great!!! I used to play it on my radio show :)