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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Time Out The Dave Brubeck Quartet	5	3.83	+1.17
Bert Jansch Bert Jansch	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Score Fugees	1	3.69	-2.69
Superunknown Soundgarden	1	3.64	-2.64
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea PJ Harvey	1	3.38	-2.38
Ritual De Lo Habitual Jane's Addiction	1	3.19	-2.19
Permission to Land The Darkness	1	3.13	-2.13
Purple Rain Prince	2	4.02	-2.02
In Rainbows Radiohead	2	3.86	-1.86
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge Mudhoney	1	2.85	-1.85
Hot Fuss The Killers	2	3.73	-1.73
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	2	3.62	-1.62

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Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

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Paul Simon

3/5

Hey, this is my first of 1001 albums, its Paul Simon, who I do like, so a high average seems about right

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Purple Rain

Prince

2/5

Some good ones but overall I am not a big fan. The title track is the standout

Hot Fuss

The Killers

2/5

Album 4 - the purpose of this is to be exposed to music you might not otherwise listen to right? I listened, liked one, but couldn’t say I want to re listen to the rest. The one leads to the 2 rating.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

2/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

3/5

Nice. If I wasn’t a tough grader I might give it another star

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

1/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

3/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

Yes, this is a classic; but somehow Nyro's voice starts to grate after a while.

Permission to Land

The Darkness

1/5

No; not a fan.

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

2112

Rush

2/5

Guess I had moved on long before

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Never a big Stones fan, they always seemed petulant

The Score

Fugees

1/5

Did not listen

Superunknown

Soundgarden

1/5

Did not listen

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

1/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

1/5

I don't get why so many 5's or what critics found appealing. What I hear are three note melodies and dull, repetitive, angsty lyrics. "We Float" seemed like the only one with some redeeming musical qualities but even those were embedded in dah dah de dah notes repeated over and over and uninspiring lyrics. Sorry, another 1 from this listener.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Given the quality of the recent albums of the day I've gotta give Sly & The Family a 3. I might have given it a 2 but Stand!, I Want to Take You Higher, the drum solo on Sex Machine, Everyday People, ... there is enough goodness on this to rate a 3 even if the album as a whole isn't chock full of it.

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

The title song is really his anthem, isn't it? The rest, meh. His talent was overwhelmed by Yoko, wasn't it? Hard to imagine (?!) he thought many of these were his best work for the time.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

2/5

New York Dolls

2/5

Trash and Subway Train seemed to have marginal redeeming value. They’ll not make it on any favorites list of mine however.

Queen II

Queen

2/5

Feast of Wire

Calexico

4/5

Holy mackerel, something from this century that actually has listenable tunes and lyrics? Something I’d not been aware of before but would eagerly listen to again? This is why I started this 1001 journey.

Bert Jansch

4/5

I was not aware of Jansch but it seems evident that a lot of the folk scene of this era was. I knew I’d heard Angie before, which led me to wonder why Simon & Garfunkel titled it Anji; that then led me to the composer, Davy Graham’s version and some exploration of his work. Another excellent addition to 1001

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

American Pie

Don McLean

4/5

This review can’t be unbiased since I grew up in the Hudson Valley where McLean was writing this and getting into and out of the folk scene around Pete Seeger, another local. Pie was a youth anthem as well as Vincent, reason enough to make this one of 1001 albums deserving to be heard again 50 years later though.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

Perhaps after all this time we have heard the title song a few too many times. Still a great song however. The whole album- its inclusion on this list well deserved - is chock full of good ones.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

A great example of its time. Changes has been played to death of course but the rest, not as familiar, exemplify the directions Bowie would take. Good choice for a 1001 albums.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Probably would not have listened had it not shown up; funky