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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
At Mister Kelly's Sarah Vaughan	5	3.37	+1.63
Illmatic Nas	5	3.6	+1.4
Lust For Life Iggy Pop	5	3.6	+1.4
Cut The Slits	4	2.71	+1.29
Disintegration The Cure	5	3.86	+1.14
In Rainbows Radiohead	5	3.86	+1.14
A Night At The Opera Queen	5	3.95	+1.05
Brown Sugar D'Angelo	4	2.95	+1.05

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Pink Moon Nick Drake	1	3.65	-2.65
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	2	3.5	-1.5
Marquee Moon Television	2	3.5	-1.5
Surf's Up The Beach Boys	2	3.3	-1.3
Astral Weeks Van Morrison	2	3.26	-1.26
Pyromania Def Leppard	2	3.13	-1.13

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Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

So, so lovely.

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

I Got the Beat and especially Our Lips Are Sealed are so, so good. The rest of the album is good enough, but just didn’t grab me like those two tracks.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Where Is My Mind seems like it comes from an entirely different album. Not necessarily a different band, but a band that has gone through big changes and sounds nothing like their old selves. I think it might be because I came late to the party, and spent so much time listening to Pixies descendants (Nirvana), but the rest of the album didn’t hugely grab me. Gigantic was pretty cool.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

2/5

I only know The Beach Boys from their very best, which is transcendently good. Combined with my previous 1001 albums pick being The Who’s “Who’s Next”, also released in 1971, the album suffered greatly in comparison and my main impression was “corny”. Still had some nice harmonies, though.

Cut

The Slits

4/5

The first band in the project that I had absolutely never heard of, and, damn, these ladies rock!

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

Solid. Favorite song: In the Mood For Love with Bonnie Raitt

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

2/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

5/5

Loved it. Listened to it all weekend, and then went for Iggy’s other solo stuff, too.

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

“I’ll see what I can do”

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

3/5

Eh, I guess Morrissey just isn’t my bag.

A Night At The Opera

Queen

5/5

I thought Bohemian Rhapsody would be the oddest thing on here, but this is odd all the way through. Loved it!

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

2/5

Meh. Nothing grabbed me. My kid said VM sings like he’s missing five teeth.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

Even I’ll admit the Beatles were pretty good.

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

4/5

Growly, blues mess. Couldn’t understand a word. Loved it.

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

4/5

Only as funky as your last cut.

White Denim

3/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

Moody, unique, and out-of-time.

The Stone Roses

4/5

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Pyromania

Def Leppard

2/5

Tom Tom Club

4/5

Deeply silly. “Genius of Love” is a banger.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

3/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Grooving, vibing.

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

3/5

Smooth, but maybe just not for me.

Marquee Moon

Television

2/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

I feel like In Rainbows gets overshadowed in the critical consensus by several other Radiohead albums, but it’s definitely my favorite. One of my top 10 albums.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

5/5

Sarah Vaughn is so damn cool on this album. Listen to it 70 years after the recording and you’ll get 1% cooler just through osmosis. It’s great.

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

1/5

The most not-for-me thing I’ve heard on 1,001 so far. Hated it.

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5