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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bright Flight Silver Jews	5	2.68	+2.32
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	5	3.32	+1.68
This Is Fats Domino Fats Domino	5	3.36	+1.64
Stankonia OutKast	5	3.55	+1.45
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	5	3.55	+1.45
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	5	3.61	+1.39
Young Americans David Bowie	5	3.62	+1.38
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Lauryn Hill	5	3.66	+1.34
Talking Book Stevie Wonder	5	3.72	+1.28
Night Life Ray Price	4	2.81	+1.19

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Dirt Alice In Chains	1	3.46	-2.46
The Wall Pink Floyd	2	4.13	-2.13
Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts The Adverts	1	2.96	-1.96
Very Pet Shop Boys	1	2.94	-1.94
The New Tango Astor Piazzolla	1	2.88	-1.88
Dookie Green Day	2	3.79	-1.79
Kid A Radiohead	2	3.71	-1.71
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	3.69	-1.69
Let's Get Killed David Holmes	1	2.67	-1.67
Ellington at Newport Duke Ellington	2	3.42	-1.42

5-Star Albums (12)

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Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers · 1 likes

2/5

dnf - I can’t get down with the red hot chili peppers

Stephen Stills

Stephen Stills · 1 likes

3/5

totally fine

Harvest

Neil Young · 1 likes

5/5

giving this anything other than 5 stars is wrong and even I know that

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl · 1 likes

3/5

listening to this made me feel like Gwenyth Paltrow in sliding doors and that’s something

1-Star Albums (5)

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Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

GUITAR Not majorly my thing but good god, guitar

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

dnf - I can’t get down with the red hot chili peppers

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

easy listening, did not know your game Nas

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

I’m glad I waited to listen to this while I walked around a fall night in portland

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

It's not my thing but I sure did like it!!

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

2/5

I wanted to feel the magic but I just simply could not.

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

dinner party music for me but probably so much more for others

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

3/5

hot and sexy

Basket of Light

Pentangle

2/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

2/5

little 15 made me question all that i’m doing here

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

meh

Phrenology

The Roots

4/5

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

90s pop punk is FINE

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

ugHHHH

Night Life

Ray Price

4/5

the introduction absolutely tickled me

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

3/5

I wasn’t feeling good about it but suddenly on who knows where the time goes things shifted as I was grabbed by another wistful folk rock ballad

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

2/5

really awesome elevator music

Young Americans

David Bowie

5/5

perfect saturday morning stroll around town

Stephen Stills

3/5

totally fine

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

2/5

i’m not in support of the 80s as a decade

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

i wasn’t that excited but then psycho killer happened

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5

I think of arcade fire as now, but this album is from 2007. Likes it

Street Life

The Crusaders

4/5

listening to street life walking my dog at 6 am

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

1/5

i am so comfortable admitting this is never going to be my thing

Revolver

Beatles

4/5

i would’ve lost my freaking mind

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

4/5

Just great!

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

3/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

a perfect easy flawless 5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

dire straits will always be heartwarming. did not realize the lyrics of money for nothing! calm down!

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

okay yea!! surprisingly yea!!!

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

I didn’t have the time to give this that it deserved

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

fucking delightful!!

Stankonia

OutKast

5/5

genuinely perfect work

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

3/5

did give my morning walk a sort of twin peaks gleam to it

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

i was so wrong about led zeppelin

One World

John Martyn

2/5

so meh

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

HELL YEAH

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

4/5

the electric guitar, my god

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

sweet!

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

giving this anything other than 5 stars is wrong and even I know that

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

2/5

idk who did it first, donald or steely dan, but i don’t care

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

do we separate the art from the artist?

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

3/5

I liked it but did I need to listen to it before I died?

The Stone Roses

4/5

i tried to resist this i don’t know why but ultimately the 90s entered my heart and soul

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

2/5

such agonizing ecstasy

The Wall

Pink Floyd

2/5

the young stoner in me wants to give this a higher rating than I really have the ability to

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

3/5

it’s a really nice album

Dirty

Sonic Youth

4/5

I went in like oh shoot and I left like OH SHOOT!!!!

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

2/5

it’s can be great and not my thing

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

4/5

this is great!

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

the people i love clearly draw inspiration from this and i love that. lyrics weren’t quite snappy enough to go all the way

The White Room

The KLF

3/5

it was a city walking vibe for sure

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

i kinda thought i’d like this more based on my perceived immense respect for alanís morissette, but I think I just had to be there

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

nostalgic, tasteful, incredible

Pretenders

3/5

i found myself more impressed than initially expected, but altogether not too impressed

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

it’s a five. how could it not be?

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

4/5

it was fun! i had fun!

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

4/5

how could I complain?

Who's Next

The Who

3/5

the rest of the album was so mid it made me question the ability of baba to even perform

Achtung Baby

4/5

have had a pretty standard distaste for u2 since the itunes preload debacle. very pleasant surprise was this album!!

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

4/5

sometimes the album of the day fits a vibe I didn’t know I was searching to curate. salsa music on a rainy cold day was exactly that

Country Life

Roxy Music

2/5

it feels to me like there is not much social about this other than the obvious

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

5/5

oh shit okay! i didn’t want to give this a chance at first and then it captured me in its pure perfection

Very

Pet Shop Boys

1/5

i could not have disliked this more

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

3/5

listening to this made me feel like Gwenyth Paltrow in sliding doors and that’s something

Ramones

4/5

i could get addicted to something like this

Tracy Chapman

3/5

first two songs come in too hot for the rest of the album

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

3/5

some really earth shattering guitar riffs heard but i’m too sad to connect with this right now

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

I didn’t know they could do all that!! hell yeah

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

georgia and vermont mentioned.

Vulnicura

Björk

2/5

this was really challenging for me to listen to

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

this was good and i thought about swinging with my lover but it is just not the vibe for a walk on a sunny day through the city

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

the first song led me to believe that things would be better than they were

Dirt

Alice In Chains

1/5

this just isn’t my vibe that’s okay!! i wish i didn’t have to rate it!! maybe i’d like it if it was my vibe!! even slightly!!

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

3/5

some parts i liked but mostly didnt

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

2/5

don’t care for all the yapping

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

5/5

it’s amazing and nobody needs me to say it

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

4/5

this was so very enjoyable and an excellent soundtrack to my hometown adventures

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

4/5

i’d say i’m a moderate democrat in regards to billy braggs voice. really charmed by everything else

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

5/5

this is such a friday treat for a girl like me

Dookie

Green Day

2/5

ughhhhhhhh

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

3/5

I liked this!

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

it’s wonderful in every way

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

just smiling!

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

3/5

I thought it was better than the people did but i agree, not too much to think about here

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

3/5

I bet I would’ve loved this had someone I could see live today released it

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

if the vibe is ever to play christmas music i’ll try to remember to play this one

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

this is such a different beatles experience from my previous listens and as a lover of pop I could not help but be so pleased

Cypress Hill

3/5

Closer

Joy Division

3/5

this had aspects that I really enjoyed but the 80s production continues to tank the rating for music that i would otherwise probably enjoy

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

easy! a Sagittarius baby

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

1/5

spotify recommended playlist is songs to test your speakers with. I don’t even know if i’d do that

The Cars

4/5

starting with three bangers is iconic enough it doesn’t matter that they proceed in the exact same fashion

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

eat eating ate

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

this is icon behavior

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

3/5

I liked it but no song dared to compare to Stewart’s untouchable classic do ya think i’m sexy?

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

2/5

give me a flaming bottle of vodka and that 2 could be jaxxed up

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

if only the rest of it could be as epic as band on the run suggested it might be

Germs

3/5

some good guitar moments. i bet id tear it up live

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

2/5

I can’t do another album that sounds like this

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

5/5

now this is what i’m TALKING about

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

short and sweet

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

I should’ve known but i didn’t

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

1/5

it’s not good for me

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

had to ask myself what this would be like for me if cameron winter sang all the songs and the answer is pretty fucking awesome

In Rainbows

Radiohead

3/5

I can’t feel this sad

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

3 star jail

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

changed my opinion of live albums indefinitely

Kid A

Radiohead

2/5

beautiful for someone else

The xx

2/5

imagining this being important to jack and lena