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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Palo Congo Sabu	5	2.7	+2.3
Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo MC Solaar	5	3.09	+1.91
American Pie Don McLean	5	3.28	+1.72
Back At The Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith	5	3.38	+1.62
Blunderbuss Jack White	5	3.39	+1.61
My Generation The Who	5	3.4	+1.6
Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen	5	3.42	+1.58
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	5	3.57	+1.43
Maggot Brain Funkadelic	5	3.59	+1.41
Live At The Regal B.B. King	5	3.67	+1.33

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Felt Mountain Goldfrapp	1	3	-2
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	2	3.4	-1.4
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea PJ Harvey	2	3.38	-1.38
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	2	3.29	-1.29
Scum Napalm Death	1	2.08	-1.08
Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus Spirit	2	3.04	-1.04
Nowhere Ride	2	3.02	-1.02
A Seat at the Table Solange	2	3	-1

5-Star Albums (18)

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Maggot Brain

Funkadelic · 1 likes

5/5

Pot soul, rnb, and rock into as blender. Let Me. Clinton operate, and voila, a perfect representation of funk

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith · 1 likes

5/5

five stars!

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Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

lots of great tracks, including a couple of top tier songs. A keeper, minus the country tinged songs

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

Not a poor track to be found.excellent. quite a shift from the pink band they started off being

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Amazingly infectious music. Even if you don't understand the lyrics, you can't help but enjoy the grooves,

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

lots of grade a tracks here!

Abraxas

Santana

5/5

Excellent listening, beging to end

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

it does set a standard....but do i like it?

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

3/5

Understandable lyrics, great grooves. Appreciate this as a great example of the art and style. If this is not your thing, it still deserves a listen

Real Life

Magazine

3/5

Distinct for its time, bud does not age well

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

African jazz brought to America. If you love jazz, this is a must hear

Boston

5/5

They managed to make both the perfect representation of a rock album of the era, while also sounding unique A pretty hard feat The bootleg sounds even better.

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

Not my favorite Who recording, but a good job of bridging the music they came from to where they went

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

3/5

Psychedelia, a kiss of prog, a slice of mid 60s life well done

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

A perfect combination of music, lyrics and vocals

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

Great alt pop, even better from a "girl band"

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

The best stones album? Even the non hits are well crafted. But just redo the country style tracks

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

Really 3.5 stars, just not quite there for 4. But a great intersection of pop, noise, end arrangements

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

4/5

Great compositions, hits, and the best tracks are the deep cuts. Five stars for an occasional listen.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

Great if you like Christmas songs. Horrible otherwise

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

2/5

Just not for me. Musically, it hits a good note, but simply not good enough to carry an album

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

That is a lot of folk music in one place. It also packed lots of great writing, and timeless classics in one neat package.

Paul Simon

4/5

Superb lyrics, music that matches, and timeless hits. What more could you ask for

A Seat at the Table

Solange

2/5

Just not a fan of this vibe. I can't tell if it is "good" but I don't like it, or if it was a not good, or I just don't get it.

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

3/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Any album that can have hits from Young Americans and Fame sure covers lots of ground

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

When elevators die and go to heaven, this is the music that gets played. A great singer, just not my style

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

3/5

Nothing poor, nothing great.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

There are some angry people here. Not my usual groove, but great performances, and great music win me over. Linton Kwesi Johnson would be proud.

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

Lots of great little nuggets here. If this album dropped today, hits would still come off of it. Not quite 4 stars, but better than three...

My Generation

The Who

5/5

hi. We are The Who. This is a damn fine album... Great tracks, emerging from ther British rnb scene, with distinctive character shining through

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

No denying the hits, but unless you are a fan of the style, the rest of the tracks are just filler. This would have been better as a single album

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

A soundtrack where the songs tell the story incredibly well. Great lyrics, fantastic musicians playing great soul/rnb, and excellent vocals.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

Pot soul, rnb, and rock into as blender. Let Me. Clinton operate, and voila, a perfect representation of funk

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Excellent from start to finish, an incredible diversity of styles and sounds

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

An entire movie on one great album

New York Dolls

4/5

Good tracks with a few great ones, and a band that knew how to dress, and act to get noticed.

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

1/5

Could not stay awake long enough to enjoy any of this

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

5/5

Great music, excellent lyrics, fantastic voice.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

3/5

Quite a diversity of sounds, a melting pot of jazz and prog, but does not stand out to my ears

Dire Straits

4/5

A platform for an excellent guitarist, with a great band, diversity of music, and great lytics

Konnichiwa

Skepta

2/5

just not in my wheelhouse

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

2/5

his lyrics tell a story in no uncertain terms and his voice is unique, but it is just not enough to make an album stand out

Scum

Napalm Death

1/5

Only listen to this if you are having a horrible day but want someone else to sound unintelligibly angry for you

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Excellent lyrics, fantastic voice, it just grabs you

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

2/5

While recognising great vocals, to my ears this is elevator music hell

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

The hits are there, but the rest of the album does not stand the test of time, though at the time it was standing out from the crowd

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

5/5

A demonstration that a guitar slinger can do far more

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

A master class in soul/R'n'B of the era

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

2/5

an excellent singer, with lyrics up front, and well written. but you better be a fan of that style of what was considered pop music of the time

American Pie

Don McLean

5/5

any album that delivers one of the greatest songs, as well as other gems of the intersection of folk, pop and soft rock deserves all the stars it can get. a talented singer/songwriter

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

2/5

If Pete ubu was an artist, this album would be abstract, with attempts at bits of realism so you might want to listen. Two stars for trying

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

2/5

He can rhyme, and create an interesting soundscape. But I don't want to hear songs with caricatures of the worst tropes of segments of society. If this were a movie, I would not want to see it, even if critics rave about it

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

Great songwriting and harmonies, and stands the test of tine

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

2/5

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

4/5

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

4/5

Like listening to a sunset

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

Prog is not dead, just hiding,

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

3/5

Great to listen to musicians being musicians, not rock stars. This sounds nothing like any individual musician soulded like or played like, very refreshing. Hard to rate this without many listens, but it is at least a 3 leaning upwards,

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

2/5

fair to middling, nothing remarkable

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

4/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison