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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Group Sex Circle Jerks	5	2.75	+2.25
Teenager Of The Year Frank Black	5	3	+2
Music From The Penguin Cafe Penguin Cafe Orchestra	5	3.02	+1.98
Permission to Land The Darkness	5	3.13	+1.87
Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters	5	3.23	+1.77
British Steel Judas Priest	5	3.29	+1.71
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	5	3.32	+1.68
Live And Dangerous Thin Lizzy	5	3.32	+1.68
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	5	3.43	+1.57
Suicide Suicide	4	2.46	+1.54

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Zombie Fela Kuti	2	3.46	-1.46
Amnesiac Radiohead	2	3.42	-1.42
Odessey And Oracle The Zombies	2	3.41	-1.41
If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Pogues	2	3.32	-1.32
American Pie Don McLean	2	3.28	-1.28
A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse Faces	2	3.22	-1.22
The Rising Bruce Springsteen	2	3.05	-1.05

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Group Sex

Circle Jerks · 1 likes

5/5

Short but powerful, elements of the ramones, dead milkmen, dead kennedies, right in the pocket. Great. Like finding an album by your favorite band you had no idea bout but you realize has influenced all of their later work.

Roxy Music

Roxy Music · 1 likes

4/5

Fun and riffy and unexpectedly good. Chill experimental grooves and driving zeppelen-esque riffs and jazz sax. Really similar to the rocky horror picture show soundtrack. Would definitely put this into regular rotation!

Make Yourself

Incubus · 1 likes

4/5

Unique, it's been a while since the DJ was treated as a real musical member of a rock band. Lyrics are suprisingly deep for metal songs, then some absolute classics.

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré · 1 likes

3/5

Unexpected, a solid listen. Fantastic guitar, solid vocals.

Aja

Steely Dan · 1 likes

3/5

Easy listening, great musicianship . Not an every day listen.

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The Stone Roses

4/5

One foot in the 80s, one in the 90s. Plenty of light jam and pop harmonies. Should have been on the Friends soundtrack. Goes from pop to jazz to funky, a great listen.

Eagles

4/5

Wild how many absolute hits were on this album, couple of stinkers but a genre defining album with massive hit appeal.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Raw and filthy, hard not to love it but certainly the times have changed, lots makes you uncomfortable, that was kind of the point. The constant back and forth between Dre and Snoop makes even the lesser known classics absolute bangerz.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Gets better and quite good by the end, but the first few tracks don't do the album justice.

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

Five star classic from front to back. Honest, raw, fun, memorable. An actual album, and a damn good one, not just a collection of random punk tracks.

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

3/5

Starts fun, then crooner/sad. Classic honky tonky lighthearted country, followed by some love songs.

Basket of Light

Pentangle

2/5

Fun but not my cup of tea. Varied! Some joni mitchell esque numbers too.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

5/5

Some absolute hits and everything listenable, I remember being blown away by this album when it dropped, and it's aged pretty well.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

3/5

Covers but his voice and style are so iconic is carries the whole thing

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Clear voice, great melodies.

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

3/5

Chill, happy flow.

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

5/5

Really good, poppy, gritty at times, lyrically complex, really good.

Very

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Light and breezy harmonies. Great cover of 'go west'

Rocks

Aerosmith

3/5

Had much of what made later Aerosmith great, but peters out by the end.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

2/5

Irish jams, a mumford band. Turkish song of the damned was fun.

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

3/5

Fun, unexpected brit new wave fun.

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Light and breezy, chill rock. Feels like a direct precursor to jack johnson type "vibes". A pleasant listen.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Haunting and truly goth in the original sense.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

2/5

Not their best work, some haunting melodies but no earworms

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

4/5

Her vocal chops shine through the most on the tracks you've never heard. Better than I remember.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

5/5

Track to track, a pop delight. Cindi's 4 octive range shines on classics, and her cover of Prince's 'when you were mine' is a perennial favorite. A perfect pop album.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

Some massive hits, some classic crude interludes, some surprise funk. A early hip hop classic.

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

3/5

solid hip hop, catchy, the good stuff.

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

4/5

Enjoyable, fun really. An air of fun and newness and lightness and inside jokes.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

Fun cover of 'let's spend the night together'. Solid album I've somehow never heard.

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

3/5

Fun, post punk new wave, couple of fun tracks (dany a stand-out)

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

Immediately grabs you. So many deeply meaningful, moving songs. A masterclass in intent.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

Absolute classic, beautiful clear vocals and harmonies.

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

3/5

Light and breezy, fun folks, garden state esque

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

Solid album overall, but how do you rate an album with a world-changing, once in a generation moment defining song like 'imagine'?

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Whoooose that lady? Banger after banger.

Teen Dream

Beach House

4/5

An easy listen. Solid blend of harmonies. powerful, breathy vocals, beach guitar vibes. A real jam.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

Solid album with songs I didn't know were later covered by other bands.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

Smooth vocals, pure talent, great album.

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

Unexpected, a solid listen. Fantastic guitar, solid vocals.

Cypress Hill

3/5

Funky, fun, and real. A breath of fresh (dank) air when it dropped, and an original sound that reverberates throughout this album

Dog Man Star

Suede

4/5

Solid jam. U2 vibes? David Bowie vibes!

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Powerful voice. Definitely a theme album ,carried by 'let's get it on'. Romance.

Real Life

Magazine

3/5

Solid post-punk rock, catchy, fun hooks.

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

2/5

Solid and noisy and didn't grab me.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Solid album, strong vocals, sometimes poingent lyrics.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Fun, funky sound. Catchy lyrics. Really strong , really good.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

Old standards feeling, big band swing, what a voice!

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

3/5

Very solid country tunes from a singer I've never heard of.

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

3/5

Good musicianship, lots of genres, fun and exhuberent

Permission to Land

The Darkness

5/5

The definition of a five-star album, stellar first outing from the Darkness.

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Bangers after bangers

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

At first it's hopping back and forth between rock and folk, then some blues layers in. Unexpected, enjoyable.

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

Faces

2/5

Rod steward being rod steward, but also some good classic rock riffs, an enjoyable album.

Make Yourself

Incubus

4/5

Unique, it's been a while since the DJ was treated as a real musical member of a rock band. Lyrics are suprisingly deep for metal songs, then some absolute classics.

Adele

5/5

Wildly good.

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

4/5

Solid listen, some great songs, it was over so quickly because I was jamming and havin fun

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

3/5

Classic honkey tonk country

Dirty

Sonic Youth

4/5

Catch, fun, and the interplay between both singers is a blast

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Absolute classics, one of their best.

Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

Fun, highly produced, sexy.

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

3/5

Funky, and weird. Smooth jams and weridness

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

Funky and fun, a great listen.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

Funky, a good listen

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

3/5

Wide-ranging and powerful country.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Funky and fun

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

Phenomenal album, lyrics and rhythm.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Fun and great songs.

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

powerful and raw

Among The Living

Anthrax

3/5

A solid listen, good musicality, listened to the whole thing despite genre not always speaking to me.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Some great songs and some products of their time.

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

4/5

Some bangers and some sweet songs

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Scissor Sisters

5/5

Queer icon album, really good

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

4/5

phenomenal voice, classics

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Still incredible

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

really good

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Upeat and wide ranging

Liquid Swords

GZA

4/5

Lyrically dense, good stories, excellent tracks

Common

4/5

Lyrically excellent portrait of a gangster. Produced by early Kanye, ridiculous good beats.

American Pie

Don McLean

2/5

Overrated song turned into an album.

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

4/5

Fun and wide-ranging, a great listen. The spirit of mamba

Foo Fighters

4/5

solid

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

5/5

Avante garde? Great muscianship, a really fun listen.

Ramones

5/5

Banger after banger, what a listen!

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Raw, fun and powerful

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

4/5

The sampling of 'agony of de feet' and 'flashlight' was spot on! Solid r&b fun album early 90s.

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

4/5

Hot damn do I LOVE this album. No good (start the dance) just rocked my world when it dropped.

Aja

Steely Dan

3/5

Easy listening, great musicianship . Not an every day listen.

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Every harmony on every song was Michael, wild ability.

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Fantastic listen, deep vocals, very good.

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

4/5

Tells a story, many stories, raw and powerful singing, heavy excellent heavy metal guitar

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

4/5

Exorcist soundtrack theme, ambient, driving, wide ranging instrumentals and those grunts in the middle! Really great experimental album.

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

Terrific album, a couple of mediocre songs balancing out a string of massive hits

B-52's

The B-52's

4/5

New wave classic. Fun and funky and silly.

Gris Gris

Dr. John

3/5

Weird and fun and cajun

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

3/5

Early 90s cool/acoustic guitar, light electrics. Fun and folky but angsty too. Soul asylum / 4 non-blondes, etc. He did the U2/Bono "haaaaa, haaaaaaaa" noise.

The xx

3/5

Pretty great, really listenable, light electro-synth harmonies

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

3/5

Upbeat, poppy, croony, 1960 standards and classics. Bridging from the 50s into the 60s. They've been covered so many times it's hard to separate it out the original from the influence.

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

5/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

Upbeat temp, jazz and trumpet heavy licks, classic mid-50s sound, surprisingly funny. Didn't realize Brian Setzer covered 'Jump Jive and Wail'

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

Damn powerful rock opera

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

Ridiculous talent and upbeat music

British Steel

Judas Priest

5/5

BREAKIN THE LAW! Awesome album front to back driving rhythms and beating drums. Fun!

Zombie

Fela Kuti

2/5

Jazzy and funky mambo, lots of horn, solid.

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Great voice, mediocre album that kinda blends into the background.

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

Funky irish tunes with a fun upbeat tempo, good talent and good hooks. An enjoyable listen!

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

Incredible talent, catchy hooks x100

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

Back in the beginning, before he was nuts, he dropped a banger of an album.

One World

John Martyn

2/5

Smooth and a little croony, a solid if forgettable album.

The Score

Fugees

5/5

Confident talent and banger after banger. Constant little things, the shout-out to Cindy Lauper was unexpected and fun. Fresh and unpredictable and talent bleeding off tracks. Fantastic

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

5/5

Starts strong and continues stronger. Hit after hit, banger after banger. Hard to believe this was mid-late 80s! Phenominal. Great songwriting, slash's guitar just jumps out at you, some of the best most cleanest licks you've ever heard put to track. So good.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

2/5

Upbeat and fun. Solid and forgettable.

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Groovy and good lyrics. Little bit of lounge mixed in. Easy to listen to. Solid and at times beautiful, but also somewhat forgettable.

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

2/5

Great musicality, upbeat, fun, "lion-kingy", cool. Though I don't understand any of the lyrics, the songs are still solid and impressive. Wouldn't listen again.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Great storytelling, tight rifs, great groove. Hit after hit, pretty great. Dripping with talent and depth.

Suzanne Vega

4/5

Very solid. Great songwriting, interesting lyrics, pure acoustic.

Roxy Music

4/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

5/5

Straight with it and damn good. An incredible live album. Incredible.

Suicide

4/5

At first it sounds like the lead guitar (metal style) is played on an old printer, brrr brrr brrr, chreeerrrr. Fun. Like a zeppelin album we didn't get, fun and funky and not too serious.

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

3/5

Starts out with 'movin on up', an absolute jam. Positive energy.Definitely an early 90s dance jam. At times moody and ethereal. Weird weird weird. Good good good.

2112

Rush

3/5

Brilliant drums and guitar, sci-fi like lyrics and 70s vibe.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Smooth, acoustic, unique tone, really good.

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

3/5

Good. Like scissor sisters + muse + some diving synths. Wide ranging. Kinda fun.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Very supertrampy. Fun, campy, over the top at times, wailing. Pretty decent, some stretching, some don't land.