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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Vulgar Display Of Power Pantera	5	2.98	+2.02
Here Are the Sonics The Sonics	5	3.16	+1.84
The Undertones The Undertones	5	3.25	+1.75
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	5	3.31	+1.69
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	5	3.32	+1.68
James Brown Live At The Apollo James Brown	5	3.44	+1.56
3 Feet High and Rising De La Soul	5	3.45	+1.55
Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys	5	3.46	+1.54
Electric Warrior T. Rex	5	3.53	+1.47
Ramones Ramones	5	3.56	+1.44

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Dire Straits Dire Straits	2	3.72	-1.72
Highway to Hell AC/DC	2	3.64	-1.64
Hotel California Eagles	2	3.59	-1.59
Play Moby	2	3.45	-1.45
Smash The Offspring	2	3.36	-1.36
The Beach Boys Today! The Beach Boys	2	3.26	-1.26
Purple Rain Prince	3	4.01	-1.01

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Artist	Albums	Average
Bruce Springsteen	2	5

5-Star Albums (17)

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Popular Reviews

Highway to Hell

AC/DC · 1 likes

2/5

I couldn’t finish this one. I have heard enough AC/DC to know that it is not for me. Every song sounds the same and I feel like I heard the whole album after listening to the first two tracks.

4-Star Albums (40)

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Abraxas

Santana

3/5

Nice vibey album. Already familiar with the hits. Nice to see the wider context. Makes me forgive him for Smooth but only slightly.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

Really nice. Not my usual style but I really enjoyed it.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

4/5

This is a great album. I have already listened to it plenty. It was nice to have an excuse to put it on again though.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

I thought this album was very good and I was happy to have listened to it. Not something I would often put on, but I’m happy I have been reminded of Ray Charles’s music.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

Great hits plus some stinkers. I can see why it’s memorable.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

2/5

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

3/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

2/5

I couldn’t finish this one. I have heard enough AC/DC to know that it is not for me. Every song sounds the same and I feel like I heard the whole album after listening to the first two tracks.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

I can see why this album appeals to some people, but it’s definitely not my style. It’s very much music for the radio.

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

4/5

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

3/5

Smash

The Offspring

2/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

5/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

5/5

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

3/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

One of my favourite all-time albums. It was really nice to have an excuse to listen to it again after many years away.

Purple Rain

Prince

3/5

I still don’t quite know how this artist is as popular as he is. He’s clearly very talented but this music doesn’t stir anything in me.

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

2/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

Classic album from my childhood. I remember loving it. I don’t think I will listen to it often on purpose but it’s fun nostalgia.

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

4/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Night Life

Ray Price

3/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

3/5

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

4/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

4/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

5/5

This is one of the first albums I bought as a teenager, and it was surprising how good the album was from front to back, definitely not an album that relied solely on its singles, even though the singles were very strong

Play

Moby

2/5

This is fine. It’s super bland and the sort of thing I would not hate if forced to listen to it in a waiting room for a doctors office or something, but never would I choose this to entertain me.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

No Other

Gene Clark

3/5

Faust IV

Faust

2/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Da Capo

Love

4/5

Iron Maiden

4/5

I was surprised by how much I liked this album. This was a lot of fun and also extremely technical. I’m very impressed. I guess it goes to that saying that this was my first time sitting down to listen to iron maiden on purpose

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

Out of all the The White Stripes albums to include, this one is probably the weakest that I have listened to. I think they’re a great band and they have a phenomenal catalog, most/all of their best songs were made before this album.

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

I completely understand why this is considered a an important rock album. I would never put this on as I have heard most of this ad nauseam on rock radio for my whole life. I kind of wish I could have come across music like this and similar by choice or curiosity as opposed to it playing on the radio everywhere. It sucks that a whole era of important music is background music for grocery shopping and waiting on takeout orders in my mind.

The Undertones

5/5

I really really like this album. This is exactly the sort of thing. I was hoping to find when taking on this.

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

5/5

Absolutely amazing. I’m a big fan.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

3/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

Bleh. The best way I could think to describe this was music that is perfectly fit for daytime radio. Seems like great music to slow dance to on your backyard patio while white wine drunk with a gross sunburn. I understand it’s popularity but it’s not for appeal.

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

This is a great album. It’s hard for me to appreciate how impactful it was because I started listening to music in the post R.E.M. era so there was a lot of great stuff owed to their innovation.

Virgin Suicides

Air

4/5

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

4/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Damaged

Black Flag

2/5

I’m sure this is great for the right type of listener, but judging it just based on how I liked to listen to it and nothing about its importance to music. This album was not for me.

Odessa

Bee Gees

3/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

I’ll be honest I didn’t listen to all 8 discs of the edition that’s on Apple Music. This seemed like well put together rock music, it’s not really my speed but I can see why people like this.

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

3/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

3/5

Dire Straits

2/5

Not for me. Vaguely better than the eagles but not by much.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5