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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hejira Joni Mitchell	5	3.14	+1.86
Elastica Elastica	5	3.22	+1.78
Rust In Peace Megadeth	5	3.24	+1.76
Kenya Machito	5	3.28	+1.72
The Yes Album Yes	5	3.31	+1.69
Ágætis Byrjun Sigur Rós	5	3.37	+1.63
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	5	3.39	+1.61
Live! Fela Kuti	5	3.43	+1.57
Odelay Beck	5	3.45	+1.55
Moss Side Story Barry Adamson	4	2.52	+1.48

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo The Byrds	1	2.83	-1.83
Electric Prunes The Electric Prunes	1	2.71	-1.71
Shleep Robert Wyatt	1	2.5	-1.5
Fisherman's Blues The Waterboys	2	3.2	-1.2
Younger Than Yesterday The Byrds	2	3.13	-1.13
Kind Of Blue Miles Davis	3	4.05	-1.05

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Artist	Albums	Average
Jimi Hendrix	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
Robert Wyatt	2	1.5
The Byrds	3	2

5-Star Albums (19)

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Mothership Connection

Parliament · 1 likes

5/5

They named a song on this album 'Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication', that alone is enough to get it 5 stars on top of the entire list being bangers.

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds · 1 likes

1/5

The Byrds and country, name a less iconic duo. That song about the Christian life deserves a wedgie.

4-Star Albums (41)

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

1-Star Albums (3)

All Ratings

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

4/5

Pleasant enough.Young's voice is not so pleasant.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

5/5

Beautiful, haunting

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

4/5

Lots of Coldplay's classic songs represented in this album

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

Peaches en Regalia is obviously great but the rest is kind of just Zappa mush that I didn't care for.

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

Really enjoyed this album!

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Perfect example of an album I would've never encountered without this list!

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Really enjoying this new introduction to talking heads via this project

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

1/5

I really can't stand Wyatt's vocals, and the experimental music is too far on the side of discordant for me to enjoy. My first 1 star album, I really didn't like it.

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

5/5

I could listen to Joni Mitchell sing for the rest of my life

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

5/5

I didn't expect to give a 5 to any blues albums just because I don't have a good ear for it, but I really enjoyed this particular one.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

One of the weaker Beatles albums for me, but it's still a 4 because hey, it's the Beatles

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

My kind of music, if a little flawed.

Elastica

5/5

Post-punk, female vocals. I loved listening to this!

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

I thought for sure I would rate Elvis 3 at most just because of the cultural osmosis, but this was enjoyable and deserves its 4!

Kenya

Machito

5/5

Amazing energy and another reason for this project, I'm not typically seeking out Afro-Cuban jazz albums!

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

3/5

The face on this album cover will haunt my dreams for the next year

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

Love the melodies, really enjoyable

The Joshua Tree

4/5

U2 makes really good and listenable music and this album is one of the great ones

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

An exceptional album, one of the best by the Talking Heads

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

3/5

Miles Davis didn't do much for me with this album, not entirely sure why. But it's still very good.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

It's not bad but it just wasn't grabbing me

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

2/5

I think I'm predisposed to dislike most of the Beatles contemporaries because they dont flex nearly as much creativity

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Very influential and entertaining to listen to

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

3/5

Listenable but not my favorite

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

Good pop of course, nothing really stands out here except for Bad.

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

Album cover is hilarious, music was fine

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

3/5

It was fiiiiiiiiine

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

Amazing, gonna recommend this one for people not participating

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

3/5

Literally 69 songs, so it was a marathon to complete, but despite that, I didn't hate it. It gets a 3

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

Bowie kinda kills it on everything so unsurprisinly enjoyed this a lot.

Fever Ray

4/5

A genre I love and a band I've never heard of. It was great!

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Loved this album a lot!

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

3/5

Kind of forgettable, but pleasant enough

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

3/5

I like NIN well enough and this is the Closer album, so I thought it would at least be a 4, but it was just kinda background noise for me

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Mesmerizing guitar, had no idea All Along the Watchtower was a cover

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

4/5

I'm a mark for this genre so unsurprisingly I enjoyed it

A Northern Soul

The Verve

4/5

I liked this one a lot

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Expected a 3, got a 4 album, can't complain there. Probably secretly what Death Stranding 2 is all about

The Yes Album

Yes

5/5

Yes might be one of my favorite groups of all time, so seeing them pop up was a delight

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Great genre crossover album

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

Bossa Nova one of the all-time best genres, and this is a prime example

Abraxas

Santana

5/5

Holy shit what an album, I keep thinking about it long after listening.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

Bad concept executed poorly, just an obnoxious album to revisit

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

The only Sex Pistols album we got but it's definitely a good listen

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

4/5

Enjoyed this one!

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

An extremely good piano performance with an insane backstory. Most of the album being improvised is just even more icing. Eager to listen to this again soon.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

I don't enjoy Springsteen all that much but this album is fine enough.

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

2/5

Pretty samey and boring

Dire Straits

4/5

Fantastic album, really enjoyed it!

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Respect being the first track on this thing and it maintaining that quality throughout makes this an all-timer.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Some of the albums on here, you feel compelled to not rate a 5 because you think "well, it can't be that good, it must be overblown". Yeah Jimi Hendrix is a 5, no question.

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

3/5

Pretty good all things considered, despite my dislike of the genre

Adele

3/5

Starting this up, I was excited to hear more of Adele since I had only really heard Hello off this album. Unfortunately, it felt like she recorded 11 versions of Hello. Just really boring to me unfortunately.

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

1/5

dear God no, a bad idea and a bad album

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

2/5

big yawn, not my genre, and a bad example at that.

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Seems like a bit of a power move to put yourself on the album cover, shirtless, for a group act.

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

3/5

Not bad, just not notable

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Great album and even Muddy Waters looks pleased with it on the cover

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

2/5

The kind of shit ass music Austin Powers would probably obsess over

Odelay

Beck

5/5

Most bands pick one lane to excel in, Beck wants to be good at them all, and frequently is

The Coral

3/5

new band makes old genre is not as refreshing as you ever want it to be

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

3/5

As with most of my 3's, it mostly means I didn't hate anything here but I also didn't really enjoy it, just background noise

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

Amazing, an album that's worth the listen

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

3/5

Great album name but the music is just kinda meh

Real Life

Magazine

3/5

Fine enough, album cover kinda freaks me out

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

They named a song on this album 'Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication', that alone is enough to get it 5 stars on top of the entire list being bangers.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Expected a mid rating from osmosis, but it was a really entertaining listen despite cultural familiarity

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

4/5

Somehow never listened to Boards of Canada despite this being one of my favorite genres. It was fantastic and I was bummed that it's the only one of their albums on the list.

Fred Neil

2/5

Criminally boring but not obnoxious

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

Having not listened to much Bob Dylan in my life, I get the hype and this album is fantastic

Dust

Screaming Trees

4/5

Definitely seen this album cover before but never heard it, enjoyed the hit of grunge

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

4/5

Enjoyed more than I expected since it's out of my wheelhouse, very funky

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

Frank Ocean trying to bait me with that PS1 boot sound and the Street Fighter 2 theme, but this album was pretty good regardless

B-52's

The B-52's

3/5

One of the weirdest music things that exists, mostly one note but definitely worth experiencing

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Classic rock radio ass album, it's fine

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

4/5

Concept albums are usually bad and I was primed to think this was lame, but it's actually pretty good and I'd watch the movie that was made to utilize it.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

Good album that lost a point because Morrissey is involved, landing it right in the middle.

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

2/5

This guy again! This album is better than Shleep for sure, but I still am really put off by his atonal vocals. The experimental nature of this album is much more up my alley than Shleep was. I'd be surprised if Robert Wyatt was not an influence on The Books, one of my favorite duos.

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

4/5

One note but I liked the note.

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

2/5

Background Irish noises with a random Beatles jumpscare in the middle

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

First album I've regularly listened to on this project so far. My kind of music. Vocals are perfect accompaniment to the electronic creepy tunes.

The Real Thing

Faith No More

4/5

One of those radio bands I never knew the name of. Good stuff!

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

2/5

Morrissey sucks, and this self-important album where he bitches about all the things that annoy him from his high horse would've been all right, maybe a 3.3 if it wasn't Morrissey singing and wasn't so pretentious. 2 for the melodies and the sound of the vocals if not the content.

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Full of spirit and energy, fantastic background music

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

5/5

Another 5 for the list. Powerful throughout, amazing voice, great lyrics

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

Tons of energy, really good listen. Zombie is the standout.

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

5/5

Hangar 18 is insanely good and the rest of the album holds up as well.

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

Extremely easy to listen to. Discovered a new track I like from them in Spacelab.

Scott 2

Scott Walker

2/5

Wow check it out the album name already rated it for me! Only reason this isn't a 1 is because Scott's voice is really nice. Way too many slurs in these lyrics.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

Fine enough music but almost too ethereal, slides right off of me, nothing to grab onto

1984

Van Halen

3/5

Heard this way too much on the radio so there's no novelty, good though

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

1/5

The Byrds and country, name a less iconic duo. That song about the Christian life deserves a wedgie.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

Obviously some great songs in here but didn't grab me much. Still worth a four star

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

Really easy to listen to! I expected it to feel old fashioned but I really enjoyed this

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

This may not be true for everyone, but what I want from a live album is the feeling of being at the recording, whether that's a recording for a giant auditorium of folks or an intimate setting like this album was recorded in. The moments when Sarah Vaughan makes mistakes and improvises to keep on rolling makes this a better album. If I wanted a perfect clean recording, well that's what a studio album is for. This album achieves the sense of sitting in the audience and watching her sing and the piano player play.

White Light

Gene Clark

2/5

Surprise! More Byrds! The music equivalent of tap water

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Lord take me down to the streets, this was a good album

The Cars

4/5

Banger after banger, kind of an insane debut album

One World

John Martyn

3/5

Was ready to hate this but at least it doesn't sound like Austin Powers music, pleasant listen