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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Devil Without A Cause Kid Rock	5	2.06	+2.94
Dr. Octagonecologyst Dr. Octagon	5	2.69	+2.31
I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail Buck Owens	5	2.81	+2.19
The Gilded Palace Of Sin The Flying Burrito Brothers	5	2.93	+2.07
Billion Dollar Babies Alice Cooper	5	3.11	+1.89
Dear Science TV On The Radio	5	3.16	+1.84
Astral Weeks Van Morrison	5	3.27	+1.73
Ace of Spades Motörhead	5	3.29	+1.71
Homework Daft Punk	5	3.29	+1.71
Made In Japan Deep Purple	5	3.29	+1.71

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	1	3.49	-2.49
Germfree Adolescents X-Ray Spex	1	3.04	-2.04
Hot Fuss The Killers	2	3.74	-1.74
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	2	3.66	-1.66
New Forms Roni Size	1	2.53	-1.53
1984 Van Halen	2	3.51	-1.51
Pretenders Pretenders	2	3.35	-1.35
The Blueprint JAY Z	2	3.22	-1.22
Fisherman's Blues The Waterboys	2	3.2	-1.2
Tubular Bells Mike Oldfield	2	3.1	-1.1

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Artist	Albums	Average
Talking Heads	3	5
Beatles	2	5
Beastie Boys	2	5
Black Sabbath	2	5

5-Star Albums (45)

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Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

5/5

Haters gonna hate. Sure, he's a fake and a piece of shit, but this is a great record.

15 likes

Crazysexycool

TLC

2/5

I didn't remember it being this horny. Aside from waterfalls, just not that interesting

14 likes

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

5/5

Now this is some grade-A power pop.

12 likes

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

5/5

An absolute classic. I love how Lemmy just always sounds like he's trying to take a poop.

12 likes

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

A classic. I always forget how eclectic this record is, and how many instrumentals it has.

8 likes

1-Star Albums (3)

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Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

Very English. Revisit when in a Billy Bragg mood.

Play

Moby

4/5

Sounds very 90s, not that that's a bad thing. Machete and Bodyrock used to be my jams. I wish it would pick a lane between pop/big beat and poppy ambient, though. It's uneven. Rerelease as two EPs.

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Own it, love it. Listened to Innervisions instead, because I don't own it (yet). Both are 5. Stevie is God.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

The funk bangers are fantastic, but it's weighed down with too much pop schmaltz. 1 star deduction just for "She's Out Of My Life" - absolute fucking garbage.

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

I'm not listening to two Michael albums in a row. I'll assume it was a 3.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

1/5

I can't stand Sufjan.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

5/5

Absolute classic.

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

Solid roots reggae. Worth revisiting.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

3/5

Side A is dull; side B is mostly interesting except for "Man on the Moon". Pop R.E.M. is boring; can't imagine this holds up for anyone but gen-xers.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

Less than timeless, but extra credit for the excellent production - sounds great for early '66.

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

5/5

Poetry. Up there with Dylan's best.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

Undeniably important, but hair metal sucks and Axl's voice is annoying.

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

3/5

The Urge did it better.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

5/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

2/5

Good guitar work from Johnny Marr, but Morrissey is (a) a fascist, and (b) a smug-ass prick

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

5/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

James Murphy got it honest.

The Clash

4/5

Imagine hearing this in '77...

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

2/5

Really expected to like this, but it's like the boring parts of Steely Dan and Fleet Foxes had a baby.

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Heady jamz!

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

2/5

Nope.

The Band

5/5

Didn't listen, but have listened.

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

4/5

Takes a while to get rolling. Missy is a mediocre rapper at best, but it's about the big picture here. Great beats from Timbaland. Never knew that line in "Work It" was a callback to "Izzy."

Parklife

Blur

4/5

1984

Van Halen

2/5

Had none of what made VH good.

New Forms

Roni Size

1/5

Not a DnB fan, apparently.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Low-Life

New Order

4/5

Solid! Roots of early NIN, obvs.

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

5/5

An absolute classic. I love how Lemmy just always sounds like he's trying to take a poop.

Let It Be

The Replacements

4/5

1st half is just ok aside from "Androgynous." 2nd half saves it. Important record, but a weird one.

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

2/5

Knockoff Dylan/Springsteen. Boring.

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

3/5

Eh.

Protection

Massive Attack

4/5

Bit of a late night record. Not as good as Mezzanine but pretty close.

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

3/5

Not great, but interesting. If Van Morrison and Dan Hicks got blasted together and made a record, I imagine it would sound something like this.

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

4/5

Iggy makes a Bowie album. Fascinating.

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

2/5

Thanks but no thanks.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

5/5

Still slaps.

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

5/5

This owns. I always thought Alice Cooper was just a gothy joke, like Elvira.

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

5/5

Crazysexycool

TLC

2/5

I didn't remember it being this horny. Aside from waterfalls, just not that interesting

Homework

Daft Punk

5/5

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

4/5

Right, so... the Decemberists.

Make Yourself

Incubus

4/5

Inferior to S.C.I.E.N.C.E. and Morning View, but still holds up.

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

5/5

Haters gonna hate. Sure, he's a fake and a piece of shit, but this is a great record.

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

3/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

Good booty indeed.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

5/5

Now this is some grade-A power pop.

Pretenders

2/5

Eh.

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

5/5

Fuck yes

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

5/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

There's lots of bad Elvis. This is good Elvis.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Foo Fighters

5/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

4/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

A classic. I always forget how eclectic this record is, and how many instrumentals it has.

Boston

5/5

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

4/5

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

4/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

5/5

2112

Rush

4/5

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

5/5

Being There

Wilco

4/5

Not my favorite Wilco record, but top five for sure. Definitely too long, though.

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

5/5

Eagles

3/5

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

3/5

I own it. Birdland is a bop but the rest is just fine. The schmaltzy side of fusion just isn't for me.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5

Stone cold classic. WU TANG CLAN AIN'T NUTTIN TO FUCK WIT

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

Black Sabbath

5/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

5/5

An absolute classic.

Tommy

The Who

4/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

5/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

The covers are fantastic, but for the album cuts, I prefer the studio versions.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

Fleet Foxes

5/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

It's always amazed me that a band named after a dildo could be this milquetoast. I mean, it's good, intelligent pop-rock, but with very little of the jazzy weirdness that made Aja/Gaucho era Dan so great.

The Joshua Tree

3/5

Van Halen

4/5

Hair metal's not really my thing, but what a classic guitar record.

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

5/5

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

The Blueprint