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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Repeater Fugazi	5	3.12	+1.88
Hysteria Def Leppard	5	3.21	+1.79
Entertainment Gang Of Four	5	3.25	+1.75
Haunted Dancehall The Sabres Of Paradise	4	2.37	+1.63
Diamond Life Sade	5	3.42	+1.58
Different Class Pulp	5	3.42	+1.58
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand	5	3.57	+1.43
LP1 FKA twigs	4	2.8	+1.2
Automatic For The People R.E.M.	5	3.82	+1.18
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	5	3.83	+1.17

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Joshua Tree U2	2	3.67	-1.67
Highway to Hell AC/DC	2	3.66	-1.66
Aja Steely Dan	2	3.46	-1.46
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	2	3.32	-1.32
American Pie Don McLean	2	3.28	-1.28
Everything Must Go Manic Street Preachers	2	3.11	-1.11
Pieces Of The Sky Emmylou Harris	2	3.11	-1.11
Berlin Lou Reed	2	3.1	-1.1

5-Star Albums (10)

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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Popular Reviews

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

quality + nostalgia = 5 stars

11 likes

Different Class

Pulp

5/5

Biased as this is a personal favorite but it's 5 stars as far as brit pop goes in my eyes

8 likes

Repeater

Fugazi

5/5

First hidden gem for me! Jazz punk! Such creative instrumentation

4 likes

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

5/5

Really 4.5 but I round up. Love the bass and guitars. Can really hear all the music it later influenced. First album that I've bought vinyl for after listening (that I don't already own)

2 likes

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

3/5

Important to hip hop but all over the place

1 likes

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Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Great shoegaze. Reminded me of cranberries straddling 80s and 90s alt. Notable songs: cherry-coloured funk, heaven or Las Vegas, pitch the baby.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

Felt like a long musical soundtrack -- which I'm not really a huge fan of in abundance -- with weird (bad) genre side roads that seem to come out of nowhere. Lots of obvious classics but I have a hard time trying to figure out if I think these are great songs or if I have just heard them so many times that I've been conditioned to recognize the melodies and its tricking my brain into thinking I like them. Standout tracks: Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding, Bennie and the Jets (but maybe just because Q-Tip made me like it when he sampled it so well), Goodby Yellow Brick Road, Saturday Night's Alright (for Fighting)

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

4/5

Toe tapping good time. loved the big southern rock guitars. Great melodies and singing.

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Want to give a 4.5 but eff it. They'll get a 5. A few all time face songs and the non-faves are still nice to listen to. No duds. Someone please kiss robert smith.

The xx

4/5

Sounds great on headphones. Really grew on my by second listen. maybe a 4.5 even.

Repeater

Fugazi

5/5

First hidden gem for me! Jazz punk! Such creative instrumentation

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

Wonderful. Epic.

LP1

FKA twigs

4/5

Really cool and interesting songs. Some bjork feels. And some catchy jams thrown in.

The Joshua Tree

2/5

Streets Have No Name has some cool buildup and sounds. With or Without You is cheesy and overplayed but a well composed pop song. Exit was interesting. I really disliked almost every other aspect of this album. I do not get U2. When it's good, it's fine, but It's the elevator music of rock. It's trying to be something but it just all feels so generic and trying to have emotion but ultimately leaving me flat and it feels contrived. I have no idea how this band is so popular.

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

2/5

I feel like the songs have good sounds but it was oddly generic and had nothing that made them sound unique. I have to wonder if maybe they were originators of some sounds that later influenced artists I do know. I feel the need to research the history of this band more

Sail Away

Randy Newman

3/5

I can't help but laugh when I hear his voice. He sounds like a drunk Disney cartoon side character singing to the protagonist during a traveling montage (Thanks Toy Story?) and it's really hard for me to get past and take him seriously no matter how good the lyrics might be. The music is rather cartoonish too (but interesting!) Definitely hear how he may have influenced someone like Rufus Wainwright. Last Night I Had a Dream and Burn On seemed like the best fit of his voice and music. Overall, pretty silly. I can see how he became known for Schoolhouse Rock and Pixar.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

I want to like it a lot more than I do. Lots of good: I loved Immigrant Song. Some cool interesting music in Friends and Celebration Day. Good catchy riffs in Out on the Tiles. Gallows was weird but grew on me. Tangerine was nice. There are things I like in every song but for some reason the sum of the parts (the album) just doesn't come together for me. I've never liked bluesy LZ songs and still true (but I've never liked the blues). Would rather hear Joplin sing those types of songs. A full album of his voice was too exhausting -- especially during the slower folksy songs. I can't watch cartoons for more than 20 minutes due to the voices and this was like listening to a cartoon character sing to me. I like that people like them and I see the value but can't imagine wanting to put this on again.

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

4/5

I love Frank. I love Jobim. I love Bossa Nova. I love 60s orchestral arrangements. Have nostalgic attachment to this one.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

I love Frank. I love Jobim. I love Bossa Nova. I love 60s orchestral arrangements. Sign me up

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

5/5

Really 4.5 but I round up. Love the bass and guitars. Can really hear all the music it later influenced. First album that I've bought vinyl for after listening (that I don't already own)

Harvest

Neil Young

3/5

Ingenue

k.d. lang

2/5

New Wave

The Auteurs

3/5

Street Life

The Crusaders

3/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Not my fave petty

Sister

Sonic Youth

3/5

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

4/5

Pretty good old country!

In It For The Money

Supergrass

4/5

Love me some brit-pop. A bit on the harder side of brit-pop but not a bad thing.

Aja

Steely Dan

2/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

I think I finally get him now! He's a punk!

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

2/5

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

2/5

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

4/5

It's of a time. I bet it sounded rad in 1994

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

2/5

Pink Flag

Wire

4/5

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

3/5

he's got a great voice but wanted some more funk or drums in there. got bored quickly.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

4/5

The Clash

4/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

3/5

Some really good beats. Some really bad singing. Some mediocre rapping haaaaaaaaah.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

I liked it but don't quite get why it's on the list

Sound Affects

The Jam

4/5

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

3/5

Love george's hits but not enough hits here

Diamond Life

Sade

5/5

Hysteria

Def Leppard

5/5

peak of the genre

Different Class

Pulp

5/5

Biased as this is a personal favorite but it's 5 stars as far as brit pop goes in my eyes

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

3/5

Pretty fun and interesting. Big, epic sounds.

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

pretty cool at points. was ready for it to end though

American Pie

Don McLean

2/5

bleh

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

3/5

Important to hip hop but all over the place

The Blueprint

JAY Z

3/5

Probably 3.5 stars

The Coral

3/5

interesting but nothing great or want to listen to again

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

Seems very ahead of its time (75!) and can hear later artists this album must have influenced

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

2/5

very bored

Berlin

Lou Reed

2/5

quaalude party

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

Some classics!

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Pretty good as a whole album. Makes the overplayed "classic rock" songs better

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

3/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

quality + nostalgia = 5 stars

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

I like Jimmy Smith but this one was a bit too bluesy and boring. It was okay.

Black Sabbath

5/5

Gotta give full 5 star respect to the originators. Great musicians. Must have been wild to hear this the year it came out.

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

3/5

I kinda dig it!

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

3/5

Blur

4/5

Leftism

Leftfield

4/5

cool album. never heard it before

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

3/5

Decent lyrical material but suffers from poor production and bad mixing

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Maybe good songs but voice and harmonica kinda killed it for me

Franz Ferdinand

5/5