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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Fear and Whiskey Mekons	5	2.61	+2.39
Duck Rock Malcolm McLaren	5	2.65	+2.35
Quiet Life Japan	5	2.85	+2.15
BEYONCÉ Beyoncé	5	2.86	+2.14
Life's Too Good The Sugarcubes	5	3.07	+1.93
Soul Mining The The	5	3.17	+1.83
Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman John Zorn	4	2.22	+1.78
Crooked Rain Crooked Rain Pavement	5	3.24	+1.76
B-52's The B-52's	5	3.29	+1.71
Daydream Nation Sonic Youth	5	3.3	+1.7

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Dark Side Of The Moon Pink Floyd	2	4.43	-2.43
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden	1	3.41	-2.41
Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi	1	3.29	-2.29
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Beatles	2	4.26	-2.26
Revolver Beatles	2	4.25	-2.25
The Stranger Billy Joel	2	3.86	-1.86
Grace Jeff Buckley	2	3.72	-1.72
Transformer Lou Reed	2	3.67	-1.67
Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room Dwight Yoakam	1	2.6	-1.6
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	2	3.44	-1.44

5-Star Albums (20)

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Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

5/5

no bjork slander in this house

37 likes

Suzanne Vega

2/5

i love luka and tom’s diner but this gives me strong....horse girl meets lilith fair vibes. i want to give it two stars cuz it makes me uncomfortable but i’m not the audience so i’m going 3. actually fuck it it’s my list i’m giving it 2

27 likes

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

2/5

why in the world is this on this list? totally dated. i'm sure NME claimed this band was Here to Save Rock and Roll at some point. spare me.

23 likes

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

dirty sexy rollercoaster

12 likes

Cross

Justice

4/5

still a banger if maybe a tad bloated; generally seems the fewer lyrics the better ("the party" is rough). that's great bass!

8 likes

1-Star Albums (3)

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Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

4/5

nice n groovy

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Close To You

Carpenters

3/5

very....nice--for better and worse

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

5/5

hell yeah.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

great singles, but albums can be a slog.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

she's a singles artist type to me usually but this is an excellent collection

Revolver

Beatles

2/5

my god....boring.

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

2/5

Indie with a capital I. Not my thing.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

I never thought I'd legit enjoy a Buddy Holly album. 25 tight minutes of rock-n-roll.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

Timeless.

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

Not my bag at all, but I can respect it.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Early Sioux.....more explicitly goth-ish. I lean toward their (relatively) bubblier shit. Finishes better than it starts.

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

Not bad, but not for me; nothing here is as good as "I'm Not in Love."

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

4/5

Probably not something I'll revisit, but also surprised at how much I'm enjoying it.

The Grand Tour

George Jones

4/5

I'm developing a soft spot for old-school country. What a voice.

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

1/5

nah i'm good

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

feisty.

Live!

Fela Kuti

3/5

Take's me back to the dance nights at Danny's when everything would shift from funky bits to world music and I'd get bored.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Goofin and funnin

Blur

2/5

I listen to this and feel nothing. Strange, cuz I really enjoy their other work.

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

4/5

Funky fresh.

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

4/5

Sensitive beard dudes shall endure.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

He's new to me. Ache in his voice that contrasts well with the tight instrumentation and pristine backing vocals.

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

4/5

A nuanced and versatile voice in a way you wouldn't realize if you'd only heard "Hound Dog" or whatever.

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

2/5

Ummmmmm

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Maybe I’ve taken their albums for granted.

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

2/5

I am not the audience here but I would also contend you could file this under More Important Than Good

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5

This is fine, but I'm guessing it was chosen exclusively because of Bohemian Rhapsody.

John Prine

3/5

I'm on track one and I don't think I'm going to last very long. I'm turning into Rolling Stone here, giving everything 3 stars even if I don't like it, but I can't exactly punish an album simply for not aligning with my tastes.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Vocals are a bit precious. It's just blah. Not for me. A lot of white 70s rock in this book.

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

4/5

Hard to find an actual copy of this--not even sure it's on YouTube? But the jamz are great.

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Fun in doses.

Horses

Patti Smith

2/5

big Theater Kid vibes. i don't like this kind of stuff.

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

4/5

i'm pretty forgiving when it comes to ham and cheese. tho i also believe it's a legit good album.

Odelay

Beck

5/5

still sounds fresh.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

2/5

not reacting well to his precious voice....a lil emo too.

Quiet Life

Japan

5/5

Where has this been all my life? Eat your heart out, Spandau Ballet.

The Score

Fugees

5/5

i finally get it! i wasn’t old enough before

Suzanne Vega

2/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

2/5

big white boomer energy here. much more suburban midwest than new york to me.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

gotta have that funk

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

dirty sexy rollercoaster

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

i imagine this was a thrilling listen when it dropped. i surely enjoyed it.

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

5/5

legit. probably some complications with attribution etc, but the sound biz is so good on my earholes.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

2/5

coldplay has not been good for music.

Odessa

Bee Gees

3/5

this seems cutesy. is this their most essential listen?

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

4/5

the good songs are sooooo good.

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

i'm down to jam hard to "owner of a lonely heart" any time but this prog rock stuff.....not for me.

B-52's

The B-52's

5/5

YOU ALREADY KNOW

Cross

Justice

4/5

still a banger if maybe a tad bloated; generally seems the fewer lyrics the better ("the party" is rough). that's great bass!

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

no chance i get through this whole thing.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

2/5

whatever

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

1/5

the song about shooting his girl is a bit of a disqualifier

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

what to do with mj these days? can’t say i know. the great songs hold up; the not-great ones don’t

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

missing the nimbleness and texture of their best work but a taste of things to come (you know, at first i put 'dexterity' in place of nimbleness/texture, but the more i think about it, i think dexterity works)

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

4/5

at the start i thought this was pushing the boundaries of my ability to appreciate jazz, but the longer it goes the easier it is to settle in.

Iron Maiden

1/5

just silly.

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

4/5

super fun slop rock

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

i've listened to this before, i enjoyed it fine, i do not wish to return to it

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

5/5

never heard of this act but really enjoyed this album. normally “british pub band” is a tough sell but it works

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

3/5

leaning toward the "actually not so bad" end of "not my vibe"

Transformer

Lou Reed

2/5

the kind of lazy, workmanlike rock drudgery that i find totally uninspiring.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

what a wild, brilliant work.

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

5/5

no bjork slander in this house

Ramones

4/5

imagine how this would have felt live at the time! total mania.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

2/5

painfully boring

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

3/5

“my girls” is still a thrill but the rest has not aged well. like a parody of the era’s indie sound

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

2/5

I was kinda into this until I got to the 4th song, “the hammer,” which sounds exactly like—like, *exactly* like—“ace of spades.” I kept listening but I’m not sure why

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

2/5

every song sounds the same

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

4/5

i don't really think i understand how to appreciate hiphop but this has an energy....a lifeblood running through it.

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

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

i listened to this 20 years ago and don't feel like going back

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

i was gonna give this 4 stars but that's only relative to soft bulletin so i'll give this 5 too.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

skipping this one. liked this band in 4th grade and don't feel like i need to go back

The Specials

3/5

Ska is too repetitive for me

Being There

Wilco

2/5

Just not for me at all.

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

5/5

pavement should hold the spot in the cultural consciousness that nirvana does

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

The whole enterprise just seems kinda...silly? in a way, I’ve never really believed Bruce

Paul Simon

3/5

kinda blends into the background after a while

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

2/5

why in the world is this on this list? totally dated. i'm sure NME claimed this band was Here to Save Rock and Roll at some point. spare me.

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

3/5

same morrissey vibe as ever: the great songs are *great* and the non-great songs are....not great.

Virgin Suicides

Air

3/5

i like air but this movie is overrated and the album seems silly as a standalone listen. the last track is straight-up bad

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

4/5

funtimes

Soul Mining

The The

5/5

top notch new wave

Debut

Björk

5/5

always three steps ahead

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

3/5

I dunno

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

2/5

just kinda exhausting to listen to

Ray Of Light

Madonna

4/5

A nice return to form.

Fragile

Yes

2/5

i can safely pass on this one

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

Never thought I'd say this, but sounds dated in its own way. Still, paves the way for greatness to come.

Dare!

The Human League

3/5

Likely on this list solely for "Don't You Want Me," which was indeed a critical pop breakthrough. But "Fascination" and some very early stuff aside, little stands out in their catalogue.

Signing Off

UB40

4/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

I've heard this before but it's been a minute and I'm not going back to it but I like Air well enough so 4 stars it is

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

5/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

real deal

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

weird. i love fleetwood mac's take on the california sound and pretty much no one else's