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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Fuzz Chucklehead	5	2.87	+2.13
Cleopatra The Lumineers	5	3.05	+1.95
I Need to Start a Garden Haley Heynderickx	5	3.17	+1.83
F♯ A♯ ∞ Godspeed You! Black Emperor	5	3.28	+1.72
Madvillainy Madvillain	5	3.4	+1.6
Whipped Cream & Other Delights Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass	5	3.42	+1.58
Nonagon Infinity King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	5	3.44	+1.56
I Am Earth, Wind & Fire	5	3.62	+1.38
A1A Jimmy Buffett	4	2.8	+1.2
Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides SOPHIE	4	2.82	+1.18

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Ænima TOOL	2	3.37	-1.37
King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown King Tubby	2	3.24	-1.24

5-Star Albums (9)

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Fuzz

Chucklehead

5/5

Some crazy funk on this thing. 9/10

11 likes

A1A

Jimmy Buffett

4/5

I've recently been intrigued by the philosophical ramifications of Jimmy Buffett's world. It's hard to tell whether his characters live in paradise, purgatory, or hell. Every day yields the same white sand beaches, one too many tropical drinks, and doesn't really have consequences in the end. Does this Sisyphean trudge make anyone happy? I guess what ends up answering my question is the fact that I would love to be on a beach listening to this. 7/10

10 likes

Weezer

5/5

NERDS! 10/10

8 likes

Nonagon Infinity

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

5/5

I like King Gizzard, can't believe they don't have wider acclaim across the music scene, they seem to have a pretty big online following. I might like Rat's Nest more than this album but this is still great. 9/10

8 likes

Continuum

John Mayer

4/5

I don't really have any qualms with John Mayer, but I've never understood the people that paint him as some sort of genius guitarist. This album might as well have been Gravity and 45 minutes of songs that sound like but are not as good as Gravity. 7/10

7 likes

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Discosis

Bran Van 3000

2/5

I quite liked the first song and then it was all downhill from there. French Canadians are so weird. Bonus points to the person that submitted this because you have very unique taste. 3/10

The Beautiful Letdown

Switchfoot

3/5

Never once had I considered seeking out the album that Dare You to Move was on. It's certainly 2000s rock. 6/10

Blink-182

blink-182

3/5

I used to quite like Enema of the State but I think I've grown away from pop punk as a whole. A couple of songs are classics but I really didn't want to listen to this whole thing. 6/10

Fuzz

Chucklehead

5/5

Some crazy funk on this thing. 9/10

El Circo

Maldita Vecindad Y Los Hijos Del 5to. Patio

4/5

An interesting and fun listen! 8/10

Relatives in Descent

Protomartyr

3/5

Sure is post punk. 6/10

McDonald and Giles

Ian McDonald

4/5

I don't think this really pushes boundaries to the extent of most other prog rock but it was decently entertaining and the last song was a nice payoff. 7/10

Version 2.0

Garbage

3/5

Had a couple of good songs and was generally listenable. That being said, I think this was a step back from their album that ended up on the list. 6/10

Control

Pedro The Lion

2/5

I didn’t really like this. The album cover feels like a ripoff of The Downward Spiral and the vocals come across as extremely uninvested, even downright bored. 3/10

Give Up

The Postal Service

4/5

Such Great Heights is a banger that the rest of the album doesn’t quite live up to. Probably would have picked a Death Cab for Cutie album over this but not a bad rec. 7/10

Oncle Jazz

Men I Trust

4/5

This album is a really chill listen, and I am a big fan of the dream pop vibes, but 70 minutes is quite long. 8/10

Nonagon Infinity

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

5/5

Daisies Of The Galaxy

Eels

3/5

Pretty much what I expected from another Eels album. I think if I was a bit more lyrically inclined I’d have more fun with these albums. 6/10

I Need to Start a Garden

Haley Heynderickx

5/5

If you want heart-wrenching queer-coded indie folk, look no further than this Portland singer-songwriter. 9/10

Night Drive

Chromatics

3/5

This is ok. On the one hand, I like the idea of a decently ambient album that scores a night drive. On the other hand, it's just a little boring. And I really don't like Running Up That Hill. 6/10

Don't Throw Stones

THE SPORTS

4/5

A fun new wave album - if the list wasn't already inundated with stuff like this I'd probably be a bit more invested. 7/10

Continuum

John Mayer

4/5

Cleopatra

The Lumineers

5/5

Definitely loses some steam after the first couple songs, but come on! 9/10

Nuyorican Soul

4/5

Cool stuff. 8/10

A1A

Jimmy Buffett

4/5

Dimanche à Bamako

Amadou & Mariam

3/5

Ehh, not my favorite. 5/10

King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown

King Tubby

2/5

Wasn't really interesting to me. 4/10

Bloody Kisses

Type O Negative

2/5

Bruh. 3/10

Maestro

Kaizers Orchestra

2/5

I apologize to my Nordic ancestors but Nordic languages sound so ugly to me. Almost like Jack White choking on his own vomit. Perhaps even worse than that is when they sing in English with a Norwegian accent. That evoked early career Nick Cave pretending to be a woman in some sort of Monty Python skit. And it wouldn't be an album without some circus music. 3/10

Because the Internet

Childish Gambino

4/5

Gambino should have an album on this list, but my pick would probably be Awaken, My Love! - it's significantly more polished than this project. Still, there are a few bangers on this thing, and maybe if I had listened to this when I was 16 I'd have a closer connection to it. 7/10

Before These Crowded Streets

Dave Matthews Band

2/5

“On August 8, 2004, a tour bus belonging to the Dave Matthews Band dumped an estimated 800 pounds (360 kg) of human waste from the bus's blackwater tank through the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago onto an open top passenger sightseeing boat sailing in the Chicago River below.” Which means this album isn’t the only pile of shit that came from the DMB. 4/10

Music For People In Trouble

Susanne Sundfør

4/5

Quite a cool listen. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this. 7/10

Spilt Milk

Jellyfish

4/5

I’ve been waiting for an excuse to listen to this album ever since New Mistake showed up in my discover playlist sometime in 2022. The depth in production throughout this entire album rivals plenty of the classics, and the power pop feel made it an overall fun listen. However, it wasn’t as mind blowing as I had hoped. 7/10

No.1 In Heaven

Sparks

4/5

Sparks are always a fun listen. 7/10

Apostrophe(')

Frank Zappa

4/5

I much prefer Zappa’s releases under his own name compared to the Mothers of Invention crap. 7/10

Racine carrée

Stromae

3/5

I like tous les memes. Don't really like papaoutai. Everything else is decently listenable. 6/10

After Hours

The Weeknd

3/5

This album is extremely boring and extremely popular. Abel's voice is really grating to me - it's so high and so robotic. He hits the right notes but has absolutely zero emotion. Basically the two popular songs are decent and everything else is so mid. 5/10

The Best of The Hot 5 & Hot 7 Recordings

Louis Armstrong

4/5

Reminds me of when I got a bar trivia question wrong for answering that Louis Armstrong played the trumpet. They thought he played the piano. Later that night, my team won a round when the emcee got the math wrong on a tiebreaker. We got free dessert, but what the fuck? 8/10

I Am

Earth, Wind & Fire

5/5

I just think the album makes the world a happier place. 10/10

Zuckerzeit

Cluster

2/5

Listening to this while working was not the move. It just stressed me out more and ended up giving me a headache. 4/10

Forced Witness

Alex Cameron

4/5

Well-produced pop-adjacent tunes with lyrics about fucked-up weirdos? Stop me if you've heard this one before. In all seriousness, I think Alex Cameron somewhat carries on the Steely Dan legacy but I'd be inclined to listen to him more often if his instrumentals were a bit more funky and his lyrics just a little less messed up. 8/10

F♯ A♯ ∞

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

5/5

I don't think I'll want to listen to this again anytime soon but it's basically peak post rock. 9/10

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

I think the space lounge thing is pretty cool, even if it wears a bit thin by the end of the album. 7/10

Ænima

TOOL

2/5

If you submitted this, don't take this review personal. I find this band extremely cringe, and I really couldn't care less about the gimmicky stuff with pi and the golden ratio that their fans put so much emphasis on. 3/10

Weezer

5/5

NERDS! 10/10

Madvillainy

Madvillain

5/5

No clue if this "deserves" a 10 based on how I've rated past albums. This album has plenty of flaws, oddball moments, intermissions, and all sorts of stuff that make it a singular listening experience. But I always come back to it. And for that reason, I think it earns its score. 10/10

Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum

Tally Hall

3/5

I don’t really have a problem with Tally Hall, but while listening to this album I couldn’t help but think that they’re kinda AJR-adjacent, which tainted the whole experience for me. AJR sucks. 5/10

Hand. Cannot. Erase.

Steven Wilson

4/5

This was pretty cool! 8/10

Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides

SOPHIE

4/5

I listened to this album right around when it came out because it got a positive review by Anthony Fantano. I wrote it off as being not really my thing, but coming back to it after so long I'm amazed to hear how influential this is. Perhaps some of the older crowd on this site don't have connections to hyperpop and glitchcore, but if Dimery can cram a bunch of DnB on this list, then SOPHIE sure as hell deserves a nod, along with the likes of 100 gecs and Charli XCX. This was a great listen. 8/10

Enema Of The State

blink-182

4/5

Definitely enjoyed this more than blink-182 S/T but also definitely grew out of pop punk. Some of the stuff on this album also aged pretty poorly. 7/10

Currents

Tame Impala

4/5

Tame Impala being one dude is the inverse of Steely Dan being two dudes. I think if I had listened to this album when I was in high school around when it came out it would have been life changing but as it is it’s a great album. 8/10

Lahai

Sampha

4/5

A cool listen. 8/10

10,000 gecs

100 gecs

3/5

I think I prefer 1000 gecs to this project. The influences here are varied but not always right up my alley - 10,000 gecs strays from hyperpop plenty of times into full on ska, pop punk, or nu metal, none of which really tickle my fancy. However, I think at least one of the 100 gecs projects belongs on this list, so thanks for submitting. 6/10

Whipped Cream & Other Delights

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

5/5

mmmm earcandy. 9/10