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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	5	3.31	+1.69
Deep Purple In Rock Deep Purple	5	3.31	+1.69
Tommy The Who	5	3.33	+1.67
Hot Rats Frank Zappa	5	3.36	+1.64
2112 Rush	5	3.37	+1.63
Cheap Thrills Big Brother & The Holding Company	5	3.42	+1.58
Reggatta De Blanc The Police	5	3.45	+1.55
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	5	3.5	+1.5
Illmatic Nas	5	3.6	+1.4
Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan	5	3.66	+1.34

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	1	3.44	-2.44
Vespertine Björk	1	3.17	-2.17
All That You Can't Leave Behind U2	1	2.98	-1.98
A Northern Soul The Verve	1	2.92	-1.92
Yeezus Kanye West	1	2.76	-1.76
Boston Boston	2	3.7	-1.7
Sex Packets Digital Underground	1	2.66	-1.66
There's No Place Like America Today Curtis Mayfield	2	3.37	-1.37
Heartattack And Vine Tom Waits	2	3.07	-1.07

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Artist	Albums	Average
Pink Floyd	2	5

5-Star Albums (23)

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All That You Can't Leave Behind

U2 · 1 likes

1/5

I loathe U2, but I'll give this a try. For a little bit, at least.

Tical

Method Man · 1 likes

4/5

another album i listened to a ton as a kid, but have since written it off as a guilty pleasure. looking forward to this listen. 1/2 way - just as good as i remember it. method has incredible flow compared to most of today's rappers IMO.

Vespertine

Björk · 1 likes

1/5

Yeesh. I couldn't understand the appeal when I was 16. This album generator has forced me to revisit a lot of other artists I didn't think I liked back then, only to realize that my taste has evolved, so I was hopeful that would be the case here as well. Unfortunately, it's not. 56 minutes of pure agony. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.

1-Star Albums (6)

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I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

2/5

That's a no from me, Dog.

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Moss Garden - i think it brought my heart rate down 20 bpm The Secret Life of Arabia - sick bassline

2112

Rush

5/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

listened for a while, but somehow i'm only on track #2? shuffle is off, repeat is off. also not sure if the interviews are part of the album or part of a special edition, but i can't pay close enough attention to get anything out of them. album in general isn't jiving with my mood today.

Elastica

4/5

Owned this one way back in the day. This should be an interesting re-listen. Expecting a healthy dose of nostalgia. Hearing a lot of similarities with the band Self, who I would listen to a lot 4-5 years after this album came out. I remember this being sort of a "guilty pleasure" back in the 90's... probably because it's a "girl band." Listening now makes me want to smack myself - this holds up well. I'd love to hear more of this kind of release today with male OR female leads - short, catchy punk songs that are still palatable rather than just noisy. Hearing major Pixies inspiration behind "Waking Up" - probably lots of Pixies influence throughout the album, but it just now hit me. Fuck, this is really good. How many other albums did I casually listen to in the 90's and then forget about (or write off) that are legit classics these days?

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

Possibly one of my most listened to albums ever. Feels like I know every note on the album, yet there's still a lot of nostalgia when listening today. Brings me back to riding my bike everywhere in the summer between 8th grade & freshman year. This album and Green Day "Dookie" were the ones in my ear when biking to football practice & then to Muirfield to caddy. These are the kinds of albums that I listened to non-stop as a kid, but for some reason fell into the "guilty pleasures" category after that. Probably because I discovered so much music and went through so many listening phases that I felt like anything I listened to in middle school/high school is sub-par just because I liked it before my music taste "matured".

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

2/5

Tom Waits just ain't my cup of tea.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Classics everyone has heard a million times (not sure I've ever listened to a CCR album besides the Greatest Hits) with some deep tracks that are every bit as good as the hits. Great listen for this morning. 40th Anniversary Edition bonus tracks - "Broken Spoke Shuffle" and "Glory Be" are fantastic instrumental tracks!

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

4/5

I've always enjoyed this one, but I need to sit down and give it the attention it deserves. Not an album to be listened to in the background while doing other things.

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

3/5

Never realized this was KW's highest regarded album (allmusic.com agrees). I would have thought MBDTF would hold that honor. First listen to this one. Good album. More straightforward, less "artsy" than MBDTF.

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

2/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

All That You Can't Leave Behind

1/5

I loathe U2, but I'll give this a try. For a little bit, at least.

The xx

3/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Tical

Method Man

4/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

4/5

Vivid

Living Colour

4/5

Tommy

The Who

5/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

5/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

5/5

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

3/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

Yeezus

Kanye West

1/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

5/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

5/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

3/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

5/5

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

4/5

If this was my introduction to punk, I would have listened to way more of it as a kid. Very good album, needs another few spins to catch what I missed the first time.

A Northern Soul

The Verve

1/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Boston

2/5

There's a strange mix of nostalgia and familiarity with this album. Most of that comes from the fact that even after almost 50 years, it's difficult to live a normal life and *not* hear More Than a Feeling at least once a year, probably at the dentist's office or the pharmacy... Favorite: Peace of Mind Underrated: Foreplay / Long Time Would be glad to never hear it again: More Than a Feeling

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

3/5

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

1/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Obviously 5/5. No notes.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

2/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

3/5

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Vespertine

Björk

1/5

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Cypress Hill

4/5

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Rolls Royce, Rolex, Yeti, Sennheiser, Snap-On and "Illmatic".

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

4/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

1/5

There's been some bad albums on this list. Then there's been some VERY bad albums on this list. Besides that, there's been some audible garbage juice on this list. However, we're not talking about any of those categories with this album. This album ventures into uncharted territory - the only territory that makes me wish I could give zero-stars (or even 0.5 stars) to an album. The territory that blurs the line between music and music-shaped noise. This is the territory where Coldplay was manufactured and where it continues to live when it's not on a tour that's so boring that old white people have to expose themselves for being shitty old white people for the entire world to see in order to add any excitement - manufactured as it may be - to this medically induced coma in music form. Coldplay's "A Rush Of Blood To The Head" caused a rush of blood *from* my head when it bored me to sleep and I banged my head on the corner of the desk on my way down. 0/10 would not recommend.