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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Electric Prunes The Electric Prunes	5	2.73	+2.27
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts Brian Eno	5	2.79	+2.21
A Wizard, A True Star Todd Rundgren	5	2.83	+2.17
Electric Music For The Mind And Body Country Joe & The Fish	5	2.85	+2.15
Paris 1919 John Cale	5	2.95	+2.05
Something/Anything? Todd Rundgren	5	3.03	+1.97
Underwater Moonlight The Soft Boys	5	3.06	+1.94
No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live) Motörhead	5	3.06	+1.94
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns Joni Mitchell	5	3.11	+1.89
Dirty Sonic Youth	5	3.11	+1.89

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Dummy Portishead	1	3.71	-2.71
16 Lovers Lane The Go-Betweens	1	2.94	-1.94
Second Toughest In The Infants Underworld	1	2.86	-1.86
Violator Depeche Mode	2	3.7	-1.7
Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room Dwight Yoakam	1	2.6	-1.6
Different Class Pulp	2	3.42	-1.42
Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age	2	3.3	-1.3
Floodland Sisters Of Mercy	2	3.04	-1.04

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Artist	Albums	Average
David Bowie	2	5
Todd Rundgren	2	5
Brian Eno	2	5

5-Star Albums (26)

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Popular Reviews

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

5/5

Perhaps the Kinks’ best album. Very sonically diverse

7 likes

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

1/5

This sounds like the background music to a YouTube video. Nothing of redeeming value here. And I don’t just hate techno cause I love kraftwerk

4 likes

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Unquestionably a masterpiece. My favorite of Cohen’s albums. This is what Bob Dylan wishes he sounded like

4 likes

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

5/5

Megadeth’s best album. One of the essential metal records

3 likes

Rocks

Aerosmith

5/5

Never been much of a fan of Aerosmith but this is great

2 likes

1-Star Albums (4)

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Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Very dark, gloomy album. Traditional folk stuff with the mood and aura of Nick Drake

Violator

Depeche Mode

2/5

Not much to write home about. A kinda boring synth-pop kinda thing. Not my style, never been a fan of Depeche Mode, but this hasn’t converted me

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

A pretty nice fun album. Not the best, not the worst. Smashing Pumpkins are still lame though

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

Really experimental, but really great. I loved this album, probably my favorite of Bowie’s that I’ve heard so far

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Some nice tracks but hurt by the fact that every song sounds the same

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

4/5

Groovy and far out

Gold

Ryan Adams

2/5

Boring, alt-rock album. Very generic, not much substance at all

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

3/5

Sweet little freak folk record, but Joanna Newsom does it better

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

4/5

Some really great stuff here, but it’s too repetitive

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Unquestionably a masterpiece. My favorite of Cohen’s albums. This is what Bob Dylan wishes he sounded like

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

I love this album so much. An all-time favorite

The Coral

3/5

Some really great stuff but also some really bad stuff. In the end, it comes out in a wash to produce a very middling album

Kala

M.I.A.

4/5

Pretty damn good, but still a tad overrated. Not perfect

Zombie

Fela Kuti

5/5

Really great, really groovy

The Only Ones

3/5

Good stuff but very samey

Queens of the Stone Age

2/5

Never liked QOTSA and this hasn’t changed my mind

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

5/5

Really excellent. I loved this album

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

2/5

Some alright stuff but the rockabilly is insufferable

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

Elvis Costello is overrated but there are a few good tracks here

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

5/5

I love this album

Another Green World

Brian Eno

5/5

Some crazy cool stuff here. Very strange but very nice

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

Rush is awesome

Paris 1919

John Cale

5/5

Another absolute masterpiece. This has been a good run of albums

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

1/5

This sounds like the background music to a YouTube video. Nothing of redeeming value here. And I don’t just hate techno cause I love kraftwerk

Odelay

Beck

4/5

Not bad, this Beck album is pretty good

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

5/5

Awesome psych stuff

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

2/5

This sucks and is super boring. At least they tried

Infected

The The

3/5

Pretty nice but this just isn’t my type of post-punk

Dire Straits

3/5

Some neat guitar work but too many bum tracks

Heroes

David Bowie

5/5

Another masterpiece by Bowie

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

5/5

Perhaps the Kinks’ best album. Very sonically diverse

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

The smiths are just boring

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Mitchell is a master and this is a masterpiece

Close To You

Carpenters

3/5

Outside of the hits, there’s not much here

Clandestino

Manu Chao

3/5

Some nice stuff but not a fan of the whole thing

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Sinatra’s talented but these crooners just aren’t for me

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

1/5

Overproduced garbage that sounds vaguely like the smiths or television at times. Boring as hell

Dirty

Sonic Youth

5/5

An excellent noise record. Sonic Youth is one of the great noise bands without a doubt

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

A good album but by no means an all time great

Rocks

Aerosmith

5/5

Never been much of a fan of Aerosmith but this is great

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

Fun early rock stuff

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Better than his first record but still not an all time great

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Excellent album. CCR is legendary

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

5/5

Megadeth’s best album. One of the essential metal records

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

5/5

Really great, unique record

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

4/5

Hawkwind is great but the album is very long-winded

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

5/5

Probably the best Country Joe and the Fish album

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

A fine jazz record but Monk’s piano is the only thing that really makes it great. Not really getting the hype

Sound Affects

The Jam

3/5

So-so punk album

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

1/5

This is the exact sort of country nonsense I can’t stand

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

5/5

Rundgren was unreal during this era of his music

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

5/5

Public Enemy is the greatest rap group of all time. This isn’t their best record, but it’s close

Ramones

5/5

One of the Ramones’ true masterpieces

Dummy

Portishead

1/5

Damn this album sucks. Sour Times is good but the rest of the album isn’t near good enough to warrant a second star

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

An absolutely classic soul album

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

There’s some nice stuff here but it’s not really outstanding

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

2/5

Really quite boring. Nothing of substance outside of some neat guitar stuff

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

5/5

Easily one of the great live albums. Really captures the ferocity of Motörhead

Different Class

Pulp

2/5

There are some good tracks here, but a lot of fluff. Doesn’t come close to justifying its runtime. Middling effort

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

4/5

Buckley’s jazz-folk fusion is always fascinating, and it shines on this album. Some tracks drag a bit, but songs like Dream Letter and Buzzin’ Fly show why Buckley was such a brilliant songwriter.

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

2/5

Sounds really dated. The pop bits hold up a bit better, but the rap-heavy sections have aged poorly.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

5/5

One of the most outstanding and wonderful albums of the psychedelic 1960s

B-52's

The B-52's

5/5

Enjoyable, endlessly danceable, and funny