My User Albums Journey

User Albums Journey

Exploring beyond the book, one album at a time

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2010

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Pop

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
TRON: Legacy Daft Punk	5	3.04	+1.96
In Between Dreams Jack Johnson	5	3.15	+1.85
Paid In Full Eric B. & Rakim	5	3.31	+1.69
Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit Courtney Barnett	5	3.51	+1.49
Vs. Pearl Jam	5	3.63	+1.37

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Toxicity System Of A Down	2	3.62	-1.62
Sing To God Cardiacs	1	2.5	-1.5
Enema Of The State blink-182	2	3.36	-1.36
Mm..Food MF DOOM	2	3.29	-1.29
The Evil One Roky Erickson	2	3.19	-1.19
Brat Charli xcx	2	3.13	-1.13
Blink-182 blink-182	2	3.1	-1.1
Cleopatra The Lumineers	2	3.03	-1.03

5-Star Albums (5)

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Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit

Popular Reviews

Paid In Full

Eric B. & Rakim · 2 likes

5/5

Paid in Full may not be the peak of hip hop, but it is an all-time crowning achievement in the genre. It’s akin to Vostok 1 launching Youri Gagarin, the first human, into a 108 minute orbit. Sure, later on people landed on the moon, probes on other planets, and other probes left the solar system. And gratuitous launches of astronaut dummies in roadsters followed too. We can always look back on Eric B.’s and Rakim’s Paid in Full as a marvelous marker along the way.

Les deux doigts dans la prise

Les sheriff · 1 likes

3/5

I understand this is a live album, but I’d be more into if it were 35 minutes instead of 70. I definitely enjoyed listening to the album. It solidifies one of my takeaways from the 1001 experience: I like punk adjacent music.

Eye

Robyn Hitchcock · 1 likes

2/5

Bad vocals and mostly bland music. Not a great combination.

In Between Dreams

Jack Johnson · 1 likes

5/5

I feel like I’m sitting on Jack’s porch, hanging out, with a light rain and sunshine in the distance. Simply lovely.

1-Star Albums (1)

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10,000 gecs

100 gecs

2/5

Between this and Charlie XCX I am on auto tune overload tonight.

Racine carrée

Stromae

2/5

I am neither 21, rolling, nor do I have the calves to dance to this. My Achilles are going to be sore tomorrow just from listening.

L'autre...

Mylène Farmer

3/5

Argus

Wishbone Ash

3/5

Copious amounts of gratuitous guitars. Sometimes they work but at the end I feel like I ate two holiday dinners with triple dessert.

Oncle Jazz

Men I Trust

4/5

This album is a vibe as they say. I love the self released indie stuff because it leads to more creative art. I personally considered adding Headroom. Regardless, Men I Trust is a band deserving of being heard.

Les deux doigts dans la prise

Les sheriff

3/5

Relatives in Descent

Protomartyr

2/5

Definitely a unique sound and I can hear why one of us picked why everyone should hear it. But it’s not for me. The vocalist kinda talk-sings and mumbles while the mix has his vocals buried under the music.

Please Don't Take Me Back

Martha

3/5

Music For People In Trouble

Susanne Sundfør

4/5

John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman

John Coltrane

3/5

Some improvement but not over the top. Coltrane is great on the sax while Hartman’s vocals are soothing. Overall, this is stomachable jazz.

The Evil One

Roky Erickson

2/5

Need more interesting music to pair with these repetitive lyrics.

Bon Iver

4/5

I totally thought Bon Iver was a dude, not an band, until just now. 😂 I only knew Bon from the Taylor Swift collab, exile on folklore. The music breaks rules in a good way. The instruments feel loosely in sync at times. The lead line breaks the expected pattern some, like the descending guitar part at the 5th beat of Holocene. It doesn’t appear again until about 23 seconds. Mr. Iver keeps me listening on my feet, which keeps me engaged, which keeps me interested.

Real Life

Joan As Police Woman

3/5

City Of Evil

Avenged Sevenfold

3/5

Thankfully this isn’t like the screamo non-sense of their first two albums. The only person I knew who liked that shit thought trolling people was a personality trait. The music was as annoying as he was. Fortunately, M. Shadows worked with a vocal coach to be more melodic here. This album feels like what I image a speed freak experiences. Unfortunately after 72 minutes I feel like a speed freak in that my heart is going to explode.

All Hail West Texas

The Mountain Goats

3/5

My simple mind appreciates the straightforward lyrics. I don’t have to guess what the songs are about. And the bottle the guy is singing into offers a unique and refreshing sound. I can’t figure out if him being a mediocre, and I mean I was better than that at one point, is a plus or minus. Either way an enjoyable album.

Sailing The Seas Of Cheese

Primus

3/5

These guys certainly have talent and a different take on music. Not my thing though.

Dimanche à Bamako

Amadou & Mariam

4/5

Hell of a fun time!

Toxicity

System Of A Down

2/5

Honestly a lot better than I expected, but I hate the vocals, particularly the growling shit. +1 to 2 stars if this were an instrumental album.

Grand Prix

Teenage Fanclub

3/5

Carrie & Lowell

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Sing To God

Cardiacs

1/5

I’m ready to concede that progressive rock is a failed genre. Most albums in this category fail to form a cohesive story. Most of the genre sounds like a competition to jam the most dissimilar riffs together and the most keys changes as possible in a grandiose sounding way. Aside from Pink Floyd, I’m happy to forget prog rock ever happened.

The Best of The Hot 5 & Hot 7 Recordings

Louis Armstrong

3/5

Last Splash

The Breeders

3/5

Uneven at times which I like at times.

Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit

Courtney Barnett

5/5

After Hours

The Weeknd

3/5

Frosting On The Beater

The Posies

3/5

22, A Million

Bon Iver

3/5

Nonagon Infinity

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

4/5

Lots of energy to enjoy here. Thanks for the discovery!

Mm..Food

MF DOOM

2/5

The skit type passages are fun but man his flow is sloooow and the music doesn’t make it very interesting.

Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum

Tally Hall

3/5

Sounds like the vocalist has a theatrical background.

The Great Outdoors Jam

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong

3/5

The show sounds decent but a jammy live album isn’t my preferred way of discovering a band.

Cleopatra

The Lumineers

2/5

Disappointed in the end. Ophelia has a killer hook…that’s gets old real soon. And there were too many tracks I wanted to skip. Feels a bit harsh, but there it is.

Eye

Robyn Hitchcock

2/5

Bad vocals and mostly bland music. Not a great combination.

In Between Dreams

Jack Johnson

5/5

I feel like I’m sitting on Jack’s porch, hanging out, with a light rain and sunshine in the distance. Simply lovely.

Blink-182

blink-182

2/5

Loss

Mull Historical Society

2/5

Zzzzz

Brat

Charli xcx

2/5

I can’t this much auto tune for a whole album. A song at a time, sure. But not all at once.

Promises

Floating Points

3/5

I have to be in the right mood for this, which I was, otherwise I might fall asleep.

Transatlanticism

Death Cab for Cutie

3/5

I’m more of a Ben Gibbard 📫guy than a Ben Gibbard ☠️🚕 guy.

Vs.

Pearl Jam

5/5

This is PJ’s go to album for me. Raw. Energetic. Enveloping. Not a weak track among them. It’s telling that Better Man was recorded during the Vs. sessions and couldn’t make the album. I would sub it for Rats, but I’m nitpicking.

Control

Pedro The Lion

3/5

Continuum

John Mayer

3/5

Paid In Full

Eric B. & Rakim

5/5

Portishead

4/5

Enema Of The State

blink-182

2/5

A couple things bother me about this album. Much of the time, the drums are a constant metronome at the forefront of the mix. It’s not so much Travis Barker, but the punk pop genre. And the vocals sound like a teenager in the basement whining at his mom to make him a grilled cheese. When in reality it’s a dude in his mid 20s perfectly capable of melting cheese on bread in a buttered pan his damn self. Adam’s Song is amazing though. The drums are present but in a supporting role. Moreover, the vocals don’t sound whiny, but rather like loneliness oozing through the speakers earned from months and months on the road away from home.

TRON: Legacy

Daft Punk

5/5

BRILLIANT, top class instrumental album. Move over Shostakovich and Beethoven, make room for Daft Punk!