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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Loveless My Bloody Valentine	5	3.17	+1.83
Rain Dogs Tom Waits	5	3.19	+1.81
Astral Weeks Van Morrison	5	3.26	+1.74
Low David Bowie	5	3.55	+1.45
Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan	5	3.67	+1.33
Doolittle Pixies	5	3.74	+1.26
White Light / White Heat The Velvet Underground	4	2.89	+1.11
Pelican West Haircut 100	4	2.97	+1.03
London Calling The Clash	5	3.97	+1.03

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Blue Lines Massive Attack	1	3.38	-2.38
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	1	3.29	-2.29
Faith George Michael	1	3.28	-2.28
Scream, Dracula, Scream Rocket From The Crypt	1	2.77	-1.77
Band On The Run Paul McCartney and Wings	2	3.66	-1.66
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	2	3.39	-1.39
Tommy The Who	2	3.33	-1.33
Dance Mania Tito Puente	2	3.28	-1.28
Nothing's Shocking Jane's Addiction	2	3.17	-1.17
Oxygène Jean-Michel Jarre	2	3.07	-1.07

5-Star Albums (8)

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Rain Dogs

Tom Waits · 20 likes

5/5

An album from 1985 that sounds over 100 years old. Amazing

London Calling

The Clash · 5 likes

5/5

One of the greatest double albums of all time. Brilliant from start to finish.

Sea Change

Beck · 4 likes

4/5

This album is the equivalent of like, doing the bare minimum extremely well. Production is PHENOMENAL and songwriting is primitive. It’s less impressive than his previous outings like mellow gold and odelay but some bangers hit the feels pretty well. Beck has no edge on sea change but he’s riding sad boy wave pretty well.

Trafalgar

Bee Gees · 3 likes

2/5

Trafalgar is a good album, but much like a few entrees on the list, it doesn’t justify itself as being essential listening. The first half is really good but it takes a massive dive in the second half (aside from the track Trafalgar which is probably the best on the album). Overall pretty lame considering it as a whole.

1-Star Albums (4)

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The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

Track 1 and 2 are goat, blues bangers all round.

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

4/5

My mum listens to this. But it’s very pretty and romantic.

Dry

PJ Harvey

4/5

Epic album, not her best but a banger. Dress, hair and joe are goated

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

4/5

Amazing, so hyped to hear what they would go on to make...

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

1/5

This one is lame

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

4/5

Brilliant, singles like relax and the power of love are enough to make this thing timeless

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

3/5

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

3/5

Bangerrrsss

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

Cool live album, great backing band, very repetitive but that’s blues for ya

Suede

4/5

This album is gayyyyyy but it’s also really good

808 State

2/5

No genre of music has improved more than this edm garbo, thing has 808 in the title wtf (still innovative i guess)

Virgin Suicides

Air

4/5

My favourite album from the generator so far. Sounds like all the pink Floyd instrumentals in their early/mid period without any guitar. The word hurricane is my favourite track

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

2/5

Lame, tries so hard but fails. Some of the singles were alright but like 😳

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

2/5

😳

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

3/5

Morrissey will be permanently tainted by his wacko views so like....This is reliably good but Morrissey definitely lacks without Johnny Marr, if this is his best idk what to expect of his other material.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Bob’s best... and he’s one of the best

Garbage

4/5

Fucking goated

Sound Affects

The Jam

3/5

A good album by the jam. I was jamming

Pelican West

Haircut 100

4/5

Undeniably dated, totally 80’s, almost tacky, extremely top heavy. Still such a lovely listen, I danced so much 🥰.

More Specials

The Specials

3/5

Pretty boring aside from a couple tracks, the debut is infinitely superior

The Visitors

ABBA

4/5

I NEVER thought I’d vibe with an ABBA album this much, but alas this thing is great. Best song is that first tracks so good

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

3/5

Initially I discounted this album… aside from a few songs it seemed quite stereotypical for the synth pop genre. BUT! This can actually be acknowledged as the birth of synth pop so contextually it’s pretty fucking cool. A modest 6/10 time vibe personally, my fav tracks are She’s leaving, souvenir and the beginning and the end.

Faith

George Michael

1/5

Faith is not a ‘bad’ album but considering the albums that this list lacks, it has no right to be here. Its not for me, not at all.

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

2/5

I get why people would like this but I don’t…

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

I listened to the whole (3+hrs) thing, farrout. Production is amazing and arrangements are great but the star of the show is definitely Ella Fitzgerald’s voice. There’s so much here to unpack but it’s a lovely big band suite. Fab tracks: Let’s call the whole thing off, love is here to stay and fascinating rhythm

Pink Flag

Wire

3/5

Pink flag is definitely a cool album. It’s definitely groundbreaking, ahead of its time and tight. I just got a bit bored with a lot of its songs.

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

2/5

Just cause they did it first, doesn’t mean they did it well

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

The best Rhcp album but I don’t vibe with 100% of the tracks

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Disco is okay… (I want your love is really good) but the rest drags a little

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

2/5

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

3/5

The electric protopunk live album rocks. EPIC

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

4/5

Undeniably influential, plays like a Nirvana greatest hits album. Probably a bit overrated, not quite a perfect album.

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

3/5

Shoegaze 🥰 a bunch of really great deep cuts of the genre

S&M

Metallica

3/5

The orchestra works great but it’s so produced and it drags on forever

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Love this album and the white stripes as a whole, great vibes, great times

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

Best anti-establishment album ever

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

Boring aside from the Neil young songs

Skylarking

XTC

3/5

New wave/prog crossover, pretty cool but kinda drags

One World

John Martyn

2/5

Lame and uninteresting

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

2/5

Painfully uninteresting

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Phenomenal beginning of noise rock. LOVE THIS

Common

4/5

Be is pretty much the definitive 2000’s hip hop album

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Passable in comparison to exodus. Reliably good songs, just seems boring overall.

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

3/5

A cool kinda grunge detour 🤷‍♂️. I think when grunge died it kinda discounted this sorta stuff. The Spotify link sends you to an expanded cash grab deluxe edition shit fest but the ep alone is solid when you’re in the right mood. ‘Chain that door’ and ‘if I think’ were my favourites.

Elastica

3/5

Pretty cool

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

3/5

Proto-oogle?! I like it

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

2/5

A handful of great songs but the country vibes are too much for me

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

Thriller is brilliant, Michael nails it and sets the benchmark for Rnb/pop music for decades to come. The guitar solo on Beat It is orgasmic but the track ‘The Girl is Mine and it’s Paul McCartney feature is a travesty.

A Seat at the Table

Solange

4/5

Yesss please

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

3/5

A cool new wave album with some of the best songs of its era. Lacks the big single it would’ve needed to make a wider impression and it’s for this and some other reasons that I can’t give this anything better than a 3/5.

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

2/5

With only a couple good songs, it’s clear that this album is most notable for its production and sound rather than composition. Influential yet it meanders aimlessly for most of its run time

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

5/5

Van is the man, amazing record

Stankonia

OutKast

3/5

Not as good as anticipated

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Uncle Robert’s most personal and powerful album. An all time classic through and through and probably my favourite album of all time.

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

3/5

Despite having moments of musical excellence, Countdown to ecstasy lingers in an underwhelming dad rock bore for great deal of its run time

System Of A Down

3/5

S.O.A.D is like kinda mid overall, expected way more. Sugar and Spiders are certified bangers and a couple other tracks like War? and Suite-Pee are great head-bangers. The rest of the album is lyrically dense and filled with panic but suffers from a lack of quality 'song writing'. While kinda bland SOAD is often nice metal background music, haha

Tommy

The Who

2/5

THE FIRST ROCK OPERA?! Other than that it’s pretty lame, the bad songs to quality songs ratio is appalling. Would not listen again

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

1/5

I really don’t like this

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Groovy, superb and above all Nina Simone’s impeccable voice makes Wild Is The Wind a beautiful album

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Such a dramatic step down from their previous material but still slaps here and there.

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

One of the best Beatles solo albums bearing a few of the best songs John Lennon would ever write. Production is kinda thin in a few places and some songs are lack lustre. Still a pleasant listen but WHY ISNT RAM ON THIS LIST WHAT THE HELL

Risque

CHIC

3/5

All round, better album than Cest Chic but the songs often go for a bit too long.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Not Bobby’s best a good one nonetheless

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

3/5

Pretty forgettable if you ask me…

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

5/5

The definitive Shoegaze album, perfect from start to finish.

Arise

Sepultura

2/5

Not my bag, mannn

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Volume four, is not quite a 4

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

2/5

Country?

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

2/5

2 great songs… idk about the rest. It’s criminal that this is the only Tom petty on the list

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

2/5

Super forgettable considering his previous work

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

3/5

A cool little blue eyed soul album, more entertaining than the copious amounts of psychedelic music from its era. A girl like you, I’m so happy now, Groovin, How can I be sure and it’s love are all standouts among this album that provides an excellent mood for that Friday afternoon feeling when you just clock off work

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

One of Bowie’s classics, perfect apart form a couple songs

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

3/5

What if pixies let Kim sing more??…

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

5/5

An album from 1985 that sounds over 100 years old. Amazing