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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Underwater Moonlight The Soft Boys	5	3.06	+1.94
Dear Science TV On The Radio	5	3.16	+1.84
Miriam Makeba Miriam Makeba	5	3.19	+1.81
The Blueprint JAY Z	5	3.21	+1.79
Fun House The Stooges	5	3.28	+1.72
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	5	3.38	+1.62
Either Or Elliott Smith	5	3.38	+1.62
The Atomic Mr Basie Count Basie & His Orchestra	5	3.5	+1.5
Surfer Rosa Pixies	5	3.5	+1.5
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	5	3.64	+1.36

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hotel California Eagles	1	3.6	-2.6
If You're Feeling Sinister Belle & Sebastian	1	3.18	-2.18
461 Ocean Boulevard Eric Clapton	1	3.12	-2.12
She's So Unusual Cyndi Lauper	2	3.48	-1.48
Diamond Life Sade	2	3.42	-1.42
Music From Big Pink The Band	2	3.36	-1.36
Fragile Yes	2	3.31	-1.31
Teen Dream Beach House	2	3.27	-1.27
Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman John Zorn	1	2.22	-1.22
Frampton Comes Alive Peter Frampton	2	3.19	-1.19

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Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	2	5

5-Star Albums (22)

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John Zorn

1/5

Just really terrible, very hard to listen to, and I say this as a lover of jazz. "Like a migraine in music form" -my wife

38 likes

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

1/5

I won't listen to Eric Clapton, because he is a racist, anti-vaxx douchebag who stole Black music and thinks Black people should all be removed from the UK. Eric Clapton is trash.

24 likes

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

3/5

Yeah I was kind of liking parts of it, sonically really weird, and parts of it where you can see they could be a good, straightforward band, but they are choosing not to Obvious influence on Devo Pretty brave and very weird

10 likes

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

3/5

It's..okay. Song for Assata is great, but most of the album is a bit of a slog, about 20 minutes too long. Marred by homophobia and misogyny in spite of Common calling his girl his equal multiple times

8 likes

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

1/5

So, so bland, empty. This is why nobody likes hipsters.

5 likes

1-Star Albums (4)

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

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The Renaissance

Q-Tip

4/5

Quite like Gettin Up, a love song which you don't hear much in hiphop You reminds of Kendrick Lamar, so this album is ahead of its time We Fight/We Love reminds of Stevie Wonder Norah Jones track is quite good Overall very breezy and slick, has a great sense of musicality and singing that prefaces the direction of hip hop in a few years

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

Not my jam overall, but a good example of the style. Last two songs with more of a blues/funk vibe were excellent.

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

3/5

Very

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Requires some context to appreciate fully. Very 90s!

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

This starts off with two very good tracks, but most of the rest feels pretty hollow in spite of them being the best musicians we have heard so far. It was never a band that I could get into, I recognize they are very talented and in the hall of fame and all that, it's just nothing I would choose to listen to generally. The last track on this album is not good at all. This band is important to a lot of people, but it's not for me.

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

4/5

Pioneering ambient work that clearly opened doors for many other synth and pop artists.

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

4/5

Absolutely beautiful singing. Felt like Red in Shawshank Redemption listening to opera in the prison yard: "To this day I have no idea what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are better left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it.” We read about Shaka Zulu, and talked about apartheid and Paul Simon, who produced this. Bought a copy on vinyl!

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

4/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

5/5

Great album, easy 5 for me. All songs top notch.

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

4/5

Highly influential album by an underrated band. Glam, hard rock, punk.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Overall I just think this is pretty boring. Neil Young is rock royalty and I respect him but I really never find myself with any urge to listen to him or collect his albums.

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

3/5

It would have been very cool to see Dylan in the 60s. This is a goid example of his live shows at the time, but I felt this album went on a bit too long and dragged in the last third. Absolutely loved the first third. Dylan is a force and a fantastic songwriter, and I'm undoubtedly going to give 5s to Blood on the Tracks and Hwy 61, but this was just ok overall.

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

4/5

Like A Prayer

Madonna

4/5

The Blueprint

JAY Z

5/5

Just incredibly good, obviously a foundationally important album. Renegade is astonishing. I could have listened to another hour of this, and I need to hear it again to pick up more from it.

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

3/5

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

2/5

Time has not been good to Fishbone. We didn't enjoy this much. 15 year old me in a mosh pit enjoyed it

Joan Baez

3/5

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

3/5

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

2/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

If you don't own this, you don't like music.

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

3/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

3/5

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

2/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

5/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Fred Neil

4/5

Cool album, really enjoyed it

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

I've just never been able to get into them.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Loved them since I was a kid. Never in life have I gotten tired of listening to Simon & Garfunkel. Bridge Over Troubled Water is one of the best songs in history. Huge fan of The Only Living Boy in NY, The Boxer, and El Condor Pasa. Easy 5 stars for me. If you don't like this album, I can't hang out with you.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

The best musician Portland has ever had. Been listening to him for nearly 20 years now, and I will always listen to him. Heartbroken at his loss.

The Stone Roses

5/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

I'd give it a 3, I like post rock but this had very little emotion. GYBE, Boards of Canada and especially Explosions in the Sky have all done this project to better effect. The 20 minute suite first song is good and the last song was pretty good with the western influence but generally it fell flat. I would listen to it again at night on headphones to see if I maybe was just in.the wrong headspace.

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

I'd been burnt out by the Police due to hearing their singles way too many times. But damn this is a good album. Such precise drum, bass and guitar work and Sting's voice soars over everything and elevates it all. Great album.

Close To You

Carpenters

2/5

Van Halen

4/5

Vespertine

Björk

4/5

New York Dolls

4/5

A perfect album. It just kicks ass top to bottom. People don't know the New York Dolls and that's a real shame.

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

4/5

Just an effortlessly cool album, you can hear how much it influenced another great French artist, AIR. I will be digging through his catalog. Love the jazz influence and just really solid guitar and bass.

Diamond Life

Sade

2/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

4/5

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

3/5

Tical

Method Man

3/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

4/5

Faust IV

Faust

3/5

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

2/5

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

5/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

3/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

2/5

Too much Boomer

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

4/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

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

Simple Minds

2/5

Super boring

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

Great old cowboy songs. Big Iron a staple of Fallout New Vegas, and Bob Weir covered El Paso at GratefulnDwad shows for decades. So much better than the crap Nashville pumps out onto your local robot-programmed radio station 90.3 THE BULL WE PLAY ALL THE HIIITTTSSS Y'ALL

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

1/5

So, so bland, empty. This is why nobody likes hipsters.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

5/5

Nixon

Lambchop

2/5

Modern easy listening. Pretty bland, Petrified Florist is the best track but it's not enough that I'd listen again.

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

5/5

Hugely influential on the early 90s British indie scene. Underrated at the time of its release but deserving of respect.

Miriam Makeba

5/5

Beautiful singing voice

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Zeppelin rules

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

1/5

Just really terrible, very hard to listen to, and I say this as a lover of jazz. "Like a migraine in music form" -my wife

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

3/5

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

3/5

Lyrically and musically good, let down by average vocals. Credit for being socially aware.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

5/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Fantastic album. Costello's voice never sounded more rich.

Skylarking

XTC

4/5

Teen Dream

Beach House

2/5

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

3/5

Future Days

Can

2/5

Meh

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

1/5

I won't listen to Eric Clapton, because he is a racist, anti-vaxx douchebag who stole Black music and thinks Black people should all be removed from the UK. Eric Clapton is trash.

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

3/5

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

4/5

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

2/5

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

2/5

I feel very indifferent about this album. Mostly sounds like filler songs on an Oasis album but never climbs to the heights that Oasis could. The musicians are good but this didn't grab me.

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Funky yet cheesy. Quite liked the instrumental Africano. Worth a listen.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Leonard Cohen is the man. One of the best songwriters who ever lived, and this might be his best album.

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

2/5

Can't listen to it, no longer on spotify.

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

Great album. Always loved this one.

Calenture

The Triffids

2/5

Intensely boring.

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

4/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

4/5

Elbow rules

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Scott 2

Scott Walker

3/5

Just really interesting and really strange

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

3/5

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

2/5

Music for a rich lady to get a spa treatment by. I don't like it.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

Awesome Brazilian jazz, really dig this one

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

4/5

Cool psychedelic country album

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

4/5

Classic!!

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

All time classic. Still kicks as much ass now as it ever did.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

It's really great. Count Basie is a legend

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

3/5

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

4/5

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

2/5

I really wanted to like thus, I do like Small Faces generally, but they keep having these narrative bits to start off every song later on thus album and it was really pretty annoying.

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

The Man Who

Travis

4/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

3/5

Fragile

Yes

2/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

4/5

Great album!!!

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

3/5

Everlys are great, I don't feel like this was their strongest album though

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

3/5

Goo

Sonic Youth

3/5

I don't really love it. Dirty Boots is great but I get bored of them just reprntlessly making feedbavk

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

Woodface

Crowded House

2/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

4/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

3/5

Pretty good for about 10 minutes but then it gets just very samey. I lost interest. The band name is also super cringe.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

An all-time kickass classic. This album takes other albums out behind the shed and kicks their asses, and they give thanks that Black Sabbath paid them attention.

Hotel California

Eagles

1/5

To quote The Dude, "I f*ckin hate The Eagles."

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

3/5

Pretty decent, good cadence

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

Hey guess what? Metallica kicks ass!

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

This is one of my favorite albums of all time. 5 stars, every day, across the board. I have been listening to the Pixies for more than 30 years and will never be bored of them.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Simon and Garfunkel are WELL into drugs on this one and it's glorious. Really dog this one.

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

2/5

Weirdly Tidal's link brought me to Social Distortion's White Light, White Heat, White Trash from 1996. I enjoyed that album. I can't say that I enjoyed this album. Lou Reed wrote some of the best tracks in rock and roll history, and I respect the Velvets and understand their massive importance in music history. I'm just not a fan of fuzzy noise jams, not a big Sonic Youth fan for the same reason. This album is kind of a mess, I know I won't be getting it for my vinyl collection!

Fun House

The Stooges

5/5

Another of my favorites of all-time. If you don't like the Stooges, there's something wrong with you!! Iggy is the greatest frontman who ever stalked this planet.

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

4/5

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

2/5

It's a good metal album but it's really exhausting me trying to get through the full 45 minutes. Can't do it.

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

Great album. My favorite of theirs will always be Automatic. Really underrated band though.

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

Solid album, definitely this and El Camino are the Black Keys at the height of their power. I used to really like them but find myself less interested as time goes on. Somehow it sounds dated already though!

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

This is a lot of fun. I imagine sipping a pina colada on a beach with the cast of Goodfellas.

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

3/5

It's fine, I'm not into reggae very much

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

This album is undefeated. I love this album, I love Talking Heads, this is one of my top 15 albums of all time.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5