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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Raekwon	5	2.85	+2.15
The Sun Rises In The East Jeru The Damaja	5	2.91	+2.09
Forever Changes Love	5	3.22	+1.78
Live And Dangerous Thin Lizzy	5	3.32	+1.68
Kala M.I.A.	4	2.91	+1.09
Spiderland Slint	4	2.98	+1.02

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Graceland Paul Simon	1	3.74	-2.74
Skylarking XTC	1	3.04	-2.04
Let Love Rule Lenny Kravitz	1	3	-2
Fred Neil Fred Neil	1	2.92	-1.92
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits	2	3.74	-1.74
Maverick A Strike Finley Quaye	1	2.74	-1.74
Funeral Arcade Fire	2	3.56	-1.56
Play Moby	2	3.46	-1.46
Diamond Life Sade	2	3.43	-1.43
Court And Spark Joni Mitchell	2	3.35	-1.35

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Spiderland

Slint · 3 likes

4/5

This album taught me calculus.

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz · 2 likes

1/5

Can't decide if he wants to be Lennon or Prince, sucks at both.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy · 1 likes

5/5

I’ve apparently been heavily sleeping on Thin Lizzy. Fantastic album, only track I didn’t love was Johnny The Fox Meets Jimmy The Weed.

Graceland

Paul Simon · 1 likes

1/5

This album sucks. Paul Simon sucks.

1-Star Albums (5)

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Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

3/5

Intro track is amazing, rest of the album is average to good except Back In Our Minds, which I don’t like at all. Would give 3.5 if that was an option.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

5/5

I’ve apparently been heavily sleeping on Thin Lizzy. Fantastic album, only track I didn’t love was Johnny The Fox Meets Jimmy The Weed.

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

1/5

Can't decide if he wants to be Lennon or Prince, sucks at both.

Soul Mining

The The

2/5

Not really my thing. Didn't hate it, wont ever listen to it again.

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

2/5

Take On Me is an all-timer, the rest of the album didn’t do much for me.

Black Monk Time

The Monks

2/5

Can't deny the influence but not really all that enjoyable to me. Pretty repetitive.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

It’s catchy as hell.

Viva Hate

Morrissey

2/5

Eh. Not much to say. Boring. Couple decent songs.

Graceland

Paul Simon

1/5

This album sucks. Paul Simon sucks.

Roxy Music

4/5

Loved everything about the album except Ferry’s singing. The bass is ridiculous.

The Stooges

3/5

Solid debut but pales in comparison to their next two albums.

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

3/5

Liked it more than I thought I would. Manchild and Phoney Ladies are the highlights. Not a fan of the LL Cool J inspired rapping.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

2/5

I've heard this album a lot growing up, one of my dad's favorites, so there's some nostalgia here. That said, I don't like it.

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

No idea what this is but it bangs.

Fred Neil

1/5

Meh. Whatever.

Diamond Life

Sade

2/5

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

5/5

One of the greatest hip hop albums of all time and the absolute pinnacle of cocaine rap. Still sounds as fresh as the first time I heard it. An almost flawless album, the one minor flaw being the amount of skits.

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

2/5

I appreciate how weird it is, but it’s not very pleasant to listen to.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

Close To The Edge

Yes

4/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

2/5

I actually really dug the first song, but the rest of the album was kind of an inoffensive snooze.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

2/5

It's Elvis. You either like it or you don't.

Spiderland

Slint

4/5

This album taught me calculus.

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

2/5

Pretty boring. Honestly didn't even bother finishing it.

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

5/5

I first heard this album years ago and wrote him off as another failed DJ Premier pet project in the vein of Group Home. After listening to this again, I have no idea what I was on because this is a fantastic album. Jeru has some real dumb lines but he says it all with such command that you can't help but go along with it, same with Premier's production. Easy 5 mics.

Play

Moby

2/5

Nobody listens to techno

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

It's pretty bland but not an unpleasant listen. A pretty generous 3 mics, might've been a 2 on a bad day. Under the Boardwalk is the highlight.

Skylarking

XTC

1/5

Hated it. Most of it sounded like 80s sitcom theme song music to me. Dear God was the best track and even that didn’t really vibe with me.

Yeezus

Kanye West

2/5

Phrenology

The Roots

4/5

Really good album but a weird choice to be the sole Roots inclusion. It's one of their weaker offerings, which just shows how impressive of a discography they have.

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

4/5

Surprised how much I liked it

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

Looking down the barrel of a gun is arguably the second greatest BB song, the first being Intergalactic, but as a whole, I'm not a huge fan of this album which I know is sacrilege to some people I know, but they can get fucked.

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

3/5

As a whole, I found the album to be a pleasant listen but looking back, I can’t really recall any individual song.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

I’m not a huge fan of the music, but I love the album. There’s just something about singing about shooting someone to a crowd of dangerous criminals.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

2/5

Dire Straits sound much better live.

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

2/5

Not my thing. One extra star for influencing the Beatles.

Kala

M.I.A.

4/5

Not really my type of music but ended up really enjoying it. The track with Timbaland would’ve veen the best track on the album if it didn’t have Timbaland.

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

1/5

Forever Changes

Love

5/5

Classic. Love how it’s simultaneously upbeat and morbid.