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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
HELLYEAH HELLYEAH	5	2.16	+2.84
Hammersmith Odeon, London '75 Bruce Springsteen	5	3.13	+1.87
Kick INXS	5	3.57	+1.43
Afraid Of Sunlight Marillion	4	2.61	+1.39
Korn Korn	4	2.62	+1.38
A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships The 1975	4	2.63	+1.37
Harbor Lights Bruce Hornsby	4	2.65	+1.35
The General Electric Shihad	4	2.78	+1.22
A City Dressed In Dynamite That Handsome Devil	4	2.79	+1.21
This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This! Pop Will Eat Itself	4	2.79	+1.21

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Shape Of Jazz To Come Ornette Coleman	1	3.27	-2.27
Highway Prayers Billy Strings	1	3.04	-2.04
A Charlie Brown Christmas Vince Guaraldi Trio	2	3.89	-1.89
Ida Con Snock Michael Hurley	1	2.82	-1.82
Give Up The Postal Service	2	3.45	-1.45
Whipped Cream & Other Delights Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass	2	3.42	-1.42
Madvillainy Madvillain	2	3.39	-1.39
Boxer The National	2	3.33	-1.33
The Universe Smiles Upon You Khruangbin	2	3.33	-1.33
The Best of The Hot 5 & Hot 7 Recordings Louis Armstrong	2	3.32	-1.32

5-Star Albums (3)

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Wet Leg

Wet Leg · 1 likes

3/5

I fail to understand the hype around this band. A couple of good singles does not make an excellent album.

Argus

Wishbone Ash · 1 likes

3/5

A band from my youth that I never much knew about so thanks for listing it. Beforehand I thought it might be a two star album but it was nearly a four!

Once Upon a Rhyme

David Allan Coe · 1 likes

2/5

Country music normally gets one star from me but this made me chuckle a couple of times so an extra star for that.

All Hail West Texas

The Mountain Goats · 1 likes

3/5

Sounds like a load of demos to me.

Fully Completely

The Tragically Hip · 1 likes

4/5

Never heard of them before but I liked it a lot.

1-Star Albums (3)

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Toxicity

System Of A Down

4/5

GUTS

Olivia Rodrigo

4/5

The Animal Years

Josh Ritter

3/5

Perfectly pleasant background music

What Did You Expect from The Vaccines?

The Vaccines

4/5

Blue Is The Colour

The Beautiful South

4/5

Nightbirds

LaBelle

3/5

Sadly now sounds somewhat dated

The Impossible Kid

Aesop Rock

2/5

People

The Burning Hell

3/5

Reminds me of Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers

Songs Of A Lost World

The Cure

3/5

I love the Cure when they rock it out but there’s not much of that on this album.

Ida Con Snock

Michael Hurley

1/5

Just not my thing at all. I only give one star if I think that the album is one that I could never listen to again. This is one of those. Sorry to whoever listed it.

Madvillainy

Madvillain

2/5

Harbor Lights

Bruce Hornsby

4/5

At times I thought that I was listening to Steely Dan but that’s no bad thing. Enjoyed it more than I expected to.

Telefone

Noname

2/5

Couldn’t get into this at all. Sorry!

All Hail West Texas

The Mountain Goats

3/5

Sounds like a load of demos to me.

Dilate

Ani DiFranco

4/5

Souvlaki

Slowdive

3/5

God Shuffled His Feet

Crash Test Dummies

3/5

I always wondered if this guy’s voice would grate when listening to a whole album. It does.

The Fame

Lady Gaga

4/5

Every track seems familiar, even the ones that weren’t singles.

Choirs Of The Eye

Kayo Dot

2/5

Every now and then there was a bit where I thought it was going to liven up a little but those bits were very few and far between. I got bored well before the end but stuck it out in what proved to be false hope of enjoyment.

Silent Alarm

Bloc Party

4/5

Katamari Damacy

Various Artists

2/5

It sounds like something that someone has knocked out on a cheap Casio keyboard in their tea break.

Oncle Jazz

Men I Trust

3/5

Nothing outstanding but pleasant enough as background music.

Fine Line

Harry Styles

3/5

Unremarkable but perfectly listenable

Has A Good Home

Final Fantasy

3/5

Pushin' Against a Stone

Valerie June

3/5

Grand Prix

Teenage Fanclub

3/5

Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides

SOPHIE

4/5

Quirky vocals over fractured beats. I couldn’t decide if I liked it or not so I gave it the benefit of the doubt as it would probably grow on me with more listens.

We Rock Hard

Freestylers

3/5

It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive, It’s a bit repetitive…

Up To Here

The Tragically Hip

4/5

Enjoyed it. Will be well worth listening to some more.

The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess

Chappell Roan

3/5

If I didn’t know I would have thought it was Taylor Swift.

Is Ellipsis

Psyche Origami

3/5

Good to hear that a hip hop album can be made without gratuitous over use of obscenities.

Blizzard Of Ozz

Ozzy Osbourne

4/5

One extra star for sentimental reasons - RIP Ozzy

Once Upon a Rhyme

David Allan Coe

2/5

Country music normally gets one star from me but this made me chuckle a couple of times so an extra star for that.

Forced Witness

Alex Cameron

4/5

It grew on me on a second listen, hence the fourth star.

How to Operate With a Blown Mind

Lo Fidelity Allstars

3/5

10,000 gecs

100 gecs

3/5

Yellow & Green

Baroness

3/5

Pulse

Pink Floyd

3/5

I’m not a Pink Floyd fan but I liked this more than I expected to.

Rose Mountain

Screaming Females

3/5

Imaginal Disk

Magdalena Bay

3/5

Trying to think who she sounds like??

Fly

Yoko Ono

3/5

I’ve heard worse, like a lot of the original list!

Nonagon Infinity

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

3/5

Run of the mill and formulaic rock.

Fully Completely

The Tragically Hip

4/5

Never heard of them before but I liked it a lot.

No Talking Just Head

The Heads

3/5

Boxer

The National

2/5

This geezers voice is so monotonous it makes even the uptempo songs sound boring.

Night Drive

Chromatics

3/5

I And Love And You

The Avett Brothers

3/5

Unexceptional but pleasant enough for background listening.

Super Ape

The Upsetters

2/5

I always think that the guitarists in reggae bands must get really bored.

Afraid Of Sunlight

Marillion

4/5

Neon Golden

The Notwist

3/5

Please Don't Take Me Back

Martha

3/5

A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

The 1975

4/5

I liked their early stuff a lot and was disappointed with the second album but this is good enough for four stars.

Sublime

4/5

I didn’t think I was going to like this at first but, in the end, I liked it a lot.

When Smoke Rises

Mustafa

3/5

Y Ahora Qué?

Reincidentes

4/5

It wasn’t at all what I was expecting but it turned out to be great! If it had been in English I may have given it five stars!

Autobiografia

Duncan Dhu

3/5

Wet Leg

3/5

I fail to understand the hype around this band. A couple of good singles does not make an excellent album.

Phantom Power

The Tragically Hip

3/5

Tragic Kingdom

No Doubt

3/5

Hammersmith Odeon, London '75

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Not just a great album but also a little bit of history.

Argus

Wishbone Ash

3/5

A band from my youth that I never much knew about so thanks for listing it. Beforehand I thought it might be a two star album but it was nearly a four!

Deltron 3030

2/5

Started off with an open mind about it, soon got bored and changed to something else three quarters of the way through.

Live At Madison Square Garden

Vulfpeck

4/5

Music is always better if it sounds like the guys making it are enjoying themselves

Misplaced Childhood

Marillion

3/5

Dedicated to all those 40 year old girls called Kayleigh

All Hour Cymbals

Yeasayer

4/5

Interesting. Something a little bit different in each track. Enjoyed it.

Spinvis

3/5

Human Racing

Nik Kershaw

3/5

Loss

Mull Historical Society

4/5

Pleasantly listenable

Carrie & Lowell

Sufjan Stevens

3/5

Moffou

Salif Keita

2/5

Miles off of my radar I’m afraid but there’s a couple of jolly bits.

Enema Of The State

blink-182

3/5

Average only.

People Who Eat People Are The Luckiest People In The World

AJJ

2/5

Folk Punk? WTF! Not for me I’m afraid.

Funeral Dress

Wussy

3/5

Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?

of Montreal

3/5

Sometimes great, sometimes good, sometimes awful and sometimes annoying, sometimes all in the same song. Intriguing though.

St. Jude

Courteeners

4/5

Heard these guys lots on the radio but never listened to a whole album. Pretty good 👍

Go Farther In Lightness

Gang of Youths

4/5

I wasn’t sure about this one at first but it got better as it progressed.

Somewhere In The Between

Streetlight Manifesto

4/5

Sounds like how The Pogues may sound if they were American.

Carolina Confessions

The Marcus King Band

4/5

It slowly grew on me 👏

La cagaste... Burt Lancaster

Hombres G

4/5

A quirky choice which would be even better if this non Spanish speaker understood what the lyrics were about. Maybe it’s about violently slaughtering Burt Lancaster. Or maybe it’s a love song to him. Who knows? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Whipped Cream & Other Delights

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

2/5

My old Dad used to love Herb Alpert but it’s not my thing but two stars for nostalgia and memories of my long gone Father.

Version 2.0

Garbage

4/5

Another band I’ve been well aware of but never listened to a whole album before. I enjoyed it 👍

Real Life

Joan As Police Woman

3/5

Good in parts, dull in others.

Out Of Time

R.E.M.

4/5

The last half decent album that REM made.

No.1 In Heaven

Sparks

3/5

Somewhat dated and WTF were the “comical” comments between tracks?

Crystal Castles

2/5

Reading the Wikipedia page about this album I thought that I might like it. I didn’t much.

Gotcha! Gotcha! Gotcha!

Gotcha!

3/5

Hall of the Mountain King

Savatage

3/5

Black Sabbath called. They asked if they could have their riffs back please?

Ænima

TOOL

3/5

Run of the mill Rock

Clarity

Jimmy Eat World

3/5

Kick

INXS

5/5

Chocolate & Cheese

Ween

4/5

Interesting mix of styles

Keep It like a Secret

Built To Spill

3/5

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Vince Guaraldi Trio

2/5

Set Yourself On Fire

Stars

3/5

A solid three but nearly a four.

Music For People In Trouble

Susanne Sundfør

2/5

The Sunset Tree

The Mountain Goats

3/5

Wild Planet

The B-52's

3/5

I’m never sure if they’re serious or just a novelty band? It’s ok I suppose but slightly tedious.

The Lonesome Crowded West

Modest Mouse

3/5

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

Bright Eyes

3/5

Singles

Future Islands

3/5

We Like It Here

Snarky Puppy

2/5

Pony Express Record

Shudder To Think

3/5

The Best of The Hot 5 & Hot 7 Recordings

Louis Armstrong

2/5

Things We Lost In The Fire

Low

2/5

Good for insomniacs I would think 🤔

Old No. 1

Guy Clark

2/5

Mouth Sounds

Neil Cicierega

3/5

Spirit of Eden

Talk Talk

2/5

Norther

Ex-Easter Island Head

2/5

Piñata

Freddie Gibbs

2/5

Emotion

Carly Rae Jepsen

3/5

Smell No Evil

Ookla The Mok

3/5

To Be Kind

Swans

2/5

Uncovered

Zamilska

2/5

Goat

The Jesus Lizard

3/5

Fuzz

Chucklehead

3/5

Oceanic

ISIS

3/5

Ocean Avenue

Yellowcard

4/5

Come And Get It

Rachel Stevens

3/5

Geography

Tom Misch

3/5

Psychic

DARKSIDE

2/5

The Monitor

Titus Andronicus

3/5

Inside

Bo Burnham

2/5

Give Up

The Postal Service

2/5

Highway Prayers

Billy Strings

1/5

Revolution

Q65

2/5

The Shape Of Jazz To Come

Ornette Coleman

1/5

Great Big Sea

3/5

A.M.

Wilco

3/5

Brat

Charli xcx

3/5

A City Dressed In Dynamite

That Handsome Devil

4/5

Puzzle

Biffy Clyro

4/5

Fashion Nugget

CAKE

3/5

Erratic Cinematic

Gerry Cinnamon

4/5

The Lion's Roar

First Aid Kit

3/5

Maestro

Kaizers Orchestra

3/5

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Dear You

Jawbreaker

3/5

Slapstick

3/5

My Brain Hurts

Screeching Weasel

4/5

Under The Pink

Tori Amos

3/5

HELLYEAH

5/5

Of the 141 albums in this secondary list, this is definitely the BEST one I’ve heard so far 🤘🎸

Reading Writing And Arithmetic

The Sundays

3/5

Boys And Girls in America

The Hold Steady

4/5

Korn

4/5

"Awaken, My Love!"

Childish Gambino

3/5

My Morning Jacket

3/5

Watch Out!

Alexisonfire

3/5

Sound Awake

Karnivool

3/5

Jaco Pastorius

2/5

Demon Days

Gorillaz

3/5

Last Splash

The Breeders

3/5

Dogrel

Fontaines D.C.

4/5

Not to keen on the vocals but everything else was great 👍

From The Lions Mouth

The Sound

3/5

Stranger In Town

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

4/5

What a great voice he had/has. So full of feelings!

Romance

Fontaines D.C.

3/5

Get Rich Or Die Ryan

Spose

3/5

The General Electric

Shihad

4/5

Excitable Boy

Warren Zevon

3/5

Squeezing Out Sparks

Graham Parker

3/5

Alexisonfire

3/5

If they got rid of the screamy/shouty geezer with the sore throat this would be half decent!

Odyssey Number Five

Powderfinger

4/5

Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

M83

3/5

Are You Shpongled?

Shpongle

2/5

Look Sharp!

Joe Jackson

4/5

I’ve been a big fan since the start and think that he’s always been underrated. This isn’t his best album by a long way but it shows where he came from and is well worth four stars of anyone’s ears.

Savage Sinusoid

Igorrr

3/5

What an amazing mishmash of styles. I never knew what quite to expect next!

RENAISSANCE

Beyoncé

3/5

This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This!

Pop Will Eat Itself

4/5

Zach Bryan

3/5