My User Albums Journey

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User Albums Journey

Exploring beyond the book, one album at a time

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2000s

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Electronica

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Albums

You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Chocolate & Cheese Ween	5	3.12	+1.88
Englabörn Jóhann Jóhannsson	5	3.21	+1.79
Gemstones Adam Green	4	2.56	+1.44
Afraid Of Sunlight Marillion	4	2.59	+1.41
L'autre... Mylène Farmer	4	2.72	+1.28
A City Dressed In Dynamite That Handsome Devil	4	2.77	+1.23
Piledriver Status Quo	4	2.81	+1.19
Zuckerzeit Cluster	4	2.88	+1.12
One Life Malibu	4	2.9	+1.1
Set Yourself On Fire Stars	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Charlie Brown Christmas Vince Guaraldi Trio	1	3.9	-2.9
John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman John Coltrane	1	3.51	-2.51
Madvillainy Madvillain	1	3.39	-2.39
Ænima TOOL	1	3.37	-2.37
Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino Arctic Monkeys	1	3.03	-2.03
Symbolic Death	1	2.74	-1.74
AmarElo Emicida	1	2.73	-1.73
Latin Mass Os Mundi	1	2.68	-1.68
City Of Evil Avenged Sevenfold	1	2.63	-1.63
Get Rich Or Die Ryan Spose	1	2.62	-1.62

5-Star Albums (2)

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Hadestown

Anaïs Mitchell

4/5

Enjoyed that, thank you

2 likes

Things We Lost In The Fire

Low

4/5

Absolutely loved this, a very strong 4

1 likes

1-Star Albums (10)

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Once

Nightwish

3/5

Halfway through I was thinking this is a deeply inauspicious start to the User Albums section but ''Ghost Love Score came to the rescue.

Latin Mass

Os Mundi

1/5

Boys And Girls in America

The Hold Steady

3/5

I Need to Start a Garden

Haley Heynderickx

4/5

4 stars might be a touch generous but I enjoyed that.

Sublime

2/5

Hadestown

Anaïs Mitchell

4/5

Enjoyed that, thank you

Discosis

Bran Van 3000

2/5

Set Yourself On Fire

Stars

4/5

Get Rich Or Die Ryan

Spose

1/5

Dreading this & I've put it off for several days. It's as bad as everyone says & goes on forever.

Ænima

TOOL

1/5

Was this submitted as a piss take? As if 90+ minutes of Spose wasn't terrible enough this follows it & is another of level of bad altogether.

Thunder And Consolation

New Model Army

2/5

Chocolate & Cheese

Ween

5/5

Totally brilliant I'm a new weenie...!! How have I never heard of these before & how did they not make the list?

Bob Mould

2/5

City Of Evil

Avenged Sevenfold

1/5

The first track of this shite was enough to convince me to play something worth listening to while I was in the car & relegate the remaining garbage on this album (i.e. all of it) to background noise later in the day when I had a garden bench to sand down & repaint.

Currents

Tame Impala

3/5

Operation Ivy

2/5

The Black Parade

My Chemical Romance

2/5

Loss

Mull Historical Society

3/5

Austin Powers looms large over this one but it was a very pleasant listen. Was that really a 57 minute Cryptoscam video in the middle of this or did I just get unlucky with youTube's adserver.

Spirit of Eden

Talk Talk

4/5

Goat

The Jesus Lizard

2/5

Symbolic

Death

1/5

Great music to work to. So long as your work involves a large amount of intrusive background noise which drowns out this steaming pile of doghit.

Argus

Wishbone Ash

4/5

Here's a band & album that have been off my radar for many a year. Saw them absolutely smack a festival at Ally Pally in 1973 when I was 17. Andy Powell's rather weak soprano vocals were always a negative but the album's held up well otherwise. Thanks for reviving some long dormant memories

Quadrophenia

The Who

3/5

Nuyorican Soul

2/5

Not as good as I was expecting it to be, but given other comments maybe it merits a second listen.

The Shape Of Jazz To Come

Ornette Coleman

2/5

Great musicianship but jazz isn't my bag I'm afraid.

Transatlanticism

Death Cab for Cutie

4/5

Look Sharp!

Joe Jackson

4/5

Frengers: Not Quite Friends But Not Quite Strangers

Mew

4/5

Rose Mountain

Screaming Females

3/5

Gemstones

Adam Green

4/5

I get how the playfulness might grate with some but I enjoyed a lot of this. 4 stars might be generous, but it's based on a feeling it'll improve on another listen.

Dimanche à Bamako

Amadou & Mariam

4/5

You'd Prefer an Astronaut

Hum

3/5

The Beautiful Letdown

Switchfoot

2/5

One of those choices that leaves you wondering which one of the band is a mate.

Songs Of A Lost World

The Cure

3/5

Things We Lost In The Fire

Low

4/5

Absolutely loved this, a very strong 4

Nonagon Infinity

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

3/5

Really not my genre so I enjoyed that a lot more than I expected. Thank you.

Madvillainy

Madvillain

1/5

Harbor Lights

Bruce Hornsby

2/5

Wild Planet

The B-52's

3/5

Black Devil Disco Club

4/5

The first track's an absolute banger & whilst the rest of the album doesn't quite touch those heights this is still an accomplished & entertaining listen. Thank you.

AmarElo

Emicida

1/5

Given that so much of it's lyrical content is vile homophobic & misogynistic crap is a rap album improved by not understanding what's being said? Whatever the answer, this is truly terrible.

"Weird Al" Yankovic

2/5

I so much wanted to like this but it's not my humour I'm afraid & it doesn't translate very well outside the US

Geography

Tom Misch

3/5

One Life

Malibu

4/5

Englabörn

Jóhann Jóhannsson

5/5

Spilt Milk

Jellyfish

2/5

The list only had about 250 'American rock' groups playing the same indistinguishable stuff so we definitely needed another one.....

L'autre...

Mylène Farmer

4/5

Clarity

Jimmy Eat World

2/5

The art of Amalia Rodrigues

Amália Rodrigues

4/5

What a lovely voice would have been so nice to have seen her in concert.

Don't Throw Stones

THE SPORTS

2/5

Piledriver

Status Quo

4/5

It's The Quo, love it! Seriously, how can the original list have nothing of theirs but 4 albums of risible shite from the Beastie Boys & at least 100 'American rock' albums by groups who aren't fit to tune The Quo's guitars.

Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?

of Montreal

4/5

'The Past is a Grotesque Animal' Immense. Thank you

"Awaken, My Love!"

Childish Gambino

2/5

Save Rock And Roll

Fall Out Boy

2/5

A City Dressed In Dynamite

That Handsome Devil

4/5

Afraid Of Sunlight

Marillion

4/5

I band I knew of but hadn't really heard anything by. The little I knew wasn't very positive so I put off listening to this & did so with very low expectations. Surprisingly I enjoyed this way more than I expected,

O Monstro Precisa De Amigos

Ornatos Violeta

2/5

John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman

John Coltrane

1/5

Zuckerzeit

Cluster

4/5

You & I

Rita Ora

2/5

L'Heptade

Harmonium

2/5

Human Racing

Nik Kershaw

2/5

Oh dear!! Everything bad about the 80's, illustrated by an unimaginably bad video. 2 is being very generous.

Pop Art

Transvision Vamp

3/5

Once Upon a Rhyme

David Allan Coe

3/5

Act IV: Rebirth In Reprise

The Dear Hunter

3/5

Pleasant enough but it feels like stuff Genesis did better & 40 years earlier.

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

Arctic Monkeys

1/5

Oh dear. I know he's from Sheffield &, even better, a Wednesdayite, but my goodness this is truly awful.

Nail

Scraping Foetus off the Wheel

3/5

That was certainly a mixed bag, but it had it's moments.

Kick

INXS

3/5

Not my bag apart from the title track (which lifts this to a generous 3) but I really can't understand how this wasn't on The List given it's popularity & Hutchence's presence & impact.

We Like It Here

Snarky Puppy

3/5

Broken Social Scene

3/5

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Vince Guaraldi Trio

1/5

The worst kind of American cheese..... ....apart maybe from that disgusting stuff that comes in spray cans.

Pulse

Pink Floyd

2/5

There's no shortage of absolute bangers here but I'm afraid this just reinforces a long-held view that most live albums are neither fish nor fowl. They'll never match the audio quality of a studio album but very rarely capture the joy of being at a live concert.