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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Gordon Barenaked Ladies	5	2.99	+2.01
Slapstick Slapstick	5	3.02	+1.98
GLOW ON Turnstile	5	3.44	+1.56
Repetition Unwound	4	2.84	+1.16
Squeezing Out Sparks Graham Parker	4	2.85	+1.15
St. Jude Courteeners	4	2.96	+1.04

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
LUX ROSALÍA	1	3.51	-2.51
A Day At The Races Queen	2	3.82	-1.82
Once Nightwish	1	2.77	-1.77
L'autre... Mylène Farmer	1	2.72	-1.72
Tragic Kingdom No Doubt	2	3.65	-1.65
City Of Evil Avenged Sevenfold	1	2.64	-1.64
The Black Parade My Chemical Romance	2	3.49	-1.49
Blade Runner Vangelis	2	3.44	-1.44
Time's Up Living Colour	2	3.21	-1.21
10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads Kenny Wayne Shepherd	2	3.16	-1.16

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GLOW ON

Turnstile · 1 likes

5/5

Such an amazing album. This is the album that rekindled my enjoyment of hard music. Tunes with energy and an ear for melody...such a great combo. Also an A++ live show. Look forward to seeing what they do in the future! 5/5

Look Sharp!

Joe Jackson · 1 likes

4/5

Love the vibe and attitude of the album. Seems like a fun band with catching songs. 3.5/5

1-Star Albums (4)

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Time's Up

Living Colour

2/5

Living Colour just doesn't do it for me. It sounds like the most generic 80's rock with absolutely nothing interesting about it. 1.5/5

Afrociberdelia

Chico Science

2/5

I suppose it is ok. Honestly the main attraction is that it isn't english and has a great Latin feel...not sure I would even entertain otherwise. 2/5

Savage Sinusoid

Igorrr

2/5

Better than I anticipated, especially when it started out terribly. Had some interesting moments...Art Metal. 2/5

An Empty Bliss Beyond This World

The Caretaker

3/5

Weird album...did a great job of achieving the mission statement. Haunting and surreal. Good ambient/background music. 3.5/5

The Black Parade

My Chemical Romance

2/5

Super overrated. Have always felt this could be in my wheelhouse, but may is it boring. 1.5/5

How To Be A Human Being

Glass Animals

3/5

Not nearly as good as the debut, the album still has some interesting moment. The production and style is uniquely Glass Animals. 3.5/5

City Of Evil

Avenged Sevenfold

1/5

I suppose it is better than most metal since it has a more melodic element, but still just god awful. 1/5

L'autre...

Mylène Farmer

1/5

Terrible. Europop but even worse. 1/5

Comfort To Me

Amyl and The Sniffers

4/5

Great pub rock. Really fun. I am sure it is amazing live. 4.5/5

Rêver mieux

Daniel Bélanger

2/5

Meh...whole lot of meh in this one. 2/5

Once

Nightwish

1/5

Riddle: when does an hour seem infinitely longer than an hour. A: when you have to listen to Nightwish. 1/5

John Dawson Winter III

Johnny Winter

2/5

Ok I suppose. If your into sterile unremarkable 70s rock. 2/5

GLOW ON

Turnstile

5/5

Version 2.0

Garbage

4/5

Dug it far more than anticipated. 4/5

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Vince Guaraldi Trio

4/5

Classic. Better than I anticipated 4/5

Stage Four

Touché Amoré

3/5

Intense. But a decent listen. 3.5/5

God Shuffled His Feet

Crash Test Dummies

2/5

Extremely Canadian. I think that says it all. That isn’t pejorative either. 2.5/5

St. Jude

Courteeners

4/5

Pretty solid for one I had never heard of. Started off a lot stronger than the tail end. 3.5/5

10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads

Kenny Wayne Shepherd

2/5

I imagine this would be pretty decent if you're into blues. Big confession time...I just don't understand the allure of blues. Every song sounds the same to me and even that sound is just mediocre. 2/5

Squeezing Out Sparks

Graham Parker

4/5

This one really surprised me. This is everything I had wanted Elvis Costello to be over the (seemingly) countless albums on the original list. This was fun, catchy and engaging. 4.5/5

Chet

Chet Baker

4/5

Very easy listening jazz, but interesting enough that it doesn't sound like elevator music. I can understand why this one should have been on the list. 4/5

Cold Fact

Rodríguez

3/5

Another one I had never had any exposure to. It sounds very off its era, and that isn't a bad thing. 3/5

Zuckerzeit

Cluster

3/5

Very similar to other Krautrock on the official list. Not sure it does much for me than any Kraftwerk album, but still a worthwhile listen. 3/5

The Animal Years

Josh Ritter

2/5

This is one that I have had exposure to over the years, but never really dove into it. I found it better than I remembered from early listens, but still nothing that is lasting or impactful. 2/5

A Day At The Races

Queen

2/5

I know it's Queen...and Queen is great....but this album is not great. I can't imagine what it would be like to be a Queen head in the mid 70s and be sorrily disappointed in this one after the Night at the Opera Masterpiece. 2.5/5

We Like It Here

Snarky Puppy

3/5

Decent, although I scratch my itch in this type of music through Go Go Penguin (or even BADBADNOTGOOD). Not unhappy I listened to it. 3/5

Repetition

Unwound

4/5

Pretty awesome. Have been enjoying harder music again lately and this fit the bill. 4/5

Songs Of A Lost World

The Cure

4/5

Not the most exceptional Cure album (that is an extremely high bar) it is still pretty amazing for such a late period album. 4/5

Gordon

Barenaked Ladies

5/5

My previous experiences with BNL mostly had to do with the live Rock Spectacle album. While a lot of those songs are present on this album, for whatever reason I think they pop more in the live album. That being said, the songcraft and whimsicalness of this album is top notch, and I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the complete package. 4.5/5

LUX

ROSALÍA

1/5

I just don't get it. I know this was one of the most critically heralded albums of 2025, but it was just so BORING. I realize I'm not a poptimist, but nothing about this was even catchy or interesting. 1/5

Chocolate & Cheese

Ween

3/5

Ween...freaking weirdos. 3/5

Look Sharp!

Joe Jackson

4/5

Love the vibe and attitude of the album. Seems like a fun band with catching songs. 3.5/5

Fully Completely

The Tragically Hip

3/5

Alas...yet again foiled by the Hip. Maybe it is my lack of Canadian DNA, but everything about this band just screams average to me. 3/5

Tragic Kingdom

No Doubt

2/5

Didn't like it in 1995, don't like it now. Definitely held back by oversaturation. I do have to admit the music is well composed, but I'm just not a pop bro. 2/5

All the Pretty Little Horses

Current 93

3/5

Not an easy listen, but I found myself enjoying it. The music almost became meditative. 2.5/5

Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?

of Montreal

4/5

This was one of the only aughts Pitchfork darlings that I never really got into at the time. Shame on me. I must not have given a serious enough listen because this one is pretty great. 4/5

Slapstick

5/5

Man...this fits exactly into what I would describe as "mehester"core circa 1998. As someone who tried to push his high school band in a ska-punk direction (and is from ~ 2 hrs away from Chicago) it is shocking to me I have never heard of Slapstick before today. Great fun tunes. Shame they broke up before really getting started. 4.5/5

Goat

The Jesus Lizard

2/5

Expected TJL to be a little more unlistenable than it ended up being. It wasn't bad, but also nothing I would return to. 2/5

Blade Runner

Vangelis

2/5

It is atmospheric and moody? Is it anything remarkable in either of those characteristics...no. Great movie, good music, boring stand alone listen. 1.5/5

Barton Hollow

The Civil Wars

2/5

Felt the same way about this one as I did back in 2011...snoozefest. The songs are ok for what they are but it is certainly nothing special. 1.5/5

Are You Shpongled?

Shpongle

3/5

I was completed Shpongled. Honestly this is the type of album I enjoy on this list...one I had never been exposed to in the past that opens me up to new types of music. 3/5

Shack-man

Medeski, Martin & Wood

2/5

I wouldn't ever choose to listen to a jazz fusion (rates below jam bands in my book) but this isn't unlistenable. 2/5

Psychic

DARKSIDE

3/5

DARKSIDE is one of those elusive projects...I always really want to love it but it never quite gets above a "huh interesting" for me. 3/5