My User Albums Journey

User Albums Journey

Exploring beyond the book, one album at a time

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
My Brain Hurts Screeching Weasel	5	3.01	+1.99
Chocolate Synthesizer Boredoms	4	2.09	+1.91
Script Of The Bridge The Chameleons	5	3.15	+1.85
Milo Goes to College Descendents	5	3.18	+1.82
Recipe for Hate Bad Religion	5	3.24	+1.76
Nail Scraping Foetus off the Wheel	4	2.42	+1.58
Fly Yoko Ono	3	1.76	+1.24
Goat The Jesus Lizard	4	2.77	+1.23
Don't Throw Stones THE SPORTS	4	2.85	+1.15
Squeezing Out Sparks Graham Parker	4	2.87	+1.13

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Toxicity System Of A Down	1	3.62	-2.62
Polygondwanaland King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	1	3.42	-2.42
Hadestown Anaïs Mitchell	1	3.21	-2.21
Real Life Joan As Police Woman	1	3.01	-2.01
After Hours The Weeknd	1	2.98	-1.98
Racine carrée Stromae	1	2.94	-1.94
Vs. Pearl Jam	2	3.66	-1.66
The Beautiful Letdown Switchfoot	1	2.61	-1.61
Chet Chet Baker	2	3.51	-1.51
Gotcha! Gotcha! Gotcha! Gotcha!	1	2.5	-1.5

5-Star Albums (4)

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Bob Mould

4/5

"I Hate Alternative Rock" Yeah bro, me too.

1 likes

Nonagon Infinity

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

2/5

Shut the fuck up about this band.

1 likes

Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum

Tally Hall

2/5

I hate theater kids.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (9)

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Sailing The Seas Of Cheese

Primus

3/5

God Shuffled His Feet

Crash Test Dummies

2/5

Diary

Sunny Day Real Estate

2/5

This turned out to be grungier than I expected. That is not a good thing.

"Awaken, My Love!"

Childish Gambino

3/5

In Between Dreams

Jack Johnson

3/5

When Smoke Rises

Mustafa

2/5

Real Life

Joan As Police Woman

1/5

Brat

Charli xcx

2/5

22, A Million

Bon Iver

2/5

Bob Mould

4/5

"I Hate Alternative Rock" Yeah bro, me too.

Relatives in Descent

Protomartyr

3/5

Hand. Cannot. Erase.

Steven Wilson

2/5

Hammersmith Odeon, London '75

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

I Am

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Rose Mountain

Screaming Females

3/5

Madvillainy

Madvillain

3/5

The Monitor

Titus Andronicus

3/5

Cor-Crane Secret

Polvo

3/5

Piledriver

Status Quo

3/5

Watch Out!

Alexisonfire

2/5

Too anthemic, too melodic not in a good way, and even the parts that have a bit of a harder edge are boring.

Nonagon Infinity

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

2/5

Shut the fuck up about this band.

HELLYEAH

1/5

Racine carrée

Stromae

1/5

10,000 gecs

100 gecs

2/5

All of these songs feel longer than they really are.

Moffou

Salif Keita

3/5

Argus

Wishbone Ash

3/5

The Animal Years

Josh Ritter

3/5

Forced Witness

Alex Cameron

3/5

Give Up

The Postal Service

3/5

Misplaced Childhood

Marillion

2/5

Damien Rice

3/5

AmarElo

Emicida

3/5

Not Animal

Margot & The Nuclear So And So's

3/5

Don't Throw Stones

THE SPORTS

4/5

Bloody Kisses

Type O Negative

3/5

Enema Of The State

blink-182

4/5

I'm not a blink-182 fan or anything, but I think their earlier stuff is pretty good. This album is kinda where they started to go downhill for me. It till has some great songs like Dysentery Gary, but also some absolute cringe like Adam's Song. Still, compared to most of these user-submitted albums (and a lot of the original list, really), I enjoyed this more.

Join Us

They Might Be Giants

2/5

St. Jude

Courteeners

3/5

Carolina Confessions

The Marcus King Band

3/5

Triage

David Baerwald

2/5

Geogaddi

Boards of Canada

3/5

Super Ape

The Upsetters

3/5

Chet

Chet Baker

2/5

Pushin' Against a Stone

Valerie June

3/5

A Black Mile To The Surface

Manchester Orchestra

2/5

Oncle Jazz

Men I Trust

3/5

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

2/5

An album that's popular among people who let others decide their taste in music. For me it just faded into the background, and ignoring it was much more enjoyable than paying attention.

Englabörn

Jóhann Jóhannsson

2/5

Squeezing Out Sparks

Graham Parker

4/5

Some songs, especially the slower ones, bored me a little, but the rest was pretty fun. Catchy. I didn't mind this one at all. 3.5, rounded up.

Young Team

Mogwai

3/5

The Universe Smiles Upon You

Khruangbin

3/5

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

Arctic Monkeys

2/5

Blink-182

blink-182

3/5

There's nothing worse than when a pop punk band abandons pop punk in an attempt to become "serious". Blink-182's early stuff can be pretty fun and catchy. This is just boring. I just gave a much worse album a 2, though, so...

After Hours

The Weeknd

1/5

We Like It Here

Snarky Puppy

3/5

Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum

Tally Hall

2/5

I hate theater kids.

Once

Nightwish

2/5

Latin Mass

Os Mundi

3/5

Currents

Tame Impala

3/5

Live in San Francisco

Thee Oh Sees

3/5

Sing To God

Cardiacs

2/5

A1A

Jimmy Buffett

3/5

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Neutral Milk Hotel

3/5

Go Farther In Lightness

Gang of Youths

2/5

King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown

King Tubby

3/5

Vedergällningen

Garmarna

3/5

Before These Crowded Streets

Dave Matthews Band

2/5

Transatlanticism

Death Cab for Cutie

2/5

Old No. 1

Guy Clark

3/5

Grand Prix

Teenage Fanclub

3/5

The Evil One

Roky Erickson

4/5

How to Operate With a Blown Mind

Lo Fidelity Allstars

3/5

Stranger In Town

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

3/5

Afraid Of Sunlight

Marillion

2/5

WORRY

Jeff Rosenstock

2/5

Reddit and RYM love this guy so I'm already predisposed to hate him. But he certainly isn't doing himself any favors here. There's way too many overblown, overdramatic, forced anthemic moments, and it's not particularly fun or catchy otherwise. This is one of the top rated "pop punk" albums on RYM (#2 as I'm writing this), even though, like most albums on that chart, it has very little to do with actual pop punk. No memorable hooks or melodies, little energy, too slow and self-serious, with too much forced emotion and melodrama. This is just boring indie rock with shouty vocals and I hate that shit.

Phantom Power

The Tragically Hip

3/5

Out of the Blue

Debbie Gibson

3/5

Pop

GAS

3/5

GUTS

Olivia Rodrigo

2/5

All Hail West Texas

The Mountain Goats

3/5

Whipped Cream & Other Delights

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

3/5

Music For People In Trouble

Susanne Sundfør

3/5

Romance

Fontaines D.C.

3/5

Deep Down Happy

Sports Team

3/5

I Need to Start a Garden

Haley Heynderickx

3/5

Eye

Robyn Hitchcock

3/5

Stories

Avicii

2/5

The Hazards of Love

The Decemberists

2/5

City Of Evil

Avenged Sevenfold

2/5

Every bit the poppy mall metal I expected. It's just boring and cheesy.

Puzzle

Biffy Clyro

2/5

Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides

SOPHIE

3/5

Weighing Souls With Sand

The Angelic Process

3/5

Control

Pedro The Lion

3/5

Portishead

3/5

The Black Parade

My Chemical Romance

2/5

When I was in middle school, if you were a loser who didn't like radio pop/rap but was too wimpy to listen to actually out-there music, you either listened to nu metal, or this. I cringe when I look back on my nu metal phase, but I'm glad I at least wasn't into this. I can't stand this overdramatic theater kid bullshit. Rock operas in general were one of the worst things to ever happen to the history of music. And it's even worse when they're made by bands who make music for teenage girls with a persecution complex. I hate the forced over the top dramatics, the attempts to be anthemic. The melodrama. I know I keep saying this but way too many albums on this user list are so full of these overblown theatrics. Everything about it is just so fake. I also hate that people call this "pop punk" when it's anything but. Not even remotely punk and not even remotely fun, or catchy. It takes itself way too seriously. The fact that this album (and MCR in general) has been rehabilitated in the eyes of the public is a travesty. Let's just admit it's pathetic bullshit for teenage girls and nothing more.

Ungodly Hour

Chloe x Halle

2/5

A Live One

Phish

2/5

Pop Art

Transvision Vamp

3/5

Tomb

Angelo De Augustine

3/5

Songs Of A Lost World

The Cure

3/5

I didn't mind the Cure albums on the original list, but did I really need to listen to a mediocre late career album?

Thunder And Consolation

New Model Army

4/5

Quadrophenia

The Who

3/5

L'autre...

Mylène Farmer

2/5

Yeti

Amon Düül II

3/5

The Lioness

Songs: Ohia

4/5

Zuckerzeit

Cluster

3/5

Year of the Cat

Al Stewart

3/5

The Fame

Lady Gaga

2/5

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

Big Thief

2/5

Millennium

Backstreet Boys

2/5

John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman

John Coltrane

3/5

Bleed American

Jimmy Eat World

3/5

Wild Planet

The B-52's

3/5

Last Splash

The Breeders

2/5

Under The Pink

Tori Amos

3/5

Spilt Milk

Jellyfish

3/5

Dimanche à Bamako

Amadou & Mariam

4/5

Script Of The Bridge

The Chameleons

5/5

Fine Line

Harry Styles

2/5

Get Fucked

The Chats

2/5

This is just so boring. I'm not one to complain about bands sounding like something that's been done before at all, but they have to write good songs. And The Chats clearly can't write good songs. They're not as funny as they think they are either. So many people on the internet act like this is the only good newer punk band to exist, and all for a band that's just so nothing.

The Beautiful Letdown

Switchfoot

1/5

Seriously?

Silence Yourself

Savages

3/5

Dead Man's Party

Oingo Boingo

4/5

Toxicity

System Of A Down

1/5

A Beginner's Mind

Sufjan Stevens

3/5

Gotcha! Gotcha! Gotcha!

Gotcha!

1/5

Recipe for Hate

Bad Religion

5/5

I liked Bad Religion a lot more when I was younger, at this point I pretty much only listen to their 80s stuff (no, not Into the Unknown). That being said, this album is still more enjoyable than most user submissions, and Bad Religion absolutely deserves to be on the list. I just think No Control or Suffer would've been a better choice.

Dilate

Ani DiFranco

3/5

Daisies Of The Galaxy

Eels

3/5

Images and Words

Dream Theater

2/5

Sound Awake

Karnivool

2/5

Fantasies

Metric

3/5

The Great Outdoors Jam

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong

2/5

Fashion Nugget

CAKE

2/5

Ultra Blue

Hikaru Utada

2/5

Cleopatra

The Lumineers

2/5

Vs.

Pearl Jam

2/5

Being Funny In A Foreign Language

The 1975

2/5

Chocolate & Cheese

Ween

2/5

The Grass Is Blue

Dolly Parton

3/5

Y Ahora Qué?

Reincidentes

3/5

I'm conflicted on this one. It has its moments, but ultimately not enough of those 2 minute songs. It just doesn't grab me enough. Too rock leaning for my taste. When it comes to Spanish punk, I prefer Depressing Claim.

The Shape Of Punk To Come

Refused

3/5

Weezer

4/5

F♯ A♯ ∞

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

2/5

Act IV: Rebirth In Reprise

The Dear Hunter

2/5

Hadestown

Anaïs Mitchell

1/5

Nail

Scraping Foetus off the Wheel

4/5

Choirs Of The Eye

Kayo Dot

3/5

Get To Heaven

Everything Everything

3/5

Blizzard Of Ozz

Ozzy Osbourne

4/5

Chocolate Synthesizer

Boredoms

4/5

Keep It like a Secret

Built To Spill

4/5

Ocean Avenue

Yellowcard

3/5

Only Death is Real

Stray From The Path

3/5

Body Talk

Robyn

3/5

Ida Con Snock

Michael Hurley

3/5

Tales Of Mystery And Imagination

The Alan Parsons Project

2/5

Crystal Castles

3/5

All Hour Cymbals

Yeasayer

2/5

Psychic

DARKSIDE

2/5

Alive 2007

Daft Punk

3/5

Milo Goes to College

Descendents

5/5

I considered submitting this myself, so I'm glad to see someone else did. Great album and highly influential, and a grievous omission from the original list.

Diamonds & Gasoline

Turnpike Troubadours

3/5

Melt My Eyez See Your Future

Denzel Curry

3/5

Loss

Mull Historical Society

2/5

Tomorrow Belongs To Me

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

2/5

Take to the Skies

Enter Shikari

2/5

Harbor Lights

Bruce Hornsby

2/5

Thank Christ for the Bomb

The Groundhogs

3/5

Jaco Pastorius

3/5

Nearer My God

Foxing

2/5

Yellow & Green

Baroness

2/5

La cagaste... Burt Lancaster

Hombres G

3/5

This started off promising but kinda fell off by track 4.

Black Devil Disco Club

3/5

10,000 Days

TOOL

2/5

You know it's not a good sign when the first 2-3 tracks are longer than some full albums.

Neon Golden

The Notwist

3/5

The Impossible Kid

Aesop Rock

4/5

Fuzz

Chucklehead

2/5

Please Don't Take Me Back

Martha

3/5

Paid In Full

Eric B. & Rakim

3/5

Fly

Yoko Ono

3/5

Goat

The Jesus Lizard

4/5

Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

M83

2/5

Café Tacvba

3/5

METAL FORTH

BABYMETAL

2/5

Singles

Future Islands

3/5

Look Sharp!

Joe Jackson

3/5

Penguin Eggs

Nic Jones

3/5

Things We Lost In The Fire

Low

3/5

For Emma, Forever Ago

Bon Iver

3/5

The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me

Brand New

3/5

Polygondwanaland

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

1/5

I hate this band. Cringe name, music is nothing special (and this one is downright bad), insufferable fans. If I never hear their name again it will be too soon.

O Monstro Precisa De Amigos

Ornatos Violeta

3/5

I Had a Dream That You Were Mine

Hamilton Leithauser

3/5

10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads

Kenny Wayne Shepherd

3/5

You'd Prefer an Astronaut

Hum

3/5

Nia

Blackalicious

3/5

The Hypnogogue

The Church

4/5

Mad Dogs & Englishmen

Joe Cocker

2/5

Geography

Tom Misch

2/5

Version 2.0

Garbage

2/5

There's already enough garbage on the original list.

All the Pretty Little Horses

Current 93

3/5

My Brain Hurts

Screeching Weasel

5/5

This is my submission. My thinking is that the user albums are a place to fill the gaps in the original list, and pop punk is one of the genres that really isn't that well represented. Okay, there's a decent number of 70s stuff (though I doubt it was included as a deliberate attempt to represent pop punk), but after that, there's Dookie, and that's it? I mean, that's probably as much as you can expect from a list like this, pop punk is certainly not a genre the creators consider worthy of it. But I like pop punk and I want to represent it better. And what better album to choose for that than the one that pretty much set the blueprint for all (real) pop punk that came after it? I know that term has been used to mean 10 different things that have nothing to do with each other, but this is the true pop punk sound. To the point, high energy, and hooks after hooks after hooks. Those leads are everywhere for a reason. Apart from its massive influence, My Brain Hurts is also the album that got me into pop punk. Sure, I had heard the Ramones and (early) Green Day before, and they're great, but it was this album that made me think, yes, this is it. This is what I wanna listen to for the rest of my life. This made me dive in and discover hundreds of bands this sound inspired, or that led up to it.