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1980
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21
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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Slapstick
Slapstick
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5 | 2.92 | +2.08 |
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Chocolate Synthesizer
Boredoms
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4 | 2.05 | +1.95 |
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My Brain Hurts
Screeching Weasel
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5 | 3.08 | +1.92 |
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Young, Loud And Snotty
Dead Boys
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5 | 3.1 | +1.9 |
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Script Of The Bridge
The Chameleons
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5 | 3.16 | +1.84 |
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Milo Goes to College
Descendents
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5 | 3.16 | +1.84 |
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From The Lions Mouth
The Sound
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5 | 3.2 | +1.8 |
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Recipe for Hate
Bad Religion
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5 | 3.26 | +1.74 |
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Nail
Scraping Foetus off the Wheel
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4 | 2.43 | +1.57 |
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Metallic K.O.
The Stooges
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4 | 2.6 | +1.4 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Toxicity
System Of A Down
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1 | 3.62 | -2.62 |
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Origin of Symmetry
Muse
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1 | 3.61 | -2.61 |
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The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess
Chappell Roan
|
1 | 3.5 | -2.5 |
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Polygondwanaland
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
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1 | 3.43 | -2.43 |
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Lateralus
TOOL
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1 | 3.39 | -2.39 |
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Wet Leg
Wet Leg
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1 | 3.36 | -2.36 |
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Joy as an Act of Resistance
IDLES
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1 | 3.28 | -2.28 |
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Pulse
Pink Floyd
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1 | 3.27 | -2.27 |
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Hadestown
Anaïs Mitchell
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1 | 3.21 | -2.21 |
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Deadwing
Porcupine Tree
|
1 | 3.19 | -2.19 |
5-Star Albums (7)
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Descendents · 1 likes
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.
Screeching Weasel · 1 likes
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.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard · 1 likes
2/5
Shut the fuck up about this band.
Bob Mould · 1 likes
4/5
"I Hate Alternative Rock" Yeah bro, me too.
Tally Hall · 1 likes
2/5
I hate theater kids.
1-Star Albums (21)
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Primus
3/5
Crash Test Dummies
2/5
Sunny Day Real Estate
2/5
This turned out to be grungier than I expected. That is not a good thing.
Childish Gambino
3/5
Jack Johnson
3/5
Mustafa
2/5
Joan As Police Woman
1/5
Charli xcx
2/5
Bon Iver
2/5
Bob Mould
4/5
"I Hate Alternative Rock" Yeah bro, me too.
Protomartyr
3/5
Steven Wilson
2/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
Screaming Females
3/5
Madvillain
3/5
Titus Andronicus
3/5
Polvo
3/5
Status Quo
3/5
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.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
2/5
Shut the fuck up about this band.
HELLYEAH
1/5
Stromae
1/5
100 gecs
2/5
All of these songs feel longer than they really are.
Salif Keita
3/5
Wishbone Ash
3/5
Josh Ritter
3/5
Alex Cameron
3/5
The Postal Service
3/5
Marillion
2/5
Damien Rice
3/5
Emicida
3/5
Margot & The Nuclear So And So's
3/5
THE SPORTS
4/5
Type O Negative
3/5
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.
They Might Be Giants
2/5
Courteeners
3/5
The Marcus King Band
3/5
David Baerwald
2/5
Boards of Canada
3/5
The Upsetters
3/5
Chet Baker
2/5
Valerie June
3/5
Manchester Orchestra
2/5
Men I Trust
3/5
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.
Jóhann Jóhannsson
2/5
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.
Mogwai
3/5
Khruangbin
3/5
Arctic Monkeys
2/5
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...
The Weeknd
1/5
Snarky Puppy
3/5
Tally Hall
2/5
I hate theater kids.
Nightwish
2/5
Os Mundi
3/5
Tame Impala
3/5
Thee Oh Sees
3/5
Cardiacs
2/5
Jimmy Buffett
3/5
Neutral Milk Hotel
3/5
Gang of Youths
2/5
King Tubby
3/5
Garmarna
3/5
Dave Matthews Band
2/5
Death Cab for Cutie
2/5
Guy Clark
3/5
Teenage Fanclub
3/5
Roky Erickson
4/5
Lo Fidelity Allstars
3/5
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
3/5
Marillion
2/5
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.
The Tragically Hip
3/5
Debbie Gibson
3/5
GAS
3/5
Olivia Rodrigo
2/5
The Mountain Goats
3/5
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
3/5
Susanne Sundfør
3/5
Fontaines D.C.
3/5
Sports Team
3/5
Haley Heynderickx
3/5
Robyn Hitchcock
3/5
Avicii
2/5
The Decemberists
2/5
Avenged Sevenfold
2/5
Every bit the poppy mall metal I expected. It's just boring and cheesy.
Biffy Clyro
2/5
3/5
The Angelic Process
3/5
Pedro The Lion
3/5
Portishead
3/5
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.
Chloe x Halle
2/5
Phish
2/5
Transvision Vamp
3/5
Angelo De Augustine
3/5
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?
New Model Army
4/5
The Who
3/5
Mylène Farmer
2/5
Amon Düül II
3/5
Songs: Ohia
4/5
Cluster
3/5
Al Stewart
3/5
Lady Gaga
2/5
2/5
Backstreet Boys
2/5
John Coltrane
3/5
Jimmy Eat World
3/5
The B-52's
3/5
The Breeders
2/5
Tori Amos
3/5
Jellyfish
3/5
Amadou & Mariam
4/5
The Chameleons
5/5
Harry Styles
2/5
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.
Switchfoot
1/5
Seriously?
Savages
3/5
Oingo Boingo
4/5
System Of A Down
1/5
Sufjan Stevens
3/5
Gotcha!
1/5
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.
Ani DiFranco
3/5
3/5
Dream Theater
2/5
Karnivool
2/5
Metric
3/5
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
2/5
CAKE
2/5
Hikaru Utada
2/5
The Lumineers
2/5
Pearl Jam
2/5
The 1975
2/5
Ween
2/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
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.
Refused
3/5
Weezer
4/5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
2/5
The Dear Hunter
2/5
Anaïs Mitchell
1/5
Scraping Foetus off the Wheel
4/5
Kayo Dot
3/5
Everything Everything
3/5
Ozzy Osbourne
4/5
Boredoms
4/5
Built To Spill
4/5
Yellowcard
3/5
Stray From The Path
3/5
Robyn
3/5
Michael Hurley
3/5
The Alan Parsons Project
2/5
Crystal Castles
3/5
Yeasayer
2/5
DARKSIDE
2/5
Daft Punk
3/5
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.
Turnpike Troubadours
3/5
Denzel Curry
3/5
Mull Historical Society
2/5
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
2/5
Enter Shikari
2/5
Bruce Hornsby
2/5
The Groundhogs
3/5
Jaco Pastorius
3/5
Foxing
2/5
Baroness
2/5
Hombres G
3/5
This started off promising but kinda fell off by track 4.
Black Devil Disco Club
3/5
TOOL
2/5
You know it's not a good sign when the first 2-3 tracks are longer than some full albums.
The Notwist
3/5
Aesop Rock
4/5
Chucklehead
2/5
Martha
3/5
Eric B. & Rakim
3/5
Yoko Ono
3/5
The Jesus Lizard
4/5
2/5
Café Tacvba
3/5
BABYMETAL
2/5
Future Islands
3/5
Joe Jackson
3/5
Nic Jones
3/5
3/5
Bon Iver
3/5
Brand New
3/5
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.
Ornatos Violeta
3/5
Hamilton Leithauser
3/5
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
3/5
3/5
Blackalicious
3/5
The Church
4/5
Joe Cocker
2/5
Tom Misch
2/5
Garbage
2/5
There's already enough garbage on the original list.
Current 93
3/5
Ween
2/5
I didn't like the other Ween album on this list but the first track here gave me hope that this could be a solid, straightforward rock album. Unfortunately, the second track snatched that hope away immediately. And then it continued like that, a decent song followed by something boring or atrocious. I just can't do with this "look at me I'm so quirky" bullshit.
Slowdive
3/5
Espers
3/5
Roger Waters
2/5
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.
Deafheaven
3/5
Tosca
3/5
Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
3/5
Songs: Ohia
3/5
The Stooges
4/5
Psyche Origami
4/5
"Weird Al" Yankovic
3/5
of Montreal
4/5
Vampire Weekend
3/5
Powderfinger
3/5
The Beautiful South
2/5
That Handsome Devil
2/5
The Avett Brothers
2/5
The Sound
5/5
The first track had me worried with how synth-y it was, but it got better. I still prefer Jeopardy, but I enjoyed this.
Nujabes
3/5
BABYMETAL
2/5
Bruce Cockburn
3/5
Porter Robinson
2/5
Vampire Weekend
3/5
Kano
3/5
The Amazing Devil
1/5
Turnstile
2/5
Ugh, fake "hardcore." No thanks.
Daft Punk
1/5
Amália Rodrigues
3/5
Freestylers
3/5
Lady Gaga
2/5
Vince Guaraldi Trio
2/5
2/5
Wussy
3/5
R.E.M.
2/5
Danny Brown
3/5
Ian McDonald
2/5
Courtney Barnett
3/5
The Vaccines
3/5
Billy Strings
3/5
Deltron 3030
3/5
Getatchew Mekurya
4/5
ISIS
2/5
Faith No More
2/5
Helloween
2/5
Zero 7
2/5
Sufjan Stevens
2/5
TOOL
1/5
Frank Zappa
2/5
The Hold Steady
2/5
Q65
3/5
Quicksand
3/5
Great Big Sea
3/5
Wet Leg
1/5
Pink Floyd
1/5
Soul Coughing
2/5
Alexisonfire
2/5
Better than the other Alexisonfire album on the user list, at least. But I had to laugh at how melodramatic this was.
Carly Rae Jepsen
3/5
Extrechinato y Tu
3/5
Sparks
3/5
Porcupine Tree
2/5
Maldita Vecindad Y Los Hijos Del 5to. Patio
3/5
Slapstick
5/5
First album on the user list I've been excited for in a long time and it did not disappoint. Definitely gonna listen to this again.
Shpongle
2/5
I hate folk punk.
The Heads
3/5
Harmonium
1/5
Vampire Weekend
2/5
Third album by them on the user list. Come on. They're not good enough to warrant this many submissions.
The Tragically Hip
3/5
Porcupine Tree
1/5
The Burning Hell
2/5
Calibro 35
3/5
Björk
2/5
Lift To Experience
2/5
Paco de Lucía
3/5
The Ike Reilly Assassination
3/5
Low
3/5
Jon Batiste
2/5
Living Colour
2/5
Swans
3/5
311
2/5
Vulfpeck
2/5
Bo Burnham
1/5
David & The Citizens
2/5
Death
3/5
Koritni
3/5
Tyler, The Creator
2/5
Richard Dawson
2/5
The Posies
3/5
Bon Iver
2/5
The Weakerthans
3/5
Amyl and The Sniffers
2/5
This is boring and somehow fake sounding. It's not really punk, I mean, it has some of that influence but it's definitely more garage/pub rock leaning. The vocals are grating. And yeah, it bothers me how hard they're being pushed.
Chappell Roan
1/5
I couldn't make it through this one. The first couple of songs put me off right away with the boring, show sections that then go into this over the top mess of too much going on at once so that you can't really latch on to anything. But I guess the biggest problem is that it's not catchy at all. That's what pop is supposed to be, right? It's supposed to get stuck in your head. But not even an hour later I couldn't remember a single thing from this.
Ryan Adams
1/5
Put me to sleep.
My Morning Jacket
2/5
Dënver
3/5
Mac DeMarco
3/5
Daft Punk
3/5
Foo Fighters
2/5
Dead Boys
5/5
There's a lot better punk out there but this is pretty fun and the user list is weak.
Chuck Berry
4/5
Muse
1/5
Talk Talk
2/5
Auri
2/5
Modest Mouse
4/5
John Mayer
2/5
Chico Science
2/5
Talking Heads
2/5
I'm getting sick of all this Talking Heads bullshit. And these are all worse versions of the songs to boot.
The Tragically Hip
3/5
1/5
I hate everything about this album. The title is rage-inducing, "live laugh love" ass bullshit. They want to be "punk" but there's barely two songs on this album under 3 minutes. The songs are all plodding, low-energy slogs and a poor attempt at post-punk. The dumb, performative, sloganistic lyrics are annoying too, but at least they're ignorable for the most part. Unlike the singer's voice and talk-singing. Actually, going deeper into the album, I take that back. Samaritans and Television are so cringe I had to skip them. And Great sounds like a campaign song for a milquetoast political candidate. I guess the first half of the album benefited from me not paying a lot of attention to it. This sucks so much and I think they might be the most reddit band ever.