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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Time Out Of Mind Bob Dylan	5	3.21	+1.79
Clandestino Manu Chao	5	3.22	+1.78
Sweet Baby James James Taylor	5	3.24	+1.76
Sea Change Beck	5	3.33	+1.67
xx The xx	5	3.36	+1.64
Five Leaves Left Nick Drake	5	3.46	+1.54
Power In Numbers Jurassic 5	5	3.48	+1.52
The Atomic Mr Basie Count Basie & His Orchestra	5	3.5	+1.5
Rising Above Bedlam Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart	4	2.61	+1.39
Back to Mystery City Hanoi Rocks	4	2.68	+1.32

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Catch A Fire Bob Marley & The Wailers	1	3.63	-2.63
Either Or Elliott Smith	1	3.39	-2.39
Fun House The Stooges	1	3.28	-2.28
Closer Joy Division	1	3.22	-2.22
The Idiot Iggy Pop	1	3.21	-2.21
Dig Your Own Hole The Chemical Brothers	1	3.11	-2.11
Kind Of Blue Miles Davis	2	4.05	-2.05
The Who Sell Out The Who	1	3	-2
Heavy Weather Weather Report	1	2.98	-1.98
Signing Off UB40	1	2.97	-1.97

5-Star Albums (15)

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The Who Sell Out

The Who · 16 likes

1/5

Fucking stupid. Seriously. What the fuck.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka · 6 likes

5/5

What a surprising musical journey. Beautiful vocals and grandiose music pieces.

Sea Change

Beck · 2 likes

5/5

Fantastic!

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren · 1 likes

2/5

Almost feels like a parody of international radio. This album is like listening to GTA World Radio where the DJ talks over the entire song with nonsensical hype. I like the world music itself, but I'm not sure how to listen to this. Messes with my ADHD.

Play

Moby · 1 likes

2/5

Transformative sampling essentially started here and in this time. But it's difficult to go back and listen to, even through rose colored glasses.

1-Star Albums (18)

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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Unique blending of jazz and hip hop. Easy to listen to in the background. Beautiful.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

2/5

David Byrne is a terrible singer. The only redeeming quality I found here is that each song has a clear theme to it, but musically and lyrically. It's a clever sound.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

4/5

The xx

5/5

Beautiful

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

2/5

You know that time when Funhaus played as a German boy band? Imagine that boy band were actually an industrial band. The lead singer is Animal from the Muppets. I do not like this album at all and I fail to see how it's important or significant in any way.

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

4/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

5/5

What a surprising musical journey. Beautiful vocals and grandiose music pieces.

The Real Thing

Faith No More

2/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

5/5

Modern throwback hip-hop.

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

1/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

2/5

This album was fine. It was Sinatra, but it's not the 'sound' that I think of when I think of Frank. In my opinion it feels like Sinatra struggled through the concept of the album.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Origins of the 'indie' sound perhaps? Reminicent of The Beatles.

Ingenue

k.d. lang

1/5

Not for me. I can't find any significance in this album whatsoever. There's nothing memorable here for me, even in the slightest, and I can't even suggest it's a good album. Perhaps it's just a snapshot of a weird moment and style in musical history.

Closer

Joy Division

1/5

This is awful. Truly.

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

4/5

Gloriously simple old country.

Black Monk Time

The Monks

1/5

While this album was likely culturally relevant back in the 60's, it aged terribly. There's hints of Beatles influence but feels like it's just noise created to stand out in a crowd of other anti-war Vietnam songs.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

2/5

Bowie ain't for me. I recognize the contribution to pop music, but not for me.

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

3/5

Jazz I think? It was all over stylistically.

Fragile

Yes

2/5

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

4/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

Perhaps a little too metaphor driven, but a masterpiece nonetheless. I will suggest that it's a pretty standard formula of "angry verse, crunchy guitar, angry verse, witty chorus, squeely guitar, crunchy guitar angry verse, backed with aggressive bass and drum." I love this album, and it defined a genre, even if the formula exhausted itself. Callouts to Orion, Welcome Home, and Battery.

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

4/5

It's easy to see the artists that were influenced by this sound over the years.

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

2/5

Signing Off

UB40

1/5

Every song sounds 'the same'.

Another Green World

Brian Eno

2/5

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

4/5

Blur

4/5

Street Life

The Crusaders

4/5

Sea Change

Beck

5/5

Fantastic!

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

1/5

Fun House

The Stooges

1/5

Terrible. Just awful.

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

3/5

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

3/5

Antony's vibrato is probably the worst part of this experience. A very beautiful album, but the vocal styling is what ruins it for me.

NEU! 75

Neu!

4/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

2/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

2/5

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

2/5

Doolittle

Pixies

3/5

Love/Hate relationship with this one. So much musical potential then they start screaming and beating on their instruments. Poignant lyrically, with a lot of angst and political strife.

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

2/5

No.

Common

4/5

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

2/5

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

2/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

1/5

Terrible.

In It For The Money

Supergrass

3/5

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

4/5

Risque

CHIC

3/5

Nowhere

Ride

2/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

3/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

Whatever

Aimee Mann

2/5

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

1/5

Noise.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

3/5

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

1/5

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

4/5

The Who Sell Out

The Who

1/5

Fucking stupid. Seriously. What the fuck.

Kid A

Radiohead

2/5

I'm not high enough for this.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Apparently I like Willie Nelson.

Protection

Massive Attack

3/5

Smooth 90's Nu Jazz.

Homework

Daft Punk

3/5

I needed a good reason to relisten to this album. Then I listened to it and remembered why I hadn't listened to it in so long. Droning loops no longer hold up in modern music, but it's undeniable how influential this album has been on modern day music.

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

3/5

I don't love lo-fi garage recordings, but this was certainly a wild sound.

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

5/5

The Visitors

ABBA

4/5

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

2/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

2/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

Boston

3/5

I used to work in a place that had a classic rock radio station on all day, every day. I didn't realize that most of that radio station's rotation came from this single album. I don't ever want to hear any of these songs ever again.

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

2/5

B-52's

The B-52's

3/5

This was a strange trip. Makes me wonder how they ever found the success they did.

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

1/5

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

2112

Rush

3/5

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

3/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

2/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

One great song does not equate a great album.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

4/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

2/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

2/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

3/5

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

1/5

Completely and totally unremarkable and forgettable. Office pop.

John Prine

3/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

The Doors

2/5

Shut up. JFC.

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

3/5

Never heard of this artist. Sounds like a mash up of every other female 80's pop artist. I'm not sure why this is so important for me to hear, but it was fun.

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

4/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

1/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

1/5

I like some industrial, but this was not great. I remember when this album came out. I didn't get it then, I don't get it now, and I don't understand the cultural relevance, especially in 2022.

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

2/5

Clandestino

Manu Chao

5/5

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

3/5

Faust IV

Faust

1/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

5/5

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

Chris

Christine and the Queens

3/5

Catchy retro-pop with very suggestive lyrics.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

4/5

I hate Bitter Sweet Symphony. Because I hate that song so much, I never even considered the rest of this album. One song grossly overshadows a fantastic album.

Like A Prayer

Madonna

2/5

Van Halen

3/5

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

3/5

I've never gone out of my way to listen to Deep Purple before. Their songs are recognizable, and jumping straight into a live album would not normally be how I introduce myself to an artist, but this was a treat.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

2/5

So _this_ is what they play on my local classical/jazz FM station when they make the switch at 6PM. Our family always dubbed it 'noisy jazz'o'clock' and had a laugh. "Blue in Green" is an excellent noir track, but the rest of the album is stereotypical unstructured jazz with complex chords, tones, measures and bars that don't usually sound 'pleasant' while still being technically competant.

Sail Away

Randy Newman

4/5

https://youtu.be/EftDLxJ0bEo?t=188

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Joan Armatrading

2/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

2/5

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

1/5

Winter In America

Gil Scott-Heron

2/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

1/5

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

2/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

Play

Moby

2/5

Transformative sampling essentially started here and in this time. But it's difficult to go back and listen to, even through rose colored glasses.

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

3/5

The Stone Roses

4/5

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

3/5

School's Out

Alice Cooper

3/5

Entertaining strange trip.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Sound Affects

The Jam

2/5

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

4/5

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Kevin Rowland is the worst part of this album.

The Next Day

David Bowie

4/5

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

5/5

Yo, I'm here for this. *vibes*

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

3/5

I feel like I need to hear a justification as to why this album is an album I needed to hear before I died. It's 'fine'. It reminds me of early mornings. But after listening twice, I don't feel like this is Frank's best work.

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

2/5

Groundbreaking for the time, but doesn't hold up in 2023 in my opinion. The composition is solid, but feels primarily like music written for a stage play of yesteryear. I'm over the lead vocalist.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

A perfect album. I've never liked the singles off this album, however, as part of what feels like a cohesive story the album in its entirety as a whole is fantastic.