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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Halcyon Digest Deerhunter	5	3.05	+1.95
The La's The La's	5	3.15	+1.85
Chicago Transit Authority Chicago	5	3.2	+1.8
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	5	3.35	+1.65
2112 Rush	5	3.39	+1.61
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	5	3.41	+1.59
Aqualung Jethro Tull	5	3.44	+1.56
Live! Fela Kuti	5	3.44	+1.56
Gorillaz Gorillaz	5	3.53	+1.47
Boy In Da Corner Dizzee Rascal	4	2.57	+1.43

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Purple Rain Prince	1	4.02	-3.02
Roxy Music Roxy Music	1	3.11	-2.11
Let's Get It On Marvin Gaye	2	3.78	-1.78
Raw Like Sushi Neneh Cherry	1	2.7	-1.7
Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys	2	3.47	-1.47
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs Marty Robbins	2	3.33	-1.33
Something/Anything? Todd Rundgren	2	3.03	-1.03

5-Star Albums (13)

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Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

2/5

If there was an instrumental version of this album, I'd probably love it. It looks like you can find some of the instrumentals on Youtube. They're great. The Dust Brothers do not disappoint.

6 likes

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

5/5

I'd heard a bunch of these singles before, turns out they're all like five minutes longer than I was used to hearing. The back half of this album is absolutely insane. What a gem!

5 likes

The La's

5/5

Never heard of this band, and this was great! Halfway through the album, brace for a "oh, the version I know (and kind of hate) was a COVER?!"

4 likes

Pyromania

Def Leppard

4/5

Turns out I recognized more tracks on this than I thought. Hard one for me to be objective about.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (3)

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Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

5/5

I'd heard a bunch of these singles before, turns out they're all like five minutes longer than I was used to hearing. The back half of this album is absolutely insane. What a gem!

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

I mean literally one of the most important albums of my life. There's no functional way to be objective about this. Good album. Would obsess over again. A+

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

What a weird album. The tracks keep ALMOST being jams but then wander off in some other directions. Really good stuff!

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Sorry Neil, I tried. I like Neil a lot more than I like Neil's music. There are some absolutely priceless songs in here but then there's... the rest of the album. Just not my thing.

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

3/5

Very much not my thing, but made for nice background music while I worked.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

This was fun.

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

4/5

I only knew this guy from collaborations with other artists. I was happy to have a chance to actually listen to an album, and this did not disappoint!

Orbital 2

Orbital

4/5

90s masterpiece that probably didn't age very well but i'm completely incapable of judging it with anything approaching objectivity. Halcyon still rules.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

Not really my thing, but was fun to listen to. Sounds like the kind of music that gets sampled in other songs. :)

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

2/5

I like yacht rock but this is too yacht rock for me.

A Seat at the Table

Solange

3/5

Again, not for me, but was nice to listen to.

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

Sad Beck is my least favorite Beck, but it's still pretty good.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

A real gem. Upset it took me this long to listen to it.

Me Against The World

2Pac

3/5

Not for me, but I can hear why it's good.

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

2/5

Extremely not my thing. Only made it like two tracks.

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

5/5

Never had the chance to listen to Deerhunter. This is... really good!

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Fantastic album. Imagine my surprise when I noticed it was a double!

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

3/5

Weird album. I might like it if given more time.

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

3/5

Great singles, just generally not my thing though. Sorry Missy!

2112

Rush

5/5

THAT WHOLE TIME, I WAS ON THE FIRST TRACK?!

Paul Simon

4/5

Not really a singer/songwriter fan (it takes me like 10 listens to most music before I start paying any attention to the lyrics), but man, Paul Simon can write a tune.

Roxy Music

1/5

Okay what the hell.

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

1/5

only made it a track and a half. I have no idea if this woman is talented or not because all i can hear is "THE EIGHTIES" screaming at me with every single instrument and reverb slider. No thank you.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

5/5

Literally impossible for me to be objective about this one, due to my fatboy slim tattoo and all. I haven't listened to this album in a hot minute though. I know it's very loopy and very repetitive. It's still a JAM. Love Island + Acid 8000 is one hell of a finale.

The Only Ones

4/5

This was really great! Never heard of this band before!

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

5/5

I've heard this album a million times and love it, but I just discovered the remix from about a decade ago, and I'm hearing drums and things that I've never noticed in the original before. Sounds amazing.

Purple Rain

Prince

1/5

I don't get Prince. I don't get why he's such a huge deal. Glad for people who get it, but this is EXTREMELY not for me.

Pyromania

Def Leppard

4/5

Turns out I recognized more tracks on this than I thought. Hard one for me to be objective about.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Fantastic. I really enjoy both 10 min+ tracks.

The La's

5/5

Never heard of this band, and this was great! Halfway through the album, brace for a "oh, the version I know (and kind of hate) was a COVER?!"

Quiet Life

Japan

4/5

This was... pretty decent for 80s synth pop that i'd never heard of.

One World

John Martyn

2/5

I do not care for this. However, it was very different than what I was expecting. Still not my thing. Sorry John.

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

4/5

I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I was going to. It's going to require some more listens, but I'll definitely be back!

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

This was great! Way outside the stuff I normally listen to, and I listened to it twice back to back. Killer.

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

Wavers in and out of not really being my thing.

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

4/5

I only knew Dizzee from that one Basement Jaxx song, so this was a real treat!

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

3/5

I don't think I'm in the right headspace for this band. I may have to circle back.

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

2/5

With this weird of a name, I was really hoping to like this album. Oh well.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

This was a fun listen.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

2/5

If there was an instrumental version of this album, I'd probably love it. It looks like you can find some of the instrumentals on Youtube. They're great. The Dust Brothers do not disappoint.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

I don't know what I was expecting but this album is insane. Like, made by people I'm pretty sure are actually insane. Also... kind of a jam?

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

Not my thing, but also better and more fun than I was expecting.

Scott 2

Scott Walker

2/5

Crooner stuff. No thanks.

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

3/5

Got to be a little too much after a handful of tracks, but the first bit was fun!

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Every single funkadelic album that is recommended to me is both completely insane and also pretty damn good. This one is no different.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

Groundbreaking album. Rapping is a little silly. Otherwise total banger.

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

2/5

I really wish I liked soul more. :(

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

2/5

Didn't like this. 80s pop.

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

I never really gave The Cure an honest shot, and I'm enjoying this album a lot more than I thought. The vocals get a little whiny in some songs (Last Dance in particular got on my nerves), but this is a really solid album!

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Absolute masterpiece. I have this on vinyl.

Atomizer

Big Black

2/5

just like, yelling and noise

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

2/5

I didn't like this. I wanted to like it, but it was annoying. Almost good, but actually bad.

Kala

M.I.A.

4/5

This was way better than I was expecting. A lot more experimental!

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

Pretty good, a little cheesy.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

This was excellent!

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

2/5

There are a few pleasant moments to be had here, but its mostly a deeply unpleasant look at a man falling apart due to drug addiction, and not in a cool edgy way, but in a "everyone's laughing at him" kind of way. Depressing.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

The title track is way too saccharine for me, but the rest of this album is phenomenal.

Gorillaz

5/5

Groundbreaking