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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Sunbather Deafheaven	5	2.8	+2.2
Blackwater Park Opeth	5	3.11	+1.89
O Damien Rice	5	3.22	+1.78
Symbolic Death	4	2.76	+1.24
Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides SOPHIE	4	2.8	+1.2
Artpop Lady Gaga	4	2.91	+1.09
Stella Yello	4	2.93	+1.07
Dilate Ani DiFranco	4	2.96	+1.04
The Hypnogogue The Church	4	2.99	+1.01

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Continuum John Mayer	1	3.08	-2.08
Wincing The Night Away The Shins	2	3.32	-1.32
Hadestown Anaïs Mitchell	2	3.19	-1.19
One Time for All Time 65daysofstatic	2	3.14	-1.14
Hammersmith Odeon, London '75 Bruce Springsteen	2	3.12	-1.12
Chocolate & Cheese Ween	2	3.12	-1.12
The Lioness Songs: Ohia	2	3.09	-1.09
I Had a Dream That You Were Mine Hamilton Leithauser	2	3.08	-1.08
Come On Over Shania Twain	2	3.07	-1.07
Blink-182 blink-182	2	3.06	-1.06

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Blackwater Park

Opeth · 2 likes

5/5

I fucking love this record

The Simple Plan

August is Falling · 1 likes

2/5

This is an EP. auto removal feature should be a thing.

Hadestown

Anaïs Mitchell · 1 likes

2/5

Surprisingly annoying.

A City Dressed In Dynamite

That Handsome Devil · 1 likes

2/5

It was... different.

1-Star Albums (1)

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Get Rich Or Die Ryan

Spose

2/5

why?

Enema Of The State

blink-182

3/5

it encapsulates a particular time and place. It's very teenager-y and at times there's nothing wrong with that. In my case, I listen to this record whenever I feel nostalgia for a time I didn't exactly live in, meaning, never. It has some catchy tunes, though.

Fear Inoculum

TOOL

2/5

This guys bore me to tears

Once

Nightwish

3/5

Nunca los había escuchado, pero si estaba al tanto de su existencia. El Metal sinfónico es un subgénero bastante peculiar, pero eso mismo justifica su existencia en esta lista. Me gustaron algunas canciones, si bien el estilo puede llegar a aburrir después de un rato.

Bob Mould

2/5

Todos los discos de Bob Mould suenan igual.

The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads

Lift To Experience

2/5

Triage

David Baerwald

2/5

also no

Live At Madison Square Garden

Vulfpeck

3/5

I thought we didn't do live albums, but this was pretty fun

Beautiful Midnight

Matthew Good Band

2/5

Rock alternativo de fines de los 90. Como este hay montones.

Artpop

Lady Gaga

4/5

oh, this is very good

Boys And Girls in America

The Hold Steady

3/5

The AV Club had me convinced this was one of the best bands of the 00's but I could never get into them. The riffs are there, but there are no memorable melodies. I guess the lyrics are good, but to me, when paired with the vocals, they sound too much like Springsteen wannabees.

The Simple Plan

August is Falling

2/5

This is an EP. auto removal feature should be a thing.

Wincing The Night Away

The Shins

2/5

They have exactly one songs that’s interesting to me and it’s not on this album.

Magnolia Electric Co.

Songs: Ohia

4/5

Hold On Magnolia is one of my favorite songs

Funeral Dress

Wussy

2/5

This was boring

Discipline

King Crimson

3/5

Creo que ya tenemos uno de ellos en la lista y es el que debería estar

Penguin Eggs

Nic Jones

2/5

Comienza bien, pero al rato se hace monótono

Barafundle

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

3/5

Nunca había escuchado de esta banda, pero lo que escuché hoy me gustó.

Flower Boy

Tyler, The Creator

3/5

Sorprendentemente, no es uno de esos discos exageradamente largos ni con skits sin consecuencia.

TRON: Legacy

Daft Punk

4/5

Oh yeah, tremendous record. Kicks so much ass.

The Lioness

Songs: Ohia

2/5

I prefer Manoglia Co

After Hours

The Weeknd

2/5

The Weekend nunca ha podido hacer un buen álbum. Todos sus LP o son demasiado largos o son desordenados e incoherentes.

Forced Witness

Alex Cameron

2/5

quien?

For Emma, Forever Ago

Bon Iver

4/5

oh yes, his best record by far

Deltron 3030

4/5

Oye oye, este disco está muy bueno

Ida Con Snock

Michael Hurley

2/5

this was just as awful as that album cover

People Who Eat People Are The Luckiest People In The World

AJJ

2/5

I guess this is the sort of album one gets when the user submitted list does its thing. I had never heard of them, never heard any of their music. It's not a particular genre I care about, but then, that's the point of this site. I suppose there's at least a modicum of respect paid to the artist because there's at least one person in the world to whom this record means, well, the world. I mean, it's not an affront to taste or anything like that, it's just that the voice is annoying and the music kind of monotonous after just a couple of songs.

The Evil One

Roky Erickson

4/5

oi, this was super fun. And I had never heard of this guy before. Fave track: Night of the Vampire.

Peasant

Richard Dawson

2/5

Symbolic

Death

4/5

Yessss, we need more Metal representation

Hammersmith Odeon, London '75

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Look, I like the Boss, but let's just agree, collectively, to do away with live albums.

Whipped Cream & Other Delights

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

3/5

yessss, more diversity like this

Sunset Mission

Bohren & Der Club Of Gore

4/5

Tan amenazante

Stormcock

Roy Harper

3/5

A weird and challenging folk album. It's folk, so you know we don't need more of those, but at least it's different, more demanding with its long stretches of guitar solos and melodies

One Time for All Time

65daysofstatic

2/5

I prefer Mogwai

Continuum

John Mayer

1/5

Incredibly boring and safe.

Take It From The Man

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

3/5

If this had come out now, I'd say it's a Stones' flavored garage rock with pinches of psychedelic homage, but this was 1996! I'd been all over this record had I knew about them back then.

God Shuffled His Feet

Crash Test Dummies

3/5

Wait, is this album good? For years I never gave it a listen because I thought it was just a single and the rest was filler. From where did I get that impression? Couldn't tell you, but that's how I felt. Hearing it now I can tell it's very 90s, of course, but it's actually a pretty listenable album.

Fantasies

Metric

4/5

Yesss I love Metric. They are definitely on my list. That 6 track run from Help I'm Alive to Twilight Galaxy is so, so good. And they're not even my favorite tracks! That privilege belongs to Gimme Sympathy.

Boxer

The National

4/5

Concise 43 minutes for an album that manages to capture a particular time and place for indie rock. I don't think The National ever managed to top this record, so it makes sense that this is the one that's submitted

Jaco Pastorius

3/5

I didn't know bass could sound like that! Nah, of course I did, there's plenty of bass players that worship the name of Pastorius. It's not quite my tempo, not my subgenre (the virtuoso bass with company), but I can certainly appreciate the quality involved

Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit

Courtney Barnett

4/5

I fucking love Pedestrian at Best

Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides

SOPHIE

4/5

A harsh but beguiling record, the more you listen the more it captures your attention.

22, A Million

Bon Iver

3/5

As I've said before, i think his first album is his best. Don't mind this one, except for the song names.

Damien Rice

5/5

Ohh, yes. You had to be there, of course, but what I really like about this record is the little idiosyncracies that distinguishes it from other indie singer-songwriter of the time.

Sunbather

Deafheaven

5/5

Great fucking record. I love the way it interchanges the noise with the melodies. During the course of this project I've confirmed what I knew, but couldn't put quite into words: I don't care about the genre or the style, what I like and react to the most are melodies. Right around the time this record came out I was exploring death metal courtesy of Opeth. Exploring the genre and styles related to it I came around Alcest, Agalloch and other bands that put the effort in the melodies rather than de overwhelming noise. The Sunbather came out and became one of those records that you just have to put on again right after it ends with the last track.

Before These Crowded Streets

Dave Matthews Band

2/5

Never could get into this band. Not then, not now.

The Hypnogogue

The Church

4/5

Oye, estos viejitos todavía son capaces de sacar un disco de esta calidad a una edad en la que otros artistas apenas pueden volver a sus grandes éxitos.

Romance

Fontaines D.C.

3/5

This is a good record. Not sure about why it belongs to this list, but I like it enough

Chocolate & Cheese

Ween

2/5

All over the place in a way that it's both fitting and deserving of a place in this list and not really my tempo.

Chuck

Sum 41

3/5

This was fun

August And Everything After

Counting Crows

3/5

A principios de los 90, Counting Crows sólo eran Mr. Jones, una canción pegajosa, pero si sentido. Escuchando el disco ahora, con décadas de distancia, puedo decir que tampoco me habría gustado en 1993. Tal vez en 1996 con Recovering the Satellites, pero en esos años sólo conocía una canción por disco y nunca lo suficiente como para ir a buscar el álbum y explorar el resto de las canciones. La gracia, entonces, es que August and Everything After es un buen disco y me alegra haberlo conocido. Ahora es un disco que me gusta.

Crystal Castles

2/5

Sure. Everyone thought CC were all the rage back when blogs were going to save the world. They didn't and they weren't. This was obnoxious to me back then and it still is now.

Toxicity

System Of A Down

4/5

pretty good, if a bit overlong, not in minutes but in tracks. it does have some fillers. The good songs though? those are bangers.

Come On Over

Shania Twain

2/5

It has only one good song, the rest is pop-country that isn't deserving of this list.

A Salty Dog

Procol Harum

3/5

Actually, this was pretty good.

My Morning Jacket

4/5

This was actually pretty good

Stella

Yello

4/5

Great fucking record. It should be on the official list.

Hadestown

Anaïs Mitchell

2/5

Surprisingly annoying.

The Beautiful Letdown

Switchfoot

2/5

Yuck. It's mediocre at best.

I Had a Dream That You Were Mine

Hamilton Leithauser

2/5

I like The Walkmen and I like Vampire Weekend and yet this album was incredibly boring to me. The execution and production are, naturally, flawless, but there's something in here thatbjust doesn't click.

Join Us

They Might Be Giants

3/5

It's ok.

Relatives in Descent

Protomartyr

3/5

Not really a fan of spoken lyrics, but I like the music. Actually, I'd prefer the instrumental version of this record.

Barton Hollow

The Civil Wars

2/5

Some good songs, but I much prefer Glenn Hansard and Markéta Irglová

Blink-182

blink-182

2/5

Another one? I think with the one about the enema is enough.

Piñata

Freddie Gibbs

3/5

It was fun, though the skits tend to bore me.

Blackwater Park

Opeth

5/5

I fucking love this record

Tales Of Mystery And Imagination

The Alan Parsons Project

3/5

So nerd I love it

A City Dressed In Dynamite

That Handsome Devil

2/5

It was... different.

Spanish Train And Other Stories

Chris de Burgh

3/5

I kinda like it

One Life

Malibu

3/5

I mean, it's an EP so why bother? It is pretty good though

Gemstones

Adam Green

2/5

So, this is what happens when the music is in service of the lyrics, but the lyrics are not really that interesting.

Geography

Tom Misch

3/5

Perfect lazy sunday vibes

Dilate

Ani DiFranco

4/5

Interesting 90's singer-songwriter rock. It's themes are refreshing enough and the way she uses her voice and guitars, though very much anchored in the decade, manages to overcome the inherent traps of alternative rock. It does feel dated at times, but at the same time its part of it charms.

Nuyorican Soul

3/5

Yesss, this is the type of music this list needs more of.

Misplaced Childhood

Marillion

2/5

I mean, there are better artists within the same genre and decade. Hell, as others have said, you can hear other/better groups.

Alive Or Just Breathing

Killswitch Engage

3/5

a bit overlong but this really fucking rocks

Kick

INXS

4/5

oh yeah, this should be on the official list