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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bubble And Scrape Sebadoh	5	2.65	+2.35
Want Two Rufus Wainwright	5	2.84	+2.16
Little Earthquakes Tori Amos	5	3.23	+1.77
Achtung Baby U2	5	3.31	+1.69
Penance Soiree The Icarus Line	4	2.5	+1.5
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.55	+1.45
Boston Boston	5	3.71	+1.29
Atomizer Big Black	4	2.72	+1.28
Siamese Dream The Smashing Pumpkins	5	3.83	+1.17
The Only Ones The Only Ones	4	2.92	+1.08

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman John Zorn	1	2.22	-1.22
Tigermilk Belle & Sebastian	2	3.22	-1.22
Elvis Is Back Elvis Presley	2	3.19	-1.19

5-Star Albums (9)

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Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

5/5

This is insanely good. Left me with chills. Standout tracks: all of them but I guess "Silent All These Years," "Leather," "Little Earthquakes"

6 likes

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

5/5

Cool stuff. Meat Puppets, Nirvana, Kurt Vile vibes

4 likes

1-Star Albums (1)

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

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The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

4/5

Great folksy vibes; music feels familiar. Feels like a precursor to Bonnie Raitt or someone we'd get at JFFA.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Not actually my personal fav Zeppelin album but brilliant nonetheless. Going to California always makes me cry

Kenya

Machito

3/5

This must have been one of Bernstein's influences for West Side Story. Cool stuff if not what I normally listen to

Faith

George Michael

4/5

“Faith”—going on good mood playlist. “Father figure”—daddy owo?? Other standout track: “Monkey.” I hadn’t checked out George Michael before because I despise “Last Christmas” but I see now that I was wrong

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

4/5

I'd heard most of Bowie's hits but never listened to an album straight through. Did not disappoint! Standout tracks: "Five Years" and "Suffragette City"

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

5/5

This is insanely good. Left me with chills. Standout tracks: all of them but I guess "Silent All These Years," "Leather," "Little Earthquakes"

Close To The Edge

Yes

3/5

Good stuff but knocking stars because this album doesn't include "Roundabout"

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

Platonic ideal of a Beatles album

Celebrity Skin

Hole

4/5

I really liked this album, although it dragged a bit towards the middle/end. Pretty surprised I've never been exposed to Hole/Spotify has never recommended them or any of Courtney Love's stuff to me. Will definitely be checking out their earlier stuff which is apparently grungier.

Cut

The Slits

2/5

I appreciate that this is probably kind of a groundbreaking album but I do not think it is for me

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Love most of Jack White's stuff though I hadn't actually heard this album before. Good but doesn't necessarily stand out from other White Stripes albums IMO

Van Halen

4/5

I mean, it's Van Halen--just good, solid rock

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Shuggie Otis

3/5

Glad to have checked this artist out! Good stuff, although a bit outside what I usually listen to.

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

1/5

Sad to say this one was really, *really* not my cup of tea. I would like at some point to listen to and learn more about jazz, as I think it's a diverse genre with a lot of cool music from the very little I've been exposed to. BUT this album really threw me into the deep end and then proceeded to drown me in the deep end. Near the end sometimes there was a melody I could grasp onto, but it wasn't enough. Maybe if I knew a lot more about jazz I could appreciate this, but I right now I can't.

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

3/5

A few of these were bops but I wasn't crazy about the album as a whole (interestingly, my two least favorites were the ones with the most streams on Spotify. Although those were also probably the most musically interesting ones, but I guess I just like boring stuff)

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

4/5

I always think of myself as someone who doesn’t like rap and hip-hop but whenever I hear this earlier stuff from the 90s I really like it.

New Forms

Roni Size

2/5

I will confess I didn't get through the whole album, but with about half I think I heard enough to rate. I haven't had a lot of exposure to drum and bass so it was nice to be able to check some out. It was entirely inoffensive but didn't do that much for me and wasn't really very interesting to actively listen to.

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

3/5

Perfectly fine but the vocal style wasn't really up my alley. Standout tracks: "I Just Can't Be Happy Today," "These Hands"

Achtung Baby

5/5

I hate to admit it but I just really like U2 Hadn't listened to this particular album in its entirety before, so there were a few tracks that were new to me! It probably doesn't stand up to Joshua Tree but still very good.

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

4/5

Had never heard of this group but this was a great listen. May relisten to decide whether to add to the usual rotation.

Gorillaz

4/5

As someone who learned violin via the Suzuki Method, absolutely losing my mind at "Left Hand Suzuki Method"

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

5/5

super into this

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

are the pumpkins smashing as in the verb “to smash” or smashing as in the british adjective

Dummy

Portishead

3/5

There was a wider than usual range of how much I liked the songs on this album (wasn't paying close enough attention to write down the ones I liked, though). Interesting style, glad to have heard it.

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

4/5

Super into "Darkness, Darkness." Love this style of folk rock (or whatever subgenre this would be).

The Cars

4/5

The Cars are one of those groups where I know a ton of songs by them but don't really process it because I only hear them on the radio. Standout tracks: "Just What I Needed" (perennial favorite), "Moving in Stereo" (new discovery)

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

I will confess I had no idea who did Girls Just Want to Have Fun. What a jam. Other standout tracks: "She Bop" and "I'll Kiss You"

White Ladder

David Gray

3/5

Decent but didn't really capture my attention.

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

This was very chill vibes and fantastic as background music at work which was what I was using it for.

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

4/5

Love a good live album. Another group I was aware of through their hits with radio play but hadn't heard any of their other music until now

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

classic

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

All the songs I didn't know made me think "Yep, this sounds like a song by the group that did 'Bang a Gong (Get It On)'"

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Don't think I'd heard anything by Elvis Costello before. v enjoyable

Atomizer

Big Black

4/5

Probably not one I'd listen to again but it really grew on me as I listened. Some great, heavy riffs. Standout track: Bazooka Joe

Wild Gift

3/5

I enjoyed this while I listened, but it didn't really seem to have anything particularly memorable

Roxy Music

4/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

I may have said this in a previous review but whenever I listen to '90s hip-hop I like it a lot more than I expect to. Definitely want to check out some more of the genre

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

4/5

Alice Cooper is so fun

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

3/5

Had a few bangers

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

3/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Some absolute bangers on here, can see why it's a classic

The Only Ones

4/5

I'm used to the phenomenon where you can't really perceive any accent in (English-language) singing so it's always feels a little weird when someone sounds super British. Enjoyed the album tho

Boston

5/5

Not a single miss on this album, great stuff

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

I felt a little targeted by "How About You?" Minus one star for "Makin' Whoopee."

Tidal

Fiona Apple

3/5

I know this is an unpopular opinion but Fetch the Bolt Cutters was a bit too weird for me, so I wasn't sure what to expect from her earlier work. I found myself pleasantly surprised and did enjoy it more than expected! Same great songwriting but a little less weird

Street Signs

Ozomatli

3/5

Some great stuff on here outside of what I normally listen to. Huge fan of "Believe."

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Standout track: "Month of May"

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

2/5

Elvis kinda overrated tbh