My User Albums Journey

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Exploring beyond the book, one album at a time

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Fuzz Chucklehead	5	2.86	+2.14
Racine carrée Stromae	5	2.95	+2.05
Stella Yello	5	2.97	+2.03
Super Ape The Upsetters	5	3.15	+1.85
Joy as an Act of Resistance IDLES	5	3.32	+1.68
Madvillainy Madvillain	5	3.39	+1.61
Choirs Of The Eye Kayo Dot	4	2.63	+1.37
Once Nightwish	4	2.77	+1.23
10,000 gecs 100 gecs	4	2.9	+1.1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Enema Of The State blink-182	1	3.37	-2.37
Transatlanticism Death Cab for Cutie	1	3.3	-2.3
Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum Tally Hall	1	3.03	-2.03
Inside Bo Burnham	1	2.96	-1.96
Act IV: Rebirth In Reprise The Dear Hunter	1	2.96	-1.96
A Charlie Brown Christmas Vince Guaraldi Trio	2	3.9	-1.9
Are You Shpongled? Shpongle	1	2.76	-1.76
Korn Korn	1	2.62	-1.62
The Simple Plan August is Falling	1	2.46	-1.46
TEKKNO Electric Callboy	1	2.46	-1.46

5-Star Albums (6)

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Inside

Bo Burnham · 2 likes

1/5

Neither funny nor musically good, threw in the towel (with utmost contempt) after only 10 minutes.

Bleed American

Jimmy Eat World · 1 likes

2/5

First song was fire but then it got real poppy real fast.

Joy as an Act of Resistance

IDLES · 1 likes

5/5

What a joy to see this on the list!

Fuzz

Chucklehead · 1 likes

5/5

Stupid name for a band, but I have to admit, these guys put the "fun" into "funk". Completely unexpected discovery, thank you to whoever submitted this. Listened to the whole thing and the quality kept up for the entire duration, so a 5 it is!

Stella

Yello · 1 likes

5/5

Oh, yeah! Title track is like having my face buried in a Tony Montana sized pile of cocaine while a hooker eats caviar out of my ass crack.

4-Star Albums (12)

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

1-Star Albums (9)

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Mad Dogs & Englishmen

Joe Cocker

2/5

Band and backup singers carry this thing HARD! Joe does his best to keep up, but imagine Tina Turner singing these songs.

Hand. Cannot. Erase.

Steven Wilson

3/5

Started off slow, but patience pays off eventually with this one, some very cool, very dynamic parts.

Live At Madison Square Garden

Vulfpeck

4/5

To whoever submitted this gem - thank you for your service! Rock, funk and klezmer have never merged so seamlessly!

Portishead

3/5

It's a Portishead album.

God Shuffled His Feet

Crash Test Dummies

2/5

What the lead singer lacks in range, he makes up for in phlegm filled congestion, and the altruisticy to let his 11 year old write his lyrics. Bonus point for having Wilhem Defoe on the banjo (or whatever that instrument is).

Version 2.0

Garbage

3/5

The Garbage album that's already on the list is better, but this is still pretty good.

Fully Completely

The Tragically Hip

2/5

The comparisons to a poor-man's version of REM/Pearl Jam are apt.

Ultra Blue

Hikaru Utada

3/5

Didn't hate it. She has a nice voice, melodies a little boring though.

Get Fucked

The Chats

4/5

Ticket Inspector is such a fucking bop. The rest of the songs are fast, rawkus and perfect to get fucked to!

Inside

Bo Burnham

1/5

Neither funny nor musically good, threw in the towel (with utmost contempt) after only 10 minutes.

Pushin' Against a Stone

Valerie June

4/5

Starts off very strong, loses steam towards the end, but never overstays it's welcome. Weaves seamlessly between soul, country and blues. Well worth your time!

Act IV: Rebirth In Reprise

The Dear Hunter

1/5

I listened to this album a couple of hours ago, but didn't have a chance to write a review. To be honest, I have no recollection of any of the songs or the music as a whole, aside from the fact that it was painfully ordinary.

10,000 gecs

100 gecs

4/5

All the stale baby boomers hating on the gecs, but I bet if your precious Beatles were still around, they'd love this shit!

Ida Con Snock

Michael Hurley

3/5

It's not a genre I'm very familiar with, but it was decently enjoyable from start to finish. Might be worth checking out his other albums.

Choirs Of The Eye

Kayo Dot

4/5

Like playing hide and seek in the middle of a cold winter night with a pack of hungry wolves.

Go Farther In Lightness

Gang of Youths

2/5

Singer sounds like Johnny Depp.

Enema Of The State

blink-182

1/5

If you didn't grow up with this joke of a band in the late 90's, there's a slim chance it'll appeal to you, if you did grow up hearing this nonsense, do the world a favor and keep your miserable memories to yourself!

Silence Yourself

Savages

4/5

Every song is a gem, and the finale is so strong! Loved it!

Y Ahora Qué?

Reincidentes

3/5

Like a Spanish Gogol Bordello, not bad. Great energy, mediocre songwriting.

Super Ape

The Upsetters

5/5

Lee Perry is without a doubt the biggest omission from the original list. From reggae to dub to dubstep to second wave ska, to countless electronic subgenres all trace their influences to this incredible mad genius.

Vs.

Pearl Jam

3/5

Tiis is more for hard core grunge fans than the casual listener, but it does what it does well.

Bleed American

Jimmy Eat World

2/5

First song was fire but then it got real poppy real fast.

Once

Nightwish

4/5

Well I gotta say I was honestly unprepared for this mish mash of metal, symphony and hyperpop. It is indeed like nothing I've heard before, and for that alone 4 stars are well deserved!

The Simple Plan

August is Falling

1/5

This has got to be a troll pick, right?

Sunbather

Deafheaven

2/5

Music is good, but there is a something that sounds like a dying animal in the room next to the recording studio that the sound engineers should have probably put out of it's misery, or at least make sure it didn't get picked up by the recording.

Stella

Yello

5/5

Oh, yeah! Title track is like having my face buried in a Tony Montana sized pile of cocaine while a hooker eats caviar out of my ass crack.

Korn

1/5

No amount of slap bass can rescue this angsty shit fest.

BABYMETAL

2/5

Some of y'all really love the novelty stuff.

Joy as an Act of Resistance

IDLES

5/5

What a joy to see this on the list!

The Animal Years

Josh Ritter

2/5

Music to eat cold oatmeal to.

Body Talk

Robyn

2/5

A few songs are fun to dance to, but I think an album of Robyn songs only isn't really the listening experience I need in my life. Take out 2-3 good ones and throw them in the DJ mix.

Are You Shpongled?

Shpongle

1/5

Pseudo ethnic melodies with basic fruity loops produced beats. If the title doesn't tell you it's lame, let this review.

Fuzz

Chucklehead

5/5

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

4/5

More tension than when you go to the proctologist, and see your father in law.

Images and Words

Dream Theater

2/5

The loaded cheese fries of music.

TEKKNO

Electric Callboy

1/5

From Babymetal to this shit. Fuck off with the novelty metal already.

Telefone

Noname

3/5

Solid hiphop, great guest features.

Jaco Pastorius

3/5

The gold standard for jazz bass guitar, but I like Weather Report better, those albums are more coherent and the compositions more interesting.

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Vince Guaraldi Trio

2/5

Probably as good as Christmas music is ever going to get, but it's still Christmas music. Thankfully this one put me to sleep rather than irritate the shit out of me.

Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum

Tally Hall

1/5

Too quirky for it's own good. I'm glad someone enjoyed this in their university days, I too went through a phase where I was looking for anything idiosyncratic to liven up my dreary suburban existence, but this one ain't it. Once the rapping started I had to pull the plug.

The Evil One

Roky Erickson

2/5

More novelty music that also happens to be woefully behind the times.

Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?

of Montreal

2/5

Listening to this album made want to grow an ironic looking mustache, spend half of my salary on vintage t-shirts, put an ungodly amount of pomade in my hair and open an artisanal coffee shop to which I will commute every day on a penny-farthing. Luckily some Daddy Yankee came on next and I came to my senses.

Singles

Future Islands

2/5

Singles is as the title says - a great collection of singles, but the constant intensity of each song does not lend to the best album flow.

Stage Four

Touché Amoré

2/5

Remarkably unremarkable. Doesn't do enough to separate itself from other hardcore albums.

A Black Mile To The Surface

Manchester Orchestra

2/5

I hate Neil Young, and this was basically Neil Young for Gen Zs. Last song was good though.

Racine carrée

Stromae

5/5

Banger after banger after banger. Yes, they're overplayed, but who cares? Keep playing them!

Auri

2/5

More Disney soundtrack than Finnish folk.

Alive 2007

Daft Punk

4/5

THIS is the Daft Punk album that should have made the original list.

10,000 Days

TOOL

4/5

Their best album!

Madvillainy

Madvillain

5/5

Easiest 5 I've ever given.

Somewhere In The Between

Streetlight Manifesto

3/5

Skankalicious!

Because the Internet

Childish Gambino

3/5

Starts of super strong, but fades towards the end. Now if "Awaken My Love" was here, that'd be a 5.

I Am

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

I wish I was around when this came out.. seems like such an amazing time to be alive.

The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads

Lift To Experience

2/5

Weird pseudo-religious pseudo-country.

Magnolia Electric Co.

Songs: Ohia

3/5

Instrumentation: Innovative Mood: Folksy Songs: Ohia

Geography

Tom Misch

2/5

After tirelessly drudging through 1089 albums of varying quality, triumphantly getting to the finish line, and earning a privilege of adding one (just one!) absolutely distinguished album to this list, one life-altering, paradigm shifting album, that you REALLY want others to hear... this is what you go with?

The Shape Of Jazz To Come

Ornette Coleman

4/5

A very confident album title, but this one holds up.

Great Big Sea

3/5

Well... an album of sea shanties is an album for me.. Cause I'm out on the boat and I'm feelin' free.. But this freedom is fleeting and my heart can't forget.. That a pretty little lass is waiting at home for me.. *Fiddle Solo!*

Transatlanticism

Death Cab for Cutie

1/5

Boring indie pop with the requisite whiny voiced lead singer. Why must I have been subjected to this?

Diary

Sunny Day Real Estate

3/5

Solid grunge album, thoroughly enjoyed it.

The General Electric

Shihad

2/5

Wanted to go to their concert, but couldn't find the venue on the map.