My User Albums Journey

User Albums Journey

Exploring beyond the book, one album at a time

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Re Café Tacvba	5	3.04	+1.96
The Shape Of Jazz To Come Ornette Coleman	5	3.28	+1.72
The Best of The Hot 5 & Hot 7 Recordings Louis Armstrong	5	3.32	+1.68
Silent Alarm Bloc Party	5	3.45	+1.55
John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman John Coltrane	5	3.49	+1.51
Carrie & Lowell Sufjan Stevens	5	3.52	+1.48
Currents Tame Impala	5	3.53	+1.47
Pony Express Record Shudder To Think	4	2.54	+1.46
Kick INXS	5	3.57	+1.43
10,000 gecs 100 gecs	4	2.89	+1.11

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Puzzle Biffy Clyro	1	3.07	-2.07
Sound Awake Karnivool	1	2.76	-1.76
Savage Sinusoid Igorrr	1	2.76	-1.76
Symbolic Death	1	2.76	-1.76
Spanish Train And Other Stories Chris de Burgh	1	2.67	-1.67
Lateralus TOOL	2	3.38	-1.38
Ænima TOOL	2	3.36	-1.36
HELLYEAH HELLYEAH	1	2.17	-1.17
Blink-182 blink-182	2	3.09	-1.09
Odyssey Number Five Powderfinger	2	3	-1

5-Star Albums (9)

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The Best of The Hot 5 & Hot 7 Recordings

Popular Reviews

Weezer

Weezer · 1 likes

5/5

Echoing all the other comments-this isn’t in the original list? Say it ain’t so!

1-Star Albums (6)

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Millennium

Backstreet Boys

2/5

The Evil One

Roky Erickson

3/5

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

3/5

A Beginner's Mind

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Boys And Girls in America

The Hold Steady

3/5

Stories

Avicii

2/5

Sound Awake

Karnivool

1/5

Puzzle

Biffy Clyro

1/5

This is awful boring rock. Was going to go 2 stars till the song Now I’m Everyone which just repeats what sounds like “This is a one” over and over. And so this is!

Racine carrée

Stromae

3/5

More fun than expected

Carrie & Lowell

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

To sad to listen to again but its a 5

Version 2.0

Garbage

4/5

When Smoke Rises

Mustafa

3/5

A1A

Jimmy Buffett

3/5

49 years and 10 months-that’s how long it took me to listen to an actual Jimmy Buffet album. It was way more country than I expected. And better. Which is not to say I’d seek this out again, but I didn’t mind it

Kick

INXS

5/5

Like many other reviewers I just can’t believe this album isn’t on the original list. They’re really telling me we needed multiple Tim Buckley albums and they didn’t put INXS Kick on there? That’s crazy. This is a great album

Contra

Vampire Weekend

4/5

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

It’s not my fav

La cagaste... Burt Lancaster

Hombres G

3/5

Human Racing

Nik Kershaw

2/5

Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum

Tally Hall

3/5

Me: “AI- create an album by an imaginary band using the following prompts ‘Imagine if Weezer cover band tried to make something that sounded like Sgt. Peppers. But also make it sound like the band Barenaked Ladies somehow.’” AI: “processing…processing. Done. Please enjoy Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum by Tally Hall” Me (after listening): “It’s not bad but AI has long way to go before it can replace real music”

Hammersmith Odeon, London '75

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Savage Sinusoid

Igorrr

1/5

Great Big Sea

3/5

Forced Witness

Alex Cameron

2/5

I thought I would enjoy this way more than I did

The Hazards of Love

The Decemberists

3/5

Rock operas are not my thing

All Hail West Texas

The Mountain Goats

3/5

Very witty. Like the DIY home recordings.

Bob Mould

3/5

Weezer

5/5

Echoing all the other comments-this isn’t in the original list? Say it ain’t so!

Djarimirri

Gurrumul

3/5

Very interesting

Spanish Train And Other Stories

Chris de Burgh

1/5

I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One

Yo La Tengo

3/5

Act IV: Rebirth In Reprise

The Dear Hunter

2/5

When I saw this album pop up, I thought I was getting Deerhunter. This is not as good as that

Dilate

Ani DiFranco

4/5

Pony Express Record

Shudder To Think

4/5

One of the first albums on the fan list that I had not heard but genuinely liked. It’s very weird and very 1990s

Argus

Wishbone Ash

3/5

Silent Alarm

Bloc Party

5/5

Live At Madison Square Garden

Vulfpeck

3/5

Pretty fun

Join Us

They Might Be Giants

2/5

They might be boring

Music For People In Trouble

Susanne Sundfør

3/5

Because the Internet

Childish Gambino

3/5

Pushin' Against a Stone

Valerie June

3/5

Rêver mieux

Daniel Bélanger

3/5

Currents

Tame Impala

5/5

Foxes in the Snow

Jason Isbell

3/5

Tales Of Mystery And Imagination

The Alan Parsons Project

3/5

I really do not like progressive rock. And I really did not expect to like this at all, but I really didn’t mind this period especially side one. I’d almost go to four stars but I think I have to stick with three

The Fame

Lady Gaga

4/5

Dimanche à Bamako

Amadou & Mariam

4/5

Nice find.

10,000 gecs

100 gecs

4/5

As a Gen Xer, I have to say I really like this album. It was very very 90s. That manic sort of drawing on all sorts of influences. The ska, The Rock. All of it. I didn’t know this before but this was a great addition

Comfort To Me

Amyl and The Sniffers

3/5

John Dawson Winter III

Johnny Winter

3/5

Not essential but totally enjoyable

Discosis

Bran Van 3000

3/5

I never heard of this. First thing I thought this was some weird Curtis Mayfield sounding cover band. Then I realized it was Curtis Mayfield. This was fun. Not flawless by any means. But I enjoyed it and will check out the rest of their discography

John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman

John Coltrane

5/5

HELLYEAH

1/5

Dogrel

Fontaines D.C.

3/5

Fashion Nugget

CAKE

4/5

Cake? Ahh ya. All right

Thunder And Consolation

New Model Army

3/5

Meh

Harbor Lights

Bruce Hornsby

2/5

Sorry. Not for me

Lateralus

TOOL

2/5

Young, Loud And Snotty

Dead Boys

4/5

Ultra Blue

Hikaru Utada

2/5

I appreciate that this is something new, but it’s also really boring

The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking

Roger Waters

4/5

I like Pink Floyd. But I hate “The Wall” And this is a really shitty version of the wall. It’s almost incomprehensible to me that so many songs should sound exactly the same. It was just boring

Hand. Cannot. Erase.

Steven Wilson

3/5

First song alone was worth it

Don't Throw Stones

THE SPORTS

3/5

Somewhere In The Between

Streetlight Manifesto

4/5

Way better than expected.

Ænima

TOOL

2/5

Ugh. More tool

Symbolic

Death

1/5

Blink-182

blink-182

2/5

Not necessary

22, A Million

Bon Iver

3/5

I appreciate the effort but not my fav

The Shape Of Jazz To Come

Ornette Coleman

5/5

A glaring omission from the original list. But hey, there was so much rando electronica that they just had to include. If you are going to title an album “The Shape of Jazz to Come” you’d better deliver. And boy does this

The Monitor

Titus Andronicus

3/5

It’s okay

Boxer

The National

4/5

People

The Burning Hell

4/5

This album was really great. It’s really no small feat to be able to craft lyrics that witty and self-referential without seeming like you’re trying too hard or you’re just kind of an asshole. And they really do it here they thread that threaded that needle. It wasn’t world changing. I’m not going to go with five stars but it was a solid four for me

Yeti

Amon Düül II

4/5

A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

The 1975

3/5

I was bored

Watch Out!

Alexisonfire

2/5

Not a genre I enjoy

God Shuffled His Feet

Crash Test Dummies

3/5

Café Tacvba

5/5

What a great album. I absolutely loved every bit of it

"Awaken, My Love!"

Childish Gambino

4/5

Tons of Sly and the family stone vibes here

Odyssey Number Five

Powderfinger

2/5

GUTS

Olivia Rodrigo

4/5

Great pop rock.

Discovery

Daft Punk

4/5

MOMENTUM

Calibro 35

3/5

The Best of The Hot 5 & Hot 7 Recordings

Louis Armstrong

5/5

Normally I would mark something down for not being a real “album” but in this case there’s nothing to be done about it. It’s amazing to think that these songs were recorded closer to the Civil War than they were today! Obviously the audio quality on some of them is better than others, but they’re so important to the history of American music. And many people have highlighted the real weakness this list has for jazz albums. I certainly don’t expect that this thing would be littered with jazz, it’s definitely a niche genre at this point, but instead of having 17 PJ Harvey albums they probably could’ve put one album by the singularly most important musician of early recorded music

Lahai

Sampha

3/5

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Neutral Milk Hotel

4/5

Spilt Milk

Jellyfish

4/5