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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
OK Talvin Singh	5	2.57	+2.43
Raw Like Sushi Neneh Cherry	5	2.7	+2.3
Olympia 64 Jacques Brel	5	2.78	+2.22
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts Brian Eno	5	2.79	+2.21
São Paulo Confessions Suba	5	2.83	+2.17
The Sounds Of India Ravi Shankar	5	2.85	+2.15
Red Dirt Girl Emmylou Harris	5	2.86	+2.14
Greetings From L.A. Tim Buckley	5	2.86	+2.14
The New Tango Astor Piazzolla	5	2.88	+2.12
Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective	5	2.9	+2.1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hot Fuss The Killers	1	3.74	-2.74
Definitely Maybe Oasis	1	3.52	-2.52
The Idiot Iggy Pop	1	3.21	-2.21
London Calling The Clash	2	3.98	-1.98
Copper Blue Sugar	1	2.97	-1.97
Black Monk Time The Monks	1	2.94	-1.94
Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin	2	3.91	-1.91
A Short Album About Love The Divine Comedy	1	2.77	-1.77
With The Beatles Beatles	2	3.66	-1.66
Strangeways, Here We Come The Smiths	2	3.44	-1.44

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Simon & Garfunkel	3	4.67
Michael Jackson	2	5
Frank Sinatra	2	5
David Bowie	2	5

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Pulp	2, 5
The Smiths	5, 2, 2

5-Star Albums (74)

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Popular Reviews

Talvin Singh

5/5

this fucks

1 likes

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

1/5

nope

1 likes

1-Star Albums (7)

All Ratings

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

First album on this list! Enjoyed hearing the guitars at different spots in the soundstage and being able to tell exactly where and how they interlocked. Sister Morphine is the standout for me.

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

3/5

Songwriting was interesting but not quite the range I was looking for.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

4/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Among The Living

Anthrax

4/5

not my usual cup of tea but they really said “land back” and i respect that

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

ELLA :]]]]]

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

2/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

5/5

very danceable!

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

forever a slut for paul simon

Queens of the Stone Age

4/5

sludgy guitar rock was nice but nothing special— the more experimental electronic bits take it from a 3 to a 4 for me

Mask

Bauhaus

3/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

4/5

initially i was like “men yelling over weird guitars. 2” but then i found out they were one of the first to do it in this way?

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

4/5

vroom vroom

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

literal king of pop

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

solid moody man music

Talvin Singh

5/5

this fucks

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

5/5

Fleet Foxes

5/5

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

quality power ballad guitar stuff here

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

5/5

👾👾👾

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

4/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

5/5

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

4/5

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

4/5

Suzanne Vega

3/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

HSB and the guitars in general are undeniable but i think maybe i just don’t like grunge that much???

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

In It For The Money

Supergrass

3/5

standout: Cheapskate otherwise not super exciting?

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

5/5

SHREDS

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

4/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

3/5

I Against I

Bad Brains

3/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

jamming 😤

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Smile

Brian Wilson

4/5

Very

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

5/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

2/5

spark that bled was cool. overall not super into this one though

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

4/5

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

5/5

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

4/5

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

2/5

Scum

Napalm Death

3/5

More Specials

The Specials

2/5

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

4/5

Slipknot

3/5

A Seat at the Table

Solange

5/5

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

2/5

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

3/5

Gorillaz

4/5

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

4/5

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

2/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

Solid Air

John Martyn

4/5

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

4/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

stage presence

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

2/5

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

5/5

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

3/5

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

5/5

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

2/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

4/5

a few real bangers here

Odelay

Beck

3/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

4/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

The Stone Roses

4/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

4/5

so much better than it has any business being

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

Real Life

Magazine

3/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

5/5

banger

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

The Joshua Tree

4/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

2/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

3/5

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

some classics

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

fine

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

2/5

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

4/5

Cut

The Slits

2/5

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

1/5

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

4/5

Street Signs

Ozomatli

3/5

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

5/5

xylophone goes CRAZY here!!!!

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

5/5

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

5/5

Diamond Life

Sade

5/5

shreds

Black Sabbath

4/5

Out of Step

Minor Threat

4/5

this fucks

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

i mean come on

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

4/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

not my thing but i respect the artistry

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

1/5

Cross

Justice

5/5

fuck yeah

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

2/5

could not deal with the harmonica on this

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

3/5

points for ambition. probably won’t listen again for awhile though

Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

5/5

I continue to be a slut for a tight harmony

Chelsea Girl

Nico

4/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

4/5

Beautiful Freak

Eels

4/5

I liked this way more than I thought I would—crazy good guitar work especially. I don’t know how widely sampled this was, but a few parts called to mind some more recent artists.

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

3/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

5/5

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

5/5

better than i remembered it. definitely gonna come back to this again and again

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

4/5

PG was apparently worried the long instrumentals would get boring, I think the long wacky lyrics are more of a concern. but everything else here is undeniable genius

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

2/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

5/5

heartbreaking!!!

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

4/5

Faust IV

Faust

3/5

shrug

Joan Armatrading

5/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

5/5

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

3/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

5/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

once again good but not my thing

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

3/5

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

5/5

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

like springsteen with better guitar and worse writing

Peter Gabriel

4/5

i’d do coke to this

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

5/5

no live recorded audience has ever been hornier

Ramones

4/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

Elastica

5/5

The Cars

3/5

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

5/5

surprisingly fun

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

4/5

i can see why ppl like this but nothing really stuck out here

Moving Pictures

Rush

3/5

every song starts out super strong but goes on just a bit too long. edit!

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

5/5

sexiest album ever made

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

5/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

5/5

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

3/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

one of those albums that feels kind of meh but only because everyone else is standing on his shoulders

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Document

R.E.M.

5/5

surprised at how much i enjoyed this— at least a dozen bands come to mind that borrowed from this one specifically too.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

good but unremarkable

Risque

CHIC

5/5

bangs

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

3/5

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

5/5

okay tim!

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

5/5

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

2/5

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

2/5

🆗 and…

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Copper Blue

Sugar

1/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

2/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

Suicide

4/5

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

2/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

4/5

fun!

Is This It

The Strokes

3/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

4/5

lovely and strange!

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

5/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

System Of A Down

4/5

great guitars

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

a few duds, but a few standouts too ("tusk", "storms", "beautiful child", "sisters of the moon"). appreciate that they really wanted to not make rumours all over again, though i think this is just a bit less successful.

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

5/5

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

2/5

gets better toward the middle but overall not that exciting

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

damn good guitar

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

2/5

ok and?

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

no standout moments but the hype is well deserved

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Black Monk Time

The Monks

1/5

???

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

2/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

3/5

oh wow a lot of people pulled from this.

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

4/5

The xx

4/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

2/5

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

GREY Area

Little Simz

4/5

Heroes

David Bowie

5/5

so many bangers in so many different directions!

Os Mutantes

5/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

5/5

😵

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

3/5

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

1/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

4/5

i remember being OBSESSED with this as a kid, and now, despite appreciating the music more, i don’t like it quite as much? still good though

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

as a pseudo-angeleno I am contractually obligated to give 5 stars but actually this is too much fun

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

fun

Opus Dei

Laibach

3/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

3/5

decent! I liked “Metal Baby” for its goth gf yearning

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

4/5

surprisingly good

Palo Congo

Sabu

4/5

This had me tapping out polyrhythms at my desk for a few hours after I finished listening.

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Charmingly weird with unsurprisingly great guitar

Debut

Björk

5/5

just keeps getting better

The Velvet Underground

3/5

never been my thing, but their style is undeniable. last song is a real heartstring-ripper.

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

5/5

thrilling

Revolver

Beatles

4/5

I mean yeah

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

swings from heartrending meditations on old age to whatever the hell “at the zoo” is. I love my kings from queens

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

a classic, and the sound is undeniable. not sure I feel the lyrics as hard as critics seem to, but whatever. funk forever

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

when he’s not too far up his own ass, he’s a genius

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

2/5

astrud I love you always but this is a snoozefest

Stephen Stills

3/5

fine

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

Dirty

Sonic Youth

2/5

these guys just never really do it for me

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

gorgeous gorgeous girls love gorgeous gorgeous guitar

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

4/5

surprised at how into this I was. first half better than second imo

L.A. Woman

The Doors

5/5

riders on the storm is a perfect song, what a choice to end the album with it

London Calling

The Clash

2/5

fun but whatever

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

2nd fav beatles album I think. the songs just go places

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

5/5

nostalgia

Hot Fuss

The Killers

1/5

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

4/5

undeniable

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

sure, why not weep on my walk to work

Different Class

Pulp

5/5

Sincere

Mj Cole

3/5

Common

5/5

Liquid Swords

GZA

4/5

fun!

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

4/5

a folk album with several actual folk songs! british excellence

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Roxy Music

2/5

some fun drums I guess

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

2/5

I think I just can’t do morrissey sorry

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

5/5

astonishing

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

😭

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

4/5

grew on me

Adele

5/5

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

3/5

the guitar is impressive but eventually starts to feel gratuitous. edit! I will say for a live album the production is REALLY good.

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

5/5

🫨🫨🫨

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

3/5

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

1/5

nope

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

5/5

The Band

2/5

Shrug

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

3/5

Fun, but nothing showstopping.