"Call the Police" was pretty good, with an engaging melody and backing rhythm. "Oh Baby", the other "highly rated track", was pretty dull, standard drum-machine and bass electronica. The other dogs fall in between a bit - interesting lyrics on some, but musically uninspired.
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Rating Distribution
Rating Timeline
Taste Profile
Breakdown
By Genre
Top Styles
By Decade
By Origin
Albums
You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Penthouse And Pavement
Heaven 17
|
5 | 2.61 | +2.39 |
|
Pictures At An Exhibition
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
|
5 | 2.64 | +2.36 |
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Movies
Holger Czukay
|
5 | 2.71 | +2.29 |
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Live / Dead
Grateful Dead
|
5 | 2.81 | +2.19 |
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Vanishing Point
Primal Scream
|
5 | 2.82 | +2.18 |
|
Electric Music For The Mind And Body
Country Joe & The Fish
|
5 | 2.84 | +2.16 |
|
Kilimanjaro
The Teardrop Explodes
|
5 | 2.86 | +2.14 |
|
Fly Or Die
N.E.R.D
|
5 | 2.87 | +2.13 |
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Picture Book
Simply Red
|
5 | 2.87 | +2.13 |
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Street Signs
Ozomatli
|
5 | 2.88 | +2.12 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Definitely Maybe
Oasis
|
1 | 3.54 | -2.54 |
|
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
|
1 | 3.32 | -2.32 |
|
Unhalfbricking
Fairport Convention
|
1 | 3.15 | -2.15 |
|
Close To You
Carpenters
|
1 | 3.13 | -2.13 |
|
Truth And Soul
Fishbone
|
1 | 2.96 | -1.96 |
|
Grievous Angel
Gram Parsons
|
1 | 2.87 | -1.87 |
|
Freak Out!
The Mothers Of Invention
|
1 | 2.81 | -1.81 |
|
Scott 4
Scott Walker
|
1 | 2.8 | -1.8 |
|
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Brian Eno
|
1 | 2.79 | -1.79 |
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Yank Crime
Drive Like Jehu
|
1 | 2.74 | -1.74 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Beatles | 7 | 4.86 |
| The Rolling Stones | 6 | 4.83 |
| Pink Floyd | 4 | 4.75 |
| Steely Dan | 4 | 4.75 |
| U2 | 4 | 4.75 |
| Simon & Garfunkel | 3 | 5 |
| Prince | 3 | 5 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival | 3 | 5 |
| Peter Gabriel | 3 | 5 |
| The Doors | 3 | 5 |
| Stevie Wonder | 4 | 4.5 |
| Neil Young | 4 | 4.5 |
| The White Stripes | 3 | 4.67 |
| Beck | 3 | 4.67 |
| Jimi Hendrix | 3 | 4.67 |
| Paul Simon | 3 | 4.67 |
| Michael Jackson | 3 | 4.67 |
| Nirvana | 3 | 4.67 |
| Queen | 3 | 4.67 |
| Van Morrison | 3 | 4.67 |
| Neil Young & Crazy Horse | 3 | 4.67 |
| Bob Dylan | 7 | 4.14 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins | 2 | 5 |
| Green Day | 2 | 5 |
| Dire Straits | 2 | 5 |
| Ray Charles | 2 | 5 |
| Aretha Franklin | 2 | 5 |
| Elton John | 2 | 5 |
| The Police | 2 | 5 |
| Fela Kuti | 2 | 5 |
| Eagles | 2 | 5 |
| Muddy Waters | 2 | 5 |
| Funkadelic | 2 | 5 |
| Primal Scream | 2 | 5 |
| Grateful Dead | 2 | 5 |
| R.E.M. | 4 | 4.25 |
| Yes | 3 | 4.33 |
| Marvin Gaye | 3 | 4.33 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Scott Walker | 2 | 1.5 |
| The Mothers Of Invention | 2 | 1.5 |
| Sonic Youth | 5 | 2.2 |
| Brian Eno | 4 | 2.25 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band | 1, 5 |
| Fairport Convention | 4, 1 |
| Everything But The Girl | 1, 4 |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 5, 2, 5, 2, 5 |
| Bruce Springsteen | 2, 5, 3, 4, 5 |
5-Star Albums (190)
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1-Star Albums (17)
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Interesting AFro-Brazilian album. Kinda jazzy
Folky, with interesting harmonies. Inconsistent quality. Kinda meh.
A classic!
Early funk. Songs are really short, and don't have a lot of variety between them.
I can hear a lot of the songs in later albums foreshadowed in this one.
Classic songs that sound very much the same
Pretty much what you'd expect from the Smiths. Not my cup of tea.
Beautiful and so easily recognized. Might as well be a greatest hits album.
Kinda meh - not my type of music
More jazzy than I expected, but still great
A refreshing return to "classic Beck"
feels like Bosstones without the soul
weird collection of what feels like free-form, somewhat spoken-word, often oddly specific-to-topic and political
I was expecting to only know "Me and Bobby McGee", but there were other familiar songs, too. "Move Over", "Cry Baby" and others are standouts. Much more rockin' than I had expected, frankly. The band is great!
I love this album. Brings me back to my younger adulthood.
Consistently good throughout, only one or two songs that aren't absolute bangers.
Reminiscent of mid-career Beatles, with a bit more guitar twang.
Shades of a stripped-down Debbie Harry, with a slight touch of punk.
"Call the Police" was pretty good, with an engaging melody and backing rhythm. "Oh Baby", the other "highly rated track", was pretty dull, standard drum-machine and bass electronica. The other dogs fall in between a bit - interesting lyrics on some, but musically uninspired.
Getting a lot of "early Tracy Chapman" crossover. Nice funk vibes, too.
So many classic songs! Just as sweet and folk-y , but with more trippy embellishments than I remember.
More mellow and folkier than expected. Really not seeing what all the fuss is about.
Much more analog rock feeling (elec guitar, bass, drums) than I expected.
Nice slice of Bowie's earlier work, including a few classics. Some clunkers in the mix, too.
kind of sub-par for Stevie Wonder - a bit too meandering and not terribly focused.
Basically a greatest hits live
meh
One knockout song, and the rest a bit ho-hum
Only one real standout song. Rest of the album is good, but not memorable.