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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Various Artists
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5 | 3.46 | +1.54 |
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Music
311
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4 | 2.64 | +1.36 |
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Afrociberdelia
Chico Science
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4 | 2.68 | +1.32 |
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L'Heptade
Harmonium
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4 | 2.83 | +1.17 |
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Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau
Chris Thile
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4 | 2.86 | +1.14 |
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Vedergällningen
Garmarna
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4 | 2.88 | +1.12 |
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Images and Words
Dream Theater
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4 | 2.94 | +1.06 |
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Live in San Francisco
Thee Oh Sees
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4 | 2.95 | +1.05 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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Discovery
Daft Punk
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2 | 3.95 | -1.95 |
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All Hail West Texas
The Mountain Goats
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1 | 2.9 | -1.9 |
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The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess
Chappell Roan
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2 | 3.51 | -1.51 |
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Silent Alarm
Bloc Party
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2 | 3.48 | -1.48 |
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Give Up
The Postal Service
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2 | 3.46 | -1.46 |
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The Simple Plan
August is Falling
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1 | 2.42 | -1.42 |
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A Deeper Understanding
The War On Drugs
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2 | 3.34 | -1.34 |
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Boxer
The National
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2 | 3.33 | -1.33 |
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Transatlanticism
Death Cab for Cutie
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2 | 3.33 | -1.33 |
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Música, Gramática, Gimnasia
Dënver
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2 | 3.33 | -1.33 |
5-Star Albums (1)
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Swans · 2 likes
2/5
Way too long.
Cindy Lee · 2 likes
4/5
A little long, but very good.
Charli xcx · 1 likes
2/5
Autotune nonsense. Not sure why this would be here
Stray From The Path · 1 likes
2/5
Angry little edgelords should have learned from limp bizkit that saying fuck every other line doesn’t make an album.
Jeff Rosenstock · 1 likes
4/5
This went from who is this guy? To this isn’t half bad, to that was a great album! Enjoyed the hell out of this
1-Star Albums (3)
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Spose
3/5
Pearl Jam
4/5
Harry Styles
2/5
Koritni
3/5
Screeching Weasel
3/5
Garmarna
4/5
Didnt understand a word but it was really good
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
2/5
John Mayer
3/5
Jeff Rosenstock
4/5
This went from who is this guy? To this isn’t half bad, to that was a great album! Enjoyed the hell out of this
Guy Clark
3/5
Great writer
R.E.M.
3/5
Tame Impala
3/5
Amadou & Mariam
3/5
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
4/5
Khruangbin
3/5
Noname
2/5
The Who
4/5
Amália Rodrigues
3/5
Daniel Bélanger
2/5
No
Deafheaven
2/5
Music was ok. The screeching not so much
Kayo Dot
3/5
Margot & The Nuclear So And So's
3/5
Cardiacs
3/5
Korn
3/5
Bloc Party
2/5
Pretty generic
Portishead
4/5
Thee Oh Sees
4/5
Yeasayer
3/5
The Lumineers
3/5
Charli xcx
2/5
Autotune nonsense. Not sure why this would be here
The Sound
3/5
Sports Team
4/5
Quite good.
The Chameleons
3/5
Talk Talk
2/5
Kaizers Orchestra
3/5
Stray From The Path
2/5
Angry little edgelords should have learned from limp bizkit that saying fuck every other line doesn’t make an album.
Bon Iver
4/5
Espers
4/5
Very good
Yellowcard
3/5
Mustafa
2/5
Nuyorican Soul
3/5
2/5
Barely a 2.5 very generic sounding and I forgot how repetitive counting stars was. Annoying by the end
The Hold Steady
3/5
Pedro The Lion
3/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
4/5
Excellent submission
Ookla The Mok
2/5
Debbie Gibson
2/5
Nic Jones
3/5
Baroness
3/5
First, this is not heavy metal by any means. Thats like calling Volbeat or Five Finger Dick Grabber metal. Not even close. This was very ballady. I didn’t hate it, but it wasn’t great either. There are some periods of good stuff here, but not enough to justify a double album worth. However, it is better than the 2 aforementioned not metal acts. Right in the middle, 2.5 close to a 3.
Robyn
2/5
Swans
2/5
Way too long.
Joe Jackson
4/5
Avenged Sevenfold
2/5
Never got the hype. Singer sounds so pop-like. Whiny, almost ballad-y. Music is ok, the Rev was a great drummer, but the singer kills it.
Various Artists
2/5
Why?
Valerie June
4/5
Denzel Curry
2/5
The Tragically Hip
3/5
My Chemical Romance
3/5
Charles Aznavour
4/5
Really good.
Tom Misch
3/5
Eric B. & Rakim
3/5
The Postal Service
2/5
Theres enough electronica on the original list, sure as shit don’t need more added
Shania Twain
3/5
Courteeners
3/5
Unwound
3/5
Olivia Rodrigo
3/5
Yoko Ono
1/5
ISIS
2/5
Way too long. Each song could have been trimmed by minutes. The screaming was quite annoying as well. Good music though, should have been an instrumental album
Cindy Lee
4/5
A little long, but very good.
Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
3/5
Savages
3/5
The Chats
3/5
Glad to see punk is still being represented, but this was nothing new. This has been done multiple times and much better.
Calibro 35
2/5
INXS
4/5
Mr. Bungle
4/5
The Burning Hell
3/5
GAS
2/5
*ASS. FTFY
Stromae
2/5
Graham Parker
2/5
Generic and boring.
Songs: Ohia
2/5
Reminded me of something but not exactly sure what. Cake maybe? Staind? Anyway, not that great
Aesop Rock
3/5
3.5? Not bad at all
Nik Kershaw
3/5
Pink Floyd
4/5
Chloe x Halle
2/5
Gang of Youths
3/5
Meh. Barely a 3
Neil Cicierega
2/5
Pop Will Eat Itself
2/5
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
4/5
Excellent submission. This is what user submissions are about. Does this deserve to be on the original list? Probably not. But highly listenable. The Bowie song made it, and kept it a 4.
The National
2/5
I found this quite boring. Everyone talks about this band as amazing, but the singers voice made every song sound the same.
Martha
3/5
Great Big Sea
3/5
Started out so good, first 2 songs were great, then the ballad hit. Brought it down and it never recovered. Probably a 3, but could have been higher had they cut some fat.
No Doubt
3/5
I’ll give a 3 just because it was big at the time. “Just A Girl” hit the airwaves like a punch in the face. Then the radio got ahold of “Spiderwebs” and “Don’t Speak” and preceded to beat the dead horse with constant bombardment of replays. The album wasn’t that great, Gwen was better when she sang with Sublime, and this is highly overrated. 2.5 tops, but I’ll round up
Yo La Tengo
3/5
Joan As Police Woman
3/5
Nothing I would seek out to listen to, or probably listen to again but this was pretty good
Angelo De Augustine
2/5
That voice got annoying real quick
Louis Armstrong
4/5
Björk
4/5
Gotcha!
2/5
Meh…….
ROSALÍA
4/5
Quite good. Didn’t understand it, not something I would seek out, but great voice. Nice submission
3/5
Almost a 4
Mull Historical Society
2/5
Brand New
3/5
The Vaccines
3/5
Daft Punk
2/5
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Refused
3/5
TOOL
4/5
Electric Callboy
2/5
Arthur Russell
2/5
Comus
3/5
The 1975
3/5
Sufjan Stevens
4/5
Great stuff
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore
3/5
Richard Dawson
2/5
Chappell Roan
2/5
Not for me
Bad Religion
4/5
Metric
3/5
Bo Burnham
2/5
Type O Negative
3/5
Long but decent. Trim some of the fat on those early lengthy numbers. The cover was good, Steele was a great frontman.
Vince Guaraldi Trio
4/5
Freddie Gibbs
2/5
Motherfucker, fucker, bitch and n**ger does not an album make. You need more than just cursing the same thing every verse. Barely a 2
Bon Iver
4/5
Death Cab for Cutie
2/5
Lame. High school girl drivel. Looked it up, featured multiple times in “The OC” show. Makes sense. No thanks
Chromatics
3/5
Way too long. Kept it from being a 4. Parts were good, much of it was slog. Not super impressed
Michael Hurley
3/5
Spinvis
2/5
Emicida
3/5
LaBelle
3/5
Shudder To Think
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
The Heads
3/5
Jimmy Eat World
3/5
Streetlight Manifesto
4/5
Frank Zappa
4/5
Genius
Imogen Heap
2/5
Glass Animals
3/5
Ok, I guess. Nothing spectacular. 2.5 but i’ll round up
Gurrumul
4/5
Paul McCartney
4/5
Turnpike Troubadours
3/5
Frightened Rabbit
3/5
Extremoduro
2/5
Way too long of course, probably what kept it at a 2. It wasn’t that bad, but it also wasn’t that good.
Alex Cameron
2/5
The Weakerthans
3/5
A very weak 3. Should be 2.5
Igorrr
3/5
Primus
4/5
Warren Zevon
4/5
Kano
3/5
Not bad, but dragged on
Tori Amos
4/5
This might be better than her debut
Matthew Good Band
2/5
Mylène Farmer
3/5
Barenaked Ladies
2/5
Never got these guys. If it wasn’t for 90’s teen comedies they would be non existent.
Shpongle
2/5
Dream Theater
4/5
Is this Love Metal? Very ballad heavy, but really good ballads. Portnoy is incredible as usual. All around great band, good submission. 3.5, but will round up
"Weird Al" Yankovic
4/5
Haley Heynderickx
4/5
One of the best things about this trip is albums like this. Would have never listened to this, didn’t know who she was, and probably won’t listen again as it isn’t my genre, but for just under 31 minutes yesterday, there was pure first time enjoyment of an exceptional album. Great submission
Jai Paul
2/5
Operation Ivy
4/5
Early Rancid, excellent choice
Enter Shikari
2/5
Meh
Silverchair
3/5
Everything Everything
2/5
Rachel Stevens
2/5
Chet Baker
4/5
blink-182
3/5
The Upsetters
4/5
Mac Miller
2/5
Is this mumble rap? The hell is wrong with his voice? Beats are great but the voice kills it
MF DOOM
3/5
Various Artists
5/5
My submission so of course it’s a 5. Holds a special place for me as 2 family members who have passed, (one recently) loved this with all their being and having the chance to add it here was something I couldn’t pass up. Love it, hate it, it doesn’t matter to me we all have different tastes but it will be on this list now as a remembrance to them from me.
Oh and to the clown who gave it a 1 star and said it doesn’t belong here, there are multiple soundtracks in the book and the list, so pound sand. Open your mind just a smidgen and appreciate something good.
Protomartyr
3/5
Killswitch Engage
3/5
Scraping Foetus off the Wheel
2/5
Porcupine Tree
4/5
Who is that, Ron Burgundy? Jazz flute??? Not a bad submission at all, being serious. Slogged a little in parts, could have trimmed a little but overall, very enjoyable. Solid 4.
Oingo Boingo
3/5
The hits were great. The rest, not so much
The Notwist
2/5
Dolly Parton
4/5
Arca
2/5
The Avett Brothers
3/5
Mac DeMarco
3/5
Robyn Hitchcock
3/5
By the time I got to Steve, I was annoyed. Subpar
King Crimson
3/5
Not their best by any means. Barely a 3.
Daft Punk
2/5
Repetitive ass. One in the main list was more than enough
Living Colour
3/5
Ani DiFranco
3/5
Ween
4/5
The Breeders
3/5
Lady Gaga
4/5
Not my style at all but you cannot be a music fan and disregard her talent.
First Aid Kit
4/5
Backstreet Boys
2/5
Carly Rae Jepsen
2/5
This was trolling right?
Wet Leg
4/5
311
4/5
Excellent
The Weeknd
2/5
Charles Mingus
4/5
Smooth
blink-182
3/5
Amon Düül II
3/5
Bruce Cockburn
2/5
of Montreal
3/5
The Church
3/5
Paramore
4/5
John Frusciante
3/5
Exceptional yet forgettable. Felt like if Stephen King wrote an album. Well done, but insanely long winded. Only album I’ve heard that made me want to punch the artist for being pretentious.
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
3/5
Gaelle
3/5
Nice voice
Beyoncé
2/5
BABYMETAL
3/5
Soul Coughing
3/5
Quicksand
3/5
Not bad
HELLYEAH
2/5
Pretty lame “supergroup”
Jimmy Buffett
3/5
Not his best, but still entertaining. 3.5
Magdalena Bay
2/5
Wow that got annoying really quick.
CAKE
3/5
Meh. Monotone gets old quick. Barely a 3. Thats generous.
Auri
2/5
2/5
Allan Rayman
2/5
THE SPORTS
3/5
Generic for the time. Barely and I mean barely a 3.
Lift To Experience
2/5
Way too long, and the second coming sure as hell ain’t happening in Texas. At least it was slightly better than Drive By Truckers 75 minute blowfest of Skynyrd.
Charly García
3/5
Zach Bryan
2/5
Bran Van 3000
3/5
Theres some good here, there’s a lot of trash here though. Big Daddy Kane is saving this from a 2.
Medeski, Martin & Wood
3/5
Sounds like something the Beastie Boys would have sampled. Not bad
Harmonium
4/5
Good stuff. Nice and relaxing, didn’t understand a single word, but don’t think it was needed to appreciate this. Great submission
The Sundays
3/5
Caroline Polachek
3/5
Ween
4/5
The War On Drugs
2/5
Length kept this from a 3.
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
4/5
So much more to this guy than “Blue on Black.” Great album, great submission.
Modern Life Is War
2/5
I guess you could call that punk, but it wasn’t very good punk
Sunny Day Real Estate
3/5
Meh i guess
Dead Boys
3/5
Good punk
Anaïs Mitchell
3/5
Salif Keita
3/5
Fall Out Boy
2/5
Kind if annoying
August is Falling
1/5
Really? This is the second trolling album in the user submissions so far. Why waste an entry with something like this.
Modest Mouse
4/5
Dënver
2/5
Black Devil Disco Club
3/5
WHY?
2/5
First off I can’t take anyones submission seriously who gives a 1 star to The Ramones, Rolling Stones, The Who. Hate classic rock all you want but if you’re doing this list and can’t see The Ramones contribution to music, then you probably shouldn’t be doing this list.
Second you haven’t finished which is another reason for not taking it seriously.
Third, judging by this submission, and your ratings, I’m not surprised you didn’t understand The Residents either.
This album is a charitable 2.
Chris Thile
4/5
The length could have kept this from being rated a 4, but the quality of this kept it a 4. Another example of artists not knowing when to trim the fat. These songs didn’t need to be 6 min long. But this was quite good regardless
American Football
4/5
The drumming steal this album. Good submission
Bon Iver
2/5
Hamilton Leithauser
4/5
Lady Gaga
3/5
Lizzy McAlpine
2/5
Queens of the Stone Age
4/5
Should have been on original list
The Mountain Goats
1/5
Sounded like a bad sitcom story spoken to acoustic guitar. Just talking, rambling. Not sure why this is here. 2 would be generous
Boredoms
2/5
Arctic Monkeys
3/5
Not as good as debut but still solid
The Cure
4/5
Smith still got it
Al Stewart
3/5
Zamilska
2/5
Ex-Easter Island Head
2/5
Jon Batiste
3/5
Jack Johnson
4/5
Good stuff
4/5
Phish
2/5
Slim Krusty
3/5
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
3/5
Jaco Pastorius
3/5
Boards of Canada
2/5
Chico Science
4/5
Touché Amoré
3/5
Ok but they all sounded the same
They Might Be Giants
4/5