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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche Koffi Olomide	5	2.6	+2.4
Atomizer Big Black	5	2.72	+2.28
You Are The Quarry Morrissey	5	2.86	+2.14
Good Old Boys Randy Newman	5	2.86	+2.14
Beach Samba Astrud Gilberto	5	2.92	+2.08
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry Billy Bragg	5	2.97	+2.03
Felt Mountain Goldfrapp	5	3	+2
Teenage Head Flamin' Groovies	5	3.03	+1.97
Eternally Yours The Saints	5	3.06	+1.94
The Trinity Session Cowboy Junkies	5	3.07	+1.93

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Nothing's Shocking Jane's Addiction	1	3.17	-2.17
The Lexicon Of Love ABC	1	3.08	-2.08
If I Could Only Remember My Name David Crosby	1	3.07	-2.07
Live / Dead Grateful Dead	1	2.83	-1.83
What's That Noise? Coldcut	1	2.78	-1.78
Strange Cargo III William Orbit	1	2.77	-1.77
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar	2	3.61	-1.61
Third Soft Machine	1	2.43	-1.43
Tommy The Who	2	3.34	-1.34
Me Against The World 2Pac	2	3.25	-1.25

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Artist	Albums	Average
Bob Dylan	3	5

5-Star Albums (24)

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Atomizer

Big Black

5/5

I am not a huge fan of electro based music. But I can appreciate good sounds, elegant beats and surprising musical twists and turns. This album works as background as well as for intense listening. A discovery.

6 likes

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

4/5

Not every song on this album really takes me. But the way Mike Scott is into the music takes me always.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (7)

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Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

5/5

A true genius, unconventional and fresh, even 60 years later!

Woodface

Crowded House

2/5

Shiny surface, but nothing to find underneath it for me.

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

3/5

A true classic but hard to stand. Massive negative affect. Mark E Smith the king of irritability and bad vibrations!

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

4/5

Me Against The World

2Pac

2/5

Although I can appreciate the value of Rap Music for many people I can’t personally connect to it.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

4/5

Violent Femmes

4/5

It’s raw and radical, it’s childish and refreshing. These early days of Indiepoppunk had their genius moments. And they are still there even 40 years later!

Eagles

4/5

True American heritage. Musical artisans through and through. Sweet country tunes, rock and blues rock in a careful balance. Not full five stars because cheesiness is always around the corner.

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Great and everlasting voice. Unfortunately not always the best songwriting on this album. But still a great musician!

Tommy

The Who

2/5

This album was a legend in its time. 43 years later I could hardly stand that sound. Far too artificial for me now.

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

4/5

Not every song on this album really takes me. But the way Mike Scott is into the music takes me always.

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

5/5

A few beats and you find yourself sitting on the docks of Marseille or on a bridge over the Seine river. Very cool. I am always regretting that my French is so bad. I guess this guy has something to say

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

4/5

It was a blast when I heard it first in 1983/1984. Still, after all these years it is something that speaks to me, despite the foreseeable harmonies. Nothing to have in the background. More a sound-movie than just an album.

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

2/5

Although she is definitely a creative and outstanding person and I would love to like it- PJ Harveys music is definitely not my thing.

High Violet

The National

3/5

One more band trying the footsteps of Joy Division. They have some elegance in their songs but also a lot of foreseeable changes. Not the worst album.

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

4/5

Didn’t remember how close Blur where to The Kinks but also to English Punkrock heroes like The Clash or The Jam. Still nice to re-discover.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

One of the best albums of the best songwriter ever. The lyrics provoke such intense pictures, you don’t need a movie to watch when you can just listen.

The Score

Fugees

5/5

Loved that album when it came out in the middle 90ies. Still I love the energy, the elegance and the smoothness. And of course the political relevance.

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

2/5

Paul Simon, the wonder child of folkpop. Always smart and gentle. However, on this album sometimes the water is too shallow.

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

5/5

Hell of an album, hell of a band. So sad what became of this bunch, when they had nothing to do than fight against each other because of some money for royalties.

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

4/5

Too expressive for a convenient background listening. But still good energetic performance. A discovery to me…29 years later finally.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

5/5

Sometimes funky, sometimes melancholic, sometimes rocking. Always elegant. I truly become a fan of Brazilian music.

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

3/5

Very variable range of pieces that I like and don’t like. I didn’t have the SFA really on my list before and with these mixed results they hardly will make there in the future.

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

5/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

A real good journey back in time to when glam rock was born. Experimental and surprising sometimes and sometimes simple plain rock. Like saying hello to an old friend who keeps some secrets after all these years.

Pump

Aerosmith

2/5

Aerosmith was never my band and still isn’t after listening to Pump.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

This oldschool funk still breathes a lot of Gospel and Soul heritage. Some sounds are playful and experimental. Not the worst companions for gray and lazy Sunday afternoon.

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

1/5

David Crosby signed his name in the great anthology of Rock Music history as being part of Crosby Stills Nash&Young and the legendary Byrds. I loved their music from my Childhood and early Teenage days. In contrast to these memories my first encounter with hid solo album was disappointing. Boring, boring, boring I mumbled to my self. Cheesy chord progressions, slow rock at it’s worst and endless guitar solos- the stuff I deeply dislike. Sorry Dave!

Berlin

Lou Reed

3/5

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

4/5

Music to relax in small cappuccino bar when the skies are grey and wind blows shades of rain trough the mai street. At times the violin is a screwdriver inside all that musical wellness.

Atomizer

Big Black

5/5

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Glory Box is still a legend! The rest of the album has its specific mystical atmosphere. By listening to Dummy from alpha to omega it clearly reveales some lengths.

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

1/5

I suppose it was some pioneer work to do such an album in the early 90ies. But it didn’t take me.

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

1/5

Endless guitar vicious circles leading nowhere. Vocals without any fresh impulse, neither in melodic nor in lyrical ways. I didn’t went into JA in the 90ies, and I am not in the 2020.

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

Not the worst album in this compilation. I didn’t have Love really on my list of the must-listened-to of the sixties. But I have an idea how and why they made it to the 1001s. Nice to say hello again.

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

1/5

Sorry I didn’t like those sounds back than in the 80ies nor do I like them now. To much shiny surface, zero soul.

Eternally Yours

The Saints

5/5

Yeah yeah yeah, the true spirit of Punkrock! Raw, unpleasant and honest to the bone! Lots of fun to meet The Saints here.

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

3/5

A well known album with very tight beats and cool sounds designs. I am not very much into Rap music and have my question marks especially on Gangsta Rap. Maybe it’s a good thing here that I dont exactly know what is really going on in the lyrics.

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

5/5

I love this album since I ve bought it in Hungaria in 1989 approx. although some of the cheap synthie-sounds were strange. Leonards songs are undestoyable and last forever.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

5/5

Sad eyed lady of the lowlands..I want you… Just like a woman…Songs for the eternity. Still they make me wanna cry, wanna laugh and wanna sing out loud all at once in the same moment.

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

That was the album that changed Punkrock city Berlin into a Northcarribean Easyliving Salsatown. There was no bar in 1997/1998 where BVSC wasn’t dropping out of the stereos. Or was it because citizens and scenes changed? What was hen what was egg. We don’t know. Anyway, the music is immortal.

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Powerful straightforward 1980ies rock n roll. Whith a great poet screaming his soul out off his chest. Love it!

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Shuggie Otis

3/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

5/5

One of the best albums of that decade...or even for eternity;-)

The Rise & Fall

Madness

2/5

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

4/5

Never been much into Rap, but this one is good. Soulful and intense at the same time.

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

3/5

Progressive in the early 2000‘s but not aged very good.

Guero

Beck

4/5

Beck was the playful wonder child of the 90s. It’s still a joy sitting beside his rhythmic voice playground, listening.

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

Surprisingly fresh, I always perceived DMR as a one hit wonder until today.. I think I have to correct that.

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

1/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

5/5

Such a Brillant Punkrock Poet. Loved his music in the 80ies and still do!

Lost Souls

Doves

4/5

Smooth hypnotic, but better not listen to on suicidal days

Peter Gabriel

5/5

Best Pop album of the 80ies. Powerful sounds, unsual chord changes and the melancholic voice of Peter Gabriel driven by dynamic beats. I celebrated it back in 1986 and do celebrating it still!

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

5/5

Swingin at his best. All hands up for this album!

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

3/5

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

4/5

Very intense music, unusual and unlikely common pop music stuff

Third