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You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Chris
Christine and the Queens
5 2.81 +2.19
The Lexicon Of Love
ABC
5 3.07 +1.93
Machine Gun Etiquette
The Damned
5 3.16 +1.84
Vivid
Living Colour
5 3.21 +1.79
Little Earthquakes
Tori Amos
5 3.22 +1.78
Rust In Peace
Megadeth
5 3.24 +1.76
Cross
Justice
5 3.27 +1.73
Raw Power
The Stooges
5 3.3 +1.7
Horses
Patti Smith
5 3.31 +1.69
Cloud Nine
The Temptations
5 3.39 +1.61

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Hotel California
Eagles
1 3.58 -2.58
Bryter Layter
Nick Drake
1 3.52 -2.52
The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd
2 4.43 -2.43
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
1 3.43 -2.43
1989
Taylor Swift
1 3.26 -2.26
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1
George Michael
1 3.16 -2.16
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)
Bob Dylan
1 3.14 -2.14
Songs In The Key Of Life
Stevie Wonder
2 4.08 -2.08
evermore
Taylor Swift
1 3 -2
Ghosteen
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
1 2.95 -1.95

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Machine Gun Etiquette by The Damned

Pretty damn fun punk album. 4.5 but rounded up instead of down. Lots if great energy meaningful lyrics, and a kinetic pace.

The Next Day by David Bowie

A few good songs, but nothing particularly noteworthy. Confused how thisade the list.

Chris by Christine and the Queens

I honestly cannot day why, precisely, this album landed so well with me. Maybe it was my mood. Bit the poppy, sultry, dark, multilingual qualities all sorta worked t9gether to make me really dig this. Another day, another time, it may have fared worse.

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Band On The Run by Paul McCartney and Wings
Sep 15 2022

First track starts lame but then kicks into a cool groove. 😎 but them gets kinda lame again. Feels like 3 songs so far. Jet has a fine vibe, honestly. I kinda dig it vut the recording also TELLS me it's rearly fom a different era. I ❤️ed it on Spotify. Bluebird 9s okay, I guess. Kinda TOO repetitive. Rs whatever is the funnest song, but in a dumb way. Short album and I kinda lost track of digging it and focus on the second half.

Appetite For Destruction by Guns N' Roses
Sep 16 2022

See, I haven't even started listening to it TODAY but I already know this album fucking slaps. Nowhere near as heavy or monumental as I remember it being when I first heard it, but loaded with bangers. Sweet Child O' Mine absolutely still hits the right notes at every moment.

The Blueprint by JAY Z
Sep 17 2022

I mean, it's all right. So far i can recognize its well made art but I'm just mostly not vibing with this style of rap overall.

Horses by Patti Smith
Sep 18 2022

Started the first track and it's pretty cool but my head hurts so much right now I gotta come back to it after painkillers.

Neon Bible by Arcade Fire
Sep 20 2022

Not a lot I am Viborg with but a few tracks are a solid v8be, somewhere in the range 9f how i felt about Talking Heads and PaulcCartney and Wings.

Want Two by Rufus Wainwright
Sep 21 2022

One of the sonically strangest albums, like a piano bar musical. Competent and it has a vibe but, I dunno, it's n0t Interesting to me. Very well made and I don't wanna turn it off. Miles better than Arcade Fire. I feel like I haven't been hurt enough, lived through the 60s enough, smoked enough cigarettes, or been a repressed housewife or closeted gay man to enjoy this album to its full capacity.

Atomizer by Big Black
Sep 22 2022

Pretty cool, unique vibe. High energy. Grows on you as it goes.

The Infotainment Scan by The Fall
Sep 23 2022

Giving me proto-Primus, proto-Clutch vibes. Except more sleepy. Yeah, I like this. I accidentally listened to it on shuffle.

Vivid by Living Colour
Sep 24 2022

Bangers up and down the track list. What a vibe.

All Hope Is Gone by Slipknot
Sep 26 2022

Probably Slipk ot's worst album, still better than a lot 9f music 9ve heard on this play list so far though.

Songs From A Room by Leonard Cohen
Sep 27 2022

Strang to hear Cohen sounding so young.

The Yes Album by Yes
Sep 28 2022

Prog instrumental wankery. I'm here for it.

Beyond Skin by Nitin Sawhney
Sep 29 2022

Interesting sonic landscape. First track k was fabulous, some smooth tracks after too, but by the end I was k8nda getting sick of it. 3/5

Is This It by The Strokes
Sep 30 2022

I'm bored, but it's better than Arcade Fire. Should have rated that a 1. This is a 2/5 for me.

Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
Oct 01 2022

Started off pretty cool, the fish song was weird but catchy, and by the end I kinda lost interest a bit.

Quiet Life by Japan
Oct 02 2022

Gave it two solid attempts. Not bad but also nothing grabbed me too hard. Middle of the pack.

Rust In Peace by Megadeth
Oct 03 2022

A masterpiece of thrash, hard and heavy with clear intent and message. Megadeth at its possibly best, musically if not commercially. Rips louder than your mum's ass after Thanksgiving dinner. 5/5 bangers all the way. Dawn Patril is the weakest track and it still sets a mood unlike many other bands on this list so far.

Raw Power by The Stooges
Oct 04 2022

Solid damn proto pu k with a mean damn edge to it.

Metallica by Metallica
Oct 05 2022

So, honestly, this is like THE album to intro people to METAL with. It's aggressive but coherent, clear and polished. Metallica's last GREAT album.

evermore by Taylor Swift
Oct 06 2022

Two tracks in and this is the quickest I've wanted to turn off an album from this list. Not even Arcade Fire made me this unengaged and irritated. Credit where it's due, she has a lovely, skilled voice. The lyrics are about as engaging as canned tomato soup straight from the can. It's so polished and studio perfect, there's no rawness or ugliness to it, and yet it's like 90% about heartbreak and I'm NOT connecting with emotions cuz its way too poppy No body, no crime is the best track so far, and it's the MOST country track so far I'll never get that time back. 1/5

Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple
Oct 07 2022

I actually really dig this. Strong core of Si ger/Songwriter energy infused with rawness, chaos, alternative vibes. Many tracks I could revisit and find something new in. Honestly a really cool experience. Wish I had intervals to rate with. I expect I like it igher than I can rate it, and it will likely climb after further listens.

Soul Mining by The The
Oct 08 2022

It's fun, very 80s, kind of Avant Garde at times but by the end I got b9red of the vibe.

Born In The U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen
Oct 09 2022

The sleepiest goddamn rock album I've ever listened to. 2/5 at best.

The Rise & Fall by Madness
Oct 10 2022

Weird, experimental, had some good vibes, not at all what I expected. STILL BETTER THAN Arcade Fire.

Cloud Nine by The Temptations
Oct 11 2022

A really enjoyable pop album infused with just the right amount of Soul and funk to make every song enjoyable. A great Sunny days album walking about and dancing. Cloud Nine, I heard it through the Grapevine and Runaway Child, Running Wild are my favorites, super strong opening for the apbum... 5/5 for my tastes.

Oct 12 2022

Not bad, some cool vibes and nice long songs to zone out to. I had fun but it didn't blow me away.

Goodbye And Hello by Tim Buckley
Oct 13 2022

Way more fun than I expected, some tracks I'd be happy to hear again. A good fu experimental vibe at times.

Tracy Chapman by Tracy Chapman
Oct 14 2022

Pretty voice, soulful and mournful music, but kinda boring and sleep inducing. No higher than a3/5for me, probably a 2/5

Grace by Jeff Buckley
Oct 15 2022

Today's album is passionate but weird, sinister but sleepy. Some tracks really connect with me in their sorrowfullness, but some have very little to latch on to. I like it marginally better than some other albums 8ve rated at 2, but not by a huge margin. Just squeaks into the 3 star for my tastes as an 9verall experience but I won't be listening to the album again, only certain tracks.

Abraxas by Santana
Oct 16 2022

Disappointed in h9w .uch I didn't ibe with this album.

25 by Adele
Oct 17 2022

Her voice is amazing, and I can see myself listening to a couple of songs again, bit entire album of this vibe istoo much brokenhearted melancholy for me to really ate it highly. Insane voice though.

1984 by Van Halen
Oct 18 2022

Some of Van Halen's greatest tracks are in this album, absolute relistenable bangers. But the other tracks are just kinda there. Fun listen the whole way through, but ypu really only perk up when the bangers are on.

GI by Germs
Oct 19 2022

Okay, some pretty big thoughts here. I want to like this more than I do. I recognize the value of this sound of Punk, and the instrumentation side I absolutely vibe with, and occasionally when I forget the lyrics are actually words and think of them as instruments i can groove to it, but I know I'd enjoy the songs better, and connect with the message more, if it was like 20% more understandable to me. And I listen to a lot of music people tell me they can't understand, amd a lot of foreign music in languages I'm not perfectly fluent in, so i know it isn't REQUIRED that lyrics be easy to grasp... but something about this style o punk v9cal just doesn't land the way i wish it did for me.

Oct 20 2022

Pretty fun album with a comfortable upbeat yet dpur vibe. I dunno maybe it was my mood today, but this album can really blend in with the background and just be the groove for a whole day on repeat. Unexpected for a band ive never heard of or abput. Surprised to say 4/5

Bummed by Happy Mondays
Oct 21 2022

Fucking Weird. I don't hate it. 3/5

Vol. 4 by Black Sabbath
Oct 23 2022

Love the groove of old early metal. Solid vibes, and I love seeing the roots of the genre extend down into NWOTHM, DOOM and Stoner metal. Sabbath age well IMO.

1.5hrs if screeching harmonica, mumbling Dylan, inane "storytelling" lyrics that repeat lines about chewing gum repeatedly How EXACTLY did this man become so successful? Desolation Row has been covered by far more engaging musicians. I'd give it 0/5 if the system allowed it. Don't be fooled by the recorded clapping, this is not a good album. It's not 0ffensive, just boring and tedious.

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast by Badly Drawn Boy
Oct 25 2022

Weird, not bad, but did n9thing for me. I really tried too, but it was just k8nda "there". 2/5

Surfer Rosa by Pixies
Oct 26 2022

Fine, sloppy punk. Couple really good tracks, overall could grow on me but n0t an absolute banger out the gates. 3/5

Scream, Dracula, Scream by Rocket From The Crypt
Oct 27 2022

This was just a FUN album that i could really easily get into and carries the energy through the whole thing. Little sinister, little horny, little vibey. 4/5

I See A Darkness by Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Oct 28 2022

A few good tracks with a dark vibe, a lot of meh, and a few that annoyed me to have to listen to. 2/5

Home Is Where The Music Is by Hugh Masekela
Oct 29 2022

Not my usual jam, but the album had a few really good tracks and nothing particularly bad. Felt like I should be in a smokey room sipping whiskey in a suit.

Back At The Chicken Shack by Jimmy Smith
Oct 30 2022

Absolutely fine album, great to have on in the background, but doesn't stand out too much.

Life Thru A Lens by Robbie Williams
Oct 31 2022

Fun poppy and occasionally alt rocky. Fine album.

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg by Jerry Lee Lewis
Nov 01 2022

The recording sounds so oddly hollow due to the k8ve venue soundscape. The style if rock is fun, and some songs really get into some fun v9cals, but 9verall its just lacking something as a whole listening experience. I suspect I may enjoy individual tracks more as studio recordings. Who knows.

Peggy Suicide by Julian Cope
Nov 02 2022

I'm bored of it but it's not BAD

good kid, m.A.A.d city by Kendrick Lamar
Nov 03 2022

A near perfect hip hop album, dragged down a bit by some songs towards the end that really bored me, and some really meh skits. 4/5 ?

Mr. Tambourine Man by The Byrds
Nov 04 2022

This album exists. I listened to it. That's all. 2/5

Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
Nov 05 2022

Started out a bot weird and eventually o connected with the vibe of the album. A grower. Kinda wanna see if it grows more on me.

Brothers by The Black Keys
Nov 06 2022

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Nov 07 2022

A strong 4/5 for this synth pop 80s classic with some surpringsly melancholy vibes at times. Biased results ciz it gits the mood for the beach vacation.

Highway to Hell by AC/DC
Nov 08 2022

Supremely listenable hard Rock album but only a couple standout tracks

Nov 09 2022

Super solid 90s gangsta rap album, a little long for my tastes, and sadly riddled with filler that drags it down. But the bangers bang harder than Ice T banged yo mama last night.

Catch A Fire by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Nov 10 2022

I like a lot of the sounds of reggae but m9st of this album was too stripped down and low tempo for my vibes. I dug 3 tracks particularly but the rest I couldn't connect with.

The Next Day by David Bowie
Nov 11 2022

A few good songs, but nothing particularly noteworthy. Confused how thisade the list.

Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits
Nov 12 2022

Money for Nothing is still a bitching track, even if it has aged poorly lyrically in several levels. Overall most of the album is very "meh" and I'm a bit oeroleced how this album was so well received.

Nov 13 2022

5/5 iconic Album cover. 2/5 vibes for me. Money is really good but the rest became a bit of a blob of sound to me at times. Some really clever use if stereo audio, and some.prog sounds I know I like better in different albums from the period. A bit surprised by how little I liked what most would consider a Seminole album.

The Nightfly by Donald Fagen
Nov 14 2022

Fun instrumentation choices but boring vocals and beat on track 1, while also having some crucial lyrics I really honed in on. Strange juxtapositions. Could do to be more up tempo. Quickly afterwards, track after travk, ot becomes less remarkable. Until New Frontier hits and my mind starts seeing the weird future vision being painted again. This one is a conundrum as an album, I want to like it more than I do but mostly just want it to be over too.

Nov 15 2022

Admitting to abusing your partner in the 4th track of a keystone album is a bold move. The album open strong with some of my favorite tracks by the band, which is kind of impressive considering I never really gelled with m9st of The Beatles catalogue, but kinda fades into a series 9f tracks that fade into the background and just sound like commercial jingles, in like the best way possible. Catchy ear worms that kinda don't matter or ask much of you as a listener. Really fun background music but hardly something that's engaging my attention on a deeper level. But then that last track really forces you to confront the lyrics. Pretty baller way to end TBH. 3/5

Bandwagonesque by Teenage Fanclub
Nov 16 2022

Pretty meh but I see the beginnings of a bunch of sounds that would evolve and become super successful on the radio during the mid to late 90s present on this album. Listenable but unremarkable. 3/5 cuz I can't give it 2.5/5

A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
Nov 17 2022

Damn, this is good jazz. I liked all the tracks on this surprisingly short album. Just four parts of one musical idea. Uhm, 5/5 with the caveat being that I'm not experienced in Jazz.

We Are Family by Sister Sledge
Nov 18 2022

Will Smith sampled this album's opening track on Getting Jiggy Wit It. Pop, Soul, and Funk all at once is such a GOOD vibe. Groove to this daddy-o! Works best on an uptempo track IMO 4/5 cuz I can't give it 3.5/5

The Low End Theory by A Tribe Called Quest
Nov 19 2022

Really fu album that del8vers the kind of flow that I personally really vibe with in hip-hop, even if not all the lyrical content was up to current standards. ATCQ are undeniably makers of the game and I could listen to this era, this sound pretty much all day.

Exile On Main Street by The Rolling Stones
Nov 20 2022

An overly long, drawn out, resounding "meeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhh", fine to have in the background but really not something I can sink my teeth into. Boomer shit. 2/5

Nov 21 2022

A sound very outside my comfort zone, but so far I'm kinda digging it. There's just enough French used in the dialect be8ng spoken that I keep expecting to understand it more than I do. Hmmm, overall I'm not huge on it but it was a pleasant new experience. 3/5

The ArchAndroid by Janelle Monáe
Nov 22 2022

A very elaborate at tines over wrought, album with a few gems on it and a unified, interesting, yet not wholly engaging sonic landscape. 3/5, I'd score it a bit higher if a few more tracks landed better with my mood/energy levels.

Dr. Octagonecologyst by Dr. Octagon
Nov 23 2022

Solid early horrorcore rap vIbes, sounds like one of the two strains of rap that would go on to inform artists like G-Mo Skee (the other being the Psychopathic Records crew helped by ICP,) and inherently listenable with numerous flows and a dumb, dark sense of humour. A few tracks drug it down from a 5 to a 4 star album, cuz it got a little long and they were the subpar cuts, bit pretty near a perfect rating. Like a 4.25 or so.

Savane by Ali Farka Touré
Nov 24 2022

There are individual parts of the music I like, but not the way it's all put t9gether. I wish I liked it more, because it sure as hell is intwresting... I just don't wanna listen to it.

Rhythm Nation 1814 by Janet Jackson
Nov 25 2022

Unrepentant 80s dance pop cheese platter.

Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette
Nov 26 2022

Pretty much a perfect time album. Pra tically half the songs were successful singles back during my youth. Made her an international star. Easy to listen to, alternative but with huge crossover appeal.

Innervisions by Stevie Wonder
Nov 27 2022

Fun upfront, boring by the end. 3/5

Frank by Amy Winehouse
Nov 28 2022

I dunno why I liked it, but I kinda did. There's quality to the performance but it felt like something was missing, like they hadn't hit their top gear yet.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Nov 29 2022

Some cool guitarists and some entertaining songs, particularly Cinnamon Girl, but overall it just kinda existed and did nothing special for me.

Rain Dogs by Tom Waits
Nov 30 2022

So, I du not know what to call this music, and it's certainly not an every day vibe, bit I REALLY like this. Dark, weird, kinda grating, but also catchy and captivating.

Wild Is The Wind by Nina Simone
Dec 01 2022

First few tracks I really enjoyed, but it sorta slipped from my attention after that even though I listened to the album a few times. Perfectly cromulent.

Antichrist Superstar by Marilyn Manson
Dec 02 2022

Pretty much exactly as I remember the experience upon buying it on CD, when it hits it hits perfectly, when it misses its booooooooring.

Live! by Fela Kuti
Dec 03 2022

I really enjoyed this album, but parts of some if the tracks dipped in quality and engagement more than others. Overall great fun, but only a 4/5

I Am a Bird Now by Antony and the Johnsons
Dec 04 2022

Not bad, but not for me.

Kenza by Khaled
Dec 05 2022

Pretty damn fun.

My Aim Is True by Elvis Costello
Dec 07 2022

I like it, and I see a lot if influences it clearly draws upon while I can also envision how it influenced a l0t 9f subsequent music. Pretty cool TBH.

KIWANUKA by Michael Kiwanuka
Dec 08 2022

There's nothing wrong with it, orher than it is meh and fades too much into the background. Only a couple tracks caught my attention. 2/5

With The Beatles by Beatles
Dec 10 2022

All the songs I like the best are a very talented band covering, arguably, at this stage of their careers, songs by better song writers. My usual feeling with the Beatles, generally underwhelming but comfortable and well executed rock and roll.

Fred Neil by Fred Neil
Dec 11 2022

Not my favorite, but the cocaine song stuck in my head.

A Northern Soul by The Verve
Dec 14 2022

Like, it sounded good but nothing stuck in my brain.

Blue Lines by Massive Attack
Dec 17 2022

Good but not great, thoroughly enjoyable but missing something to push ot further. 4/5

Nixon by Lambchop
Dec 18 2022

BORING.

Paul's Boutique by Beastie Boys
Dec 19 2022

A solid album that requires a bit of careful listening to fully appreciate, but it isn't as "hit"-ful as orher Beastie Boys albums.

Wild Gift by X
Dec 21 2022

It's fun, but it doesn't strike me as particularly special. Probably would listen to it again if someone suggested it.

Crazysexycool by TLC
Dec 22 2022

A few really solid tracks mixed amid a pile of just plain average.

Rid Of Me by PJ Harvey
Dec 23 2022

Not an every day listen, but solid and aggressive and moody music.

Pyromania by Def Leppard
Dec 24 2022

Really solid, if a bit formulaic, hard rock/hair metal from a peak moment in the genre's history. Easy listening for metalheads.

Time Out Of Mind by Bob Dylan
Dec 27 2022

Less mumble, more gravel. Less folk, more blues. Overall a better lusten8ng experience than I usually have with Ol' Bob here.

Dec 28 2022

Meh soft rock with longing vibes. Didn't really connect with me, didn't make me wanna turn it off. Generally unimpressed.

Blur by Blur
Dec 29 2022

It's not bad, but there's a reason you only know Song #2.

Natty Dread by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Dec 30 2022

Not bad, bit reggae always has a cap for me. At least at this stage of my life. It doesn't move the needle as much as for so many people I know wh9 got into it in high school, when I was getting into Visual Kei.

Madman Across The Water by Elton John
Dec 31 2022

Some fun stuff but oddly less immediately engaging than I expect from Sir Elton.

Chris by Christine and the Queens
Jan 01 2023

I honestly cannot day why, precisely, this album landed so well with me. Maybe it was my mood. Bit the poppy, sultry, dark, multilingual qualities all sorta worked t9gether to make me really dig this. Another day, another time, it may have fared worse.

Whatever by Aimee Mann
Jan 02 2023

Pleasant but unremarkable, a few songs t9 enjoy but it kinda disappeared most if the time.

Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes
Jan 03 2023

I didn't know I l9ved the Violent Femmes this much, but I did hear them a bunch on my favorite radio station as a tren. Listening to this album made me realize it wasn't just the radio played songs I dig, but the whole vibe.

Songs In The Key Of Life by Stevie Wonder
Jan 04 2023

Pass time Paradise is the most confusing song to hear when you forgot that Coolio samled it. Album 8s fun but m9stly not my speed. It's also REALLY l9ng for what it is... too damn long.

E.V.O.L. by Sonic Youth
Jan 06 2023

Not a bad listening experience, at all, bit like many other albums, it did little to hook me.

Diamond Life by Sade
Jan 07 2023

A nice voice and some great tracks, bit as an album i found it kinda up and down.

Fever To Tell by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Jan 08 2023

Way better than I ex0ected from this act, k8nda ca7ght ne by surprise, and if a few tracks were better it'd be a 5.

Pump by Aerosmith
Jan 10 2023

A lot of fun in a small package, several songs could be looped endlessly, while a few are just there. 4/5

Protection by Massive Attack
Jan 11 2023

Fun, chill album. Definitely worth listening to once, and a few s9ngs will forever be in my overall shuffle. I'd score 8t 3.5 if I could do half stars.

Goo by Sonic Youth
Jan 12 2023

Fun zone out music, but I don't think I'd return to ot frequently.

The United States Of America by The United States Of America
Jan 13 2023

This album made me feel like I was on drugs, and not always on a good trip. But I found it fascinating. As a one off listen with a few tracks I may revisit, it's gonna score fairly high for uniqueness and catching my interest.

Os Mutantes by Os Mutantes
Jan 15 2023

Not really something i vpuld jive with when i listened, small chamce ill g9 back to a few tracks.

The Clash by The Clash
Jan 17 2023

Really good but way more mellow and mid tempo than I expect from my usual pu k tastes.

I Should Coco by Supergrass
Jan 18 2023

A little too indie for me to enjoy every song at max level, but this was a solid romp of an album.

First Band On The Moon by The Cardigans
Jan 19 2023

Pretty damn fun, and with one of the best radio singles of my youth no less.

Van Halen by Van Halen
Jan 20 2023

My excitement drips off towards the end, bit a near perfect proto hair metal album.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins
Jan 21 2023

A rare 2hr+ sebum that manages to keep my attention and not lose it f9r the VAST majority is an absolute oddity, and here, Billy Corgan, iowner of the NWA, and the rest of his clearly fiercely talented bandmates del8ver harder than i ever expected. I knew I liked the Pumpkins' singles a good vit, but I never really knew how much 9f just l8ie THEM. Woulda been a 4.5 if half stars were an option, but I'm rounding up cuz rounding down feels wrong.

Jan 22 2023

A far more enjoyable album than the previous one on this list from this band that I got,but still not the kind of music I'll usually listen to. 2.5 but I'm rounding up for kindness.

The Pleasure Principle by Gary Numan
Jan 23 2023

A few tracks in, without look at the track list, a song came on and I was l8ke "this is the Cars guy right?" But it wasn5 Cars, then the album got different and weird and fun, theeeeen "Cars" cane on. I had fun. Good synth sound that set in place a lot fo vibes that evolved into music I really dig today.

The Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden
Jan 24 2023

The % of banging tracks on this British metal masterpiece is extreme. Even the worst track on the album is still a catchy, engaging metal track. So close to a 5 that it's gonna be a 5. Probably like a 4.8 or such if i had fractions to work with.

Dusty In Memphis by Dusty Springfield
Jan 25 2023

Some really great singles and standout tracks mixed amidst a bunch of stuff I couldn't remember with a gun to my head.

Jan 26 2023

Not actively unpleasant to listen to, but incredibly boring to spend that much time on.

Machine Gun Etiquette by The Damned
Jan 28 2023

Pretty damn fun punk album. 4.5 but rounded up instead of down. Lots if great energy meaningful lyrics, and a kinetic pace.

Hejira by Joni Mitchell
Jan 29 2023

There's a lot of merit to the argument that Joni Mitchell is a brilliant singer-songwriter. However, for me, this album lacks anything resembling an "edge," it's all so mellow and long and slow. Nothing to sink my teeth into, so it just washes over me.

Ananda Shankar by Ananda Shankar
Jan 30 2023

I liked this psychedelic, world music 8nstrumental album abput 300% more than I ex0ected i would when the first track first started.

1989 by Taylor Swift
Jan 31 2023

Only one track half grabbed my attention. Maybe on subsequent attempts I'd get mire from it, but Sw8ft has never been my cup of tea.

Tapestry by Carole King
Feb 01 2023

I listened to this several times, and I wanted to like it more than i fid. I couldn't quite place my f8nger on what was not connecting with me. But it feels like so many songs are familiar to me, but because they are better performed by other artists. Not fundamentally bad, bit also did nothing to hold my interest beyond the mystery of why I didn't like it.

Ghosteen by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Feb 02 2023

I've really enjoyed Nick Cave albums I have heard from much earlier in his career, but this album was so soft and slow and boring that the entire thing passed and I enjoyed literally none of it. Nothing I have been used to hearing from this act was present on this album.

Microshift by Hookworms
Feb 03 2023

Pleasant but mostly unremarkable, the first few tracks hooked me more than the rest if the album. Hard to say anything more meaningful than "middle of the road."

Tea for the Tillerman by Cat Stevens
Feb 04 2023

Pleasant but not super interesting very much a product of its time.

L.A. Woman by The Doors
Feb 05 2023

A band I kind of expected I'd like more than I did, and aso7nd on this album that is a lot less experimental and groovy than I expected from the release year. Underwhelmed but not disappointed.

Electric Ladyland by Jimi Hendrix
Feb 06 2023

Few have ever made the guitar 'speak' like Hendrix, but a lot of songs on this album are certainly far from essential listening.

Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes
Feb 07 2023

For a 39 minute album it sire feels lioe a 2 hour slog to get though.

S.F. Sorrow by The Pretty Things
Feb 08 2023

I really enjoyed the psychedelia and melancholy, and anti-war messaging of this album. Not all bangers but a lot if surprisingly enjoyable tracks.

Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath
Feb 09 2023

I particularly like the song The Wizard, but this album doesn't have the refined voice of other Sabbath albums, and doesn't have as many tracks that feel tineless like other albums. A great moment in musical history but far from perfect.

Cross by Justice
Feb 10 2023

A fantastic dark, moody, dance, synthy techno album, verging on all the qualities that make Dark Synthwave a powerhouse genre today, just a bit earlier than id ever expected. I liked, quite literally, every song on this album.

White Blood Cells by The White Stripes
Feb 11 2023

The White Stripes rule when a track lands, absolutely fresh vibes and a unique alt sound that few, if any, can replicate. Shame only about a 3rd of the album feels like they're pulling out their best material.

Remedy by Basement Jaxx
Feb 12 2023

If Funk and Techno had a baby that was adopted by The Lords of Acid, you'd get this album.

Meat Puppets II by Meat Puppets
Feb 13 2023

I've tried to listen t9 this album several times, and it always starts out str9ng but by the end I've just zoned out and lost interest.

Frampton Comes Alive by Peter Frampton
Feb 14 2023

Talented musicianship, boring songs, okay recordings. 2/5

Bug by Dinosaur Jr.
Feb 15 2023

Basically felt like I was listening to ioe long grungey mildy interesting but not outstanding song for a whole album. 3/5

She's So Unusual by Cyndi Lauper
Feb 16 2023

80s pop mixing synth and rock guitars just feels so right. Probably a 4.5/5 cuz not every track slaps, but it's too good to round down. Infectious fun.

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