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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
GI Germs	5	2.54	+2.46
Atomizer Big Black	5	2.72	+2.28
Vivid Living Colour	5	3.2	+1.8
Little Earthquakes Tori Amos	5	3.23	+1.77
Goo Sonic Youth	5	3.23	+1.77
The Beach Boys Today! The Beach Boys	5	3.27	+1.73
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg Jerry Lee Lewis	5	3.28	+1.72
First Band On The Moon The Cardigans	5	3.29	+1.71
Raw Power The Stooges	5	3.32	+1.68
Cloud Nine The Temptations	5	3.41	+1.59

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits	1	3.74	-2.74
Hotel California Eagles	1	3.6	-2.6
25 Adele	1	3.37	-2.37
Virgin Suicides Air	1	3.24	-2.24
The Hour Of Bewilderbeast Badly Drawn Boy	1	3.12	-2.12
Ghosteen Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1	2.97	-1.97
Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen	2	3.7	-1.7
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	2	3.5	-1.5
Neon Bible Arcade Fire	2	3.34	-1.34
Blur Blur	2	3.33	-1.33

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Neon Bible

Arcade Fire · 28 likes

2/5

Talented hipster bullshit. The sense of self-importance is palpable.

Atomizer

Big Black · 13 likes

5/5

Steve Albini: master of noise Post-punk meets noise rock meets industrial meets awesome.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits · 2 likes

1/5

Dire Straits is what you'll be in if you came to this album looking for something that doesn't suck

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson · 1 likes

4/5

Pop production at its most '80's, upbeat dance tracks with great hooks, hard-hitting lyrics. Not a perfect album but close.

1-Star Albums (6)

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Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Fun eclectic record. Did not expect the reggae and carribbean influences which were a nice touch along with the usual rock and blues

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

5/5

Nothing but bangers. L.A. sleaze with more danger than hairspray. Classic.

The Blueprint

JAY Z

3/5

A 2000's hip-hop classic. Doors sample on The Takeover is fun HOV is a much better poet than Morrison and probably less of an asshole. I remember when the NAS beef was a thing. Do they still have beef? Probably not, they're too old and too rich. Remember when Jigga was only worth 120 mil? I forgot Eminem was on this. So 2001. I miss Em's old playful style before he became the Rap God of spiritual lyrical miracle rappers. The album that for better or worse (better IMO but some might debate...) introduced the world to Kanye West. Hugely culturally relevant album in hindsight. In 2022 it's really easy to hear which tracks are the Ye ones: the good ones with the soul samples. Girls, Girls, Girls is probably not PC anymore but still less egregious than the Beastie Boys of Motley Crüe songs with the same name. Decent album overall but too long like most rap albums from the CD era

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

Nice early Saturday morning album to accompany a cup of coffee and the latest awful headlines from the frontlines of neo-liberal collapse. A pleasant soundtrack to observing the early stages of an unfolding apocalypse from a relatively safe distance. Punk poetics.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Fun and funky songs for the mildly alienated. Disco for art students, but way better than that description sounds.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

2/5

Talented hipster bullshit. The sense of self-importance is palpable.

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Tres Montreal.

Atomizer

Big Black

5/5

Steve Albini: master of noise Post-punk meets noise rock meets industrial meets awesome.

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

4/5

Cool post punk grooves. Some songs almost had a ska vibe in the rhythms which I dig. Will check out again.

Vivid

Living Colour

5/5

Hard, funky and soulful.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

5/5

Fun, fun, fun until daddy takes the t-bird away

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

2/5

A few bangers but a lot of skippable tracks. Mix is super clean, compressed and completely lifeless. Should have picked Iowa.

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Chill Montreal cafe vibes.

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

Talented but...*makes jerk-off motion*

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

3/5

Chill dreamy vibes

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Fun, catchy rock 'n roll. Didn't realize how many songs on this album I was already familiar with. New York City Cops bangs. Will give 4 stars because I'm having fun and I like simple rock 'n roll despite that these are New York rich kids making a commercial version of the kind of music created by punks and legit bohemians at CBGBs in the 70's

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

3/5

Sgt. Pet Sounds Satanic Airplane's Request

Quiet Life

Japan

3/5

Sleek, sexy synthetic sounds

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

3/5

This band has never really connected with me, but there are a few thrash bangers and a lot of prescient lyrics on here that make it enjoyable.

Raw Power

The Stooges

5/5

The album title says it all.

Metallica

4/5

Doesn't hit as hard as when I was 14 but still a classic. Too long like most Metallica albums.

evermore

Taylor Swift

3/5

Nice mellow early morning wake-up album.

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

4/5

Dissonant and percussive. Oddly chill yet abrasive. 4 stars with the caveat it could go up to 5 with repeated listens

Soul Mining

The The

3/5

Weird, funky, synth-driven post-punk. Probably not something I'll jam again since the long songs try my patience but respect the talent and unique vision

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

"Boomer: The Album"

The Rise & Fall

Madness

3/5

I'm a bigger fan of the group's earlier ska-focused material but this is an interesting, fun album. Almost like a 2-Tone Sgt Peppers. Our House is still a classic.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

5/5

Funky fresh soul

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

4/5

Extremely 1967... in a good way

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Hits all the sweet spots for this genre. Listened twice. Consider me a new Tracy Chapman fan!

Grace

Jeff Buckley

3/5

Interesting album. The mellow parts pull you in to make the loud parts even more impactful

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

Jazzy and...."smoothe"

Adele

1/5

Meh-lodrama

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Fun in the Cali sun

Germs

5/5

A proto-hardcore classic

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

4/5

Very fun art U.K. punk. Will be checking out more of this band

Bummed

Happy Mondays

4/5

Sounds like The Smiths, Killing Joke, New Order and The Beatles put in a blender with a generous helping of coke and ecstasy sprinkled in

Hotel California

Eagles

1/5

The sound of a generation trying to cling to their rebellious youth while plundering the planet and rigging the markets to enrich themselves at the expense of future generation. Boomer drivel.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Whatever it is about metal you like, Sabbath did it first.

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

2/5

Good songs and I get the counterculture appeal at the time but nobody needs an hour and a half if live Dylan in one sitting.

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

1/5

*in Arnold voice* "Vhy is der trumpet at da beginning? Fack off vit da trumpet! Dis is rock mewsick for GIRLY MEN!"

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Sloppy controlled chaos.

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

4/5

Punk 'n roll!

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

3/5

Moody, mellow and mysterious

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Fun collection of swinging, grooving jazz bops.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

Jimmy must be raising some funky chickens in that shack!

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

3/5

Solid 90's adult contemporary pop

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

5/5

These songs sound faster, harder and rawer than any versions I've heard before. The electrified energy in the room is palpable. Makes you really understand why parents and authorities were so freaked out about the power and energy of rock 'n roll. R.I.P. to one of the greats!

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

2/5

Fine but not much to latch in to

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Cinematic in scope on both the storytelling and production sides. The only album I've heard that feels this much like a movie.

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

3/5

Some decent 60's folk rock. Didn't hate it.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

2/5

Too many instruments, too many songs, not enough interesting ideas to back it up.

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Enjoyed this more than I was expecting. Some groovy '60s vibes that bring the Doors to mind.

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

4/5

Some solid 80's new wave that opens with a bona fide classic of the genre. 3.5 but will round up to 4 just for Take On Me

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

AC/DC have essentially been writing the same two songs their whole career. Thankfully they're pretty good songs.

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

3/5

Hard tracks hit hard but lots of filler

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Smooth, groovy reggae vibes from the master

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

Doesn't quite live up 70's Bowie, but everything the man touches is a work of art.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

1/5

Dire Straits is what you'll be in if you came to this album looking for something that doesn't suck

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Been long time since I've listened to this but God DAMN does it hold up! Starting to realize this may have influenced my musical tastes more than I realized because everything I like about dark, moody music is present on this LP.

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

2/5

Kinda meh...

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

3/5

A.K.A. The Beatles get high AF and make an album

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

3/5

Very Beatles influenced 90's alt. Not the most interesting music but not boring or bad either.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

Legendary. Best served with fine herbs.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

A hip-hop classic from right before the genre got super gangsta. Smoothe flows, jazzy beats and thoughtful rhymes.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

One of the reasons I believe music to be the most superior art form is the way that it attaches itself to memories. To me, this album is the soundtrack to long evenings of bitter pints, dirty bong rips and thoughtful conversations with my good friend Ryan who I met on a landscaping crew. Now he owns his own landscaping business. Hardest working motherfucker I know. Music for the working man to rest his weary bones to after a long, brutal week.

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

2/5

If I stumbled across this being played live at an outdoor festival in the summer I would probably dig it, but completely does not fit the vibe of the Pacific Northwest in the fall.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

Sounds like someone trying REALLY HARD to make a CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED album length artwork. Good attempt but doesn't quite hit the mark.

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

4/5

Super fun hip-hop album that feels like a precursor to MF Doom with the conceptual aspect. You probably couldn't get away with a lot of these lyrics nowadays. Or is hip-hop immune from woke mobs? Either way, thoroughly enjoyable listen and I will likely go back to it

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

2/5

I'm sure this is someone's jam but it sure ain't mine...

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

4/5

Pop production at its most '80's, upbeat dance tracks with great hooks, hard-hitting lyrics. Not a perfect album but close.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

5/5

Total classic. No bad songs

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Funky smoothe soul

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Amy has such a unique character to her voice and lyrics. An incredible album for a debut and her oeuvre only improves on the next one.

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Beautiful poignant vocal jazz

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

3/5

An important album for alternative music but could be about a quarter the length shorter. Makes a statement but it really did NOT need to be an hour and 11 minute statement.

Live!

Fela Kuti

3/5

Some good groovin'

Kenza

Khaled

2/5

Not for me

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

2/5

Some interesting ideas with a big bucket of LAME dumped on top of everything

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

Not quite the perfect album he's about to put out a year later with The Attractions but pretty damn close!

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

3/5

Thoroughly enjoyed the jazzy modern soul vibes.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Smoothe, sexy fingerpicking. Great melancholy vibes.

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

A great collection of covers and originals. This music may sound super tame today, but I can imagine how square society reacted to the pounding beats and primal shrieks as John Lennon belts out the new gospel of materialism on "Money"

Fred Neil

3/5

A bit of folk, bit of country, bit of blues, lots of smoky saloon vibes...until the last track whisks you away to the Tangiers, to sit beside William Burroughs in an opium stupor.

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

2/5

It's fine I guess but it ain't no Pixies and didn't need a third of the songs

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

Competent, catchy hard rock but the songs kinda blend together.

A Northern Soul

The Verve

3/5

Got some vibes but like most 90s albums, too long.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

Catchy celtic rock that probably inspired the Dropkick Murphys

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

3/5

A fine collection of moody indie rock tunes, though nothing mind blowing

Nixon

Lambchop

3/5

Not my vibe right now but I may go back to this later

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

Not the Boys greatest but certainly a landmark in the art of sampling

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

5/5

Beautiful, haunting and poetic from start to finish

Wild Gift

4/5

Super fun slice of punk 'n roll

Crazysexycool

TLC

2/5

Some smoothe 90's R&B, but ultimately not really my thing

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

2/5

Whiny grunge.

Blur

2/5

Needs more song 2's so 2 stars

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

This album makes me think of a college dorm room that reeks of bong water, but Marley will always deliver the reggae goods

Violent Femmes

4/5

Sounds like urban punks trying to be hillbillies and I'm hear for it

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Isn't She Lovely gets stuck in my head at least a few times a month. Some classic soul tracks on here but probably didn't need to be this long

The Predator

Ice Cube

4/5

Certified classic

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

3/5

Why this album? Sonic Youth have way better ones. It's a decent SY effort I guess but far from their best

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Really slams at parts but just irritating at others. Experiment with dub doesn't really pay off. Maps I'd still an indie rock classic though

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

4/5

A raw early version of the sound, but I love everything this band does

Goo

Sonic Youth

5/5

All the rad Sonic Youth vibes but with actual songs now!

The United States Of America

4/5

Damn this is some solid, hard-hitting psychedelic rock! Shades of proto-punk. Super enjoyable listen with herbal enhancement

The Clash

4/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

Solid 90s alt. Slows down a bit at the end but plenty of bangers

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

5/5

Love this. The Iron Man cover seals the deal for a 5

Van Halen

4/5

Cali fun times! The template for every 80's poodle rocker

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

I'm generally not big on long-ass double albums, but this thing is a masterpiece. I can hear the influences all over modern emo, indie and alt rock.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

3/5

Some bangers but overall not as engaging as when I was I first heard thus around age 19 or 20. Always thought the last track was too long and it feels even longer than I remember

Virgin Suicides

Air

1/5

Booooring

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

2/5

Pretty meh. A few too long songs and overall not very exciting

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

4/5

Not every song hits the mark 100% but a pretty solid collection of first-wave U.K. punk bangers.

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

One of T-Swift's best, busting with pop bangers

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1/5

More like sleepy Nick and the Snooze Alarms

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

After a couple mediocre releases the The Doors are back in form, taking the best ideas from their blues-based work and fusing into the classic Doors sound. Riders on The Storm will always be iconic

Fleet Foxes

3/5

Hipster hippies

Black Sabbath

3/5

Not the Birmingham crew's best album, but music today would not be the same without it

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

4/5

Dinosaur Jr. never miss. Solid slice of early alt-rock that foreshadows many later trends

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

Beautiful haunting jazz compositions from one of the all-time greats

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Solid proto-garage rock, the the blues numbers can be a bit meh. The hard-hitting instrumental closer is fun