User Albums Journey
Exploring beyond the book, one album at a time
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2.77
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Rating Distribution
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2000
Favorite Decade
Rock
Favorite Genre
UK
Top Origin
Tough Crowd
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2
5-Star Albums
3
1-Star Albums
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By Genre
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By Decade
By Origin
Albums
You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Pop
GAS
|
5 | 2.54 | +2.46 |
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Tomorrow Belongs To Me
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
|
5 | 2.86 | +2.14 |
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Oceanic
ISIS
|
4 | 2.7 | +1.3 |
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Norther
Ex-Easter Island Head
|
4 | 2.78 | +1.22 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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L'autre...
Mylène Farmer
|
1 | 2.71 | -1.71 |
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Portishead
Portishead
|
2 | 3.49 | -1.49 |
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TEKKNO
Electric Callboy
|
1 | 2.46 | -1.46 |
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Millennium
Backstreet Boys
|
1 | 2.42 | -1.42 |
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Under The Pink
Tori Amos
|
2 | 3.29 | -1.29 |
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Singles
Future Islands
|
2 | 3.24 | -1.24 |
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Fully Completely
The Tragically Hip
|
2 | 3.09 | -1.09 |
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Emotion
Carly Rae Jepsen
|
2 | 3.01 | -1.01 |
5-Star Albums (2)
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I was unfamiliar with ISIS before hearing this, so it came as a welcome surprise, and it is certainly the best of the User Albums I have heard so far. Reminding me very much of a more controlled mid-period Ufomammut, most of the songs follow a predictable pattern; slow start, build up, quiet bit in the middle, noisy ending. All of these are good things! As are the shouty, incomprehensible vocals (far preferable to screeching!). After two plays I would have given this a tentative 5 stars, were it not for the dreadful snare sound (it sounds like a wannabe tom; where’s the crunch?). Fabulous stuff overall, though.
One of my most vivid childhood memories is of watching SAHB perform Jacques Brel’s ‘Next’ on the Old Grey Whistle Test. Terrified and fascinated in equal measure, it was a few years later when I got to hear a full album, this one, and it’s been my favourite ever since. Several of their best tracks are on here, all performed with an irresistible hard glam swagger. And of course there was another unusual but exquisite cover version (the title track), taken from the musical ‘Cabaret’. Fantastic stuff!
4-Star Albums (5)
1-Star Albums (3)
