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Album	You	Global	Diff
Yeezus Kanye West	5	2.76	+2.24
S&M Metallica	5	3.26	+1.74
Juju Siouxsie And The Banshees	5	3.33	+1.67
Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson	5	3.35	+1.65
It's Blitz! Yeah Yeah Yeahs	5	3.49	+1.51
Definitely Maybe Oasis	5	3.53	+1.47
Exile On Main Street The Rolling Stones	5	3.6	+1.4
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan	5	3.61	+1.39
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Lauryn Hill	5	3.65	+1.35
Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen	5	3.69	+1.31

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Talking Heads 77 Talking Heads	1	3.56	-2.56
Beautiful Freak Eels	1	3.27	-2.27
Miriam Makeba Miriam Makeba	1	3.19	-2.19
Country Life Roxy Music	1	3.11	-2.11
Larks' Tongues In Aspic King Crimson	1	2.99	-1.99
Tago Mago Can	1	2.79	-1.79
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits	2	3.74	-1.74
Bayou Country Creedence Clearwater Revival	2	3.64	-1.64
Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Frank Sinatra	2	3.52	-1.52
Rio Duran Duran	2	3.49	-1.49

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Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones · 1 likes

5/5

Love this album, all the way down to the last two tracks, Shine a Light and Soul Survivor.

1-Star Albums (6)

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L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

Fine, some strong tracks but overall too much of the same.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Easy jazz to start, and got funkier as it went (which I increasingly liked!).

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

The low key beats, the flows, the whole package. What more do you want?

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Unfinished Sympathy is so good. The rest is up and down... don't love the later tracks after that one. Overall I get that this had a bigger impact than Mezzanine but I do prefer that album.

S&M

Metallica

5/5

It's just so soaring and majestic.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

2/5

It just didn't click for me.

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

3/5

"Stolen Car" was great, and got me excited. Real 90s alt-rock Oasis vibes. When it then immediately flipped into singer-songwriter territory, it lost me a bit. It's not currently a genre I enjoy, and it felt like the album continued to strip itself down as it went. Picked up again towards the end though.

Country Life

Roxy Music

1/5

I dunno man. It's of an era. Made it through 7 of 10 tracks and wanted to break my stereo. Did not jive.

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

2/5

Another case of a legendary band that I really didn't feel anything towards. It went from something really cutting edge to something that is totally inoffensive.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

Listened to it twice. Loved it. Not even sure what to say.

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

2/5

Singapore? WTF. Clap Hands? OK, this I like. The rest? I don't know. What is Midtown doing there after a song where Tom Waits tries to sing like a dog? What a wild ride.

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

4/5

Very smooth, very easy. Didn't captivate me, but I enjoyed it.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

Yea, I loved this. I hadn't listened cover to cover before but may not really be a weak song on there.

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

3/5

Wow, this went hard from track 1. Didn’t expect it, couldn’t handle it. A fun surprise, though not totally for me. Also, it was too long.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

Just great stuff. Love a lot of the composition, and Morrissey's got a terrific voice. I'm surprised how much I enjoyed this.

Street Signs

Ozomatli

3/5

Totally new to me, although I did play a video game that had one of the songs in it. Fun.

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

4/5

I… think I like Morrissey.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

Fine. I dig the guitar work. Didn't need 76 minutes of it. I'd listen to a bunch of these songs in a playlist but not as an album.

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

1/5

Apple Music listed this as "Art Rock". OK.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

4/5

It’s a bit tough to get into but it opens up after the first track into something really lovely.

Femi Kuti

3/5

I dug it.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

The number of hits on this album is outrageous. The Jamaica song was pretty odd though. I think I’m for Greatest Hits Elton more than album Elton.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

2/5

Always found Wilco to be a bit of a bore.

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

3/5

Dinner music. Better than Wilco.

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

2/5

So old-timey! I dunno, still thought it was kind of fun.

Medúlla

Björk

3/5

Really fascinating as an experiment in human sounds and vocals as instruments. I thought “Where is the line” was wild. Great vocals on Vokuro. I get that it’s not an everyday listen though. Will explore further.

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

3/5

I unironically enjoy this album and have for a while.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Yea the guitar riffs do it for me here.

Beautiful Freak

Eels

1/5

Pretty bland generic 90s alt-rock. "You're not like all the others that's why I love you." Yea, deep stuff, Eels. I should be into this, but I just generally thought this sucked.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

I'd never deliberately listened to Amy Winehouse before this. Very good. Saucy.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

3/5

It’s a classic. I liked it, but I’m not running out to buy a copy.

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

4/5

Lie down on the floor, put this on through headphones, and close your eyes. Delightful. I don't know why this one hits where others from the era don't, but I won't fight it.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

1/5

I find the rhythms pretty outdated and kitschy. I guess I just don't understand the presumed genius here. It was a real slog for me and I didn't finish it.

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Yea, straight fire.

Snivilisation

Orbital

3/5

I usually just listen to Halcyon On and On, on loop. But it's not on this album.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Like the vibes.

Rio

Duran Duran

2/5

Inoffensive.

Vespertine

Björk

2/5

Couldn’t get into it. Might try again sometime, but probably won’t.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

Opus Dei

Laibach

3/5

Born To Be With You

Dion

2/5

It’s fine and I’ll never think of it again.

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

4/5

A rapper who starts an album with a line about OPEC... what a way to my heart. It's so of it's time but I have to say I enjoyed it.

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

2/5

I didn't love it, because I don't like the Arctic Monkeys that much.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

3/5

You know what, this redeemed King Crimson. First track is a banger. Middle songs get kind of jazzy. Works for me. Could see myself revisiting it.

1984

Van Halen

4/5

I was surprised with how fun this was.

1989

Taylor Swift

2/5

I definitely love a good pop album, but for me, this isn't it.

Yeezus

Kanye West

5/5

The first tracks just floored me. Wow. Listened again as soon as it finished. Loved the abrasiveness of it, the industrial sounds, the darkness of it.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

2/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

2/5

There are definitely some bangers here, but, yea.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5

Wu-Tang! Wu-Tang!

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Love this album, all the way down to the last two tracks, Shine a Light and Soul Survivor.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

Classic. Love the mix of styles at play.

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

3/5

Enjoyed it.

Let It Be

The Replacements

3/5

Enjoyed it as well.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

2/5

This was kind of catchy... could see myself mixing this in during a road trip. More like a 2.5.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

Interesting choice in that I think there's better Radiohead out there. Good, but not my favourite.

Faust IV

Faust

2/5

I liked the first track and then kind of downhill for me, despite being predisposed to the genre.

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

4/5

Liked it a lot. Grungy and noisy.

The La's

2/5

Pretty meh.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Very interesting opening. Had avoided Rufus assuming it would be standard singer/songwriter stuff. Obviously that’s core here but it’s made more interesting with the arrangements. Ultimately I may be more interested in the operas than the ballads. I don’t think he’ll be a regular in the rotation but glad to have listened.

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

Whoo... lots going on here. Lots of good stuff packed in here, but it really does feel like 4 different albums mashed together. Provides some great Wiki reading holes as well...

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

2/5

I can't get over the 80s soundtrack here.

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

3/5

Like a few later tracks. Funny how similar themes are across eras (eg suburban angst on Shangri-La).

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

Generally strong throughout with the big songs putting it over the top

Who's Next

The Who

3/5

Tago Mago

Can

1/5

Just wasn't interested in sitting through this.

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

4/5

I don't know if I loved it, but it was funky! It was upbeat! It was positive! Maybe I did love it.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

2/5

For a rock album there are an awful lot of ballads on here. Felt dated. Best songs at the beginning and at the end.

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Challenging to score this. Heroes is so so good as a song. I like the instrumental tracks at the end even if they’re an odd fit. I guess I’m here for it all.

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

3/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

A classic that's a bit dated today.

Close To The Edge

Yes

3/5

Ok not bad

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road