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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Les deux doigts dans la prise Les sheriff	5	2.84	+2.16
Ida Con Snock Michael Hurley	5	2.84	+2.16
Geogaddi Boards of Canada	5	2.92	+2.08
Maestro Kaizers Orchestra	5	2.97	+2.03
Chocolate Synthesizer Boredoms	4	2.09	+1.91
Blonde Frank Ocean	5	3.13	+1.87
Pushin' Against a Stone Valerie June	5	3.14	+1.86
The Shape Of Punk To Come Refused	5	3.14	+1.86
Diamond Jubilee Cindy Lee	5	3.16	+1.84
Reachin' Digable Planets	5	3.19	+1.81

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Inside Bo Burnham	1	2.92	-1.92
Blue Is The Colour The Beautiful South	1	2.88	-1.88
Harbor Lights Bruce Hornsby	1	2.66	-1.66
A Live One Phish	1	2.48	-1.48
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming M83	2	3.34	-1.34
Grand Prix Teenage Fanclub	2	3.18	-1.18
TRON: Legacy Daft Punk	2	3.13	-1.13
Speak & Spell Depeche Mode	2	3.13	-1.13
Blackwater Park Opeth	2	3.12	-1.12
"Weird Al" Yankovic "Weird Al" Yankovic	2	3.06	-1.06

5-Star Albums (16)

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Hadestown

Anaïs Mitchell · 2 likes

3/5

It’s alright. I usually enjoy the swing and blues elements of these albums but I’m also chafing at the obsessive retelling Greek myths at this point.

Phantom Power

The Tragically Hip · 1 likes

4/5

Classic Canadian dad rock that should definitely be represented on the list.

Blonde

Frank Ocean · 1 likes

5/5

I’m reading the reviews and learning there are people out there who hate this album. I imagine they hate sunshine, rainbows and ice cream as well.

Les deux doigts dans la prise

Les sheriff · 1 likes

5/5

Goddamn, I did not expect French punk to go this hard! This deserves a spot on the original list!

All the Pretty Little Horses

Current 93 · 1 likes

4/5

It’s creepy, silly, bizarre and beautiful all at the same time. I wish Nick Cave stuck around for the whole album. Great submission!

1-Star Albums (4)

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Racine carrée

Stromae

3/5

Carolina Confessions

The Marcus King Band

4/5

Pushin' Against a Stone

Valerie June

5/5

The breadth of this album is incredible. June’s singing manages to effortlessly mould itself to every iteration of soul music from pop to old-timey blues to hard rock and (of course) that mild-sauce indie sound that every hipster burger joint played in the 2010s. I’m also a sucker for the vintage aesthetic.

One Life

Malibu

3/5

Very chill and minimalist. Will definitely come back to this if I ever get into meditation.

Walls of Jericho

Helloween

3/5

Not really my thing, but Judas absolutely slaps.

All the Pretty Little Horses

Current 93

4/5

It’s creepy, silly, bizarre and beautiful all at the same time. I wish Nick Cave stuck around for the whole album. Great submission!

Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

M83

2/5

Pulse

Pink Floyd

3/5

22, A Million

Bon Iver

4/5

Les deux doigts dans la prise

Les sheriff

5/5

Goddamn, I did not expect French punk to go this hard! This deserves a spot on the original list!

Apostrophe(')

Frank Zappa

3/5

Crack the Skye

Mastodon

4/5

Y Ahora Qué?

Reincidentes

2/5

Discosis

Bran Van 3000

2/5

Fantasies

Metric

4/5

A Live One

Phish

1/5

The Midnight Organ Fight

Frightened Rabbit

3/5

Afrociberdelia

Chico Science

4/5

Science’s singing is a little underwhelming (not bad, not great either) but the instrumentals are awesome.

The General Electric

Shihad

2/5

My Love Is Cool

Wolf Alice

4/5

Very chill and catchy album, perfect for brooding.

Chocolate Synthesizer

Boredoms

4/5

Incredible. It’s like the music itself is alive, confused, and in excruciating pain. I especially love the track “Smoke 7” where it sounds like SpongeBob is performing an exorcism on Louis Armstrong.

Up To Here

The Tragically Hip

3/5

Alexisonfire

2/5

TRON: Legacy

Daft Punk

2/5

Speak for Yourself

Imogen Heap

4/5

You & I

Rita Ora

3/5

Auri

2/5

We Like It Here

Snarky Puppy

3/5

I was volunteering for my city’s jazz fest a few years back, and my sole responsibility was selling t-shirts. I remember a couple of vendors from Snarky Puppy’s crew showed up with their merch (which us volunteers weren’t licensed to sell), then randomly fucked off to watch the show. A bunch of Snarky’s fans showed up trying to buy his stuff from the unattended vendor’s table while we looked on helplessly. Pretty sure they were fired. Anyway, that’s my little anecdote.

Alive 2007

Daft Punk

5/5

Loss

Mull Historical Society

4/5

Espers

3/5

Tomorrow Belongs To Me

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

2/5

GUTS

Olivia Rodrigo

4/5

Ida Con Snock

Michael Hurley

5/5

A sweet, jaunty little album. I really enjoyed this one!

Fuzz

Chucklehead

3/5

Was expecting something grungier based on the album art but the funk was a welcome surprise. I wanted to enjoy it more but some of the tracks got a little grating.

Suzuki

Tosca

3/5

Young Team

Mogwai

4/5

It was kinda fun putting this on with no context and going from “what the hell is this?” to “Oh never mind this is actually awesome” as the tracks went on. I’ve been meaning to get into more post rock beside GSY!BE so this was a great addition in my book.

Night Drive

Chromatics

3/5

Smell No Evil

Ookla The Mok

2/5

This is by far the dorkiest thing I have ever listened to. While I can appreciate the originality of this submission (I’m guessing “filk” rhymes with “fic?”) it’s most definitely not my thing.

Phantom Power

The Tragically Hip

4/5

Classic Canadian dad rock that should definitely be represented on the list.

Blue Is The Colour

The Beautiful South

1/5

Well this was an… interesting one. I remember liking the opening song, then growing more and more annoyed by the male singer as the album went on. “Blackbird on the Wire” has this afterschool special vibe to it that made my eyes roll. By the time the brass section plays in “The Sound of North America,” any hint of cleverness is replaced by a cloying sentimentality that sticks to the rest of the album like plaque on teeth. The Tom Waits impression in “Liars’ Bar” is grating as hell, and “Artificial Flowers” is just pure sophista-pop corn syrup — I honestly think it gave me diabetes. Near the end, “One God” gave me flashbacks to Lennon’s solo career (good riddance), and the retrograde eighties production and cabaret elements placed throughout had really soured my listening experience. Anyway, I don’t mean to be a dick to the user who submitted this, especially since it’s clear this has some fans, but for me this is a hard pass. Maybe I’d enjoy one of their other albums?

Que c'est triste Venise

Charles Aznavour

4/5

Bon Iver

4/5

One Time for All Time

65daysofstatic

4/5

Latin Mass

Os Mundi

2/5

As an idea this album is awesome: a bunch of German prog rock dudes singing in Latin in a faux-Catholic mass. I was expecting some crazy acoustics and chanting on this. Unfortunately it ends up being pretty standard skunkweed rock, only now they have an excuse to use those goddawful organs even more. Also, their singing is diabolically bad. Interesting submission, but not something I will be revisiting.

Djarimirri

Gurrumul

3/5

Reachin'

Digable Planets

5/5

Conscious hip hop that’s pro choice? Based af

MOMENTUM

Calibro 35

4/5

Hand. Cannot. Erase.

Steven Wilson

3/5

Beautiful Midnight

Matthew Good Band

2/5

“Hello Time Bomb” is a guilty pleasure of mine. It’s cheesy, stupid, and kinda awesome. That being said, I am not keen on listening to a full album of Matthew and his Not-So-Good Band.

Dilate

Ani DiFranco

3/5

Stormcock

Roy Harper

2/5

Magnolia Electric Co.

Songs: Ohia

4/5

Songs For The Deaf

Queens of the Stone Age

4/5

Music For People In Trouble

Susanne Sundfør

3/5

Year of the Cat

Al Stewart

3/5

This has one of the most beautiful album covers I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately I’m kinda indifferent to Stewart’s singing.

Weezer

5/5

This album is somehow both unintentionally hilarious and legitimately awesome.

Chocolate & Cheese

Ween

4/5

Really hope somebody helps that guy’s pony.

The Italian Flag

Prolapse

2/5

How to Operate With a Blown Mind

Lo Fidelity Allstars

3/5

Angel Dust

Faith No More

3/5

All Hour Cymbals

Yeasayer

4/5

Maestro

Kaizers Orchestra

5/5

Groovy-ass dark cabaret music in a foreign language? Sign me the fuck up!

Revolution

Q65

3/5

Geogaddi

Boards of Canada

5/5

Creepy, but poignantly nostalgic at times. Listening to this feels like revisiting a childhood fear. I remember really getting into this album in late 2020 and will now always associate its eeriness with the COVID-19 pandemic, so I guess that helps boost my own appraisal of it. Also, even though this is a Scottish band, I love the fact that their name is an homage to my country’s National Film Board, which churned out an impressive amount of propaganda that informed the whole “haunted PSA” aesthetic of this project.

Control

Pedro The Lion

3/5

Polygondwanaland

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

5/5

Bob Mould

2/5

I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One

Yo La Tengo

4/5

California

Mr. Bungle

2/5

Blonde

Frank Ocean

5/5

I’m reading the reviews and learning there are people out there who hate this album. I imagine they hate sunshine, rainbows and ice cream as well.

Diamond Jubilee

Cindy Lee

5/5

Okay so I’ve been doing this list for over three years now, and have encountered my fair share of albums that surprised me with how good they are. This, however, was the first time I’ve ever paused an album 25% of the way through so I could go and order the vinyl. This is a goddamn masterpiece.

Alive Or Just Breathing

Killswitch Engage

3/5

Definitely not my thing, but I like the fact that the submitter gave their own personal history and reasons for choosing this album — it makes me feel like I’m sitting though something that’s actually important to someone rather than a checklist of supposed “greats”.

Take It From The Man

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

4/5

BOARDWALK EMPIRE MENTIONED

"Weird Al" Yankovic

2/5

City Of Evil

Avenged Sevenfold

2/5

God Shuffled His Feet

Crash Test Dummies

2/5

Transient

Gaelle

3/5

Harbor Lights

Bruce Hornsby

1/5

Wet Leg

4/5

Hadestown

Anaïs Mitchell

3/5

It’s alright. I usually enjoy the swing and blues elements of these albums but I’m also chafing at the obsessive retelling Greek myths at this point.

The Grass Is Blue

Dolly Parton

3/5

Watch Out!

Alexisonfire

3/5

Emo dude on the vocals: “Addiction is in, I guess addiction is in, yeah” Guy who is getting his balls crushed in a hydraulic press: “CONVOSAHHNG! OHN THE FLOAHH! ZHE SHE-GOAHH! WAAAAAHHHHH!!!”

The Universe Smiles Upon You

Khruangbin

4/5

Souvlaki

Slowdive

3/5

Under The Pink

Tori Amos

4/5

Out of the Blue

Debbie Gibson

3/5

Older

Lizzy McAlpine

2/5

For All Happy Endings

David & The Citizens

2/5

Because the Internet

Childish Gambino

5/5

Argus

Wishbone Ash

3/5

WE ARE

Jon Batiste

4/5

Fear Inoculum

TOOL

3/5

Love Is Hell

Ryan Adams

2/5

Since Adams clearly wants to be Thom Yorke, he’d have better luck covering “Creep.”

Damien Rice

3/5

Circles

Mac Miller

3/5

What Did You Expect from The Vaccines?

The Vaccines

4/5

Puzzle

Biffy Clyro

3/5

Blackwater Park

Opeth

2/5

Sparkle In The Finish

The Ike Reilly Assassination

4/5

Please Don't Take Me Back

Martha

3/5

Millennium

Backstreet Boys

3/5

Sure it’s corny but it’s also perfectly harmless (and occasionally catchy) bubblegum pop. There’s an honest to God song about loving your mom in here that I can’t bring myself to hate.

The Shape Of Punk To Come

Refused

5/5

Stories

Avicii

2/5

I was expecting to give Avicii a pass on this out of nostalgia and consideration for his tragic suicide. Plus his delivery of “MONNDAY LEFT ME BROKENNN” always cracks me up. Unfortunately the other tracks are so diabolically bad that I cannot let this slide. Sounds like the shit they’d play at TPUSA rallies. It’s not quite a 1 but “Pure Grinding” almost dragged it down to that level.

Chet

Chet Baker

5/5

Chet absolutely Baked with this one.

Look Sharp!

Joe Jackson

4/5

The Fame

Lady Gaga

5/5

Arguably the greatest pop album of all time (it’s me, I’m arguing it).

Artpop

Lady Gaga

2/5

Café Tacvba

2/5

Songs Of A Lost World

The Cure

4/5

Keep It like a Secret

Built To Spill

4/5

Speak & Spell

Depeche Mode

2/5

Grand Prix

Teenage Fanclub

2/5

First Utterance

Comus

4/5

I did not expect to enjoy this as much as I did! While I can’t really get on board with the guy’s singing voice, the melodies were beautiful and far more engaging than a lot of other prog rock.

Tomb

Angelo De Augustine

4/5

The Lion's Roar

First Aid Kit

3/5

A Complicated Woman

Self Esteem

4/5

Fear of a Blank Planet

Porcupine Tree

3/5

Odyssey Number Five

Powderfinger

3/5

Inside

Bo Burnham

1/5

The Decline of British Sea Power

Sea Power

3/5

Dimanche à Bamako

Amadou & Mariam

4/5

LUX

ROSALÍA

5/5

This absolutely blessed my ears.

Gemstones

Adam Green

3/5

The Feeding of the 5000

Crass

2/5

Essential listening or not, Crass sounds like an annoying parody of British punk music to me. I can almost get behind the whole “all authority is bad” message but honestly if I heard this shit in ‘78 I’d probably become a churchgoing neoliberal on the spot.