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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Les deux doigts dans la prise Les sheriff	5	2.82	+2.18
Ida Con Snock Michael Hurley	5	2.82	+2.18
Chocolate Synthesizer Boredoms	4	2.05	+1.95
Pushin' Against a Stone Valerie June	5	3.17	+1.83
Reachin' Digable Planets	5	3.21	+1.79
All the Pretty Little Horses Current 93	4	2.43	+1.57
Alive 2007 Daft Punk	5	3.66	+1.34
Afrociberdelia Chico Science	4	2.76	+1.24
Loss Mull Historical Society	4	2.92	+1.08
22, A Million Bon Iver	4	2.94	+1.06

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Blue Is The Colour The Beautiful South	1	2.89	-1.89
A Live One Phish	1	2.49	-1.49
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming M83	2	3.35	-1.35
TRON: Legacy Daft Punk	2	3.06	-1.06
The Italian Flag Prolapse	2	3	-1

5-Star Albums (6)

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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!

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!

Chocolate Synthesizer

Boredoms · 1 likes

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.

Phantom Power

The Tragically Hip · 1 likes

4/5

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

1-Star Albums (2)

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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

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