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1980

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Scum Napalm Death	5	2.08	+2.92
Architecture And Morality Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark	5	3.06	+1.94
Repeater Fugazi	5	3.14	+1.86
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo Devo	5	3.15	+1.85
The Real Thing Faith No More	5	3.21	+1.79
Rust In Peace Megadeth	5	3.24	+1.76
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	5	3.27	+1.73
Antichrist Superstar Marilyn Manson	4	2.45	+1.55
Black Metal Venom	4	2.47	+1.53
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	5	3.48	+1.52

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Time Out The Dave Brubeck Quartet	1	3.82	-2.82
Can't Buy A Thrill Steely Dan	1	3.73	-2.73
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.68	-2.68
Morrison Hotel The Doors	1	3.57	-2.57
Moon Safari Air	1	3.57	-2.57
Definitely Maybe Oasis	1	3.54	-2.54
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young & Crazy Horse	1	3.53	-2.53
Rust Never Sleeps Neil Young & Crazy Horse	1	3.5	-2.5
Crosby, Stills & Nash Crosby, Stills & Nash	1	3.47	-2.47
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	1	3.43	-2.43

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
The Clash	2	5
Nirvana	2	5
Radiohead	5	4

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Steely Dan	3	1
Neil Young & Crazy Horse	2	1
Slipknot	2	1
Baaba Maal	2	1
Grateful Dead	2	1
U2	4	1.75
Bruce Springsteen	4	1.75
ABBA	2	1.5
Ali Farka Touré	2	1.5
Rufus Wainwright	2	1.5
Air	2	1.5
John Lennon	2	1.5
Scott Walker	2	1.5
The Doors	3	2
Kings of Leon	3	2
The Kinks	4	2.25
Pink Floyd	4	2.25

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Gene Clark	4, 1
Motörhead	4, 1
Metallica	3, 2, 5
The Velvet Underground	2, 5, 3
Beatles	3, 5, 4, 2

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I absolutely LOVE Motorhead. Live albums have no place on this list unless it's the only recording of an artist.

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I'll never understand this era of music and the the love for the likes of Neil Young. Someone once told me how "rockin" he was. I still don't get it.

Awful. This noodling feels like one step above Phish. Between the keyboard and saxophone jams I want to crash my truck. During the breakdown of Has My Fire Really Gone Out? I picture a bunch of Ridgid musicians on stage whose only movements are the head nods and smiles they give to each other while ever so slightly bouncing at the knees. If this is the kind of shit I will have to listen to, I absolutely will not make it through all 1001 albums.

I've heard of Roxy Music and Brian Eno but have never listened to anything by either as far as I knew. Then I heard Chance Meeting and thought about how I could literally hear Roxy Music's influence on Trent Reznor. Aside from the vocals, I could picture this song on any NIN record so I did a quick Google search and found that Brian Eno and Reznor have quite the musical relationship. As for the whole album, I enjoyed it. I don't think this is something that will get added to a regular listening for me, but I found that musically, there were many times that felt completely timeless. For an album released in 1972 I found myself hearing a lot of modern sounds coming through. I'm glad I got this album.

While I can't personally relate to a lot of what Nina songs about, she has an unbelievable ability to make me feel what SHE is going through. The empathy she's able to elicit is matched by no other artist I've listened to in my lifetime. I can physically hear her pain and sorrow as she sings with her beautiful voice.

I enjoy Jamiroquai's radio songs and at first I was enjoying this album. Then every song just kind of started blending together and sounding the same to me. Towards the end I started to realize that on a well built sound system, one that accentuated the deep low base and separated the clean crisp highs, a lot of these songs would have been a different experience. Halfqay through the album I got pretty stoned and the music itself began to resonate with me better but I still found the similarity drowning itself out. Requiring these kinds of enhancements for me to enjoy the music more is why I'm giving this such a low score.

Right off the bat I thought I was listening to The Black Crowes only not terrible. I'm surprised nobody was calling them out for just blatantly stealing Teenage Head's style. I will say that Chris Robinson's voice is more "charismatic" and probably what helped carry that band. By the end of the album I was getting some real Cramps vibes but lazier somehow. The last few songs were real dull and lost me even though I love The Cramps and their sound.

Always loved this album. For some reason Lava and Hero Worship aren't available on Spotify while the rest of the album is. Liked Songs: Planet Claire Rock Lobster

The instrumentals on this album are absolutely fantastic, but that's where it ends for me. Erykah Badu sounds like a baby goat crying for attention at best and one being slaughtered at worst and most often. I remember when she was popular, I didn't like this kind of music at the time so I never listened and I'm glad I didn't. If there's an "A" or "Ah" sound watch out, she's going to spark a primal nausea in you that I imagine exists to force you to ask yourself, "Am I really so hungry I'm willing to slaughter this defenseless animal?" This album gets the rating it does from me solely because I find the instrumentals to be excellent. Unfortunately they are completely bogged down by horrible vocals. Liked songs: None...just...none.

I've never been the biggest fan of Jane's Addiction. Familiar with all their radio and MTV hits, remember when Lolapalooza was formed, but never listened to an album by them. Not terrible overall. Perry Ferell's vocals are unique but can be grating, but Dave Navarro's guitar work is pretty impressive despite him supposedly being a garbage human being and partly responsible for that Ink masters nonsense. Liked Songs: Mountain Song Jane Says

I hate ABBA. I hated this slightly less.

Still can't listen to Neil Young on Spotify and I still don't care.

WOW! I was familiar exclusively with the name of the band and their song, Mr. Blue Sky. This album might be the first album I was not at all familiar with that I've had an absolute blast listening to from beginning to end. Each song is just larger than life with galactic sounds. I was consistently transported to some kind of outer space and then brought back to Earth. However, I barely listened to any lyrics at all. For me, this entire album was just sound. Wonderful, bigger than Earth, galactic sound.

Musically this album is absolutely solid. Vocally though, it is awful. There were so many times it sounded like the singer was singing to completely different music and his voice overall is pretty bad.

I can't stand Steely Dan. I really tried to get through this whole album but I just couldn't.

Where do I begin? Californication? As the an influential RHCP album? Influential for shitty pop rock? What exactly did this album influence? It's terrible. The only thing it influenced was marketing companies making shitty commercials who needed a song about California. I hate RHCP but they definitely have influential albums. The early the late 90s had all kinds of shitty bands attempting to copy RHCPs shitty attempt at copying George Clinton long before this garbage pop album.

Was not able to listen as it is not available on spotify

This album should be called, "80s Movie Opening Credits Montage: The Album" Every single song sounded like it came straight out of an 80s movie opening credits scene cutting to scene after scene of a bustling city. I half expected each song to fade out where it would usually do so in the movie then cut to a Shelly Long or similar in a skirt suit, blazer stacked with shoulder pads, slamming some files on a desk. If a song on the album didn't fit there, then it fit as background instrumentals during some nighttime romantic scene involving wine and a fire. I loved every second of this album.

I can't listen to a 17 year old musical heiress sing about unrequited love.

Dion was right, this is funeral music.