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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Love Supreme John Coltrane	5	3.63	+1.37
Pearl Janis Joplin	5	3.73	+1.27
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits	5	3.74	+1.26
Phaedra Tangerine Dream	4	2.74	+1.26
Vincebus Eruptum Blue Cheer	4	2.8	+1.2
At Folsom Prison Johnny Cash	5	3.98	+1.02

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Dusty In Memphis Dusty Springfield	1	3.47	-2.47
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1	3.32	-2.32
Music For The Jilted Generation The Prodigy	1	3.07	-2.07
Killing Joke Killing Joke	1	2.99	-1.99
Disintegration The Cure	2	3.85	-1.85
...Baby One More Time Britney Spears	1	2.67	-1.67
Now I Got Worry The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion	1	2.52	-1.52
Play Moby	2	3.47	-1.47
The Yes Album Yes	2	3.31	-1.31
Wonderful Rainbow Lightning Bolt	1	2.28	-1.28

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Beautiful Freak

Eels

2/5

Eels (the animal) are a lot cooler than Eels (the band), and probably more musically talented.

12 likes

The Undertones

2/5

The Undertones? More like the Underwhelmings. Straight forward early British punk but basically the same song 16 times on one album.

8 likes

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

2/5

Not funky enough or hip hop enough for me, somewhere in the bland middle. Some interesting samples and ideas but not a very engaging listen. Another reason why Ronald Reagan's America sucked.

1 likes

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

1/5

Nah.

1 likes

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

1/5

Just when you thought blue eyed soul couldn't get worse, British people start doing it and somehow make it worse. No grits, no balls, no soul, this pales in comparison to Aretha.

1 likes

4-Star Albums (6)

1-Star Albums (7)

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At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Absolutely iconic live country album when Cash was in his prime.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

5/5

Automatic 5 stars just for the raunchy guitar tone of Money for Nothing.

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

3/5

A classic live album that paved the way for so much music to come, especially punk music. A really cool recording that captures them playing in their hometown of Detroit; you can feel the energy in the crowd and the tension in the air. The title track and "Motor City" are the two highlights of the album, with the latter being a ballsy bluesey cover of the John Lee Hooker song about the riots in Detroit the year before. Makes you want to torch a cop car listening to it. The whole album is only 39 minutes, shorter than most live albums, and it's rough around the edges, raw, and full of protest. Kick out the jams motherfucker. Indeed.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

3/5

One of Dylan's classic albums, but lacking in the energy and flying by the seat of his pants feel in better albums like Highway 61 and Bringing It All Back Home. Cool that some members of the Band are on it, but not nearly as much fire as Bloomfield brought to the earlier albums. Memphis Blues and Pillbox Hat are highlights, and Sad Eyed Lady is one of his best and most underrated songs. Everybody must get stoned.

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

2/5

Steve Earle is great but this album just sounds like a bunch of songs that are pretty close but not close enough to Copperhead Road. Sounds like a John Cougar Mellencamp album if he was from Tennessee. Or a Steve Earle album about sucking on a chili dog.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1/5

Honestly couldn't get through it, it kinda sounded like if the Black Keys had hemorrhoids and no talent, but somehow worse. I'm all for concept albums but didn't get this one. Shame because this band had a great song in Shrek 2.

The Undertones

2/5

The Undertones? More like the Underwhelmings. Straight forward early British punk but basically the same song 16 times on one album.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

An absolute jazz classic and one of Coltrane's best. A perfect example of mid 60s modal/hard/post bop. Coltrane is great, but the rest of the quartet are top musicians too. Elvin Jones is a motherfucker on drums, McCoy Tyner kills it on keys, and Jimmy Garrison keeps it on the groove. Part 3 is the highlight where they're fully cooking, but the whole album is sequenced perfectly. You can see why Santana and so many other major musicians are huge fans of this.

Kimono My House

Sparks

2/5

Started off rough but got better as the album went on. Definitely some catchy, fun songs. There was some moments of cool musicianship, mainly thanks to Adrian Fisher and Dinky Diamond. Cool that Muff Winwood (Steve's older brother) produced it. Two stars just for these names. Honestly would've gotten another star or two if the guy just sang in his normal voice instead of falsetto the whole time, it sounded like the kimono ladies were singing for most of it.

Ramones

3/5

The US is better than England at everything (winning wars, food, dental care, etc) and especially punk music. I barely understood what he said, but I felt what he meant cuz this music has balls, unlike the British punk we've listened to so far.

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

4/5

The sound of scuba diving on acid.

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

3/5

Early Rod Stewart (solo, with Faces, and with Jeff Beck Group) is really underrated. I feel like this isn't as strong of an album compared to some of his other early ones, but still a pretty decent album, especially for blue-eyed soul. Fun fact; the largest concert ever in the Americas was a Rod Stewart concert in 1994.

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

2/5

Not funky enough or hip hop enough for me, somewhere in the bland middle. Some interesting samples and ideas but not a very engaging listen. Another reason why Ronald Reagan's America sucked.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

As a redheaded stranger myself, maybe I'm biased. But this is a classic concept country album. The way he weaves his original story with classic country songs is so well done and thought out, and there's so many layers to it that even after a bunch of listens you still pull something new out of it. Sparse on the instruments on purpose, and Willie fully in charge of his art. Not nearly as good as some of his other classic albums like Shotgun Willie, but still a great all around album.

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

A solid salsa album, and paired well with chips & salsa.

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

3/5

Play

Moby

2/5

A lot of catchy songs that all feel familiar since they sold out so much with this album. It made me feel like I was in one of those classic late 90s/early 2000s movies with Brad Pitt, Ben Affleck, George Clooney, etc. Definitely more enjoyable than some of the other techno/electronic we've listened to so far, but also not a fan of how they exploited and didn't credit the vocalists from Alan Lomax's tapes.

Killing Joke

1/5

This album sounds like if the robots in IRobot made an album together. Where's Will Smith when you need him?

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

Surprisingly decent album, really liked the production value of a heavy rhythm section. 2.5 stars would be more accurate, but I'll round up to 3 because of some great instrumental sections.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

1/5

Just when you thought blue eyed soul couldn't get worse, British people start doing it and somehow make it worse. No grits, no balls, no soul, this pales in comparison to Aretha.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

The Queen of Soul in her prime, with the killer Muscle Shoals swampers backing her. An absolute classic.

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

1/5

Nah.

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

1/5

I should've consumed significantly more barbiturates to listen to this album and make it enjoyable.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

3/5

Not sure why so many of these British bands feel the need to sing in a falsetto so much, but it's not for me. The songs where Thom Yorke sang normal were all pretty good, with some cool instrumental parts, but the falsetto ones knock it down a bit and def give a late U2 vibe. Cool that they let listeners pay what they wanted for the album when it came out. As they say in England, this wasn't really my cup of tea, but it was still a fairly enjoyable cup of tea with some interesting notes. Sorry Kev.

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

3/5

Almost lost me on the first song, but glad I stuck it out because there was some really cool parts. Not sure in what situation I'd listen to this in real life, but listening to it while driving to work definitely improved my commute a little bit. It feels like the soundtrack after Walter White breaks bad and made me want to buy a cool hat, dark shades, and sling blue meth on the streets of New Mexico. Fun fact: Led Zeppelin fucked a girl using a live red snapper in a Seattle hotel. Wonder if that's where this band name comes from...British people are weird, man. That was probably a little more satisfying than this album though.

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

3/5

Had trouble finding the real album, but what I did find had some real cool flamenco guitar and some cool polyrhythm. The wooden flutes give it that real southern South American feel.

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

2/5

This album makes me want to walk across the rooftops and jump off so I don't have to listen to it anymore.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

Classic Beatles with some of their best songs, and where they had really perfected the Beatlemania formula. Who else had come up with movies based on albums at this point? Things We Said Today is a super underrated Beatles song.

Beautiful Freak

Eels

2/5

Eels (the animal) are a lot cooler than Eels (the band), and probably more musically talented.

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

4/5

Awesome psychedelic album in the vein of Cream, Jefferson Airplane, and Iron Butterfly. Even more badass that they're only a trio. 68 was really when acid rock hit its peak and this album is a part of that and a big influence on a lot of music to come, from metal to prog to fusion. Would probably give this 4.5 stars if I could. Also super refreshing listen after a bunch of the recent garbage.

Disintegration

The Cure

2/5

It turns out The Cure for my headache was turning off this album. Some classic cheesy 80s parts, but otherwise got really boring and repetitive as it wore on.

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

2/5

Is this list just 1001 British Punk albums (that all suck to varying degrees)? Where's the American rock n roll, guvnah?

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

1/5

It's cool that they were the backing band for A Asspocket Full of Whiskey with RL Burnside, so I'll give them a star for this, but this album was rough and just too much of a bastard for me.

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Finally some rock n roll. Great to hear The Horse ride again, but not nearly as good as their original albums. Just a good ole fashioned American rock album to have on in the background while you polish off some Miller High Lifes and change the oil in your El Camino

The Wall

Pink Floyd

3/5

Roger Waters is a fucking prick and has only gotten crazier and more antisemitic since then. This album really should be called Daddy Issues. Overrated album and really where the egos reached their breaking points. This doesn't make the cut in my top 5 Floyd albums.

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

1/5

Bubblegum bullshit

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

Classic rock n roll. This is how you make badass rocking music within 2 minutes and turn it into a whole album. All the wannabee British punk bands on this list could learn a thing or two.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

RIP Janis, gone before her prime and such a shame that this album was released after she was already dead. Oh Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz. I've listened to this album in the bar booth where she had her last drinks (screwdrivers) before she died in LA. Her initials are still carved in the table from that night.

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Fela is the man and influenced so much world music, yet most people don't realize it. Check out the music from when Ginger Baker traveled across the desert to find him and make music with him. Polyrhythms for days.

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

No.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

Ella doing what she does best. Really the Janis of her time, or Janis was the Ella of her time.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

Clapton Sucks. Duane Allman and the rest of the band (Carl Radle, Jim Keltner, Bobby Whitlock, Jim Gordon) are what make this album such a classic. Maybe if Clapton wasn't so strung out on smack and too busy trying to bang his best friends wife he'd be better. It is ironic that he did end up marrying his Layla later on though. Duane's solo on Layla is one of the best in music. Wail on, Skydog.