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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Songs The Lord Taught Us The Cramps	5	2.84	+2.16
Wild Gift X	5	3	+2
Youth And Young Manhood Kings of Leon	5	3.1	+1.9
The Yes Album Yes	5	3.31	+1.69
...And Justice For All Metallica	5	3.43	+1.57
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	5	3.5	+1.5
Moving Pictures Rush	5	3.58	+1.42
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	5	3.61	+1.39
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm A Tribe Called Quest	5	3.61	+1.39
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen	5	3.64	+1.36

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	1	3.32	-2.32
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	1	3.28	-2.28
It's Too Late to Stop Now Van Morrison	1	3.25	-2.25
NEU! 75 Neu!	1	3.09	-2.09
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Genesis	1	3.07	-2.07
Ambient 1/Music For Airports Brian Eno	1	3.07	-2.07
No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live) Motörhead	1	3.06	-2.06
Veckatimest Grizzly Bear	1	3.05	-2.05
Tarkus Emerson, Lake & Palmer	1	2.79	-1.79
Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman	2	3.79	-1.79

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Artist	Albums	Average
Metallica	3	4.67
Led Zeppelin	2	5
A Tribe Called Quest	2	5

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Artist	Ratings
Van Morrison	1, 4
Motörhead	1, 4

5-Star Albums (23)

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Popular Reviews

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

The best Metallica. Metal.

2 likes

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

5/5

Great album, great band. Looking for this on vinyl.

1 likes

...And Justice For All

Metallica

5/5

Not as good as master of puppets, but still great.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (14)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

All Ratings

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

1978 "Thank You for Sending Me an Angel" (track 1) is a keeper Has "Take Me to the River" which is a classic "The Big Country" is a great change of pace and is makes me think of Neutral Milk Hotel (was probably an inspiration)

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Meh. Not bad, but nothing that stood out to me. The guitar was very uninteresting and Neil Young was mostly singing loud (which I find to be whiney) rather than singing softly (like For What It's Worth or Old Man).

Blur

4/5

Good for the most part. The sound is pretty diverse, so it doesn't get boring. Sometimes it has the feel of weird to be weird, but mostly it's interesting. Essex Dogs sucks ass. I had to skip it.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

2/5

Bitter Sweet Symphony is a classic, and Lucky Man is pretty great too. The rest of the album is a bit... meh. Not bad, just standard 90's pop rock sound to me. There's a little bit of synth here and there to mix things up, but nothing to adventurous.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

Good vocals and good melodies. "Wild World" is always awesome.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

All the classics. Great, but I can only take so much reggae.

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

4/5

Good Chicago Blues. Apparently this is the band that Eric Clapton and a few other big names were in before they got their breaks. Vocals aren't great, but guitars and horns are pretty nice.

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

5/5

Great band, great album. Good variety between tracks and changes in tempo.

Miriam Makeba

4/5

1960. This woman is crazy prolific. Amazing story of being exiled from South Africa and then returning after 30 years when apartheid ended. Also, she's awesome. The song "Mbube" is definitely where they stole "Hakuna Mattata".

Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

the song "Hotel California" is so overplayed for me it's tough not to skip it. I'll try to grit my teeth and get through it...

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Cool sound. Kinda like Super Tramp but darker and more punk. Occasionally Apparently they were bigger in the UK. Definitely recognized their biggest hit, Spellbound. Good song.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

This is a five star just off the track list.

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

1/5

I had to skip the first 5-6 tracks and then just gave up.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

2/5

Her vocals are great, but the lyrics don't rhyme and she just rambles about God a lot.

The Joshua Tree

3/5

Lots of hits on this one, but I just don't care for U2 that much.

Low

David Bowie

2/5

Way to synth heavy for my taste. Had some good tracks, but I would never listen to the whole thing end to end again.

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

1/5

This was not made for me.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

Corporate rock at its best. Every song is good to great.

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

2/5

Mostly ambient noise stuff with intentionally distant echo-y vocals. Unique, but def not something you "have to listen to before you die".

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

4/5

Good blues album.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

I like Cyndi Lauper, but she's no Madonna. A few bangers, and the rest were okay.

Paul Simon

4/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Like a poor man's Bob Dylan. More spoken word poetry over a guitar than anything else.

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

4/5

Pretty good album. A few really good tracks, and none that are awful.

In It For The Money

Supergrass

3/5

Good british pop/rock. Have a nice variation to the sound which was a little Blur at times and a little Arctic Monkeys on other tracks.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Probably the weakest Green Day album. No idea why this is here and not Dookie or Nimrod.

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Really good R&B album. Even as background music, it got me moving a bunch of times.

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Good jazz with Africa flavor.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

1/5

Couldn't finish it. Like if McClusky decided they weren't annoying and screechy enough. And also decided that melody and rhythm wasn't important. And also that it's not music if it doesn't hurt your brain.

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

2/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

3/5

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

3/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Very hair metal. Good bellowing on some and machine gun lyrics in others.

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Parklife

Blur

3/5

okay. very british.

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

4/5

Very good album. I'd probably give it 5 stars if I hadn't burnt myself out on the Hives years ago.

Leftism

Leftfield

2/5

Just techno stuff. I imagine it may have been groundbreaking at the time, but nothing special to me.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

Surprisingly good. I think "Bloody Well Right" was the only track I recognized, but I liked it all.

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

3/5

Good folk. A bit weird at times.

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

2/5

Black Sabbath

4/5

Metallica

4/5

The "Black Album". Good metal, but Master of Puppets is better. This was the age where James Hedfield adds a "yugh!" to the end of the last word at every sentence.

The Predator

Ice Cube

4/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

2/5

Probably just on this list because it was influential.

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

3/5

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

5/5

Great album, great band. Looking for this on vinyl.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Meh. British pop rock. Didn't stand out to me.

Joanna Newsom

2/5

Slow harp stuff. Not for me.

Technique

New Order

3/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

I'm not convinced this is a real album

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

This is so far down the list of Beatles albums I would've picked. Not bad, but not Sgt. Peppers either.

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

2/5

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

Night Life

Ray Price

3/5

Good, old-school country.

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

3/5

Good background synth type 80's stuff.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

Fine for background music.

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

3/5

NEU! 75

Neu!

1/5

so sick of these ambient noise albums. Who picks these for a top album?

The Specials

3/5

70's british ska with reggae influence. Sounds like they had an impact on 311 and Sublime.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Moby Grape

4/5

Sounds like either the Who or The Beatles depending on the song.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

Good early british pop/punk.

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

2/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

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

The Kinks

3/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

This album made me appreciate Bruce Springsteen. Especially the close with Jungleland.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

The Clash

4/5

Good british punk, but it gets old

Adele

3/5

This album made me like Adele. She's pretty impressive.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

4/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

This would be a five if I hadn't heard so many of the songs a million times.

Chris

Christine and the Queens

2/5

Artsy pop. Sounds a bit like Weekend or MJ at times, but not as good.

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

4/5

Wild Gift

5/5

Great punk with a bit of blues or country or folk to some of it. Not too heavy and not too repetitive.

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Led Zeppelin

5/5

No Other

Gene Clark

4/5

Sounds like Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young at times and Jethro Tull (minus the flute) at others. Pretty good album.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

Africa music with good desert blues sound

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

1/5

I wish I could give this zero stars. Nothing but random annoying noises and bad vocals. I'm sure art snobs could call it a masterpiece, but it's dog shit.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

3/5

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

2/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

1/5

Crazy jazz. Not for me.

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

3/5

Good and funky, but not my thing after a while

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Good mix with both Nico and Lou Reed singing. A bit too much ambient heroin noise.

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

2/5

It was cool as background music, I guess

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

3/5

Good, but not their best by far.

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

3/5

Can hear similarities to King Gizzard in a few tracks. Good, light hair metal-ish pop.

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

3/5

A few bangers including Blueberry Wine. The rest is good, but a touch slow for me.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Beautiful Freak

Eels

2/5

Novocaine For The Soul is great, but they're one hit wonders for a reason. Not into the rest.

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

3/5

Is it punk? Rock? Jazz? Yes. Are the vocals annoying? Also yes. Good, but way too long.

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

2/5

I think I just didn't care for Morrissey's voice.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

Sail Away

Randy Newman

3/5

Fine, I guess. Just Randy Newman singing what he sees.

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

1/5

No thank you.

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

4/5

All covers, but pretty good. Great for background music while working.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

3/5

decent reggae

Django Django

3/5

Mostly covers, but good. More complex and interesting than I would have guessed.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

Calenture

The Triffids

1/5

dog shit.

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

4/5

Two guys from the Minutemen. Good late 80's punk.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

2/5

Icelandic atmospheric music. Meh.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Great front to back.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

Organ jazz.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Good, but not as good as some of the others.

Crazysexycool

TLC

3/5

Good 90's R&B, but I don't really love 90's R&B.

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Upbeat and original without being too weird. Only thing I didn't like was his cover of Across the Universe.

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

2/5

Instrumentals. Gets old.

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

5/5

opens with Hells Bells and closes with Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution. Almost all bangers in between.

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

4/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

2/5

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

1/5

It's a multi-part live album. No thank you.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

2/5

Didn't finish it. Way too 80's.

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

4/5

Really good old school country

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

Different sound than "My Generation", but very good end to end.

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Good rock opera

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Clandestino

Manu Chao

3/5

Spanish, French, and English vocals. Varies a lot, and it's all good.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

3/5

Good Bowie with deep, complex tracks.

Viva Hate

Morrissey

3/5

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

2/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Good porch music. Vocal cadence is almost jazzy.

Machine Head

Deep Purple

4/5

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

3/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5

Gold

Ryan Adams

2/5

Too poppy. Not for me.

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

3/5

Loud girl punk

Achtung Baby

3/5

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

3/5

Weird, low-key, synth rock. Maybe a touch like lighter radiohead with a female singer.

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Blur is good, but not great.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

2/5

live french (or italian) album from the 60's.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

2/5

pretty weak early brit rock

Parachutes

Coldplay

2/5

Fine for background music, but I wouldn't do much more with it than that.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Good singer songwriter album. 2nd half not as good as the first.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

3/5

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

3/5

Irish rock

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

1/5

Live album. Didn't finish it.

Born To Be With You

Dion

3/5

Good folk/pop.

My Generation

The Who

4/5

Only a few tracks I know, but all very good. A few blues tracks as well

Goo

Sonic Youth

3/5

Good, but a bit too moody.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

Don't love all of Speakerbox, but LB is solid.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

The best Metallica. Metal.

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

1/5

To light and weird for me didn't finish it.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Was thinking this was going to be four stars before I listen to it again. Still not as good as dark side animals or wish you were here, but pretty great on its own.

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

5/5

Great band. Great sound for the whole album.

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

5/5

Not as good as master of puppets, but still great.

Aja