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Album	You	Global	Diff
Blue Lines Massive Attack	5	3.38	+1.62
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	5	3.39	+1.61
Arrival ABBA	5	3.5	+1.5
The Cars The Cars	5	3.67	+1.33
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins	5	3.68	+1.32
Boston Boston	5	3.71	+1.29
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys	5	3.73	+1.27
KIWANUKA Michael Kiwanuka	5	3.74	+1.26
A Short Album About Love The Divine Comedy	4	2.77	+1.23
In Utero Nirvana	5	3.83	+1.17

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
L.A. Woman The Doors	1	3.67	-2.67
Transformer Lou Reed	1	3.67	-2.67
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	1	3.44	-2.44
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	1	3.37	-2.37
The Soft Bulletin The Flaming Lips	1	3.29	-2.29
Liquid Swords GZA	1	3.28	-2.28
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo Devo	1	3.13	-2.13
Led Zeppelin III Led Zeppelin	2	3.96	-1.96
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret Soft Cell	1	2.87	-1.87
Goodbye And Hello Tim Buckley	1	2.83	-1.83

5-Star Albums (9)

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

Popular Reviews

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

2/5

When the music was uptempo, it sounded pretty good. The problem is it was only uptempo for about 20% of the album.

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1-Star Albums (13)

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Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

3/5

This one really conflicts me, because I was liking it until I got two-thirds of the way through the album, and then my brain said, "Okay, I've had my fill of Bob Dylan's voice and harmonica." I pretty much liked all the songs individually, but I am just not set up to listen to an entire album of Bob Dylan in one sitting.

Moving Pictures

Rush

4/5

Enjoyed the album, definitely going to come back to this one every so often.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

1/5

I had heard Clocks before, and thought it was okay. Every other song on the album was either too long, too slow, or both.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

5/5

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

The Blueprint

JAY Z

2/5

I definitely appreciate that this is a very good rap album. At the same time, it's pretty unlikely that I'm going to listen to this album again.

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

4/5

I listened to this once through and seriously thought, "What the hell did I just listen to?" And I was prepared to toss this on the pile of 1s. But our listening group figured out, this was kind of meant to be an over the top, comedic-leaning sort of endeavor. I gave it a second listen. Don't get me wrong, the album is still strange, but now that I know it's supposed to be strange, I think I actually like it.

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

2/5

When the music was uptempo, it sounded pretty good. The problem is it was only uptempo for about 20% of the album.

The Cars

5/5

I already knew and liked over after the songs on this album, and the other half I hadn't heard was great, too. Only song that wasn't on the same level was I'm in Touch With Your World, but otherwise a great album from start to finish.

L.A. Woman

The Doors

1/5

I *do not like* gravelly Jim Morrison. Like fingernails on a blackboard. For the two recognizable songs that are fine where he doesn't sing gravelly: 1.5/5.

World Clique

Deee-Lite

2/5

The first half of the album was really uneven, and hard to get into because it bounced between faster and slower songs. It started getting more consistent starting at track 8, but then it was over. Groove Is In the Heart was good, as always. 2.5/5

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

1/5

Transylvania Blues was not bad. The rest was.

Timeless

Goldie

2/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

Pretty good album. Only knock against it was when it went a little too experimental/improv for my taste, but otherwise a solid album that I’d listen to again.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

I didn’t much care for it on the first listen, but something in my mind told me to give it another listen. It’s very complex music, and it’s definitely a very challenging listen, but I think I’m actually growing to like it.

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

2/5

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

4/5

Front half of the album was a little better than the back half, but a good album overall. Enjoyed a lot of the piano work.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

5/5

Wonderful mix of musical styles and genres. This was my first exposure to his music; I will definitely be checking out more. Amazing.

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

I haven’t listened to this album straight through in 25+ years. And I think I’m going to need to change that. It’s really good, and carries its weight most of the way through the 2 hours. It tails off at the end a bit because it goes into a block of less hard-driving rock songs, but that’s about the only knock I have against it. I thoroughly enjoyed getting the chance to revisit this album.

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

2/5

Low

David Bowie

4/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Iron Maiden

3/5

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

3/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Foo Fighters

4/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

2/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

3/5

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

2/5

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

1/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

1/5

Liquid Swords

GZA

1/5

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

4/5

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

4/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

2/5

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

Guero

Beck

4/5

Phrenology

The Roots

2/5

Suzanne Vega

3/5

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

3/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

2/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

Scott 2

Scott Walker

1/5

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

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

Arctic Monkeys

5/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

5/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

1/5

War

3/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

1/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

2/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

Arrival

ABBA

5/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

2/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

Ella Fitzgerald was wonderful, but I just don't think I like Gershwin all that much. Not a whole album's worth, at any rate.

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

1/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

3/5

There was some stuff that was good on this album, other stuff not so much. I thought his voice was going to be a major turn off, but turned out it wasn't as bad as I was expecting. I don't expect I'll listen to it very much in the future, but it was at least an enjoyable listen.

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

1/5

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Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

2/5

My music player was malfunctioning and I was generally annoyed that I had to listen to the first half of Child in Time three times. The guitar work was fine, but even then, any of the songs that were longer than 5 minutes I found myself looking at the time remaining bar seeing when the song would end.

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

1/5

The music itself was not bad, but I could only take so much of Wayne Coyne singing. And that amount was much shorter than an entire album.

All That You Can't Leave Behind

3/5

Inoffensive. I liked listening to it, but it would never be an album I would reach for and say, "I want to listen to this."

Boston

5/5

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

1/5