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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Our Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper	5	2.74	+2.26
Suzanne Vega Suzanne Vega	5	3.01	+1.99
Untitled (Black Is) SAULT	5	3.05	+1.95
Your New Favourite Band The Hives	5	3.12	+1.88
Since I Left You The Avalanches	5	3.28	+1.72
Fever To Tell Yeah Yeah Yeahs	5	3.29	+1.71
The College Dropout Kanye West	5	3.31	+1.69
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	5	3.35	+1.65
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Public Enemy	5	3.37	+1.63
Beauty And The Beat The Go-Go's	5	3.39	+1.61

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	1	3.62	-2.62
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	1	3.47	-2.47
Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk	1	3.33	-2.33
Porcupine Echo And The Bunnymen	1	3.09	-2.09
Slanted And Enchanted Pavement	1	3.03	-2.03
Fuzzy Logic Super Furry Animals	1	2.94	-1.94
Infected The The	1	2.92	-1.92
Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin	2	3.91	-1.91
Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective	1	2.9	-1.9
Back In Black AC/DC	2	3.86	-1.86

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Artist	Albums	Average
Queen	2	5
Kanye West	2	5
Beatles	2	5

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Popular Reviews

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

3/5

Some nice beats but underwhelming bars at times

3 likes

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

5/5

Great album

3 likes

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

5/5

Funky and fresh, liked the experimentation a lot

2 likes

1-Star Albums (11)

All Ratings

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

5/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Country-ish, easy listening it was alright. 2/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Pretty good reminded me of Toto a bit 4/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

3/5

It's alright, too country-ish at times but that's the white stripes for you 3/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

2/5

Better than I thought, still not super into it 2/5

Electric

The Cult

2/5

Generic rock, there's no way this is in the top 1000 albums ever 2/5

Suzanne Vega

5/5

Great vibes, really solid album 5/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

1/5

Like if Safe as Milk was really bad. Possibly the most over rated album of all time. 1/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

4/5

Cool relaxed trip hoppy beats, enjoyed 4/5

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

3/5

Chilled hip hop - pretty ok nothing particularly special just decent 3/5

Low

David Bowie

5/5

5/5 Masterpiece

A Northern Soul

The Verve

2/5

I've never liked Oasis or this sort of music particularly - it was alright at points, but of a dirge in others.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

Pretty good, I liked it :) 3/5

In It For The Money

Supergrass

2/5

Fun in places, not really my style 2/5

Parklife

Blur

3/5

Good stuff, varied and fun - liked a lot of the album 3/5

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

2/5

Exactly what you'd expect from Elvis, probably pretty ground breaking at the time.

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

5/5

Great album, reminded me of Deavid Soul in places

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

Awesome indie rock album, love it 5/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

2/5

Funky stuff, interesting

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1/5

Everyone says to listen an ungodly amount of times, but I just don't get it.

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

2/5

Not a rockabilly fan

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

The start of a really good run of Bowie albums

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

1/5

Not for me, it's like the same song over and over again.

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

2/5

Pretty standard late 80s pop album, a few highlights, nothing too crazy

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

1/5

It's just jazz, not really my type of jazz

The Grand Tour

George Jones

2/5

An interesting country album, could have been worse

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

3/5

Yeah it was okay, nowhere near in the court of the crimson king level

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

4/5

It's no holy Bible but it's pretty cool

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

Pretty good, great in places

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

2/5

There's way better punk albums

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Some really cool moments and songs, I liked it

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

2/5

The Specials

2/5

Cut

The Slits

3/5

Fun female fronted punk

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

Stylistic and dark

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

3/5

Good but not great

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

It's pretty good

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

1/5

Unbearably dull

Pretenders

3/5

It was pretty alright actually

En-Tact

The Shamen

3/5

Not bad

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

Boring and bland but not awful.

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

3/5

Limp Bizkit being themselves, it's nothing amazing

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Pretty generic blues rock album, white-stripesy

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

3/5

Beatlesy at points, very of the times

Signing Off

UB40

3/5

Exactly what I expected from UB40

S&M

Metallica

3/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

2/5

Extended jams, they were alright, jazzy

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

1/5

Really bland, really really bland.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

2/5

It wasn't great, some songs were good, mostly just Dylan style rambling punctuated with harmonica

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

Exactly what you'd expect, a few familiar tunes. Definitely of it's time

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

4/5

Awesome album, very chill

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

2/5

His voice is interesting, the songs were ok

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

3/5

Just a bit of classic thrash metal 3/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

5/5

A J5 classic

Scott 4

Scott Walker

3/5

Old timey but well written

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

Awesome debut album

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

5/5

Possibly one of the greatest albums ever released ⭐

Rapture

Anita Baker

4/5

Pretty good, soul filled stuff

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

1/5

Sounds like your local indie band rehearsing next door

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Lots of classic Sabbath tracks on this one, very forward thinking

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

Grungy goodness, a little bit long in the tooth but some good tracks still

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

2/5

Almost exactly what I expected from Aerosmith, not necessarily my jam

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

3/5

Some cool features, enjoyed a few tracks especially

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

3/5

Pretty good, catchy with good basslines

Back In Black

AC/DC

2/5

Basically what you'd expect from AC/DC, not a huge fan

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

Classic live jazz sound

Country Life

Roxy Music

2/5

Artsy, but not super enjoyable

The Joshua Tree

2/5

Bland arena pop, kinda what I expected - nothing ground breaking

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

3/5

Some nice beats but underwhelming bars at times

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

2/5

Short album, not super memorable

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

2/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

5/5

Awesome hip hop album, classic.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

It was alright, not a huge Eminem fan

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

4/5

Alan Parsonsy style, not quite as good but could grow on me

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

Great variety album, very punk and classic

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

5/5

Funky and fresh, liked the experimentation a lot

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

2/5

Ambient drum and bass

Roxy Music

2/5

It was alright

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Great pop album, full of hits and style 4/5

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

2/5

It was okay but nothing really felt special about it either

Da Capo

Love

3/5

Not really my vibe but undeniably interesting

Quiet Life

Japan

3/5

A little bit samey, but catchy in places

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

It's pretty darn good

Truth

Jeff Beck

2/5

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

5/5

Great punk vibes

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

3/5

Tons of covers but generally pretty cool rock n roll album!

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

Cypress Hill

3/5

It was alright, whole

1977

Ash

3/5

It was okay

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

5/5

Amazing electronic music with hints of royksopp, sibot, BoC, so many others

Dire Straits

4/5

Good pub rock, exactly what you'd expect from dire straits

Sulk

The Associates

2/5

Not great

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

3/5

Pretty cool

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

Inventive, cool sounds

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Gorillaz

4/5

It's pretty good, great debut

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

A bit depressing, well produced

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

5/5

Classic

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

2/5

Lots of piano, it was alright

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

4/5

Cool album, pink Floyd/flaming lips flavours, worth a relisten

Purple Rain

Prince

3/5

It was okay, some classic songs some weird

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

Nice punky album, enjoyed it

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Pretty good, can see where J5 got some influence

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

3/5

Decent country style album, lots of repetition in the lyrics

Liquid Swords

GZA

3/5

It was alright, nothing special

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

4/5

Pretty good

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

3/5

Experimental and flowing but not super memorable

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

1/5

Not a big fan of this sound at all - never really liked it

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Outstanding

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

4/5

Some good tracks, worth a relisted - Weezer adjacent at times

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

3/5

Spacey Rock

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

3/5

Cosy acoustic album, some decent tracks

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

4/5

Pretty good, would listen again

Black Sabbath

4/5

Decent metal vibes, could hear inspiration for early Queen

With The Beatles

Beatles

5/5

Great album

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

3/5

Refreshingly quirky, but sometimes a little lacking - experimental and free to a fault

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

3/5

Pretty funky, a bit French though

Peter Gabriel

4/5

A varied and very eclectic album that keeps you on your toes at all times, some real highlights including the album closer 'Here Comes The Flood '

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

2/5

It was alright, not really my style of music

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

3/5

Gets a bit repetitive at times but there were some brighter moments, a light 3/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Punky and punchy with short songs and some goofing around

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

5/5

Great pop album with lots of great songs, a few quieter numbers - all round pretty good

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Yeah it was alright

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

4/5

Pretty classic

Movies

Holger Czukay

3/5

Very interesting, would definitely listen again.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

3/5

Almost exactly what you'd expect

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

3/5

Super interesting varied album with some really atmospheric tracks, some pop bits and big overarching Indian influence

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

Nice electronic sound, maybe a little bit simple

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

It's pretty good, some good songs

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

5/5

Great album

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

1/5

Didn't like it in 2009, don't like it now

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Instant classic

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

2/5

Showed promise at the beginning but devolved into a bit of a jam session later on.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

Bluesy, varied

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

Banging album

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

2/5

It's alright, not a whole lot happens though

Green

R.E.M.

5/5

Really good pop rock album, lots of great tunes very light hearted

Among The Living

Anthrax

2/5

Thrashy but not really in the way that I like

Infected

The The

1/5

Not a big fan at all, from the speaking style of singing to the lyrics to the music, it's just not my jam.

Melodrama

Lorde

2/5

It was fine, didn't really resonate with it at all

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

4/5

Great album, reminded me of so many different sounds. I like the style a lot.

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

1/5

I did not like this album.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

Great album, lots of variety and a great voice on Debbie Harry

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

4/5

Very cool album, I liked it

A Night At The Opera

Queen

5/5

Such a great album, whimsical, theatrical, powerful and full of Queen spirit. Amazing.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

5/5

A true classic, one of the albums of all time

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

5/5

Great female lineup - enjoyed their sound a lot

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

Great concept album, amazing execution.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

Great album, the first song is ridiculously catchy

Mothership Connection

Parliament

3/5

If I hear the word funk again I'm going to scream