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34
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3.12
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3%
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7
5-Star Albums
3
1-Star Albums

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You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Tigermilk
Belle & Sebastian
5 3.22 +1.78
The Fat Of The Land
The Prodigy
5 3.4 +1.6
Pearl
Janis Joplin
5 3.71 +1.29
Dummy
Portishead
5 3.71 +1.29
Graceland
Paul Simon
5 3.72 +1.28
Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan
5 3.75 +1.25
In Rainbows
Radiohead
5 3.87 +1.13

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Eliminator
ZZ Top
1 3.36 -2.36
Architecture And Morality
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
1 3.06 -2.06
Rejoicing In The Hands
Devendra Banhart
1 2.8 -1.8
To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
2 3.64 -1.64
Illmatic
Nas
2 3.61 -1.61
At Newport 1960
Muddy Waters
2 3.53 -1.53
Music in Exile
Songhoy Blues
2 3.33 -1.33
In It For The Money
Supergrass
2 3.23 -1.23
The Seldom Seen Kid
Elbow
2 3.23 -1.23

5-Star Albums (7)

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In Rainbows by Radiohead

This might be my 4th favourite Radiohead album. Easy 5 :D

1-Star Albums (3)

All Ratings (34)

Court And Spark by Joni Mitchell
Oct 13 2023

Classic 60's piano vibes. It didn't keep me that engaged though. May have given it a 4 on another day.

Oct 16 2023

I hated every moment of it, but I can't rate it low because clearly there is a quality level there that is excellent. I just hated it. Like I hate milk. It's not milk's fault, milk is fine, I just hate it. and I'm more likely to come back and listen to this album one day than many other albums that I think are okay. Because it at least has quality, uniqueness, and interest. So here you go, 4 stars. But I really really hated every minute of it. It took me days to finish.

Protection by Massive Attack
Oct 18 2023

Verging on a 5 tbh. Not bad for their 3rd best album. Karmacoma being the peak.

Eliminator by ZZ Top
Oct 19 2023

If you took the worst bits of country, blues and stadium rock, and gave them to the 4th best high school band in your local area to turn into an album they wanted their enemies to listen to, this is what you would get. At times it seems like you've listened to the same single bar of music on repeat for an hour. And it is the most simple mundane bar you've ever listened to. This album has absolutely no redeeming qualities. It is utterly awful. It must be the worst album of all time.

Oct 20 2023

Expected better, but it just droned on so long without any interesting musical events.

American Idiot by Green Day
Oct 24 2023

Some decent music, interspersed with unbelievable amount of cheese. Jesus of Surburbia was brilliant though. Worth listening to the album just for that.

Music by Madonna
Oct 25 2023

I should have been less surprised that the 5th highest selling artist of all time has decent music. Too poppy for my tastes, but did a lot with it. Interesting.

Spiderland by Slint
Oct 26 2023

My kind of music... it just wasn't done very well. Quite samey.

In A Silent Way by Miles Davis
Oct 27 2023

Not my cup of tea, kinda appreciate it, but it seems to throw noises in that it knows will annoy me, and I don't know why it wants to do that to me. I'm too tired for that shit. ranked up a bit because there were some really satisfying bits where randomness kind of melded together to reach melody. I'd rather not listen to it again though.

Graceland by Paul Simon
Oct 30 2023

When I saw it was Graceland today I was thrilled, I've always loved Paul Simon. I then went on a deep dive into the cultural context of the album (something I was blissfully unaware of when listening as a child) This is probably 5 stars based on the music alone. The cultural significance removes any question marks.

To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar
Nov 01 2023

Shit, I couldn't fucking get on board with it, bitch. I just couldn't bastard handle the cunting language. Musically unfucking appealling. So it can sit on my dick, but that ain't free, you twat. (still. Better than ZZ Top. Which was the worst album of all time)

Ananda Shankar by Ananda Shankar
Nov 02 2023

It turns out I can enjoy the sitar for 24m33s, at which point my feelings take a rapid nosedive. Sadly this album is 40m:36s long

Nov 03 2023

One of the best indie albums of the 2000's. It wasn't a strong decade! It's very good, an easy 3.5, but it's never going to be enough to tick up to a 4.

Pearl by Janis Joplin
Nov 06 2023

So many classics in one album. Love that the generator is reminding me of such amazing artists who I haven't listened to in years!

At Mister Kelly's by Sarah Vaughan
Nov 07 2023

It wasn't objectionable, but it never really kept me engaged, and I tried listening a couple of times.

Dummy by Portishead
Nov 10 2023

It's a close one, but I enjoyed every song, and felt engaged by every song.

Figure 8 by Elliott Smith
Nov 13 2023

Loved Elliot Smith as a young 20 something, this was an amazing reunion with his music. Not quite enough for a 5, although if you asked me that question in 2003 it would have been a 5!

Music in Exile by Songhoy Blues
Nov 14 2023

Inoffensively average, not a lot going for it though, a bit boring tbh.

Harvest by Neil Young
Nov 15 2023

Feels a bit dated. I liked it in the past, but it feels unpolished but without really qualifying that with anything brilliant. It was okay though.

At Newport 1960 by Muddy Waters
Nov 16 2023

Just not my kind of thing, or I wasn’t in the mood for it

Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
Nov 21 2023

Wasn’t in the mood for Dylan. 5 minutes later and Dylan had convinced me otherwise. Finishing off in such confidence with 11 minutes of Desolation Row that somehow leaves you wanting more? So so good. It helps that I care about lyrics, and there are some real Dylan gems here.

Tigermilk by Belle & Sebastian
Nov 23 2023

Its front loaded. To start with it feels like it will be the easiest 5 you ever gave. But it tapers off. It’s still a 5 though!

In Rainbows by Radiohead
Nov 27 2023

This might be my 4th favourite Radiohead album. Easy 5 :D

Nov 28 2023

Had better memories of this album, I thought it would be a 4 or 5, but in the end I had to take it on in chunks, the songs just got a bit repetitive.

Illmatic by Nas
Nov 29 2023

It's saving grace is that it was short

The Fat Of The Land by The Prodigy
Dec 25 2023

I thought this would be easiest 5 of my life, but It wasn't an easy as I expected, almost went 4. But there are only a couple of weaknesses, and the strengths that come with it are just unreal. So just tips into 5 for me.

Is This It by The Strokes
Jul 22 2024

The fact that this was one of the best albums of the early 2000's says a lot more about that decade for music than it does about this album!!! It was fine though, I enjoyed it enough.

Architecture And Morality by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Jul 25 2024

This was not as good as I remember OMD being and I do not remember them being good

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