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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Music From The Penguin Cafe Penguin Cafe Orchestra	5	3.01	+1.99
Liege And Lief Fairport Convention	5	3.1	+1.9
The Bones Of What You Believe CHVRCHES	5	3.17	+1.83
John Prine John Prine	5	3.21	+1.79
Rum Sodomy & The Lash The Pogues	5	3.25	+1.75
Low-Life New Order	5	3.29	+1.71
B-52's The B-52's	5	3.29	+1.71
Third Soft Machine	4	2.44	+1.56
It's Blitz! Yeah Yeah Yeahs	5	3.49	+1.51
Here's Little Richard Little Richard	5	3.56	+1.44

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Reggatta De Blanc The Police	1	3.44	-2.44
Synchronicity The Police	1	3.41	-2.41
Homework Daft Punk	1	3.29	-2.29
Feast of Wire Calexico	1	3.28	-2.28
Aha Shake Heartbreak Kings of Leon	1	2.96	-1.96
Konnichiwa Skepta	1	2.74	-1.74
Station To Station David Bowie	2	3.69	-1.69
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins	2	3.68	-1.68
Ill Communication Beastie Boys	2	3.64	-1.64
Ramones Ramones	2	3.57	-1.57

5-Star Albums (20)

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1-Star Albums (7)

All Ratings

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

2/5

these songs do go on a bit, 5 mins feels longer than 5 mins

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Man on the Moon is just an all timer

Vespertine

Björk

4/5

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

3/5

I'm really starting to get a sense of the type of person making these picks and I think they just don't have a very diverse taste in music

Disraeli Gears

Cream

2/5

The Cars

3/5

yeah this sure sounds like music idk

Ten

Pearl Jam

4/5

yeah ok this is fine. maybe just bc I listened to a lot of it in the car with my dad release is far too long though and I like long songs, it's just not doing quite enough

Low-Life

New Order

5/5

i already know i'm kind of a sucker for this kind of stuff even though i don't really listen to it directly, just covers

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

just the right amount of bruce

Ramones

2/5

this was the same song like 30 times. it was good the first 2 times

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

1/5

I just don't like this

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

5/5

Yeah I'm adding this to my library

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

1/5

I cannot imagine describing this as influential or essential listening

Play

Moby

2/5

I mean I guess I'd rather listen to this than kings of leon but only barely

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

2/5

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

3/5

Guero

Beck

2/5

I really hoped I would like this more

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

4/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

my only complaint is that I wish it was longer

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

2/5

my max beastie boys content is one song a day thank you

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

3/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

4/5

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

2/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

I liked time to go, so +1 star from my 2 stars for the rest of it

Third

Soft Machine

4/5

Konnichiwa

Skepta

1/5

this was not for me sadly

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

2/5

this has ruined the beastie boys for me

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

4/5

Woodface

Crowded House

2/5

Doolittle

Pixies

3/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

3/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

3/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

4/5

sax is always going to get a pretty decent rating from me

Homework

Daft Punk

1/5

this is not 9am music actually no i'm like an hour into this and I don't think I'd ever like it

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Fred Neil

2/5

War

4/5

u2 is just going to be like, baseline standard 3 stars automatically. p sure I like this album though, but it's been like. 15 years since i last listened to it yeah! it's u2! u2 is always going to be a 2-4 star. never gonna be awful, never going to be the best thing I've ever heard

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

3/5

it was perfectly average 80s music. I expected worse based on the cover, but also I wasn't blown away. Poison arrow is pretty good, the rest was listenable

Feast of Wire

Calexico

1/5

...I expected something more uh, interesting? innovative? from this list for an album from 2003. this isn't doing anything for me. this feels like such a slog to listen to lol

John Prine

5/5

yeah this is good stuff. I listened to more than just this john prine yesterday

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

This is great background music for working, nothing offensive about it at all, just easy to listen to

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

2/5

no this is nothing to me and it really just goes on forever huh

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

black hole sun is an alltimer. I hadn't listened to much of the rest, but it was decent! 4 stars for being listenable as something that isn't really my thing

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

Fantastic. This was great end of the work day music

Country Life

Roxy Music

3/5

lyrics and vocals meh, music pretty good

I Against I

Bad Brains

2/5

I am not a hardcore punk person sorry

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

3/5

It's not my favorite dylan

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Am I biased towards things I listened to a lot at some point? yeah

Synchronicity

The Police

1/5

I cannot stand the police

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

I like the kinks! 3.5 because I'm taking -.5 for too much 70s-ish british music

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

sorry I already know this is a 5 star album, it's perfect

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

3/5

I'm sorry to these men but if you told me this was pink floyd I would believe you. idk if that's a good or bad thing

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

4/5

This was nice!

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

5/5

I actually really loved this and didn't expect to! it had the perfect amount of slight weirdness for me

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

There's a lot of david bowie I like and none of it is really here

Aja

Steely Dan

3/5

uhhh yeah it's steely dan. I've never really found a way to hook into steely dan and I still haven't! they're fine!

Fragile

Yes

2/5

nah

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

4/5

I don't know if I would listen to this album again, but it was fascinating to listen to

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

sorry i do just love a concept album

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

I'll give it this: it did grow on me. I still didn't love it though

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

5/5

Hell yeah

Vulnicura

Björk

4/5

Bjork is good. bonus .5 points for that cat music video. rounded down though

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

I mean. cool idea I guess but this is tiring

Signing Off

UB40

2/5

I was enjoying this for the first 20 mins but I just don't have the ear for this style and it gets really repetitive

Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Listening to reggae and eagles back to back made this even better

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

4/5

Love the music, love the politics

Scott 4

Scott Walker

3/5

I was pretty mid on this, so I’d put it as 2 star vibes, but with 1 or 2 songs that were enjoyable enough to bring it to a 3

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

5/5

I’d mostly only listened to covers of fairytale of ny before this, but this makes me want to spend more time with them

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

3/5

it's ~fine~

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Berlin

Lou Reed

3/5

I like big crescendos and the motifs but I don't think I like the topics much at all. nor some of the other choices made

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

3/5

Not bad! Not great! It's fine!

Phrenology

The Roots

4/5

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

David Bowie

5/5

hell yeah

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

I feel like I've heard most of this incidentally and it's fine. generally I like covers of lcd soundsystem more than the originals though

The xx

3/5

I used to really like this album a lot but it's been a while since I listened to and now I find it kind of... boring?

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

5/5

i mean

The Blueprint

JAY Z

3/5

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

This was really good! I'm adding a few of these to my library

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

it's... jazz. i don't know how to talk about jazz. it was perfectly good for working to

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

4/5

I don't know if I could listen to this a lot, but I did really enjoy it as a whole

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

5/5

I just like this album a lot. it's not my favorite of theirs so it's really like a 4.5 but I can't put that so (screen violence is just better because laura sings everything, sorry)

Pyromania

Def Leppard

3/5

this simply did not give me any strong feelings

Tommy

The Who

4/5

![](natasha_lyonne_thursday_what_a_concept.jpg) it's still a good concept album, and I really enjoy a concept album

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

3/5

I mostly enjoyed this! I like weird chaotic mess sometimes. unfortunately i cannot stand the pretension here so. 3 stars instead of 4

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

4/5

Rage Against The Machine

3/5

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

2/5

this is the most fuckin 80s. i don't think there was anything that I hated but I was fully bored

B-52's

The B-52's

5/5

i can't believe I forgot to review this. it was great

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

4/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

there's good and bad stuff here i guess

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

do i like it as much as when i used to listen to it over and over in middle school? no, but sometimes i need some pre stadium rock

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

4/5

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

I liked the music! I don't want to think about the lyrics

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

2/5

American Girl is bumping this up like, half a star at least. I don't hate later tom petty but there wasn't quite enough going on here for me

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

4/5

Ananda Shankar

3/5

idk I liked the covers but I don't know if it deserves to be on here

Station To Station

David Bowie

2/5

not really my favorite bowie era

Shadowland

k.d. lang

4/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

1/5

sorry i cannot stand the police I'm 5 songs in and not finishing this

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

I wish this wasn't quite as long, but I did have a good time

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

3/5

started off strong but I fell off a lot after the first 3 songs

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

3/5

sorry this was fine but you lose a star for using a marching band like that

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

5/5

Yeah I've listened to all of these before. Little Richard is great

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

4/5

I vibed. It's not like super interesting, but was pretty good background noise

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

4/5

This was fun!

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

ok I'm getting worried about giving too many albums in a row 4 stars now

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

2/5

i'm sorry this is so nothing to me. there's just nothing here

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

5/5

The Modern Lovers

4/5

yep yeah I can listen to more of this

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

It's jazz!

Protection

Massive Attack

3/5

I'm just not excited by soft noise sorry

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

2/5

nope

Who's Next

The Who

3/5

I think I like this less than I thought I did. Baba O'Riley and Behind Blue Eyes still good but there's a lot of kinda boring stuff in here too, and it doesn't feel as cohesive as I wanted

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

please no more double albums. there are 2 songs I enjoyed on here

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

I've been left with 0 lasting impressions

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

3/5

+1 star for Music and Politics, which I really liked