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Album	You	Global	Diff
Dance Mania Tito Puente	5	3.27	+1.73
1984 Van Halen	5	3.5	+1.5
Catch A Fire Bob Marley & The Wailers	5	3.63	+1.37
Out Of The Blue Electric Light Orchestra	5	3.63	+1.37
Boston Boston	5	3.71	+1.29
Live / Dead Grateful Dead	4	2.82	+1.18
Picture Book Simply Red	4	2.88	+1.12
Heroes to Zeros The Beta Band	4	2.9	+1.1
Mama Said Knock You Out LL Cool J	4	2.91	+1.09
Sheet Music 10cc	4	2.95	+1.05

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	1	3.38	-2.38
Dirty Sonic Youth	1	3.11	-2.11
m b v My Bloody Valentine	1	2.72	-1.72
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins	2	3.67	-1.67
White Blood Cells The White Stripes	2	3.66	-1.66
Birth Of The Cool Miles Davis	2	3.64	-1.64
The United States Of America The United States Of America	1	2.61	-1.61
Here's Little Richard Little Richard	2	3.56	-1.56
Blackstar David Bowie	2	3.48	-1.48
Oar Alexander 'Skip' Spence	1	2.46	-1.46

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m b v

My Bloody Valentine · 3 likes

1/5

1/5 Yeah, I’m not finishing this.

Amnesiac

Radiohead · 1 likes

2/5

2/5 Not really my jam at all.

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents · 1 likes

1/5

0/5 Wow this was not for me.

4-Star Albums (38)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

1-Star Albums (6)

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Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

3/5, some cool guitar riffs but generally not my vibe.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

3/5 Not my jam

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

3/5, nice guitar riffs. Vocals are too punky for me.

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

2/5

2/5 Nice instrumentals, but way too disoriented and chaotic for my liking.

Blackstar

David Bowie

2/5

2/5 Not my type of music.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

3/5

3/5 A bit too experimental for me, but damn, Björk can really sing.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

4/5 I get hype cleaning to this.

Sheet Music

10cc

4/5

4/5 No bangers, but incredible sound.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

3/5

3/5 Not my jam.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

4/5 Some good tunes.

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

4/5

4/5 I liked it!

Vivid

Living Colour

3/5

3.5/5 Love the guitars.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

4/5 Some nice dreamy rock. Must check their discography.

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

4/5 Nice rock tunes.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

4/5 I’ve never really listened to Zeppelin before, and I’m pleasantly surprised.

California

American Music Club

3/5

3/5 I liked the range of the different styles.

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

5/5

5/5 First time I listened to a mambo album, really appreciated the instrumental tracks.

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

1/5

1/5 Yeah, I’m not finishing this.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

2/5

2/5 Not really my jam at all.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

4/5 I really liked this!

Kenya

Machito

4/5

4/5 Really blows my mind that they were playing this stuff in the 50s. The track ’Frenzy’ must’ve inspired ’Tank’ from Cowboy Bepop.

Risque

CHIC

4/5

4/5 This is great disco!

Boston

5/5

5/5 Wow!

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

5/5 This was great.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

4/5 Especially like the first half of the album!

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

3/5 Too many intermediate tracks for me.

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

4/5

4/5 I really liked this. Didn’t initially think I’d like this style of punk, but goes to show that you gotta give everything a chance.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

3/5 I didn’t like it as much as I thought I would, but I really liked some of these beats. Interested to hear some other albums.

1984

Van Halen

5/5

5/5 Didn’t think I’d like it this much, but the instrumentals were really on point for me!

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

3/5 Thought it was good, but over time the tracks were way too long and the songs started to sound kind of same-ey.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

2/5

2/5 Sole cool stuff but really not my thing.

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

1/5

1/5 I felt this album really wasn’t for me after a couple of songs.

Van Halen

4/5

4/5 Really liked this album. Cool bits with some covers and fun stuff as well.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

4/5 I liked it.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

4/5

4/5 Epic.

Picture Book

Simply Red

4/5

4/5 I really liked the versatility.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

5/5 Such a special experience.

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

3/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

2/5

2/5 This music is not my cup of tea.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

4/5 I liked 'Catch a fire' a bit more, but this was great as well!

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

4/5 Really have to put effort into listening to the lyrics, but usually the same with all hip hop. Dope flows

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

3/5

3/5 I liked it.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

4/5 Some good blues!

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

4/5 If you’re going to listen to a christmas album, listen to this one.

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

3/5

3/5 Some chill jazz.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

4/5

4/5 The more I listened the more I liked it.

High Violet

The National

2/5

2/5 Not my type of rock.

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

3/5

3/5 I liked the americana/country elements of the album.

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

3/5

Too much emo screaming for me.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Not really my type of music, but I liked some songs.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

5/5

Extremely good album.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Timeless sound.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

2/5

Not really my type of music.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

1/5

Way too trashy/punk rock for me.

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

2/5

Not my jam really.

Maxinquaye

Tricky

2/5

2/5 dig some of the soundscapes, but ultimately not really might taste.

Paul Simon

3/5

3/5 Solid.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Now this is soul.

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

3/5

3/5 Wonderful Sunday morning album.

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

3/5

3/5 Solid album.

The United States Of America

1/5

1/5 Yeah, no.

Parklife

Blur

2/5

2/5 Not a big fan of punk.

Moving Pictures

Rush

3/5

3/5 Some cool guitars in here.

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

4/5 I’ve never been keen on Beatles music, but listening through this whole album opened me up to the range they have and makes me appreciate their music a bit more. I get the hype now.

Truth

Jeff Beck

3/5

3/5 I liked it. Good blues.

Queen II

Queen

4/5

4/5 Great.

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

3/5 Some nice tracks, though I felt the type of songs became a little repetitive halfway through.

Debut

Björk

2/5

2/5 What a voice, but the backing music just doesn’t do it for me.

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

1/5

0/5 Wow this was not for me.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

2/5 Some nice intrumentals in there but I didn’t like the vocals.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

3/5 Some interesting stuff in here.

Signing Off

UB40

4/5

Electric

The Cult

4/5

4/5 Loved some of the guitar solos.

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

3/5

3/5 I liked some of the sounds, I imagine this is what set some of the berlin-underground-bunker vibe that would later become associated with the Matrix and other similar things.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

3/5 Some cool post rock.

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

4/5 Some bangers & solid range.

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

2/5

2/5 A bit too much brit-rock without memorable tracks.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

3/5

3/5 Solid, but only one banger.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

4/5 Some enjoyable jazz.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

4/5 Great album, very even level, a lot of ”must play” songs for a somewhat short album.

Achtung Baby

3/5

3/5 Too same-ey and mellow for my taste. Some good songs, bur ultimately not too big a fan of the sound to like a full album of it.

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

4/5

4/5 big fan of the flow and witty lyricism of the album. Some choruses were a little bit weak, but the instrumentals more than made up for that

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

4/5

4/5 I thought this was garage rock after the first track. Then I was proven wrong. Then I thought it was stadium rock. Once again I was wrong. Incredible soundscape throughout the album, always switching it up. My personal nitpick is that the same vocal type of whisper-echo song isn’t my personal favourite, but all in all, it’s one of those albums I’m happy I listened to.

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

4/5

4/5 I don’t know what kind of prejudices I had against the music of Grateful Dead, but whatever they were, they were proved wrong. This live performance oozes of musical talent, and beeing a big fan of instrumental tracks, the tracks on this album were a joy to listen to. With all songs being particularly long, it’s the perfect ’put on in the background for a hood mood’ album, and I’m really happy to have listened to this cool blend of rock/blues.

The Specials

3/5

3,5/5 Apart from the one or two bangers, what I found especially interesting was how fun it seems like this band had, both playing and writing this album. A mix of brit-rock and reggae that works surprisingly well, combined with what I wrote above results in the biggest draw for me, which is interesting music. Probably not an album I will be listening to a bunch of times, but at least something that enriched my life by having listened to it once.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

1/5

1/5 At the end of the day, none of the tracks were all that interesting.

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

The Kinks

2/5

2/5 While I didn’t find much of the sound of the album to be interesting to me, coupled with poorly aged sound quality, I can’t help but feel that this album deserves to be analyzed more in regards to the time it was released in, to better understand the background and climate these lyrics are meant to reflect. It feels, from start to finish, like a very political album.

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

3/5

3/5 Great "dad rock" album, first few tracks really set the mood for me, maybe something to listen to on a roadtrip when the mood is right.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

4/5 I really liked the variance of the tracks and the overall sound of the album. Without knowing who influenced who, the sound reminds me of Lennon and Bowie, but still different enough that I wouldn’t say that anyone copied one or another.

Pornography

The Cure

2/5

2/5 One or two tracks had instrumentals that I found interesting, but overall there were too many elements that didn’t fit my tastes all that much.

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

4/5

4/5 Good live album. Love me some soul, and I appreciated the solos from the band.

Whatever

Aimee Mann

2/5

2/5 Didn’t find this album all too memorable or interesting.

Pelican West

Haircut 100

4/5

4/5 This album was funk-ay! Got the drums, the brass and the bass, what more could you ask? Even if some of the later tracks felt like they were repeating some themes and ideas from earlier in the album, the overall mix of catchy refrains and fresh instrumental sections leaves me wishing that this band had made more than one album.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

2/5

2/5 While no doubt a historical and well-made fot its time, today a lot of the tracks feel a bit same-ey.