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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Movies Holger Czukay	5	2.7	+2.3
São Paulo Confessions Suba	5	2.83	+2.17
Wild Wood Paul Weller	5	3.09	+1.91
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space Spiritualized	5	3.15	+1.85
Junkyard The Birthday Party	4	2.16	+1.84
Lost Souls Doves	5	3.16	+1.84
Fun House The Stooges	5	3.28	+1.72
L'Eau Rouge The Young Gods	4	2.32	+1.68
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	5	3.32	+1.68
Sea Change Beck	5	3.33	+1.67

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
In Rainbows Radiohead	1	3.84	-2.84
Siamese Dream The Smashing Pumpkins	1	3.83	-2.83
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins	1	3.68	-2.68
Funeral Arcade Fire	1	3.57	-2.57
Dirt Alice In Chains	1	3.47	-2.47
Aja Steely Dan	1	3.46	-2.46
Pretzel Logic Steely Dan	1	3.4	-2.4
Beauty And The Beat The Go-Go's	1	3.39	-2.39
Fragile Yes	1	3.32	-2.32
Made In Japan Deep Purple	1	3.29	-2.29

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	4	4.5
Nick Drake	2	5
David Bowie	6	4
Bob Dylan	6	4
Frank Sinatra	3	4.33

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Steely Dan	4	1.25
Aerosmith	2	1
The Smashing Pumpkins	2	1
Deep Purple	2	1.5

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Radiohead	5, 4, 4, 1
The Rolling Stones	5, 3, 2
Bob Dylan	4, 5, 2, 3, 5, 5

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Popular Reviews

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

1/5

Sorry, this is lost on me. Dull. Not dreadful. Just no.

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4-Star Albums (79)

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

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

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

1-Star Albums (18)

All Ratings

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

5/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Pump

Aerosmith

1/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Rose Stone’s vocals on Sing a Simple Song 🥰 The album tracks > the hit singles I would not recommend trying the first half of this one before you’ve had your coffee. The spacey slow grooves won me over.

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

1/5

Sorry, this is lost on me. Dull. Not dreadful. Just no.

The Stone Roses

4/5

Classic tunes. Was every song a single? Almost. 7/11. This means just about any greatest hits will repeat at least half of this one but for a good reason - the songs are great.

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

3/5

Link to Apple Music is wrong. Relentless but brilliantly cartoonish too.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

2/5

Nascent but same as he’d ever be.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

Kinda pales a little bit listening right after Alladin Sane ironically.

Movies

Holger Czukay

5/5

Loved it

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

Live track 1? Nice & groovy. Fidelity lacks a little bit of bite on some tracks.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

1/5

Uh no

Very

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

I listened to the Further version tracks 1-12

Arise

Sepultura

1/5

I love the Sisters font. And the Front Line Assembly sounding production and effects, and the initial bits of some tracks. Otherwise I feel about this like someone else did about Motörhead - most of the actual “songs” sound nearly indistinguishable from each other. Crash crash riff riff solo riff riff riff the end “Desperate Cry” had a nice Ministry/NWO thing going for a bit, and the acoustic guitar is a welcome relief.

Homework

Daft Punk

2/5

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

2/5

Cetera’s bass playing is underrated

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

1/5

Meh. I like their very first album a bit But this is overcooked sheen is pretty much soul-free.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

2/5

McCartney

Paul McCartney

3/5

I actually own a nice 2011 release of this that comes with a book. It’s not a masterpiece. There’s some noodling around. However is light and enjoyable. And Maybe I’m Amazed is great.

Basket of Light

Pentangle

2/5

Danny Thompson plays bass - got me through some of the overly precious moments. Kinda liked parts of it, and it is a little weird.

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

1/5

🤢

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

Skip track one (heard a few too many times) but love most of the rest. Great stuff done on just a guitar (1 track had drums I think). Thank Bob finally something very good.

Play

Moby

3/5

Some of this is quite beautiful but sometimes I completely forgot it was even on. 😂

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

3/5

I like the Furs. This isn’t my favorite however. Half the songs are good, and half are a bit monotonous or monochromatic sounding. 2.5 stars from me but rounding to 3. Good stuff though when it is good. And not bad when it’s not, just a bit dull now and then.

Da Capo

Love

3/5

Musically this was a treat. Unpredictable but smooth and enjoyable. I’m not used to the shout-style vocals (which aren’t constant), but I liked this. Reminds me of the Doors a little (the keyboards). I can definitely see why Syd Barrett was a fan.

Adele

4/5

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

4/5

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

4/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

4/5

This took me far away, to another time, someplace else.

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

2/5

Truth

Jeff Beck

1/5

Wankers

Machine Head

Deep Purple

2/5

Space Truckin is fun.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Listened to while walking 5km. Turned out to be somehow very direct 1:1 chat with Uncle Willie.

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

5/5

Sea Change

Beck

5/5

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

3/5

Lots of noodling

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

I would like to be one of those hounds on the cover. ♥️

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

3/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

3/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

3/5

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

2/5

Too many Costello albums and no play makes Jack something something I did like Kinder Murder - nice guitar sound. But otherwise conventional and just 😴 I’m sure some one will rate it 5 but ummm no.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

I thought for certain that cover depicted Zappa himself 😂

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

2/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Iggy Mix 5 Bowie Mix 3

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Better than I expected Adele musta heard it on repeat at some point

Pretenders

5/5

Brilliant. Ms. H is a sly genius Nick Lowe might’ve missed something 😉 Elastica blueprint

White Denim

2/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

3/5

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

3/5

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

2/5

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

1/5

Tuneless silliness. They sound like they’ve heard UmmaGumma and some Steely Dan and taken nothing but the worst from each. “taste”… agreeing with 95% of this lists ratings doesn’t make your taste better, just average.

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

1001 Elvis Costello Albums You Must Hear Before…. Feels like it at least. This one was a bit better than the other 3 we’ve had. In fact, I actually liked it! 😂

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

3/5

Quirky with Eno production but likable

British Steel

Judas Priest

4/5

Better than I expected. I can hear bits of Guns n Roses, Motley Crue. Sounds like a better produced Motörhead

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Oof. Love it, but it was one of my Dad’s all-time favorites and I can’t hear it without missing him terribly. Same goes for Vince Guaraldi. Time Out is timeless & time traveling - Take Five transports me with those drums (oft imitated since) with Dave’s piano starting up, it gives me goosebumps.

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

4/5

First time listener. It made me feel very drunk, without the hangover. I did break into thirds - about 20 mins at a time is enough Waits to keep me inebriated.

The xx

4/5

Dire Straits

4/5

J. J. Cale (very) plus Dylan.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

2/5

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

4/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

1999

Prince

4/5

Reign In Blood

Slayer

4/5

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

1/5

Bummed

Happy Mondays

3/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

Miles got even cooler from here. But this goes down like a fine bourbon, and just as quickly.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

4/5

The Rise & Fall

Madness

3/5

Unavailable so I listened to five tracks from it on the U.S. comp Madness. Liked what I heard…

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Perfect

Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

2/5

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

2/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

4/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

2/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

4/5

At certain points I really thought I was listening to Peter Gabriel.

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

2/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

Virgin Suicides

Air

4/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

2/5

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

3/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

Morrissey is a putz

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

3/5

🤷🏻

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Perfect. My other favorite Beatles.

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Kinda the least of the first three JHE for me but still cool.

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

First time listener who was blown away. A few songs don’t connect but is beautiful 😍

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Turning your pain into art 101. Brilliant and sad and also brilliant. Another favorite. Screw the versions crap and just bask in the full sessions: More Blood, More Tracks

Heroes

David Bowie

5/5

Prefer Low, very slightly. Title track makes me tingle

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

Utter 💩 1 extra star for not being steely dan

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

Sweet

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

1/5

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

2/5

Green

R.E.M.

4/5

Led Zeppelin

3/5

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

3/5

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

4/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Risque

CHIC

4/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

2/5

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

4/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

2/5

Synchronicity

The Police

5/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

5/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

4/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

5/5

The Cars

3/5

Metallica

5/5

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

1st time listener to the full album, but I was familiar with its singles in various compilations, so I chose to listen to the “deluxe” version. It’s better mixed to my ear than what we had in 198x, Morrissey is more integrated into the mix and you can hear the under-rated Andy Rourke’s bass better and it’s kicking ass. https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-queen-is-dead-deluxe-edition/1257810218 Less emphasis on Morrissey makes this better.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

I’m stunned at how good this is. I’m as surprised as anyone about this.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

2/5

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

3/5

Pleasant but some filler

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

1/5

Yecccchhhh 🤢

Spiderland

Slint

4/5

Excellent but imperfect. 4.5.

Debut

Björk

5/5

Peter Gabriel

5/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Listened to UK version.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

Sounds like The Bee Gees to me now 😂

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

4/5

I forgot to tell you about several sins 😂💘

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

5/5

This and Treasure are perfect.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

Much loved as it is, and as much as A Forest is brilliant, as an album it’s a 3.33 star for me.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

4/5

Atomizer

Big Black

4/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

Much filler but greatness too. 2.5 but we will round up.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Better than Ziggy for me

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

4/5

I can hear where a lot of my New Wave favorites formative years were spent : listening to this. Very good.

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

This would be 3 stars but Street Spirit pushes it to 4

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

Prefer Spunk to these recordings

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

3/5

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

David Bowie

4/5

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Pleasant music and vocals, slightly melancholic at times. Sounds of its time, and classic.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

3/5

A bit overblown tbh. Overdose of Roger, not enough Rick and Dave.

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

5/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

4/5

Enjoyed

Dirt

Alice In Chains

1/5

Preferred this sound when Black Sabbath was making it 20 years prior. 🤨👎

Aja

Steely Dan

1/5

Reprehensible.

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Monotonous Guitar and everything same sound every track. Zzz 🤤 🧟‍♀️

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

4/5

Best thing he ever did. What a voice.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

2/5

Neil Young sings like a 3rd grader

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Hilarious, classic, fun, and with some filler. At its best it’s great fun. Would go well with some sort of beer rage too though. 3.5

Young Americans

David Bowie

2/5

Not my scene

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

1/5

Paul Simon

3/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

2/5

Meh

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

Brain scrambling in the best way possible

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

4/5

Could be Frank Black was a fan? 😂

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

3/5

I still have on CD. It’s good enough.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

Ok I’m stunned. Excellent! 4.4

1984

Van Halen

3/5

2.8 really

Funeral

Arcade Fire

1/5

Cannot tolerate Win’s voice very long. 0 from me.

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

I don’t really get this, but it’s decent, and I have loved a lot of Paul Weller solo work much more recently. This is his formative years, and it’s a thing, but it’s a little too two dimensional for me.

Elvis Presley

4/5

Skylarking

XTC

4/5

Knew Dear God ofc but the rest was a pleasant surprise. Liked this a lot!

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Perfect

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

4/5

Pretty good solo album from Andy

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

3/5

Lost Souls

Doves

5/5

The Clash

4/5

Classic stuff, though some of the demos or earlier versions of these songs I prefer to the album ones.

Fragile

Yes

1/5

I can’t. I tried.

Slayed?

Slade

2/5

Kinda dull

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

4/5

World Clique

Deee-Lite

2/5

Pretty sure I am Missing Something

Leftism

Leftfield

3/5

Good. Original helps having Toni Haliday and that voice of hers purring through. I like Lyndon’s contribution too on Open Up. Some draggy bits too though.

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

4/5

Viva Hate

Morrissey

3/5

Morry is pretty much a 360 ° asshat but this is better than it might have been. Marr is missed.

Ray Of Light

Madonna

3/5

The last time I heard Madonna and thought “not bad” was this. It’s a bit like Kaye Bush lite in spots, which is to say…not bad.

Paranoid