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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
I See A Darkness Bonnie "Prince" Billy	5	2.98	+2.02
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) Eurythmics	5	3.24	+1.76
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.32	+1.68
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	5	3.39	+1.61
Nilsson Schmilsson Harry Nilsson	5	3.43	+1.57
Green R.E.M.	5	3.47	+1.53
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes	5	3.49	+1.51
The Atomic Mr Basie Count Basie & His Orchestra	5	3.5	+1.5
Bringing It All Back Home Bob Dylan	5	3.64	+1.36
Pink Moon Nick Drake	5	3.65	+1.35

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Abraxas Santana	1	3.72	-2.72
Definitely Maybe Oasis	1	3.53	-2.53
Aja Steely Dan	1	3.47	-2.47
Frank Amy Winehouse	1	3.45	-2.45
Reggatta De Blanc The Police	1	3.44	-2.44
Synchronicity The Police	1	3.41	-2.41
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs Derek & The Dominos	1	3.39	-2.39
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea PJ Harvey	1	3.38	-2.38
Eliminator ZZ Top	1	3.37	-2.37
xx The xx	1	3.36	-2.36

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Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	3	4.67
Bob Dylan	3	4.33

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
The Police	2	1
The xx	2	1.5
Oasis	2	1.5
Steely Dan	2	1.5

5-Star Albums (22)

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Popular Reviews

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers · 2 likes

2/5

30% groovy beats and squeaks, 70% migraine simulator. Not until the last three tracks do the tedious spiky loops soften and let in something almost resembling music. But I suspect people who like EDM aren't terribly concerned with musicality. If you just wanted something to nurse your brain death, this would do.

1-Star Albums (27)

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

All Ratings

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

2/5

The xx

1/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Le Tigre

2/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

2/5

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

2/5

Blur

2/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

By sheer synchronicity, this album came up just as I had roughly an hour's worth left of 'The Talisman', and so it became a bespoke (and incredibly fitting) soundtrack for the finale of that epic story - a story soon to be adapted into a tv series by the Duffer Brothers, famous for 'Stranger Things', which itself climaxed in season 3 to "Running Up That Hill". Occasionally the universe aligns in strange ways. It seems to do that more often when I'm reading Stephen King, and I'm not sure what to make of that.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

1/5

Ugh

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

3/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

5/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

No Other

Gene Clark

3/5

A Seat at the Table

Solange

1/5

Nice that her sister got her a job, I guess.

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

1/5

Obnoxious sound, poorly produced

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

The Libertines

2/5

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

4/5

Paul Simon

3/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

3/5

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

2/5

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

5/5

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

3/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

2/5

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

2/5

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

2/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Sail Away

Randy Newman

4/5

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

4/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

1/5

First five songs sound exactly the same (and bad), so I didn't bother listening to the rest.

GREY Area

Little Simz

3/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

3/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

4/5

Abraxas

Santana

1/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

4/5

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

2/5

The Stooges

3/5

Green

R.E.M.

5/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

3/5

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

1/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

4/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

I must be a prophet. I pulled this one up on Spotify just the other day on a lark. Happy to listen to it again.

Blood, Sweat & Tears

2/5

Ugh. Leave this music in 1968.

Dog Man Star

Suede

3/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

3/5

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

4/5

Skylarking

XTC

4/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

5/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

2/5

The Real Thing

Faith No More

4/5

Roots

Sepultura

4/5

Stephen Stills

4/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

2/5

The lyrics on every other song are just so relentlessly juvenile and moronic that I can't take any of this seriously.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

Dire Straits

2/5

Couldn't get over the vocals sounding like Otto the bus driver from The Simpsons. Awful.

Electric

The Cult

2/5

Oh boy, another generic white rock band!

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

3/5

A Northern Soul

The Verve

3/5

The Last Broadcast

Doves

2/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

3/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

2/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

2/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

1/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

Drunk

Thundercat

4/5

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

2/5

I don't care how deep or cutting your lyrics are if I can't understand most of them because of your numbly mumbly wailing and muddy sound mixing. Don't bother looking them up, though; they're edgelord word salad, the kind of peurile nastiness an angry teen might write when they first discover the world is full of bad people. A few good licks and overall decent composition save this album, but I can't imagine ever willingly listening to it unless I decided to commit a public crime and want to give the media something controversial to chew on in the aftermath. "The suspect was reportedly blaring the music of mentally ill Welsh self-harm-rocker Richey Edwards, though authorities are refusing to speculate on whether this influenced the baffling spree of unimaginative mayhem or merely underscored it."

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

1/5

Nasal fake reggae. Who listens to this shit?

1999

Prince

3/5

Odelay

Beck

4/5

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

The presence of this garbage discredits the entire list.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

Violent Femmes

5/5

Synchronicity

The Police

1/5

Fuck. The Police.

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

3/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

1/5

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

1/5

Finally, the album equivalent of chewing glass. A great listen if you're on the fence about suicide and want something to push you over the edge.

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

The Kinks

3/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

2/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

Aja

Steely Dan

1/5

Barf

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

2/5

It's really only got the one good song, but that song is REALLY good.

Germs

1/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

1/5

LP1

FKA twigs

2/5

Deeply unpleasant noise

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

4/5

Not a note of pretension or artifice here.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Femi Kuti

4/5

Follow The Leader

Korn

1/5

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

4/5

Metallica

3/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

I See You

The xx

2/5

Sincere

Mj Cole

1/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

Terrific. Just terrific stuff.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

2/5

Gorillaz

3/5

It's okay.

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

4/5

Ctrl

SZA

4/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

5/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

3/5

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Take Me Apart

Kelela

2/5

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

2/5

This album sounds like ass, and the songs are all pure cornball shit.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

5/5

Iron Maiden

2/5

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

4/5

Wild Gift

2/5

Competent but forgettable punk-adjacent shout-rock. Gotta love the gumption of the punk ethos: I can't sing and can't write but fuck you I'm gonna yell out these trite lyrics anyway.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

2/5

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

3/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5