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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Tanto Tempo Bebel Gilberto	5	3.07	+1.93
Music in Exile Songhoy Blues	5	3.33	+1.67
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden	5	3.4	+1.6
Guitar Town Steve Earle	4	2.81	+1.19
Infected The The	4	2.92	+1.08

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Public Enemy	1	3.37	-2.37
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	1	3.36	-2.36
Be Common	1	3.35	-2.35
BEYONCÉ Beyoncé	1	2.86	-1.86
Siamese Dream The Smashing Pumpkins	2	3.83	-1.83
Remain In Light Talking Heads	2	3.67	-1.67
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins	2	3.67	-1.67
Bringing It All Back Home Bob Dylan	2	3.64	-1.64
Odelay Beck	2	3.46	-1.46

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BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé · 1 likes

1/5

Wow. I don't think I've ever disliked pop music this much. Genuinely unpleasant to listen to. I thought Beyonce was pretty well-liked, but this is just not fun or interesting at all.

4-Star Albums (18)

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

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

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

1-Star Albums (4)

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

All Ratings

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

5/5

I liked this one a lot. The sound was very clear. The guitar parts reminded me of gitkin a bit. Very nice music. No clue what the lyrics are though. Liked the first half more than the second.

Common

1/5

Wasn't my thing. I can tell that the rhythm and lyrics are good, but I don't care for them, and the music wasn't interesting in itself. I honestly didn't even finish this one.

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

Easy listening but not particularly engaging. Sounded like something my mom would listen to but being played from the other room while I do something else. Liked a few songs though and it made nice background music.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

1/5

I'm not usually a rap person, but the first song on this album seemed unusually promising. A more playful style, a second voice adding interest, and, dare I say, hints of a melody in the background. As the album progressed I tried to stay hopeful, but was quickly driven to insanity by the repeating high-pitched noises in the background of Every. Single. Song. I turned this one off halfway through.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Fun guitar stuff, nice to listen to. I liked crosstown traffic a lot. Revolutionary for it's time, but not for mine.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

3/5

It was fine. Some nice jazzy bits but nothing particularly engaging.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

Felt very 60s. My favorite track was the first, but overall felt like background music to me, nothing really exciting.

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

I liked this one a lot! Very fun to listen to.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

Was nice to listen to some AC/DC. Reminds me of hanging around my dad while he did stuff in the garage.

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

4/5

This was a great album to work to. Not my favorite of the ambient music I've listened to, but a solid 4.5 nonetheless. I really enjoyed this one.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

Brings me back. Blowin in the wind was my favorite as a little kid, but listening to it now, I really like masters of war. Good stuff. I enjoy hearing a bob Dylan song every now and then but I can't say listening to a whole album is my thing

Paul Simon

3/5

It was fine, nice old-fashioned background music. The type of thing I'd hear in a walmart.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Very nice instrumental jazzy stuff. I liked this a lot.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

3/5

Not my thing, but fine.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

1/5

Not my thing, but fine.

World Clique

Deee-Lite

3/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Odelay

Beck

2/5

Not unbearable.

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

5/5

Very nice easy listening. I especially liked "August Day Song"

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

4/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

Quite liked this odd rock/orchestral/ambient situation. Strange in a way that's right up my alley.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Viva Hate

Morrissey

3/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

It was nice to listen to some David Bowie, he's my mom's favorite. My favorite track on this one was Word on a Wing.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

2/5

Didn't really care for it.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

Not as bad as the last smashing pumpkins I listened to, but I still wanted it to end. Only listened to the first disc. A couple tracks were alright.

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

4/5

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

David Bowie

4/5

Nice

Infected

The The

4/5

Not bad. Fun to listen to.

The Joshua Tree

4/5

I liked this one a lot! first track was my favorite.

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

2/5

I like Mr. tambourine man, but man the rest of this kinda sucks. Either bob Dylan wrote one good song per album and was remembered well for it, or I just don't get it. I'm sure he'd have been a better poet.

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

4/5

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

2/5

Sounds like fooling around in the backyard while my stepdad blasts dated rock albums in the garage, complete with power tools. Noisy and forgettable. The last song was alright, but it's possible i was just glad to be done. I think it'd be a good album to listen to if you needed to stand near a lawnmower for a while.

Iron Maiden

5/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

3/5

Maxinquaye

Tricky

3/5

I don't care for this sort of music much, but it was the least obnoxious hip-hop adjacent thing I've listened to (apart from linkin park, if that counts) this seemed to contain at least a bit of musicality. I didn't turn it off, and that's a win. First half of black steel was quite nice, but the limited amount of lyrics overstayed their welcome. Rest of the album was forgettable and vulgar.

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

3/5

Pleasant to listen to, but it all blurs together. I don't understand the lyrics, so I'm sure I'm missing part of the puzzle. I can't help but think I'd really like this album if the songs were much shorter.

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

1/5

Wow. I don't think I've ever disliked pop music this much. Genuinely unpleasant to listen to. I thought Beyonce was pretty well-liked, but this is just not fun or interesting at all.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Make Yourself

Incubus

3/5

A bit disappointing. The only song I'd heard from this was "drive" which I really like. The rest of the album is not very good at all. Oh well.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

3/5

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

4/5

I was actually pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the first few songs of this album, usually this isn't really my thing.

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

3/5

Glad this moment was before my time. It's not unbearable but not enjoyable. Influential, sure. Millennials aren't hard to influence. I enjoyed Autumn Goodbye enough to be happy that I sat through this album. Solid 3. Interesting autotune X Mario Kart thing going on here. But I'd rather listen to the High School Musical soundtrack for this sound.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Pleasantly surprised by the first two tracks, about what I expected for the rest of the album.

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

3/5

Has that far away sound that most albums from its time has. Not unpleasant.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Tea for the Tillerman