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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo MC Solaar	5	3.09	+1.91
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	5	3.34	+1.66
Deja Vu Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	5	3.7	+1.3

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Grace Jeff Buckley	2	3.72	-1.72
...Baby One More Time Britney Spears	1	2.67	-1.67
A Love Supreme John Coltrane	2	3.63	-1.63
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	2	3.42	-1.42
The Next Day David Bowie	2	3.3	-1.3
S&M Metallica	2	3.26	-1.26
The Hour Of Bewilderbeast Badly Drawn Boy	2	3.13	-1.13
Street Life The Crusaders	2	3.09	-1.09
A Seat at the Table Solange	2	3.01	-1.01
Felt Mountain Goldfrapp	2	3	-1

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...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

1/5

eeeeeeh, I do NOT like this cover art. It almost caused a jump-scare when I opened the new album for today. What is with the creepy glowing white teeth and eyes?? And such a (unironic) pervy vibe. ew While this album has a mildly pleasant nostalgic feel, I have the impression that this is where the next 20 (plus or minus) years of awful "girl singer" pop music has its roots. I have to think that is what made the radio un-listenable and broke pop music in America. I might give this two stars, but I'm going for a one because of the paedo undertones, the faky-ness, and the bad precedent

1 likes

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Wow. Cohen's voice is haunting. This gives me chills. What a beautiful way to deal with pain and say good bye to the world.

1 likes

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The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

Generally enjoyable. Between a 3 and 4 for me.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Haha I do enjoy me some cowbell

The xx

4/5

I didn't think I was liking this one until I gradually realized that I did. Gentle and relaxing. Again, hard to decide how many stars

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

Didn't love it, didn't hate it. I really like This Mess We're In. None of the songs sound alike, which is refreshing after some of the recent albums.

Metallica

3/5

Lots of talent on here, makes even metal listenable. A couple of songs that are part of American culture.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

delightful

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

The world wouldn't be the same without it, although I have to think that Revolution 9 is the Beatles thinking they have such god status that people will just listen to any old noise they happen to make haha

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

3/5

Good stuff

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

2/5

I don't get it. Am I missing something? This is an album I needed to listen to before I die?

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

2/5

I started this album excited, thinking it was going to be a fun one, but I just didn't find it to be very entertaining

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

S&M

Metallica

2/5

This was a brilliant concept, something super cool that I didn't know existed. I loved the symphony and Metallica together and it was interesting and impressive to hear how well it works. I am happy to be introduced to this. Sadly, it still wasn't enough for me to enjoy sitting through TWO HOURS AND THIRTEEN MINUTES of this live, heavy metal album.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

I saw Fleetwood Mac come up and was immediately excited. Then I started listening and thought, maybe these songs are too tired and dated, maybe not as good as I thought, overused. But then I got to the end and said , "I need to listen to this again. Right now"

Truth

Jeff Beck

3/5

Meh. There is certainly talent here, but I don't like the albums composition. It feels like a sampler, going in some weird directions. And IMO Hendrix does this style of blues better.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

A big dose of the 1980's! Fun stuff. I was sure I was going to give this one a solid 4 stars, but then Cindi lost me a little towards the middle/end. She finished it off with some good fun though, so...

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

4/5

groooooohvvy I'm right there in the smoke filled room and thinking about slipping the bass player my number

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

2/5

I am happy to be exposed to this album. It is something that I would never have come across if not for this album generator. Tim Buckley has an amazing voice and interesting arrangements, the lyrics seem poetic. I liked the first half of the album more than the second. While I appreciated hearing this, I didn't particularly care for it. I planned to rate at 3 stars, but the final few songs just didn't appeal to me.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

3/5

I expected to like this more, I'm barely able to give it a three

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

5/5

This is a refreshing break from the amount of classic rock albums lately. I'm excited to be introduced to something completely different. Maybe that is causing an unfair bias, but I can't resist giving this one a five. Woohoo! being forced to listen to music just got fun again

Grace

Jeff Buckley

2/5

the only song I would listen to on here is Hallelujah whenever a song came on and I thought, OK, maybe I like this one, Buckley would do something in the song that made me cringe no thank you

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

I kinda hate having to rate all these albums. I end up agonizing over the stars on so many of them. Even if strictly considering "personal preference", there are just too many factors: what mood I'm in, what time of day it is when I listen, how hectic or calm my day happens to be, which albums I've already had earlier in the week, how familiar or unfamiliar the album is... Today, I am giving this one a three. A different day, I think I would likely give it a four. A different month or year, it is possible that I could even give it a five

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

3/5

Dreary. But works with the right mood

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

1/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

2/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Wow. Cohen's voice is haunting. This gives me chills. What a beautiful way to deal with pain and say good bye to the world.

Odelay

Beck

4/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

2/5

Sorry Lisa, I really don't care for or understand this kind of music. It just sounds like discord to my ears.

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

I do really like some of the songs on here, but I wouldn't care to listen to the whole album again. Another reviewer commented that this album was perfect for driving on the open road/back roads. I completely agree that it is well suited to a country drive.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

5/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5