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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Second Toughest In The Infants Underworld	5	2.85	+2.15
Pump Aerosmith	5	3.11	+1.89
Selling England By The Pound Genesis	5	3.18	+1.82
Close To The Edge Yes	5	3.19	+1.81
Countdown To Ecstasy Steely Dan	5	3.28	+1.72
Peter Gabriel 3 Peter Gabriel	5	3.29	+1.71
The Yes Album Yes	5	3.31	+1.69
Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson	5	3.35	+1.65
Pretenders Pretenders	5	3.35	+1.65
Hot Rats Frank Zappa	5	3.36	+1.64

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Doolittle Pixies	1	3.75	-2.75
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Lauryn Hill	1	3.63	-2.63
The Clash The Clash	1	3.54	-2.54
Gorillaz Gorillaz	1	3.53	-2.53
Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys	1	3.47	-2.47
Pink Flag Wire	1	3.21	-2.21
It's A Shame About Ray The Lemonheads	1	3.13	-2.13
London Calling The Clash	2	3.98	-1.98
Aha Shake Heartbreak Kings of Leon	1	2.97	-1.97
Rejoicing In The Hands Devendra Banhart	1	2.82	-1.82

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Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
The Who	2	5
Yes	2	5
Peter Gabriel	2	5
Steely Dan	2	5

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
The Clash	2	1.5

5-Star Albums (24)

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Pump

Aerosmith

5/5

Great album!

2 likes

Transformer

Lou Reed

2/5

Uninteresting

2 likes

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

1/5

"Slut-rap" may be my least favorite genre of modestly organized noise. I listened to almost all of it, and hated every second.

1 likes

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

1/5

Terrible, I listened to about half of it and couldn't stand it anymore.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (11)

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Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

Nice!

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

One of my alltime favorites, I have seen The Who live 5-6 times, and heard them perform most of this album live.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

2/5

I do not expect harmonic sophistication from ethnic music, but I do expect it to be rhythmically interesting. This was not.

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

4/5

I expected to dislike this, and I was very surprised at how much I liked it, I would give it 4.5 stars if you would let me do so, because I want to save 5 stars for really great things like "Who's Next."

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

3/5

Nice live album.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

2/5

My daughter loves Stevens and gave me a CD of his for my birthday. But I have never been able to get into his rather formless and inartful pieces.

Ramones

2/5

Punk is not my thing, I find it mindless and uninteresting.

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

1/5

"Slut-rap" may be my least favorite genre of modestly organized noise. I listened to almost all of it, and hated every second.

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

David Bowie was a very talented artist, I enjoyed this.

Parklife

Blur

2/5

More punk stuff, I am not a fan.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

I remembered and enjoyed the song "Time of the Season," but the rest of the album was forgettable.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

The best part of the album was the cover, otherwise forgettable.

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

2/5

It didn't do anything for me.

Another Green World

Brian Eno

4/5

I like this, it was interesting and different.

Close To The Edge

Yes

5/5

Great album! Have loved it for over 50 years.

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

There are 2-3 Beatles albums I like more than Abbey Road, but that doesn't mean AR is not a masterpiece which I love as well.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

This is a great album, have loved it for decades.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Would give it six stars if I could, groundbreaking!

Pink Flag

Wire

1/5

More boring punk nonsense.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

I enjoyed this much more than I expected to, some moments of genuine beauty.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Very nice, better than anticipated.

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

Simple Minds

4/5

I was not very familiar with this group, but enjoyed the album.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Decent but not the best LZ album.

Paris 1919

John Cale

3/5

Moderately interesting.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

Good as a historical document, not very interesting otherwise.

The Yes Album

Yes

5/5

Great album, as is everything by Yes.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Moderately interesting, some good tunes.

Gorillaz

1/5

Ghastly. I listened to the first three songs hoping it might get better, but then I couldn't take it anymore.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

Fun roots rock.

Peter Gabriel

5/5

Great album!

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

Occasionally interesting but largely forgettable.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

1/5

Terrible, I listened to about half of it and couldn't stand it anymore.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

5/5

A classic, loved it!

Real Life

Magazine

3/5

Moderately interesting.

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

5/5

A classic masterpiece.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Entertaining entry from Talking Heads.

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

5/5

Very nice discovery!

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

Groundbreaking.

Permission to Land

The Darkness

3/5

Reasonably entertaining.

In Utero

Nirvana

3/5

Some good songs, but lots of noise also.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

Mildly interesting.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

5/5

Beyond Classic!

Hypnotised

The Undertones

2/5

Not at all interesting.

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

4/5

Very interesting, I had not listened to her much before.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

MIldly entertaining but ultimately forgettable.

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

Great album!

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

3/5

Interesting but forgettable.

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

1/5

Dreadful. I tried to treat it as Captain Beefheart, to which it has a superficial resemblance, but I really hated it.

The Undertones

2/5

More boring punk.

Adele

4/5

Very nice voice, good selection of tunes.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Springsteen is overrated.

Iron Maiden

3/5

Modestly entertaining but largely forgettable metal.

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

4/5

Memorable.

Maxinquaye

Tricky

4/5

I expected to dislike this, but was pleasantly surprised.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

Enjoyable nostalgia trip.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

Classic album!

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

1/5

Mindless and boring.

Pump

Aerosmith

5/5

Great album!

Transformer

Lou Reed

2/5

Uninteresting

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

Interesting historical artifact.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

3/5

Just OK.

The Only Ones

2/5

More punk crap.

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

4/5

Lots of good music on this album.

Berlin

Lou Reed

3/5

Some interesting things, but not enough for me to recommend it.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

1/5

More annoying rap nonsense.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Interesting.

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

Great album.

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

3/5

Moderately interesting, but largely forgettable.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Springsteen is talented but very over-rated.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

An American classic.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Interesting soul music, but not really my thing.

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

4/5

Interesting pop music, much better than expected.

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

4/5

I have been a QMS fan for well over 50 years. I especially loved their version of Pride of Man.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Nice electronica.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

Forgettable live album.

My Generation

The Who

5/5

Classic album.

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

3/5

Modestly interesting.

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

5/5

Classic!

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

5/5

Great album.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

Interesting moody pop.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

5/5

Great album.

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

1/5

Ghastly.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Interesting but forgettable.

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Moderately interesting funk.

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

Interesting.

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

Mildly entertaining.

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

1/5

Dreadful

Talvin Singh

4/5

Surprised at how much I liked it.

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

4/5

I was pleasantly surprised.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

2/5

Mediocre

Common

2/5

Pointless rap

London Calling

The Clash

2/5

Mindless punk

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

2/5

I have tried to get into Monk many times and for decades, and nothing works. I believe him to be over-rated.

Doolittle

Pixies

1/5

Dreadful.

Pretenders

5/5

CLASSIC! Loved it.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

3/5

Maggot Brain is good, the rest forgettable.

School's Out

Alice Cooper

3/5

Some bright spots but mostly mediocre.

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

4/5

I was surprised at how much I liked their instrumentals, daring and imaginative.

Protection

Massive Attack

4/5

I liked this much more than I expected. Good instrumentals.

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Moderately interesting but thematic sameness dooms it to mediocrity.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Pretty good album, before Dylan became to self-important to impress.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

Moderately entertaining.

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

3/5

Early British invasion, of mostly historical interest.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

2/5

I have never understood the attraction of The White Stripes, and still don't

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

Moderately entertaining.

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Stevie Wonder is a national treasure. Between 1966 and 1982 he wrote dozens of fantastic songs.

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

5/5

Gabriel is a genius! I love much of his music.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

A little dated, but still pretty nice in spots.

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

Lennon and McCartney was one of the greatest songwriting teams of the past century, but neither of them was very good on his own.

Guero

Beck

4/5

Surprisingly good.

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

She is wonderful in soft jazzy love songs, but their thematic sameness can wear on you.

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

3/5

I like that they are trying something new, but I don't think their talent matches their ambition.

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

2/5

Forgettable proto-metal

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

3/5

Moderately interesting Indian film music.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Occasionally interesting rap-rock

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Papa Was A Rolling Stone is a deathless masterpiece. Much of the rest is mildly interesting.

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

Moderately interesting techno

Spiderland

Slint

4/5

Never heard of them before, and I was surprised at how much I liked it.

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

The Kinks

2/5

Very uninteresting British invasion crap.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

3/5

It was better than I expected, at times I found it mildly interesting.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

Better than I expected, sometimes mildly interesting.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Some of it I really liked, but most of it was uninteresting.

Picture Book

Simply Red

4/5

Fine 80s rock, superb lead singer.

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

3/5

Mildly interesting, not the groundbreaking stuff of later on.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

2/5

Boring soft-rock.

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

3/5

Interesting but ultimately not for me.

The Clash

1/5

Ghastly.

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

4/5

Nice tango music.

NEU! 75

Neu!

4/5

Interesting techno.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Good basic rock, several Stones albums that I prefer.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Mildly interesting pop.

Debut

Björk

3/5

Mildly interesting and inventive.

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

4/5

Interesting psychedelia.

World Clique

Deee-Lite

3/5

Some bright spots, but suffers from sameness.

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

Mostly great album, starts strong, peters out later on.

Throwing Muses

2/5

Not my thing at all.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Very enjoyable 60s soul instrumentals.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

Interesting techno-rap.