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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Pictures At An Exhibition Emerson, Lake & Palmer	5	2.64	+2.36
Foxbase Alpha Saint Etienne	5	2.94	+2.06
Here Come The Warm Jets Brian Eno	5	3.07	+1.93
Before And After Science Brian Eno	5	3.08	+1.92
NEU! 75 Neu!	5	3.09	+1.91
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Dead Kennedys	5	3.27	+1.73
Deep Purple In Rock Deep Purple	5	3.33	+1.67
Africa Brasil Jorge Ben Jor	5	3.37	+1.63
Eliminator ZZ Top	5	3.38	+1.62
Locust Abortion Technician Butthole Surfers	4	2.38	+1.62

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	1	3.34	-2.34
Hot Fuss The Killers	2	3.74	-1.74
Marquee Moon Television	2	3.5	-1.5
Butterfly Mariah Carey	1	2.48	-1.48
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	2	3.38	-1.38
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea PJ Harvey	2	3.38	-1.38
Double Nickels On The Dime Minutemen	2	3.12	-1.12
Wild Gift X	2	3	-1

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Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	2	5
Brian Eno	2	5

5-Star Albums (21)

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

Popular Reviews

NEU! 75

Neu!

5/5

Wow! Brilliant. Beautiful. Understated genius.

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Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

5/5

Amazing album. I can’t even imagine how sounded in 1971. This album made me feel anxious and nervous at points. Can’t think of many albums that were able to do that while also drawing me in to listen further.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (2)

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To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Lots of hard R “N” word use.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

Wonderful album

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

I know what FBS is doing in heaven.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

5/5

Wonderful album! This will be one I share with others and okay again!

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

love the funk and blues on this iconic album

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Top to bottom, phenomenal album. My favorite LZ album.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

2/5

No matter how hard I try I cannot enjoy the Cure. The music is great, but the vocals just grate against my ears. I’ve tried many times to give this band a chance and I just can’t seem to figure them out.

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

5/5

Loved this album - this will be in my permanent rotation.

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

4/5

How hadn’t I heard this back in 97‽ this would have been a slam dunk fav back then.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

This is intense for 1958.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

1/5

Not my style at all. Tried to recreate the American Recordings vibe and it just doesn't resonate with me at all.

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

3/5

Solid album! Again, surprised she wasn't on my radar back in 02.

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

2/5

Meh mid

Tidal

Fiona Apple

5/5

Masterpiece

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

2/5

PJ Hardley, am I right?

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

Not my style but I really enjoyed listening to this album. Fairytale of new York is a phenomenal song.

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

David Bowie

5/5

Masterful album. Love this so much from the first track to the last. Ziggy forever!

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

This is one of my top three all time favorite Jazz albums. Read an article in Mental_Floss about Dave Brubeck decades ago and was instantly hooked. This is an absolute masterpiece.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

5/5

This album blew my mind!! I can't believe this was 1970. So heavy, such driving force. I LOVE this album.

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

AC DC does what they do well. They be a one-trick-pony, but dang if it doesn't have horse power.

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

3/5

Dude has pipes and knows how to work a crowd!

All Directions

The Temptations

5/5

Motown for life! What a beautiful, soulful album.

Hot Fuss

The Killers

2/5

Meh

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

5/5

as a white kid growing up in the burbs when this came out....boy did it open my eyes and share with me a world I DID not know existed. This album was and will continue to be a bright light that shone on my lack of perspective.

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

4/5

I’m old enough to remember that Queen Latifa was a legit rapper before she become an accomplished actress. This is a solid album.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

5/5

my dad would beat me if I didn't rate this album a five - he likes it that much.

I See You

The xx

4/5

this is the kind of album I love being exposed to if only because it will impress my wife. This was a fun chill listen and I it will become part of the rotation.

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

5/5

I continue to find myself drawn deeper into the musical world of Brian Eno. Great album!

Metallica

5/5

Soundtrack of my youth. I had the album, posters, and mullet to prove it.

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

3/5

Not my jam but what a jam

Faust IV

Faust

4/5

I enjoyed this album much more than I expected. So layered and unique. Felt the mix of both the 60's and the 70's with this album.

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

5/5

this was an absolute banger. this is an album that I will let ride on car trips. Great house music, background jam.

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

1/5

Not my jam.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

5/5

One of the paramount albums of my youth. This album wailed back in the late 80's and it still does today. Absolutely love this album and glad to hear it ring so powerfully today as it did the first time I cranked it up on cassette tape.

Pelican West

Haircut 100

3/5

I enjoyed this album a lot more than I expected. Deep cuts indeed.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Absolutely loved this album. Listened to it front to back twice while walking through the woods. This is a wonderful album.

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

4/5

This was an awesome album. Bonus points for learning, FINALLY, where Orbital sampled the line "satan" for their track Satan. I love it when dots are connected. The Butthole Surfers are a treasure.

NEU! 75

Neu!

5/5

Wow! Brilliant. Beautiful. Understated genius.

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Decent album. Miss Mitchell is one hell of a song writer.

Marquee Moon

Television

2/5

Straight up meh

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

5/5

Wow wow wow wow Eat the Poor!!!

Wild Gift

2/5

I am punked out.

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

2/5

Please god no more punk music

Sail Away

Randy Newman

4/5

Sail away hits haaaarrrrdddddd.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

Musical perfection personified.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

No words can do this album justice other than pure genius.

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

3/5

Just a decent album from a good looking dude.

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

5/5

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

3/5

Solid

Gold

Ryan Adams

2/5

Super mid album, but my wife digs it.

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

How they were able to create this album during the chaos that was Theo 1963 astounds me. Absolute songwriting masters with creativity exuding everywhere.