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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Private Dancer Tina Turner	5	3.3	+1.7
The Next Day David Bowie	5	3.3	+1.7
C'est Chic CHIC	5	3.34	+1.66
Bossanova Pixies	5	3.38	+1.62
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea PJ Harvey	5	3.38	+1.62
Get Behind Me Satan The White Stripes	5	3.41	+1.59
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	5	3.42	+1.58
Reggatta De Blanc The Police	5	3.45	+1.55
Tidal Fiona Apple	5	3.45	+1.55
Odelay Beck	5	3.46	+1.54

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Stranger Billy Joel	2	3.85	-1.85
Alien Lanes Guided By Voices	1	2.75	-1.75
Two Dancers Wild Beasts	1	2.75	-1.75
From Elvis In Memphis Elvis Presley	2	3.36	-1.36
I Should Coco Supergrass	2	3.34	-1.34
Country Life Roxy Music	2	3.11	-1.11
Chemtrails Over The Country Club Lana Del Rey	2	3.05	-1.05

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Artist	Albums	Average
David Bowie	5	4.4
Led Zeppelin	2	5
Stevie Wonder	3	4.33

5-Star Albums (29)

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Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

Throbbing Gristle

1/5

tfw you're listening to a Throbbing Gristle track but then you realize that actually someone just sent a fax to your voicemail inbox by mistake

1 likes

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

4/5

Unique set of songs from a guy that defies genre by going somewhere between rock and modern sea shanty

1 likes

Soul Mining

The The

3/5

I liked the first album on the list better, but still very good

1 likes

I Should Coco

Supergrass

2/5

Twee British Chumbawumba-ass one-hit album

1 likes

Signing Off

UB40

2/5

Just not into Birmingham reggae sorry

1 likes

1-Star Albums (3)

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

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All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

2/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

2/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

How I know it's good: * Mostly bangers, and the ones between were still pretty great * I was surprised when it was over, felt too short * 80's guitar

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

3/5

I've never really connected with most of the Stones' work. Their sound defined a lot of bands to follow, and they definitely have some great hits. I think it boils down to this: The Stones listened to early southern blues and rock and made more of it. The Beatles listened to the same thing and made the next thing.

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

2/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

5/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Dig the retro sound.

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

I was ready to write this off as "post-peak" Green Day since I'd moved on by American Idiot. But it's a great album, and uses "album" as a concept. This continues to be peak Green Day

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

Being in high school in the 90's, I will never overcome a pro-Nirvana bias. But knowing what I know now about performance and production, how did this ever get made? - A lot of the guitar playing barely counts as guitar playing - You hear every sloppy note and squeal - Half the singing is screamed into a blown-out mic And IT'S AWESOME. Kudos to whoever had the sack to let Nirvana be Nirvana and put it on a record.

I Should Coco

Supergrass

2/5

Twee British Chumbawumba-ass one-hit album

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

1/5

I suppose this is where grunge went after grunge. I'm sorry, but I didn't go with it.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

Good piano along with some happy Germans in the background

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

I unexpectedly grew muttonchops and a mustache while listening to this.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Where Rock started. Enjoyed this more than I would have expected

Infected

The The

4/5

So Much For The City

The Thrills

3/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Listened to it while coding and it kinda blended in to the background. So... OK?

Led Zeppelin

5/5

One of the best albums from one of the greatest rock bands

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

About half of these songs have aged into cliche, but just because they’re pretty good.

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Peak Stevie

Pink Flag

Wire

4/5

Me: Why did you give Supergrass a 1-star but you like Pink Flag My Brain: ...

Back In Black

AC/DC

5/5

Literally every song has been played non-stop since 1980

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

I was all ready to complain after the first track about how this just sounds like the inside of a Brazilian steak house, but I’ll be damned if I wasn’t having fun the rest of the time.

Blood, Sweat & Tears

3/5

What do you get when you combine a proto rock band with a jazz quintet full of band kids? Apparently every 70’s sitcom theme song. +1 star for the jazzy bits.

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

3/5

Not a big punk guy and the atonal melodies got old but the instruments are great

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

1/5

My favorite member of this band was the Eventide H9 delay and reverb unit. I was also in retrospect too harsh on Guided by Voices

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Solid singer song writer from the same musical movement as Cat Stevens and Jim Croce

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

3/5

Just fun old school hip hop

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

This is our first Spanish album. I'm ignorant so I would probably need a cultural trip sitter to tell me why this is an important album, but I enjoyed the upbeat vibe regardless.

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

4/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Bob Marley but bluesy? Sign me up.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

5/5

“Kanye is a mess, why is he famous?” This is why he’s famous

Soul Mining

The The

3/5

I liked the first album on the list better, but still very good

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

4/5

Lots of yelling, and the instrumental equivalent of yelling. I'm for it.

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

4/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

3/5

OK, but someone needed to invent reverb.

Odelay

Beck

5/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

Signing Off

UB40

2/5

Just not into Birmingham reggae sorry

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

3/5

This is what the 70s would sound like compressed into a marble

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

“Alright lads, we got us a saxophone man for ‘is one, so let’s bloody well use ‘im, yeah?”

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

4/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

2/5

I was only vaguely familiar with this band before this. I’ll probably keep it that way

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Roxxy music was moldy, bad 70's. This is awesome 70's

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

I'll probably get in trouble for this one, but I've just never been able to get in to Radiohead. This is a very chill album, great to have on in the background. But if Benadryl made a sound, this would be it.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

4/5

Good 80s vibes. You can hear a lot of the bands they influenced

Paris 1919

John Cale

2/5

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

4/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Good Pumpkins

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

5/5

Album is good, Sting may be in the running for coolest dude to ever do it

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

2/5

Nah

Cut

The Slits

3/5

Low

David Bowie

5/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

4/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

Cream is pretty good. Shame Clapton is an armpit

The Next Day

David Bowie

5/5

Favorite album of what we’ve listened to so far

Violator

Depeche Mode

5/5

I had forgotten that Depeche Mode is great

Boston

5/5

Maybe a top ten all timer

Tidal

Fiona Apple

5/5

I didn’t think I liked Fiona Apple. Turns out I do like dem apples.

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

1/5

tfw you're listening to a Throbbing Gristle track but then you realize that actually someone just sent a fax to your voicemail inbox by mistake

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

3/5

A bit like the Throbbing Gristle album, but these guys went, "Hey, what if we made it good and fun?"

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

Very different album from Regatta de Blanc. I would say that album was more consistent, but this one had higher highs, including a couple of Police all-timers (Every Breath, King of Pain)

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

It has THAT Black Sabbath song on it. And you don't even have to know which one I mean by that.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

5/5

Required listening for learning to improv on guitar

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Always enjoy an 80's synth, but this is a little too mellow and same-y for me.

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

Weird Bowie is still good. Might be the Bowie-est Bowie album so far

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

4/5

Something feels disingenuous about an Irish band that’s trying to sound like it’s from Philly. But the back half of the album felt more like just having fun rocking out, and it won me back.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

5/5

Ray Charles is great, band is great. Awesome early R&B

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

3/5

The music started and I was like, "Ok... 😀" Then the vocals started and I was like, "Oh, ok... 😐"

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

4/5

Liked it more than I expected. Somewhere in between Crash Test Dummies and Cake

Fleet Foxes

4/5

I had sworn I've never hear Fleet Foxes before, but I did recall hearing "Your Protector" before once I got to that one. Not my usual thing, but I really enjoyed it. Lovely example of modern folk.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

4/5

Sometimes I think, “I’m too mature now for loud guitar songs about decay n’ spiders n’ shit”, and then I listen to an album like this and I’m like, “hell yeah, decay n’ spiders n’ shit” 🤘

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Just a great example of a live album from a all-timer

The Undertones

4/5

Initially wrote this off as another 70s British punk album, but it is a fun 70’s British punk album

C'est Chic

CHIC

5/5

Properly funky funk

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

Yep, that's definitely Meat Loaf

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Good album. Wonder when we'll get the next Kendrick/Drake collab?

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

He's mostly singing about social and environmental issues - so why do get the get the distinct impression that this album is trying to seduce me?

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

Lots of songs on here that are tired from being overplayed, but that’s its own compliment in a way

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Old-school hip hop that still holds up

The Stone Roses

5/5

This whole album was just great. Vibes of early U2 and INXS. Loved the clean Vox-y sounds and long instrumental jams.

Celebrity Skin

Hole

4/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

4/5

Listened to it on a long drive and it was good vibes

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Sulk

The Associates

3/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Here's the thing about listening to Jimi albums in the modern day: he was throwing a lot of stuff at the wall, and a lot of it stuck. It changed how music sounded after. But some of it didn't and became that kind of navel-gazing drug-fueled stuff we associate with lava lamps and flower prints. So the album is a mix of absolute classics and stuff that comes across as fairly weird.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Not the best Stevie album. But that still makes it a great album

Elastica

4/5

This sounded *very* nineties. In a good way.

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

This is just a generally great root-rock album

Gorillaz

5/5

Absolute all-timer

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

5/5

Bossanova

Pixies

5/5

I don't listen to the Pixies much. This album explains to me why I'm wrong.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

5/5

I hadn't heard PJ Harvey before, but I definitely will again. Great album.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

Like a lot of early rock, this is one that was good at the time but just doesn’t hold up to modern listening. Gets an extra star for the instruments on Help Me Rhonda

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

The album you bought when you heard the Woo Hoo song, and then none of the other stuff was like that.

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

First half was pretty good. Not Bowie's best, but still Bowie. Other than Heroes, I don't know that there were a lot of standout tracks. A lot of the B side was instrumental-only stuff that was probably really cool in 1977 but sounds like a track off the Subnautica soundtrack in 2024. Really good for 70s/80s electronic music, but of its era

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

3/5

Here's the deal. I listened to this whole album yesterday. Today I had to go back and play snippets to remember it. Maybe that's on me, but it just kinda sounded like early 2000's rock. I'd go to a show but it just sounds a lot like a lot of other bands.

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

4/5

Unique set of songs from a guy that defies genre by going somewhere between rock and modern sea shanty

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Not my favorite ever but still a really solid Bowie album with some all timers on there. Previous criticisms of 70s electronica apply here, but to a lesser degree.

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

Fun album. couple of all-timers on there

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

3/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Zeppelin is one of my favorite bands, this is one of their best albums

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

One of the first albums where the Beatles started to find the sound that would make them one of the all-time greats.

Ingenue

k.d. lang

4/5

Overall a really solid album, but it's crazy how much more work it feels like went into "Constant Craving" in terms of production and layers.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Kinda wild to be watching the Olympics and Snoop is America's mascot, and then getting in the car and Snoop is on the track talking about how he and Dre are going to kill Eazy-E

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

I'll admit that before this I thought the Cocteau Twins were like Youtube content creators or something.

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

4/5

Straight ahead blues with a bit of 90s in there

Adele

5/5

The theme of this album is “Adele is an amazing singer”. That theme works because Adele is an amazing singer

Metal Box