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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Legalize It Peter Tosh	5	3.07	+1.93
Sunshine Superman Donovan	5	3.09	+1.91
Pyromania Def Leppard	5	3.13	+1.87
Rain Dogs Tom Waits	5	3.2	+1.8
The Undertones The Undertones	5	3.26	+1.74
The Message Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five	5	3.28	+1.72
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	5	3.3	+1.7
Aja Steely Dan	5	3.46	+1.54
Play Moby	5	3.47	+1.53
Zombie Fela Kuti	5	3.47	+1.53

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Are You Experienced Jimi Hendrix	1	4.16	-3.16
Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel	1	3.96	-2.96
(What's The Story) Morning Glory Oasis	1	3.84	-2.84
Deja Vu Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	1	3.7	-2.7
Oracular Spectacular MGMT	1	3.61	-2.61
Arrival ABBA	1	3.5	-2.5
All Directions The Temptations	1	3.46	-2.46
Parachutes Coldplay	1	3.46	-2.46
Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen	1	3.42	-2.42
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	1	3.38	-2.38

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	4	4.5

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Bruce Springsteen	3	1.33
The Byrds	2	1
Madonna	2	1
Morrissey	2	1.5
Elvis Costello	2	1.5
Yes	2	1.5
Happy Mondays	2	1.5
Super Furry Animals	2	1.5
Simon & Garfunkel	2	1.5

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Johnny Cash	2, 5
Def Leppard	5, 2
Led Zeppelin	5, 2, 2
Michael Jackson	5, 2, 3
Pink Floyd	4, 5, 2

5-Star Albums (21)

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Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

1/5

no. No. NO!! This is NOT music!

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1-Star Albums (82)

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

All Ratings

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

Had this album in college.

Hot Fuss

The Killers

2/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

5/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

1/5

hated oasis then. hate them now. whiny bitches.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

3/5

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

1/5

Is This It

The Strokes

3/5

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

2/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Traffic

2/5

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

1/5

Not my style

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

2/5

Faust IV

Faust

1/5

absolutely horrible. Hard to believe this is a top 1000 album.

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

1/5

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

2/5

Common

1/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Garbage

2/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

2/5

All Directions

The Temptations

1/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

2/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

2/5

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

2/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

1/5

Not my thing

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

2/5

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

2/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

2/5

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

2/5

oddly satisfying on the right strain

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

1/5

Tough listen.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

Better than I remember

Let It Be

The Replacements

2/5

I love the genre but I never got into The Replacements for some reason.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

2/5

One good original and a bunch of ok covers.

Street Life

The Crusaders

1/5

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

2/5

I'm an old dude. This wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Some very chill songs.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

3/5

need half stars. good album 2 and a half stars

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

1/5

Seems like every song sounds like the other. Boring

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

2/5

Meh. Very chill. Nothing spectacular.

In Utero

Nirvana

3/5

Live Through This

Hole

2/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

5/5

The Grand Tour

George Jones

1/5

I've finally stumbled across the worst album on the list!

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

1/5

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

1/5

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

5/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

listened to this once when it first came out and wasn't that impressed. Now, years later, I enjoy it much more. solid 3.7

Aja

Steely Dan

5/5

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

2/5

only 1 really good song on this album.

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1/5

Not for me. Frank Zappa >>capt. bh

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

4/5

awesome

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Hazy college memories

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

1/5

awful

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

This isn't music. It's torture. How did such a talentless guy sell so many albums? How did this album make the top 1001 of all time? I'm genuinely confused.

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

1/5

I didn't realize the Byrds were a country band.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

2/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

2/5

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

1/5

Play

Moby

5/5

White Ladder

David Gray

2/5

mundane

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

2/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

2/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

2/5

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

1/5

sucks

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

1/5

WTF?!?

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

1/5

no. No. NO!! This is NOT music!

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

2/5

meh. 33 minutes is a good length for this album

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

1/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

2/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

2/5

boring

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

2/5

Greta Van Feet has a cover band?!

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

4/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

4/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

2/5

Nixon

Lambchop

4/5

Today I discovered a "new" band that I really like! I like how this album meanders, almost aimlessly, from beginning to end. solid 3.5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

1/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

Odelay

Beck

2/5

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

1/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

1/5

I've tried to listen to Cohen many times and every time I find it too mundane. I like Tom Waits, Bob Dylan and other "storytellers" but Cohen just doesn't hit the right note so to speak.

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

youth

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

2/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

2/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

2/5

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

1/5

WTF?!?

Yeezus

Kanye West

1/5

I don't like the person and I don't like the music.

Timeless

Goldie

1/5

I don't do drugs.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

2/5

sophomoric but you can see/hear the talent. This guy's going places

Suzanne Vega

2/5

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

2/5

not horrible.

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

I don't really care for the entire album

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

2/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Surprisingly good.

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

4/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

2/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Scott 4

Scott Walker

1/5

It's not good.

Live At Leeds

The Who

1/5

Fragile

Yes

1/5

Pelican West

Haircut 100

3/5

better than i remember. thanks for the memories

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

1/5

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

2/5

not bad.

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

1/5

When I tell people "I like all kinds of music." I'll have to add "Except Skip Spence. This may be the most boring album I've ever heard.

All Mod Cons

The Jam

2/5

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

3/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

It's a sativa kinda album.

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

1/5

Never did like them much and listening again after 40 years, I haven't changed my mind.

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

2/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

1/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

2/5

No Other

Gene Clark

3/5

i liked it. mellow.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

1/5

nope

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

1/5

not really my thing.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

2/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

1/5

AWFUL. Not 1 good song on this album. Sorry I wasted what seemed like 4 hours on this trash!

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

1/5

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

1/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

2/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

1/5

Arrival

ABBA

1/5

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

2/5

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

The Last Broadcast

Doves

3/5

Decent. I would listen to it again. 2.5 stars

Permission to Land

The Darkness

1/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

2/5

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

5/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

2/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

1/5

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

2/5

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

2/5

Chelsea Girl

Nico

1/5

This has to be a joke, right ?!?

New Forms

Roni Size

2/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

1/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

2/5

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

1/5

They sound like the chipmunks just hit puberty. I got through 3 songs and had to stop b/c my ears were starting to bleed.

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

1/5

Follow The Leader

Korn

1/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

2/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

1/5

nope. I can hear how this band COULD be good but they aren't .

Urban Hymns

The Verve

1/5

British Steel

Judas Priest

1/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

1/5

Slayed?

Slade

1/5

meh

Pyromania

Def Leppard

5/5

the soundtrack of my pre-teen years. I don't know if it's critically good or bad but I LOVE it!

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

2/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

1/5

Joanna Newsom

2/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

3/5

The Velvet Underground

2/5

John Prine

2/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

1/5

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

1/5

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

1/5

Dare!

The Human League

2/5

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

2/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

1/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

2/5

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

4/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

2/5

Risque

CHIC

1/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

4/5

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

1/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

5/5

Feast of Wire

Calexico

1/5

New Wave

The Auteurs

2/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

1/5

I don't get the love.

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

2/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

Dookie

Green Day

2/5

Music

Madonna

1/5

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

1/5

awful. I heard better bands in college at the local dive bar.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

4/5

Opus Dei

Laibach

1/5

Ray Of Light

Madonna

1/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

1/5

the first track was good for 15 minutes but then the distortion actually hurt my ears.

Slipknot

1/5

Screamo is not for me.

Night Life

Ray Price

3/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

2/5

not my cup of tea

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

2/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

2/5

The Undertones

5/5

LOVED this album! How is it that I've never heard them before? 16 tracks in 35 minutes is perfect for this old man. I wish I would have heard this back in my middle school days when it was released. It certainly would have been one of those unforgettable albums of my youth. Now it's an unforgettable album of my elderly years.

Bummed

Happy Mondays

2/5

The Predator

Ice Cube

2/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

2/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

2/5

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

5/5

I was 7 years old and saved my allowance for a used turntable and some old records. I loved the cover art, and this album was only a quarter, so I bought it. SO glad I did! This was mind-blowing stuff for a 7-year-old kid!

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

2/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

solid.

808 State

2/5