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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Channel Orange Frank Ocean	5	3.31	+1.69
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.35	+1.65
Lost In The Dream The War On Drugs	5	3.38	+1.62
Third Soft Machine	4	2.43	+1.57
Live! Fela Kuti	5	3.44	+1.56
Funeral Arcade Fire	5	3.56	+1.44
Pink Moon Nick Drake	5	3.65	+1.35
Remain In Light Talking Heads	5	3.67	+1.33
The Joshua Tree U2	5	3.67	+1.33
Lam Toro Baaba Maal	4	2.72	+1.28

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
L.A. Woman The Doors	1	3.67	-2.67
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys	2	3.73	-1.73
Bayou Country Creedence Clearwater Revival	2	3.66	-1.66
Aja Steely Dan	2	3.46	-1.46
Different Class Pulp	2	3.42	-1.42
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) The Kinks	2	3.39	-1.39
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	2	3.37	-1.37
A Girl Called Dusty Dusty Springfield	2	3.33	-1.33
Shake Your Money Maker The Black Crowes	2	3.29	-1.29
Feast of Wire Calexico	2	3.29	-1.29

5-Star Albums (10)

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Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

3/5

Fun art rock. A little rockabiliy. Pleasent enough but I'm sure I'll forget I ever listened to this album or the name of the band.

1 likes

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Excellent

1 likes

In Utero

Nirvana

3/5

I did not enjoy this as much as I thought I would. I imagine this music played in a small club full of sweaty guys jumping off the stage and it works.

1 likes

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Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

2/5

Starts off strong and immediately drops off a cliff. Can tell which songs the band likes to play and which were written for the audience. I've heard better versions of Proud Mary *cringe*. Overall inoffensive but I'm not going back to it.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

Cannot help but move my body. Excellent production quality and arrangements.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

A terrific album, but not something I go to often.

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

4/5

This is excellent. How have I not heard of him before?

The Visitors

ABBA

2/5

It's all perfectly fine maximalist pop, but it's also boring. The longer it goes the more boring it is. Turns out the hit song on this album is the one that tried my patience the most.

Born To Be With You

Dion

2/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

Starting a record with a bit of self-indulgent noodling on the guitar is certainly a choice. Queen really wrote hit songs, and then a bunch of unremarkable junk. They're only not a one-hit wonder because they were so prolific. She Makes Me was my favorite.

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

2/5

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

Early album, but still the Cure sound.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Every R&B artist today is trying to make this album

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

A classic hip hop album that's groundbreaking and still kicks ass. But also way more problematic than you remember.

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

Just a bunch of really great songs

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

Incredible. First 5 star album I've gotten.

L.A. Woman

The Doors

1/5

Hate it.

Sincere

Mj Cole

2/5

Pretty generic electronic music.

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

2/5

Chamber music. Showtunes-y. Gets boring after a while.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

Excellent all the way through.

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

4/5

Solid Chicago hip hop

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

3/5

Another guy who sounds like John Lennon. A bit meh.

Truth

Jeff Beck

3/5

Self indulgent and horny.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

Fun chamber rock pop

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

Excellent arrangements and song structures. Textured and layered sounds. Really lovely listen. Very short album.

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

4/5

One of the best bath rock bands to ever do it. High energy, discordant chords, rock and roll belting.

Protection

Massive Attack

4/5

Aja

Steely Dan

2/5

Ehhhh. It's ok music, but the vocals just get under my skin.

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

3/5

Fun art rock. A little rockabiliy. Pleasent enough but I'm sure I'll forget I ever listened to this album or the name of the band.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Excellent song writing. Some folk, some southern rock, some prog rock, some pop.

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Really well written and produced pop rock

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

The sound that spawned so many twee soundtracks.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Love this album so much. Really intricate, but poppy new wave.

Third

Soft Machine

4/5

This is some really stellar psych-rock.

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

some proto-pop punk. Liked it

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

It's a concept album about a frog? Decent progressive rock that jams. And flute.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

5/5

Banger album. A top tier echelon 2000s indie rock album.

Shadowland

k.d. lang

2/5

Americana and I don't like this particular type. A bit like Chris Issak.

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

I thought R.E.M. was a later '80s-'90s band. Seems ahead of its time in '83. Super influential sound. A transition from the pop of the 70s to the grunge of the 80s.

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

3/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

4/5

Pure vibes

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

For 1978 it's boundary pushing music. For 2024 it's like a child's toy keyboard.

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

2/5

Bee Gees get a bad rap for some reason when this is plenty fine prog rock/chamber music.

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

2/5

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

3/5

Pixies frontman. It's fine. I'm not sure I'm interested enough in finishing it though because it sounds just like every other 90s alt rock band.

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

5/5

all-time sexy music banger

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

2/5

Fine mid-century pop rock

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

2/5

Middling early 2000s alt rock with a very boring B side.

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

4/5

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

4/5

Really quite nice. The underlying music has a contemporary sound. Only the vocals give away the era.

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

2/5

No thanks

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

4/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

3/5

Fun party music at first but by the time the big hits off the album came around I was bored with it.

Real Life

Magazine

2/5

This kind of punk just does nothing for me.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Classic hip hop jams

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

2/5

Not crazy about this music born in the wrong decade.

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

A classic for the ages

Headquarters

The Monkees

3/5

Better than the Beatles

The Clash

4/5

Classic punk - must listen

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

The heavy metal

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

A really eclectic sound. A time when white dudes did African music.

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

3/5

I think the vocals are pretty annoying, but the music is jamming

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

2/5

Rather midling psych rock

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

4/5

Can't believe I've never heard this before. The type of chill Y2K electronica I like

Arise

Sepultura

4/5

This album rips so hard

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Feast of Wire

Calexico

2/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Permission to Land

The Darkness

2/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Excellent

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Meh. It's alright

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

4/5

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

4/5

Tom Tom Club

4/5

Love it

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

En-Tact

The Shamen

3/5

Sounds like the music a "Serious artist" makes in an early 90s movie.

In Utero

Nirvana

3/5

I did not enjoy this as much as I thought I would. I imagine this music played in a small club full of sweaty guys jumping off the stage and it works.

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

The Kinks

2/5

Nope. Don't like this.

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

3/5

Generally a blast, but some weak points

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Fragile