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You Love More Than Most
Albums you rated higher than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodface | 5 | 3.1 | +1.9 |
| Tommy | 5 | 3.35 | +1.65 |
| Pretenders | 5 | 3.35 | +1.65 |
| Murmur | 5 | 3.42 | +1.58 |
| Aja | 5 | 3.46 | +1.54 |
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Albums you rated lower than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paranoid | 1 | 4.2 | -3.2 |
| Vol. 4 | 1 | 3.75 | -2.75 |
| Bitches Brew | 1 | 3.3 | -2.3 |
| Deloused in the Comatorium | 1 | 3.2 | -2.2 |
| Dig Your Own Hole | 1 | 3.11 | -2.11 |
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Favorite Artists
Artists with 2+ albums and high weighted score
| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beatles | 6 | 5 | 4.33 |
| R.E.M. | 4 | 5 | 4.14 |
| U2 | 4 | 4.5 | 3.86 |
| Simon & Garfunkel | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| Stevie Wonder | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
Least Favorite Artists
Artists with 2+ albums and low weighted score
| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Sabbath | 2 | 1 | 2.2 |
Popular Reviews
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Respect for paving the way for a new genre of music but it got a little boring for me
1 likes
The The
4/5
Oh man I had This is the Day on one of my favorite mix tapes in college! Loved hearing the whole album.
1 likes
Crowded House
5/5
One of my favorite albums. It really holds up. Also I’m an American who finds the lyrics very entertaining.
1 likes
1-Star Albums (15)
All Ratings
Black Sabbath
1/5
No denying it influenced so many metal bands to come but just too dark and harsh for me. No need to ever listen to it again.
Belle & Sebastian
4/5
Frank Ocean
4/5
Pleasantly surprised by this album
Miles Davis
3/5
Duran Duran
4/5
Big fan of this album when it was new and happy to say it has actually held up
Radiohead
4/5
Ute Lemper
1/5
I guess the actual music is okay but the vocals are way too dramatic. Yikes.
De La Soul
4/5
Upbeat, fun album to be served up on a Friday
The Mars Volta
1/5
Not for me
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Respect for paving the way for a new genre of music but it got a little boring for me
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Harry Nilsson
4/5
Iron Butterfly
2/5
Brian Wilson
3/5
What did I just listen to?
Joy Division
2/5
I really wanted to like it
Sepultura
1/5
No thanks
Nas
2/5
Rush
2/5
Syd Barrett
3/5
Like a Beatles and Elliot Smith collaboration
Paul McCartney
3/5
Nothing too special except for:
Junk
Maybe I’m Amazed
Patti Smith
2/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Baaba Maal
3/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
Beatles
5/5
Metallica
2/5
The Dictators
2/5
Happy Mondays
2/5
The Who
3/5
Goldie
2/5
Eels
3/5
Fatboy Slim
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Nirvana
5/5
Kid Rock
2/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Kanye West
2/5
Peter Frampton
3/5
Deep Purple
2/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
3/5
Garbage
4/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
The White Stripes
4/5
The Who
3/5
Portishead
2/5
Beyoncé
3/5
Youssou N'Dour
4/5
TV On The Radio
4/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
The United States Of America
2/5
Slipknot
1/5
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
Public Enemy
2/5
Pink Floyd
4/5
Spiritualized
3/5
Violent Femmes
5/5
Vivid memories of curling my hair getting ready for high school while blasting this brand new album. I’m sure my mom was horrified.
Probably haven’t listened to this album it its entirety since then but amazingly it holds up. Every album should have a xylophone solo.
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Neil Young
5/5
Breaking News: turns out I actually like Neil Young! Just listened to this and really enjoyed it. Guess my tastes have changed since high school when I first heard these songs. That’s what I love about this album project.
Neil Young
4/5
Wow. Never understood the Neil Young reference in Sweet Home Alabama until now.
Pantera
1/5
Big Black
1/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
Beatles
5/5
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
3/5
3/5
The Mamas & The Papas
4/5
Tom Waits
2/5
Possibly some cool songs but I just can’t get past the vocals
Thin Lizzy
2/5
No more live albums please
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Van Morrison
3/5
Hookworms
3/5
The Isley Brothers
3/5
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
4/5
Quicksilver Messenger Service
1/5
How did this make the list?
The The
4/5
Oh man I had This is the Day on one of my favorite mix tapes in college! Loved hearing the whole album.
Eminem
3/5
Guided By Voices
3/5
Miles Davis
1/5
Van Halen
4/5
So here’s the thing. My last several albums have been painful, so even though I would never choose to listen to this one, it was a welcome and familiar assignment. 1984 was the year I graduated from high school so when I hear these songs those awesome memories flood my mind. Jump was the theme song to WGN Cubs baseball and I can vividly picture Panama and Hot For Teacher videos playing on my dorm room tv (back when MTV was pretty much just music videos). So I’m going to have to give it a 4 as a thank you for this brief trip down memory lane.
Goldfrapp
3/5
Bonnie Raitt
2/5
Sarah Vaughan
3/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
Deerhunter
4/5
Wow, what a lovely surprise. Never heard of Deerhunter or shoegaze but these tunes made for enjoyable Saturday morning soundtrack. Good thing too because I had been suffering through some bad albums for the past several days.
Hole
3/5
John Coltrane
2/5
I really want to like jazz but…
Soul II Soul
2/5
Magazine
4/5
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
Repetitive. Would have given it a 2 but the New York song bumped it up.
Johnny Cash
4/5
Machito
4/5
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
Throbbing Gristle
1/5
Massive Attack
3/5
Ride
3/5
ZZ Top
2/5
The Who
5/5
Listened to this tons as a kid. I wasn’t sure if I’d still enjoy it today, but I really did. Pictured the characters from the movie version as I listened and had a delightful time.
Tortoise
2/5
Skepta
1/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Jimmy Smith
4/5
Some jazz I actually enjoy
Peter Gabriel
5/5
Depeche Mode
4/5
Paul Simon
5/5
Elton John
4/5
First 4 songs are phenomenal. Then not so much.
The White Stripes
4/5
Raekwon
2/5
5/5
This tree was an absolute pleasure from its roots to its very tippy top.
David Bowie
4/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
Pearl Jam
5/5
Forgot how much I loved this album. Turns out I still do.
4/5
Kinda like Patti Smith but way easier to listen to.
Air
3/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Supertramp
4/5
Joan Armatrading
4/5
David Holmes
2/5
Sam Cooke
3/5
Elton John
5/5
Belle & Sebastian
4/5
Gillian Welch
4/5
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
SZA
3/5
Kraftwerk
2/5
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
Barry Adamson
2/5
The Undertones
3/5
Tito Puente
4/5
ABBA
5/5
Just fun!
Nina Simone
4/5
1/5
The War On Drugs
3/5
Nothing special. Possibly background music?
Muddy Waters
4/5
Serge Gainsbourg
2/5
3 for the actual music
1 for vocals and sick concept
Johnny Cash
4/5
Fleet Foxes
4/5
Beatles
5/5
Does anyone else feel a bit of anxiety when they go to see their album du jour? Seeing this pop up made me so happy.
Tangerine Dream
2/5
The Smiths
4/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
T. Rex
4/5
Just so cool
2/5
Could only stomach listening to about the first third of each of these songs. I’m assuming I didn’t miss anything good.
Blondie
4/5
Marty Robbins
3/5
PJ Harvey
2/5
The Band
4/5
Supergrass
4/5
How have I never heard of this band????? Catchy little rockers! Plus a couple of nice slow songs.
Korn
1/5
Arctic Monkeys
3/5
Soundgarden
4/5
The Cure
4/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
What a lovely listen
Sufjan Stevens
3/5
Pulp
3/5
Nick Drake
4/5
So chill
Tears For Fears
4/5
Astrud Gilberto
3/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
The Verve
3/5
The first song is fantastic but the rest was pretty meh
Creedence Clearwater Revival
2/5
Spiritualized
2/5
Charles Mingus
2/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
2/5
Santana
3/5
Kanye West
4/5
Shocked that I enjoyed this album as much as I did. Never heard a single one of these songs until today. Probably helped that there are so many cool people collaborating on it. Go figure.
Solange
3/5
The White Stripes
3/5
ZZ Top
2/5
Badly Drawn Boy
3/5
Sigur Rós
2/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Germs
2/5
The Youngbloods
3/5
Tracy Chapman
3/5
Morrissey
2/5
The Charlatans
3/5
Aimee Mann
4/5
The Chemical Brothers
1/5
Adele
4/5
The Black Crowes
4/5
It was going to be a 3 for me but She Talks to Angels is worth an additional star.
Mudhoney
2/5
DJ Shadow
3/5
Made mowing the lawn significantly more enjoyable
Genesis
2/5
Ananda Shankar
2/5
Interesting idea but the novelty wore off pretty quickly for me.
Justice
3/5
Crosby, Stills & Nash
5/5
Fairport Convention
2/5
Fairport Convention
2/5
2 Fairport Convention Albums in a row. Am I being punked?!
Dead Kennedys
4/5
New respect for that kid in high school who always wore a Dead Kennedys tshirt
Leonard Cohen
3/5
The Cars
5/5
The Album Generator Gods have really been testing me. I needed this today.
James Taylor
4/5
Lou Reed
4/5
So cool
Eminem
3/5
Lorde
3/5
Liability👍🏻
Joni Mitchell
3/5
The Flying Burrito Brothers
2/5
The Teardrop Explodes
3/5
Missy Elliott
3/5
Amy Winehouse
4/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
The Cure
3/5
The Black Keys
3/5
The Strokes
4/5
The Velvet Underground
3/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
2/5
Justin Timberlake
2/5
Aretha Franklin
3/5
Pavement
3/5
Eagles
5/5
Janelle Monáe
3/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Orange Juice
4/5
Never heard of it but listening to it makes me happy- maybe because it takes me back to the music of my high school years. Whatever the reason, it’s always exciting discovering new music that I actually like.
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
The Zutons
4/5
Jeff Buckley
4/5
Buffalo Springfield
3/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Van Halen
4/5
Nostalgic
Grateful Dead
4/5
Willie Nelson
2/5
R.E.M.
5/5
Taylor Swift
4/5
Radiohead
3/5
3/5
Anita Baker
4/5
Listening to this transported me back to college when my roommate was playing it on repeat. For sure it calls for a specific mood and probably a bit cheesy by today’s standards but whatever. I’m giving it a 4 for causing me to sing aloud loudly and reminisce on some pretty good times.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
The Pogues
4/5
3/5
R.E.M.
5/5
I needed this today
Nirvana
4/5
Elastica
3/5
Never heard of them but this was a pretty good listen
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Janet Jackson
3/5
2/5
Black Sabbath
1/5
I could have easily died without hearing this one
Stevie Wonder
5/5
MGMT
4/5
The Slits
2/5
Not as bad as I was expecting
Derek & The Dominos
3/5
R.E.M.
5/5
Praise be to the 1001 Album Generator Gods! I was as beginning to lose my faith in music.
Cornershop
3/5
Elliott Smith
4/5
Randy Newman
3/5
Ray Charles
3/5
George Harrison
4/5
B.B. King
3/5
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
The Cardigans
4/5
A surprisingly fun listen!
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
Sade
3/5
Wilco
3/5
Wilco
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
The Only Ones
3/5
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
Paul Simon
4/5
The Doors
3/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Daft Punk
2/5
Dire Straits
4/5
Crowded House
5/5
One of my favorite albums. It really holds up. Also I’m an American who finds the lyrics very entertaining.
Tom Waits
3/5
I actually hate Tom Waits LESS now
Paul McCartney and Wings
4/5
My older brother had this album so my 4 is very influenced by the fact that I have such great memories of listening to it as an 8 year old. Nostalgic
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Green Day
4/5
Boston
4/5
Nostalgic
Everything But The Girl
3/5
I was considering giving it a 5, but New York was just a bit too cheesy. P.S. Why so much hatred for Bono and the boys?
The Who
5/5
Donovan
3/5
Björk
3/5
New Order
3/5
The Magnetic Fields
4/5
George Michael
4/5
Beatles
5/5
The Replacements
3/5
Terence Trent D'Arby
3/5
21 year old me listened to this album in cassette tape form over and over again. No denying that the vocals are amazing. I’m enjoying a quick trip down memory lane, but 58 year old me is finding it easy to leave this back in the 80’s.
Blur
4/5
Girls and Boys was the only song I had heard before and I always thought it was cool. Loved the variety of songs on this album. Never would’ve heard them if not for this project. A true hidden gem for me.
Talk Talk
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Oasis
3/5
Steely Dan
5/5
Doves
3/5
R.E.M.
5/5
Al Green
3/5
The Divine Comedy
2/5
The Go-Betweens
3/5
Worth another listen
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2/5
Basement Jaxx
2/5
The Thrills
4/5
The Go-Go's
3/5
The Psychedelic Furs
3/5
Robbie Williams
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
Kacey Musgraves
3/5
Nothing super groundbreaking but still a really nice listen.
Beck
4/5
Happy Mondays
3/5
Fun background music
Neil Young
3/5
I didn’t hate it
Gram Parsons
2/5
Bill Evans Trio
3/5
Steely Dan
3/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
2/5
The Temptations
3/5
Michael Jackson
3/5
The Style Council
4/5
Wow, my freshman college roommate used to play this all the time but I completely forgot about it! That’s what I love about this project. Thanks for refreshing my memory, Album Gods!
Madonna
3/5
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Billy Joel
5/5
Mercury Rev
3/5
Beatles
5/5
I didn’t have to listen to this one to rate it a 5. But I did anyway.
Destiny's Child
3/5
Michael Jackson
5/5
Roxy Music
3/5
The Stooges
2/5
Eurythmics
2/5
Didn’t love it in ‘83 and now it’s slightly worse.
Queen
4/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
Is the Album Generator really random? Brian Wilson dies yesterday and I get this album today.
John Prine
4/5
Radiohead
4/5
Buena Vista Social Club
3/5
The Byrds
4/5
U2
5/5
Japan
3/5
Wow, Duran Duran must have been fans!
The Doors
3/5
The Doors
4/5
Radiohead
3/5
Animal Collective
3/5
Norah Jones
4/5
Sooooooo smooooooth
Carole King
4/5
Pretenders
5/5
How could I have forgotten how awesome this album is?!
TLC
3/5
Haircut 100
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Radiohead
4/5
Steve Winwood
3/5
5/5
U2
4/5
I’ll never understand all the hate towards U2
Coldplay
4/5
David Gray
4/5
Lana Del Rey
3/5
Scritti Politti
3/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5