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Album	You	Global	Diff
Duck Rock Malcolm McLaren	5	2.65	+2.35
Millions Now Living Will Never Die Tortoise	5	2.87	+2.13
The Specials The Specials	5	3.3	+1.7
Fragile Yes	5	3.32	+1.68
Urban Hymns The Verve	5	3.35	+1.65
Home Is Where The Music Is Hugh Masekela	5	3.36	+1.64
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	5	3.37	+1.63
Blue Lines Massive Attack	5	3.38	+1.62
We Are Family Sister Sledge	5	3.48	+1.52
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	5	3.59	+1.41

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Doggystyle Snoop Dogg	1	3.38	-2.38
Neon Bible Arcade Fire	1	3.35	-2.35
The Next Day David Bowie	1	3.3	-2.3
Live Through This Hole	1	3.28	-2.28
OK Computer Radiohead	2	4.1	-2.1
Murder Ballads Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1	3.09	-2.09
Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul Otis Redding	2	3.93	-1.93
Electric Music For The Mind And Body Country Joe & The Fish	1	2.85	-1.85
Goodbye And Hello Tim Buckley	1	2.83	-1.83
Tago Mago Can	1	2.79	-1.79

5-Star Albums (19)

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Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

3/5

Their cover of Only Love Can Break Your Heart remains one of my favorite songs of all time. The rest of the album feels like 90's dance schlock.

3 likes

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

The Art of Peer Pressure and Sing About Me, I'm Dying Of Thirst are remarkable songs.

1 likes

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

3/5

Gillian Welch was perfect for the O Brother soundtrack. Not my jam beyond this context.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (10)

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Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

5/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

5/5

Elvis Presley

3/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

2/5

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1/5

This album is wild. What a concept piece.

The Next Day

David Bowie

1/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

1/5

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

1/5

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

1/5

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

2/5

Purple Rain

Prince

3/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

3/5

The Specials

5/5

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

5/5

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

Fleet Foxes

3/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Tommy

The Who

2/5

The xx

4/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Dusty Springfield is the sound of the American diner. I always thought Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels made the mockingbird song up. Turns out Dusty Springfield sung it on this album.

Debut

Björk

2/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

5/5

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

2/5

Heroes

David Bowie

2/5

Heroes is still a great song. The rest of the album still feels like it exists because it was fun to make, not because you might like it. It's art, in that it was created because the artist felt compelled to create a thing, not because you might like it.

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Listening to the whole album for the first time in 2024 is ... fine. My Generation's stutter gimmick doesn't age well as an aesthetic choice.

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

3/5

Their cover of Only Love Can Break Your Heart remains one of my favorite songs of all time. The rest of the album feels like 90's dance schlock.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

5/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

5/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

The Art of Peer Pressure and Sing About Me, I'm Dying Of Thirst are remarkable songs.

Out of Step

Minor Threat

3/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

I didn't realize how much Cheryl Crow did a Joni Mitchell. Much wow.

Franz Ferdinand

2/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

2/5

It's strange to listen to Jim Morrison sing about monogamy.

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

4/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

2/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

2/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

1/5

A few thoughts. 1. This album would be really funny if it wasn't a reflection of gang culture and gang culture wasn't one reflection of centuries of systematic exclusion. Yikes. 2. The music is catchy in an incantation-like-Annabel-Lee kind of way. Four second sequences that are repeated and rhymed on top of for a few minutes. 3. I'm grateful for the women in my life. 4. I'm okay without more of this in my life.

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

Maybe I'm a little weird. I cry a little bit every time I listen to this album. Rage Against the Machine makes me want to be a better citizen. An angrier citizen. A citizen that doesn't take dysfunctionality in our system sitting down.

Fragile

Yes

5/5

This album goes to 11.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Man. Alcohol can be brutal. What a talent and what a tragic waste.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

Morrissey isn't much of a singer, eh?

Viva Hate

Morrissey

3/5

Oof. More Morrissey. This seems like the album you make when you feel like the world deserves your music and yet they have the gaul to complain about it.

Timeless

Goldie

2/5

If This Is Spinal Tap had been made in the 90's it would have been about this album.

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

5/5

Wow. This is a fantastic album.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

3/5

Eh. :shrug:

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

4/5

The End Of The Rainbow is a bit of a haunter.

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

25 years after it stopped being relevant, I can say with some degree of confidence that I'm on team East Coast. Please don't play this for children.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

2/5

This was probably shocking and exciting when it came out. Now, it just feels like sitting in a diner ordering something greasy.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

It's surprising how transgressive music was before wokeism.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

I'm kind of blown away by how much of this music I've heard in other places.

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

1/5

This is the embodiment of 1960's cringe.

White Ladder

David Gray

3/5

Everybody wants to be some flavor of Bob Dylan. David Gray wants to be Acoustic Techno Bob Dylan.

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

2/5

Given enough money and fame, artists tend toward fart sniffing.

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Nirvana was what bad kids listened to when I was growing up. I thought the song Rape Me was about someone asking to be raped. So did this kind of terrible kid I grew up with. Justin, you know who your are. Turns out it's a song about how most rapes are repeated offenses and are done by someone close and that Nirvana was trying to speak up about it. Who knew?

Arrival

ABBA

3/5

When I Kissed The Teacher should be retroactively renamed Entrapment: Making a Pedophile.

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

1/5

Still better than Tim Buckley.

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

2/5

1970's experimental schlock. The kind of unlistenable music that's fun to make and that critics love.

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

3/5

Fun 1970's blues rock. This probably felt fresh when it happened.

Adele

3/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

This was my first time listening to a Dolly Parton album. I wasn't expecting it to be so contentful and wholesome. Dolly doesn't write cheap rhymes. While I'm not anxious to listen to more country, I liked this album way more than I expected.

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Eh.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

Killer Queen is an absolute banger. The rest of the album is significantly less interesting.

Live Through This

Hole

1/5

Courtney Love's not great.

Garbage

4/5

One man's therapy is another man's strip club soundtrack.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

It's fine.

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

3/5

Gillian Welch was perfect for the O Brother soundtrack. Not my jam beyond this context.

Maxinquaye

Tricky

2/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

The problem with strong niche aesthetics is that the domain space is pretty small and once it's been explored all future iterations tend to take about the same shape. Moon shoes are pretty fun the first time though.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

This album being so good and it's being so good being such a cliché feels bad, but man is it good. Good good bad good. Much wow.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

A bunch of bangers by John and Paul. A couple weird pieces from George. Ringo chewing paint chips. Another solid Beatles abum.

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

3/5

A decade before its time. Better than I would expect for a one hit wonder.

One World

John Martyn

3/5

Fairly listenable 1970's guitar nerd navel gazing.

The Stone Roses

3/5

The one's hard. On the one hand, if they hadn't done so much acid they might have noticed how badly their contract would screw them. But on the other hand, this album would sound completely sober. I don't think anyone really wins here.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

I forgot about Cloudbursting. Waking The Witch probably contributed to the Satanic Panic, which makes me giggle. Jig Of Life wants to be the soundtrack for a fight scene in The Witcher until it turns positive and you realize it's about childbirth.

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

4/5

Drunk

Thundercat

3/5

Tokyo is a phenomenal track.

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

The Kinks

4/5

Shangrila hits a little too hard for a 40-year-old man.

A Night At The Opera

Queen

5/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

5/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Stevie Wonder defines groove.

Tago Mago

Can

1/5

Bring your own drugs.

The Velvet Underground

4/5

I'd only heard Stephanie Says until I listened to this album. What a breath of fresh air after Tago Mago by Can.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

It never gets better. :|

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

2/5

Remarkable musicians. Obviously very talented. I listened to it quietly on tiny speakers while doing something else as a flex. Who's your boss now, Pantera?

Skylarking

XTC

3/5

Dear God really goes for it.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

5/5

Sister Sledge must have back problems from carrying Will Smith around all these years.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

2/5

I can see this album being really impressive when it came out. I think its energy and message were already part of the Zeitgeist when I came to consciousness. It feels unimpressive and honestly kind of weird in a way that hasn't aged well. It's probably important. It's not for me.

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

3/5

Listening to Soul II Soul feels like discovering the fossil of form that evolved into something more successful. It provides context for its more successful progeny. It's a transitional form.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Public Enemy is the transitional form between Grandmaster Flash and NWA. Neat. Holds up pretty well.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

5/5

Kind of surprised how much I like this album. Groovy. Doesn't feel like 1991. I'm not enamored of sexy ladies singing on top of techno. This does it in a way that isn't ... offensive in a dated and painful way. It feels more like someone had a thought and explored it.