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Album	You	Global	Diff
Underwater Moonlight The Soft Boys	5	3.06	+1.94
If You're Feeling Sinister Belle & Sebastian	5	3.18	+1.82
Parachutes Coldplay	5	3.46	+1.54
Fear Of Music Talking Heads	5	3.47	+1.53
Crosby, Stills & Nash Crosby, Stills & Nash	5	3.49	+1.51
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	5	3.57	+1.43
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm A Tribe Called Quest	5	3.61	+1.39
With The Beatles Beatles	5	3.66	+1.34
Pearl Janis Joplin	5	3.73	+1.27
Off The Wall Michael Jackson	5	3.78	+1.22

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
American IV: The Man Comes Around Johnny Cash	1	3.9	-2.9
Time Out Of Mind Bob Dylan	1	3.21	-2.21
The Real Thing Faith No More	1	3.2	-2.2
Third Portishead	1	3.13	-2.13
Autobahn Kraftwerk	1	3.09	-2.09
Broken English Marianne Faithfull	1	2.88	-1.88
Millions Now Living Will Never Die Tortoise	1	2.88	-1.88
Tago Mago Can	1	2.79	-1.79
Superunknown Soundgarden	2	3.66	-1.66
Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club	2	3.65	-1.65

5-Star Albums (14)

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Popular Reviews

Superunknown

Soundgarden

2/5

After Chris Cornell passed, my mom bought every Soundgarden, Audioslave, and Temple of the Dog cd and it was the only music she would listen to, in the car and at home, for like two years. I moved out during that time

11 likes

Tago Mago

Can

1/5

Never again

1 likes

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

“The next time someone’s teaching, Why don’t you get taught?” 😮

1 likes

1-Star Albums (9)

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Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Them songs were lengthyyyy

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

1/5

This album raises the question: how much talking can one get away with while “singing” ?

Nevermind

Nirvana

4/5

Great album to give yourself a kitchen scissor home haircut to

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

3/5

Assigning a song to each of my next 69 hinge matches

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

4/5

Any time someone listens to this album on shuffle, Syd Barrett turns over in his grave

Buena Vista Social Club

2/5

One day when I grow up, I’d like this to be the kind of music I put on to get work done

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Shame on me for thinking “eargasm” was a more recent addition to Webster’s dictionary

Paris 1919

John Cale

3/5

Hanky Panky No Thanks

Opus Dei

Laibach

2/5

Me, having been to Germany one (1) time: “yeah, that letter that looks like a B is actually pronounced ss”

Different Class

Pulp

3/5

Fine!

American Pie

Don McLean

3/5

RIP Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. Richardson, and music

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

3/5

Pretty neat how collaborative this album was

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Album? Pretty good. Coming from Barrytown? Less good…??

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

1/5

Pros: only 37 minutes Cons: those 37 minutes were painful

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

No notes❗️🧑‍🍳🤌💋

Close To The Edge

Yes

3/5

Totally tolerable

1999

Prince

4/5

An icon. Legend. Prince of pop. But every song could have been ~2 mins shorter.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

Made for excellent background music while reading my book club book (Verity) on the green line

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

My favorite part of this was the title

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Thought 7 O’Clock News / Silent Night might be able to do what the Nothing Much Happens podcast does for me until the :23 second mark

Low

David Bowie

2/5

Call me crazy, but could have used more words

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

5/5

This is what I’m here for!

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

2/5

Safe As Milk would be a sick band name

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Mostly enjoyed this look inside the mind of Lucy Dacus

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

My bad for expecting Santeria

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

1/5

It may have more to do with me being in a car for 5 hours and less to do with the album itself (will never listen again to find out) but I was so bored by this, I’m going to sue Bob

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Call me a mumble pop fan (I hope the title track is never not stuck in my head)

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

2/5

Great getting ready music, not great driving music

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

3/5

2020?! Damn, how recent’s this list?

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

1/5

No, thank you!

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

Dissociating at the dinner table to this one 🔥

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

Should they be talking about Terry like that?

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

2/5

The trick is to hit play on the album of the day and then keep your hands busy. Perhaps too intimate a soundtrack to cut fruit to, but I got it done

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Thrilled Catfish is making a comeback, but I probably could have supplemented with the guys

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

3/5

Kunetz said it all

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

3/5

Kinda crazy only British bands existed in the 60s, eh? And this one had a drummer named Twink!

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Sly is such a cool name

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

My Spotify wrapped: I’m extremely confused Me: you’re confused? I’m fucking confused bro

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

2/5

How many times do you think Lin Manuel Miranda listened to this while writing Hamilton?

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

It’s been real. It’s been fun. It’s been real fun, Pat

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

This Bob isn’t so bad

Dare!

The Human League

4/5

You’d better change it back or we will both!! be! sorry!!!

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

2/5

Not for me but we got it done 💪

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

3/5

Haven’t touched the genre since R Kelly music videos were popular 15 years ago, but D’Angelo fucks (I bet he has so much sex)

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

Jig of Life had me feeling like I was climbing Old Man of Storr

Tago Mago

Can

1/5

Never again

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

He would have loved Julien Baker

Crosby, Stills & Nash

5/5

I liked Teach Your Children so much, I almost added it to a playlist

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

2/5

Opening a song with “clowns caress you:” -bold -not helpful at all, contrary to the title

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Surprised to learn Alec Baldwin was relevant back then

Faust IV

Faust

3/5

Sauerkraut(rock)

The Clash

4/5

14 songs in 35 minutes? That’s hot

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

3/5

Passion Pit’s daddies

The Joshua Tree

4/5

Apologies for fussing in 2014, their shit slaps

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

3/5

Really, really liked the cheering/chanting in the last 40 seconds

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

2/5

Theatre kid Bo Burnham. Does that make sense?

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

2/5

The Randy Burns mixes go craaaazy

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

3/5

Didn’t pick up any machine gun manners/best practices though

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

I resonate so profoundly with the double question marks

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

2/5

On Battleship Hill sounded vaguely like Riptide by Vance Joy, no?

Heroes

David Bowie

2/5

Elephant Love Medley (which samples Heroes) > Heroes by David Bowie, sorry

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

2/5

We’re gonna get that Beastie Boys album, right?

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Yeah, if by talking, you mean singing

The Real Thing

Faith No More

1/5

Sometimes the singer sounded like Patrick Stump and other times like Jon Bon Jovi, but I didn’t really like it (all the time)

Follow The Leader

Korn

2/5

Bombastic side eye @ All In the Family

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

Was really liking it, didn’t realize the album ended, a Flaming Lips song auto-played after and I was like “damn I really, REALLY like this” (just really liked it)

Take Me Apart

Kelela

3/5

Mhmm, yeah!

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

2/5

Vibey ferrr shurrrr

Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

Let Miley cover them all

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

5/5

“She was into S&M and bible studies” what a bar

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

2/5

Please refer to slimlimbtim’s response below

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Where Is My Mind? wasn’t getting anything lower than a 4

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

SooOo good

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

“The next time someone’s teaching, Why don’t you get taught?” 😮

Night Life

Ray Price

2/5

“The glamour of the gay night life has lured you” 😏

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

Effectively reduced cortisol levels at the office 👍

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

2/5

One star for music, an additional star for band name (a bit of a stretch!) and album name (very creative!)

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Good, would have been better if I was there

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

The maid song deserves criticism but I’m going to use this opportunity to call out a later album by him titled “Harvest Moon” … like, try harder?

The World is a Ghetto

War

2/5

If it’s not Low Rider, I don’t want it

Technique

New Order

3/5

Sometimes it was like 50% Hugh Grant’s pop band (Pop!) in Music & Lyrics, 50% Challengers soundtrack. I don’t know if I really enjoyed that

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Great hand/head/full body out the car window tunes on a warm spring day :,)

1989

Taylor Swift

3/5

Tried and failed to get through the vault tracks

Timeless

Goldie

2/5

I’m shaking my head no

White Light

Gene Clark

2/5

Bit of a snoozefest

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

4/5

My Back Pages is a 5 which brings a 3 album to a 4 rating

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Liked it! Liked the stuff that auto-played after (Jimmy Hughes, Garnet Mimms & the Enchanters, Little Willie John, James Hunter) a little more!

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

It’s simple: you mention horses, I’m IN

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

What if we just listened to Hunky Dory again? Eh?? Eh?!

Feast of Wire

Calexico

4/5

The singing parts were so good

Sound Affects

The Jam

2/5

This Sound lacked Affects on me

Risque

CHIC

3/5

Dance Dance Revolution

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

These guys know what they’re doing

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

Rewatched Leap Year and booked my next trip to Ireland

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

4/5

🤠👍

Superunknown

Soundgarden

2/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Liked the music AND the lyrics

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

4/5

Always get nervous when I see Disc 1/Disc etc. but the opening/title track is SO GOOD. Disc 1 is easily a 5/5, second half loses me (2.5), so a 4/5 it gets

Parachutes

Coldplay

5/5

The first band I liked on my own after gaining consciousness at like 9 years old. They’re getting nothing but 5’s from me, always 😤

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

Really hard to look up if their stuff gets used in movie soundtracks when there are “My Bloody Valentine” movies

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

2/5

Could have sworn he sang half of these in Rocky Horror Picture Show

Celebrity Skin

Hole

3/5

My expectations were through the floor, deep underground (but I liked it)

Le Tigre

3/5

But Deceptacon!

Illmatic

Nas

2/5

Of any relation to Lil Nas X?

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

2/5

Confused because I thought I liked folk rock??

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

1/5

Big fan of tortoises, even bigger fan of songs that have words in them

Garbage

2/5

“Milk” 🤝 “Safe As Milk”

Black Sabbath

3/5

Nothing for me to be afraid of!

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

My favorites in order: -the name of the band -the name of the album - - -the music

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

2/5

Jake Whiting must do this guy’s album art

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

2/5

“Machine machine machine machine” doesn’t really do it for me lyric-wise

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

3/5

I added “Be Sweet” to a playlist??!

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

4/5

Pretending the strictly instrumental ones didn’t exist

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

1/5

Who did they pay to appear on this more than once?

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

Fond memory alert: my dad, who *does not* play instruments, taught me Smoke on the Water when I was an itty bitty child on like a $40 Walmart guitar

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Idk maybe we could have workshopped the lyrics to You Know Who I Am a little more

With The Beatles

Beatles

5/5

The first 8 seconds of Please Mister Postman is such a little dopamine hit for me, like 🥁🗣️ wait❗️👬👬 how cute :-)

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

TFTI, sounded like a real good time 🙄

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Used to play “Movin’ Out” while driving around by myself feeling like a REAL adult at 17 (I wouldn’t move out for 4 more years)

GREY Area

Little Simz

3/5

Not!!! bad

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

2/5

She can sing but I would never voluntarily listen

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

Giving Mario Bros. background music in a very good way

System Of A Down

2/5

My coworker Doug would be SO pleased I listened to all of it

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

3/5

Can’t give anything in the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young universe below a 3

Tommy

The Who

4/5

I’m naturally skeptical of anything “rock opera” but this was fun

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

This is a Talking Heads stan account

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

How fun!! 🕺

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

3/5

You could really make out the guitar

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Would it be worse if they were brother and sister who pretended they were married?

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

5/5

You gotta read Kunetz's review

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

3/5

I'm shrugging emphatically

Dummy

Portishead

3/5

I'm shrugging less emphatically

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Good but you knew that, didn’t you?

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

2/5

There were two songs in the beginning that kind of reminded me of Green Day and the Gin Blossoms?? 👍👍 but then it got bad 👎👎

Suzanne Vega

2/5

Should have been the album with Tom’s Diner on it

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

Great album title, I feel like Harry would have loved twitter

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

Should have been the album with Make Me Feel on it

The Coral

2/5

🙂‍↔️👎

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Johnny, I owe you an apology

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

2/5

Julian, my man, how do you Cope with putting out another bad album? :/

Sulk

The Associates

2/5

Started bad, ended worse, but there was some okay stuff in the middle!

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Rent (Farleigh’s Version) >>>>

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

If he’s saying he’s hard (again!), I’ll take his word for it but he looks like a big softie to me :,)

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

3/5

Better than Captain Beefheart

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Was electric! Bet he lands ladies!!

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

I would like to go back and give Electric Ladyland a 5

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

4/5

“Loop-ay”? Have I been pronouncing the neopet wrong this whole time?

The Stooges

2/5

Me, refusing to look at the album cover: there were three of them, I just know it

Third

Portishead

1/5

I’m behind so I can see Amy’s Back to Black is next and it is very much that distracted boyfriend meme: I want to let go of Portishead’s hand so bad. Seriously though, the ONLY song I wasn’t itching to skip was Deep Water. Didn’t like this album

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

I won’t see the movie, love & respect ya too much <3

Stankonia

OutKast

3/5

The interludes were fab

Infected

The The

2/5

Definitely my favorite article (“the”), definitely not an album I enjoyed