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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Snivilisation Orbital	5	2.71	+2.29
Club Classics Vol. One Soul II Soul	5	2.82	+2.18
Connected Stereo MC's	5	2.94	+2.06
Roger the Engineer The Yardbirds	5	3.11	+1.89
Chirping Crickets Buddy Holly & The Crickets	5	3.29	+1.71
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	5	3.32	+1.68
Come Away With Me Norah Jones	5	3.39	+1.61
Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen	5	3.42	+1.58
Murmur R.E.M.	5	3.42	+1.58
Ellington at Newport Duke Ellington	5	3.43	+1.57

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Moving Pictures Rush	1	3.59	-2.59
Surfer Rosa Pixies	1	3.5	-2.5
2112 Rush	1	3.39	-2.39
The Chronic Dr. Dre	1	3.33	-2.33
Homework Daft Punk	1	3.29	-2.29
S&M Metallica	1	3.26	-2.26
Vespertine Björk	1	3.16	-2.16
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine	2	4	-2
Damaged Black Flag	1	2.87	-1.87
In Utero Nirvana	2	3.83	-1.83

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Bruce Springsteen	3	5
Bob Dylan	3	4.67
Beatles	2	5

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Rush	2	1
Björk	2	1
Metallica	2	1.5

5-Star Albums (33)

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1-Star Albums (14)

All Ratings

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

2/5

Obvious guitar talent and passionate singing (screaming) but not a fan of the…anything, really. Lyrics are a downer, no perceptible melody, had trouble telling when one song ended and another started. There is clearly a market for this, but I’m not it.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Solid. My kind of music. 4 Stars.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Much better than I expected. Some 60’s standards I have heard by other artists, I’ll need to look to see who did them first. Great voice, powerful without the current trend of overdoing it.

Boston

5/5

Forgot how good this album is, start to finish. They never matched this, but a straight ahead rock album that stands up today.

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

3/5

I’ve definitely not heard this album…or maybe I have heard it a hundred times, in movies, in the spa, in the airport. It’s exactly what the title says. I am more likely to listen to this again than a lot of albums from the 70s.

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

4/5

This album grew on me. Spare and a little slow at first, then the last 3 songs blew me away. Worth a listen.

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

Listened to this album on a windy day at the beach. My drink went flying off the table. I still don’t know whether it was the wind or the music. Relentless.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

5/5

Given the time this came out, these are groundbreaking songs. A couple on side B are a bit too church-choir to fit with the rest of the record. Very solid, not dated because so many of these songs have been used in movies and or covered often.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Konnichiwa

Skepta

2/5

Tough to rate this. I really don’t enjoy any of this genre, so it’s no surprise I don’t like it. Somehow slightly more tolerable in a british accent, + 1 star.

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

2/5

Like the guitars and drums, the spare arrangements. I also like his voice. Inflections sometimes annoying. Lyrics are a bit too avant-garde poetry spacy weird for me. Then came Invocation of Ratiocination, which was both weird and annoying. My first impression of guys like this is they smarter than me and I just don’t get it. But then I realized he’s just weirder than me, and I still don’t get it.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

Look, this guy is very very talented. The music behind the raps is exceptional. The vocal phrasing is excellent. The rhymes are clever and complex. But the lyrics are beneath his talent. I am not the audience for this bitch hating gay bashing adolescent.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

3/5

Paul Simon

4/5

Ramones

4/5

In Utero

Nirvana

2/5

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

4/5

Timeless

Goldie

1/5

Ross Geller accompanied by an 8th grade drummer from the local marching band. Dreck.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

LaGrange is a great song, plus a couple nice blues numbers, but the rest is forgettable.

Teen Dream

Beach House

4/5

Elastica

3/5

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

2/5

Dog Man Star

Suede

2/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

S&M

Metallica

1/5

Ugh.

808 State

2/5

It was annoying, but I didn’t hate it like I do Metallica or Eminem. So, I guess it’s 2 stars. I expect I’ll get William Shatner next.

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

4/5

Nixon

Lambchop

2/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

After the first 3 songs I’m thinking “over rated” but I enjoyed the rest. Not the top 5 best all time, like some critics have it, but quite good.

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

4/5

Nice

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

3/5

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

2/5

Take Me Apart

Kelela

2/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

1/5

Electric

The Cult

4/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

Blondie was an interesting act but not good enough to sustain an album length of songs. Greatest hits is excellent but even that is not worthy of inclusion on this list.

Nowhere

Ride

4/5

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

3/5

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

5/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

3/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

2/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

1/5

I once read a review that said Geddy Lee’s voice was a cross between Robert Plant and Donald Duck. I don’t think it was a compliment. The instrumental was, however, equally bad.

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Connected

Stereo MC's

5/5

Loved it! Best surprise album I’ve gotten by far.

Play

Moby

4/5

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

1/5

Not to be overly negative but… Actually it’s impossible to be overly negative about this album.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

The Poet

Bobby Womack

4/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

1/5

Loud guitars and screaming is overrated.

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

2/5

There are some good songs here but waaaaaay toooooo long

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

3/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

2/5

Vulnicura

Björk

1/5

One star is far too generous, but I am unable to give it anything lower.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Zzzzzzzzzzz

Dummy

Portishead

2/5

Melodrama

Lorde

2/5

Wholly forgettable

Closer

Joy Division

3/5

Eagles

4/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Live with Me. Best underrated Stones song.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

3/5

Longer than necessary

Scott 4

Scott Walker

3/5

Dire Straits

4/5

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

2/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

5/5

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

4/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

Elvis Presley

4/5

3 for the music, + 1 because it’s Elvis.

Snivilisation

Orbital

5/5

Expected to hate this, but loved it.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

The Band

3/5

The Score

Fugees

2/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

3/5

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

1/5

Justified

Justin Timberlake

3/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

4/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

3/5

Chelsea Girl

Nico

2/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Tommy

The Who

3/5

Os Mutantes

2/5

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

2/5

Odelay

Beck

3/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

A Seat at the Table

Solange

3/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

3/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

3/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

5/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

4/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

2/5

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

3/5

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

2/5

Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

Zzzzzzzzzz

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Can’t believe I liked this. Don’t tell anyone.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

2/5

Mostly annoying

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

Abraxas

Santana

5/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

2112

Rush

1/5

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

4/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

5/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

3/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

5/5

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

3/5

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

3/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

The White Room

The KLF

4/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Homework

Daft Punk

1/5

Night Life

Ray Price

4/5

Green

R.E.M.

3/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

3/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

5/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

2/5

1984

Van Halen

3/5

I hate David Lee Roth almost as much as I hate Geddy Lee. Otherwise, this was not bad

The Only Ones

4/5

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Rage Against The Machine

2/5

Doolittle

Pixies

3/5

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

2/5

Joanna Newsom

1/5

Her voice sounds like a female Adam Sandler doing a smarmy song.

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

Surprised. Not a fan of the overly emotive vocals but overall nice music.

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

1/5

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

4/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

The Joshua Tree

5/5

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

2/5

Pelican West

Haircut 100

4/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

5/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Very

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

The Stone Roses

4/5

Illmatic

Nas

2/5

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

All Mod Cons

The Jam

4/5

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

3/5

Ananda Shankar

3/5

Just needed a kazoo

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Germs

2/5

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

2/5

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

Adele

5/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

3/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

Aja

Steely Dan

4/5

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

4/5

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

Truth

Jeff Beck

3/5

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Adele

4/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

2/5

Copper Blue

Sugar

3/5

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Viva Hate

Morrissey

3/5

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

4/5

The Doors

3/5

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

3/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

3/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

3/5

Van Halen

4/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

5/5

London Calling

The Clash

3/5

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

2/5

Piffle

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

3/5

I See You

The xx

3/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

Damaged

Black Flag

1/5

It’s damaged, alright. I hated this shit when I was 20 and I hate it more now.

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

3/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

2/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

5/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

3/5

Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

3/5

Iron Maiden

4/5

Shadowland

k.d. lang

3/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

Gorillaz

4/5

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

3/5

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

2/5

Vespertine

Björk

1/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

3/5

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

4/5

Berlin

Lou Reed

4/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

5/5

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

Kimono My House

Sparks

2/5

Nope

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

3/5

Winter In America

Gil Scott-Heron

4/5

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

3/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Pump

Aerosmith

4/5

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

The Kinks

3/5

Garbage

3/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

3/5

Tical

Method Man

2/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

4/5

Pink Flag

Wire

2/5

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

3/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

4/5

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

4/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

2/5

Killing Joke

4/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

2/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5