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1960

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Hip-hop

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Get Rich Or Die Tryin' 50 Cent	5	3.07	+1.93
The College Dropout Kanye West	5	3.31	+1.69
Channel Orange Frank Ocean	5	3.34	+1.66
Be Common	5	3.35	+1.65
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	5	3.36	+1.64
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Public Enemy	5	3.36	+1.64
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	5	3.4	+1.6
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	5	3.45	+1.55
Power In Numbers Jurassic 5	5	3.47	+1.53
Dirt Alice In Chains	5	3.47	+1.53

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
White Light / White Heat The Velvet Underground	1	2.89	-1.89
In Rainbows Radiohead	2	3.86	-1.86
Third/Sister Lovers Big Star	1	2.8	-1.8
Vulnicura Björk	1	2.79	-1.79
Grace Jeff Buckley	2	3.75	-1.75
Two Dancers Wild Beasts	1	2.73	-1.73
Histoire De Melody Nelson Serge Gainsbourg	1	2.71	-1.71
Kid A Radiohead	2	3.71	-1.71
Space Ritual Hawkwind	1	2.7	-1.7
Orbital 2 Orbital	1	2.7	-1.7

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	7	4.71
Nirvana	3	5
Kanye West	3	4.67
Johnny Cash	3	4.67
Kendrick Lamar	2	5
Bob Dylan	6	4
Michael Jackson	3	4.33
Public Enemy	3	4.33
Black Sabbath	3	4.33
Bob Marley & The Wailers	3	4.33
Beastie Boys	3	4.33

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Orbital	2	1.5
Talking Heads	4	2
Elvis Costello & The Attractions	4	2
Tom Waits	4	2
The Fall	3	2
Radiohead	6	2.33
Björk	4	2.25
Sonic Youth	4	2.25

5-Star Albums (39)

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It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Popular Reviews

Something that I like about this album is that today I found a new thing I hate.

Absolute certified masterpiece without a single miss, and anyone who says otherwise is just trying to rewrite history. This was the beginning of one of the best five record runs in music history: College Dropout, Late Registration, Graduation, 808s and Heartbreak, and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. It's a shame that Kanye then immediately decided to take his millions of dollars and retire to live happily ever after with his beautiful wife and children, and disappeared from the public eye permanently to never be heard from again. Really a shame, but at least he left as a well-respected musician with an entirely uncontroversial legacy. Am I right? AMIRITE?!

4-Star Albums (166)

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

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

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

1-Star Albums (20)

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

All Ratings (891)

this album gave me cancer

Like decaffeinated coffee, alcohol-free beer, and sugarless gum, this album takes the soul out of the thing--hip hop, in this case--and renders it utterly flavorless and dull.

Something that I like about this album is that today I found a new thing I hate.

Lot of "please stay on the line and a customer service representative will be with you shortly" energy.

I want to acknowledge the moment that's been circulating online, and the disappointment it's caused. What was supposed to be a night of music and joy turned into a deeply personal mistake playing out on a very public stage. I want to sincerely apologize to my wife, my family, and the team at Astronomer. You deserve better from me as a partner, as a father, and as a leader. This is not who I want to be or how I want to represent the company I helped build. I'm taking time to reflect, to take accountability, and to figure out the next steps, personally and professionally. I ask for privacy as I navigate that process. I also want to express how troubling it is that what should have been a private moment became public without my consent. I respect artists and entertainers, but I hope we can all think more deeply about the impact of turning someone else's life into a spectacle. As a friend once sang: 'Lights will guide you home, and ignite your bones, and I will try to fix you.'"

Cookie Monster sings the blues

Look, I'm just trying to get ready for work. Please stop screaming at me, ma'am.

Aggressively boring

This book should have been just 500 albums you must hear before you die.

This album gave me narcolepsy.

20 albums in: huh, it's weird how I keep getting these albums by British bands I've never heard of that aren't particularly good 589 albums in: we must declare war against the United Kingdom immediately and inflict punishment for their crimes

Lovemaking music for people who live in retirement communities.

Bach is dead, and we have killed him.

Fred Durst: visionary, poet, my generation's Bob Dylan.

Looking back on Manson's pseudo-intellectual posing during his media appearances in the wake of the Columbine massacre and the subsequent backlash against his music, Manson seems to have seen himself as presenting a critique or satire of America's post-Cold War unreflecting belief in its own virtue while it simultaneously celebrated loveless sex and hateful violence. While Manson became the boogeyman of politicians and parents, he was creating his own boogeymen of the NRA and the Christian Right. Of course, he was just as much a part of the cultural nexus as they were, just as much mindlessly enamored of his own virtue even while contributing to a culture of nihilism. Manson wasn't a parody, holding up a mirror, he WAS the mirror--the other side of the same coin, to mix metaphors. He was right about them, but they were also right about him. They belonged together.

The only live album that actually deserves to be on this list.

Elvis Costello is the mayonnaise of music.