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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Rock Bottom Robert Wyatt	5	2.39	+2.61
Hypnotised The Undertones	5	3.06	+1.94
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.35	+1.65
Different Class Pulp	5	3.42	+1.58
So Peter Gabriel	5	3.55	+1.45
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	5	3.56	+1.44
Heroes David Bowie	5	3.61	+1.39
Penthouse And Pavement Heaven 17	4	2.62	+1.38
Superunknown Soundgarden	5	3.66	+1.34
Casanova The Divine Comedy	4	2.67	+1.33

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	1	3.39	-2.39
Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi	1	3.29	-2.29
I See A Darkness Bonnie "Prince" Billy	1	2.97	-1.97
The Joshua Tree U2	2	3.67	-1.67
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan	2	3.62	-1.62
Idlewild Everything But The Girl	1	2.58	-1.58
Be Common	2	3.34	-1.34
Like A Prayer Madonna	2	3.23	-1.23
Rubber Soul Beatles	3	4.12	-1.12

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Artist	Albums	Average
David Bowie	3	4.33
Beatles	3	4.33

5-Star Albums (16)

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

Popular Reviews

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

good album that kind of just played through without any repeats. If I see this on a top 5 of all time list, I’ll assume two things 1. I had to be alive at the time to fully get this album 2. This person will ask me to open a pdf.

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1-Star Albums (4)

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Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

Not my favorite Bowie album, what did Ian Curtis see in this one? The soulful Bowie began to emerge here, so it’s important in terms of his evolution but I dunno, just wasn’t it for me. Can I review The Man Who Sold The World

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Stones were the Foo Fighters of their time, the singles are good to great but you’d have to shut your brain off to get through anything else.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

3/5

Sweet guitar but damn is Bruce’s voice grating. How can 6 minute fast metal songs feel like they last ages?

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

An objectively great album. Proof that punk rock can clean up nicely and still pack a punch.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

7 stellar songs 4 duds.

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Would go great with a bowl of unflavored undercooked oatmeal

Highly Evolved

The Vines

4/5

They do a great job of making music that sounds like they really like two or three bands. Not a knock.

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

1/5

Pure Moods has found its polar opposite.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

5/5

Strong start that builds to a perfect stretch of songs beginning with the title track and ending with The Day I Tried To Live. The only fault I find with Superunknown is that it’s, to quote Scott Wieland, “Bloa-Ted.”

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

You know an album is exceptional when the weakest song is the one with Paul McCartney

Destroyer

KISS

3/5

Being a KISS fan in the 70s must have been wild, but this is 2024 and there’s no reason every song needs to be based around the power of rock and roll.

I See You

The xx

2/5

I hope the title of this album is literal because they deserve to see how many times I yawned while listening to this.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

4.5 If you made a top 25 list for Hip Hop, the Beastie Boys would be an honorable mention.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Hypnotised

The Undertones

5/5

Didn’t know this band outside of Teenage Kicks, this album was glorious. How to do churn out this many catchy songs?

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

4/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

When it drags it draaaaaaaaaags

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

4/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

4/5

People With A Time Machine: I’m going to go meet my ancestors Me with a Time Machine: Give me a pound of grass and take me to a Deep Purple concert

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

4/5

Finally have context for why Gin and Juice opens with the sound of a guy pissing

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

1/5

Just bad. This is why they don’t let 13 year olds vote.

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

3/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

5/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Abbey Road is an experience, but try explaining that to my friend Dave. He thinks 'Golden Slumbers' is a mattress commercial.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Half the James Brown experience is seeing him do that thing where he collapses on stage, seemingly from exhaustion, and a stage hand drapes a cape over him to usher him out, only for James Brown to discard the cape and come back to life.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

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

David Bowie

5/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

4/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

4/5

Fun well arran

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

1/5

Not on Spotify

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

3/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

3/5

McCartney

Paul McCartney

3/5

This album has two of Paul's best songs, but much like the guy trying Kobe the cherries into the bowl on the album cover, this missed the mark for me.

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

The drop off

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

They’re n Kyuss

Common

2/5

I don’t get the buzz around this album

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

The world wasn't ready for Sad Beck.r

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Led Zeppelin is far too talented to have a song as flat as Black Dog open an album. Two stinkers upfront stood between LZ4 and a coveted 5 star review

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Zeppelin album

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

1/5

On principal I have to drag this down

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash