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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
All Hope Is Gone Slipknot	5	2.7	+2.3
Os Mutantes Os Mutantes	5	2.98	+2.02
The College Dropout Kanye West	5	3.31	+1.69
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	3.32	+1.68
Channel Orange Frank Ocean	5	3.32	+1.68
Debut Björk	5	3.37	+1.63
Cheap Thrills Big Brother & The Holding Company	5	3.42	+1.58
James Brown Live At The Apollo James Brown	5	3.46	+1.54
Dirt Alice In Chains	5	3.47	+1.53
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	5	3.47	+1.53

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Parallel Lines Blondie	1	3.76	-2.76
Mermaid Avenue Billy Bragg	1	3.17	-2.17
Pelican West Haircut 100	1	2.96	-1.96
Document R.E.M.	2	3.56	-1.56
Queen II Queen	2	3.49	-1.49
Come Away With Me Norah Jones	2	3.38	-1.38
Bongo Rock Incredible Bongo Band	2	3.26	-1.26
Real Life Magazine	2	3.05	-1.05
The Who Sell Out The Who	2	3	-1
Wild Gift X	2	3	-1

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Artist	Albums	Average
Black Sabbath	2	5
Jimi Hendrix	2	5

5-Star Albums (21)

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Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

3/5

Musically, this album is a fantastic rendition of southern rock with twanging guitars, gravelly vocals, and rebellious spirit. Conceptually, this album is re-litigating southern pride. These rockers who grew up in the racist south say "it's complicated" and "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater". They turn the mirror on the high-horse northerners. Unfortunately, it isn't up to some white rockers to decide the legacy of George Wallace and the Confederate flag. There is a nugget of truth in here though: I love America despite it being a fucked up place. Rebellious free spirit IS cool.

3 likes

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

This is undeniably well made with a lot of interesting pieces, but all the best elements are pushed to the background. Instead, we get overbearing light pop about the most boring things: getting in a cold taxi, a girl who's dad doesn't let her stay out, or Maryanne with the shaky hands. (Stingy Mingy was funny). Reading the album title, you would expect more anti-commercial themes. The few parts of the album that do use satirical commercial sounds play the best. Overall, this album is afraid of the experimentation that makes it any good.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (3)

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3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Queen II

Queen

2/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

White Light

Gene Clark

3/5

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

3/5

Debut

Björk

5/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

2/5

Sound bridges between eras. classic rock without the grandeur nor enough alternative sound to be interesting. Not much punch. Proto oasis/coldplay chud rock. Not my bag. At least there's a bit of scuzz.

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

Industrial drum and bass with 90s angst and attitude. Unapologetically repetitive and grating which makes the mixups surprising and exciting. I haven't listend to anything like this before. Guaranteed to make the lofi girl shit herself.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

This is like a weird folk/post punk child. The instrumentation didn't really work for me. Going from sweet south african drumming to a drum machine was jarring.

Os Mutantes

5/5

This rules.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

Manic, synthetic, dramatic with some real heart. The world is plastic, so let's have some fun. Using the same drum machine beat for every song ironically adds to the effect.

Pelican West

Haircut 100

1/5

The chuds try lounge jazz... The only thing significant about this album is that they are British. Time and time again the brits sing about the most mundane garbage.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

Billy's got pipes! Vienna is an all timer.

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

2/5

Take jazz and blues music, sand off all the sharp edges, and plug a pretty white lady at the front. This is safe music that like a Disney movie promises to not make you uncomfortable and hand you a happy ending. A warm boring hug that I guess people really resonated with after 9/11. The recordings sound great!

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

3/5

Solid 70s fusion record with the synthy keys and funky bass of the 80s.

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

I liked the range of style on this album. I really liked the long Papa Was A Rolling Stone.

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

3/5

80s synth punk. Sleazy and manic. The album leans so heavily into irony that it crosses into parody at some points. The Born to Run cover feels part wonder and part mockery. Punk is cool, albeit a bit exhausting.

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

An evergreen bottle of 90s angst and rage. Fuck you.

Document

R.E.M.

2/5

This is the side of REM I don't like. Smug and whiney. The End of the World as we Know it is the epitome of both. The B side is able to shine once they slow down and turn down the preachinga notch.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

5/5

Summer of love psychedelic feel good rock with Janis Joplin's voice that pop music has been chasing ever since. Ahead of it's time and massively influential. Kick back and enjoy some dripping guitar solos with chilled out bass.

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

I prefer Black Sabbath.

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

1/5

Post-humous music really rubs me the wrong way. Taking Woody Guthrie's unreleased lyrics feels like peeling back a curtain we weren't supposed to see. I understand that his daughter asked for this, but it still feels like plundering incomplete ideas for the sake of money.

Green

R.E.M.

3/5

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

2/5

Orchestral rock, but no where near ELO. Some songs here are insufferable while others work well.

Franz Ferdinand

5/5

Sleazy alternative rock. Guitars and drums are bouncing. Hedonistic dive bar bangers.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

DNA everywhere. One of those albums you can hear in tons of modern pop, indie, and rock. Interesting rhythms. Catchy melodies. Soulful singing. It's easy to see how this album is such a strong influence.

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

4/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

Masterful guitar playing with restrained supporting instrumentation. Top tier hifi recording. The track Brothers in Arms is an all time great electric guitar song. Very solid album.

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

3/5

Tom Waits is always cooking. Some parts hit. Other parts don't.

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

3/5

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

2/5

A couple nice songs on here. I could see this growing on me if I listened more. If you like this in 1999, indie music is about to get so much better.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

One of the greatest to ever do it. I wish we got more. I love the distortion on here.

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

4/5

A less manic The Doors. Still has some great guitar.

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

3/5

Classic Nashville! This has interesting song writing, but it's like a musical dinosaur with how poorly that old twang has aged. Even modern country has moved on from this sound.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

5/5

ELO transports you to another world with whimsical romantic orchestral rock. Rarely is pop music this interesting and catchy.

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

2/5

A full album of catchy licks mixed into a loop 10 times. Clearly influential in electronic music, but electronic music has gotten so much better.

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

4/5

CHVRCHES used the new wave heavy synths to make a great pop album. It stands on its own as a fun unique listen between modern dance music and earlier electronic. This album came out around the time that House EDM was growing into a global moment. No album really captures that sound due to the genre heavily existing in singles, mixes, and live sets, but this album does an alright job.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

5/5

Fantastic song writing and production. I really want to listen to this on a hifi set-up.

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

Hell yeah.

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

4/5

Playing With Fire has a lot of dimensions to it. A bit of Velvet Underground, a bit of new wave, a bit of noise, all with well crafted distortion. For a distortion based album, this is minimal and patient. I found it interesting and relaxing. I do love long distorted guitar.

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

Loretta Lynn

3/5

Solid classic country song writing with the most twangy vocals and instrumentation. Dinosaur!

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

2/5

This is fun, but not a whole lot to it.

Vespertine

Björk

4/5

This is the most on the nose Bjork at her most Bjork.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

5/5

Almost cut my hair!

Parallel Lines

Blondie

1/5

Grating, boring, and influential for all the wrong reasons.

Fragile

Yes

3/5

The nerds are allowed to have rock too. Unfortunately, I found this one to be rather devoid of any emotion outside of a few tracks (or passages?).

Wild Gift

2/5

Punk band doing an Elvis cosplay or an Elvis impersonator doing a punk cosplay. I can't tell and I'm not sure why I care either way. This is fine, but ultimately it doesn't hold the charismatic charm of Elvis or the edge of punk.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

5/5

Yeezus

Kanye West

4/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

3/5

I like Let it Grow.

Real Life

Magazine

2/5

Average punk with a SYNTHESIZER?? Woah no way!!! Is this post punk?? :O :O It's not great punk, not great post punk, and painfully British. Not bad, but whatever.

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

5/5

Metal doesn't earn your appreciation with a single. It slowly knocks down your fortifications against the abrasive noise and plays directly to your fundamental emotions. Death metal in particular unlocks the animalistic part of you. This album delivers hate for the establishment, loss of faith in society, and war against unity. Despite the rage, there is also peace in giving up hope and love for the solidarity. The closing track Til We Die even left me with optimism.

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

Indie guys from Ireland making goofy music.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Speaks for itself. There just isn't enough Jimi Hendrix.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

There's nice high distortion rock in here with satisfying layering. Unfortunately, there's also this guy wailing over all of it. I really wish he would be quiet.

Bad Company

4/5

Innovative for it's time with a few great tracks.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

5/5

Many live albums end up feeling sterile and have worse sound quality. This album feels alive in the best way. It opens a window to an authentic night with James Brown. The crowd is electric and happy to be there, and James is giving the love back to them. I'll never know what it is like to be live at a James Brown show, but this album gives me a whiff of it, and for that reason, it is special.

Traffic

4/5

Early Steve Winwood and you can already hear that he is a production nerd. This sounds incredibly clean for early 70s rock. It is also apparent that he loves jazz which makes for an interesting rock album. The result is a little bit cold, but overall this is interesting and inoffensive.