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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Gilded Palace Of Sin The Flying Burrito Brothers	5	2.93	+2.07
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	5	3.38	+1.62
Surrealistic Pillow Jefferson Airplane	5	3.52	+1.48
Definitely Maybe Oasis	5	3.53	+1.47
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar	5	3.61	+1.39
Kid A Radiohead	5	3.71	+1.29
Live At The Harlem Square Club Sam Cooke	5	3.77	+1.23
Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman	5	3.79	+1.21

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Picture Book Simply Red	1	2.88	-1.88
G. Love And Special Sauce G. Love & Special Sauce	1	2.74	-1.74
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	2	3.32	-1.32
Step In The Arena Gang Starr	2	3.17	-1.17

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Justified

Justin Timberlake

2/5

lmao???? HUH?? so so funny that this is on here. weirdly thought i would enjoy this FAR more than i did, i love pop, i love early 2000s pop, i love pharrell, i remember the big hits from my childhood. but.... phew. i did not enjoy this. it was waaaaay too long, at least 20 minutes of this could have been cut. i think i would have enjoyed this more if it was just a pharrell album-- at least 50% of my lack of enjoyment boils down to justin timberlake being unbearably corny. cry me a river is good, unfortunately rock your body is also still really good, but that's genuinely about it.

1 likes

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

perfect album no notes

1 likes

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Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

legend. this shit ROCKS. i love a live album, the kinetic energy of it, the sound of the band and the audience reacting in real time. the crowd singing along! the sounds of girls literally SHRIEKING in the audience! and that VOICE! the only complaint i have is that im not in the room with them.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

been meaning to listen to this for a long time so i’m glad i got the opportunity! i like some prog but it’s not like my favorite genre or anything, obviously very cool to hear the source of so many samples. i can appreciate the technical merits without wanting to revisit it, and nothing else on the album really comes close to matching that first song imo. but a great time!

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

hell yeah. not my favorite prince, but it’s still prince.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

3/5

i know, i know. it’s the stones! and it’s great! it’s just a little too honky took

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

was expecting to like this waaaay more than i did. i think fundamentally i don’t care enough about male whining to enjoy this ):

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

fuck yeah. hell fucking yes. already love this album going into it, always nice to get a chance to revisit it. saw someone on tiktok say they thought no one really liked radiohead, and that people only listened to them bc they were pretentious, and i genuinely cannot imagine living in a world where my idea of art and my taste is so narrow and based on aesthetics. this shit ROCKS.

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

not to brag but i got the opportunity to work with pete townshend earlier this year, so now every time i listen to the who im like omg he knows me…. wild. anyway, this fucking rips. why do people hate live albums????? captures the energy of the act of creation. sorry you can’t handle theater you freaks. studio babies!

I Against I

Bad Brains

3/5

alright! i liked it, but i think i went in expecting a faster album, so i was taken by surprise by the sludgier pace. more metal than punk imo, which has never reaaaaallly been my favorite. still enjoyed it, but didn’t walk away thinking it was a masterpiece.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

country at its best; mournful and gorgeous and aching. such pure, tight songwriting. i love folk and old school country, but am embarrassingly unacquainted with willie nelson. what a wonderful introduction. timeless. those last three songs, wow. also, this mf has 153 albums????? they don’t make em like this anymore.

Picture Book

Simply Red

1/5

omg i thought you guys were just being mean…. this shit is ass 😭

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

“his voice is so weird waaaah” none of you would survive joanna newsom. folk is my favorite genre of course i love me some bob dylan. first song i remember hearing from this album was chris thiles cover of “masters of war” and it changed my life. minus a star for that fucking harmonica and for what he did to joan baez…..

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

steely stans RISE!!!!! my dad played (and still plays) a ton of steely dan (actually plays it, like in a band lol) so i was primed to love this. stop fighting and let the dad rock into your heart.

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

5/5

had no expectations going into this and ended up really loving it! country psych rock. one of my favorites so far.

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

2/5

“if you were a tree you wouldn’t cry bc cause trees don’t cry” come on man….. some of the instrumentation is genuinely beautiful but holy shit the lyrics are fucking ASS

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

3/5

the 80s cheese and general sameness of this album is saved by the fact that it is so so soooooo fucking gay

Urban Hymns

The Verve

4/5

had heard that first song genuinely 100s of times and never knew who performed it. not a huge fan of britpop but i loved the more psychedelic elements.

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

3/5

not a huge honky tonk girl lmao but it’s simple effective songwriting and it doesn’t overstay its welcome which is a nice change of pace from the most recent albums i’ve had to slog through

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

RIP quincy jones. genius.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

easy listening

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

this is great! had heard way more of these songs than i thought.

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Justified

Justin Timberlake

2/5

Tracy Chapman

5/5

when i was living at home in the suburbs during lockdown i was obsessed w the car as a metaphor for the illusion of freedom— how, growing up in the suburbs, there’s not much else to do bedsides drive around. you COULD go anywhere, but you end up driving around in circles, ending up where you started every time. anyway fast car is one of the greatest songs ever written tracy chapman forever.

Dookie

Green Day

3/5

don’t usually like pop punk but as is usually the case the earlier you go the better it gets lmao. this was fun!

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

3/5

was not in the right headspace to receive this lmao so i will be listening again but a vibe nonetheless

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

5/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

well yes!

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

1/5

lmao why is this here

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

3/5

didn’t love the singers voice, and the fusion of jazz and folk and country was very hit or miss for me, but a pleasant album regardless

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

not my favorite white stripes album but an excellent album nonetheless

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

2/5

this probably went so hard 40 years ago

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

if you have to follow up “thriller,” you could do worse than “bad.” banger.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

perfect album no notes

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

oasis has oddly always been a huge blind spot for me, so i’m glad this showed up! growing up, i only ever knew them as the “anyway here’s wonderwall” guys which maybe put me off of them but im glad to report this fucking bangs.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

bruuuuuuuuuuuceeee

Closer

Joy Division

4/5

unsurprisingly i loved this but man does it hurt to know how it all ended

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

hell yeah brother

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

is this the greatest album of all time?

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

try not to say mother challenge level impossible!!

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

clicked for me in a way a lot of other bowie records haven’t for whatever reason. it’s not labryinth but still….

Trio

Dolly Parton

4/5

boygenius for people who aren’t on lexapro

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

enjoyable though at times feels like a parody of the worst trends of the 60s. also, these are the fuckin guys who did trout mask? LMAOOOO

Da Capo

Love

3/5

could have done without the 17 minute closer but everything else was great

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

5/5

don’t even need to listen to know my rating. iconic.

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

4/5

i have a lot of peter gabriel haters in my life for whatever reason and i’d just like to say from the bottom of my heart FUCK those people this is great

The xx

4/5

Suddenly im 14 again....