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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
I’m a Lonesome Fugitive Merle Haggard	5	2.85	+2.15
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted Ice Cube	5	2.93	+2.07
Technique New Order	5	3.17	+1.83
Fear Of A Black Planet Public Enemy	5	3.34	+1.66
Ágætis Byrjun Sigur Rós	5	3.37	+1.63
Eliminator ZZ Top	5	3.38	+1.62
Opus Dei Laibach	4	2.39	+1.61
Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen	5	3.42	+1.58
More Songs About Buildings And Food Talking Heads	5	3.42	+1.58
Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem	5	3.42	+1.58

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
In Utero Nirvana	1	3.83	-2.83
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	1	3.32	-2.32
Pornography The Cure	1	3.31	-2.31
Berlin Lou Reed	1	3.1	-2.1
If I Could Only Remember My Name David Crosby	1	3.06	-2.06
Nighthawks At The Diner Tom Waits	1	3.01	-2.01
Disintegration The Cure	2	3.85	-1.85
Movies Holger Czukay	1	2.71	-1.71
Station To Station David Bowie	2	3.7	-1.7
Yank Crime Drive Like Jehu	1	2.7	-1.7

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Artist	Albums	Average
Talking Heads	4	4.5
Led Zeppelin	3	4.67

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
The Cure	3	1.67
Tom Waits	2	1.5

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Bruce Springsteen	5, 1, 4

5-Star Albums (27)

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Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

Not a big jazz guy, but this was a good listen, know there's more Miles to come on this album journey so looking forward to that

2 likes

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1/5

I wish the Spotify link was the actual length of the album.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (12)

All Ratings

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

Really like the mix, very enjoyable to listen to. Feels like the songs could've either done with being a minute shorter or had something extra to fill the run time, but had fun listening regardless

Station To Station

David Bowie

2/5

Struggled with this, wasn't anything to draw me into it. Felt quite low tempo and stripped back for what I'd come to expect from Bowie

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

Not a big jazz guy, but this was a good listen, know there's more Miles to come on this album journey so looking forward to that

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

2/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

Pretty easy 5/5 for me, the level of energy is infectious thanks to Sam's performance and the live crowd

Buena Vista Social Club

2/5

Can see why people would love this, but wasn't for me. Grooves were cool but not much else to draw me in

Take Me Apart

Kelela

3/5

Bit of a hit and miss album for me, some really good tracks but I feel the start and end of the album gets a bit weak

Vespertine

Björk

4/5

First exposure to Björk as an artist, looking forward to hearing more. I have previously listened to Sigur Ros and this reminded me of that a lot, really ethereal.

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

I really like the Allman Brothers studio albums, so this was quite disappointing for me, some classics on this recording but good lord, some of the instrumental/solo sections drag on for some time without doing anything especially interesting.

Disintegration

The Cure

2/5

Really didn't get the appeal of this, have enjoyed a lot of the Cure's material previously but this album was meandering, hookless and each track was hard to distinguish between with it all being at the same tempo. Maybe I need to be in a very specific mood to appreciate it

Berlin

Lou Reed

1/5

First album where I saw no justification or reasoning to give it another listen, just dull.

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

4/5

Adele

4/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

I tend to like Springsteen's slightly more soulful/ballady songs over the rockier stuff, so this album suited me down to the ground, great to listen to the whole way through

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

Risque

CHIC

4/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

5/5

Dire Straits

3/5

It's hard to not be impressed by the almost virtuoso level talents on the Guitar that Mark Knopfler has, but it's a slightly inconsistent album. Tracks like Sultans and Down by the Waterline are high points, a lot of what remains became a touch forgettable

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

2/5

It was hard to get into this album, it really was just weird and not in a good way I think. I understand she was being experimental with production and I can see the influence it had on albums such as Hand Cannot Erase. However, I feel Steven Wilson took the foundations of The Dreaming and made it much more coherent and musical (it's one of my favourite concept albums). I'll maybe give this another go as it feels like an album which works situationally and didn't work for me when I did listen to it to really appreciate it.

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

4/5

I was only familiar with the title track before listening, but there are some hidden gems on here! It was like a soup of Talking Heads, Chic and Velvet Underground and the 45ish minutes flew by

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

As with most Chic records, it's hard to not be impressed by how tight the grooves are, but I found there to be a bit of a lack of variety from song to song to really enjoy this beyond that

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

5/5

This was a powerful album, both lyrically and instrumentally. First time listening to Public Enemy and won't be the last, found this album to fly by

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

1/5

Didn't get on with this one. An English born musician cosplaying as a world musician and it leads to some paper thin interpretations of the genre. Only person who I think ever has successfully got away with this is Paul Simon

Protection

Massive Attack

3/5

Pleasant to listen along to, but all in all a forgettable experience. Nothing to complain about but nothing to grab my attention

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

3/5

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

I can see why this album belongs on this list and would be so beloved. For me personally the songs side on being too long and too repetitive without there being enough energy to carry my interest. The album went by pleasantly but never grabbed me lyrically or sonically and to me that was its downfall

In Utero

Nirvana

1/5

I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I simply do not connect with Nirvana. It sounds amateur with production, you can't understand a single lyric due to the mix and Cobain's complete lack of enunciation and the guitar sounds like a tin can full of wasps and doesn't work to be in a way that works for me. I think Cobain was an okay to good writer but never found the way he delivered them to resonante with me, I tried to listen to the entirety of this album but just couldn't.

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Not the strongest work from Costello, definitely prefer his slightly higher energy, hookier content.

Medúlla

Björk

3/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

First half of the album is great, typical soulful Neil Young goodness. Less keen on the second half where it becomes less so about that and more so drawn out guitar solos which really did drag for me. Would've been an easy 5 if it continued on that path

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

The obvious timing aside, and Phil Spector's indiscretions, this actually was a very fun album to listen to. The wall of sound recording method was on full display here with some very rich instrumentals and tidy production

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

3/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

Wasn't expecting this! Thought it would be the slightly mindless noise generation I came to expect from White Stripes but ended up with something quite musical where Jack shows he actually has chops as both a writer and a guitarist, spanning a good number of genres well. Would listen again

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

5/5

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

4/5

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

3/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

I can see why this album was influencial at the time, but I don't think it has aged especially well with the likes of Daft Punk taking this genre and effectively mastering it. This by comparison sounds a bit bare bones, not bad though

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

An easy no skip album, Canadian royalty and always interesting to listen to

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

2/5

All the slick production of her brother's music, without any of the emotional hook and general interesting song choices

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Drunk

Thundercat

3/5

The duality of Thundercat, one of the best bassists around but his lyrics man, they're really quite bad. I honestly feel this could've been amazing if it was just an instrumental album

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

First album I had generated I listened to previously, it's a masterpiece, not much more to say beyond that.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

2/5

Can't say I got this album. I'm not against sampling, but it just doesn't do anything interesting with the samples and left me quite bored

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

1/5

Noise. Nothing more to me, could not finish it

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

4/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

All the flashy Beach Boys production, can't say I loved the slightly half hearted attempts at the songs having real world meaning. Pleasant but nothing outstanding

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

Movies

Holger Czukay

1/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

3/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

5/5

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

4/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

2/5

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

3/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

3/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

5/5

Ethereal, beautiful and a delightful listen

American Gothic

David Ackles

2/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

4/5

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

2/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

3/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

2/5

War

3/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

Too short to really get into, had potential though

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

2/5

Many songs sound like a bad David Bowie cosplay, despite being before a lot of Bowie's work which is kinda weird. It gets better listening with full headphones instead of IEMs

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

2/5

Le Tigre

4/5

Phrenology

The Roots

4/5

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

1/5

Da Capo

Love

3/5

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

2/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Black Sabbath

4/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

3/5

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

Arrested Development

2/5

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Franz Ferdinand

2/5

Bit of a one hit album, odd inclusion

California

American Music Club

3/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1/5

I wish the Spotify link was the actual length of the album.

Future Days

Can

3/5

Iron Maiden

4/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

5/5

Groovy southern rock goodness, didn't realise how much good b side material ZZ top had. Really good listen

The Rise & Fall

Madness

3/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

2/5

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

4/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

I know it's an iconic album....but got I just didn't connect with it. Chromatic guitar/bass lines, bumbly vocals, fast drum beat, repeat

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

5/5

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

5/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

2/5

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

An incredible 30ish minute EP with 20 minutes of mindless filler thrown in. The section between title track and road trippin is tough.

Diamond Life

Sade

2/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

4/5

Arise

Sepultura

3/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

3/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

This would be an easy five if the mix wasn't total butts and maybe 10 minutes were cut from some of the crushingly long songs.

Sheet Music

10cc

2/5

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

2/5

Your love makes me sweeter is the only highlight for an album of poor Bob Marley impressions

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

2/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

3/5

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

3/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

4/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

Fragile

Yes

2/5

Roundabout obviously slaps, rest of the album is a bit underwhelming

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Brilliant pair of opening songs, a bit of meh, then Sprawl II, more meh.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

Knocking off a point because Clapton is a complete scumbag, I'm petty like that

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

3/5

Garbage

3/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

5/5

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

2/5

Very difficult album to rate when I think it's probably good from a technical and lyrical perspective but falls completely flat because Waits can't sing

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

I had Tom Waits yesterday, and ACDC have basically the opposite thing to him, I don't think from a technical standpoint they're very good. Songs are really formulaic and in many regards quite samey. However, it somehow just still works and kicks so much ass you just don't care. Fun listen.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

Smash

The Offspring

2/5

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

4/5

Have to knock it down a point because it really needs your attention to get the most from it, but it's a great journey when you can give it that

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

5/5

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

2/5

Didn't finish it but gave side 1 a listen. It's was insanely long, wasn't really my thing as I've never touched psychedelics but I think it does have a place on the list

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

4/5

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

3/5

First "noise" album which I actually didn't mind listening to. Was nothing more than fine but it was at least tolerable

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

3/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Really really close to giving this a 5, this is such a cool album with each song doing something new or interesting, just have 5s which I'd reach for first but had a blast

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

3/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Opus Dei

Laibach

4/5

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

3/5

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

2/5

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

4/5

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

3/5

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

3/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

1/5

Springsteen sounding like he's trying to do Dylan after taking a handful of valium. Didn't like it at all

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Manassas

Stephen Stills

4/5

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

3/5

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

2/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Pornography

The Cure

1/5

I... Really do not get the Cure. Didn't especially like Disintegration and this was no different, but somehow it was more meandering and dull

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

3/5

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

David Bowie

4/5

The White Room

The KLF

2/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

Tommy

The Who

3/5

Technique

New Order

5/5

One World

John Martyn

4/5

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

3/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

3/5

Hate government and/or war, ripping guitar solo, repeat, ???, profit.

Scott 4

Scott Walker

2/5

Pleasant, but all in all forgettable and probably not one I'd go back to

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

4/5

Great album, but Clapton is a dingus

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

5/5

The Real Thing

Faith No More

3/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

Close To You

Carpenters

3/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Elastica

2/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

1999

Prince

3/5

Adele

4/5

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

1/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

2/5

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

2/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Hms Fable

Shack

3/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

2/5

Fleet Foxes

3/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

5/5

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

3/5

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

2/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

2/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

4/5

Reign In Blood

Slayer

4/5

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

3/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

3/5

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

2/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

3/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

4/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

4/5

Spiderland

Slint

2/5

Street Signs

Ozomatli

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

3/5

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

2/5

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

4/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

2/5

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

3/5

Actually found this quite fun. It's not especially... musical but entertainment is worth something

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

4/5

The Stooges

2/5

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

4/5

This album feels like you're overhearing a domestic argument while out in public, uncomfortable in many ways but really interesting listening

Ramones

3/5

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

4/5

Slayed?

Slade

2/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

5/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Snivilisation

Orbital

2/5

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

2/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

3/5

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

2/5

Dummy

Portishead

3/5

Paul Simon

4/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

4/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

3/5

Harvest

Neil Young

3/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

3/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Close To The Edge

Yes

2/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

2/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

2/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

1/5

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

2/5

Pink Flag

Wire

3/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

3/5

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

2/5

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

Justified

Justin Timberlake

4/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

All Directions

The Temptations

2/5

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

1/5

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

3/5

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

3/5