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440
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3.45
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40%
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2010
Favorite Decade
Metal
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UK
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67
5-Star Albums
16
1-Star Albums

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Albums

You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Wonderful Rainbow
Lightning Bolt
5 2.29 +2.71
Tago Mago
Can
5 2.79 +2.21
Ys
Joanna Newsom
5 2.79 +2.21
Mask
Bauhaus
5 2.85 +2.15
Bone Machine
Tom Waits
5 2.85 +2.15
Steve McQueen
Prefab Sprout
5 2.99 +2.01
Dog Man Star
Suede
5 3 +2
The Who Sell Out
The Who
5 3.01 +1.99
Murder Ballads
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5 3.08 +1.92
The Lexicon Of Love
ABC
5 3.09 +1.91

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
The Band
The Band
1 3.36 -2.36
Unhalfbricking
Fairport Convention
1 3.14 -2.14
Le Tigre
Le Tigre
1 3.14 -2.14
461 Ocean Boulevard
Eric Clapton
1 3.12 -2.12
La Revancha Del Tango
Gotan Project
1 3.04 -2.04
Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)
Loretta Lynn
1 2.97 -1.97
When I Was Born For The 7th Time
Cornershop
1 2.92 -1.92
Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
1 2.88 -1.88
Club Classics Vol. One
Soul II Soul
1 2.82 -1.82
Live / Dead
Grateful Dead
1 2.82 -1.82

Artists

Favorites

ArtistAlbumsAverage
Beatles 5 4.8
David Bowie 6 4.5
Radiohead 4 4.75
Nirvana 3 5
The Who 5 4.4
U2 3 4.67
Oasis 2 5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 2 5
Talking Heads 3 4.33
Black Sabbath 3 4.33

Least Favorites

ArtistAlbumsAverage
Fairport Convention 2 1.5

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Blood, Sweat & Tears · 3 likes
2/5
why is "Gymnopédies" here? why it's pretty normal jazz rock afterwards? and why it switches to psychedelic rock after that? why did THIS win AOTY in the grammy in 1970 instead of "Abbey Road"? WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE? 2/5
Lightning Bolt · 2 likes
5/5
life is distracting these days. so here comes lightning bolt with their noise rock, to distract me further again. On this site noise rock has long been underrated, for this album as well: It gets a stunning score of 2.28. But it really came to stun me. since the band's lineup is nothing more than a bass and a drum, and if i didnt look up the facts, i would think its a trio or something because dude make these noises that make ppl think its a guitar. the singing are minimal in order to make space for the earthquake like riffs, which shook me like a log cabin in the middle of a strong storm, fuzzy and wild, shaking beliefs and minds. Some of the music and arrangement slightly tears a bit of the storm, and outside it, we observed a wonderful rainbow. this might be the coolest thing that ive ever heard. 5/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds · 1 likes
5/5
so. i opened the website. i submitted my last rating. and out of nowhere, i had this feeling that there's gonna be some boring things coming up. AND HERE COMES MY NEWEST FAVOURITE SONGWRITER! (squeals excitedly, disturbing my classmate's peace while can't control my limbs well because of the cup of coffee that i drank) so. this album is important. it is considered one of Cave's best work and is also the first album from Nick and the seeds after long time contributor Blixa Bargeld quitted the band to focus full-time on their own band. and the name of Blixa's band? Einstürzende Neubauten. yes, THE Einstürzende Neubauten. the band that has the lowest rating on this fucking website. but anyway. so first, let's take a look at the album closer, "O Children". Nick's second famous song because of its usage in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. And fun fact! i bought a pack of butterbeer flavoured snacks (which is a certified tie-in with the franchise) this morning! the snack is mid. BUT THE TRACK IS PERFECT. with the fleeting and spiritual arrangements, and the gospel-like vocals. the lyrics with all these bittersweet moments of life and death, and we rejoice with tears while the song fades out. well, now to the first disc of the double album, "Abattoir Blues". Don't tell me you can't feel an immediate adrenaline rush from "Get Ready For Love". YEAH! A STRAIGHT PUNCH IN YOUR FACE! "Cannibal's Hymn", build upon a repeated bass riff, is a departing from the straight punch the first song offers us, with a rather tender form of songwriting and the song running in a waltz-like 3/4 time beat. "Hiding All Away" returned to the energetic state using dirty blues rock/post punk and uplifting backing vocals, while "Messiah Ward" mitigated the atmosphere again with Cave's songwriting sensibility. (fuck it i begin to talk nonsense again.) BUT ANYWAY! LET ME PRESENT TO YOU! THE ONLY OTHER BOLDED SONG ON THIS ALBUM'S RYM PAGE! THE ANTHEM OF SEEKING INSPIRATION! THE PRAYER TO THE MUSES! MY ALL-TIME FAVOURITE NICK CAVE SONG, IF NOT COUNTING "THE MERCY SEAT" IN! "There She Goes, my Beautiful World"! i literally get my social media username from the opening lyrics of the song ;) well, just take a listen... and look at how fucking motivated this hell of a songs is. i can't tell you how much i like this song and all its references to famous writers (although Johnny Thunders didn't write "Chinese Rocks", the songwriter is Dee Dee Ramone). it helped me while i was encountering writer's block. many times. i just put it on and typed furiously. "Nature Boy" is a near pop rock love song praising beauty which, being a constant theme on the album, was written in many, beautiful, ways. It is also pretty in sync with the flower on the album cover imo. "Abattoir Blues" is not blues but art rock, and released a scent of apocolypes and death with misantropic lyrics and the arrangement that paints doom right into the song. "Let the Bells Ring", based on a tinkering guitar riff and sounds religious in all the way, is both melancholic and uplifting. "Fable of the Brown Ape", the closer of the first half, literally sounds like bipolar disorder somehow. and it is weird. VERY WEIRD. So, "The Lyre of Orpheus". both the disc and the song. It brings a literal twist to the story of Orpheus and Eurydice with his signature dark storytelling. Nobody looked back this time, but both orpheus and eurydice are still dead in the end. and here's "Breathless". Nick tries folk rock. Tommy and Grace married over the song. and "NO FOOKING FIGHTING". "Babe, You Turn Me On" is a folkish song too, but it is not featured in Peaky Blinders. And for "Easy Money", i think it is similar with Pink Floyd's "Money". but i don't know why. "Supernaturally" is a hidden killer track and sounds like something that should appeared on the first disc. "Spell" is mid, while "Carry Me" retained the gospel-like arrangement find in the first disc that Nick would come back to 20 years later in "Wild God". and as we listen to "O Children" one more time, i just want to ask every one that gives a low grade in this might be biased way, HOW DARE YOU NOT LOVE NICK CAVE? 5/5
Beatles · 1 likes
4/5
"We piss all over the Beatles"-- Liam Gallagher, 2024 so after liverpool beat man city at the beginning of december, i began erasing the evidence of me being a beatles fan that i was in middle school and tried to focus on good old big O. but, i had to admit that any beatles album just brings me loads of good memories of me in that period of life. there's a snapshot of me when i decided to talk about them in the chinese class's pre-class sharing, and the teacher made all my classmates share a topic that we are interested in turn. (well, about the chinese class... i think that i should mention that i am east asian. I mentioned that in an earlier review, but now it's edited out.) i end up with a serious overtime, stretching the 5 minute sharing limit to a 8 minute piece about their whole history, from john and paul's meeting to the death of George. also, "Now and Then"wasn't released back then. and there i was, listening to "and i love her", sitting outside a shopping centre at 8 in the morning in England, summer 2023. another one is me watching many video of Paul's live concerts on the way to liverpool, all from the recent times, starting with either "can't buy me love" or that hell of a chord in "a hard day's night". those silly love songs are not the beatles' most musically complete works, but they're good soundtracks for a teen going through the ups and downs in her life. only half a year has passed since i finished middle school, and i miss those days. 3/5 for the music itself, but 4/5 for the memories it bring.
Isaac Hayes · 1 likes
2/5
it reminds me of contemporary rnb, which is the genre that i hate the most in this world, with all those "baby"s and "oh yeah"s. i can fall asleep to this 2/5

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