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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Nighthawks At The Diner Tom Waits	5	3.01	+1.99
Coles Corner Richard Hawley	5	3.03	+1.97
Dirty Sonic Youth	5	3.11	+1.89
Junkyard The Birthday Party	4	2.16	+1.84
Vespertine Björk	5	3.16	+1.84
Mermaid Avenue Billy Bragg	5	3.17	+1.83
Django Django Django Django	5	3.21	+1.79
Being There Wilco	5	3.22	+1.78
Since I Left You The Avalanches	5	3.28	+1.72
Daydream Nation Sonic Youth	5	3.29	+1.71

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
American Idiot Green Day	1	3.76	-2.76
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.5	-2.5
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	1	3.39	-2.39
Buffalo Springfield Again Buffalo Springfield	1	3.18	-2.18
Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus Spirit	1	3.04	-2.04
La Revancha Del Tango Gotan Project	1	3.04	-2.04
Suzanne Vega Suzanne Vega	1	3.02	-2.02
Let Love Rule Lenny Kravitz	1	3	-2
Copper Blue Sugar	1	2.97	-1.97
Live / Dead Grateful Dead	1	2.82	-1.82

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
R.E.M.	3	4.67
Sonic Youth	2	5
Wilco	2	5
David Bowie	4	4.25
Tom Waits	3	4.33

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Scott Walker	1, 4
Billy Bragg	2, 5

5-Star Albums (27)

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Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter · 1 likes

4/5

I didn't know what to expect with the Diane Arbus-ish cover. What a great surprise this was.

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel · 1 likes

4/5

As usual, beautiful.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas · 1 likes

3/5

It's okay.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers · 1 likes

1/5

“I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always ‘The Red Hot Chili Peppers.’”

1-Star Albums (13)

All Ratings

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

2/5

Portions of it were mostly fine.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

Feast of Wire

Calexico

3/5

Nortec did it better.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Bruce Springsteen is one of the all-time greats. This one in particular is filled with absolute gems.

Peter Gabriel

5/5

Beautiful.

Le Tigre

4/5

It has its good/great/excellent moments. It has many of them.

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

4/5

It is quite great, almost excellent.

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

3/5

It sounds like the music I listened to when I was 14. I do not know if that's a good or a bad thing.

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

Not for me.

Scott 2

Scott Walker

1/5

It starts beautifully, then it doesn't amount to much.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

The beauty of this one is high up there.

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

1/5

Not for me.

Nevermind

Nirvana

3/5

In Bloom and Something in the Way are maybe the best songs Nirvana ever wrote. But overall, there's too much screaming for my linking.

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

It's almost very good, great start and end. Kind of weak in the middle.

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

1/5

I have never been a big fan, or any size of fan, of whatever that was.

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

2/5

Moby Grape

2/5

Meh.

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

3/5

It's just okay.

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

Not this one.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Fantastic.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Few have done it better than Johnny Cash.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

It's just nonstop hits one right after the other for the first half, then it fizzles a little bit.

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

No, not really.

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

4/5

I don't think I had ever listened to something like this. It was marvelous.

Elvis Presley

3/5

Mostly fun.

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

4/5

Dancey, groovy, fun.

Whatever

Aimee Mann

3/5

I guess it's fine. Not really my style.

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

1/5

Yeah. I'm gonna go ahead and skip this one. UPDATE: I went back and listened to it. So, so boring.

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

4/5

I didn't know what to expect with the Diane Arbus-ish cover. What a great surprise this was.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Love this one.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

It's good. But not really my style.

Suede

4/5

What's not to love about Brit-pop? Even more accurate, what's not to love about early 90's Brit-pop?

Berlin

Lou Reed

3/5

I like Lou Reed, he's fine. But there's something that stops me from being a fan. This album is mostly good.

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

4/5

I really liked it but I'm note really sure of why.

#1 Record

Big Star

3/5

It's not bad. However this style and time are not for me.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

3/5

It has some very interesting songs. I don't necessarily like it as an album.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

It's mostly okay.

Lost Souls

Doves

4/5

Hooked from the get go. Love this one.

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

3/5

They're trying too hard to be New Order. But they are perhaps better than Happy Mondays.

American Pie

Don McLean

2/5

Yeah, not really.

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

I enjoyed listening to this one, but I wouldn't listen to it again.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

Unlike my cousin Oscar, I'm not such a fan of Queen.

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

Almost okay.

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

3/5

Kind of okay.

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

4/5

Document

R.E.M.

5/5

Yep.

Django Django

5/5

Yep.

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

2/5

Not really my style.

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

1/5

A little bit like Mano Negra, but they were better.

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

4/5

Gotta love outlaw country.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

This is something else. Wonderful.

808 State

3/5

I understand what was going on. But the gap between New Order and The Chemical Brothers was not filled by 808 State. However, I do recognize their importance.

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

2/5

It was just okay.

A Northern Soul

The Verve

3/5

Sure, I guess why not.

Night Life

Ray Price

3/5

I'm glad country evolved. But this is definitely a good foundation stone.

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

2/5

Meh.

Fred Neil

4/5

Fantastic.

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

3/5

Nice. But not for me.

Paul Simon

5/5

Paul Simon is comfort.

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

4/5

This was good.

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

It's good.

No Other

Gene Clark

4/5

Something else.

Kala

M.I.A.

4/5

I like it. But not so much as to save it.

Microshift

Hookworms

4/5

Beautiful surprise.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

5/5

What a master piece.

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

4/5

I guess I didn't know I was a Tom Waits fan.

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

3/5

Some interesting stuff. But not really.

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

3/5

Well, this certainly was better than I had expected. But there's a reason why that kind of music only lasted for a few years.

Close To The Edge

Yes

3/5

Better that I expected. Nice surprise.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Love this one.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Beautiful.

Eternally Yours

The Saints

3/5

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

It's okay.

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

4/5

Fantastic.

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

3/5

It's fine, mostly fine.

Bossanova

Pixies

5/5

Absolutely fine.

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

5/5

What's not to love about Sonic Youth?

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

3/5

It's okay.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

good enough.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

Not for me. But I do appreciate it.

Young Americans

David Bowie

5/5

Beautiful.

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

4/5

Fun.

Being There

Wilco

5/5

Adore this one.

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

1/5

What in the bore me to dead was this.

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

4/5

Very good.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

It's fine.

Atomizer

Big Black

3/5

Not quite. But not bad.

One World

John Martyn

4/5

From the cover I was expecting some prog stuff. I was definitely not ready for what it actually is. What a thing of beauty.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

5/5

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

3/5

Good enough.

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

They were onto something.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

4/5

I've some Dusty Springfield's songs before, but this is something else.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

3/5

It's okay.

White Light

Gene Clark

4/5

Paris 1919

John Cale

3/5

Fun.

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

4/5

Surprising.

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

5/5

Another gem.

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

3/5

It's okay.

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

3/5

It's fine. But done better many times before and since.

Close To You

Carpenters

3/5

Good enough.

Vespertine

Björk

5/5

Beautiful.

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

4/5

Beautiful.

Orbital 2

Orbital

4/5

Fantastic.

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

4/5

Fun.

In It For The Money

Supergrass

3/5

Mostly okay.

The Libertines

3/5

Meh.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

5/5

*chef's kiss*

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

2/5

Meh.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Quite good.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

Fun.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Meh.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

Great.

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

It's okay.

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

4/5

Fun.

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

4/5

Great.

Bert Jansch

4/5

As it started I didn't care much for it, but it kept on growing on me.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

3/5

It's okay.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Amazing.

Tracy Chapman

3/5

A couple of great songs, but not a whole album.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

Fun.

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

5/5

Wilco is one my favourites.

The xx

3/5

Good enough.

Killing Joke

4/5

Alright, alright.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Fun.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

5/5

All time tops.

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

Loretta Lynn

3/5

Not a big fan of old school country, but it's a fine album.

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Even with Morrissey being the way that he is, this is one fine piece of work.

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Good enough.

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

3/5

Very, very, French.

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

4/5

As usual, beautiful.

McCartney

Paul McCartney

2/5

I don't get the love. It's not bad, but it's nothing that wasn't already done many times before.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

I'm starting to get The Doors a little bit more after not liking them for so long.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

4/5

So much fun.

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Quite interesting. I prefer Peter Gabriel's subsequent albums, but this one is a fine listen.

Joan Baez

3/5

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

3/5

Not really my style. But it was a good listen.

Blood, Sweat & Tears

3/5

Too jazzy for me. But not bad.

All Mod Cons

The Jam

4/5

So much fun.

White Ladder

David Gray

4/5

Good surprise.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

Great.

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

4/5

This is a work of beauty.

Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

Not for me.

Bummed

Happy Mondays

4/5

Very fun.

Black Sabbath

4/5

More Specials

The Specials

2/5

Nope.

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

4/5

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

3/5

It's a good listen.

Future Days

Can

3/5

Liked parts of it.

Leftism

Leftfield

4/5

Fun.

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

4/5

This is something else.

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

4/5

Excellent.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

I was ready to hate it. What a surprise this was for me.

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

5/5

Highly Evolved

The Vines

4/5

Fun.

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

3/5

It has a handful of good songs.

Take Me Apart

Kelela

3/5

Enjoyable. But not really memorable.

Sea Change

Beck

5/5

Beautiful.

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

4/5

Scissor Sisters

3/5

It starts with everything it has. Then it’s a string of hits and misses.

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

4/5

Very fun.

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

3/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

3/5

You can really tell how this sound was constant in much of Pink Floyd's post-Barrett era. But they needed time to refine it. Good listen overall.

John Prine

3/5

Mostly fine.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

Always beautiful.

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

4/5

This is something else.

Tago Mago

Can

3/5

I almost liked it.

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

4/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

4/5

I See You

The xx

4/5

What a jewel.

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Meh.

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

4/5

I first listened to Spiritualized in my teens. It was actually this very record. I hated it. I was so bored. I never gave them another chance. What a difference time makes.

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

2/5

Meh.

Real Life

Magazine

4/5

Good fun.

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

2/5

I don't think I understand it.

Garbage

4/5

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

This is a good one.

Copper Blue

Sugar

1/5

The biggest meh.

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

Good enough

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

Almost there.

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

3/5

Nice.

Pretenders

3/5

So close.

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

5/5

I knew some of The Avalanches, but I've never devoted the time to listen to a full album. What a magnificent surprise.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

5/5

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

2/5

Meh.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

1/5

This is the exact album that seemingly all restaurants in México played between 2001 and 2005, probably later. And for a reason. It's background music, nothing more.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Dark-ish, but the fun kind of dark.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

Not much of a Bod Bylan fan, but there's something here.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

3/5

It's certainly fun.

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

3/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Scott 4

Scott Walker

4/5

This I like.

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

4/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

3/5

Fun.

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

4/5

Jewel.

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

3/5

High Violet

The National

4/5

This is quite good. Shame they suck live.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

This is one of my favourites.

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

3/5

Okay.

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

1/5

Meh.

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

4/5

Solid.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Meh.

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

Not at his best, but a good listen regardless.

American Idiot

Green Day

1/5

I really liked this one when it came out. Now, during this relisten, I was so bored.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

Several good/great songs, but not necessarily a good/great album.

Tom Tom Club

3/5

Weird and fun. But probably not weird enough.

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Yes.

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

1/5

I usually like loud and weird, but this is not getting it done.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

It's okay.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

3/5

It's okay.

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

4/5

Lovely.

Dry

PJ Harvey

3/5

It's okay.

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

3/5

Fun. But not great.

Protection

Massive Attack

3/5

Not their best. But not bad.

American Gothic

David Ackles

3/5

It's okay.

New Wave

The Auteurs

3/5

Good enough.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

3/5

It's a constant hit and miss. Not a solid album.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

2/5

Meh.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

Fantastic.

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

The right kind of noisy.

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

3/5

Fun.

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

Fun.

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

3/5

Almost there.

Germs

3/5

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

3/5

Noisy. Okay.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

So fun.

The Specials

2/5

I can keep on happily living without ever listening to The Specials again.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

So close. Very good.

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

2/5

Meh.

The United States Of America

2/5

Meh.

Soul Mining

The The

3/5

It's okay.

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

2/5

There comes a point, and we arrive quite quickly to it, when all brit-pop sounds exactly the same. This is not necessarily a bad album; it's just one more.

Talvin Singh

2/5

Meh.

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

Yep.

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

A thing of beauty.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Good enough, but it's hard to be Fleetwood Mac and have to improve on Rumours.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

“I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always ‘The Red Hot Chili Peppers.’”

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

2/5

Meh. Done many times before.

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

3/5

Fun listen.

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

3/5

Fun.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

A couple of good songs, but not a good album.

The Joshua Tree

2/5

This was peak U2 and yes, it has some good songs, but is it a great album? It's dull and soulless for a good stretch there.

Trio

Dolly Parton

3/5

Pretty.

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

4/5

Good surprise.

Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

Beautiful.

The Coral

4/5

It’s fun. Very fun.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

It’s okay.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

I don’t get the love for Christmas music.

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

3/5

Fun.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

It's okay.

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

3/5

Fun.

Sound Affects

The Jam

3/5

So fun.

Suzanne Vega

1/5

I don’t see it.

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Not my thing.

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

2/5

It’s fine. Nothing more than that.

My Generation

The Who

3/5

It’s fun.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

2/5

Good for movies about class struggles and sinking ships. Also good for dancing cartoons. But not for me.

Black Monk Time

The Monks

4/5

This was a great listen, punky enough.

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

2/5

Some good songs here and there. Not a great album.

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

3/5

Great. But it lacks Johnny Marr.

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

2/5

Huh?

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Dancey, fun, great all around.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

There's something about The Who that I don't get. It's not that I don't like them, but every time I've gotten an album in this project it annoys me that I have to listen to it (I know I don't really *have* to listen to it). I always push through, and they're not bad, but I still can't shake that annoying feeling.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Fantastic.

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

4/5

Pretty great.

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

4/5

This is a party I would want to go to.