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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Yeezus Kanye West	5	2.77	+2.23
Heartattack And Vine Tom Waits	5	3.07	+1.93
Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor Lupe Fiasco	5	3.13	+1.87
Time Out Of Mind Bob Dylan	5	3.22	+1.78
Little Earthquakes Tori Amos	5	3.23	+1.77
The College Dropout Kanye West	5	3.31	+1.69
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	5	3.33	+1.67
If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Pogues	5	3.33	+1.67
Ágætis Byrjun Sigur Rós	5	3.37	+1.63
Come Away With Me Norah Jones	5	3.38	+1.62

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Deserter's Songs Mercury Rev	1	3.02	-2.02
In Rainbows Radiohead	2	3.84	-1.84
Tago Mago Can	1	2.79	-1.79
The Modern Dance Pere Ubu	1	2.48	-1.48
Amnesiac Radiohead	2	3.41	-1.41
Protection Massive Attack	2	3.25	-1.25
Clandestino Manu Chao	2	3.22	-1.22
Junkyard The Birthday Party	1	2.16	-1.16
Manassas Stephen Stills	2	3.07	-1.07
The Rise & Fall Madness	2	3.05	-1.05

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Artist	Albums	Average
R.E.M.	2	5
Kanye West	2	5
Pink Floyd	2	5
Bob Dylan	2	5

5-Star Albums (30)

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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

It was much more alternative and experimental than I expected, but I only had a passing familiarity with Wilco. I think I liked it

1 likes

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

3/5

Interesting but somewhat repetitive. Lots of funky drummer with electronic dance vibes. I was grooving, but not earth shattering

1 likes

1-Star Albums (5)

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Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

Really interesting. Especially the vocals that weren't Freddy

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

So great! Solid vocal performance plus great backup vocals

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

3/5

I didn't love this. Most of the songs were kind of gutless. I like the edgy vocals of Ray Charles but most of these were early 60s easy-listening style

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

Incredible album.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Really good album! I had heard the classics from the Greatest Hit comp, but there was more really good stuff on here.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Oooh! So fun! very talented musicians and I enjoyed the swing vibe

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Not super exciting. Roadhouse Blues is the best but I didn't get into the rest

Survivor

Destiny's Child

3/5

Pretty incoherent as to theme. Are those girls nasty or are they independent?

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

4/5

This album was a bunch of fun. It was mostly right up my alley for grungy 90s rock

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

2/5

I want to like Radiohead but I can't. It just all feels so pretentious

Aja

Steely Dan

3/5

Lots of good competent jazz-tinged pop rock. No real excitement

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

Fun 90s punk

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Good Bacharach standards, well sung. It just goes on a bit too long

Document

R.E.M.

5/5

I love this album so much. I thought it was just nostalgia but a fresh listen confirms it.

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

5/5

Wonderful!

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Phenomenal players, but the lyrics in most of the songs are just so stupid.

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

Classic!

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

It's got Bohemian Rhapsody and my wedding song.

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

1/5

Couldn't listen to this. Not enjoyable

Fragile

Yes

4/5

Blood, Sweat & Tears

4/5

Incredible vocals

Orbital 2

Orbital

3/5

Once you get past the annoying synching/unsynching opening and closing tracks, the rest of the album is really solid. Good beats. Halcyon is a standout

Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

2/5

Some of the tracks are quite good, but this drags in places

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

5/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

4/5

I knew nothing about this album, but I was pleasantly surprised. It was a cool stripped down vibe. Easy going heartbreak

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

Not really for me

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

3/5

It's fine, but it's not a great album overall. Superstition is super, but lots of fluff

Machine Head

Deep Purple

4/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

I appreciate what this album is trying to do, but the style is not for me

Tago Mago

Can

1/5

I just can't

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

4/5

Such a good vibe. I came into this cold with no expectations, and was bopping and dancing within the first couple of songs. It's an early 60s movie vibe, redone for the modern ear. More like Kingsman The Secret Service than James Bond. Groovy baby

Van Halen

4/5

I was surprised how much of this is just hard rock blues. It's great!

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

1/5

Unlistenable. I tried

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

It's a fine album but not my taste

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

A classic! It has its flaws as a performance, but captures an event

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

It was much more alternative and experimental than I expected, but I only had a passing familiarity with Wilco. I think I liked it

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Perhaps the literal best

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

3/5

Interesting but somewhat repetitive. Lots of funky drummer with electronic dance vibes. I was grooving, but not earth shattering

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

Amazing!

The Rolling Stones

3/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

3/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Foo Fighters

3/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

2/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

I appreciate this for what it is, but it was not for me

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Third

Soft Machine

2/5

There were moments when the jazz was working for me, but the unlistenable opening track, plus the vocals ruined it. Since I managed to enjoy some of it I will grant it 2 stars

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

I was conflicted until I found a way to listen to this that wouldn't put any money in Kanye's pocket. This was my first listen and, although I have enjoyed individual works by Kanye, I hadn't experienced this as an album. It was like very little I had listened to before. I didn't expect the humour, the skits, the contrast between self-deprecation and self-aggrandizing. The rhymes are so good, the beats are amazing. I listened to every word of the 1 hour, 20 minute album and at the end I just felt sad. This album made me laugh and gasp and dance, but I felt sad for what the man is today. I don't know if Kanye in 2005 had the same opinions and beliefs that he has today and was just good at masking them, or has untreated mental illness and 20 years of fame changed him into what he is now. Since I'm rating the album and not the man, this is 5 stars. A 5 star album for me has to be something that I genuinely enjoy, but also appreciate for a unique approach, or a groundbreaking effort, or a contribution to music that deserves recognition. 5 stars doesn't require perfection but it does require innovation or creativity or generational talent. I see no reason not to recognize that here while boycotting the man in 2025.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Probably my favorite album of all time

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

2/5

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

I expected to like this more

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

3/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

I realize I've never listened to this group before. I enjoyed it a whole lot

More Specials

The Specials

2/5

I just can't do it. It feels like a novelty act

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Joan Baez

4/5

Unapologetic folk album with the power and vibrato of Joan Baez's voice to carry it through

The Undertones

4/5

So fun! Kind of dumb but I'm loving it. Pop punk rhyming couplets without much of a point beyond the songs itself

My Generation

The Who

3/5

This feels like The Who trying to figure out who they are. I didn't expect the blues tracks. The stand-out standards are by far the best songs (My Generation, The Kids Are Alright) where you really see the direction they will eventually go. The rest is fine and you can hear Keith playing those drums which is what I need. Not my favourite though.

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

4/5

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

4/5

I've been typically lukewarm on Lana Del Rey, although sometimes the big sweeping songs like "Ride" have swept me up. So I've never listened to a full album of hers until now. This was very impressive. Her voice was interesting as she moved from the highs to the lows. I'm still not convinced she's a good singer, but many of my favourite singers aren't technically good singers. The music and the production of some of the songs is nuanced and subtle, but still engaging. And the inclusion of "For Free", not exactly the best-known Joni Mitchell song, made me emotional. A fantastic conclusion to the album, tying together the themes and subjects of the songs that came before.

The Cars

4/5

A classic! The one miss is "I'm in Touch With Your World" which sounds like an elementary school band trying to write a Talking Heads song. The rest of it is just a delight. Nearly every track is a classic rock radio hit, and the few new-to-me songs were great as well.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

2/5

Tough one today because I was moving and grooving to the rhythm, and then I started listening to the lyrics. Oh no. Between the casual racism, the misogyny, the sex stuff and then the weird sex stuff, it's hard to find something to love. Still, I was grooving so I can't say I hated all of it

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

It's a great live album

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Paris 1919

John Cale

2/5

I just could not get into this

2112

Rush

4/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

I'm not the audience here.

Bummed

Happy Mondays

3/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Copper Blue

Sugar

4/5

Hits me in my 90s grungy heart.

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

I just do not have the space for this in my life

Protection

Massive Attack

2/5

Really boring and overly mellow

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

3/5

I disliked this, but that seems like a failing of mine

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

3/5

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

4/5

War

4/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Ananda Shankar

3/5

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

4/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

3/5

Goofy fun

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

2/5

I hate this so much. I despise the insincerity and utter contempt for the audience shown here. It feels like an entire album of "Screw you for listening to this." Feeling that contempt, I've decided to stop listening to it.

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

5/5

Purely subjective, but this was the vibe I needed today. Ask me tomorrow and you might get a different answer. This album is beautiful and cool.

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

2/5

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

3/5

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

2/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

3/5

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

4/5

The xx

4/5

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

2/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Calenture

The Triffids

2/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Clandestino

Manu Chao

2/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

The Rise & Fall

Madness

2/5

Common

4/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

4/5

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

4/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Closer

Joy Division

3/5

S&M

Metallica

4/5

Movies

Holger Czukay

3/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

5/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Basket of Light

Pentangle

3/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

3/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Phrenology

The Roots

4/5

Manassas

Stephen Stills

2/5

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

4/5

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

Slayed?

Slade

3/5

Straight ahead rock but the songwriting is really not good. The one standout is a Janis Joplin cover "Move Over"

The Coral

4/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

2/5

Street Life

The Crusaders

4/5

Smooth jazz disco R&B. The title track was a nasty bait and switch with some excellent vocals and I was looking forward to the singing, but the rest of the record was instrumental. It all worked out fine, and this album gets the "made me dance" bonus, so 4 stars

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

Classic album but it begins to flag after Anarchy. I'm not crazy about New York with the homophobic slur, although it's an interesting song in context.

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

5/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

4/5