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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Butterfly Mariah Carey	5	2.48	+2.52
90 808 State	5	2.69	+2.31
Felt Mountain Goldfrapp	5	3	+2
Smile Brian Wilson	5	3.06	+1.94
Ambient 1/Music For Airports Brian Eno	5	3.07	+1.93
Legalize It Peter Tosh	5	3.07	+1.93
Talking Timbuktu Ali Farka Touré	5	3.13	+1.87
Under Construction Missy Elliott	5	3.14	+1.86
Chicago Transit Authority Chicago	5	3.2	+1.8
Channel Orange Frank Ocean	5	3.31	+1.69

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Music for the Masses Depeche Mode	1	3.38	-2.38
The Wall Pink Floyd	2	4.14	-2.14
Peace Sells...But Who's Buying Megadeth	1	2.98	-1.98
Spiderland Slint	1	2.98	-1.98
Aha Shake Heartbreak Kings of Leon	1	2.97	-1.97
Gold Ryan Adams	1	2.84	-1.84
Goodbye And Hello Tim Buckley	1	2.83	-1.83
Phaedra Tangerine Dream	1	2.73	-1.73
Boston Boston	2	3.71	-1.71
With The Beatles Beatles	2	3.66	-1.66

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Artist	Albums	Average
Coldplay	2	5
Curtis Mayfield	2	5
The Rolling Stones	3	4.33

5-Star Albums (34)

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Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

living for the city? more like living for this album.

4 likes

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

2/5

If Randy Newman was a wedding band

3 likes

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

Obviously they’re great. It’s just not something I can listen to to for hours

2 likes

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

Chan Chan is easily top 100 song. And the rest of the album brings me back to the trip Liz and I took to Cuba in 2017 in that brief window when it was legal.

2 likes

Foo Fighters

3/5

Rounding up for the cows

1 likes

1-Star Albums (7)

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The Joshua Tree

4/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

5/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Very good.

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

yes. all of this.

Chris

Christine and the Queens

3/5

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

4/5

Great winter listen

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Scott 4

Scott Walker

2/5

The Bends

Radiohead

3/5

Felt like I was living in an episode of smallville

Pelican West

Haircut 100

2/5

The soundtrack to any 80s movie with a cop

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

1/5

Spiderland

Slint

1/5

Paul Simon

3/5

Probably over-indexing because it's the first listenable album this week.

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

3/5

Just fine background music while cooking dinner

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

3/5

I didn’t know Neil young couldn’t sing

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

1/5

Notes as I listen: Songs 1-5: This is so boring I’m considering switching over to Megadeth Song 6: Is the concept "gregorian chants over 80s techno"? Song 8: Put in my other earbud to see if that helped at all. Song 8: It didn't. Song 8: This is like when the most boring person you know starts telling a story about the children of people you don't know. Song 10: wtf is this Song 10: very upset that this is 14 songs long. Song 11: Was this album meant to be the background scoring for a movie? Summary: This is a fucking slog. Started as a gentleman's 3, but the more I listened the more I hated it.

Moon Safari

Air

5/5

super sympa. hyper cool. tres chouette. 5 etoiles.

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

5/5

Nailed the concept. Also, I cant fully grasp my own logic here— but I’m fairly certain Pure Moods would have never happened without this album.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

4/5

This is chill. I think I might like Pink Floyd.

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

3/5

Thought I’d like this more.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

I liked this album, but what I like more was when Spotify kept it rolling with old timey cowboy music. I like cowboy music.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

3/5

Is Sameeda the NPR news theme?

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

2/5

Decent background noise while taking down Xmas decor. But not engaging in anyway. Would maybe use it as the music search prompt if I needed background music for a 60s themed cocktail party. In conclusion, this is background noise.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

2/5

Too distracted by the cover

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

2/5

Someone shoulda told him to stop singing.

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

5/5

5/5 on my music to cook dinner to.

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

1/5

Brian Eno’s music for an alien abduction. “If we’re going to listen to artists from 80s horror soundtracks, I’d prefer Goblin” -John

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

4/5

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

5/5

Gimme gimme gimme. I am apparently a goober for bluesy rock.

With The Beatles

Beatles

2/5

Maybe it's because I was raised on early Beatles... but it just feels like music for kids.

British Steel

Judas Priest

2/5

I recently re-started using the gym at my office, and was reminded of the phenomenon wherein, the music in a predominantly "macho" environment is never what I expect. The 2010s weight rooms were always playing pseudo country era T-Swift. The high school football team would be bumping Nelly Furtado's first album. And now the weight room at work is playing slow K-Pop or something equally sleepy. Why is this? Why is it not Judas Priest? This is not my cup of tea, but god damn I'd rather have Judas Priest than anymore bubblegum ballads.

Hypnotised

The Undertones

2/5

tolerable. barely.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

living for the city? more like living for this album.

Foo Fighters

3/5

Rounding up for the cows

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

I was not looking forward to giving this a 5. Luckily, it's a 3.5. Rounding down for pedo-factor.

LP1

FKA twigs

2/5

Elevated Love Is Blind filler music. A modern Depeche Mode.

World Clique

Deee-Lite

4/5

Can anyone listen to Groove is in the Heart nowadays and NOT be transported to the twink's apartment recreation in Search Party?

Medúlla

Björk

4/5

Don’t ask me to explain this because I can’t: Fiona Apple, but as a space robot?

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

Honesty, could be worse. 3.5

Smile

Brian Wilson

5/5

Listened to it twice in a row. Good stuff.

The Clash

3/5

The first song is in a foreign language. Every song sounds the same except their cover of Police & Thieves.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

5 seconds in: 5 stars. Final verdict: Rolling Stones good.

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

2/5

Not for me. This is a demo. Who decided this record was ok to sell to people in exchange for money? Did they throw in 5-4=Unity just to remind the listener that music doesn’t have to be painful? Or did Spotify glitch and what I heard was actually by a different band.

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

4/5

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

3/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Billy Cougan is not a pleasant listen.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

American Pie

Don McLean

2/5

Carol King wannabe without the likeability. This miiiight have been a gentlemen's 3 if not for the fact that Don McLean is a huge piece of shit, undeserving of gentlemanly grace.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

When did I become a goober for this stuff? Who am I? This started strong but I got pretty bored real quick.

Parachutes

Coldplay

5/5

SOS- I’m drowning in nostalgia.

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

1/5

nope.

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

2/5

If Randy Newman was a wedding band

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

a nice groove. but every song is the same groove.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

3/5

I’ll keep it in mind as background dinner party music. But honestly our favorite song turned out to be a Spotify ad.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

5/5

10 Stars.

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

4/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Hello darkness, my old friend

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

2/5

Another lead singer who only knows one note.

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

Chan Chan is easily top 100 song. And the rest of the album brings me back to the trip Liz and I took to Cuba in 2017 in that brief window when it was legal.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Had me from the opening riff

1989

Taylor Swift

3/5

Some hits. Some duds.

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

David Bowie

3/5

Now I just wanna listen to the Seu Jeorge covers from life aquatic. Knocking down for pedo factor.

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

2/5

Like being in a dive bar that’s trying too hard.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

If this album was just "The Chain" and then 45 minutes of Depeche Mode, it would still only drop to a 4.

Suzanne Vega

2/5

The talking in the first song .... this is much cringier than I anticipated. As far as 90s NY coffee house goes... is this better or worse than Smelly Cat?

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Once again, I’m learning I like led zeppelin

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Hello high school me!

Infected

The The

2/5

Not the most horrible thing on this list

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

think special, but not painful. solid 3.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Smooth. Narrative. Perfection.

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

It’s no “Hot August Night”

Bossanova

Pixies

2/5

Not for me

Boston

2/5

It all sounded the same.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

Shouty

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

I only learned of party lines a few years ago. I was excited for the Kinks. But ultimately disappointed there was no Lola or Apeman on this album.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

2/5

Couldn’t finish

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

Didn’t know what this was going into it. Liked it.

Gold

Ryan Adams

1/5

Made it halfway through the first song and had to bail

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

5/5

Listened to this twice in a row

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

Pretty engaging for what it is. The moans were… unwelcome.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Stranger Things font. ... i do appreciate the pettiness of an entire song of "hope your birthday sucks because i dont like you"

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

5/5

You're telling me I can't enjoy All of the Lights or Runaway because this man stopped taking his pills 6 years later? Let me finish -- It is difficult to separate the art from the artist. But if Kanye had died before he stopped treating his mental issues, we would listen to this guilt-free. Tons of "acclaimed" men were was a huge piece of wife-beating shit (or worse) their whole lives. At least Kanye was within the bounds of acceptable when he made good music. Let me enjoy "george bush doesn't care about black people" Kanye. Let me enjoy "balding donald trump taking money from y'all" Kanye. (However, any music he made after he turned is fully unethical.)

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

So of its time and still so relevant.

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Pre listen notes: Excited to listen. I don't recognize any of these songs by name, but I'm sure I know them. Post listen notes: I was wrong. I didn't know any of that. 3.5?

Garbage

4/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

2/5

Snore

Da Capo

Love

2/5

Is this our first jazz flute album? I wish the singer could be a little more in tune. The last song go really annoying in parts.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

3/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

2/5

1999

Prince

3/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

I didn’t know Hard Times by the Roots was a cover! This album far exceeded expectations.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

3/5

Mother - no. I see what they were going for. but no. Working Class Hero - i like the song, but i can't take it seriously coming from john lennon.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

The power ballads … he truly is the Beyoncé for middle america white men.

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

5/5

Wow!

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

2/5

This is music’s answer to Look Who’s Talking Too John thought two of the songs were actually adds on Spotify.

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Good, but liked the straight bossa nova that auto played after better

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

Beautiful.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

2/5

The beats were actually kind of decent, but completely wasted on this group. So repetitive, uncreative, and droning.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

2/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

2/5

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

Dry

PJ Harvey

4/5

lady incubus. but realer. succubus. very good.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

The coconut song!

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

4/5

Truly peak coffee shop era. As I listened, I realized my favorite songs of hers are actually on her next album, Feels Like Home. All in all, a delightful winter album that had the misfortune of showing up on the solstice in a heatwave.

Adele

3/5

2.5

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

3/5

Not as good as I remember. 3

Homework

Daft Punk

2/5

I'm a cool guy hacker in the 90s. Started fine. turned into torture. Not gonna move to France anytime soon.

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

Holy shit. Casimir Pulaski Day made my cry within 20 seconds.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

3/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

4/5

Fun. Point deduction for just being an album of covers

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

5/5

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

4/5

almost too consistent

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Ctrl

SZA

3/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Imagine

John Lennon

2/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

2/5

Played the whole album on a road trip and did not notice.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

2/5

Kinda boring

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

2/5

Generic 80s.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

With small tweaks, I would be thrilled to hear this in a bar.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

All bangers. Great crowd work.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

5/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

4/5

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

5/5

My de. Tt hasn’t

Stankonia

OutKast

5/5

808 State

5/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

3/5

Chill background music, but there’s nothing compelling. No reason it needs to be on the list

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

At least the audience seemed to like it

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

2/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Works equally well in a country dive bar or a funky church.

Phrenology

The Roots

4/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

Obviously they’re great. It’s just not something I can listen to to for hours

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

2/5

was not expecting honkey tonk.

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

2/5

snooze and no thank you.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

1/5

Yikes.

Peter Gabriel

2/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

I did not like this, but giving it a 3 instead of a 2 to avoid being banned from the chat.

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

4/5

Really good music to work to.

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

2/5

Why? This album is so mid, it annoys me.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

2/5

The most Gentleman's 3 to ever 3. 2.5 Editing window update: This is a 2. I got to bored to finish it.

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

If fedoras were music.

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

2/5

What.

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

Dire Straits

4/5

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

3/5

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

A Northern Soul

The Verve

2/5

fart

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

3/5

Echo Dave - this started fine but dragged. It feels amateur.

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

5/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

3/5

As someone with no nostalgia for the talking heads... i dont really get it.

Common

4/5

iPod nostalgia

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Joan Baez

3/5

very pretty.

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

4/5

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

4/5

Tommy

The Who

3/5

War

3/5

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

5/5

surprising myself with this one. sounds like it should have been made in the 70s

OK Computer

Radiohead

3/5

Yeezus

Kanye West

4/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

3/5

Bored. But whatever.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

This could be better

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

2/5

Do you think this is what he actually sounds like? Or is this a bit?