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Album	You	Global	Diff
Melodrama Lorde	5	3.31	+1.69
Harvest Neil Young	5	3.82	+1.18
In Utero Nirvana	5	3.83	+1.17
The Only Ones The Only Ones	4	2.92	+1.08

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Boston Boston	1	3.71	-2.71
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	1	3.44	-2.44
Thriller Michael Jackson	2	4.22	-2.22
Off The Wall Michael Jackson	2	3.78	-1.78
Arrival ABBA	2	3.5	-1.5
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	3.5	-1.5
The Atomic Mr Basie Count Basie & His Orchestra	2	3.5	-1.5
One Nation Under A Groove Funkadelic	2	3.43	-1.43
Urban Hymns The Verve	2	3.36	-1.36
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs Marty Robbins	2	3.33	-1.33

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Artist	Albums	Average
Nirvana	2	5

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Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

3/5

The punk moments work for me, but alas, the jazz and rap do not so much. Still. Big points for being interesting and diverse and trying something new.

1 likes

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

1/5

I hated this album.

1 likes

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One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

2/5

The funk is not in me.

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

A classic in so many ways. Beyond anything else, bunch of bangers tbh.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

Can there be such a thing as too 80s and too much synth? This album proves that yes, yes there can.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

2/5

The hits are hits - but this whole style is just not for me.

The Next Day

David Bowie

4/5

I enjoyed this - not peak Bowie but the frenetic energy at the beginning in particular is great.

Achtung Baby

2/5

I’m sorry but I hate U2.

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

3/5

Not entirely sure what this was all about, but it was fun and interesting and different. Can’t argue with that.

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

2/5

This is very silly hair metal and I kinda love it but also it’s dumb. Lol.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

This was perhaps the most fun I had with an album that was new to me so far. However, why was it so LONG.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

2/5

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

3/5

I can imagine loving this dude so much if you were 15 when you heard this for the first time, ya know?

Arrival

ABBA

2/5

God I do not care for ABBA.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

Super interesting to list to this after Abbey Road and see the growth that happened. Bunch of these songs slap tho.

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

Fuck it, 5 stars. I was too young but I get it, ya know? This one, I get it.

Boston

1/5

This is everything I hate about rock and roll.

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

3/5

This was better and more interesting than I’d expected given, ya know, sledgehammer. An interesting piece of rock history.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

3/5

The punk moments work for me, but alas, the jazz and rap do not so much. Still. Big points for being interesting and diverse and trying something new.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

Unfortunately the good songs are the ones I have heard before and the songs I have not heard are not good. Alas.

Guero

Beck

3/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

The Band

3/5

This was an interesting one - a few excellent songs and a satisfactory folky vibe, but as a complete body of work, slightly lacking.

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

2/5

I was ready for low fi stoner beats and I got them. Then I remembered I don’t care for lofi stoner beats.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

Do you like jazz! Sometimes, yes!

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

1/5

I hated this album.

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

2/5

I know cowboy is having a moment and objectively his voice is lovely - but I simply could not bring myself to engage with this.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

This funk I can get behind.

Melodrama

Lorde

5/5

I was 23 when this came out. Five stars.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

A pleasant surprise - is The Boss kind of… emo? Reminded me of the gaslight anthem a bit, and the whole ‘gotta get out of this town’ mentality is familiar and enjoyable. Not bad.

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

This is probably more like a 4.5 for me - the great songs are truly great, plaintive and haunting and universal, but there are a few misses too. But I love Neil Young.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Goddamn this is a good time. I wanna be at that party.

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

So I love David Bowie. But this album just didn’t really catch me - too 70s?? To much synth?? It’s hard to say.

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

2/5

Annie Lennox is cool and has a good voice, and there are a few fun ideas. However unfortunately I hate synths when not used judiciously bad maybe just hate the 80s?? Overall found this pretty boring.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

2/5

I accept this is good big band/swing. However I do not like big band/swing. The first few songs I thought were funky and then it just… kept… going. And no vocals!! I can’t.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Honestly I thought I would enjoy this but I didn’t expect how much. So many a classics and even the ones I didn’t know are classics. Songbird an unexpected delight.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

This takes me to high school 2000s drunk in a paddock feelings that I believe the kids these days are calling indie sleaze.

Reign In Blood

Slayer

2/5

I like heavy music, I do - but I didn’t like this. Really at all. Bummer.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

This is the least offensive form of disco for me - the songs are funky but boring, the voices are beautiful but the melodies are repetitive. Firmly middle of the road.

Tracy Chapman

4/5

I would never have listened to this album except for this project. It’s actually beautiful and sad - she is a storyteller and it’s all about working class struggles - and I enjoyed it quite a lot.

The Only Ones

4/5

I enjoyed this! It felt remarkably current given how old it is. Vibes.

Foo Fighters

3/5

This surprised me for a Fooeys album - it’s more raw and more grunge and to be honest, more like nirvana than the shiny stuff that came later. A bit repetitive though and nothing reached out and grabbed me in the way that grunge can when done well.

Mask

Bauhaus

2/5

Love that aesthetic, not that into the record.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

You could feel the David Bowie in this. However it failed to rise to the heights of David Bowie. A couple of bangers but broadly, disappointingly, mid.

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

2/5

Ehhhhhh. Funk is just not for me I’m SORRY. Also my greatest moment of interest was when I spotted a Hamilton reference so that says it all.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

This was pretty and fun but big band gets same-y to me after a while.

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Not even sorry this really does rule.