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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Yank Crime
Drive Like Jehu
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5 | 2.7 | +2.3 |
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Spiderland
Slint
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5 | 2.98 | +2.02 |
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Ambient 1/Music For Airports
Brian Eno
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5 | 3.07 | +1.93 |
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Tubular Bells
Mike Oldfield
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5 | 3.1 | +1.9 |
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Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
The Pharcyde
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5 | 3.13 | +1.87 |
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american dream
LCD Soundsystem
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5 | 3.17 | +1.83 |
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Selling England By The Pound
Genesis
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5 | 3.18 | +1.82 |
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Close To The Edge
Yes
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5 | 3.19 | +1.81 |
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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
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5 | 3.3 | +1.7 |
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Fragile
Yes
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5 | 3.31 | +1.69 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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21
Adele
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1 | 3.69 | -2.69 |
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Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones
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1 | 3.61 | -2.61 |
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Document
R.E.M.
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1 | 3.56 | -2.56 |
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Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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1 | 3.5 | -2.5 |
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Urban Hymns
The Verve
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1 | 3.36 | -2.36 |
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Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby
Terence Trent D'Arby
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1 | 2.98 | -1.98 |
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Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
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2 | 3.87 | -1.87 |
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Elephant
The White Stripes
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2 | 3.86 | -1.86 |
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You Are The Quarry
Morrissey
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1 | 2.86 | -1.86 |
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Metallica
Metallica
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2 | 3.79 | -1.79 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Radiohead | 4 | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath | 3 | 4.67 |
| Beatles | 2 | 5 |
| Nirvana | 2 | 5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins | 2 | 5 |
| Yes | 2 | 5 |
| Marvin Gaye | 2 | 5 |
| Pink Floyd | 2 | 5 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| The Rolling Stones | 2 | 1.5 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
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| The Smiths | 4, 2, 5 |
5-Star Albums (40)
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I fucking hate britpop, it‘s a deep hate, a discriminating hate, but there are some exceptions. Pulp‘s Different Class is a masterpiece, and that‘s about it, not a long list, is it? And somehow Rob had the gall to put so many britpop albums on this list, at least we have 7 Costello albums to listen to.
The vocals are whiny, the lyrics aren‘t anything to write home about and the band is just generally not that good musically, so you know, basically the usual ordeal for this god forsaken genre called britpop. On top of that, I absolutely DESPISE the discourse around Oasis; you can‘t make just two apparently good albums and be hailed as the second coming of The Beatles (or Bach for that matter), it just doesn‘t work like that. And the whole reunion tour is a farce, just a despicable cash grab. To my surprise it’s somehow en vogue to ironically like Oasis and dress up as one of the lads of bygone days.
Ultimately I‘m the actual farce in this equation, because I do actually enjoy this album. To paraphrase a review I read on here: „this is the epitome of lager rock“, and honestly? The world needs its lager rock, but in small doses and preferably prescribed by your health care provider, and that‘s basically the gist of why I‘m not condemning this album to the void of forgetting.
4/5
2 likes
Drive Like Jehu
Now this, this is a certified masterpiece. For some it is probably a bit too harsh, maybe the 9 minute behemoth that is „Luau“ is too much to handle, but if you can go into this album with an open mind, and preferably with a background in punk/hardcore, then you‘ll feel right at home.
My dear friend showed me this album a few years ago and I‘ve been in love ever since. It‘s not as emotionally meaningful to me as other albums, but the sound is just crushing. It‘s like a truck with cinderblocks hitting you, and that‘s a very hard feeling to convey in music.
If you liked this album I urge you to check out their debut album.
RIP Rick Froberg
5/5
2 likes
LCD Soundsystem
This would be my pick for the user part of this website. I‘m at a crossroads in life and I feel seen by this album. James Murphy encapsulates very succinctly and in a dancing manner my feelings for my first half of my twenties.
I‘m too young to remember the start of LCD Soundsystem‘s actual career, heck the band broke up just as I was getting into my My Chemical Romance phase where I thought the Black Parade was the pinnacle of music. Luckily (or unfortunately) I was later on „civilized“ by my dear friends and especially by the LP collection of my friend’s father. Ziggy Stardust was probably the first album I actually thought was better than the Black Parade. The point of this tangent: if I was actually a Person when LCD Soundsystem became big, I would probably love their earlier albums more, but alas, I have to be the contrarian this time
Every single song on this album speaks to me on some level, it feels like Murphy knows exactly what I‘m thinking about, even though I‘m just some random guy trying to hold it together day by day. He gets my romanticizing of New York City (even though I‘ve never been there), he gets my love for apparent esoteric bullshit that can be applied to anything you want, and most importantly I think he gets my feeling of being stuck in life in all aspects, apart from getting older.
Musically it feels so much more mature, cold and distant than their earlier work. Despite the coldness it has very high highs, I get goosebumps every time I hear the break down of „one step forward… and six steps back!!!“, it‘s probably my favorite part of the album. The title track with it‘s „sha-bang, sha-bang“ is another highlight and then the following „emotional haircut“ is a great „up beat“ post-punk track that sounds like it could come directly from the 80‘s if it wasn‘t Murphy‘s vocals bringing us to the present.
I don‘t really know what exactly Murphy wants to convey with his songs, I‘m not really a person who reads obsessively about music, I just listen to music and stop and think about the music I really like, and the albums that feel like they are speaking to me get bonus points.
In the end I think it‘s a very hopeful album, despite it‘s very cold and clinical sound. Yeah, the lyrics aren‘t really happy-go-Lucky, but it feels like a trauma dump of sorts. Maybe the world would be a better place if more people would trauma dump with good music.
Many will disagree, but I do think this belongs in the top 100 albums of all time, easily a 5/5. I hope more people will come to love this album, hopefully without having the anxiety and depression that I‘ve experienced. Ultimately I just wish that more people would dance to LCD Soundsystem.
I know I wrote a lot of bullshit, but let a white boy yap for once.
5/5
1 likes
Elliott Smith
[Figure 8] is an album near and dear to my heart; I will genuinely get sad if someone I respect doesn’t enjoy it. Elliott Smith is very much a part of my obsession with melancholic songwriters who died before their time, David Berman being the prime example of the pinnacle of this obsession, but I digress.
This album is more upbeat than Smith‘s previous albums, starting with the morbid but kind of cheery(?) [Son of Sam], which chronicles the escapades of the crazed murderer who supposedly was ordered by his dog to kill all those couples in New York in the 70s. There is something very similar to Sufjan Stevens‘ track [John Wayne Gacy, Jr], but his track is disturbing, intimate even, hence why I would describe Smith‘s track as „cheery(?)“.
SIDENOTE: apparently Elliott has stated that this is not about the serial killer, but come on, he was obviously inspired by him at least. I quote: „couple killer running out of time“, „Son of Sam“ sung 152 times and so on.
You won‘t find anything gut wrenching like [Needle In The Hay] (which was used to great effect in one of the saddest scenes I‘ve ever seen in my life in Wes Anderson‘s [The Royal Tenenbaums]), but there are still some absolutely heartbreaking songs on here, with the metaphor filled and dissociating track [Can‘t Make a Sound] being my pick for the saddest song on the album. You can very much feel the tiredness in his voice.
But if anything, you can find some absolutely mean songs on the record as well. [Somebody That I Used to Know]‘s meanness nearly rivals that of the pure hatred that is shown by Bob Dylan on [Like a Rolling Stone], which is very high praise, but of course Dylan wins in this meanness competition, Smith‘s track is only 2 minutes long and Dylan made a diss track with a length of 6 minutes.
All in all, this is my favorite Elliott Smith record, and even though I was too young to experience the firsthand loss of him I very much do think about him and miss him. If I ever want to press the feel-sad button for my masochistic needs, then I just need to go to my altar of dead melancholic songwriters, listen to some Elliott Smith and reread his Wikipedia page for the 50th time.
I hope I get a Morrissey album tomorrow so I can absolutely trash him and cheer myself up, this was not a fun pick for today :(
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1-Star Albums (11)
