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Album	You	Global	Diff
Atomizer Big Black	5	2.74	+2.26
Scum Napalm Death	4	2.08	+1.92
Loveless My Bloody Valentine	5	3.18	+1.82
Pink Flag Wire	5	3.21	+1.79
Closer Joy Division	5	3.22	+1.78
Entertainment Gang Of Four	5	3.26	+1.74
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.34	+1.66
Bossanova Pixies	5	3.37	+1.63
More Songs About Buildings And Food Talking Heads	5	3.42	+1.58
Fear Of Music Talking Heads	5	3.47	+1.53

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Metallica Metallica	1	3.77	-2.77
Hotel California Eagles	1	3.59	-2.59
Hotel California Eagles	1	3.59	-2.59
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	1	3.59	-2.59
Gorillaz Gorillaz	1	3.53	-2.53
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes	1	3.5	-2.5
Parachutes Coldplay	1	3.46	-2.46
25 Adele	1	3.38	-2.38
Melodrama Lorde	1	3.31	-2.31
Eagles Eagles	1	3.29	-2.29

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Artist	Albums	Average
Pixies	3	5
Talking Heads	3	5
Radiohead	3	4.67
The Velvet Underground	2	5
Johnny Cash	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
Eagles	3	1
Gorillaz	2	1.5
Coldplay	2	1.5

5-Star Albums (23)

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The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground · 1 likes

5/5

Hadn't actually heard this album before despite the reputation, and I'm really happy we did! Was expecting something more classic rock and was pleasantly surprised. Trivia I enjoyed learning as a first timer -Lou Reed was doing an impression of Nico in Sunday Morning, despite it sounding nothing like her -The original album actually being a banana sticker, which could be peeled off to reveal another (peeled) banana -Nico was insane (very racist) I'm going back for round 3 tonight. Considering it a 4.5 and we will see if it becomes a 5 over time

1-Star Albums (14)

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Gorillaz

1/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

2/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Found out Paul Simon is 5'2, absolutely clearing the short king threshold. Bet you all feel bad for rating it so low now don't ya?

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

4/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

It's perfect. Also I'm not writing about it

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Melodrama

Lorde

1/5

I do not care for lorde and I do not have love for this

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

4/5

Pleasant :) One for the jangle pop enjoyers Rip it Up- Punchy opening! Seems like they're leading with the single. It's kind of cute that this is the one song all the members are listed as writers on A Million Pleading Faces- Wow was not expecting that, immediately checked and the member who wrote this one is from Zimbabwe. Mud in your Eye- I think I prefer the higher energy songs on first listen, but still easy listening. Dreamy Turn Away- I forgot to write one for this Breakfast Time- I like this one on principle. This guy gets it. It's breakfast time Flesh Of my Flesh- s a s s y Louise Louise- didn't do a ton for me Hokoyo- I also forgot to write one for this Tenterhook- started digging it more in the second half as it felt more psychedelic A lot of variety to pack into an album, maybe a little front loaded but overall an enjoyable listen. I like the funky synths and would go back for round 2 with this one at work. You could probably make some comparisons to The Talking Heads, there's a lot of crossover you can enjoy between one and the other. Frankly it's nice to have mellow music. I wish I could have given it 3.5 but I'll settle for 4 for the sake of being contrarian because I see you all TRASHING this for no good reason

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

I can't say anything people haven't said before because this album is just so beloved, but I have trouble giving it a 5 because there's definitely tracks in between that feel eh to me. I think I actually like Michigan more, both musically and in terms of subject matter.

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

Well it's not hard to see why this is so beloved, and there's not much else insight I feel I can provide. Great listen and I'm glad to have learned about something new

The La's

1/5

Son Of A Gun- This is not so bad, maybe it will be like R.E.M I Can't Sleep- Also not awful, but there just isn't any build-up or tension as far as I'm concerned Timeless Melody- John is repeating the end of the verses that rhyme from the kitchen. Running into the same sort of problems I had with the other tracks Liberty Ship- this is the point where it started to sink in There She Goes - This song single-handedly kind of poisoned the album for me going in AND I JUST CANT CONTAYAYAYAIN Doledrum-not the biggest fan Feelin- Sounds a little like the Friends theme Way Out- A little better than the others, I think it has a bit more momentum but still falls flat for me Freedom song- Absolutely not. im in hell Failure - No Looking Glass - imagine all the people, living for today....They are playing the same thing faster now, get me OUT I had to listen twice to do my due diligence before I talked shit about it and honestly ended up disliking it more on the second listen LOL These songs just feel like they go nowhere. They have these classic sort of British with a capital B pop structures and just repeat the same thing over and over at the same tempo and none of it is interesting for me. There isn't really any tension or release. Saying nothing in a nothing tone of voice. Metronome hell. Feels like drinking groundwater.

Cross

Justice

3/5

I kind of wish I could like this as much as I used to, but too much time has passed and I'm just not that person anymore. Still groovy, just not totally my cup of tea nowadays

Hotel California

Eagles

1/5

Hotel California- This shit is so funny. People in 1976 were irreversibly changed hearing this New Kid in Town- pretty comfortable and very self-pitying Life in the Fast Lane- xbox racing game tutorial music Wasted time- lol Wasted time (reprise) -LOL YOU THOUGHT Victim of Love- i forgot to write something Pretty Maids All in a Row- women break his heart frequently Try and Love Again- going back for more women Last Resort- It was a different time but man. My gf moving to Colorado is just like the Native Americans. I do like the little minor note he hits but this is not it. Kind of a strange note to end the album on It's dramatic and comes across full of itself, which in the first few songs I can enjoy but the rest of it doesn't do much for me. I can see the appeal, but can't help but find the lyrics a bit insufferable and the sound itself unimpressive Read on the wiki that apparently they had to stop recording this album because Black Sabbath was in the next room (also funny)

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

2/5

oh im only a POOR LITTLE BEGGAR GIRL!!! another 2.5 w the caveat that the eagles should have been a 2. Just don't really have any desire to go back to this, even though I didn't hate it

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Edited because my friend turned me around on Elliot smith

LP1

FKA twigs

2/5

The reputation of this album precedes it for me. I've only ever heard people talk about FKA Twigs as though she is untouchable, but most of the tracks I've heard haven't really left the biggest impression on me. I liked it more than I thought I would, but struggle to have an emotional connection to the songs and was left kind of wishing she was a bit freakier lyrically to match the sound. It's kind of nostalgic to hear this kind of production after so long shout out to the single guy credited as "demon voice" on the first track. Really torn between 2.5 and 3 at the moment, it makes me feel nostalgic but at the same time I get the impression I'm going to forget these

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

4/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

2/5

I'm sorry Tina Read a lot about her online now but the album was just not something I would be eager to go back to

Parachutes

Coldplay

2/5

Pretty chill but I am not sure if I would remember "Yellow" or "Trouble" (favorite off the album if we're picking) if they weren't on the radio so often growing up. Considered making a joe biden amv to this

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

4/5

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Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

for some reason this took like 4 attempts listening to get through it but i really enjoyed it

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

2/5

Didn't connect with me very much. It's a good concept, but I didn't feel like the lyrics fleshed out women in a particularly nuanced or interesting way.

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

3/5

this is a man who loves his wife and son 3.5

Violent Femmes

1/5

"In 2007, Gano angered Ritchie by selling advertising rights for the classic 'Blister in the Sun' to Wendy's." Talk about beef!

Bossanova

Pixies

5/5

The Modern Lovers

3/5

Maybe a 4, trying to review things retroactively

Dirt

Alice In Chains

4/5

"The 43-second 'Iron Gland' was developed out of a guitar riff that Cantrell would play that annoyed the other band members, so he created the song and promised to never play the guitar riff again."

Closer

Joy Division

5/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

3.5 good to know where they came from but don't have much desire to come back to it. latter half is actually more interesting than the first! favorite track was Daydreaming

Scott 2

Scott Walker

3/5

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

3/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

came around on it after a couple listens. Learned that his voice sounds so low in this one because he was doing so much cocaine that it fucked his voice

B-52's

The B-52's

3/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

this is probably a 3 but i was just so bored :(

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

2/5

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

3/5

i liked the first half more than the latter but it was still good, 3.5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

She's a model and she's look-ing good

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

2/5

Maxinquaye

Tricky

3/5

Technique

New Order

3/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

2/5

Metallica

1/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

2/5

Hotel California

Eagles

1/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

1/5

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

4/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

The Stone Roses

2/5

Cut

The Slits

1/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Black Sabbath

4/5

Kimono My House

Sparks

2/5

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

5/5

Third

Portishead

4/5

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Eagles

1/5

like poison to me

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

3/5

A Northern Soul

The Verve

2/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

Adele

1/5

So Much For The City

The Thrills

1/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

3/5

White Denim

1/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

3.5

Germs

3/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Changed my mind this shit is great.

Fun House

The Stooges

2/5

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

2/5

2 feels harsh but 3 feels like i might listen to it again which is simply not the case

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

4/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

5/5

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Gorillaz

2/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

Atomizer

Big Black

5/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Great, but I find some of his other albums (Carrie and Lowell, Michigan) are my 5s!

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Pink Flag

Wire

5/5

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

5/5

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

3/5

When this album is good, it's GOOD, but when it is bad it's dire. Highlights: Soul and Fire, Two Days, Happily Divided, Cliche, Sacred Attention, Sixteen

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

3/5

A lot of variety in this one! Was taken in early on, but gradually lost attention. Liked "Autopsy" a lot

Scum

Napalm Death

4/5

The Man Who

Travis

2/5

well the final track is a surprise, but the rest of it is mostly forgettable and kinda sounds like Coldplay, who I do not have any particular love for.

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

3/5

3.5?? At times joyful and at times mournful, but always hypnotizing. Really enjoyed it

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

2/5

I didn't hate this but it ended up feeling forgettable. Feels a little unfair because I had a Rippingtons phase, but really just no desire to go back to this

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

4/5

Second time around on this one and I think I like it more!

Parachutes

Coldplay

1/5