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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Palo Congo Sabu	5	2.69	+2.31
Yeezus Kanye West	5	2.76	+2.24
Planet Rock: The Album Afrika Bambaataa	5	2.8	+2.2
Greetings From L.A. Tim Buckley	5	2.85	+2.15
White Light / White Heat The Velvet Underground	5	2.88	+2.12
Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits	5	2.94	+2.06
Nighthawks At The Diner Tom Waits	5	3	+2
Safe As Milk Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	5	3.01	+1.99
The Predator Ice Cube	5	3.25	+1.75
The Message Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five	5	3.28	+1.72

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Armed Forces Elvis Costello & The Attractions	1	3.08	-2.08
Apocalypse Dudes Turbonegro	1	2.89	-1.89
A Grand Don't Come For Free The Streets	1	2.65	-1.65
...And Justice For All Metallica	2	3.42	-1.42
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	2	3.4	-1.4
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	2	3.38	-1.38
Tommy The Who	2	3.33	-1.33
Meat Is Murder The Smiths	2	3.33	-1.33
The Man Machine Kraftwerk	2	3.31	-1.31
Queens of the Stone Age Queens Of The Stone Age	2	3.3	-1.3

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Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	4	4.75
Kanye West	3	5
Beastie Boys	3	5
Bob Dylan	3	4.67
Black Sabbath	2	5
Tom Waits	2	5
Jimi Hendrix	2	5
David Bowie	6	4.17
Pink Floyd	3	4.33
Radiohead	3	4.33

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Artist	Ratings
Metallica	2, 3, 5

5-Star Albums (75)

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

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Popular Reviews

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys · 1 likes

5/5

Every time I listen to this album it gets better

Fragile

Yes · 1 likes

3/5

Brain damaged pink floyd, but like, I didn't hate it

1-Star Albums (3)

All Ratings

The Doors

3/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

Black Sabbath

5/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

3/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

5/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

Ramones

3/5

Suede

2/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

Jazz for people who dont like jazz

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

Unfortunately, this was great

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

2/5

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

1/5

Every terrible thing about 80s music in one album.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

4/5

No idea what she was saying but I loved it

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

3/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

5/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Ananda Shankar

4/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

4/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

2/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

5/5

Janis Joplin is dope

Mask

Bauhaus

2/5

did we really need this?

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

2/5

you dont have to be that dramatic

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

3/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

3/5

made me sleepy

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

As far as jazz goes, not bad

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

Lesbian Bob Dylan

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Homework

Daft Punk

2/5

Sounds like two printers fucking Edit: (02/02/26) I went back and listened to Discovery and Random Access Memories, MUCH better albums that made me like Daft Punk. Don't judge them based on Homework. Changing from a 1 star to a 2 star ranking because I like their other work.

Tracy Chapman

4/5

This is who wrote fast car?

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

The Kinks

5/5

Pretty kickass

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

2/5

Corny 80s pop. Didn't finish it

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

4/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

Timothee Chalamet could never

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

so many hip hop samples

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Low-Budget Led Zepplin, but with a flute

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

5/5

I can't describe this one, 5 stars

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

3/5

I'm not gonna listen to it again but it does NOT deserve all the hate it gets

Born To Be With You

Dion

3/5

The guy who sang runaround sue tries to be billy joel

Blur

4/5

So much better than I thought it would be. Song 2 sucks

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

Kickass

The Coral

2/5

Crazy in a good way but still not good

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

3/5

sad british 80s punk rock, couldve been the sound track to sky high

Paris 1919

John Cale

2/5

Showtunes for music snobs

Adele

4/5

actually really good

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

5/5

you already know

White Light

Gene Clark

3/5

Electric

The Cult

3/5

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

5/5

I'm really not sure, but I think this is a masterpiece

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Would probably make a good coming-of-age movie soundtrack

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Not a bad song on the whole thing

The Only Ones

3/5

The ramones but more whiny

Femi Kuti

3/5

Not the best music I've heard from Africa, but not the worst either

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

2/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

Im feeling generous today

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

funky

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

2/5

really bad white noise

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

Not the best Michael album, but the favorite of every grocery store soundtrack

Repeater

Fugazi

2/5

Whole album sounds like the demo track to a band that never made it

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

I can tell this is a great album that I should sit with and break down but it doesn't sound good enough to do that

The Score

Fugees

5/5

Buying this one immediately

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Alternated between better than average folksy music and rock, with a couple of dramatic 70s movie soundtrack songs thrown in there

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Simon and Garfunkel Go to Africa

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

The good kind of jazz

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

4/5

really damn good

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

Almost a perfect album

The Joshua Tree

4/5

Actually a genuine rock band back in the day, who knew?

Doolittle

Pixies

3/5

I get the hype, but it's not for me

Led Zeppelin

5/5

damn

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Beat poetry set to peak sixties guitar riffs

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

After girls just wanna have fun, it's actually pretty good.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

3/5

Sounds exactly like the album cover

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

3/5

Has no business being as good as it is

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

The Cars

4/5

Still holds up, even once you get passed the hits

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Perfect album

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

4/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

Darker that I expected, I guess that happens when you shack up with Manson

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

She was cookin

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

white punk rockers try reggae, and it kinda works?

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

4/5

Nothing but folksy left turns

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

4/5

Low budget Jimi Hendrix meets Anderson .Paak

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Not bad but boring af

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Not his best album but still crazy good

Debut

Björk

4/5

Another album I should sit with for a long time and break down but probably won't

Caetano Veloso

4/5

I guess music is just better when you can't understand the words

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

She's dope

Blue

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Good, I think... I can't really tell.

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

Nothing special just really fun to listen to

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

5/5

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

5/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

Better than daft punk, but couldn't finish it

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

4/5

I've been healed

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

3/5

The "architecture" doesn't really come across, but it sounds pretty

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

I wannt my emteeveeeeeeeee

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

Okay I kinda like jazz

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

3/5

Great elevator music

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Dire Straits

3/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

A Tribe Called Quest but with a sense of humor

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

1/5

holy fuck that was bad

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

holy fuck that was good

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Carole King is dope

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

I guess I like punk, just not the british

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

Waited the whole album for cats in the cradle, imagine my disappointment

Yeezus

Kanye West

5/5

Yes

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

The highs are high and the lows are still pretty high

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

holy fuck that was good

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

2/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

2/5

better than daft punk

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

5/5

Idk what type of music this was but it was great

Reign In Blood

Slayer

2/5

If you squint your ears it sounds like TV Static

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

Every time I listen to this album it gets better

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

what the fuck was that

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

4/5

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

like the great value version of AM

Low-Life

New Order

2/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

5/5

Bow Wow Wow Yippee Yo Yippe Yay

Parklife

Blur

4/5

The Undertones

3/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Took me a while but I get the hype

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

3/5

Mcdonalds, charge they phone, twerk, be bisexual, eat hot chip, and lie

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

5/5

So entertaining

Funeral

Arcade Fire

5/5

I think this is a masterpiece

White Ladder

David Gray

2/5

boring af

Dust

Screaming Trees

3/5

why are they screaming

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

4/5

I'm groovin'

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

4/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

I get it

Risque

CHIC

3/5

1977

Ash

3/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

2/5

Great album cover

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

4/5

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

3/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

3/5

great background music

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

3/5

Van Halen

3/5

Didn’t like it as much as I thought I would

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

Tom Tom Club

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

5/5

Good enough that I'll probably return to it when I hit my first indie phase

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

2/5

so boring

Dirt

Alice In Chains

4/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

3/5

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

4/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

4/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

4/5

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

2/5

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

2/5

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

Devo

3/5

1 star for the music, 2 for the outfits

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

Pretenders

4/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

Sister

Sonic Youth

3/5

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

1/5

Neither Turbo nor Negroes. Stopped listening when "Rendezvous with Anus" came on

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

3/5

Spooky Rockabilly

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

5/5

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

2/5

Arise

Sepultura

3/5

Better than another skinny british guy

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

The Grand Tour

George Jones

4/5

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

2/5

Tommy

The Who

2/5

if you write a rock opera you get your virginity back

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

David Bowie

4/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

5/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

3/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

I dont know why but this is the first time I've really thought of David Bowie as a musician.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

Perfect Album

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

2/5

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

3/5

I don't know how to rate this one. 2.5 stars...I guess?

New York Dolls

3/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

The Libertines

3/5

70s skinny british guy music but in 2004

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

4/5

B-52's

The B-52's

3/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

not what he used to be, 4 (black) stars

Wild Gift

3/5

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

3/5

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

4/5

spooky folk

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

I feel like I just walked into a theater kid costume party by accident

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

Medúlla

Björk

3/5

Didn't hate it but it wasn't enjoyable

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

The Band

5/5

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

2/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

2/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

5/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

5/5

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

2/5

Me Against The World

2Pac

4/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

5/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

5/5

Palo Congo

Sabu

5/5

There's no reason as to why, but I thoroughly enjoyed this.

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

2/5

All boring british punk bands from this point on are getting a 1 star deduction

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

3/5

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

3/5

Hotel California

Eagles

5/5

If you hate the eagles, go fuck yourself

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

5/5

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

I really expected to hate this but...

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

4/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

5/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Brain damaged pink floyd, but like, I didn't hate it

2112

Rush

3/5

not bad, but a 20 minute song is fucking nuts

Trio

Dolly Parton

4/5

Joan Baez

4/5

Foo Fighters

3/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5

Basket of Light

Pentangle

4/5

No reason why but I loved this

Goo

Sonic Youth

3/5

I appreciate the avant garde aesthetic. but the music itself is just so mid

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

3/5

kinda groovy

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

5/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

5/5

Blood, Sweat & Tears

3/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Da Capo

Love

4/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

pretty mid for such a great band, and like....kinda really sexist, even for the time period

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

3/5

One World

John Martyn

3/5

like a really laid back dire straights

Closer

Joy Division

3/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

I really wanna like this but it's gonna take a couple more listens before I really get it

Guero

Beck

5/5

Fleet Foxes

3/5

really sweet sounding album, not my genre but it was good background music

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

5/5

Literally just a dude talking the whole time but...it was good? Head says 3, heart says 5

Timeless

Goldie

3/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

5/5

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

3/5

absolute bollocks innit

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

5/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

2/5

Sitar is just not for me

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

Surprisingly impressive versatility. Way more progressive and experimental than I thought they could be.

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

5/5

super fun album

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Damaged

Black Flag

2/5

Definitely didn't enjoy it but I got through the whole thing and that says something

Faust IV

Faust

3/5

Faust

Metallica

5/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

2/5

Sorry ivan, this albums sucks

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

3/5

The Predator

Ice Cube

5/5

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

3/5

Would've been a beautiful album if they didn't record the vocals

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

Paul Simon

5/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

5/5