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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Happy Trails Quicksilver Messenger Service	5	2.8	+2.2
White Light Gene Clark	5	2.84	+2.16
BEYONCÉ Beyoncé	5	2.85	+2.15
A Walk Across The Rooftops The Blue Nile	5	2.86	+2.14
Headquarters The Monkees	5	2.87	+2.13
Broken English Marianne Faithfull	5	2.88	+2.12
The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators The 13th Floor Elevators	5	2.96	+2.04
Music From The Penguin Cafe Penguin Cafe Orchestra	5	3.01	+1.99
Deserter's Songs Mercury Rev	5	3.02	+1.98
Untitled (Black Is) SAULT	5	3.05	+1.95

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Joshua Tree U2	1	3.67	-2.67
War U2	1	3.48	-2.48
Murder Ballads Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	2	3.09	-1.09

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Artist	Albums	Average
Stevie Wonder	3	5
Frank Sinatra	3	5
Bruce Springsteen	3	5
Talking Heads	2	5
The Rolling Stones	2	5
Queen	2	5
Neil Young	2	5
The Beach Boys	2	5
The Kinks	2	5
Creedence Clearwater Revival	2	5
The Cure	2	5
Simon & Garfunkel	2	5
ABBA	2	5
Bob Dylan	3	4.33

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Artist	Albums	Average
U2	2	1

5-Star Albums (107)

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The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Popular Reviews

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

5/5

This was good, sorta like ancient King gizzard

2 likes

The Visitors

ABBA

5/5

Absolutely incredible

1 likes

Sound Affects

The Jam

5/5

Really good British rock pop

1 likes

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

5/5

This was sick, was all very similar sounds for an album without being overly repetitive or boring

1 likes

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Hated this, it was about murdering women so much

1 likes

1-Star Albums (2)

All Ratings

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

A bop, reminded me of dylan otherwise pretty classic

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

4/5

Honestly that was an experience I was avoiding that was cringly good. Not proud but I didn’t hate.

Machine Head

Deep Purple

4/5

They do smoke on the water! Pretty good album

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Kinda boring but her bangers were on here

The Joshua Tree

1/5

Honestly I only made it halfway with this album. Truly not enjoyable experience too.

The Stone Roses

4/5

Very psychedelic meets sad like the cure meets babe rain orange

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

5/5

This was a nice album, kinda all blended together but some nice bops

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

5/5

I have no clue how I missed this album growing up, but this was stellar

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

This was so fire jazz, this has been ny favorite of the 8 so far!!!! An absolute jam bop

1999

Prince

5/5

This was fun!!! Lots of sounds and noises that were very 80’s. So many love songs

Diamond Life

Sade

5/5

Pretty good, moody and she’s a great singer

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

This album was alright, kinda short. I wouldn’t have gone out of my way to listen to it

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

4/5

Started this, didn’t finish it but was pleased

Scissor Sisters

4/5

Interesting listen, didn’t know they were from 2003

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

3/5

This was soft and mid, not v impressive

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

This album is so fucking long but great

Eliminator

ZZ Top

5/5

Every song sounds the same but they’re all bops

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

5/5

This was sick, was all very similar sounds for an album without being overly repetitive or boring

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

5/5

This was sorta boring and repetitive, but worth trying

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

5/5

This was fun, I forgot some songs on this album. Different sort of rap

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

This was fun and moody, so drummy and bassy.

White Light

Gene Clark

5/5

Nice and folky, some nice voice wiggle and moan sorta bob dylan sounding

Sound Affects

The Jam

5/5

Really good British rock pop

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

5/5

So very peaceful, didn’t notice it repeat

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

This was busy but pleasant

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

5/5

This was tite

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

This guys voice with the ska esque music in the back made it hard to want to listen to all of this

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

3/5

Didn’t officially hate it, was sorta different

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Not bad at all, I thought I would hate this

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

This was fucking great, Collin was wrong for hating Billy Joel

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

So chill and peaceful

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

3/5

Honestly this is just noise

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

4/5

Everyone is right, like Bob Dylan singing but blended with Donovan

Queen II

Queen

5/5

Debut

Björk

5/5

A ethereal poppy queen

Vivid

Living Colour

4/5

WOah, they did cult of personality

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

5/5

really nice melodies and great singing

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

This is so 80s, I’m not crazy for it but it is fun

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Jazzy bluesey, good moody music

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

Hell yeah Yacht Rock

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

Lovely and ethereal, got a little Scottish at one point

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

5/5

This was good in the way that if my dad had it on I would let him play it cause I love my dad but IDK if I would be going out of my way to put this on a playlist to pump me up

My Generation

The Who

5/5

War

1/5

I refuse

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

This is great jazz blues, way different from what I have heard before

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

5/5

Total bops

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

5/5

🔥🔥🔥🔥

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

5/5

Pretty good, he is a wailer of a singer but good ol folk

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

3/5

This is very 90's rock and not my vibe, if I didn't know better I would guess this is a soulful voiced version on soundgarden or U2

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

5/5

Great summer dancing music or background kitchen music

Raw Power

The Stooges

3/5

Penetration was skipped, what a terrible song

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Hated this, it was about murdering women so much

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

Good ol folk tuneage

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

5/5

Absolutely great

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

This is so fun and joyful

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

5/5

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

4/5

EDM that would be fun to listen to in a different stat of mind

Bummed

Happy Mondays

4/5

a lot of range and folky but rocky

Gorillaz

5/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

5/5

Omfg outrageously good

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

Overdue to listen to this whole album, classic but every song sounds the same

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

5/5

So moody and not like other music

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

5/5

Great sac moment

Van Halen

4/5

Was pretty good

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

5/5

Interesting to learn about her background, her voice is a lil brutal

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

5/5

Very fun and beachy

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Really good beats and classic hits, kinda long though

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

Funky joy

The Rise & Fall

Madness

4/5

This album with all these songs was impossible on apple music but that's what I get for that having apple music

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

5/5

This was a good dive into the Kinks, relaxing and peaceful

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

4/5

Better noise music other than Brian Eno, but still very ambient

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

He's got a wild voice, I might have to skip American girl for my sanity. Otherwise it's not horrible

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Did not expect the way this guy sings, like Pop Bob Dylan

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

4/5

Not bad but I sorta hate the way this guy's voice sounds

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

Happy to see this on the list. Finally listening the whole thing, sounds so much like Julian Casablancas singing.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

5/5

Love how much I have listened to The Kinks, keeps getting better!

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Glad to listen to him! This was great! Cool idea of recording at the prison

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Hell yeah, already heard this! Love it always

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

5/5

This is that love me band, reminds me a lot of Japanese Breakfast

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

5/5

This was good, sorta like ancient King gizzard

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

4/5

Like any other boy band of the 60's. Like the zombies and beachboys combined

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

This annoying but feels good to listen to

Common

4/5

Not bad, but I don't love spoken word style rap.

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

3/5

Pretty chaotic and hard to listen to or follow.

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

Never listened fully through, so much teen angst was released

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

So moody and great

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

This was fuuunnn!

Kid A

Radiohead

3/5

This is just noise, I really didn't like much of it

Pornography

The Cure

5/5

Pretty good emo music

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

3/5

Not sure why I was so averted to listen to this, it wasn't horrible. Just very 80's

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

5/5

Probably never would've listened to this glad I did but its hard to stand the wailing singing

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

This was sooooo great, one point a song sounded just like Babe Rainbow

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Really didn't know what to expect with this one, some great songs some alright ones

Chris

Christine and the Queens

4/5

like french caroline polacheck

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

This being sent to me the day after Ozzy passing, what an incredible album.

Copper Blue

Sugar

3/5

I did not like this, reminded me of the radio when I was a kid

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

5/5

This was absolutely great, I didn't realize all the dram of sid vicious and the band intermixing with siouxise

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

this was okay, not a favorite not a least favorite

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

2/5

I thought this would be a riot girl band, it was not and it was tough to get through

Cross

Justice

5/5

Classic, love this

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

This was sorta horrible to listen to when I was under slept and emotional because it made it seem thrown together bad music

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

longer than I anticipated but not horrible, not my type of rap

Franz Ferdinand

5/5

This was great, I never had listened to the whole thing

Paul Simon

5/5

This was pleasant

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

4/5

This was fun, reminded me of high school

Headquarters

The Monkees

5/5

SO good, good jams and one weird recording

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

Like the Talking Heads meets The Strokes

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Nice for breakfast listening

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

5/5

Not too much elevator noise, can be followed and is really pleasant

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

5/5

So many songs I recognized that I would have never connected dots that were from this album

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

3/5

Made it halfway and it was shocking in ways

The Visitors

ABBA

5/5

Absolutely incredible

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

a pretty great album to relisten to

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

3/5

Not terrible but I don't like how he sings

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

2/5

I didn’t enjoy this

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

This is great, I learned Sad Lisa is what my dad would play all the time on the piano

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Surprisingly fun but Bruce is hard to hear what he is saying

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Not bad, one familiar song I would have never listened to this

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

5/5

this was was really interesting and I liked it

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Kinda hate how he sings but this had "Hurt" on it so it was my duty to hear this

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

4/5

Full of great easy going tuneage

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Very Folky, Glad I finnally listened to him

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

This was great and pleasant!

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Was not prepared to love this so much

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

Sam Cooke is great

Frank

Amy Winehouse

5/5

AMAZING

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

Very long drawn out jamming not my tea but good for them

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

5/5

I would never though to listen to this, really glad I did

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Not as terrible as I thought, like Muse meets U2

The Clash

4/5

Reminds me a lot of the Sex Pistols but probably actually evolve and improve

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

3/5

Everyone else is right, drunk nonsense lyrics but his voice is interesting

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Not bad, not good. I got through it

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Classic Awesome ALbum

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

5/5

ABsolute fire

Tidal

Fiona Apple

5/5

Incredible

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Better than that one Neil young album I didn't love

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

5/5

SO fun and Jazzy with a bunch of new songs I never heard by Frank

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

5/5

Kayne is bad now but old Kanye was something

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

4/5

Not usually into rap but culturally this felt important to listen to

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

5/5

Was very surprised by this and enjoyed it, some Irishy shanty music

Zombie

Fela Kuti

5/5

Heck yeah, zam rock but Nigerian

Imagine

John Lennon

5/5

Song Titles are mildly problematic for what I know about him now but overall good album

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

4/5

Not terrible, very rock like jam band feel. I don't like but every dude and their dude friend seems to enjoy dudes playing guitar and whiny singing

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

I kinda hated this like singing word vomit

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

5/5

OMG just after the first song I am hooked

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Reminds me of Phil Collins, not for me but good

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

Bob Dylan... again he's good but I just think he's annoying

#1 Record

Big Star

5/5

Reminds me of Led zeppelin meets The Beatles

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

Devo

5/5

This is rad, kinda like parquet courts and the talking heads

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Classic, amazing, love to see it

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

5/5

This is fun, Emma used to play this all the time

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

3/5

British okay blues

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

3/5

This was okay nothing amazing

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

This would be a band that puffer probably likes and that is upsetting I have to listen to it now

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

This oozes sex

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

What a great singer, Amazing

Wild Gift

3/5

Early punk is starting to wear me out

Technique

New Order

4/5

Konnichiwa

Skepta

4/5

This is fun English accent rap

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Glad to listen to all of this

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Amazing, such good piano

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

4/5

Heartwarming, Glad I listened

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

5/5

This was absolutely great

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

5/5

So different but original

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

Not bad but not my tea

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

Each song sounds sorta like Won't get fooled again

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Finally listened through, pretty great

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

4/5

Never listened to something like this before, interesting but idk if I will seek out more like this

L.A. Woman

The Doors

5/5

I think this was the tape in Ari's car

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

There are too many Bob Dylan songs that exist and that are on this best albums list

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

Never sat down to this, interesting listen. Seattle Roots

New York Dolls

3/5

Bold rock, reminds me of early femme Dead Kennedy's in a way

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

5/5

Real sweet and peacful

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

So moody

Arrival

ABBA

5/5

Kiss the teacher is so cute

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Not horrible, I'm angry and it is helping

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Truly magical

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

This was overdue to listen to