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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
90 808 State	5	2.69	+2.31
american dream LCD Soundsystem	5	3.17	+1.83
Dance Mania Tito Puente	5	3.27	+1.73
Surf's Up The Beach Boys	5	3.3	+1.7
Live At Leeds The Who	5	3.32	+1.68
Deep Purple In Rock Deep Purple	5	3.32	+1.68
Blur Blur	5	3.33	+1.67
One Nation Under A Groove Funkadelic	5	3.42	+1.58
The Modern Dance Pere Ubu	4	2.48	+1.52
Head Hunters Herbie Hancock	5	3.55	+1.45

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Graceland Paul Simon	1	3.74	-2.74
Dummy Portishead	1	3.71	-2.71
Brothers The Black Keys	1	3.57	-2.57
Document R.E.M.	1	3.56	-2.56
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes	1	3.49	-2.49
Odelay Beck	1	3.46	-2.46
The Soft Bulletin The Flaming Lips	1	3.28	-2.28
Elephant The White Stripes	2	3.85	-1.85
Automatic For The People R.E.M.	2	3.81	-1.81
A Short Album About Love The Divine Comedy	1	2.77	-1.77

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Ray Of Light

Madonna · 1 likes

4/5

did not know Madonna had game like this

Superunknown

Soundgarden · 1 likes

5/5

Rock and fuckin ROLL

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield · 1 likes

3/5

Felt very inspired then very critical and now I am here

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen · 1 likes

2/5

Is it mean of me to think his voice sucks?

Brothers

The Black Keys · 1 likes

1/5

oh brother this guy stinks

1-Star Albums (8)

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The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

2/5

Eh. I'm sure there's another life where I would have felt this more.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

Timeless. Little repetitive, but short and sweet and timeless.

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

3/5

Smash

The Offspring

2/5

I fell asleep

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

Ages well over the course of the album

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Would give 3.5 stars if possible

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

4/5

Favorite one so far

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

Easy

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

2/5

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

3/5

Surprised I enjoyed this more than I thought I would

Virgin Suicides

Air

4/5

You know what? This rocks

808 State

5/5

This music fucks

Odelay

Beck

1/5

I didn't think I'd ever actually reach for the one star button doing this

Boston

3/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

2/5

Feels like asking someone to eat Oregon Trail food and rate it

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

4/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Surprisingly underwhelmed

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

2/5

M m m m miiiiid

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

Wish I could 4.5 this but who cares! Life is too short to hate

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

3/5

Me when I fw Limp Bizkit now

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

2/5

First song bangs but tbh the rest struck me as a bunch of whiny screeching. Maybe I'm missing something #imightbeabitch

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Way groovier than anticipated

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

1/5

They thought "experimental music" meant experimenting with being ass lol Actually really enjoyed a song or two, but a broken clock is right twice a day and we can’t give it credit for that

Tidal

Fiona Apple

2/5

The Bends

Radiohead

3/5

2.5 stars really, but it’s cool to think that this is what they’re sound was at the very beginning

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

3/5

Short, to the point. Feels hard for me to be too critical

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Is it mean of me to think his voice sucks?

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

3/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Long but exceptional at every turn

Snivilisation

Orbital

4/5

Dangerously lit

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

2/5

Thank goodness music evolves

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

3/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

I See You

The xx

2/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

Sneaky goat

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

3/5

Mildly pleasantly surprised

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

I usually award threes as a result of distance from/apathy for the work, but this is an involved rating for me. I love the flow. I love the narrative arc, the persona, the feelings he’s tapping into. But I can’t help feeling like some of the music itself is just bad—scraping at my ears or something. I wish the star system better reflected how invested I am in the ratings I give.

Dummy

Portishead

1/5

Hate to hate but … (jk I love to hate)

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

3/5

Really down for whatever that was

Feast of Wire

Calexico

3/5

Really not my speed, but something undeniably enchanting about the whole thing. Feel like I just spent a couple hours with a stranger I met at a gas station of the 210 divining insights from lines in the desert sand.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

3/5

The Clash

3/5

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

The streak of perfectly okay albums is alive and well

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

3/5

What the hell, sure

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Adele

4/5

Capital p Pipes

Graceland

Paul Simon

1/5

Utterly soulless. So devoid of soul that listening evokes a mild terror, even

Live At Leeds

The Who

5/5

Ohhhhhh how my heart has been stolen

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Foo Fighters

4/5

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

4/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

Feels like a couple of my recent albums have toed the line between 3 and 4 stars for me, and every time I’ve ultimately leaned toward 4. I think my hesitation has to do with re-listen value; save for homesick alien there’s very little I’d sample from this album a la carte. But I have also an unequivocal sense I’m listening to something really deliberate and polished, a project more expansive than mere metrics like re-listen value can grasp. Maybe I’m talking about production, or maybe I’m talking about soul—whatever it is, it pushes this inexplicably into higher-star territory.

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

3/5

Sympathetic to this brand of strange

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

2/5

Just not my thing

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

2/5

In a bad mood rn

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

3/5

Think it's just perfectly pleasant

The Cars

3/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Felt very inspired then very critical and now I am here

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

No notes

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

4/5

Maybe I was just in a wistful mood but this got me feeling some kinda way

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

2/5

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

I get the comments about its overly silky smooth feel, but this really is quite enjoyable to listen to

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

I’m skeptical of anyone who calls this album a masterpiece, but so too am I skeptical of anyone who decries it as pointless whining. It sits very powerfully in between (although leaning masterpiece) and perfectly epitomizes what I love about Radiohead—fleeting pockets of brilliance, tucked in the folds of a much larger and more distressing sound. Uncomfortable that may be, is it not the truest reflection of our daily toils and rarer triumphs?

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

Arise

Sepultura

4/5

Fuck it what the hell this is great it’s all great it’s good feed me more mmhmm

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

5/5

I don't know if it was a coincidence this album arrived the day after Brian Wilson's death, or maybe 1001 pulled some strings. Either way, after listening to this and learning more about Wilson I felt I saw The Beach Boys as they are for the very first time--not just a golden, saccharine vision of California but the oh so complex people elegizing it. This album is strangely intense, wistful; it lands on the ears as good vibes and simultaneously betrays a much deeper current of feeling. Thanks, Brian, for everything you did.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

This is so fucking good

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

I thought all of the songs here were beautiful, but this is still a really generous 3 - the timbre of Cohen's voice just doesn't sit right with me

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

good background music

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

3/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

2/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

4/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Guero

Beck

3/5

Since Odelay I’ve been dreading the next Beck album, but I must say I was pleasantly surprised by this. Obviously a little wonky but not in the grating, inaccessible way I was expecting

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Never knew about his prison tour. The fact alone he’s at San Quentin makes this at least 4 stars, and his humor doesn’t hurt either

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

3/5

The fact this is a 3 despite its length is meant to be a compliment. Really do think it came alive in the back half

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

3/5

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

3/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

I know and can feel how important this album is as I listen, but the deadpan voice doesn’t quite do it for me. Feels like discount Jim Morrison

John Prine

2/5

I think my open-mindedness is wearing thin. I don’t doubt this is a good album for people who like country, and the lyrics are indeed sharp, but it’s just not for me

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

As charming as I find the concept here, this 3 still feels like a stretch. Something about these songs feels ever so slightly cloying, or maybe unfinished and over-polished at the same time. That said, they certainly put a smile on my face

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

This was gorgeous. Perfectly pleasant without being excessively sentimental; King's voice is a blessing to the ears.

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

3/5

I feel like this was good but not particularly memorable, although I also feel somehow that’s my fault

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

Play

Moby

3/5

Iron Maiden

3/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

2/5

Feels like it’s kind of off limits for a 1 because I don’t speak French But know that I was close

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

2/5

This feels like a caricature of music

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Not typically my jam but there’s some magic at work here

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

I think, in general, trip hop has catastrophic flop potential for me - only because so much of it is trying to emulate something only Massive Attack has. Not my fav album of theirs but lightning in a bottle no less

Cross

Justice

2/5

Daft punk pigeonholed into Fortnite lobby

Live Through This

Hole

3/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

2/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Something small-town and nostalgic about this; sounds are weird but welcome

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Rapture

Anita Baker

3/5

Holy pipes

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Strong 3. Obviously iconic, landing nicely on the ears

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

2/5

Good flow but not much head-bopping production

The Stooges

4/5

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

2/5

I think this is good but for some reason I was really annoyed it didn’t end sooner than it did

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

I think I liked this

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

I can’t really say that Queen is my sound but I’m not sure Queen isn’t my sound either

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

4/5

Repeater

Fugazi

4/5

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

3/5

Not really my jam. But I listened to this while in a lonely room in Guatemala, and for this it gets a 3.

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

3/5

Very Doors-y. I thought both lyrics and tune were pretty milquetoast - until the last song, and then I became about this album

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

Heard some songs off this before but wasn't familiar with the album. Fucking banggggggs

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

4/5

Pretty down for whatever tf is happening

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

Fine if not enjoyable

Tracy Chapman

3/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Gorgeous

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

Solid beats + solid flow = solid ranking

Document

R.E.M.

1/5

Feeling HATEFUL lfg!!

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

3/5

perfectly funday for monday. thank you sufjan

Slayed?

Slade

3/5

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

3/5

funkable

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

2/5

I usually like them I’m sorry but I was cooking while listening and cracked a rotten egg and my whole place smelled weird and this music was compounding the strangeness and I felt like I was in an ad for a punk horror movie and it was so weird and I’m so sorry Siouxsie

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

Love Depeche Mode. Feel like a supervillain in an aerobics leotard just challenged me to a dance off for the fate of the world

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

I really do fw these guys. Is that weird? Who else fw these guys?

McCartney

Paul McCartney

4/5

Dude. i thought george harrison won the post-breakup solo album war, but this was insance

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

2/5

Erm he's right behind me isn't he ahh album

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

3/5

Lovely but rather forgetful after the first song

Van Halen

2/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

2/5

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

1/5

oh brother this guy stinks

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Bruce really isn’t my generation. But he’s my mom’s, and she’d be upset if I gave him anything less than a 3

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

2/5

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

3/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

2/5

Blur

5/5

Bang bang bang bang BANG

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

3/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

2/5

B-52's

The B-52's

3/5

You know, I kinda fuck with "thrift shop aesthetic"

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

2/5

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

3/5

Mesmerizing voice, lyricism

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Hysteria

Def Leppard

3/5

I want to start paying more attention to these albums because my head's in the gutter - I think this was good? Maybe? Starting to blend together a bit with every album on either side, and I think that's maybe a reflection of the music but mostly one of me

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

2/5

Classic, obvs. Not really sure how I feel about the actual sound - kind of caricature-y, although I'm not entirely sure of what. Glad I heard it regardless

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

Quiet, a little indistinct but good

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

5/5

jesus christ i love these guys. super fun to go off spotify - feels like im really digging into sound when i do so and not deferring to routine. and what a sound to dig into. it's just groovy!

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

oh yes

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

3/5

“Oh that’s where that’s from” experience. Not bad

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

3/5

rockslop

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

2/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

3/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

2/5

Pretty voice. Not my thing

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

This is so, so awesome. First heard this in January and it was probably a favorite find of the year. Not a full five - there are moments I zone out or think to myself "what's happening?" - but otherwise every track here is just so poetic, so fluid, a boon to the soul

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Cracked some code. It just sounds fire

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

im pregnant

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

Sneaky gem? Who are these guys? Title track is a masterpiece

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

3/5

Sometimes I think my ratings of these albums are entirely circumstantial, or based solely on how much each jibed with what I was doing when I decided to listen - a system that makes this more of a journaling project than one of musical expansion. Whatever. I'm not a huge reggae fan, but for some reason it's a pretty good soundtrack to waking up at 5am and washing the pile of dishes you left in your sink

So Much For The City

The Thrills

2/5

I'm probably being a little harsh here. But to me this lead singer's voice overlaps with that of the guy from the flaming lips in an ugly venn diagram

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

2/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

This, to me, feels like the epitome of 1001 albums for someone (like me) without an entirely proper musical education. You learn about the bangahs!

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

3/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

3/5

I liked this, and his voice, more than I was expecting

Killing Joke

4/5

Fiery smooth, all at once

Femi Kuti

3/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

5/5

So much excellence in so few tracks

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Gonna use this box to say that "any color you like" is among the most underrated songs of the century

Suzanne Vega

3/5

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

3/5

Kind of annoying but also not bad?

Joan Armatrading

2/5

I have no memory of ever listening

Rage Against The Machine

3/5

loud

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

5/5

This was really really good. Lunging for a 5 to feel something

Ray Of Light

Madonna

4/5

did not know Madonna had game like this

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

1/5

it's never this dramatic

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

2/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

Grimy. In your face. Great

C'est Chic

CHIC

4/5

Groovyyy

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

One of those albums that feels difficult to relate to others. It's Ray Charles!

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

My GOATS as always

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Never really think of swing seriously, but this was banging. Might even come back

Superunknown

Soundgarden

5/5

Rock and fuckin ROLL

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

This was fun at first abut about an hour too long

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

2/5

Just kinda tough to get into man

Dire Straits

4/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

3/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

This made me quite happy

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

They’ve cornered this one sound but man is it delicious

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

Paul Simon

2/5

Meh

World Clique

Deee-Lite

4/5

Such a sucker for groove like this. Hard not to love

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

Not usually a rem guy but I really enjoyed this. Soft, wandering

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Such an awesome concept

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

gwoovy

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

3/5

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

5/5

even when an album sounds like 5 stars to me, i have a tendency to get cold feet - i'm looking for an opus - but this kind of shit just breaks through for some reason. it was 38 minutes of perfect idea, perfect exectuion; no, there WAS a depth of feeling; no, i DONT care about how this album is positioned in its genre or how it changed everything that came after. fuck you. i liked this. 5 stars.

Vespertine

Björk

4/5

texture - great word

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Wonderful

Violent Femmes

1/5

At first I thought this was merely mediocre, but no, no; this, in fact, is asswipe

The Yes Album