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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators The 13th Floor Elevators	5	2.95	+2.05
Hail To the Thief Radiohead	5	3.44	+1.56
Bummed Happy Mondays	4	2.64	+1.36
Back to Basics Christina Aguilera	4	2.76	+1.24

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club	1	3.66	-2.66
Pink Moon Nick Drake	1	3.65	-2.65
Rust Never Sleeps Neil Young & Crazy Horse	1	3.53	-2.53
Back At The Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith	1	3.39	-2.39
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	1	3.37	-2.37
Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow	1	3.36	-2.36
Home Is Where The Music Is Hugh Masekela	1	3.36	-2.36
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	1	3.32	-2.32
Rubber Soul Beatles	2	4.12	-2.12
The Who Sell Out The Who	1	3	-2

5-Star Albums (5)

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

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

Popular Reviews

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

I like the Smashing Pumpkins, but listening to a full album run of Billy Corgan vocals drains me.

2 likes

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

5/5

Love this era of psych rock.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (12)

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For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

3/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

2/5

Parklife

Blur

3/5

Likely burnt out from three days of British bands in a row, but I've also never been into Damon Albarn's works.

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

David Bowie

5/5

Upbeat and bright rock tunes with the essential Bowie dramatics, plenty of classics!

Rubber Soul

Beatles

2/5

I respect the Beatles, but this album wasn't particularly for me. The tracking is too simplistic for me but I'm probably very biased to modern techniques/methods. Probably was great for 1965 but there's a reason their latter albums are more renowned for them.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

A true gem by my standards as someone who doesn't listen to or gravitate to this genre. The depth of this album is just okay, but the all the great tracks hold this up. Bonus points for Eminem being one of the few rappers of which I can clearly understand the lyrics.

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

1/5

My ear isn't nuanced enough to really differentiate many of these tracks. "Salminanam" felt like a desperado cowboy western track.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

1/5

Not really my thing compounded with some of the album tracks not available on Spotify. The F*** Me (Interlude) was disturbing to me.

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

So many classic and very recognizable songs, so it's hard make any knocks against this album.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

2/5

None of the other songs on this album really stuck out to me aside from Tiny Dancer.

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Low streaming quality on Spotify weighs this rating down some, but was a decent enough album for my tastes.

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

1/5

First few songs held up for me listening on a bright and sunny morning, but then I got bored with each successive track.

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

5/5

Love this era of psych rock.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

1/5

This does not seem like a 'top 1001' album. Elevator/lobby music by today's standards.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

Oh look, Bob Dylan was coherent back in the day.

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

4/5

Not a huge fan of Aguilera, but can respect her. This album has some great songs. Loved the song 'Ain't No Other Man' when it was released, such a good backbeat and use of horn hits.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

1/5

Tuned this out and by the time I came back to it, was 11 tracks in. Couldn't remember a single thing.

Bummed

Happy Mondays

4/5

Pretty fun eclectic mix of songs! Wasn't convinced at the start, but came around on it as the album progressed.

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

5/5

An absolute gem - instant 5/5. Not my favorite Radiohead album, but in the context of these 1001 albums, its great. @joe this is MY college feels.

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

This doesn't really feel like it should be characterized as 'punk rock', but I enjoyed this as someone is ignorant of Patti Smith.

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

1/5

Wish I could rate 0, not music to me.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

So many classics, definitely worthy of this list. A number of tracks I had never heard before that could def pass off as good rock music in 2025.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

I thought this album artwork said 'Supertrump' at first. 😆 Pretty fun album!

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

This album doesn't exude as much "king of rock and roll" as other albums, but I found this okay.

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

1/5

Couldn't stand this album -- had to cut it off.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

I have actually never listened to any YYY albums straight through so this was fun. Some lulls for me but the more popularized songs are awesome.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

1/5

So boring. Needs the E Street Band with him (Max Weinberg 😍) to be interesting to me.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

I like the Smashing Pumpkins, but listening to a full album run of Billy Corgan vocals drains me.

Pornography

The Cure

2/5

I like Robert Smith, but hard for me to stomach a full album of him.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

I never truly appreciated / treasured Meat Loaf until he passed. This album was fun -- liked the fast paced dramatics.

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

3/5

Perfectly fine album, but didn't feel worthy of this list.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

1/5

The cover artwork is as campy as this album 😆

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

1/5

Neil Young's vocals are too whiny for me.

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

Sad to admit I've never listened to Pulp, but I found this album pretty fun despite it being on the longer side.

Third

Portishead

2/5

Def very Portishead 😅 -- too whiny/droning for my tastes. One of the few more modern albums on this list encountered so far.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

1/5

Couldn't listen to this during the day, however it was relaxing while cooking dinner. Overall, not what I'm looking for out of the this list.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

Energetic fun -- definitely foundational towards her evolution to the artist she is today. Not for me personally.

Buena Vista Social Club

1/5

Happy Cinco de Mayo.

En-Tact

The Shamen

3/5