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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Close To The Edge Yes	5	3.19	+1.81
Liquid Swords GZA	5	3.28	+1.72
The College Dropout Kanye West	5	3.31	+1.69
Tidal Fiona Apple	5	3.46	+1.54
Maggot Brain Funkadelic	5	3.6	+1.4
Orbital 2 Orbital	4	2.69	+1.31
Raw Like Sushi Neneh Cherry	4	2.71	+1.29
Movies Holger Czukay	4	2.71	+1.29
Atomizer Big Black	4	2.73	+1.27
Take Me Apart Kelela	4	2.75	+1.25

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Real Thing Faith No More	1	3.21	-2.21
Parachutes Coldplay	2	3.46	-1.46
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	2	3.43	-1.43
Synchronicity The Police	2	3.41	-1.41
xx The xx	2	3.36	-1.36
Permission to Land The Darkness	2	3.15	-1.15

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Pink Floyd	2	5

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Good Old Boys

Randy Newman · 2 likes

3/5

Why did he open it with that

The College Dropout

Kanye West · 1 likes

5/5

It's insane how different this is to so much of the other hip hop at the time, chipmunk soul will always have a very special place in my heart

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs · 1 likes

4/5

Maybe its because I love Arcade Fire, but I really enjoyed this! Super cool album. Very reminiscent of Bruce Springsteen too

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers · 1 likes

4/5

I love dancing! Dance music is fun and cool :)

1-Star Albums (1)

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Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Yea man Paul Simon the GOAT good shout from whoever sent him to Africa

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Solid Album, not Bowies best tho

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

More of a steely dan guy tbh

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

La woamn

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Incomparable vocalist RIP

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

The speaking parts were pretty funny tbh

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

4/5

Heard this one too recently, really good example of plunderphonics but significantly weaker than DJ Shadow's 'Endtroducing'. Also didn't seem to click with me as much as it appears to with many other people.

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

good post rock, fairly standard tho

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

The hits are good, rest of the album is pretty boring by comparison tho

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Enjoyed this far more than I expected to, may be because of the hipster glasses I'm wearing tho

More Specials

The Specials

3/5

Ska will never die

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

4/5

Waits has a very incomparable voice. Banging album

Viva Hate

Morrissey

3/5

Never really got the hype for Morrisey tbh, his solo stuff is absurdly less interesting than anything the Smiths have put out, and I'm not a particularly big Smiths fan in the first place

The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

Not really a soppy guy, this is good tho

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Yea man all time classic yeah man this is the dream aww yeah

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

4/5

I love this kinda 90s dance pop

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Very good band, hard to imagine listening to something like this when good music had only just been invented

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Very hit or miss. His cover of hurt is absolutely heartbreaking tho.

The xx

2/5

This is really lame unfortunately, real background music.

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

My dad absolutely hates Duran Duran, I think they're ok tho

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

being in a beastie boys-type group where we all say the last word of each line together would be so much fun. very enriching activity

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Fun production, fun album

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

monky :)

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Very homosexual music, also the early stereo songs with instruments in one ear and vocals in the other are really annoying, this was quite good though.

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

4/5

This was cool, always a big fan of the jazzy keys on rock songs like these

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Cool old bloke. Saw him live and hes still got it. Essentially 1 song tho

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

they put a fair few men on the moon tbf

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

She's got a lovely voice. There are better versions of pretty much all these songs tho unfortunately. Would recommend those instead

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Yeah thats a gorgeous album.

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

Some boring songs but some really fantastic ones as well! |Thumbs up from me

Low

David Bowie

4/5

Yea hes pretty good at music

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

4/5

This is very homosexual music, really great fun

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

I liked this album but not as much as a lot of other Radiohead albums

Tidal

Fiona Apple

5/5

Gorgeous album, Fiona Apple has such a powerful voice.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

2/5

This is what i call epicslop, like tenacious D and shit.

Orbital 2

Orbital

4/5

his was supe cool, some o my keys hae sopped wokin which is onna mess up his eiew a i ho...

Movies

Holger Czukay

4/5

This was cool, would like to delve into krautrock a bit more cos im a big prog fan by and large

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Really cool album, Hendrix was so cool

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

This lot need to cheer up. They should listen to house music or something

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Gorgeous album, That Lady is so much fun and their summer breeze cover is pretty cool too

Eliminator

ZZ Top

4/5

Good album, rather ridiculous

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Bar the hits, this album is pretty boring. The scientist and Clocks are undeniably great, but there are only 2 other songs really worth mentioning.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

Tuff

Parachutes

Coldplay

2/5

Way more boring than A Rush Of Blood To The Head, which is saying a lot

Clandestino

Manu Chao

3/5

pretty good i guess

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Should have put something on the cover tbh

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

3/5

Lots of lovely love songs, i got bare hate in my heart tho

Green

R.E.M.

3/5

Whiny bloke this guy

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

4/5

Very beautiful, you can see where his son gets it from

Take Me Apart

Kelela

4/5

Very nice voice, I had a lot of fun listening to this, she seems very cool

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

3/5

Fun little album,some v interesting and different songs like Shambala

Black Sabbath

4/5

RIP to the Lord of Darkness, very good album

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

3/5

Nice traditional music, very interesting when done well

Third

Portishead

4/5

Portishead are so goated mane

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

4/5

Very pretty music, a lot of fantastic stuff comes out of West Africa

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Very beautiful, very genuine, I love these guys :)

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

Stan Getz is fantastic. Its no Getz/Gilberto, but a very worthwhile listen nonetheless

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Such fun!

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Definitive disco. Weaker than Thriller, but what album isn't?

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

3/5

Wonderwalls actually pretty good lol

Blood, Sweat & Tears

3/5

Some good songs but not a game changer for me

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

One of Radiohead's best. I love Jigsaws

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

I've never much been impressed by commercial punk music. There's some fun songs on this tho

Close To The Edge

Yes

5/5

Really one of the best ever. I <3 Yes!

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

3/5

Nice noodly psych rock

Liquid Swords

GZA

5/5

Fantastic production, really fun lyrics too

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Fela Kuti is probably one of the artists that I am most sad about never being able to see. These live sessions sound like so much fun

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

It's insane how different this is to so much of the other hip hop at the time, chipmunk soul will always have a very special place in my heart

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

Arrested Development

3/5

It's pretty good I guess, a lot less interesting than a lot of music that their contemporaries were making tho

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Some proper banging tracks on this one

White Ladder

David Gray

3/5

Not really my cuppa but quite nice nonetheless

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

3/5

Shes got a crazy powerful voice

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

Who caresssssss. This was very boring unfortunately, a lot of people seem to really enjoy it.

Atomizer

Big Black

4/5

Good fun, I enjoyed songs about fucking a lot more, but this is very cool too! RIP Steve Albini

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

One of the best of all time, very understandable as to why it is on so many t-shirts

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

4/5

Some really cool deep house/jungle tracks. Very nice mellow dance music

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

Uncle hip hop. Pretty fun

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

They used to just clart that piano and yell shit

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Really cool, very funny as well! It's really interesting how openly critical he is of the prison

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

3/5

Never been a band I got tbh. It was ok.

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

4/5

That was great. What a fantastic man!

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

I've not listened to much grunge before, but this was absolutely fantastic. What a great album

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

Good grunge album, Kurt seemed like a lovely guy

Elvis Presley

3/5

Cool ig. Changed music a lot for sure

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

Perfect album apart from all the fartin at the end. Whats that about

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Not really my kinda music, the hits on this album are great but the rest is kinda just filler

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

4/5

My dad had this album on CD and played it all the time in the car, so this is a very nostalgic album for me. I recognise almost all of the songs by sound, and nearly none by name lol.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

Green Onions is great, and there are also other songs on this album

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Mayfield definitely has better albums, but this is still very cool and super poignant

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

I feel like I'm a bit too young for Green Day, never really got it tbh

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Really cool music

Connected

Stereo MC's

3/5

Pretty cool, a little unnoteworthy

Close To You

Carpenters

3/5

Some very sweet songs in here

New York Dolls

4/5

Wasn't expecting much but that was super fun!

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

Miles Davis is the GOAT! This isn't his best work tho

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

What a great album! So influential and a real staple where I'm from. Kill all white people

Foo Fighters

3/5

I've always hated the Foo Fighters on principal. This was fine tho

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

3/5

Arcade Fire for Hamilton fans? is this anything? i dont know

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

3/5

I'd never listened to Queen Latifah before. Thumbs up emoji

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

What a legend! Rest In Peace

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

Massive Attacks so sick man. Should have put a bug on the cover tho.

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

3/5

Quite reddit.

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

3/5

Why did he open it with that

Permission to Land

The Darkness

2/5

More epicslop.

Tommy

The Who

3/5

Actually quite liked that

Ray Of Light

Madonna

4/5

Very sexy, very cool.I like how shes Indian for a bit.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

3/5

I felt like this album trails off a bit, starts out cool tho, love a bit of Amy. You ever seen the statue of her in Camden? Shits fucked up.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Three friends is a nice name for an album. i am going to go hang out with three of my friends now

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Maybe its because I love Arcade Fire, but I really enjoyed this! Super cool album. Very reminiscent of Bruce Springsteen too

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

4/5

I really enjoyed this album! Not groundbreaking but very pretty :)

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

3/5

Good album ig

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

4/5

Unc crashing out cos he never got the chance to hop on fortnite, sad really...

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

Actually good fun! I find that jam bands can be pretty hit or miss for me, so I'm glad this one hit.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Some great standards - really cool jazz

Roxy Music

3/5

Pretty interesting, although I thought the B-side was significantly weaker. Very interesting comparing this to the music Eno makes just 5-6 years later.

Synchronicity

The Police

2/5

Not a big fan of Sting, and I am feeling mean today

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

3/5

Was LL Cool J actually meant to be cool? A lot his bars were really corny and pretty lame. Beats were sick tho

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

2/5

Very sleepy, kind of yawn inducing. Good for lullabies

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

Never really checked out Bob Dylan before, I kinda get it now

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

4/5

Metallica has made so much music over the years, with some of it even being good!

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Not quite as good as Off The Wall, but still really hits!

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

3/5

Kind of amusing. Friend of a Devil is a really fun song. A lot of it wasn't too standout for me tho

The Real Thing

Faith No More

1/5

Didn't get this at all. A bunch of corny metal songs? Is that it?

Raw Power

The Stooges

3/5

Some fun songs I guess, not much to write home about.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

A couple of cool songs and some less interesting ones.

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5

I've always found Prince a bit corny tbh

Copper Blue

Sugar

3/5

That was ok, a bit cheesy but not in a bad way

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

4/5

If you think this album isn't long enough or something you're lame

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

I love dancing! Dance music is fun and cool :)

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

I loved Bad Moon Rising when I was like 6 and I think it was because it was the first song on my mums ipod

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

The Beastie Boys are so fun lol, I enjoy what they do but it isn't the kind of music I could listen to every day. I would get sad that i don't have my own group of boys to yell the last word of every line with.

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

3/5

Very pretty songs, quite a long album tho for not loads of variance. I guess God really is that great!

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

3/5

Got increasingly boring. Also why did I Got Trouble sound like that? Did they mix it wrong? First few tracks were fun tho but way too long of an album

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

4/5

Primal Scream are super cool! What fun :)

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

Such a beautiful album. Tea for the tillerman might be the best song under 1:30, so much love shoved into a tiny package.

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

What a grand album! I think I'm more of a Nevermind guy, but this is obviously fantastic

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

3/5

This wasn't what I was expecting when I first saw this album. Flamin' Groovies implied a disco album, and Teenage Head implied some sort of paedophilic rock. This album was neither, and was quite fun, I suppose.