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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Gilded Palace Of Sin | 5 | 2.93 | +2.07 |
| Dog Man Star | 5 | 3 | +2 |
| A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse | 5 | 3.24 | +1.76 |
| Achtung Baby | 5 | 3.3 | +1.7 |
| Cupid & Psyche 85 | 4 | 2.39 | +1.61 |
| Different Class | 5 | 3.42 | +1.58 |
| Fear Of Music | 5 | 3.47 | +1.53 |
| Electric Warrior | 5 | 3.54 | +1.46 |
| Talking Heads 77 | 5 | 3.56 | +1.44 |
| Violator | 5 | 3.7 | +1.3 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suzanne Vega | 1 | 3.02 | -2.02 |
| Bug | 1 | 2.92 | -1.92 |
| Ys | 1 | 2.8 | -1.8 |
| Medúlla | 1 | 2.72 | -1.72 |
| The United States Of America | 1 | 2.61 | -1.61 |
| Hounds Of Love | 2 | 3.61 | -1.61 |
| Timeless | 1 | 2.53 | -1.53 |
| Blue | 2 | 3.49 | -1.49 |
| Pretzel Logic | 2 | 3.4 | -1.4 |
| Punishing Kiss | 1 | 2.4 | -1.4 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Pink Floyd | 2 | 5 |
| Talking Heads | 2 | 5 |
| David Bowie | 4 | 4.25 |
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Stevie Wonder
3/5
Fav Song: Isn't She Lovely
Notes: Waaay too long (and somewhat boring) but out of respect for its legacy and influence, going with a 3. RIP Coolio.
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AC/DC
4/5
Have on vinyl: Yes.
Rating: 8.15
Fav Song: hard not to pick the title track, but going with If You Want Blood (you've got it)
The White Stripes
3/5
Have on vinyl: No
Rating: 7.9
Fav Song: My Doorbell
Notes: Like a lot of White Stripes, I want to like it more than I do.
Elton John
3/5
Have on vinyl: No
Rating: 8
Fav Song: Tiny Dancer
Notes: Indian Sunset...did not age well
Arctic Monkeys
5/5
Have on vinyl: Yes
Rating: 9.2
Fav Song: Mardy Bum
Notes: Fucking great. Pre-Hanna when this came out. A lot of Blackout (pinball), beer, and this with Kruz
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Have on vinyl: YesX2
Rating: 7.5
Fav Song: Castles Made of Sand
Notes: 1st track is annoying. Overall it's OK but pretty meh. Would go 2.5 stars if that were an option
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Have on vinyl: No
Rating: 7.5
Fav Song: Son of a Preacher Man
Notes: Harder to like an album when the singer wrote none of the songs.
The Fall
3/5
Have on vinyl: No
Rating: 7.7
Fav song: The League of Bald-Headed Men
Note: James Murphy called this band "his Beatles" and you can hear the influence; this increases my rating as a lot of it is rambling.
Deep Purple
4/5
Have on vinyl: As of today, Yes.
Rating: 8.4
Fav Song: Smoke on the Water is iconic, but I'm digging Lazy today.
Notes: Bangers
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Fav Song: Isn't She Lovely
Notes: Waaay too long (and somewhat boring) but out of respect for its legacy and influence, going with a 3. RIP Coolio.
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
Have on vinyl: No
Fav Song: The Hardest Walk
Notes: Early Shoegaze
The Clash
5/5
Have on vinyl: Yesx2
Fav Song: Lost in the Supermarket
Notes: All timer
The Flying Burrito Brothers
5/5
Have on vinyl: Yes
Fav Song: Hot Burritos
Notes: I love Gram Parsons. Was at 4.5 stars but rounding up. Big time influence on the 70's soft/country rock scene.
Björk
3/5
Have on vinyl: No
Fav Track: Big Time Sensuality
Notes: The cover song is unnecessary.
Depeche Mode
3/5
Vinyl: Yes
Fav Song: Strangelove
Notes: I want it to be better than it is. Violator is 5 stars.
Pulp
5/5
Have on vinyl: Yes. Yellow colored
Fav Track: Like picking your favorite kid...but going with Underwear.
Notes: Top 5 album
Adele
3/5
Have on Vinyl: No
Fav Song: All I Ask
Notes: Great voice just not my style
Red Snapper
3/5
Have on Vinyl: No
Fav Song: Bussing
Note: Interesting; had not heard this before
Beastie Boys
4/5
Have on Vinyl: No
Fav Song: Get it Together w/Q-Tip
Notes: Falls off towards the end
Pere Ubu
3/5
Have on vinyl: No
Fav song: Modern Dance
Notes: Takes some getting used to. I was at one point at a 1, then a 2, ended with a 3 after more listens.
Jack White
4/5
Vinyl: No
Fav Song: Weep Themselves to Sleep
John Lee Hooker
3/5
Vinyl: No
Fav Song: The Healer
Notes: Good but a bit disjointed.
Gillian Welch
3/5
Fav Song: Elvis Blues.
Notes: Great story telling but a bit sleepy.
Jurassic 5
4/5
Vinyl: No
Fav Song: Freedom
Notes: There is some downtime on it but nostalgia clicks this over to a 4 for me. Chali 2na is great
Depeche Mode
5/5
Vinyl: Yes
Fav Song: All of it
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
3/5
Ali Farka Touré
2/5
Eagles
3/5
Muddy Waters
4/5
Vinyl: Want
Fav: Blues Had a Baby
The Prodigy
3/5
Vinyl: No
Fav: Voodoo People
Frank Ocean
4/5
Fav: Lost
Notes: Some bangers. Takes some getting used to
U2
5/5
Vinyl: Want
Fav Song: So Cruel
Dwight Yoakam
3/5
Fav: What I Don't Know
Devendra Banhart
2/5
Fav: Fall
Notes: Not for me.
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Fav: You Want It Darker
Notes: Powerful shit. Released just before his death. If I Didn't Have Your Love is a tear jerker for me.
Franz Ferdinand
4/5
Fav: Take Me Out
Dr. Dre
4/5
Fav: Fuck Wit Dre Day
Notes: Nostalgia runs high with this one. Relistening, this seems a bit too long and as a kid I didn't realize how much he was sampling from P-Funk. Main songs still hold up for me.
Fats Domino
3/5
Fav: Blue Monday
Notes: It's good. Would do 3.5 if that were an option
The Cars
4/5
Fav: Just What I Needed
Notes: Some bangers, some down tracks for me.
Primal Scream
3/5
Fav: Trainspotting
Notes: Some good grooves
T. Rex
5/5
Vinyl: Yes
Fav: Jeepster
Notes: This is a top 10, maybe top 5 album for me
Prince
3/5
Vinyl: Yes
Fav: Little Red Corvette
Notes: Cut some this shit down and it's probably 4 stars.
Dinosaur Jr.
1/5
Fav: Meh...Freak Scene
Notes: Nah, at least it's relatively short. "Don't" kicks it down to a 1 star
10cc
2/5
Fav: Wall Street Shuffle
Green Day
4/5
Fav: Whatsername
Notes: A lot of good/great tracks.
Elis Regina
3/5
Fav: Tiro Ao Alvaro
Note: Good lounge singer vibes. Who knows, might even be a 4 if I could speak Portuguese
Alanis Morissette
3/5
Fav: You Oughta Know
Notes: High school flashbacks with this one...scared to talk to girls who were Alanis-heads. Shame really. Some good tracks but not one I'll likely come back to.
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
Fav: I'm Goin Down
Notes: Holy hits. Classic. 4.5 = rounding 5
The Mamas & The Papas
3/5
Fav: California Dreamin'
Notes: Lots of nostalgia on this one. Good but not great.
Vinyl: Yes, but not the cover actually showing the toilet. Those are rare and worth hundreds; it was apparently a big scandal at the time to show a toilet on an album cover. After the first run, the subsequent releases had it covered up.
Tracy Chapman
3/5
Fav: Fast Car..gotta be
Vinyl: Yes
Notes: Mountains O' Things sounds a helluva lot like an Ed Sheeran arrangement...I always knew that guy was a fraud 😄
The Magnetic Fields
3/5
Fav: The One You Really Love
Notes: This one takes some getting used to. Clocking in at nearly 3 hours, it's hard to do that in one day as this exercise demands. Def could have been cut down but then you wouldn't have 69 songs I guess. Good bit of song writing nonetheless.
Amy Winehouse
4/5
Fav: Mr. Magic
Notes: Great voice. Good vibe on this previously unheard album for me.
Germs
3/5
Credited as the first hard punk album and produced by Joan Jett. I can appreciate what it's doing but I don't really dig it. 2.5 stars but rounding up today
ABBA
3/5
Fav: Why Did It Have To Be Me?
Notes: Ups and downs.
Calexico
3/5
Notes: Interesting and unheard until today.
The Smiths
4/5
Fav: Barbarism Begins at Home
Notes: Probably my least favorite Smiths album but still pretty, pretty good.
Fatboy Slim
2/5
Fav: ayeyaiyai, they all seem so pretentious. Praise You is probably the most listenable.
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
3/5
Fav: The Sound of Someone You Love Who's Going Away and It Doesn't Matter
Notes: I surprisingly enjoyed this 70's classical shit. Played on repeat yesterday on the disc golf course and it was quite right.
Adele
3/5
Fav: He Won't Go
Notes: Some really good songs. Cure cover is unnecessary.
Quicksilver Messenger Service
3/5
I like Who Do You Love...but an entire album of it? It's too much. Jam-bandy. Not bad but not that interesting to me.
Massive Attack
4/5
Ms. Dynamite
3/5
Some bangers. Got a bit too long IMO.
Eminem
3/5
25 years ago I was all in on this. 25 years later...it feels more awkward than anything.
The United States Of America
1/5
Hot Mess.
Astor Piazzolla
2/5
Not my thing.
Sister Sledge
3/5
Some daft funky vibes but the title track I can't stomach anymore
Suede
5/5
On the first 5 listens, this one is OK. On 10, it's even better and by now my ranking is a 4.5. Which puts me over to a 5.
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Slipknot
3/5
It's a lot.
Count Basie & His Orchestra
4/5
Tight. Really listenable.
Nightmares On Wax
4/5
Will for sure be back to this one for more. Good shit
Pixies
3/5
Close to a 4, but this doesn't quite hold up to their other albums Surfa Rosa and Doolittle
The Band
4/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Missy Elliott
3/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
A Tribe Called Quest
4/5
Good rhymes, full of funk
Arcade Fire
3/5
Pretty down on my list of fav AF albums
Roni Size
2/5
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
Suzanne Vega
1/5
Woof
ABBA
3/5
A solid 3
Cee Lo Green
3/5
The Cure
4/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Bye Bye Love sticks out like the cheap cover it is but otherwise a very good album.
Madness
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
William Orbit
3/5
Fun, but boring at times.
The Doors
4/5
Classic
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
3/5
Lots of pickin' and old tymey shit but it has its place
Os Mutantes
3/5
Prince
4/5
Frank Zappa
4/5
Soul II Soul
3/5
Booker T. & The MG's
3/5
It's serviceable.
Bob Dylan
4/5
Classic album.
Pink Floyd
5/5
Tears For Fears
3/5
Parliament
4/5
Kate Bush
2/5
woof
Björk
1/5
OutKast
3/5
Started off hot but cooled off
5/5
Saint Etienne
3/5
Janet Jackson
3/5
Black Sabbath
3/5
Nothing that blew me away. Solid album nonetheless.
Oasis
4/5
Solid track after track
The Byrds
2/5
2.5
The Who
3/5
Kanye West
4/5
Nick Drake
4/5
Robert Wyatt
1/5
not very enjoyable.
Charles Mingus
3/5
It's fine.
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Solid track after track
Black Sabbath
3/5
Goldie
1/5
Kanye West
3/5
3.5.
PJ Harvey
2/5
Richard Hawley
4/5
Smokey, nightclub sound. Good stuff.
Miles Davis
4/5
Fever Ray
2/5
The Chemical Brothers
2/5
Noisy. A bit of a slog.
Kelela
3/5
It's fine.
Ella Fitzgerald
3/5
6 discs?? Exhausting
Carpenters
2/5
Good voice but ayyaiyai this one is rough
Tito Puente
3/5
Nina Simone
3/5
Neil Young
4/5
Ray Price
4/5
D'Angelo
3/5
Pretty solid. I like the gospel vibes
Muddy Waters
3/5
Cat Stevens
4/5
Beatles
4/5
4/5
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
2/5
Not unlistenable but yikes
The Young Gods
3/5
It's a trip
Digital Underground
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Contains probably my fav Bowie song
Ananda Shankar
3/5
some good shit, some not great covers.
Gary Numan
4/5
Sunday is a tough listening day for me and this needs more listens to make a final call, but digging it quite a bit. Rating based on the OG album => ending on Engineers.
Pink Floyd
5/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Chooglin' to a 3.5 but I'll give it 4 since they created a new word
R.E.M.
4/5
REM has better albums but there's some bangers on here.
XTC
3/5
Some good. Some forgettable.
James Brown
4/5
Fun and quick
Big Star
4/5
Sebadoh
2/5
Woof
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5/5
Christina Aguilera
3/5
3/5
The Kinks
4/5
Coldplay
3/5
Milton Nascimento
3/5
Michael Kiwanuka
4/5
Will come back to this one for sure.
Talking Heads
5/5
Facking love this one.
The Prodigy
3/5
Death In Vegas
4/5
Fun one
Anthrax
3/5
Jefferson Airplane
3/5
Emmylou Harris
3/5
Sleepy bunch of tired ass old country songs
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Public Enemy
4/5
The Triffids
3/5
Lou Reed
3/5
Not my fav Lou material; much bigger fan of VU-era stuff.
Alice In Chains
4/5
Need to spend more time with this one
Destiny's Child
3/5
Not my thing but can see why it was popular
The Thrills
3/5
Sufjan Stevens
3/5
It's fine. It has good lyrics. It's too long.
The Sonics
3/5
It's pretty one note but the sound kicked off some garage sound in rock I guess so that is something.
B.B. King
4/5
Legend shit
Pavement
3/5
I hesitate to give it a 2 star but man some of it annoys me.
4/5
Everything But The Girl
3/5
Screaming Trees
4/5
David Bowie
3/5
Can
3/5
Kraut-rock!
The Rolling Stones
3/5
All covers, save for 1 song...OK.
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Surprising. I had only heard a few of these before this.
The Specials
3/5
Steely Dan
2/5
1st track is a classic but it's downhill fast from there.
Justin Timberlake
3/5
Is it over yet? Long and similar
Sex Pistols
4/5
John Martyn
3/5
Solid
Air
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Duran Duran
3/5
Beastie Boys
3/5
Ravi Shankar
2/5
Influential maybe but not my thing.
Scritti Politti
4/5
Fun and totallllly 80's
David Bowie
5/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Odd album. I have listened to this probably 20+ times in the last year or two and still doesn't quite click for me.
Arrested Development
3/5
Some good tracks. Some boring tracks.
X-Ray Spex
4/5
Fun
Radiohead
4/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
Supergrass
4/5
Diggin it. Never heard this before, but I'll be back
The Go-Go's
3/5
Manu Chao
4/5
Fun one
Joy Division
3/5
I want to like it more than I do.
The Gun Club
3/5
Joni Mitchell
2/5
Django Django
3/5
Guns N' Roses
5/5
Wilco
4/5
Solid
Ute Lemper
1/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
3/5
meh
Sonic Youth
3/5
lotta noise
Ray Charles
4/5
Love the horns
Songhoy Blues
3/5
Solid 3 - 3.5
Aretha Franklin
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Solid 4
Joanna Newsom
1/5
yikes
Teenage Fanclub
4/5
Fun one. Big Star for the 90's
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Meat Loaf
3/5
It's good; just played out for me.
Johnny Cash
4/5
Classic
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
Beastie Boys
4/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
LL Cool J
3/5
Mylo
3/5
SOLID 3
Talking Heads
5/5
The Young Rascals
4/5
Solid short & sweet album. A couple mainstream songs, but a lot unfamiliar late 60's tracks
Chicago
3/5
Neil Young
4/5
Love
3/5
Tom Waits
4/5
Sinead O'Connor
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
TLC
2/5
The Jam
4/5
Kinks-y
CHIC
3/5
Funky bass lines
Metallica
3/5
4/5
Fun one to get to know!
Cowboy Junkies
4/5
Good stuff; had to pull out the vinyl and hear it on that as well
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
3/5
It's good but not my thing
Ian Dury
3/5
Quirky. Good riffs.
Thelonious Monk
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Good is great but some of this is too meandering and jazzy at times.
3/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
Takes some getting into but the noise does turn to music eventually.
k.d. lang
2/5
Woof. Some lounge singer bullshit
Lauryn Hill
4/5
Gene Clark
4/5
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
Funky and horny
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
Solid album
Orange Juice
4/5
Unexpected. Big fan
The Blue Nile
4/5
I'm at a 3.5 so wavering between 3 & 4 stars.
Gil Scott-Heron
3/5
Pretty meh, but good musicianship
The Allman Brothers Band
4/5
OG Jam album
Shack
3/5
It's fine. Here is my note from10/4/2022 on this album: blah
Klaxons
3/5
Hyper and somewhat disjointed
Beatles
4/5
Perhaps the lowest rated Beatles album IMO. Too many covers
2/5
It's tough.
Deep Purple
4/5
New Order
3/5
It's fine
The Cure
3/5
It's fine
Marvin Gaye
4/5
good album, better story
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