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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Kollaps
Einstürzende Neubauten
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5 | 1.92 | +3.08 |
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Logical Progression
LTJ Bukem
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5 | 2.52 | +2.48 |
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The United States Of America
The United States Of America
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5 | 2.61 | +2.39 |
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Atomizer
Big Black
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5 | 2.73 | +2.27 |
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Faust IV
Faust
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5 | 2.78 | +2.22 |
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My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Brian Eno
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5 | 2.79 | +2.21 |
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Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
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5 | 2.88 | +2.12 |
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NEU! 75
Neu!
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5 | 3.1 | +1.9 |
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Loveless
My Bloody Valentine
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5 | 3.18 | +1.82 |
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Fun House
The Stooges
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5 | 3.27 | +1.73 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
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1 | 3.86 | -2.86 |
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Graceland
Paul Simon
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1 | 3.73 | -2.73 |
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Madman Across The Water
Elton John
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1 | 3.59 | -2.59 |
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On The Beach
Neil Young
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1 | 3.46 | -2.46 |
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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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1 | 3.39 | -2.39 |
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At Mister Kelly's
Sarah Vaughan
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1 | 3.38 | -2.38 |
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Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
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1 | 3.37 | -2.37 |
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Rock 'N Soul
Solomon Burke
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1 | 3.37 | -2.37 |
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Sea Change
Beck
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1 | 3.33 | -2.33 |
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Channel Orange
Frank Ocean
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1 | 3.33 | -2.33 |
5-Star Albums (20)
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Grant Lee Buffalo · 3 likes
2/5
It's okay, but there's absolutely no reason for this album to be on this list.
Drive-By Truckers · 2 likes
1/5
Imagine how good this list could be without the ridiculous angloamerican bias.
Einstürzende Neubauten · 2 likes
5/5
While I might not give this album a full five stars in general, I'll be doing it here not only as a counter for this being (currently) second to lowest rated album on the whole site, but also because I think this is the kind of album that truly defines what SHOULD be on a "1001 albums you must hear before you die" type of a playlist. It might not be – in a big picture – commercially relevant, but it's a albums like these that truly define a marginal but overly passionate genre of music and is culturally far more relevant than any random mainstream one-hit-wonder or otherwise meaningless trendy thing from a short period of time in the past this list also has. It's albums like these you SHOULD hear at least once in your life to know just what kind of music people in the underground, in the shadows of the mainstream are overly passionate about. I completely understand why people might not like this, as it's clearly not for everyone (and then again what even is?) but I hope it makes at least a couple of people think what might be the idea and inspiration behind something like this.
Oh, and it's still a great and pioneering record in its genre regardless, don't forget that.
Ice Cube · 1 likes
2/5
Nothing too interesting music-wise but I appreciate the antisemitism and misogyny.
The Killers · 1 likes
2/5
The kind of music you’d hear playing on the radio in a public space and remember absolutely nothing about afterwards cause it blends perfectly into the endless mass of other similar, thoroughly sterile, harmless, modern soft rock bands.
1-Star Albums (31)
All Ratings
Pink Floyd
3/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
Soundgarden
2/5
Metallica
3/5
Portishead
3/5
Fatboy Slim
3/5
Bebel Gilberto
3/5
Blue Cheer
3/5
Hanoi Rocks
2/5
The Who
2/5
Tricky
3/5
John Prine
1/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
The United States Of America
5/5
Fever Ray
2/5
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
1/5
Bob Dylan
2/5
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
1/5
Joanna Newsom
3/5
Nirvana
3/5
Country Joe & The Fish
2/5
Sugar
3/5
Rush
3/5
The Rolling Stones
1/5
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
5/5
Kanye West
1/5
Steely Dan
3/5
Brian Eno
3/5
Miles Davis
5/5
Raekwon
1/5
Parliament
2/5
Machito
2/5
Orange Juice
1/5
Miles Davis
2/5
Peter Gabriel
5/5
Stevie Wonder
2/5
Cat Stevens
4/5
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
Def Leppard
2/5
Marty Robbins
2/5
Amy Winehouse
3/5
Klaxons
2/5
David Bowie
3/5
Fatboy Slim
3/5
The Flaming Lips
3/5
Paul Simon
1/5
Joy Division
4/5
Carole King
2/5
Duke Ellington
2/5
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
4/5
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Sade
2/5
Moby Grape
2/5
Beck
1/5
Björk
4/5
John Grant
1/5
3/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
Beatles
3/5
The Beta Band
2/5
Tito Puente
2/5
John Lennon
2/5
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Van Morrison
2/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
The Clash
3/5
Peter Frampton
1/5
Deep Purple
4/5
Beatles
3/5
Wilco
1/5
Beastie Boys
3/5
Pere Ubu
2/5
Booker T. & The MG's
3/5
Talking Heads
3/5
Drive-By Truckers
1/5
Imagine how good this list could be without the ridiculous angloamerican bias.
Sister Sledge
2/5
Sheryl Crow
2/5
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Talk Talk
3/5
The Cure
5/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
The Human League
2/5
The Police
3/5
The Velvet Underground
3/5
Drive Like Jehu
3/5
Ride
4/5
Public Enemy
3/5
Fred Neil
2/5
Dusty Springfield
2/5
Ella Fitzgerald
2/5
CHIC
2/5
I mostly just listened to the bass through the entire album. I'd give the bass a solid 5/5, then rest of it is a mere 2/5.
The Who
3/5
JAY Z
1/5
Sarah Vaughan
1/5
Grant Lee Buffalo
2/5
It's okay, but there's absolutely no reason for this album to be on this list.
Black Flag
3/5
Radiohead
3/5
Einstürzende Neubauten
5/5
While I might not give this album a full five stars in general, I'll be doing it here not only as a counter for this being (currently) second to lowest rated album on the whole site, but also because I think this is the kind of album that truly defines what SHOULD be on a "1001 albums you must hear before you die" type of a playlist. It might not be – in a big picture – commercially relevant, but it's a albums like these that truly define a marginal but overly passionate genre of music and is culturally far more relevant than any random mainstream one-hit-wonder or otherwise meaningless trendy thing from a short period of time in the past this list also has. It's albums like these you SHOULD hear at least once in your life to know just what kind of music people in the underground, in the shadows of the mainstream are overly passionate about. I completely understand why people might not like this, as it's clearly not for everyone (and then again what even is?) but I hope it makes at least a couple of people think what might be the idea and inspiration behind something like this.
Oh, and it's still a great and pioneering record in its genre regardless, don't forget that.
Black Sabbath
3/5
Roxy Music
4/5
Bill Evans Trio
3/5
The Triffids
2/5
The Blue Nile
3/5
Fleet Foxes
2/5
Pixies
3/5
Television
2/5
The Byrds
2/5
Jimmy Smith
2/5
Throwing Muses
2/5
DJ Shadow
4/5
Frank Zappa
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Le Tigre
3/5
The Beau Brummels
2/5
Oh wow, another American folk-rock album.
2/5
John Lee Hooker
1/5
Slipknot
3/5
Perhaps the best album the nu-metal craze ever spawned (this, Korn's debut or Sepultura's Roots). So that's a solid 3/5.
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
Morrissey
3/5
Herbie Hancock
5/5
Motörhead
4/5
Vitun AWESOME ajaa autoo täysii ja kuunnella Motörheadii!
Lauryn Hill
2/5
Spiritualized
4/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
Michael Kiwanuka
4/5
Kanye West
4/5
I had to listen to his debut earlier and it was basically shite all around, while this one's actually got a lot of genuinely great stuff in it, musicwise. Shame that the lyrical content is still mostly about how he's got a big dick and fucks sluts.
The Cure
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
2/5
Neil Young
1/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
TV On The Radio
2/5
Giant Sand
1/5
Nothing really wrong with it, but will I ever listen to this again? No. Will I even remember that I listened to this album a couple of days from now? No. So in a way an "okay" album that's thoroughly forgettable and unremarkable is a lot worse than an album that's genuinely bad but at least leaves a memory and a mark with its awfulness. This is just lukewarm and irrelevant.
Billy Bragg
1/5
This list has made me dislike country more than ever before.
The Specials
1/5
At least the singer let’s his accent shine. Only thing making this even worse would’ve been a yank singing.
Amy Winehouse
2/5
Elvis Presley
1/5
Nick Drake
5/5
Morrissey
4/5
Devendra Banhart
2/5
Pulp
2/5
Meat Loaf
3/5
Brian Eno
4/5
Ice Cube
2/5
Nothing too interesting music-wise but I appreciate the antisemitism and misogyny.
Aretha Franklin
2/5
ABBA
3/5
Jack White
3/5
Gil Scott-Heron
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
Sepultura
4/5
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
2/5
Nick Drake
4/5
Stan Getz
3/5
Japan
2/5
The National
2/5
Pearl Jam
2/5
M.I.A.
4/5
Electric Light Orchestra
2/5
Norah Jones
3/5
Ray Charles
2/5
Jefferson Airplane
3/5
Linkin Park
2/5
Somehow I feel very dirty listening to this as a 38 years old man. Don’t really know why that is.
Deep Purple
4/5
Alanis Morissette
2/5
The Darkness
3/5
Solomon Burke
1/5
Rocket From The Crypt
2/5
The xx
2/5
Rage Against The Machine
4/5
Jimi Hendrix
2/5
Motörhead
3/5
Elton John
1/5
Van Halen
2/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
G. Love & Special Sauce
2/5
Radiohead
3/5
Keith Jarrett
5/5
Big Black
5/5
Count Basie & His Orchestra
3/5
Massive Attack
3/5
Thelonious Monk
3/5
The Slits
2/5
Fishbone
2/5
The Clash
3/5
Britney Spears
2/5
One point for Born To Make You Happy being a bänger despite the extremely corny lyrics.
Suede
3/5
Prince
4/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Magazine
3/5
Sepultura
4/5
Very likely the best album nu-metal ever spawn. Far too long though and as such, it feels more like a collection of songs rather than a coherent album. Which sadly is the case with way too many 90s albums.
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Laura Nyro
2/5
Elbow
3/5
Eminem
2/5
2/5
Neu!
5/5
Janis Joplin
3/5
Harry Nilsson
2/5
Def Leppard
2/5
Traffic
3/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
2/5
I've given this band a chance a number of times back in the day, since on paper they should be something I'd enjoy a fair bit. Never "clicked" for me though but since that HAS happened with some bands in the past, I was excited to see if I'd finally "get" this band this time around.
Sadly, it still didn't happen. I don't really know what it is. No melodies that'd give me the chills, no grooves or rhythms that'd get me going, singing and lyrics feeling bland too. I'd almost want to like it more, but that just... didn't happen. Such a shame.
Os Mutantes
4/5
I'll give it an extra point just for being a non-English album on an extremely anglobiased list.
John Cale
2/5
Patti Smith
3/5
2/5
Slipknot
2/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Slayer
4/5
50 Cent
1/5
Ray Charles
2/5
B.B. King
2/5
I can tell this is a fantastic live album. The energy is crazy and you can almost touch the atmosphere.
...but it's still blues. And blues, for me, is boring, no way around it. A brilliant live album that does nothing to me musically? yeah, it's certainly possible.
Jungle Brothers
3/5
John Martyn
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
2/5
Silver Jews
1/5
Mercury Rev
3/5
My first intuition about this album was that it looks like the most 3/5 album ever. And what do you know, the rating for it was 3.01, so I was spot on. And it really is a pretty good 3/5 album too. Some very nice tracks here, some underwhelming ones, you know how it goes. Really liking how 90s it sounds and feels.
The Doors
2/5
Never had that certain urge to get familiar with The Doors nor had I ever read or heard anything that would've gotten me interested enough. Well, looks like I haven't missed much since this album doesn't really do anything for me. Riders on the Storm is decent.
Bob Dylan
3/5
The Stooges
5/5
I think calling this merely proto-punk or punk at all doesn't really do it justice, since particularly the latter side of the album goes way beyond what I'd call punk personally. Either way, I went through the album twice today and it's an easy 5/5 for me.
Dirty Projectors
2/5
Impressive playing but sounds way too American for me.
Black Sabbath
5/5
Faust
5/5
Faust aren't even among my favourite bands in the krautrock-sphere, but I'd say this is their best album and still better than 95% of the music on this list, so I can't help but give it a solid 5/5.
Simply Red
2/5
Tämä on tismalleen sellasta musaa, joka soi MTV3:n ohjelmatietojen taustalla tai päivän päätteeksi vuonna 1993. Siitä siis pienet nostalgialisät.
Miles Davis
5/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Justice
3/5
Iron Maiden
3/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Neneh Cherry
3/5
This is so far-eighties there should be hatecrime laws for it. The lyrics couldn't possibly be more shallow and superficial but sometimes that just is what you're after. A lot of these songs and the production also reminds me of many different Mega Drive games' soundtracks, which is a nice bonus. Overall I liked it a lot more than I thought I would.
Simon & Garfunkel
2/5
AC/DC
3/5
Van Halen
2/5
Brian Eno
5/5
Had a hard time trying to decide whether I’d give this four or five stars. I’m giving it a second listen, having a couple of beers and it’s a nice evening in general so what the hell, sure, let’s round that up to five.
Megadeth
3/5
MGMT
3/5
1/5
LTJ Bukem
5/5
Coming from rock and metal background, it's always been hard for me to get around to and approach the different culture regarding artists in the more modern electronic music scene. If I hear an interesting I want to know the artist, listen to their albums all the way through and all that, instead of just hearing cool songs on random mixes or playlists and leave it at that.
That said, I've been really wanting to get more familiar with the music itself and this compilation definitely is a nice way to get to know at least some, obviously highly praised and legendary material in one of the subgenres. And I'm liking what I heard quite a good bit. Shame, that the issue I mentioned first still exists, but this is probably the best way for me to get to know this type of music.
And remember to check the ACTUAL album, not the wrong one this site links to.
David Crosby
4/5
Stan Getz
2/5
Circle Jerks
3/5
I’ve never cared about yank hardcore that much. I’ll take my punk Finnish or Japanese instead.
Simon & Garfunkel
2/5
Dire Straits
3/5
Love
3/5
The Mars Volta
4/5
Robert Wyatt
4/5
The Cars
3/5
Deep Purple
4/5
Van Morrison
3/5
The songs are actually pretty good, but I can’t stand his voice.
Muddy Waters
2/5
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
The Byrds
4/5
Various Artists
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
1/5
ABBA
2/5
The title track took me by a complete surprise. Sounds absolutely like something off a late-70s krautrock album. Easily the best Abba song I’ve heard.
Shame that the rest of the album is more of their usual material, which doesn’t really do all that much for me.
Metallica
3/5
Koffi Olomide
3/5
I have no reference point for this kind of music as I’ve never barely even heard any before, so it’s surprisingly hard to give an opinion about it. Doesn’t help that I’m listening to it in the middle of the darkest and coldest winter and not while laying on a Senegalese beach.
That said, I think this is exactly the kind of music this list SHOULD have more instead of, what, seven Bob Dylan albums. More interesting and remarkable music from every corner of the world, please. I’ll give it a three just for actually being on the list.
Malcolm McLaren
2/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
3/5
Shack
3/5
Well, it's got quite a bunch of good songs even but all of it just sounds so generic that I don't really know why would I listen to this instead of _those_ better britpop bands. So, a solid 3/5, but completely unremarkable and don't really see why it should be on this list.
Kid Rock
1/5
Fuck off yank scum, all of you.
Nas
2/5
OutKast
3/5
Oasis
4/5
The Rolling Stones
2/5
Marvin Gaye
2/5
Bon Jovi
2/5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
4/5
The Band
2/5
Charles Mingus
5/5
Tom Waits
2/5
Radiohead
3/5
Buena Vista Social Club
3/5
Butthole Surfers
2/5
I quite fancy noisy, experimental and "weird" music in general, but that doesn't mean this wouldn't still be pretty shite. They also have this specifically absurd, yank style of humour that I can't tolerate at all.
Metallica
2/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
Rufus Wainwright
2/5
4/5
My Bloody Valentine
5/5
This and Can's Tago Mago are the best two albums on this list.
The Go-Go's
4/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
2/5
Femi Kuti
4/5
Nina Simone
2/5
Scritti Politti
3/5
This album sounds like a Mega Drive game and that makes it feel extremely nostalgic, despite me never actually hearing it before. Musically it's really nothing interesting but I'll give it 3/5 just for the reason stated above.
Stevie Wonder
2/5
Stereo MC's
3/5
Far better than I thought it would be. Definitely shouldn't be on this list but it's quite all right nevertheless.
Blondie
3/5
Hole
3/5
Ryan Adams
1/5
Yank shite.
Lou Reed
3/5
The Smiths
3/5
The Killers
2/5
The kind of music you’d hear playing on the radio in a public space and remember absolutely nothing about afterwards cause it blends perfectly into the endless mass of other similar, thoroughly sterile, harmless, modern soft rock bands.
Bob Dylan
2/5
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
3/5
The Damned
3/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
2/5
Sex Pistols
3/5
The Band
2/5
Foo Fighters
3/5
Judas Priest
3/5
Crosby, Stills & Nash
2/5
Frank Ocean
1/5
Aerosmith
2/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
Jamiroquai
2/5
MC Solaar
4/5
Anything that’s not in English on this list automatically gets an extra point from me.
That said, I’m such a music-oriented person that I rarely listen to – or even notice – vocals or lyrics in music. This is true with English rap as well. No matter how I try to concentrate on the lyrics, I quickly notice I’m just vibing to the song itself and forgot to listen to what they’re singing about. Therefore French rap doesn’t really differ all that much from my usual experience with a hip-hop record. In fact, not understanding anything helps me to focus on the rhythm and flow a lot more than I thought.
In that sense, this record definitely helped me broaden my understanding of hip-hop and that’s really the best kind of experience you can get out of this list. They really should just put more non-angloamerican music here cause what new is that seventh Bob Dylan record really going to give you?
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
The Who
2/5
Caetano Veloso
3/5
Stevie Wonder
2/5
Adele
2/5
Pentangle
3/5
The Isley Brothers
3/5
Liz Phair
3/5
I like the cover and the music itself is decent 90s alternative rock that giving me some nice nostalgic chills but I could come up with at least 1001 albums that deserve to be on this list instead of this one.
Also not sure why people call this lo-fi, 'cause it sounds rather well produced compared to anything I consider lo-fi.
Metallica
3/5
The worst one of the Ride-Master-Justice trio, in my humble opinion.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Merle Haggard
2/5
Life is Prison was kind of a bänger. Otherwise it's the same old country shite that I don't have much tolerance for.
The Smiths
4/5
Mudhoney
2/5
At least the guitar tone is great, as you’d expect from an album with a name like this. Too bad the music itself doesn’t do me much and I absolutely can’t stand the singer’s voice.
The Rolling Stones
2/5
One thing this list has proven is that I seem to have never missed anything by not giving The Rolling Stones a listen. Their third album I’ve had to listen to so far and this still does absolutely nothing for me.
Gram Parsons
1/5
For a brief second, after seeing the cover, I was hopeful this might be prog or – even better – some early 70s synth ambient. Then I checked Wikipedia and saw "country". What an absolute letdown, fucking hell.
…and to no one’s surprise, it’s shite. Well, not actual shite; I can tell it’s probably perfectly fine country but since this list – like all criticism in general, in the end – is subjective, I have to give it a mere one star simply because it doesn’t do anything for me and I have very, very low tolerance for country in general.