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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Fred Neil Fred Neil	5	2.92	+2.08
L'Eau Rouge The Young Gods	4	2.32	+1.68
Blunderbuss Jack White	5	3.4	+1.6
Crime Of The Century Supertramp	5	3.4	+1.6
Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem	5	3.42	+1.58
Guero Beck	5	3.45	+1.55
Boy In Da Corner Dizzee Rascal	4	2.56	+1.44
Moving Pictures Rush	5	3.57	+1.43
A Love Supreme John Coltrane	5	3.63	+1.37
Live At The Witch Trials The Fall	4	2.64	+1.36

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Dirt Alice In Chains	2	3.47	-1.47
Blue Lines Massive Attack	2	3.38	-1.38
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	2	3.36	-1.36
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	2	3.32	-1.32
B-52's The B-52's	2	3.3	-1.3
Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi	2	3.29	-1.29
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Sinead O'Connor	2	3.26	-1.26
Actually Pet Shop Boys	2	3.18	-1.18
The Sensual World Kate Bush	2	3.17	-1.17
Third Portishead	2	3.13	-1.13

5-Star Albums (12)

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Popular Reviews

Timeless

Goldie · 1 likes

3/5

Good background work music

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane · 1 likes

4/5

Got chills hearing Somebody to Love on this album

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish · 1 likes

3/5

drugs

4-Star Albums (59)

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

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

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

All Ratings

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

Not surprised to be starting with Beatles, but so many good songs on this album despite not being Beatles #1 songs.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

So ridiculously 80s, would need another listen through to appreciate better. 'The Cross' jumped out at me, could be because I was getting used to the 80s vibe by then.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

Songwriting stands out, enjoyed the album more than I thought I would

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

Meh. Seeing The Weight on here immediately turned me off to it

Pretenders

4/5

Despite hearing this so much growing up, hearing it now I appreciate it way more. Still not a fan of 'Stop your Sobbing', but the rest of the album sounds great. 'The Wait' is my new favorite Pretenders song.

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

A solid Queen experience including Best Friend and Bohemian Rhapsody, but also B-sides including I'm In Love With My Car. Glad to have finally listened to this one after its mention in the Bohemian Rhapsody movie.

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

4/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

One of my favorite rock albums of all time.

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Great voice, great songs, but calling the love interest 'Daddy' is rough.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

2/5

Great r&b voice, and sounds pretty cool for early 90s. Lyrics arent that impressive and didn't age well, however Greencard song is pretty fitting for today.

Odessa

Bee Gees

2/5

Not disco - 70s soft rock ballads. Did not enjoy it, but giving it a 2 for the high production value on some tracks.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

The hits on this album are iconic, but some good b sides too.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5

Cool sound, interesting reading how album was made.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Cool sound

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

I like the band, but didn't enjoy the B sides on this one as much as other Police albums

Da Capo

Love

4/5

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

4/5

Sounds a lot like The Decemberists.

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

Kinda cool/different

Blunderbuss

Jack White

5/5

Love this album, and just saw him a week ago.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Great hits, great sound, good B-sides on this album

Dry

PJ Harvey

4/5

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

4/5

Cool, trippy - sounds Beatles-esque but more punk sound.

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Some solid B sides

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

If it weren't for the flute sections, this likely gets a 5 star, great album

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

Great album, great band. Listen to this one all the time

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

Faces

4/5

Weird album title, but guitar riffs and sound are way better than I was expecting. Memphis in particular I really liked.

B-52's

The B-52's

2/5

Love the band, but a few songs on this album were more annoying than fun

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

3/5

Good background work music

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

Waking the witch was wild. Weird but cool

Dire Straits

4/5

Really enjoyed, cool sound.

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

3/5

Early funk - recognized a lot of samples - but not sure how this beats out a lot of other albums for 1001 of all time.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

His voice drives me nuts, I don't really get the hype and didn't enjoy.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

None of the hits, but good album. RIP Brian Wilson

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

2/5

Not bad

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

4/5

The skits made it feel like an early Blink 182 album

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

2/5

Not my thing, but interesting

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

3/5

Fun 60s Flashback

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

4/5

Surprised I hadn't listened to this album before - would have been awesome to see JA live.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Really enjoyed, lyrics are great and depressing at the same time

Parklife

Blur

3/5

OK, not my favorite

The White Room

The KLF

3/5

Did not think I'd enjoy this but was great in the background while working

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

OK, not crazy about her voice

Third

Portishead

2/5

Today I learned Trip Hop is a genre. Not my thing.

Boston

5/5

Love this album

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

Sounds great, wish it was longer

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

For its time, great blues sound. Listening today, the lyrics aren't great, and songs were wildly overplayed on every rock station growing up.

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

4/5

Great overall sound, but unique across each song across the album. Moog Raga instrumental is terrible.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

A lot of great classics, but Dumb and Dumber successfully destroyed Mockingbird for all eternity

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

I liked a lot of the non-hits, like 'Up to Me'

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

My favorite BD album

Ctrl

SZA

3/5

Great voice with a few songs that really stuck out

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

2/5

Meh

Timeless

Goldie

3/5

Good background work music

Abraxas

Santana

5/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Good variety of songs within a reggae album

Fred Neil

5/5

Wow - incredible voice, and did not know he wrote Everybody's Talkin. Chose philantropy over touring. Glad to have found Fred.

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

3/5

Super 80s, none of the big hits though

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Got chills hearing Somebody to Love on this album

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

Great Irish punk sound

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

5/5

Great album despite only one hit

Sincere

Mj Cole

2/5

This whole album all sounds the same, this didn't age well at all.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

RIP Ozzy!

Follow The Leader

Korn

4/5

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

Great band, fun album

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Sounds way better than the other 2 PJ albums, so maybe she's grown on me and I need to give them another chance.

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

4/5

Cool early-punk sound

Justified

Justin Timberlake

4/5

Great pop album, some of the beat-box sounds/beats make songs distinctly obvious as JT songs

The Cars

4/5

The hits are great, B-sides not bad

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

Gloria is great, prefer her style of singing on the faster/harder rock songs, do not like her style on slower stuff

War

4/5

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

3/5

Always fun listening to young Beatles

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

3/5

Not normally my genre but not bad

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

2/5

Pretty terrible arena rock and the entire album did not age well. Hits I thought were great in high school (dead or alive) are forever ruined by constant radio overplay. Bumped up to 2 stars solely because Living on a Prayer has its rightful place: to be blared loudly in arenas during 3rd period hockey comebacks.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

Relaxing listen, great at work

Guero

Beck

5/5

Love this album

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

3/5

drugs

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

2/5

Thought I'd like this a lot more

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

Love Whipping Post, and the album

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

I love Eddie's voice, and am a fan of Pearl Jam in general, but think the bulk of this album is hurt by decades of radio overplay.

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

Not bad, and really liked the related song playlist that came after the album a lot

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Want to spend more time with this album listening to his lyrics, but liked the sound and refusal to sing any melody whatsoever.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

This band is pretty cool, feels like if this album were released today nobody would be able to tell its 50 years old

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Love the first half of this album. Back half drops it to 4 stars

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

4/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

2/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Fun classics

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

2/5

I Against I

Bad Brains

3/5

Why was this included in the 1001 albums?

The Predator

Ice Cube

4/5

The hits still hold up, and the rest of the album is just as solid

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

5/5

Fun album start to finish

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

Wild Gift

4/5

Sounds like a punk version of Talking Heads

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

2/5

Of all the great indie albums from this era, this one? Instrumental parts are solid, but can't stand the singing at all - hard to listen to this album.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Pretty unique blues sound and voice - songs don't sound repetitive despite simple rythyms.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

Cool sound right out of the gate, was hooked right away - good background music

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

Really incredible how talented he is, he makes his singing seem effortless with great piano playing at the same time.

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

3/5

Not bad, I like their other albums more

Scum

Napalm Death

3/5

Was not my thing, but would listen to this again

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

3/5

I liked the sound of her voice and the band, but the songs on this album became very repetitive.

Adele

4/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

4/5

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

4/5

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

3/5

Like the sound and making fun of other bands

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

4/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

2/5

The hits are fun, but rest of the album was meh

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

4/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Van Halen

4/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Need to reconsider this as a potential candidate for my favorite dylan album

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

It's a big album - some songs were great, some were not. Love the genre, and have to imagine how much this has inspired some other great Irish rock bands like Flogging Molly. But during a few points on this album, I wished I was just listening to Flogging Molly instead. The lead singer's "HOOs" and jazzy lyrical solos weren't great.

Electric

The Cult

4/5

Was actually pretty solid 80s rock album, i was surprised

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

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

David Bowie

4/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

3/5