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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Damaged
Black Flag
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5 | 2.86 | +2.14 |
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Destroy Rock & Roll
Mylo
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5 | 2.88 | +2.12 |
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Eli And The Thirteenth Confession
Laura Nyro
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5 | 2.94 | +2.06 |
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Double Nickels On The Dime
Minutemen
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5 | 3.12 | +1.88 |
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Ragged Glory
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
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5 | 3.14 | +1.86 |
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american dream
LCD Soundsystem
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5 | 3.17 | +1.83 |
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Being There
Wilco
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5 | 3.23 | +1.77 |
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It's Too Late to Stop Now
Van Morrison
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5 | 3.24 | +1.76 |
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The Predator
Ice Cube
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5 | 3.25 | +1.75 |
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The Message
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
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5 | 3.28 | +1.72 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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Make Yourself
Incubus
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1 | 3.08 | -2.08 |
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Shadowland
k.d. lang
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1 | 2.88 | -1.88 |
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Adele
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2 | 3.69 | -1.69 |
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Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
OutKast
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2 | 3.46 | -1.46 |
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Odessey And Oracle
The Zombies
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2 | 3.41 | -1.41 |
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The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails
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2 | 3.34 | -1.34 |
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Pornography
The Cure
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2 | 3.32 | -1.32 |
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Tommy
The Who
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2 | 3.32 | -1.32 |
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Ace of Spades
Motörhead
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2 | 3.29 | -1.29 |
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All Mod Cons
The Jam
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2 | 3.25 | -1.25 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Beatles | 4 | 4.75 |
| Led Zeppelin | 3 | 4.67 |
| Bob Dylan | 2 | 5 |
| Oasis | 2 | 5 |
| Radiohead | 4 | 4.25 |
| Pixies | 3 | 4.33 |
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All Ratings
Nick Drake
3/5
Didn’t listen this time but remember it as a deeply sad album.
Beatles
4/5
The Beatles starting to find their feet.
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
Funky
The Beach Boys
5/5
Decades ahead of its time.
Meat Loaf
5/5
Over the top, ridiculous, but utterly brilliant and unlike anything else. If anyone else tried to make an album like this it wouldn’t work, it shouldn’t have worked when Meat Loaf did it, and yet it does.
Supertramp
4/5
Enjoyable 70s prog rock time capsule, has aged well
The Saints
3/5
Quintessential punk.
Sex Pistols
5/5
Intent to shock and does but still great tunes.
Santana
4/5
Nice melodies.
Dusty Springfield
5/5
Classic after classic
Scritti Politti
3/5
Eighties
Rush
3/5
Interesting album, guitar oriented rock, difficult to pigeonhole into one genre.
Fiona Apple
4/5
Enjoyed it more than I thought I would, soulful.
Ryan Adams
4/5
Shame he’s such a prick because this is a great album.
New Order
5/5
Nirvana
4/5
The Cure
2/5
The Who
3/5
Some great songs, the rest hasn’t stood the test of time
5/5
Depeche Mode
3/5
Kid Rock
1/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
New, eclectic, brilliant. Knocked me out the first time I heard it.
Jeff Buckley
4/5
Guns N' Roses
5/5
3/5
David Holmes
3/5
Joy Division
3/5
Dark
Gorillaz
3/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
4/5
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Deserves a quiet night.
Buzzcocks
3/5
Pixies
4/5
Air
4/5
Kate Bush
4/5
Unique, some of it a little tedious but overall groundbreaking and interesting.
Gotan Project
2/5
Music for ads, a bit dull. 2.4
Wild Beasts
2/5
I remember a lot of hype around Wild Beasts and when I listened to their music I didn’t get it. I still don’t. A couple of decent songs but interspersed with mediocrity and an awfully high pitched voice, not for me.
Led Zeppelin
5/5
An all time classic, there are weaker tracks but the good ones are timeless
Dr. Octagon
2/5
The obligatory rap related misogyny but without the good tunes. Overall boring.
Metallica
5/5
The Fall
2/5
It has been my opinion for a while that the reputation of The Fall exceeds the quality of their music. This album hasn’t changed my mind. Not bad, just not all that good either.
Beatles
5/5
Eclectic. Yes, there are weaker tracks but the good stuff is more than in most shorter albums.
The Kinks
4/5
Manages to be both backward looking and forward looking at the same time.
Van Halen
4/5
Fun
Foo Fighters
3/5
Enjoyable, not exceptional
The Band
3/5
System Of A Down
4/5
Fun
Tim Buckley
2/5
I’m not really feeling it, sorry. Left out the first part of the title. His son was decent though.
The Killers
3/5
Christine and the Queens
3/5
Good pop, very clean sounding.
Justice
4/5
Sam Cooke
5/5
The Flaming Lips
3/5
Tim Buckley
3/5
Dire Straits
4/5
Bon Jovi
3/5
Adele
2/5
If Michael Buble is a pale imitation of Frank Sinatra, Adele is a pale imitation of Aretha Franklin. I get the appeal, she does have a great voice but this is not a consistently strong or original album.
Beatles
5/5
The greatest by the greatest. Broke down the walls that everyone afterwards walked through.
Blondie
5/5
Absolute perfection, every song shimmers. Fast paced, fun, gorgeous melodies, relentless.
The Jam
2/5
Never fussed on the Jam/Paul Weller, never sounded original enough to stand out from other bands. I’m still not, it’s all very similar.
Bob Dylan
5/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Eels
3/5
Metallica
4/5
Virtuoso rock, full of energy.
Elvis Presley
3/5
Manu Chao
4/5
Big Black
3/5
Fugazi
4/5
Pink Floyd
4/5
The Sugarcubes
4/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5/5
Elton John
4/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Ice Cube
5/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Basically sex music.
Primal Scream
3/5
Nice background music
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Virtuosity and some great tunes but a bit too self indulgent.
Neil Young
4/5
Bill Callahan
3/5
Sade
3/5
Smooth, and there isn’t enough saxophone in modern music.
Frank Black
4/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Eminem
3/5
Angry. Not my type of music but I enjoyed a lot of it, hated a lot of the rest of it.
The Police
3/5
Nine Inch Nails
2/5
Too angry for me to enjoy it.
The White Stripes
4/5
Quality rock
Gillian Welch
2/5
Nothing special, I don’t get the hype
Slipknot
3/5
The War On Drugs
4/5
Sounds like Dylan and I love Dylan
Miles Davis
3/5
Otis Redding
5/5
Love a bit of soul
Nick Drake
4/5
Beth Orton
3/5
Count Basie & His Orchestra
3/5
Aerosmith
2/5
Meh
Lauryn Hill
3/5
Soulful
Grateful Dead
3/5
The Monkees
2/5
Of it’s time
Bob Dylan
5/5
The Triffids
4/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
Gary Numan
4/5
Rage Against The Machine
4/5
Melodic anger
Radiohead
5/5
k.d. lang
1/5
Dreadful country shite, nothing remarkable about it at all, has no place being on this list.
Pixies
5/5
Green Day
5/5
Britney Spears
3/5
Save it snobs, this is good pop. No, it’s not Revolver, but for what it is it, it’s great.
The xx
3/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
All time hard rock classic.
Nanci Griffith
3/5
AC/DC
5/5
Yes, the lyrics are a bit misogynistic but it’s over 40 years old and was never about the lyrics. Every song is a banger, has to be 5/5.
Amy Winehouse
5/5
To others saying that this is some sort of pastiche of 60s music or that she isn’t sincere, you’re wide of the mark. The best music takes something familiar and changes it to make it new, that’s what Winehouse does here. As for sincere, listen to the lyrics then look at how her short life panned out. She meant it.
Miles Davis
3/5
I think what is said about Wagner applies to this ‘it’s better than it sounds’. Not for me, no melody, no structure. Influential/important etc. etc. yes, clearly. Enjoyable to listen to? Nope. All the 5/5 people are giving it that to look like they’re musical intellectuals but I doubt if they have this on vinyl that it’s worn out.
Electric Light Orchestra
4/5
Beatles inspired but enough of its own thing to make it enjoyable.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
Iron Maiden
3/5
Slightly ridiculous and of its time, but enjoyable in parts.
Beck
4/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
Paul Simon
5/5
Talking Heads
4/5
FKA twigs
2/5
I can appreciate that she’s talented but this was boring to me
U2
3/5
Tracy Chapman
4/5
White Denim
4/5
Slade
2/5
Of its time. The unique thing about them is Noddy Holder’s voice, which is also the worst thing about them, they seem to be a decent bunch of musicians held back by that screaming banshee of a man.
The Cure
3/5
5/5
One of the defining albums of my teenage years, I can’t not give it 5 stars. It holds up well after 30 years.
Peter Frampton
3/5
Keith Jarrett
5/5
Loved this
Fela Kuti
4/5
Fun
Tom Waits
3/5
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Neil Young
3/5
Hole
4/5
Enjoyable rock
Dr. John
3/5
Madonna
3/5
Jefferson Airplane
4/5
The epitome of psychedelic music.
Jean-Michel Jarre
3/5
Influential but also boring in parts.
James Brown
3/5
The Pogues
4/5
Louis Prima
4/5
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
3/5
Fun rock
Nas
3/5
Elvis Presley
4/5
The hits still stand up well after almost 70 years.
The Byrds
2/5
I don’t like country.
Iron Maiden
4/5
Sufjan Stevens
5/5
Very enjoyable
Joy Division
4/5
Green Day
4/5
Jamiroquai
3/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
Travis
3/5
Queen
3/5
Iggy Pop
4/5
3/5
Franz Ferdinand
4/5
Wonderful indie rock
Billy Bragg
3/5
Fela Kuti
4/5
Funky
Astrud Gilberto
4/5
Bonnie Raitt
2/5
Pixies
4/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
4/5
Weird but entertaining.
Tom Waits
4/5
Various Artists
5/5
Lou Reed
4/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Massive Attack
3/5
Tears For Fears
3/5
Madness
3/5
Spacemen 3
3/5
Primal Scream before Primal Scream
Beastie Boys
4/5
Common
3/5
The White Stripes
4/5
Alanis Morissette
4/5
Radiohead
4/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Neil Young
3/5
Yet more Neil Young!
4/5
Over the top in places, but surprisingly very enjoyable.
Ella Fitzgerald
5/5
Colossal!
Van Morrison
5/5
Mylo
5/5
To date (over twenty years later) this is his only album, and you can hear why. How do you top this?
Led Zeppelin
4/5
The Notorious B.I.G.
3/5
Richard Hawley
4/5
Tom Waits
3/5
The Velvet Underground
4/5
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
3/5
The Stooges
4/5
A magnificent snarl of an album
MGMT
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Frank Sinatra
5/5
Sinatra at his best, timeless.
Fairport Convention
4/5
The Black Keys
3/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
Terence Trent D'Arby
3/5
Very eighties.
Deep Purple
3/5
Television
5/5
Jurassic 5
4/5
Mekons
2/5
The word ‘country’ filled me with trepidation but it wasn’t too bad, but not too good either. I can hear that it has been influential but I found it a little boring.
The Who
2/5
Hasn’t aged well, some decent songs but the rest has dated.
5/5
Fleet Foxes
5/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Public Enemy
4/5
Fun
David Gray
2/5
Some good songs but overall mediocre.
Bebel Gilberto
2/5
I can’t fairly grade this since I don’t understand the lyrics but from what I can hear, unlike her producer, I could have died without hearing this.
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Simple Minds
4/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
The Doors
5/5
OutKast
2/5
Far too long and self indulgent. About 30 minutes of decent music padded out to over 2 hours.
The Zombies
2/5
Of its time. Hard to judge it nearly 50 years later as a lot of what sounds tired now would have been fresh then.
Sepultura
4/5
Enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would.
Prince
3/5
Primal Scream
3/5
The good stuff is brilliant but there’s still a lot of filler.
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
3/5
Mj Cole
2/5
Generic turn of the millennium dance music, didn’t notice it at the time, I can hear why.
Buck Owens
3/5
Giant Sand
4/5
Unknown to me beforehand, good find
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Morrissey
3/5
Guided By Voices
2/5
Stoner/garage rock. Would have given it 3/5 except for the track with snoring in the background.
The Smashing Pumpkins
5/5
There’s just so many great songs on here, even though not all 2 hours is excellent, I can’t not give it 5/5. Others will say it’s too long of course, but I can’t overlook the quality of it.
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
5/5
Funky social commentary
Megadeth
3/5
Klaxons
2/5
Didn’t like them at the time, still don’t
Oasis
5/5
G. Love & Special Sauce
3/5
Enjoyable.
Ute Lemper
2/5
I love the Divine Comedy but this was just dull.
Elton John
5/5
10/10 a genuine genius at his peek.
The Associates
2/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
Super Furry Animals
3/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Cheap Trick
2/5
Hanoi Rocks
4/5
Lovely surprise, great fun.
De La Soul
3/5
Some decent tunes but could have been edited to remove a few of the lesser tracks.
Wilco
5/5
Extraordinary
Arrested Development
3/5
Funky but dated in parts.
Radiohead
4/5
N.W.A.
5/5
Minutemen
5/5
Eclectic and great.
Willie Nelson
3/5
Cocteau Twins
3/5
Nice ambient sounds
The Hives
4/5
Just good fun, not earth shattering or pushing the boundaries but great rock.
Elliott Smith
4/5
Laura Nyro
5/5
Muddy Waters
3/5
Of its time, decent.
Sarah Vaughan
4/5
TV On The Radio
3/5
Steely Dan
4/5
Fun
The Avalanches
5/5
Excellent
Incubus
1/5
Questionable name, boring and at times annoying music. Nu Metal is absolute gash.
Stan Getz
4/5
Randy Newman
4/5
Roxy Music
4/5
Nirvana
5/5
No bad tracks. I don’t feel funereal vibes, I just remember it from the time as a great live performance by a great band. No need to get maudlin about it.
Pulp
3/5
Big Star
3/5
TLC
2/5
Not my cup of tea.
ZZ Top
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Kings of Leon
2/5
Two good songs and a lot of meh.
Arcade Fire
4/5
I forgot how good this album is. Prophetic also, worrying about the dangers of mixing religious fanaticism with politics. We’ve now seen where that leads.
Iron Butterfly
3/5
Arctic Monkeys
5/5
Five stars for two reasons. 1) It’s brilliant, everything rock music should be, bright, exciting, just different enough from went before to be interesting but not too different to not be accessible 2) I see a lot of tossers giving it one star. Really? One star is for an album that’s so bad that you see no merit in it whatsoever, not for ‘I’m a snob and this isn’t Revolver so I hate it’, it’s not Amazon in 2006, there are other options than one star or 5.
The Divine Comedy
4/5
Melodic horniness. Lots of great tracks on this and their other albums.
David Bowie
3/5
Some good tunes but not his best work.
John Prine
3/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
Difficult to review from the perspective of 2026. I wasn’t born when it came out. Some interesting sounds and the obvious hit of the title track, but I doubt I’ll listen to this again therefore I can’t give it a high score. 2.5.
Dion
3/5
Not bad, not great, probably better without Spector’s production but we’ll never know.
Kraftwerk
3/5
Nice ambient sounds, a wee bit dull in parts though.
Amy Winehouse
4/5
The Offspring
3/5
Fun, nineties artefact.
Paul McCartney and Wings
4/5
It’s often said that McCartney lost the ability to finish a song towards the end of the Beatles and through this period, this is said in a negative way but look at the end product, A Day In The Life, side two of Abbey Road and Band on The Run. Not a bad stretch of music and his ability to splice together the fragments of unfinished songs influenced others who came after to do the same (Paranoid Android for one), so we’re all better off for it. As for this album, it stands up well after over 50 years and there isn’t that many albums that can be said about, which is why McCartney is rightly regarded as one of, if not the, best songwriters of the 20th century. There is a bit too much cheesiness which shows that McCartney did need Lennon’s vinegar to go with his honey, but Paul could lay down a melody better than Lennon, who’s own post Beatles work is a lot worse in my opinion.
Willie Nelson
4/5
5/5
Hard to believe this is more than a quarter of a century old, it still sounds as fresh and potent as it always did. No bad tracks and the good ones are amazing.
Motörhead
2/5
Good hard rock, if a bit repetitive (although that’s the point) would have rated it higher if it didn’t contain a song alluding to paedophilia.
LCD Soundsystem
5/5
Outstanding album, diverse and brilliant, poignant in places without being syrupy, tunes you can dance to, others just to enjoy. Yea, it’s derivative, all music is derivative and if you think the music you like isn’t, you haven’t listened to enough music, but the talent is taking something that went before and crafting something new from it. 5/5 (mainly to balance out all the 1/5 who thought they were being clever by saying ‘I can hear Talking Heads in this as if that’s a bad thing)
Fever Ray
2/5
Incredibly dull music, when it got to ‘I’m not done’, I said to myself ‘More’s the pity’. A bit like Massive Attack in places, if Massive Attack had been told that their music was far too exciting and took out all the interesting parts. Listened to it on a run, big mistake, made me want to stop, not because I was tired, but out of sheer boredom. I’m not taken in by the ‘ooh it’s all mysterious and Scandinavian’ thing either, I’m half Norwegian, I know about Scandinavian culture/winters etc.
Blur
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
Bruce divides opinion but to me this is a great album full of great songs, an easy 5/5. I can see from some reviews that there are, even now, people who don’t listen to the title track beyond the title.
William Orbit
3/5
A bit bland but I can hear it was influencial on later music.
King Crimson
4/5
Over the top, pompous lyrics, extended musical sequences that seem to go on forever, I shouldn’t have liked this but I did, it was very enjoyable and stands up well nearly 60 years later. I remember seeing that album cover in record shops when I was a teenager but I had no idea who King Crimson were then.
Happy Mondays
4/5
I know Ryder can’t sing but there is some great music in this.
Black Flag
5/5
Gets in, gets the job done, gets out. Loved it.
Belle & Sebastian
4/5
Excellent debut. Not their best album but hints of what was to come. Very low-fi in parts but that adds to the charm. Those giving it 1/5 are not listening to the lyrics which are some of the best around. Without the lyrics I can see why people would hear it as boring but that’s like saying without the paint, the Mona Lisa wouldn’t be famous.
Radiohead
4/5
The Who
3/5
Of its time. Not as innovative as Beatles records from the same era but some decent blues based rock. I’ve never really got into the Who although I accept they have some good tunes and I can’t objectively measure their impact because they made their music before I was born but I think it’s a huge stretch to call this ‘proto punk’. Definitely not as good as the Stones or the Kinks. 3/5
The Slits
2/5
I know it’s influential etc. etc. but I just didn’t enjoy it.
Sister Sledge
5/5
Full of classics.
Lightning Bolt
3/5
I feel like this album is goading me into giving it 1/5 but I actually enjoyed a lot of it. Definitely not boring, noisy but some decent listening in amongst the cacophony.
The Modern Lovers
4/5
Sleater-Kinney
3/5
Ray Charles
4/5
Scott Walker
4/5
Exquisite voice, the godfather of chamber pop
Solange
2/5
Good voice, boring music, the attempts at social commentary just don’t land when juxtaposed with such dull music. A double album has to contain phenomenal music to be worth hanging around for, like Songs in the Key of Life or Blonde on Blonde, this just isn’t. Too long, too dreary. 2/5 because if I was out somewhere and this was on in the background I wouldn’t be offended by it, but I’ll never choose to listen to this again.