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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	5	3.31	+1.69
Juju Siouxsie And The Banshees	5	3.33	+1.67
Home Is Where The Music Is Hugh Masekela	5	3.35	+1.65
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	5	3.39	+1.61
Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem	5	3.42	+1.58
Live! Fela Kuti	5	3.43	+1.57
Dirt Alice In Chains	5	3.46	+1.54
Marquee Moon Television	5	3.5	+1.5
Arrival ABBA	5	3.52	+1.48
Highway to Hell AC/DC	5	3.64	+1.36

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Let England Shake PJ Harvey	1	3.15	-2.15
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite Maxwell	1	2.9	-1.9
Grievous Angel Gram Parsons	1	2.87	-1.87
Graceland Paul Simon	2	3.73	-1.73
Definitely Maybe Oasis	2	3.53	-1.53
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Ray Charles	2	3.49	-1.49
Guero Beck	2	3.45	-1.45
James Brown Live At The Apollo James Brown	2	3.45	-1.45
Urban Hymns The Verve	2	3.36	-1.36
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs Marty Robbins	2	3.33	-1.33

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Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell · 1 likes

1/5

The hardest one yet for me to make it all the way through. I was almost angry with how bad it was by the end. This one made me question how badly I want to complete this project.

1-Star Albums (4)

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Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

1/5

Almost painful to listen to on a couple songs. So bad it was comedic.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

3/5

Lucy I The Sky With Diamonds is great. The other big hits are ok, but the songs I didn't know were fairly boring. As a whole, seems very overrated.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

3/5

It's a good classic. The songs are not bad, just not for me. Bandera at the end was a good finish though.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

2/5

The distorted guitar sound was not enjoyable for the whole album, and the voice is just not good. It's a shame too, because there are some good melodies in there. They just make them sound bad.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

The album started with a couple really good rock/bluesy songs. But once you get into the more known southern bayou rock songs it's not as good. If they did more blues rock they would be awesome.

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Powerful and heartbreaking. What an amazing album.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

A beautiful sound. Lover You Should've Come Over is a 6 out of 5 stars song.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

A legendary voice. Can't deny she sounds great, but not what I would choose to listen to ever.

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

2/5

Definitely not for me. Just sounds like any other old western style music I've ever heard.

Signing Off

UB40

3/5

Kind of liked it just a little more than I thought I would. Lots of moments of cool instrumental parts.

Smile

Brian Wilson

2/5

A very strange experiment of how many instruments you can put together that really just don't go together.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

He's pretty great. But I feel like he has some better stuff out there to really push the 5 stars.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

No problem listening through any Prince album.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

It's meh.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Very good, but MJ gets better than this.

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

1/5

The hardest one yet for me to make it all the way through. I was almost angry with how bad it was by the end. This one made me question how badly I want to complete this project.

Atomizer

Big Black

3/5

0 liked songs

Fun House

The Stooges

2/5

0 liked songs

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

In It For The Money

Supergrass

4/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

5/5

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

Bunch of nonsense noise

Destroyer

KISS

4/5

I do love a lot of these songs, but I can't justify giving the album a whole 5 stars. They're just a fun band, not a musically amazing one.

Slipknot

4/5

Good stuff. Some songs don't land perfectly for me, but Corey Taylor is pretty awesome.

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

I liked the instrumental parts of the album

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

3/5

Lots of mixed feelings throughout this album. I think I normally love this kind of talented instrumental stuff, but this one was not hitting for me. Largely felt like Davis's trumpet and Coltrane's sax were not meshing until the very last song. For a jazz album, I was a little disappointed in the lack of detailed drum time. Still good music though.

Guero

Beck

2/5

The songs weren't necessarily bad, they were just annoyingly boring. Each song was just a simple beat or riff that carried on for 4 minutes and provided almost nothing exciting to listen to.

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

3/5

What an interesting experience. Had a few good funky jams, but I probably won't ever find myself listening to it again.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

Great album. Had no idea Jack White would be playing piano through most of it.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

I can't say it's bad music, but listening to the music that plays during the opening credits in 1950s movies is not what I'm here for.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

5/5

Didn't know anything about this so it was an awesome surprise. 5 stars for the insanely outstanding bass and guitar throughout this album.

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Well I guess I'm a fan of The Cure now

Among The Living

Anthrax

4/5

4.5 stars really. Great riffs, and a powerful album for understanding that being an angry rebel delinquent actually stems from being more grounded in reality. Very relatable in many ways.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

5/5

Another one I would give 4.5, but since I have to choose I will go all 5 for this one. Really liked seeing it live a lot better though.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

It's great, but still this must be the least exciting of their albums. I'll be looking forward to all of their other albums on this list.

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Did not know that I was going to find this to be as good as I did. Though some of the language is outdated, the lyrics were very interesting to listen to. And Lauryn Hill crushed it.

The Rolling Stones

3/5

I get it. It was very influential. You can hear how these songs had an impact on a lot of music that came after it. But they just don't really do it for me. They never have.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

3/5

Didn't dislike it as much as I thought I would.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

Well that was weird. Maybe you just had to be there?

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

I think if I had lived through the late 60s I would have really liked Cream.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Listening to his cadences is incredibly satisfying. So unique and special. Would love to give this 5 stars. But respectfully, I can not enjoy the harmonica.

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

Never heard of her, but she was not bad. Solid voice, good tunes. Just not what I would normally listen to. I'd give 3.5 stars.

Black Sabbath

5/5

Absolutely legendary. Wish I could have been there when they terrified the world with that opening track.

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

Another one I have never heard of, but I loved it. Most of the album gave me Celeste soundtrack vibes, which made me happy. And now I want to go play that game again.

Arrival

ABBA

5/5

Can't deny it, it's brilliant.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

It's ok.

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

1/5

This felt like a prank. Annoying nonsense sounds thrown together that I did not need to listen to at any point before I die.

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

Great album. I should probably get them in my music rotation every now and then.

Blood, Sweat & Tears

4/5

The whole time I was listening I was thinking this is what it would sound like if Eric Clapton created a jazz band. Then the last song had a quick little Clapton riff in it and I felt completely validated.

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

Can not believe I have never even heard of a band that sounds this good.

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

I was going to give 4 stars until the big drum solo at the end. Can't give anything less than 5 for that.

Third

Soft Machine

3/5

I think the psychedelic jazz idea could be pulled off a little better than this. Had a few good moments, but overall underwhelming.