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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Kick Out The Jams (Live) MC5	5	2.91	+2.09
Dog Man Star Suede	5	3	+2
Imperial Bedroom Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	3	+2
Smile Brian Wilson	5	3.05	+1.95
No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live) Motörhead	5	3.06	+1.94
Underwater Moonlight The Soft Boys	5	3.06	+1.94
Scum Napalm Death	4	2.07	+1.93
Ambient 1/Music For Airports Brian Eno	5	3.07	+1.93
Before And After Science Brian Eno	5	3.08	+1.92
Everything Must Go Manic Street Preachers	5	3.12	+1.88

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Basket of Light Pentangle	1	2.76	-1.76
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits	2	3.74	-1.74
Getz/Gilberto Stan Getz	2	3.65	-1.65
Aja Steely Dan	2	3.46	-1.46
Roger the Engineer The Yardbirds	2	3.11	-1.11
Sunshine Superman Donovan	2	3.09	-1.09
Back To Black Amy Winehouse	3	4.02	-1.02
The Nightfly Donald Fagen	2	3.01	-1.01

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Artist	Albums	Average
Prince	2	5
Arcade Fire	2	5
Brian Eno	2	5
Beatles	2	5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions	2	5
Bob Dylan	2	5
Elvis Presley	2	5
Marvin Gaye	2	5

5-Star Albums (54)

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Popular Reviews

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

5/5

Mid nineties guitar rock with pop sensibilities. Right up my alley, but I’ve never listened to it before. “Australia” is a standout at first listen. A lot of variety.

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Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

5/5

Mid nineties guitar rock with pop sensibilities. Right up my alley, but I’ve never listened to it before. “Australia” is a standout at first listen. A lot of variety.

Aja

Steely Dan

2/5

It’s hard to listen to this album without thinking of how every other white, Millennial dad out there decided to get together (without me) and decide that we all like Steely Dan now. I’ve tried. It’s obviously high effort, but it just isn’t interesting.

Bossanova

Pixies

5/5

Love the Pixies. Out of the gate, mixes in some fun surf guitar. Has a lot of energy. Can easily see influence on Nirvana.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

There’s a lot of ideas here, and what works really works. The singles are incredible. The main drawback is that it is overindulgent in ways that I frankly find annoying (it ends with a nearly 13 minute account of how he got a record deal).

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

Very surprised by this album. I read the description of it and thought it would just be repetitive boops and bops. This has real compositions, with a lot of variety. Great stuff.

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

I almost knocked it down a star just because I’ve been handing out a lot of five star reviews. That’s not a good reason. I absolutely love this album. It’s a lean, weird swan for an artist with a varied career and never went on cruise control. What an absolute king.

Smile

Brian Wilson

5/5

Took this morning to spend a little more time in this album. The instrumental track at the end helped me appreciate the composition a lot more. Love The Beach Boys and was happy to get this one. RIP Brian Wilson.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

2/5

I liked the more upbeat songs ok, but this isn’t really for me.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

Very catchy, singable songs. Hard for me to take “Wonderwall” seriously, but that’s not really the fault of the song itself.

Violator

Depeche Mode

5/5

Saw a Tiktoker call this kind of music “sad noises.” I agree, but as a compliment.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Really liked this one. I do feel a lot of the songs bled into the other. I would like to come back to this one.

The Libertines

3/5

It’s fine. The indie landfill period never gave anyone time to breathe and stand on their own. It was hard for me to genuinely listen to this album for that reason.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

5/5

White Denim

3/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

5/5

Love Paul McCartney, but still surprised by how much liked this album.

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

We are gathered here today to get through this thing called “life.”

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

Scum

Napalm Death

4/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

Dog Man Star

Suede

5/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

5/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

5/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

4/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

5/5

I’ve spent many years in Appalachia and Dolly is our queen. No way she gets less than five stars. She mails my kid books every month.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Justified

Justin Timberlake

3/5

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

5/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

5/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

Drunk

Thundercat

3/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Fever Ray

4/5

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

5/5

One of the all-time greatest live albums.

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

5/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

4/5

Queens of the Stone Age

4/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

5/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

4/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

This album is making me reconsider how I rate these. Part of me says that I should consider this a guilty pleasure, but I unreservedly love this album and I will rate it as such.

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

5/5

The Band

5/5

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

4/5

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

2/5

School's Out

Alice Cooper

4/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

5/5

Great intro to Elvis. Had only a couple of songs I knew (“In the Ghetto” and “Suspicious Minds”). Gives you a good idea of Elvis as an entertainer. His “Elvisisms” are much more subtle than the impersonators would have you believe.

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

I like that “Hungry Like the Wolf” song.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

5/5

Brian Eno at his most Eno.

En-Tact

The Shamen

3/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

1999

Prince

5/5

The title track used to really annoy me, but that was because I only listened to the chorus. Hard to hate a song that tells you “I was dreaming when I wrote this.”

LP1

FKA twigs

4/5

A pleasant surprise (I had never heard of this artist before). This is a lovely record. My only gripe is that the album never shifts gears at all.

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

4/5

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

4/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

5/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

2/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

4/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

2/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

5/5

Roots

Sepultura

4/5

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

3/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

5/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

I understand the arguments about Kiedis’s lyrics, and I kind of agree. The band still works for me, because I can’t imagine what they would sound like with a different front man. The musicianship is unimpeachable. However, there’s a huge dropoff in quality after track 8, making the album almost twice as long as it needs to be. The score reflects that I am probably biased in favor of this album, since it was a big one for me in high school.

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

4/5

Enjoyable and fun, with a good variety of instrumentation. Often noisy in a fun way.

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

One of those bands that few may know by name, but most have heard their influence.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

5/5

Straight bangers with excellent musicianship.

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

I usually listen to these albums in my car during my commute. When I did that, I didn’t like this one as much. It benefitted greatly from listening with headphones.

Debut

Björk

4/5

Street Signs

Ozomatli

2/5

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

Medúlla

Björk

4/5

Turns out that I love Björk and her weird mouth sounds. I can totally see this as being too avant-garde for some.

Pretenders

5/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

I forget sometimes that I actually like country music. One of the better concept albums I’ve heard.

Basket of Light

Pentangle

1/5

I’m kind of a dork, so I would think that I would like this kind of thing, but it’s unbearable.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

One of the albums you expect to see here, but for good reason. Great record.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

2/5

This guy somehow managed to make a song about witches boring.

The Last Broadcast

Doves

3/5

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

4/5

Guero

Beck

4/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Pornography

The Cure

5/5

Love Pornography (the Cure album)

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

5/5

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

5/5

I can answer most of the complaints about the album’s sloppiness with “that’s punk rock, baby.”

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

Sheet Music

10cc

2/5

Not “The Worst Band in the World” but not sure how it makes the list.

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

4/5

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

3/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

3/5

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

3/5

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

2/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Horses

Patti Smith

5/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Os Mutantes

4/5

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

2/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

5/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

5/5

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

4/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

5/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

4/5

Roxy Music

4/5

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

It’s fun, but I think its significance may be lost on me as an American. Same goes for a lot of the Britpop albums I get.

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

I‘ve consistently struggled with knowing how to review and, moreso, to appreciate jazz. I know I tend to enjoy it when it’s on, but not how to tell the good from the great. Best I can tell, this is pretty great but not as great as Miles Davis‘ other work on here.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

This was a group I had heard of, but never listened to. A fun, creative album.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

I get the hate for Morrissey but, what can I say? I’m a sucker for a jangly guitar.

Garbage

4/5

One of the artists that got me into alternative music back in middle school. Was pleasantly surprised to see it here.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

3/5

I like it but man it’s A LOT.

Boston

3/5

Enjoyable 70s rock n roll. Not revolutionary, but good dad rock.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

It’s a good listen. An intentionally retro sounding album, so nothing revolutionary. I think much of the reputation of this album comes from Winehouse’s unfortunate passing.

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

2/5

Rock-n-roll on cruise control.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

A solid Christmas album that you can play in the background of your Christmas party and it won’t draw a lot of attention to itself. Also Phil Spector is a murderer.