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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Dead Kennedys	5	3.27	+1.73
Eagles Eagles	5	3.3	+1.7
It's Blitz! Yeah Yeah Yeahs	5	3.49	+1.51
Hot Fuss The Killers	5	3.74	+1.26
Dookie Green Day	5	3.79	+1.21
The Stranger Billy Joel	5	3.85	+1.15
Elephant The White Stripes	5	3.86	+1.14
Slayed? Slade	4	2.88	+1.12
Copper Blue Sugar	4	2.97	+1.03
Post Orgasmic Chill Skunk Anansie	4	2.99	+1.01

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Amnesiac Radiohead	1	3.41	-2.41
Dirty Sonic Youth	1	3.1	-2.1
Pacific Ocean Blue Dennis Wilson	1	3.07	-2.07
BEYONCÉ Beyoncé	1	2.86	-1.86
Basket of Light Pentangle	1	2.76	-1.76
Dire Straits Dire Straits	2	3.72	-1.72
Justified Justin Timberlake	1	2.68	-1.68
Scott 2 Scott Walker	1	2.64	-1.64
Blonde On Blonde Bob Dylan	2	3.5	-1.5
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	2	3.49	-1.49

5-Star Albums (11)

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

1-Star Albums (7)

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Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Decent. Catchy generic sound, but on the back end hasn't aged much.

Infected

The The

2/5

Basket of Light

Pentangle

1/5

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

2/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

Kind sweet until the last song, which is so bad and inconsistent with the foregoing that it lost a star

Dire Straits

2/5

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

1/5

This was not good at all. Y’all must be drunk [in love]

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

Weird Indian sidetrack mid album

Scott 2

Scott Walker

1/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Don’t know that I needed the song straight up repeated.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

1/5

If you like listening to variations of shitty guitar feedback, this is the album for you.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Crazy takes here. This is a classic album

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

3/5

For Your [Moderate] Pleasure

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

5/5

Nice subtle commentary

Achtung Baby

3/5

Decent.

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Fan of the sound of the album (outside of much of the singing), but otherwise could be rough at times.

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

2/5

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

2/5

Maybe hire a singer

Slayed?

Slade

4/5

Dudes got pipes and there’s consistent musicianship with variation between songs. Guitar sound is a bit grating, I’d like to hear them with modern polish on the recording.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

Fine

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

2/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

Solid

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

1/5

You could cross the Pacific Ocean in the time it takes to finish this album.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

Solid

Hot Fuss

The Killers

5/5

Never actually listened to the full album, and didn’t realized that it basically contains all their jams.

Justified

Justin Timberlake

1/5

90 percent is so bad that I can’t give the decent parts any star-based credit

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Kinda funk

Amnesiac

Radiohead

1/5

The worst Radiohead album I’ve ever heard. Any other band and no critic would have put it anywhere near this list

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

Slash hard carrying this album. Hard to rate because of the highs and lows.

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

4/5

Weirdly good?

Smile

Brian Wilson

4/5

Finding this one really hard to rate. Some of that is the weird context of the album, but the production is great and I’ve never heard an album flow from one song to the next as effectively—it plays like one fever dream.

Low

David Bowie

3/5

Purple Rain

Prince

3/5

Some highs, but the lows really dragged this

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Every member of the band killing it for their part, consistent themes and sound, no bad songs and a few all-timers. An easy five irrespective of Ozzy’s death or its outsized influence.

Eagles

5/5

I’m going to veer from the group and rate this highly, classic singles but even the deep tracks are mostly solid. I wish these ratings were out of ten, because really I think this album is an 8.5, but I guess that means I’m rounding up.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

All Along the Watchtower and Voodoo Child truly save this album

Damaged

Black Flag

2/5

Just not good. There’s a huge quality gap between this album and Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

4/5

Realizing that I enjoy live albums. Honestly considering 4 or 5 for this. Also rare that a live album song version is the definitive recording (I want you to want me).

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

I would ride this album like the haradrim

World Clique

Deee-Lite

3/5

Not my taste but decent. My heart didn’t find the groove of some of the deeper tracks

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

2/5

Surprised by how little I enjoyed this. Lyrics are good and some solid tracks—but my man, if your voice sounds like that you can’t also be absolutely blaring mediocre harmonica. If the point of an album is to make enjoyable sounds, then shouldn’t your sound be good?

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

4/5

Unexpectedly good album

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

David Bowie

5/5

Weird move Bowie

British Steel

Judas Priest

4/5

Good.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

Halfway through the album I stopped and realized this was rad yo.

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

2/5

It was mostly fine, but that’s about all I’ve got

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

No comments necessary

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

Somewhere between a 3 and a 4 for me. Good and kinda jammy, but not memorable.

The La's

4/5

Familiar with the single but not this album. Pretty impressed. the album falls off a bit towards the end, but a nice mix of like Kinks/REM/acoustic-heavy alternative. On the borderline between 4 and 5–if it had another solid single I’d bump it up easy.

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

3/5

Liked the sound and vibe, but not enough of the individual songs

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

3/5

Hard to review without understanding the lyrics or context, but the music itself was enjoyable enough

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

The depth of this album is almost unparalleled, and if we just forget that Oh Daddy exists, doesn’t hit particular lows.

The Predator

Ice Cube

3/5

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Fairly dense. Both carried and undercut by Eddie’s great/overdone guitar playing

Tommy

The Who

3/5

A rock opera with a story I really couldn’t follow or get into, and not too many great tracks. Gains a point for the attempt and influence.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

2/5

All over the place. I just can’t rate an album highly if I have to listen to a (total shit) song about graphically killing your ex that lasts two minutes longer than your single.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

The album was deeper than I was expecting. I don’t necessarily love or hate Joplin as a singer on singles, but her tone with the quality of the old recording does grate after several tracks.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Pretty good. GF called it elevator music, and it was hard to mount a credible counter argument.

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

Damn catchy.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

2/5

Listened while driving around Scotland’s highlands, and the vibes still didn’t carry this album too far.