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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby Girls Against Boys	5	2.66	+2.34
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts Brian Eno	5	2.79	+2.21
Gentlemen The Afghan Whigs	5	2.9	+2.1
Throwing Muses Throwing Muses	5	2.99	+2.01
Fuzzy Grant Lee Buffalo	5	3.02	+1.98
Repeater Fugazi	5	3.13	+1.87
Loveless My Bloody Valentine	5	3.17	+1.83
If You're Feeling Sinister Belle & Sebastian	5	3.18	+1.82
Low-Life New Order	5	3.29	+1.71
B-52's The B-52's	5	3.3	+1.7

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
MTV Unplugged In New York Nirvana	1	4.2	-3.2
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine	1	3.99	-2.99
Madman Across The Water Elton John	1	3.59	-2.59
Queen II Queen	1	3.49	-2.49
Guero Beck	1	3.45	-2.45
Cheap Thrills Big Brother & The Holding Company	1	3.42	-2.42
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) The Kinks	1	3.39	-2.39
Smash The Offspring	1	3.37	-2.37
Music From Big Pink The Band	1	3.35	-2.35
Live And Dangerous Thin Lizzy	1	3.32	-2.32

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Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
The Smiths	3	5
Depeche Mode	2	5

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Beck	2	1.5
Yes	2	1.5
Queen	2	1.5
The Byrds	2	1.5
Morrissey	2	1.5
Black Sabbath	3	2

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Nirvana	1, 5
Beatles	2, 5

5-Star Albums (28)

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Low-Life

New Order · 2 likes

5/5

probably my favorite album of all time

Fragile

Yes · 1 likes

2/5

it's a no from me dawg

Born To Be With You

Dion · 1 likes

1/5

i did not need to hear his before i die

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley · 1 likes

2/5

cartman did it better

1-Star Albums (23)

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

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The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

2/5

fukn draft dodgers

Elvis Presley

2/5

basic bitch

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

is the template for the how it started/how it's going meme?

Low

David Bowie

4/5

Around the time of Earthling, David Bowie played 4 small club shows on the east coast of the US and I somehow found my way into the Boston gig. The man who plays stadiums in a 2,000-person club. I went with my friend Alyssa and Low is her favorite David Bowie album. I picked it up around that time and went "eh". I knew of Brian Eno as an ambient pioneer and working with U2, so I was honestly expecting a whole album of side 2. Haven't really listened to it since. Now that I know Brian Eno from Roxy Music as well, I totally get side 1 now. 4 lads from Manchester formed a band called Warsaw inspired by Warszawa, but since that name wasn't dire enough, they changed it to Joy Division. This is a great album, but I think the legend precedes it a bit.

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

1/5

It wasn't until a few years ago that I realized The Fall were covering Victoria. This album was downhill after that.

Rage Against The Machine

1/5

don't @ me bro

B-52's

The B-52's

5/5

"Why don't you dance with me/I'm not no Limburger" was how I felt about every boy in 1990

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

2/5

Didn't hate it, wouldn't choose it.

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

2/5

It had moments

Odelay

Beck

2/5

One day a guy walked into WFNX in Boston with a white label 12-inch and dropped it off. That guy was Beck and the track was Loser, and for months I had folks looking to buy it at the record store. I remember the first one I brought over to Jeff Beck and he looked puzzled. Having to say "no" every day for months kinda soured me on Beck. This was probably the first time I heard this start to finish since it was released, if ever.

Gorillaz

5/5

Clint Eastwood was heating up when I was vacationing in London and I'll always remember that.

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

2/5

Kinda cool idea, but also didn't make an impression

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

5/5

I was taking the escalator up into South Station when Mea Culpa was playing and everyone was running around like insects.

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

1/5

girl bye

Ramones

3/5

Never heard front to back and better than expected.

Imagine

John Lennon

2/5

mostly cheese

Signing Off

UB40

1/5

“What kind of music do you like” “Oh, I like everything. Except reggae.”

Protection

Massive Attack

3/5

I was ready to go all in 5 stars on this but after revisiting- this was on fucking sophomore slump, huh?

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

2/5

I thought this might be good at one point and then it wasn’t

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

2/5

Fine

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

5/5

I really wanted to knock down to 4 stars but I bought his on vinyl when it came out.

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

I've only heard this a few times.

Black Sabbath

2/5

glad I heard it

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

2/5

I recognized a track. Wouldn't listen to again though.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

2/5

not as good as I expected

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

in 1988 I was tripping on acid and lying on the floor in Kristen's dorm room, and she had a poster of this album cover. I became convinced that the cover was a secret code showing that Simon and Garfunkel were lovers, and to this day I have to remind myself they were not. Or were they? I'm still not sure.

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

2/5

I like this - I probably would have loved it at the time it was released.

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

3/5

agree - listen before you die but this isn't definitive for dk

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

2/5

This was not nearly as terrible as I expected

Blur

2/5

I expected this to come it at a 3 but it didn't. Was never a fan outside of Girls and Boys.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

1/5

choices.

Medúlla

Björk

1/5

This is the first Bjork album I hated. Listened to it twice upon release and once again now.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

Much better than I remember it.

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

2/5

pu-say

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

Better than I remember it

Harvest

Neil Young

2/5

Not the first Neil I would reach for.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

2/5

I almost listened to this twice.

Tom Tom Club

2/5

never heard it before, just the hit

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

2/5

/giphy goth dance

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

I'd listen to this one if I wanted to hear The Doors

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

2/5

Everything I listen to says I should love this but I don't.

Bad Company

2/5

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

I don't think I've ever heard this one and it was better than I expected.

Close To The Edge

Yes

1/5

oh my god

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

2/5

interesting

Common

3/5

very good

Elastica

2/5

Wire did it better

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

1/5

ugh

The Doors

2/5

i liked the other one better

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

2/5

sandwidge

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

2/5

i feel like i should change my rating criteria. i'd never heard this and probably won't listen to it ever again front to back. but it was good while it was there.

Opus Dei

Laibach

2/5

They have others I like better

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

2/5

I like this kind of jazz

Among The Living

Anthrax

2/5

Never heard this and better than expected.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

5/5

generally in rotation for me.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

2/5

not the neil i would reach for

Trio

Dolly Parton

1/5

it was almost saved by farther along

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

1/5

don't @ me bro

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

5/5

I just can't quit you

My Generation

The Who

2/5

a rough debut

Rubber Soul

Beatles

2/5

not the beatles i would reach for. almost a 1

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

better than the other one

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

2/5

not bad, i was never a huge fan

Mott

Mott The Hoople

2/5

what did david bowie see in these guys

Fragile

Yes

2/5

it's a no from me dawg

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

2/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

2/5

still not a huge fan, surprisingly

Rapture

Anita Baker

2/5

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

2/5

great songwriter when covered

Dire Straits

2/5

i listened to it, but don't remember listening to it

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

2/5

not as bad as i expected

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

desert island disc from day 1

Boston

2/5

just barely a 2

The United States Of America

2/5

not as good as I remember

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

2/5

I've tried to get Kendrick from the start, but I must be genetically deficient. On relisten, I did like this one better than expected so I may be warming up.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

2/5

not as bad as I was anticipating

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

2/5

this was popular at the time

Street Signs

Ozomatli

2/5

not my thing but wasn't especially painful

Shadowland

k.d. lang

2/5

not the kd I would reach for

Music From Big Pink

The Band

1/5

I was ok with this until hours later i still had the weight stuck in my head

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

noisy. better than expected

Reign In Blood

Slayer

2/5

it was short

Snivilisation

Orbital

3/5

I keep thinking 'this is not the album by X I would reach for'

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

its almost like it was a greatest hits record

Aja

Steely Dan

2/5

i like peg

Smash

The Offspring

1/5

this was the height of me hating 90s popular music and it hasn't changed

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

i liked the weird parts

Eternally Yours

The Saints

2/5

not bad, surprised i'd never heard of them

Suicide

3/5

mother would have hated this

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

2/5

better than i expected

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

5/5

By the summer of 1988 I was taking acid once or twice a week and this album is woven into the fabric of that time period.

Born To Be With You

Dion

1/5

i did not need to hear his before i die

Joanna Newsom

1/5

wasn't worth the trip to youtube

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

2/5

sounds like the other one

A Night At The Opera

Queen

2/5

i hate opera but this wasn;t bad.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

2/5

too long

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

2/5

better than expected

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

1/5

i already don't remember this

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

2/5

not that bad

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

this is the beatles i would reach for

Low-Life

New Order

5/5

probably my favorite album of all time

The World is a Ghetto

War

2/5

i enjoyed this

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

1/5

i used to say only the first two solo albums were good but i was wrong.

American Pie

Don McLean

2/5

grade school art teacher used to play that starry starry night and we all laughed at her

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

2/5

i thought this was supposed to be legendary/amazing. it's fine.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

2/5

i was busy and this (surprisingly) made no impression on me

All Directions

The Temptations

2/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

2/5

not the arcade fire i would reach for

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

2/5

i wonder what ever happened to these kids? oh.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

even contemporary morrissey can't ruin this for me.

Guero

Beck

1/5

i'm mad at how plain this alcum was. i didn't need to hear this before i die

I See You

The xx

2/5

granny always said a shitty xx album is better than the best beck album

Future Days

Can

3/5

see, i did need to hear this before i died.

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

3/5

better than the other one

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

3/5

very good

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

the pinnacle

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

1/5

is this really the Elton John record I should hear before I die?

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

5/5

I guess this means their followup Cruise Yourself is 6 stars

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

1/5

pretty boring

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

2/5

i thought this was better than the other one but not really

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

bloated

LP1

FKA twigs

2/5

Throwing Muses

5/5

I used to cry myself to sleep to this as a teenager when it came out

Queen II

Queen

1/5

god this band is terrible

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

I'm not crying you're crying

Violator

Depeche Mode

5/5

remember when you smeared honey all over joe's dorm room door because he fucked a hitchhiker even though you were fucking both Chris and Sean and finally when driving route 90 clean came on and you were crying so hard you had to pull over? good times

Repeater

Fugazi

5/5

can you believe I've never heard this? but I did see Fugazi in 1990 tripping on lsd.

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

4/5

I think I like the other one better but this is still good

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

2/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

the (only) talking heads that i reach for

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

i first thought 'this one'? but it is good.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

2/5

I kinda only needed to hear one Black Sabbath album before death

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

2/5

not the fall I would reach for

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

for the album cover

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

2/5

in one ear and out the other

Pearl

Janis Joplin

2/5

Pretenders

2/5

overrated but also not bad

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

4/5

better than I expected

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

2/5

kinda repetitive

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

5/5

i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

2/5

more unnoticeable than i expected

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

3/5

oh wow, i had a song from this already saved

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

2/5

who is this

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

1/5

i did not think i could like meat puppets less

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

2/5

unremarkable

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

2/5

cartman did it better

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

3/5

how come i never liked this? i guess it's just not depressing enough and the songs stop once they get started

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

5/5

really 4, but +1 for nostalgia

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

2/5

didn't like it at the time, but it aged well, but morrissey didn't age well.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

is this the best one or 2nd best?

The Cars

3/5

better than i expected. they kinda don't get a lot of credit for their sound.

Homework

Daft Punk

2/5

this needed an editor to cut the runtime by half

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

2/5

is this the original sadcore?

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

1/5

oh my god

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

better than i expected

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

how do i know this back to front without ever having owned it

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

5/5

nice to see here

Arrival

ABBA

2/5

i think that SNL skit has ruined Abba for me

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

5/5

of course

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

2/5

idles like it

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

2/5

they really are a singles band, huh

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

2/5

actually disappointing. i wanted to hear this for the first time and like it.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

5/5

how many albums in and i finally get a nice surprise?

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

5/5

if i inflict the pain then baby only i can comfort you, yeah

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

better than i expected and there was a song about feet.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

1/5

god this cunt is insufferable

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

5/5

of course

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

2/5

didn't like it then, don't like it now

Microshift

Hookworms

3/5

hot chip did it better

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

on its own it's really just 4 stars, but it did change a lot of things