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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Grievous Angel Gram Parsons	5	2.86	+2.14
The Gilded Palace Of Sin The Flying Burrito Brothers	5	2.93	+2.07
Moby Grape Moby Grape	5	2.94	+2.06
Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) Loretta Lynn	5	2.97	+2.03
I See A Darkness Bonnie "Prince" Billy	5	2.97	+2.03
Billion Dollar Babies Alice Cooper	5	3.11	+1.89
Dirty Sonic Youth	5	3.11	+1.89
Being There Wilco	5	3.22	+1.78
Something Else By The Kinks The Kinks	5	3.25	+1.75
Bitches Brew Miles Davis	5	3.3	+1.7

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Stranger Billy Joel	1	3.86	-2.86
Dookie Green Day	1	3.79	-2.79
American Idiot Green Day	1	3.77	-2.77
21 Adele	1	3.69	-2.69
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	1	3.67	-2.67
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters	1	3.49	-2.49
Tusk Fleetwood Mac	1	3.47	-2.47
Parachutes Coldplay	1	3.46	-2.46
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	1	3.44	-2.44
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	1	3.43	-2.43

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Talking Heads	3	5
David Bowie	4	4.5
Jimi Hendrix	2	5
The Kinks	2	5
Black Sabbath	2	5
Beatles	2	5

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
The Prodigy	2	1
Green Day	2	1
Coldplay	2	1
The Pogues	2	1

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Metallica	1, 4

5-Star Albums (47)

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

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

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

Popular Reviews

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream · 1 likes

1/5

Terribly mixed and so boring. Was this important or relevant when it came out? Nobody knows or cares.

White Light

Gene Clark · 1 likes

3/5

Wish he had a better backing band. Definitely some good songwriting here but it fell flat for me. I’d rather listen to the Byrds.

1-Star Albums (36)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

All Ratings

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

1/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

5/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

1/5

Not my bag, baby. I tried.

Fleet Foxes

1/5

I don't get it.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

1/5

I don't understand why this was ever popular.

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

5/5

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

1/5

I'm seeing lots of albums like this, and really confused as to why they're an essential listen. I mean, I can think of 1001 albums that are better than this.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

Headquarters

The Monkees

3/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

The Band

5/5

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

5/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

4/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

5/5

Black Sabbath

5/5

Debut

Björk

5/5

Adele

1/5

Why is this here? Music for office buildings. YES she has so much talent and can SANG.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

5/5

The Rise & Fall

Madness

2/5

Ehh, one song is all we really need, innit?

Moby Grape

5/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

5/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

5/5

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

4/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

The Poet

Bobby Womack

2/5

Did not age well

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

1/5

More crap british music.

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

1/5

I hate this shit.

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

American Idiot

Green Day

1/5

I've heard a lifetime of Green Day, and 100% of it was forced upon me.

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

4/5

Bummed

Happy Mondays

3/5

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

3/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

5/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

4/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

5/5

S&M

Metallica

1/5

Metallica

4/5

Miriam Makeba

3/5

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

3/5

Foo Fighters

1/5

Nice guys making nice music. Barf.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

4/5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

5/5

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

4/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Parklife

Blur

3/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

1/5

Fuckin' A. Two Coldplay albums in a week makes me want to stick an icepick in my earhole. The pumpkin spice latte of music, just stop already. This band fucking sucks.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

4/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

3/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

1/5

I've always disliked and will always continue to dislike Fleetwood Mac. They were cooler with Peter Green for obvious reasons, but this incarnation of the band is what the cast of Friends would sound like if they were a band. Hard pass.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

5/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

1/5

Hms Fable

Shack

1/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

5/5

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

1/5

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

David Bowie

5/5

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

3/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

4/5

Being There

Wilco

5/5

Dire Straits

4/5

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

3/5

Melodrama

Lorde

1/5

Timeless

Goldie

3/5

Sound Affects

The Jam

3/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

1/5

More Coldplay? Always such a disappointment.

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

1/5

I don't know what this is and have never heard of this band before, but this doesn't seem like a list-worthy record.

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

5/5

Classic album from a country music queen, before the genre went to shit.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

Classic album from an amazing group of musicians

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

5/5

A classic album, one of the first groups in a then-new genre combining classic country with psychedelic rock. Filled with great songs and Sneaky Pete doing his thing on pedal steel.

Van Halen

5/5

Epic debut that changed the trajectory of music and electric guitar.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

First time listening to this band and I love this album. Will have to check out some of their other stuff

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

2/5

More generic brit rock BS. No thanks.

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

1/5

WTF is this doing here? She can sing like a MFer but this music is pure dog shit.

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

2/5

Two stars for a quirky album from a group I’ve never heard of. Gotta laugh at the sax mixed with heavy guitars.

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Great album that I didn’t appreciate in the 80s because I was a kid.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

5/5

Like it or not, this is required listening and foundational to so many aspects of modern music we take for granted.

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

1/5

The wrong kind of 80s pop. Culturally relevant Olaf the time but I’m sorry the music and production is terrible.

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

I love this era of Bob and the Wailers, but this is not the best representation of the music they made during this time. Still a great record though.

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

1/5

Actually, I just had to listen to culture club and now this generic 80s pop. I don’t understand why this album belongs on this list. Not my thing.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Great record from a foundational band at the forefront of the grunge movement.

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

1/5

Holy fuck this is beyond terrible. I’d rather be slowly run over by a tank than be subjected to this musical cabaret. Talented vocalist and musicians, but overall a hot steaming pile of dog shit. I can’t imagine why anyone would listen to this.

Pretenders

3/5

I only knew the radio hits, so it was cool to hear an entire record from this band. Solid .

Clandestino

Manu Chao

3/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

This album swings hard. Amazing!

Tommy

The Who

5/5

Classic

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

I did not like this album as much as I thought I would. Still, it’s three stars for being different at the time in Eric Burdon is awesome.

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

As good as it gets.

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

1/5

I hate this music so bad. I hope this is the last Pogues album I ever hear.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

This came out my senior year of high school, and obviously I hated it. But there was NO ESCAPE from these songs, they were literally being played everywhere, and the girls I knew LOVED this album. The music cracks me up. It's like Pearl Jam was hired to play the tracks and then the producer turned everything down in the mix. Her vocal affectations are also entertaining to listen to. I remember the videos vividly. Overall, I never got this music, but for an album that I never voluntarily listened to, I sure know it well. Clearly this was a ground-breaking album and she's very talented and beautiful. Three stars for impact.

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

4/5

One of my favorite NY records. Love the Crazy Horse cut. Fuck heroin!

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

1/5

Terribly mixed and so boring. Was this important or relevant when it came out? Nobody knows or cares.

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

The Kinks

5/5

Brilliant

The Coral

2/5

Some cool sounds from this obscure (to me) band from across the pond, but otherwise a forgettable album. Not sure what makes this list-worthy, similar to several other generic British bands that seem ever-present on this list.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

It’s all death, decay, heartbreak, and suffering with this shit. Like the house band in hell. What occasion warrants listening to Nick Cave? None that I’ve ever found. I’ve tried a few times and I just don’t get it.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

5/5

A great way to spend 38 minutes

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

I can get to this

Dry

PJ Harvey

3/5

I probably wouldn’t ever choose to listen to this again, but it sounds way beyond 1992 in a good way.

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

Good stuff, glad I learned about this one.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Classic

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

1/5

This fucking sucks, and the cover is gross too. Seriously wtf?

Joanna Newsom

4/5

One of those records that everyone fawned over when it came out. I didn't get it at all. Then a couple years later I sat down and listened to it in a focused way to see if I could understand why, and yes, it is actually amazing. Probably not something you casually throw on to listen to, and I'm not sure I'll ever listen to it again, but definitely a great album.

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

2/5

Sounds like a standard-issue 90's R&B record to me, not sure what makes this list-worthy.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

1/5

Hated it in the 90s, hate it even more today as I thought it would never again cross my ears.

Rapture

Anita Baker

2/5

Sweet Love…Another song I never thought I’d have to hear again. Hard pass, what makes this list-worthy??

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Sounds like 1982

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

I and I love dis rebel music

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

3/5

I enjoyed the last few songs more than the first half. Having only heard the singles, I have a new appreciation for Annie's voice, wow. This also aged very well compared to many albums from this era. Not exactly my thing but pretty good stuff.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

5/5

Amazing, and I thought Doolittle was the only SY album i liked. My ignorance has been exposed.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

1/5

It's a personal problem, but I’ve always disliked Billy Joel’s music. It’s a visceral reaction that I cannot get around. I know lots of these songs, not by choice, and do not ever want to hear them again. Sometimes they'll get in my head for no reason. I'm not saying this to be cool as I understand it's a thing with some people to dislike Billy Joel, and I'm sure he's a great guy and certainly talented, but I fucking can't stand the music he makes.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Stone cold classic

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

3/5

As good as it gets for Aerosmith, a band that I never quite got into as much as others of the era.

Reign In Blood

Slayer

4/5

Classic thrash album right here.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Among the few veggies that I enjoy eating and listening to.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

1/5

Oh no, not again! I've seen other reviewers describe music like this as lobby music for a Nintendo 64 snowboarding game, and yeah that's it for me too. Hard pass.

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

3/5

Cool album, never heard of this before and I like it.

Paul Simon

3/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

3/5

\m/ \m/

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

4/5

Good stuff, never heard this before.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

One of the greats by one of the greatest.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Not my favorite Muddy record, but it’s still him.

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

3/5

Always saw this band’s tapes mixed in with my friend’s older siblings tapes back in the day. Not sure what’s psychedelic about it, although it’s good to finally hear it. Pretty cheesy with that damn saxophone, and very 80s. There are a few good tunes on here I guess.

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

3/5

I love this woman

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Another one of Neil's finest.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

Finally giving this a listen. Pretty cool.

1977

Ash

2/5

More generic mid 90s euro-shite

Slayed?

Slade

4/5

Cookin

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

Theee stars for overexposure.

Protection

Massive Attack

2/5

Hated it in the 90s, hate it today.

White Light

Gene Clark

3/5

Wish he had a better backing band. Definitely some good songwriting here but it fell flat for me. I’d rather listen to the Byrds.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

3/5

Glad I listened to this, I almost tapped out during the first track.

Dookie

Green Day

1/5

Suffered through the Green Day craze when it happened. Hard pass.

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

3/5

Paul Weller strikes again, ma this guy is all over the place. Weird album with some cool songs, never heard of this before either.

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

1/5

No thanks

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Classic

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

3/5

I love how my first exposure to Peter Gabriel was his commercial stuff in the late 80s. This is so weird and cool.

Blur

3/5

Shocked at how much I enjoyed this record.

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Groovy

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

5/5

Surely some will hate this, but this is peak GP. Amazing record.

Orbital 2

Orbital

1/5

My favorite so far from the “Nintendo 64 snowboarding game choose your character music” album. Even still, total shite and why is this here?

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

Shoegazey

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

1/5

I write this on 12/26, completely Christmased out. Also, Phil Spector is a wanker and a ghoul.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

2/5

I enjoy deep purple but this was a painful listen.

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

3/5

Far out

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

2/5

Definitely not pet sounds.

In Utero

Nirvana

3/5

Live Through This

Hole

3/5

Hole immediately after Nirvana? I smell a conspiracy. At least, I hope that’s what I smell. Way better than I expected.

1989

Taylor Swift

3/5

My daughter gives this five stars

Imagine

John Lennon

5/5

All this time I thought I was a Paul guy.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

2/5

After 150 some albums, I feel I can now judge an album by its cover. More of the same horseshit early 2000’s electronics that permeates this list.

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

1/5

Back to back horseshit early 2000’s electronica. Why is this on the list? I hate it.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

This was everywhere when I was a kid, and I forgot how many bangers are on this record, not to mention the EVH solo on Beat it. Hard to deny the power of this record.

Talvin Singh

1/5

Less than OK

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Ananda Shankar

2/5

Music for an elevator in Bangladesh in 1970.

Low

David Bowie

4/5

Two Bowie albums in a week? Fine with that, Low is great, maybe better than Heroes? Who cares.

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

3/5

I love Moondance. Not so sure about this one.

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Muy caliente

Frank

Amy Winehouse

2/5

This is not the Amy Winehouse record for me

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Stevie Wonder’s a musical genius!

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

4/5

Still not Pet Sounds but a beautiful record in its own right.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

Gotta be in a certain mood to listen to this but she is undeniable.

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

Pumpkin spice grunge rock

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

Thunderous

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

Beautiful

The Joshua Tree

2/5

Wankers. 2 stars for Bullet the Blue Sky.

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

5/5

One of his best

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Imagine today’s version of this. It would suck. This didn’t.

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Nice to hear the album and not just the singles. Good stuff.

Vivid

Living Colour

3/5

Not too much for me after Cult of Personailty. Heck of a bad though and they’re still together.

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

2/5

A short album - hate to say it but it all sounds the same.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

Three stars for a new artist to check out but kinda boring.

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

3/5

Groovy baby, yeah!

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

Overproduced not my favorite nick drake.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

Hard to find, weird cover, love this era of Funkadelic. Not my favorite but still really goot.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

I love Jimmy Smith. Even if this isn't my favorite it's still damn good.

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

1/5

Shit

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

4/5

Groovy baby, yeah!

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

I must be getting old because I could finally appreciate this album. I never understood why people lost their shit over JM, I always thought it was crap, until now. Why is this happening to me??