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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
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	5	3.35	+1.65
Debut Björk	5	3.37	+1.63
Surfer Rosa Pixies	5	3.51	+1.49
Hot Fuss The Killers	5	3.74	+1.26
Tago Mago Can	4	2.79	+1.21
Bone Machine Tom Waits	4	2.86	+1.14

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Let It Bleed The Rolling Stones	1	3.83	-2.83
Bringing It All Back Home Bob Dylan	1	3.65	-2.65
Machine Head Deep Purple	1	3.59	-2.59
Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Frank Sinatra	1	3.52	-2.52
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters	1	3.5	-2.5
Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys	1	3.47	-2.47
Tres Hombres ZZ Top	1	3.43	-2.43
Court And Spark Joni Mitchell	1	3.35	-2.35
Tommy The Who	1	3.34	-2.34
Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd	2	4.3	-2.3

5-Star Albums (6)

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With The Beatles

Beatles

2/5

At first felt too sock-hop for me, then I really enjoyed the middle third, then it started to feel hokey again. 3.5 rounded up. EDIT: I just learned all the songs I liked the most on this album are covers. Downgrading from 3.5 to 2.5, and rounding down.

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1-Star Albums (18)

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The Coral

1/5

Hated

Green

R.E.M.

3/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

2/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

Foo Fighters

1/5

It’s giving high school talent show

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

3/5

not bad, reminded me of the pixies just not quite as good

Live!

Fela Kuti

2/5

Got a lil bored

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

2/5

not a fan of Janis’s cheese grater vocals

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

1/5

it’s like they heard 1 blues song and went, “I could do that”

Black Sabbath

2/5

Had high hopes for this one but disappointed

Parklife

Blur

2/5

Boys & girls is a classic but the rest of the songs on this album were nothingburgers

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

1/5

DNF. Somewhere around the 11 minute jesus loves you song, I couldn’t take it anymore

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

A few classics on here — keep the car running, no cars go, my body is a cage. but the middle kind of drags. Their next album The Suburbs is better, made me just want to listen to that one

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

a veritable cornerstone of any self-respecting millennial middle schooler’s cd collection

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

3/5

Not sure how to rate this one. Good for what it is but not something I really enjoy listening to?

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

RIP ozzy!

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

2/5

ehhh 🤷‍♀️

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

2/5

just not my cup of tea. very frenetic/shaky, the whole album made me anxious except the last track. struggling to separate it from modern contexts where it has been co-opted like burlesque dance, cartoons, film noir, dance classes I took as a kid. this is one where maybe you just had to be there

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

3.5 but I’ll round up. Hokey at times which takes me out of it. “Let me roll it” weighted the score higher, far and away the best song on the album.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

2/5

A couple hits but mostly filler… nothing memorable

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

2/5

This album is rubbish

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

good album, was fun to return to it after many years

The White Album

Beatles

2/5

Some good songs but overall album needed editing. Too long and too much carnival music

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

Pelican West

Haircut 100

3/5

if talking heads and a less melancholy tears for fears had a baby it would be this band. bit too heavy on the horns though, gets repetitive

The Undertones

3/5

not bad but probably won’t ever revisit

Opus Dei

Laibach

2/5

too out there for me but appreciated its novelty

Odelay

Beck

3/5

Wanted to love this one more but Beck’s other works call to me more. 2.5 rounded up… I could take it or leave it with the exception of devils haircut, always a banger

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

3/5

I’ve always been ambivalent on them

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

2/5

Boring, too long, dnf

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Flawless as ever. No notes

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

an all-time fave forever!

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

i don’t like jazz but if I had to listen to it, this would do. groovy infusions

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Had high hopes for this one given rikki and major dude but the rest of the album was a hokey flop for me. 2.5 rounded up

Tago Mago

Can

4/5

I heard so much Radiohead in this and I’m not mad about it

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

5/5

Holy cow. I don’t remember this album being this killer!? Refreshingly un self conscious. Badass energetic riffs. Unrelenting pace. Fucked up lyrics for all the right reasons. Also now painfully aware of the obvious influence they had on billie joe armstrong. Never was big on green day but now I know why… they were just trying to be this. Unhinged Elvis cover to close it out clinched it for me. 5 knuckle sandwiches 👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

3/5

A crooked, slurred, meandering funhouse journey. The soundtrack of motion sickness. Perhaps one too many dings and clangs for my taste, but I respect the artistic vision.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

Coffee shop music. Fades into the background for me. Gets repetitive. Very long album. 2.5 rounded to 3

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

it’s a no for me

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

4/5

Liked this one better than Rain Dogs. 3.5 stars rounded up.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

2/5

didn’t hate it but didn’t particularly like it either

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

2/5

if I were ren faire bound, it might be fun for the car ride

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

beeyotchhhh

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

the millennial’s classic rock

The La's

3/5

Pleasant enough, didn’t mind it

Electric

The Cult

3/5

Didn’t hate it but did get bored, this whole album is like one long song

Tommy

The Who

1/5

3 1/2 hours!? What could possibly be so important

With The Beatles

Beatles

2/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

1/5

I guess you had to be there. Also, knowing she had a blackface “alter ego” and continuously defended it kinda ruins the vibe for me

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

4/5

I liked this. It was a fun ride and could see myself listening again. I don’t know much about this genre but appreciated the opportunity to learn

Trio

Dolly Parton

3/5

Deec. 2.5. Kinda boring.

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

3/5

Never heard of this band/album before, and didn’t know what to expect. Certainly never saw noise rock coming! Every so often in college I would find myself at a friend-of-a-friend’s experimental noise show. It was always in some forgotten room of an industrial building with cement floors, the smell of PBR and BO wafting through the stale air. Some rich kids with greasy hair and threadbare undershirts would fuck around with pedals and amps and synths and there would be cables running everywhere and the sound of fuzzy crumpled paper and dial-up aol static harassing my ear drums at unreasonable volume. I didn’t get it. Why? Where did this come from? Am I supposed to like this? Does everyone else here like this? Is this music? I would ask myself. This album explains SO MUCH, and that experience I now understand to be very of its time. Probably will never listen again, but 3 for the millennial college nostalgia, introducing me to the most listenable example of the genre I’ve ever heard, and serving as an actually not terrible workout playlist at the gym.

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

Sexy boy will always be a banger, but listening to this album I realized why that was the only song I knew from it. The rest feels forgettable. Ok background music. 2.5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

1/5

I’m glad people in the 50s liked this, but I in 2025 just do not have that gene

Van Halen

2/5

A handful of catchy licks but not much going on here

Scum

Napalm Death

1/5

Future Days

Can

3/5

viiiiibes

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

I enjoyed this sentimental nonsense more than I’d like to admit

Hot Fuss

The Killers

5/5

In the words of an indie rock redditor: “Boomers have Sweet Caroline, Gen X has Don't Stop Believing, and Millennials have Mr. Brightside.” This album is front loaded with hits. While Brightside proved to be most enduring, it was fun to revisit the others, especially All These Things That I’ve Done. Loses its steam toward the very end, especially the last song, but overall highly listenable. Plays a bit dated now but can’t deny the defining sound of the early aughts. 4.5 rounded up.

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

2/5

🥱

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

3/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

🔥

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Great album

Rubber Soul

Beatles

3/5

It’s fine. A few bops.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

4/5

I have conflicting feelings about this album. At the bookstore I worked at in college, they’d play it multiple times a day. Listening to it now, I realize they were skipping the all the lengthy/self-indulgent/unlistenable/drug-fueled chaotic parts. There’s a vocal affectation of this era that I really can’t stand, that I can only describe as a vocal shrug 🤷‍♀️. It immediately turns me off when I hear it but for some reason I mostly forgive it for Lou Reed. Can’t say why. Nico’s distinctive vocals do a lot of heavy lifting. Overall I love the vibe of this album but at its worst moments it’s completely unlistenable. High highs and low lows. 3.5/5.

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

2.5. I’m ambivalent. It’s fine.

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

3/5

2.5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

1/5

1.5. What am I missing?

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

2.5

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

1/5

lame

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

1/5

literally and figuratively do not understand this. not a fan of this singing style

Whatever

Aimee Mann

3/5

The Clash

3/5

Repetitive …2.5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

2/5

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

3/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

2/5

Wild Gift

2/5

Fragile

Yes

2/5

More like, no

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

5/5

this album goes so hard

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

2/5

was hoping for more given the amazing singles on here but alas

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

3/5

listened to this whole album and don’t remember a thing… but I don’t mind the vibe and there are other artists w a similar sound that I have been known to enjoy. 2.5

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

2/5

2.5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

Debut

Björk

5/5

5 stars, like someone in love… with bjork

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