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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Group Sex Circle Jerks	5	2.75	+2.25
Reign In Blood Slayer	5	2.96	+2.04
Skylarking XTC	5	3.03	+1.97
Repeater Fugazi	5	3.12	+1.88
...And Justice For All Metallica	5	3.43	+1.57
Rio Duran Duran	5	3.49	+1.51
Devotional Songs Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan	4	2.58	+1.42
The United States Of America The United States Of America	4	2.61	+1.39
Scott 2 Scott Walker	4	2.63	+1.37
Pictures At An Exhibition Emerson, Lake & Palmer	4	2.64	+1.36

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Led Zeppelin IV Led Zeppelin	1	4.36	-3.36
Are You Experienced Jimi Hendrix	1	4.16	-3.16
Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin	1	4.11	-3.11
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin	1	4.1	-3.1
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.7	-2.7
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	1	3.61	-2.61
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	1	3.56	-2.56
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	1	3.42	-2.42
Aftermath The Rolling Stones	1	3.38	-2.38
Doggystyle Snoop Dogg	1	3.37	-2.37

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	2	5

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	3	1
Beastie Boys	2	1.5
Jimi Hendrix	2	1.5

5-Star Albums (11)

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4-Star Albums (32)

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1-Star Albums (18)

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Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

2/5

altrock, 2 not my thing. vocals annoying.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

1/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

The Specials

3/5

surprisingly got into it around song 4 (Nite Klub) don't really know or like ska but it was decent I don't know if i'd listen to it again though

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts (Not meaning the album itself)

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Apparently I like reggae, I didn't know that. Fantastic album.

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

2/5

This is so not my thing that no matter how wide I try to open my mind, I just can't appreciate it properly.

Elvis Presley

4/5

The faster songs are a lot more successful than the ballads, somehow his voice worked much better for the slow songs when he was a bit older (eg Can't Help Falling in Love) But the rock'n'roll songs are great fun.

Survivor

Destiny's Child

2/5

I've already heard this a million times since it used to be one of my sister's favorites but it's not something I'd willingly experience ever again.

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

I've never even heard of this band. I loved the music and hated the vocals. The groove in Friction was amazing and the second half of the title track (where it's instrumental) 👌

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

1/5

I quit during track 4. If all of the album was like track 2 then it would be a 5 star, and it would be an album that I listen to all the time. Alas, I'll probably never know because track 4 was so horrible that I had to stop. (didn't like the first one either)

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

2/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

3.5 Enjoyable

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

3/5

I really liked the music (except for Parade, I really don't know what were they thinking), though the song would be even better if they were all in Portuguese, but it's hard to articulate how much dislike her voice.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

4.5 My first real "heavy metal" cd was We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll, so BS is an absolute cornerstone in my music listening. But it's been decades since I last heard this. Though my favorite Sabbath, this is still magnificent. (Changes is a good song, it just does not fit where it is on the album). RIP Ozzy.

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

3/5

3.5 I was already familiar with this album, like would be too strong a word. I think I like Tom Waits in smaller doses, this is too long for sure. 'Hang Down Your Head' and 'Time' I especially enjoyed

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

At first I thought 'what the f...?' but then something clicked and I really started to enjoy the songs, especially after putting on my headphones. I ended up loving this album (despite not liking the vocals that much). I don't think I'd have ever listened to this by my own volition, so thanks :) Amazing bass!

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

3/5

It's perfectly nice, very inoffensive. If I listened to the radio and any of the songs would come on, I'd not run out of the room, but it's not something I'd really want to hear again. The songs sorta blend into each other and there's nothing extra in there to make them interesting or memorable.

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

4/5

Pretty damned great

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

1/5

All Mod Cons

The Jam

4/5

Already knew and love the album.

Cypress Hill

2/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

There's nothing new to be said. I love The Beatles. I love this album. I really enjoy the 2019 mix.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

2/5

I used to not like this at all, but I thought enough time has passed, I've changed a lot so I should give it another go... I still don't like it at all.

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

3/5

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

3/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

I hadn't heard this album since I was about 15, when this band stopped being interesting. This was a very long time ago. I was more into The Exploited anyway. I understand its significance, however it's basically just one very long (too long) song. It's okay in small doses.

Rio

Duran Duran

5/5

I'm extremely late to the Duran Duran party, but boy oh boy what an album! I don't know what the original sounds like because Tidal only has the 2009 remaster, but it sounds fantastic, especially the bass. (though Hungry Like a Wolf always makes me think of the Bruce Campbell Old Spice commercial)

New Wave

The Auteurs

2/5

Night Life

Ray Price

3/5

It's okay. If you've heard one song, you've basically heard them all, there's no variety whatsoever. Same tempo, same lyrical content. I liked the title track the most. I also liked his voice.

Hot Fuss

The Killers

2/5

In 2004 I was the world's biggest Opeth fan, so this band has escaped me entirely. They will continue to escape me, because other than the interesting bass line in the first song, it's boring me to tears. The vocalist has no range whatsoever and it was as if I was listening to the same song over and over again.

Scott 2

Scott Walker

4/5

This is the Scott Walker that I love, not the stuff of nightmares he insisted on calling music. (If this was Drift, that would be the easiest one star I'd ever give). Beautiful voice and great arrangements.

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

Led Zeppelin

1/5

I think I have given this more than a fair try - I almost quit after the third track, but took a break instead - but I find Plant's voice unbearable. No thank you.

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

3/5

3.5 This could easily be a 4 or even a 5 with a better vocalist, as the songs are pretty good. I liked Obvious and Three Days ...but from 1990, Facelift should be here instead.

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

3/5

If the whole album was like the first song, that would be a new favorite for me. Alas, the other songs are very different and it did get boring by the end. Also I'd say it's a bit too long. She has a nice voice and that first song is truly amazing, so I'll check her other albums out.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

1/5

I am also a Mick Jagger hater.

Paul Simon

3/5

GREY Area

Little Simz

2/5

Real Life

Magazine

3/5

3.5 The first half is incredible. The songs are much stronger than in the second half. I really didn't like the vocalist, but I guess I could get used to him. I guess Barry Adamson is not completely useless after all?

Aja

Steely Dan

3/5

I don't understand why this album is so revered, I mean it's pleasant enough but that's it. It is unexciting, safe and perfectly nice. there's absolutely nothing wrong with this album, other than it felt like they were playing a 40 minute long song, the songs are so similar.

Van Halen

3/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

3/5

The Libertines

2/5

I'd never heard of this band but from the name I expected something a bit more. This is all bark and no bite. No edge. Very boring

Horses

Patti Smith

1/5

Reign In Blood

Slayer

5/5

Technically I didn't have to listen to this again, since I know it so well, but I did it anyway. Any excuse, really. 🤘

Repeater

Fugazi

5/5

Groovy

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

2/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

2/5

Ramones

3/5

Paris 1919

John Cale

3/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

3/5

I prefer the Parliament album.

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

For some reason this is not a Nick Cave album that I'd given a lot of attention to (if any) and when it came up in the morning I thought "why this and not Tender Prey?" - which is my personal favorite Nick Cave album. And then while listening I kept thinking Tender Prey is definitely better, so I immediately listened to that after Henry's Dream ended and then I thought hmm maybe not. So I listened to Henry's Dream again and now I don't know. I'd most definitely give Tender Prey 5 stars for The Mercy Seat alone, so I don't quite know what to rate this album now, there's no Mercy Seat but it is very good indeed.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

It's a bit repetitive but not bad.

The Clash

3/5

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

1/5

Technique

New Order

4/5

Skylarking

XTC

5/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

When I saw this cover I got flashbacks to the year 2000 when the singles were on tv and on radio all the effing time, and I never want to hear them ever again. To say that I dislike this band is an understatement.

The United States Of America

4/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

Achtung Baby

3/5

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby