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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Fun House The Stooges	5	3.28	+1.72
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.3	+1.7
Bitches Brew Miles Davis	5	3.3	+1.7
Raw Power The Stooges	5	3.31	+1.69
Live At Leeds The Who	5	3.32	+1.68
Either Or Elliott Smith	5	3.39	+1.61
We're Only In It For The Money The Mothers Of Invention	4	2.46	+1.54
Machine Head Deep Purple	5	3.58	+1.42
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	5	3.61	+1.39
Penthouse And Pavement Heaven 17	4	2.61	+1.39

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi	1	3.29	-2.29
The Age Of The Understatement The Last Shadow Puppets	1	3.25	-2.25
Like A Prayer Madonna	1	3.23	-2.23
Tuesday Night Music Club Sheryl Crow	1	3.05	-2.05
Stripped Christina Aguilera	1	2.87	-1.87
Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette	2	3.72	-1.72
Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room Dwight Yoakam	1	2.6	-1.6
Siembra Willie Colón & Rubén Blades	2	3.3	-1.3
Achtung Baby U2	2	3.3	-1.3
Kenya Machito	2	3.27	-1.27

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Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	2	5
The Stooges	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
Madonna	2	1.5

5-Star Albums (17)

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American Gothic

David Ackles · 2 likes

2/5

Not all lost ‘70s albums need to be reclaimed.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson · 2 likes

3/5

Like catnip for grandpas

Copper Blue

Sugar · 1 likes

2/5

Starting to get a little bored of all the just “fine” 90s albums on this list. Are these just all Robert Dimery’s favorite albums from high school or something?

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys · 1 likes

4/5

More like Surf’s Down… not cuz it’s bad cuz it’s sad.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake · 1 likes

4/5

The final boss of “Sad White Guy Guitar Music”.

1-Star Albums (7)

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Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

2/5

Incomprehensible at the tempo it's played. Feels like showboating. Not for me.

Machine Head

Deep Purple

5/5

The duel-interplay between Ritchie Blackmore's guitar and Jon Lord's Hammond Organ is hard rock bliss. Best played while speeding down the highway like a star.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Heavy riffs, bitter-sweet ballads, and a whole lotta cocaine.

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

The singles are pretty fly. The rest all sounds the same. I miss Crazy Taxi.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

Packt full of hits!

Clandestino

Manu Chao

3/5

Un guiso multicultural con un toque de buen rollo.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

It’s got the hits! And some other songs or whatever. I don’t care.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Every song here is pitch perfect for a montage in a 90s boomer romcom.

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

A spooky old man singing about spooky old man things. Not bad!

School's Out

Alice Cooper

3/5

Opens with a triumphant classic rock radio staple and then immediately descends into five tracks of the weirdest shit your ever heard. Ends strong though.

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

“Papa Was a Rolling Stone” could be 30 minutes longer and I’d still say it ends too soon. A fucking classic.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Listened to this high while laying down in the dark. Now I know all the secrets of the universe.

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Feels like music you'd hear while shopping at the JCPenney in the 90s.

Led Zeppelin

5/5

They rocked so hard they made a blimp crash.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

Truly lives up to the t-shirt.

Django Django

4/5

Sober: “This is cute. It’s like a tribute to that Nuggets box set. Retro with a modern electronic flare. Nothing revolutionary.” High: "This is revolutionary!"

Solid Air

John Martyn

3/5

i love that Martyn pays tribute to Nick Drake but this album feels like a poor man’s Nick Drake.

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

3/5

“When I say Yee you say Haw. I DIDN’T SAY FUCKIN YEE!”

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Very cool and very British.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

It’s not Getz/Gilberto but if you’re throwing a 1960s cocktail party you could do a lot worse.

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

2/5

Cool samples. Boring execution.

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

3/5

Oh baby.

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

3/5

Bandoneon and Vibraphone... Name a more iconic duo.

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

2/5

Sounds like 80s Chili Peppers.

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

3/5

Great beeps and/or boops!

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

3/5

Like catnip for grandpas

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

3/5

This guy sounds sleepy but the vibe is pretty chill. 😎

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

2/5

Who…… cares?

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

3/5

I’d give it 666 stars if this thing let me but it doesn’t so I’ll give it 3.

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

1/5

A tribute to drunk boomer moms everywhere.

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

4/5

The perfect end to a sad girl summer.

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

1/5

Well… at least the cover is cool.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Makes me want to light every candle I have.

Kenya

Machito

2/5

I’m sure this crushed at cocktail parties in the late ‘50s but it’s not for me.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

4/5

A 70s glam band with a song called “Gang Bang”? Now we’re talking!

...And Justice For All

Metallica

3/5

Chugga-chugga-wug! Chugga-chugga-wug!

A Seat at the Table

Solange

4/5

Dude, this is fuckin’ GOOD.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

As good as heroin!

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

Just guys bein’ dudes.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

More like Surf’s Down… not cuz it’s bad cuz it’s sad.

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

4/5

Like Depeche Mode if they all got jobs at a tech company.

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

3/5

Sounds like the kind of music you’d have sex to in a RadioShack back in the 90s.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Fuckin’ bangers all day.

Like A Prayer

Madonna

1/5

More like “Like a 😴”

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Songs that are great for commercials or for getting high.

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

4/5

I got a fever and the only cure is more electric jug.

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

More like the FUCK Yes Album. I mean that in a good way.

Blood, Sweat & Tears

4/5

This makes me so very happy.

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

This thinks it’s sooooo cool.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

It’s got none of the hits I know but it’s still a cool vibe. But yeah, none of the hits I know.

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Love the album. I still don’t get why the cover is like the Lion King.

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

2/5

I need a little less country. I need a lotta bit of rock and roll.

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

2/5

This like you wanted to grab a bite to eat and accidentally stumbled into this dive bar and a crazy guy at the piano won’t stop talking and you wish you’d gone somewhere else.

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

The Kinks

3/5

This feels like school

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

3/5

I don’t know man. It’s not bad.

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

I can smell what these guys are cookin’.

The Cars

5/5

This was just what I needed.

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

1/5

I just can’t with this 90s Mom rock.

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

2/5

Not spooky enough. Too 90s. Barry Schmarry.

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

1/5

British Cowboy music? BARF! 🤮

Blur

4/5

WOO HOO!

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

4/5

Out of all the Britpop bands, Pulp seems like they have the most sex. I’m not talking about a quick “shag”. Im talking about real sex.

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

3/5

Supa satsfying

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

3/5

How did this get here?

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Almost as good as the soda!… Almost.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

What’s a battle?

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

“Art Rock” truly is the best way to describe whatever kind of music this is.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

3/5

I love all the video game sound FX.

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

2/5

I got a fever and the only prescription is more tabla.

Parklife

Blur

4/5

I wanna hear a moody and serious cover of “Parklife” next time they make a Jurassic Park.

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

This seems really smart.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

A Love Supreme > A Taco Supreme It’s close though!

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

4/5

There’s a relaxing Bob Ross quality to this one.

American Gothic

David Ackles

2/5

Not all lost ‘70s albums need to be reclaimed.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Any of these songs sound like they could be the theme to Roseanne.

2112

Rush

4/5

Some nerdy ass shit. But that’s good shit.

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Pure dentist Muzak

The Velvet Underground

4/5

This is one of my go-to albums when I have a migraine. So you might say this album has the power to heal. ❤️‍🩹

Hms Fable

Shack

3/5

This is definitely an album.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

Like Stranger Things!

I Against I

Bad Brains

3/5

Makes me wanna hit something with a skateboard.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

3/5

You go girlfriend!

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

I can kick it.

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

3/5

Very cozy. Very 90s

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

2/5

Salsa ain’t my jam. Now if this was queso that would be a different story.

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Almost as much fun as the book!

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

I’ll never get over that soft and beautiful opening acoustic number going straight into Paul Simon discovering Moog synthesizers. It’s awesome.

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

3/5

Finland done good.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

He’s a piece of a shit. It’s also really good. It’s complicated.

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

This thinks it’s SO cool.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

It makes a lot of sense that they cast this guy as a singing ape

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

Damn those Swedes. They did it again!

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

3/5

If drugs were a band.

Achtung Baby

2/5

More like ECCH-tung 🤢

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

Moody and dark and yet it’s a real toe-tapper!

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Hey, I want a Mercedes Benz too!

Sincere

Mj Cole

2/5

The amount of dull English House music on this list is staggering.

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

2/5

Dentist rock at its finest.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

This was cool when I was like 17.

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

2/5

You make this live album over 90 minutes long and don’t even play “Brown Eyed Girl” or “Moondance”? That’s just sick, man.

Copper Blue

Sugar

2/5

Starting to get a little bored of all the just “fine” 90s albums on this list. Are these just all Robert Dimery’s favorite albums from high school or something?

Arular

M.I.A.

4/5

I miss the days when all I knew about M.I.A. was how dope her music was. 😞

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Like Seinfeld!

Permission to Land

The Darkness

4/5

Fuck yeah, those were the days.

Paris 1919

John Cale

3/5

It was okay.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Classic mopey boys mopin’ it up.

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

2/5

I do not have much fondness for the synths of the early 90s.

Phrenology

The Roots

3/5

Makes me wish it was still 2002 and I was just chilling and watching Toonami.

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

This what I call morning wood.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

It’s okay. 😏

The Only Ones

3/5

Nowhere

Ride

3/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Hard to think of many classic albums that start stronger than this one.

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

Worth the wait. 😎

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

It’s hipster bullshit but it’s still good.

Signing Off

UB40

2/5

English reggae just ain’t my bag.

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

Goth boys dun good.

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

This album sounds drunk.

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

4/5

For a bunch of British white guys this is funky as Hell.

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

The future is beeps and boops.

Music

Madonna

2/5

Maybe it’s a generational problem but Madonna will always feel like drunk mom music to me.

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

3/5

This has got percussion up the wazoo!

The Clash

4/5

Spot on. Right.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

3/5

This feels SO 90s

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

2/5

It's 2 stars, bitch.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Yeah, dude we all know.

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

Faces

4/5

Crazy to think there was a time when one of the coolest things around was a bunch of scrawny white British dudes playing old blues music.

Common

3/5

Makes me nostalgic for the early Adult Swim era of Hip Hop.

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

4/5

He sure loves to bitch about stuff... And I love it!

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

5/5

I fucking loved this album when I was 14 and it still hits as hard today. 🎯

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

“Hotel California” is like the boomer National Anthem.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

I like Dolly but she’s always sounded like a cartoon mouse to me.

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

4/5

Like if Mad Magazine was a band.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

Merry Chrysler!

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

This makes me miss VH1

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

It’s like Fallout!

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

1/5

Somehow I find him more charismatic as the villain in Sling Blade.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Grunge is born!

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

The final boss of “Sad White Guy Guitar Music”.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

This puts the FUN in Funky… Get it?!?

Raw Power

The Stooges

5/5

You’d have to have a heart of napalm to not like this album.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

The Man Who

Travis

2/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

This hit me like a flower.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

I’m proud to be one of his employees!

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

3/5

I wouldn't mind living in this so-called guitar town.

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

You couldn't find a more appropriate label for this than "Dream Pop".

Iron Maiden

3/5

You know it's early cuz the skeleton guy looks kinda derpy on the cover.

Kala

M.I.A.

4/5

Sigh. Really wish she wasn't so crazy.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

This dude has so many albums. I'd never heard of this one.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

She sure is!

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

I could stare at that album cover for fifty years.

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

Meh.

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Makes me want to go rollerblading.

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

1/5

I can’t believe an album with a 55/100 on Metacritic is on here.

Arise

Sepultura

2/5

I have nothing against this kind of music. I just can’t tell when it’s supposed to be good.

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Warning: This is NOT the one with Bohemian Rhapsody!

Fun House

The Stooges

5/5

Fun!

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

3/5

No Other

Gene Clark

3/5

Sounds like hippies alright.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

I bought a copy of this on vinyl in 2006 for 98 cents. The second side of the second record was all warped. So I still get nervous when I hear "Sweet is the Night".

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

I feel bad that my introduction to "Lost in the Supermarket" was the movie "Over the Hedge".

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

They couldn’t even beat the Be Sharps at the Grammys

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

The flex to put "Planet Caravan" inbetween "War Pigs", "Paranoid" and "Iron Man". RESPECT.