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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Deserter's Songs Mercury Rev	5	3.02	+1.98
Roxy Music Roxy Music	5	3.11	+1.89
Exit Planet Dust The Chemical Brothers	5	3.16	+1.84
Since I Left You The Avalanches	5	3.28	+1.72
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	5	3.38	+1.62
Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen	5	3.42	+1.58
Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys	5	3.47	+1.53
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	5	3.62	+1.38
Ill Communication Beastie Boys	5	3.65	+1.35
Automatic For The People R.E.M.	5	3.82	+1.18

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Fragile Yes	1	3.31	-2.31
Ctrl SZA	1	2.91	-1.91
Birth Of The Cool Miles Davis	2	3.65	-1.65
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	2	3.61	-1.61
1984 Van Halen	2	3.51	-1.51
Hail To the Thief Radiohead	2	3.44	-1.44
Synchronicity The Police	2	3.42	-1.42

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beastie Boys	2	5

5-Star Albums (11)

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Doolittle

Pixies

3/5

Too long, outstays its welcome. Nowhere near as good as Surfer Rosa. Some great tracks, too much filler.

1 likes

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Smiling right now. A 5 star album. One of his best.

1 likes

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Whatever

Aimee Mann

3/5

Bit bland at times. Very 90s.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

Best tracks (in order of greatness) Car thief Looking down the barrel of a gun Shadrach Hey Ladies Egg man Shake your rump B-Boy Bouillabaisse: Stop that train B-Boy Bouillabaisse: AWOL It's a 5 star album, one of the best, and the best thing is, they followed it up with 2 more great albums, just like Stevie Wonder did in the 70s.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

1983 I forgot how good that ttack was.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

There is not a bad track on here. There is a quietness to all of the tracks, it is a low-key masterpiece. I haven't listened to it fully in years (it's Aug 2025) and it is as good as I remember, it has not dated. Even though 'Everybody Hurts' has it's own life outside the album, within it, it sounds just fine.

Doolittle

Pixies

3/5

Too long, outstays its welcome. Nowhere near as good as Surfer Rosa. Some great tracks, too much filler.

Synchronicity

The Police

2/5

2nd half of the album is better, from Synchronicity II onwards. 1st half is pretty bad. I wouldn't want to listen to this album again.

1984

Van Halen

2/5

Well, this is going to be a tough listen Really not my thing Jump is great.

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

2/5

Yes! No. Very dated sonically and lyrically. A few good tracks but overall, outstays it's welcome.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

Yes yes yes a fucking genuine classic after a few days of shit oicks. Played it to death, still sounds amazing 30 years later. A top 10 album of all time for me personally.

Feast of Wire

Calexico

4/5

Nice! It has one if the best opening tracks of any album 《sunken waltz》 So many beautiful tracks, like Quattro, Across the wire and more upbeat Latin fused tracks like Guero Canelo. Loved this album for years. The 20th anniversary edition has a lovely cover of 'Alone again or', which respects the original that Love created, without being a clone.

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

2/5

Never heard of this one. Very 90s jazz chill

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

One of my all time favourites! Monster sounds dated now, though it was one of my favourites when it first came out. So Appalled and Devil in a new Dress are also weaker than the rest. Runaway 10/10 Hell of a Life 10/10 Gorgeous 10/10 All of the lights 10/10

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

5/5

YESSSSSSSS!!!!!! It's beautiful.

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

3/5

Interesting. Never heard of this one before.

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

4/5

A pleasure. Jersey Girl On the Nickel Ruby's Arms

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

Bits were good Bits meandered

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Wow! Pleasantly surprised. Let the girl be with the girls Stay hungry Thank you for sending me an angel There are touches of velvets, garage rock and funk and its very enjoyable.

Hms Fable

Shack

2/5

It's just not my cup of tea

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

2/5

First half ok Second half not Too many slots Too self indulgent

Cut

The Slits

2/5

'Typical Girls' is the best thing on the album. I understand it is an important album, but I just don't find it listenable.

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

3/5

Loved the big beat / mid 90s sound. Some of it is a bit bland, some of it is great. Never listened to it before but was surprised how good it was. Love the cover art!

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

2/5

2+2=5 is such a classic Radiohead track, and a great opener. It would be a good fit for OK Computer. After that it goes downhill fast. At 14 songs, it outstays it's welcome with too much plodding and wailing. The last 6 songs, from There, There to A Wolf at the Door offer some relief, but overall it is an album I have never been able to enjoy, and listening to it today only confirms my opinion. Luckily they followed this album up with the brilliant In Rainbows.

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

3/5

6 great tracks (then opening 5 tracks and the final track, Speedway). Never listened to a Morrissey album all the way through since Viva Hate in 1988. I probably will not listen to this again, but i will revisit some of the tracks.

Rapture

Anita Baker

3/5

Starts strong, midway is awful. Last 4 songs are strong.It is of its time but that's not a bad thing. Some tracks I will listen to again.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Some classics, a little filler but, overall, beautiful.

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

3/5

The Cars

4/5

I can hear The Strokes!

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

5/5

Loved this in 95! Excited to hear it again. Leave Home is possibly one of the great tracks ones of any debut album, and then to follow that with In Dust We Trust secures this albums status as an all time 90s classic. Cover art is timeless, classic 👌.

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

2/5

Ugh. Too busy. Too dated. Too samey. Ended up listening to the first 10 seconds of.most songs and moving on.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

Wasn't looking forward to listening to this but it was better than I expected. I stuck to the original 6 track LP but also listened to some of the expanded version.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

3/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

4/5

Thought i was going to hate this, but just kije 'More songs about buildings and food' (Talking Heads) i am very pleasantly surprised. I love it, there are no bad tracks on thus album and it's a solid 4 out of 5.

Ctrl

SZA

1/5

Tago Mago

Can

2/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

5/5

25 years since I last listened to it all the way through. It's a 5 star.

Reign In Blood

Slayer

4/5

Woohoo Great when you are in the mood

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

It's really lovely and warm and nice. How could you not like it?

Roxy Music

5/5

It's a 5, because most of the tracks are 5s.

Fragile

Yes

1/5

First and last time for everything I guess. Didn't do super deluxe. I do not like Yes.

Fun House

The Stooges

4/5

Fanfuckingtastic, even though I now know Iggy Pop is a complete knob IRL This is a bloody good album Got it 2nd hand on cd about 25 years ago. Those first 3 tracks are probably some of the greatest ways to open an album.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Smiling right now. A 5 star album. One of his best.

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

Been hearing West End Girls all week, it was a sign! Such a wonderful album. The singles aloe make this a solid 4 out of 5. But going to listen again to see if we can make it a 5.

Eternally Yours

The Saints

3/5

Bit repetitive, but fun also.

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

2/5

Don't get it, sorry

GREY Area

Little Simz

4/5

What a marvellous album. 4 stars so far, 4 tracks in.