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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Closer Joy Division	5	3.21	+1.79
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	5	3.3	+1.7
Hail To the Thief Radiohead	5	3.45	+1.55
Aja Steely Dan	5	3.46	+1.54
Oedipus Schmoedipus Barry Adamson	4	2.79	+1.21
I Against I Bad Brains	4	2.93	+1.07

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme Simon & Garfunkel	1	3.62	-2.62
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground	1	3.53	-2.53
Imagine John Lennon	1	3.45	-2.45
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	1	3.35	-2.35
Channel Orange Frank Ocean	1	3.32	-2.32
Melodrama Lorde	1	3.32	-2.32
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band John Lennon	1	3.24	-2.24
Bluesbreakers John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers	1	3.16	-2.16
The Notorious Byrd Brothers The Byrds	1	3.04	-2.04
Nighthawks At The Diner Tom Waits	1	3.01	-2.01

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Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

1/5

White guy cosplay. Blues for people who think mayo is spicy.

1 likes

Moondance

Van Morrison

2/5

Just feels like a white guy cosplaying. And Van is a dick.

1 likes

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

1/5

Absolutely fucking not. I’d rather listen to the meth head at the bus stop down the road beatbox and fart.

1 likes

4-Star Albums (22)

1-Star Albums (17)

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american dream

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

My least favorite LCD album? I’m a fan. Each before this had at least one song that grabbed me that I still listen to. Maybe I got bored of them? Or thought the magic was gone after they “retired” and then suddenly came back.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

I mean it’s Muddy Waters 🤷🏼‍♂️ This is great

Peter Gabriel

3/5

I am sure I never listened to this whole album. Of course I know Sledgehammer from the video. That video is a core memory. This still of 80’s production/music has always been off putting to me. But I love his voice.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

Have never listened to the whole album. Obviously know the hits because they were everywhere on MTV & radio at the time. Synth-pop isn’t my thing. But I can dig this. Her voice is great.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

2/5

I respect their place in history, just isn’t my thing.

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Not my favorite Bruce.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

1/5

Nope. Just not my thing.

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Yes. For an American I have an unnatural love of Blur.

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

1/5

White guy cosplay. Blues for people who think mayo is spicy.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

2/5

Not my favorite former Beatle solo album.

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

3/5

I dig the time period and the general sound but it didn’t really grab me.

Kenya

Machito

3/5

I can respect it. Not my thing.

Achtung Baby

4/5

Hypnotised

The Undertones

4/5

Never heard of that band or album before this and I love it.

Third

Soft Machine

3/5

Never heard of that band or album before this and I love it.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

2/5

Not my thing

Melodrama

Lorde

1/5

Not my thing

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

4/5

Not my thing

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

I waffled on this. One minute I liked it. One minute I hated it. One minute I loved it.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

5/5

Current Austin would say 3 or 4 stars. Austin when this came out would say 5 stars. Going with younger Austin. Still a great album.

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

2/5

No thanks. I guess I just hate “pop” music.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

Out of Step

Minor Threat

3/5

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

3/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

5/5

Closer

Joy Division

5/5

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

1/5

Overblown when it came out. Still unlistenable to me now.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

1/5

The White Album

Beatles

3/5

Going 3. I feel like it’s wrong to go lower. But for me this album has some of the greatest songs of all time (Dear Prudence) and some of the most grating on my nerves (the oh bla di thing)

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

1/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

3/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Queen II

Queen

3/5

I Against I

Bad Brains

4/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

1/5

Can’t stand this.

Imagine

John Lennon

1/5

Aja

Steely Dan

5/5

Another Green World

Brian Eno

3/5

I can appreciate it and in general am fascinated by Eno. But I wouldn’t sit around listening to this.

Nowhere

Ride

4/5

Admittedly had never heard of this band but I loved this.

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

4/5

Different Class

Pulp

3/5

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

1/5

Music for people who think alcoholism and lung cancer are cool. How TF is this on a list of albums you need to listen to before you die?

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

3/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

2/5

Just feels like a white guy cosplaying. And Van is a dick.

Suede

3/5

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

1/5

I just couldn’t.

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

3/5

I assumed I was going to hate this but didn’t.

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

4/5

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

2/5

I just couldn’t get into it. Sappy.

John Prine

3/5

I just couldn’t get into it. Sappy.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

4/5

Low

David Bowie

4/5

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

1/5

Absolutely fucking not. I’d rather listen to the meth head at the bus stop down the road beatbox and fart.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

1/5

I can with this type of stuff. In my head I just see pretentious white dudes in the corner of a coffee shop singing this with the air that they’ve tapped into some really deep meaning. But no.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

2/5

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

1/5

I can’t stand this guys voice.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Metallica

2/5

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

2/5

You couldn’t escape this in the late 80’s. I cringed then and do now.

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

4/5

I read about this before I listened because old never heard of it. From what I read I assumed I would hate it. But I actually loved it.

...And Justice For All

Metallica

3/5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

1/5

Nah. It’s the late 1960’s. The Byrds say “let do some psychedelic stuff so we’ll be cool like everyone else!” It didn’t work.

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

2/5

Odd how the version of me would have given this 4 or maybe 5 stars. But now this is barely listenable. Outside of “Ready, Able” it all sounds whiny.

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

3/5

I didn’t hate this. Didn’t love it. Like a more chill Oasis.

Transformer

Lou Reed

2/5

I wish I could get into Lou. I think he’s fascinating and I respect the influence he’s had on music. But I just never can.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

Layla turns out to be the least interesting song. As much of a twat as I think Clapton is this album is amazing because of the other cast of characters. Bell Bottom Blues & their version of Key to the Highway have been in my rotation since I was a teenager.

Roxy Music

3/5

I love the music on this, 4 stars. Had heard of Roxy Music but never listened. The vocals throw it off for me. It’s a style I just can’t enjoy.

Low-Life

New Order

3/5

Liked it better than I figured I would. Love the bass player

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

1/5

Nope. This is what I imagine incels listen to in their mom’s basement after the pretty cheerleader turns down their advances.

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

3/5

I mean is there another Megadeth album on this list somewhere? Because if not then they picked the wrong one. This is just ok. But if this is here I really hope Peace Sells is too.

Like A Prayer

Madonna

3/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

2/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

2/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

I’m old enough to remember when The GoGo’s were all over MTV. Had only ever heard the hits, but I actually liked this. Not sure if I liked it enough to put it in rotation. But I liked it.

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

4/5

4 stars for Gut Feeling alone. But the rest of it holds up as well.

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

2/5

interesting. I can respect it. But an hour of it is a bit much.

Elastica

3/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

1/5

Man WTF was wrong with us in 1998. I didn’t own this but it was around and I thought I liked it? But man it’s unlistenable to my brain now. WTF was wrong with us? The drugs must have been so good.

The Velvet Underground

1/5

I want to like this. I feel like I’m missing something.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

3/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

3/5

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

2/5

Just feels like a white guy cosplaying. And Van is a dick.