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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
White Light / White Heat The Velvet Underground	5	2.89	+2.11
Juju Siouxsie And The Banshees	5	3.33	+1.67
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	5	3.36	+1.64
Ágætis Byrjun Sigur Rós	5	3.37	+1.63
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	5	3.39	+1.61
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	5	3.44	+1.56
Marquee Moon Television	5	3.5	+1.5
Surfer Rosa Pixies	5	3.5	+1.5
Maggot Brain Funkadelic	5	3.6	+1.4
After The Gold Rush Neil Young	5	3.62	+1.38

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Wall Pink Floyd	1	4.13	-3.13
The Bends Radiohead	1	4.01	-3.01
A Night At The Opera Queen	1	3.96	-2.96
Let It Bleed The Rolling Stones	1	3.82	-2.82
Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette	1	3.72	-2.72
Birth Of The Cool Miles Davis	1	3.63	-2.63
She's So Unusual Cyndi Lauper	1	3.48	-2.48
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears The Mamas & The Papas	1	3.43	-2.43
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden	1	3.4	-2.4
Eliminator ZZ Top	1	3.37	-2.37

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A Night At The Opera

Queen · 1 likes

1/5

If you like this youre either still a child, a disney adult, or havent listened to enough music. Grow up If you think Bohemian Rhapsody is the best song ever PLEASE listen to more music. This is like comparing silver to bronze, yeah its better than most music but it aint gold.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin · 1 likes

2/5

The albums whatever but that last song is so fucking awful omg

1-Star Albums (26)

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

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Adele

3/5

For an adult contemporary album, a notoriously terrible genre, this one stands out among its peers. Consistent tracklisting with a strong vocal performance throughout, Adele makes this typically mundane and sappy genre impactful. If an album has of quality equal to Rumor Has It, Rolling in the Deep, Set Fire to the Rain, and Someone Like You than you know it is at lease something special. Beyond that I have a soft spot for the Lovesong, One and Only and Turning Tables. It isn't the greatest album in the world and can sometimes become extremely sappy and drag but overall its a fun time. I recommend it! 2.5/5 (which may seem low but 2.5 is average in my rating system.)

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

3/5

It's cool, it's soulful (obviously), it's 70s and it is a relaxing time. Too bad the songs individually did not stick out that much to me. Overall decent but nothing mindblowing. 2.5/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

1/5

Y’know that one buzz lightyear meme where they’re all on the shelf as identical copies of eachother? That’s every blues band, and this album and band are no exception. If you like blues noodling with the most generic “I’m a man you’re a woman let’s have sex”-type lyricism then maybe this album is for you but otherwise just avoid this schlock. The last 5 songs in particular suck particularly hard, I guess the hits are passable. 1/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

2/5

This would be good if anything happened. A complete nothingburger. 1.5/5

Woodface

Crowded House

2/5

Man idk about this one. On one hand, its overly sachrine and sappy and none of the songs hook you. There is almost a nostalgic warm feeling and theyre so close to capturing something special but they never quite get there. The songs are flat the production is overly clean and ther lyricism is pretty poo. Whatever idk 1.5/5

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

Its like so close to being perfect and the title track is a top 10 song ever 4.5/5

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

Well this was better than expected! Lotta pop punk ragers on the first half of this bad boy, too bad it falls off after the big heavy hitters but the songs arent bad, they just arent as good. And yeah the heavy hitters, self esteem and come out and play are pop/skate punk alltimers. 3.5/5

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

2/5

Prob the cheesiest 80s synth slop. Like not the worst thing ever but rlly nothing special either, some songs hit nice highs ig, look of love is solid. Yea whatever pretty inoffensive 2/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

4/5

Im gonna prooooooggggggggg im proggggiinnggggg hnggff Yeah its a 70s prog album, very soft and fun, nothing too special in the genre. Compare it to the heavy hitters like KC or PF this aint anything but on its own its enjoyable. First two songs are slappers tho 3.5/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

Some of the catchiest, funnest, and smoothest soul/disco around! This album a blast, nothing but gold throughout! 4/5

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Pop punk rager lots of classics some duds is what it is 3.5/5

The White Album

Beatles

2/5

If you randomly sampled songs from this album you would find that 1/2 of these songs rock, 1/4 of them completely suck, and 1/4 of them will be really strange in a neither positive nor negative way. That is to say, this album is good but contains too many loose ideas and is far too long. 2/5

Risque

CHIC

2/5

good times, fantastic, the rest kinda eh, nothing too noteworthy. If I wanted Nile Rodgers I'd rather listen to Sister Sledge or smthn. 2/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

Opener is the best guitar solo of all time, the rest is funk perfection 4.5/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

4/5

Some weaker cuts but a whole lot of bangers, straight boomer thrash anthems on this bad boy, big ups to hangar 18 3.5/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

1/5

i never liked this band, not for me 1/5

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

2/5

No strong feelings bout this one, spiritualized would to much more interesting stuff later anyway 2/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

2/5

its chill ig 2/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

2/5

Meh 2/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

Silly goofy fun, this album is so quick and a complete blast all the way thru 4.5/5

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

3/5

it was cool background music, neat samples ig 2.5/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

3/5

This band would go on to do much cooler things (songs for the deaf) neat start but not essential

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

2/5

This is better as a relic than an actual listening experience. The music…. is fine, its samey, overly sentimental and Frank’s crooning gets boring after a while. However, if you treat this album as a piece of history on taste of people in the 1950s I think this album becomes more interesting, however it still doesn’t make it special. I could have chosen any Frank album for that same experience. It also doesn’t function as a wholistic history like Ella’s songbook series which is infinitely more interesting. Tl;dr you can skip this one 2/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

2/5

This album is rubbish 1.5/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

Too long purple rain better 2.5/5

Stankonia

OutKast

2/5

Bloated, tons of overrated tunes on this one too 1.5/5

All Mod Cons

The Jam

2/5

1.5/5

Low-Life

New Order

3/5

In It For The Money

Supergrass

2/5

idc

Joan Armatrading

2/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

5/5

so close to perfect, falls off near the end, friend of mine and unbelievable are the only misses. the what is an underrated track. (also ignore the interlude lol we do a bit of trolling) 4.5/5

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

4/5

Boston

2/5

it has one and a half good songs on it. the rest is cheese 1.5/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

2/5

evermore

Taylor Swift

1/5

be fr this shouldnt be here, even for TS standards this is bad

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

3/5

The Stone Roses

5/5

near perfect 4.5/5

Mask

Bauhaus

3/5

their debut is better but this is a fun album, less moody and gothic and more danceable

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

3/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Bands wish they made this album

New York Dolls

2/5

Bands wish they made this album

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

good album but i wish bass existed

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

2/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Alt rock/grunge with a tinge of shoegaze, whats not to love. Mayonnaise is a classic turbo rager

The Man Who

Travis

1/5

i genuinely wonder how some of these albums are chosen. like are we fr ts is such a nothingburger slop snore bore fest. just listen to radiohead or coldplay or literally any other post-britpop band and theyll be more interesting. these dudes cant write a melody thats catchy or interesting for the life of them. the singer is doing his best thom yorke impression and failing. and there isnt even a single riff on this entire album?!!! whats the point of this, at least coldplay and radiohead know how to write smthn that sticks. this is slop!!!!!!!1 1.5/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

1/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

Goated

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

Its solid, quite classic

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

2/5

Its solid, quite classic

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

2/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

3/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

3/5

As I’m going through this “challenge” and reading “reviews” of other users I’m realizing a few things. Firstly, I think the crowd that is going through this challenge don’t appreciate music enough. All the 1 star reviews are just snide remarks without any thought given to the content of the album. I suppose that’s what happens when reviews are left unmoderated unlike RYM. Secondly, I think people are forgetting context or are missing the context necessary to appreciate a work. Anyway those are just random thoughts, I’m too lazy to elaborate further, anyway the album. This album has its flaws, the sound is dated, it’s exceedingly British, but for its era it has a strong personality. You could honestly treat this music as regional world music the way we often treat other genres. It encapsulates a tradition and culture phenomenally and the musicianship on this thing is quite solid. I wish the songwriting was stronger on some songs but overall it’s not a bad listen. I think people aren’t being fair and aren’t framing the album in an appropriate light. It’s a dumb, fun, witty, well performed pub rock world album.

In Utero

Nirvana

2/5

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

3/5

Dry

PJ Harvey

2/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5