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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	5	3.33	+1.67
Back At The Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith	5	3.39	+1.61
Tidal Fiona Apple	5	3.45	+1.55
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	5	3.62	+1.38
L.A. Woman The Doors	5	3.66	+1.34
Violator Depeche Mode	5	3.7	+1.3
Doolittle Pixies	5	3.74	+1.26
Is This It The Strokes	5	3.81	+1.19
69 Love Songs The Magnetic Fields	4	2.85	+1.15
Stripped Christina Aguilera	4	2.87	+1.13

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The College Dropout Kanye West	1	3.31	-2.31
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan	2	3.76	-1.76
That's The Way Of The World Earth, Wind & Fire	2	3.5	-1.5
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	2	3.48	-1.48
Blackstar David Bowie	2	3.48	-1.48
Odelay Beck	2	3.46	-1.46
Sign 'O' The Times Prince	2	3.45	-1.45
Sincere Mj Cole	1	2.38	-1.38
25 Adele	2	3.37	-1.37
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	2	3.32	-1.32

5-Star Albums (10)

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C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Very 70s but in a fun way

1 likes

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

2/5

A bit too showtuney for my taste. 2.5/5

1 likes

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

3/5

A banger opener and closer with a lot of middling-quality filler in between.

1 likes

4-Star Albums (21)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

1-Star Albums (2)

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Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

2/5

Great album to remind me that I respect industrial rock much more than I want to listen to it all the time. Deducted a star because fuck Manson.

Play

Moby

3/5

Everything interesting about this album might have been destroyed by commercials and overplay. Still not half bad, but very hard to feel excited about.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Straight up vibe

Adele

2/5

Adele is talented, and I like her voice a lot. I just wish that she did anything else than the risk-free pop snoozefest this album is.

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

Not my fav Bowie, but it's still Bowie. Fame is 10/10 banger tho.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

2/5

It's fine. It's okay. It's something I feel like I don't need to listen to again in Its whole.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Excellent album to get in October. Atmospheric and witchy.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

2/5

So very 80s. If I could be your girlfriend and I could Never Take The Place of Your Man are my favs from this.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

Time of The Season is a 10/10, rest of it is like solid 6/10.

Scum

Napalm Death

2/5

This plays so much better in the context of this list than on its own. In the context of this list, it's something different and interesting. On its own, it's a parody of anger and hardcore music.

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

3/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

Enjoyable, many bangers, way too long.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

5/5

I too will be Back At The Chicken Shack.

Sincere

Mj Cole

1/5

This felt like being stuck in an unskippable ad for 2 hours. Why is it even on this list?

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

4/5

Me liking a 90s alt rock album is the least surprising thing to anybody who knows me even a little bit.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

I like Radiohead a lot but I don't think this album needs to be on this list.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

Odelay

Beck

2/5

I once found myself trapped in a conversation with a guy who wouldn’t stop raving about how Beck was the true genius of ’90s alt-rock. I nodded along and didn’t push back—mostly because I hadn’t really listened to Beck at the time. Now that I’ve actually heard this album, I’m starting to think he might’ve been completely full of it.

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

2/5

I'm still undecided about whether or not I like PJ Harvey.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Guero

Beck

3/5

Better than the last Beck I listen to like two days ago.

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

3/5

I like the Cocteau Twins, but this album amplifies some of their more annoying parts. Dreamy and atmospheric but better enjoyed in small portions.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

5/5

I hadn't listened to this in a while and I was so ready to hyper critical of it but it still absolutely slaps.

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

4/5

I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

2/5

I have a soft spot for Eminem because everyone around me used to listen to him when I was younger. Even still, this album is a brand of edgy 2000s shit that just hasn't aged well.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

3/5

I have a very hard time believing that I NEED to listen to SEVEN Bob Dylan albums before I die. I don't even dislike Dylan that much, but c'mon man, pick something less obvious.

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Feels incredibly dated in 2025, which probably just means it was influential as shit.

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

3/5

The hipster in me is still alive.

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Very 70s but in a fun way

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

2/5

A bit too showtuney for my taste. 2.5/5

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

3/5

A nice vibe but nothing that stands out that much. The voice is at times annoying and nasally.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

5/5

This album is an experience more than anything. More poetry than music. I've always had immense respect for Cohan as an artist, and he kept that respect until the very end. Leaving the Table is my favorite from this.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

3/5

The xx

3/5

If you haven't been in the trenches of 2012 Tumblr, then you don't know what this album means to people. I saw girlies going to war for this. Not me, but some people really fuck with this.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

*Waits for the artsy music nerds to leave* Is it now safe to admit that I never really got into Nick Cave?

Black Sabbath

4/5

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

2/5

They all sound pretty same same

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

2/5

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

2/5

I'm bored

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

1989

Taylor Swift

2/5

I'm not trying to be a hater, but I just can't imagine myself putting on this album for any occasion.

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

2/5

I don't get it

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

2/5

I'm sorry, but I really don't fuck with "old man Bowie" voice.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

2/5

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Yes to Pixies yesterday, today, and forever.

Achtung Baby

3/5

Meh

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

3/5

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

2/5

Less weird noises mid song please

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

2/5

Nice album really but a bit too country to match my vibe right now

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

The Only Ones

2/5

I'd enjoy this like 50% more if the lead singers voice were less annoying and whiny

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

No notes. 5/5

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

Some of it was good. Running Up That Hill is a masterpiece. I really didn't enjoy the parts that felt like pieces from a tacky 80s musical.

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

2/5

It sounds so painfully of its time.

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

It's fine, but there's enough Bowie on this list, so this one makes absolutely no sense. You can die fine without ever listening to this.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

3/5

A banger opener and closer with a lot of middling-quality filler in between.

Joan Armatrading

4/5

Whatever

Aimee Mann

3/5

Fun House

The Stooges

3/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

Instead of yet another Bob Dylan album, give me more of this kind of stuff, please.

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

Unexpected banger

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Sounds about Springsteen

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

We're approaching criminal levels of funk😎

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

3/5

It sure sounds like a punk album

Tidal

Fiona Apple

5/5

If you're a young alt woman and meet this album at the right time in your life, you'll never let it go. It just captures something about being an angsty young woman so well.

Woodface

Crowded House

3/5

Decent but forgettable

The College Dropout

Kanye West

1/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

I have to give it 5 stars because 1) starting your album with Immigrant Song is a 10/10 choice 2) Since I've Been Loving You is one of my fav Zep songs

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Great album but also (maybe) waaaay too overhyped

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

2/5

To my knowledge I have never listened to this album before, but if you told me I have, I'd believe you. It's lovely but immediately forgettable.

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

Howdy partner, how would you like some fun 50s storytelling.

Night Life

Ray Price

2/5

Sounds like the stuff that used to play on my grandparents' radio when I was sent to their place for summer holiday... I found it boring then, and turns out I still do now.

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

2/5

Welcome to another rendition of "you can definitely die without listening to this one".

Aja

Steely Dan

3/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

2/5

I like quite a few Everything But The Girl albums, none of which are on this list because why choose music that is actually interesting, am I right?

Real Life

Magazine

2/5

Idk, I didn't connect with this one at all

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Can't imagine getting this at any other time of the year. I'm listening to this on the 25th of December, and it's very lovely.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Fuck yeah Willie Nelson

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

2/5

I think my enjoyment of this album was heavily lessened by getting it right after Red Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson. I just like Willie-type country way more.

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

3/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

5/5

All I ever wanted All I ever needed Is here on my list Words are very unnecessary They can only do harm

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

4/5

Yaaas early 00s girlboss energy pop off

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

4/5

I don't think this is best enjoyed as an album that one should listen to all at once. It's more a "pick and choose some" type of thing. Anyway, I respect its weird vibes and straightforward concept. Then again, I am an insufferable indie bitch.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

lovely but so (maybe too) fucking earnest

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Fast car is 10/10 song, rest of it is like solid 7/10.

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

3/5

This feels like a pleasant but unremarkable Saturday evening.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

Solid album, Layla is the absolute highlight of it.

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

3/5

I have no idea who Ryan Adams is, and by the other reviews, I'm too scared to look it up, but there are some interesting songs here that appeal to my "sad indie soul".

Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

Completely agree with the review that said "Hard to rate this one cuz of how old it is. At this point the songs are like a novelty which is fun to hear once in a while but I can’t really take it too seriously."

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Talk about annoying vox

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

nuanced: hell no kicks ass: hell yeah

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

2/5