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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Out of Step Minor Threat	5	2.92	+2.08
Spiderland Slint	5	2.97	+2.03
Os Mutantes Os Mutantes	5	2.98	+2.02
Crooked Rain Crooked Rain Pavement	5	3.24	+1.76
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea PJ Harvey	5	3.38	+1.62
Murmur R.E.M.	5	3.41	+1.59
GI Germs	4	2.53	+1.47
Timeless Goldie	4	2.53	+1.47
Maggot Brain Funkadelic	5	3.6	+1.4
Heroes David Bowie	5	3.61	+1.39

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg Jerry Lee Lewis	1	3.27	-2.27
The Healer John Lee Hooker	1	3.19	-2.19
Blood And Chocolate Elvis Costello & The Attractions	1	2.91	-1.91
Quiet Life Japan	1	2.85	-1.85
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits	2	3.74	-1.74
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	3.7	-1.7
A Grand Don't Come For Free The Streets	1	2.65	-1.65
Sheer Heart Attack Queen	2	3.64	-1.64
Out Of The Blue Electric Light Orchestra	2	3.63	-1.63
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water Limp Bizkit	1	2.5	-1.5

5-Star Albums (15)

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Popular Reviews

Germs · 3 likes

4/5

cool stuff. punky and thrashy. aged infinitely better than the sex pistols

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits · 2 likes

2/5

it has money for nothing so it cant be a 1

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement · 1 likes

5/5

malkmus can have my firstborn child

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp · 1 likes

4/5

the album that convinced spongebob that mr krabs is a robot

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit · 1 likes

1/5

75 minutes of fred durst that i cant get back

1-Star Albums (6)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

All Ratings

Blood, Sweat & Tears

3/5

i liked the organ. fun jazz rock. i could do without the cheesy callouts to other tracks. also the satie themes.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

4/5

really liked it. kind of boring in the middle though

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

2/5

sorry paul this isnt for me

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

short, inoffensive blues rock. not quite the direction i expected the band to take after the first two albums

Murmur

R.E.M.

5/5

bangers top to bottom

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

a real easy listen in 2025. nowhere near as challenging as bitches brew, but just as enjoyable.

Quiet Life

Japan

1/5

I'd rather listen to Rio. middle and end of the album is a chore

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

5/5

i dont want to just hand out 5/5s but this is actually amazing

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

what can I say

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

easiest listen yet. not bad though

Pretenders

4/5

i think late 2010s - early 2020s music primed me to like 80s music more

Spiderland

Slint

5/5

loved this album since hearing it for the first time in college. crazy it came out in 91

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

honestly liked it more than morrison hotel. though it feels a lil weird bc it clearly sounds like a drugged up white woman trying to sound like a black woman

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

top heavy imo. cool

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

just makes me so happy

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

i just wish it was noisier

Berlin

Lou Reed

2/5

cool album. a bit too theatrical for me. reminded me of bowie

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

2/5

important but eh

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

eclectic. dont think its his best work tho

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

cool stuff. never had the chance to check them out but liked it much more than i expected to.

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

1/5

i dont think this aged all too well. sounds somewhere in between soundcloud and flight of the conchords.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

2/5

it has money for nothing so it cant be a 1

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

nicely executed but id rather be listening to the beatles or simon and garfunkel

Bert Jansch

4/5

kids in williamsburg wish they sounded half as good as bert

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

super fun. 3.5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

nice and progressive for its time. 3.5

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

3/5

kinda preachy but good. better than sex pistols but johnny rotten is still not my fav vocalist

Germs

4/5

cool stuff. punky and thrashy. aged infinitely better than the sex pistols

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

2/5

theater kids of the world unite!

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

4/5

it good but stories gooder

The Specials

4/5

never a bad time to skank

Heroes

David Bowie

5/5

there is no way a pop act today can pull off this side b

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

3/5

the noise is great. but turns out there is such a thing as too much lo-fi

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

3/5

easy. tried a bunch of genres but others have done those sounds much better

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

first half is banging. id rather be listening to bcnr tho. 3.5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

aged surprisingly well. 3.5

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

75 minutes of fred durst that i cant get back

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

1/5

1001 albums dads must listen to feel validated about their music tastes. 1.5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

title track is a bit overrated but overall this is beautiful work.

Picture Book

Simply Red

3/5

deserves a relisten. the kind of sound that wont feel dated for a long time. 3.5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

as good as a full blues album can get

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

3/5

conflicted about this one. they can obviously all play, but it sounds to me like 30 minutes of ringo songs. somewhere between 2 and 4.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

its no east coast. 3.5

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

2/5

dylan and cohen could not have prepared me for this mans voice.

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

pleasant, though i can hear the beginnings of future bands that i hate. 3.5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

3/5

shouldve cut the fluff and kept it 45 mins

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

2/5

i thought the high paced songs up front were corny but the slower stuff later on are somehow even cornier

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

5/5

malkmus can have my firstborn child

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

slash is great! axl rose is great at times. really tight debut album. if im feeling particularly grumpy i could see this album slipping to a 2-2.5 due to axl being annoying. 3.5

Ramones

4/5

fun stuff

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

2/5

im sure it's important. 2-

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

4/5

the album that convinced spongebob that mr krabs is a robot

The Wall

Pink Floyd

4/5

rock opera can be good, actually

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

a bad free dessert doesnt make a bad meal. 4.5. it would be cool to listen to a rawer version, a la let it be naked

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

2/5

i like rhps. but the kitschy tongue in cheek fun of the film is lost without, well, the film.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

3/5

please, robert, i dont need more inches of your love

Debut

Björk

4/5

this album could kill a small victorian child

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

3/5

love the guitar tone. too long for a genre that i admittedly dislike.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

no many can stay schizoid after listening to this album

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

6 more beers should do it

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

3/5

i probably wouldve loved this in college

Timeless

Goldie

4/5

idt i can rate d&b but i thoroughly enjoyed it

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

lol why did i spend my 8th grade listening to Im the Man by Anthrax?

The Clash

3/5

some good songs but there are better punk records from the era.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

i mean yeah it's maggot brain

Scum

Napalm Death

3/5

there is a great album underneath the mix. i wanna hear more of the guitar and the bass

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

funky, easy listen. 3.5

Maxinquaye

Tricky

4/5

listens like a proto-thievery corporation, even though they are from the same era. enjoyable

The Band

3/5

bookends are great, but the slower songs are not doing it for me. 3.5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

christmas is a good time for the wall of sound

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

it sure sounds like yes

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

2/5

competent playing, but the vocals and songwriting arent all too inspiring

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

1/5

sex music for 50 year old white men with 23 year old filipina wives

Dummy

Portishead

3/5

pretty but a lil boring

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

4/5

i apologize blur i was not familiar with your game

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

some passionate blues

Being There

Wilco

4/5

long, but engaging. i should check out more wilco beyond schmilco

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

fun but nothing crazy

Sail Away

Randy Newman

3/5

good album for a long road trip

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

3/5

cool, but dated. could do without the narration

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

yes, it's a cover album. yes, the production kinda sounds like a karaoke machine. but somehow everything comes together as a nice, warm package. 3.5

1984

Van Halen

3/5

van halen gone pop. it's fine but id rather be listening to black sabbath or their debut

Bad Company

2/5

generic dad rock with ok vocals

Os Mutantes

5/5

tbh i started this project expecting to find more gems like this one. all the stars

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

it is blues. it is live.

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

2/5

diet mj

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

2/5

this is a noise rock album. the good: i love noise rock. the bad: the noise on this album is subpar. the ugly: the rock is bad.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

5/5 side A and a 2/5 side B

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

4/5

catchy. i really dont mind his voice

System Of A Down

4/5

less theatrical than their subsequent releases, and dare i say more approachable despite the harshness. 4.5

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

2/5

not crazy about the strings or the ballads. i prefer sail away or little criminals

Iron Maiden

3/5

fun, veers a bit too close to hair metal for me. 3.5

Homework

Daft Punk

3/5

there are bangers but its just so long

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

1/5

rest in pieces asshole

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

great folk rock. harmonies are tight, and just sweet enough without verging into kitschy arena rock territory. i do find the head voice/falsetto thing a little grating from time to time

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

2/5

some cute songs, but syd needs the band i fear

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

3/5

banger intro into middling new wave.

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

3/5

cool weird folk album. wouldve liked it more if i liked his voice a bit more. reminds me of bombay bicycle club dude. 3.5

Queen II

Queen

2/5

maybe im in a better mood today. liked it better than sheer heart attack, though my general vibes about the music stayed the same. 2.5

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

2/5

man we shouldn't have ordered the appetizers

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

2/5

acoustic stuff is neat. hard rock of this era sounds more kitschy every day

Peter Gabriel

2/5

some good songs, but veers too theatrical. a big eh. 2.5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

man im sure itd be better if i had a boat. 3.5

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

loved this in hs/college. still a lot of fun. 3.5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

sorry billy i wasnt familiar with your game (minus the saxophone. or everybody has a dream, which might be the worst song ive heard through this project)

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

3/5

somewhere between the beach boys and the beatles there lies an uncanny valley where the kinks reside

Out of Step

Minor Threat

5/5

Betray! Betray! Betray! Betray! Betray! Betray! Betray! Betray!

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

funky, but too smooth for me. probably the lightest 4 i have given yet

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

3/5

great drums. albarn veers close to radiohead with little success.

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

the weird one. i know they wanted to be nice but they really shouldnt have given ringo a song

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

3/5

this album caught me during a pop rock kick. i was ready for a quick 4/5 after the first song. unfortunately there are duds on this album and they hit like a truck. the iron man cover rules though fuck the haters

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Growing pains album for the Beatles. It sits awkwardly between the cutesy, if derivative Please Please Me and a much more defined sound of Hard Days Night. All My Loving is such a banger though

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

3/5

a few standout tracks, and a lil long. the genre doesnt do anything for me

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

2/5

cool debut that sounds part beach boys and part beatles. tough acts to be compared to. 2.5

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

strong. i still prefer their later work

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

4/5

fun psych punk

The Predator

Ice Cube

2/5

it sounds so good!!! wait, who's album is this? ice cube? the actor? the black israelite?? the racist whisperer???

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

2/5

tight, but closer to elevator music than to any kind of statement

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

cool piano work. happy to have listened to another bowie

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

some cool songs, but even i have to admit that these post punk records are starting to sound samey. 3.5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

free-range

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

2/5

gotta respect the scope. there are certainly good parts, but they are almost always followed up by inexplicable choices. they try so hard to sound like bowie; it's a shame that they sound the best when they sound nothing like bowie.

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

didnt think id like this this much. sultry done in the coolest way.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

i can see why people think yorke and co. have their heads up their asses. mine just happens to be right in there with them.

Fragile

Yes

4/5

one of the few i have on vinyl. a classic

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

one of the best ways to get any audio setup to sound like a Motorola RAZR

Hot Fuss

The Killers

3/5

soundtrack to my middle school years. second half is a drag though. 3.5

The Stone Roses

5/5

they somehow picked all the good songs out of their "best of" compilation album and put it on their debut

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

3/5

cash sounds great. the live audience actively takes away from the experience. good thing future live recordings learned restraint.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

2/5

did YOU know rock can ORCHESTRA? did you KNOW orchestra can ROCK?? they try so hard to be grand and flush but they just dont have the songwriting or arranging chops for it. actively grating for a lot of the 70 minute runtime. generous 2

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

it's kind of kickass, but only for so long. after 30 minutes it all jumbles into a kitschy blob akin to KISS. yuck. sides A and B are both 4 star EPs, that together make a 3. 3.5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

it was a revelation when this dropped in (maybe just after?) college. he stepped up big with scope and managed to deliver. was an immediate AOTY contender for me. 4.5

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

i had always assumed that they were a saccharine acoustic coffeeshop duet. delightfully surprised. easy listening in a pretty velvet underground kind of way

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

actually hated the first 10 minutes. bog standard conscious hip hop that gets 6th graders going. but the project really sheds its cringe and gets pretty tight by the end

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

admittedly my favorite sufjan record. amazingly lush and pretty but hard to keep engaged for the entirety of 75 minutes.