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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Out of Step Minor Threat	5	2.93	+2.07
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	3.42	+1.58
Timeless Goldie	4	2.53	+1.47
GI Germs	4	2.54	+1.46
Maggot Brain Funkadelic	5	3.6	+1.4
In A Silent Way Miles Davis	5	3.61	+1.39

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg Jerry Lee Lewis	1	3.28	-2.28
The Healer John Lee Hooker	1	3.19	-2.19
Blood And Chocolate Elvis Costello & The Attractions	1	2.92	-1.92
Quiet Life Japan	1	2.85	-1.85
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits	2	3.74	-1.74
A Grand Don't Come For Free The Streets	1	2.66	-1.66
Sheer Heart Attack Queen	2	3.64	-1.64
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water Limp Bizkit	1	2.5	-1.5
Queen II Queen	2	3.49	-1.49
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	2	3.45	-1.45

5-Star Albums (13)

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Popular Reviews

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits · 2 likes

2/5

it has money for nothing so it cant be a 1

Germs · 2 likes

4/5

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

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