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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes TV On The Radio	5	2.93	+2.07
Hot Shots II The Beta Band	5	3.01	+1.99
Sunday At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio	5	3.31	+1.69
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	5	3.32	+1.68
Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson	5	3.34	+1.66
The World is a Ghetto War	5	3.35	+1.65
Be Common	5	3.35	+1.65
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	5	3.38	+1.62
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea PJ Harvey	5	3.38	+1.62
Murmur R.E.M.	5	3.41	+1.59

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	1	3.39	-2.39
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits	2	3.74	-1.74
Garbage Garbage	2	3.39	-1.39
xx The xx	2	3.35	-1.35
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	2	3.3	-1.3
1989 Taylor Swift	2	3.26	-1.26
Stephen Stills Stephen Stills	2	3.17	-1.17
...The Dandy Warhols Come Down The Dandy Warhols	2	3.13	-1.13
Billion Dollar Babies Alice Cooper	2	3.11	-1.11
Pump Aerosmith	2	3.11	-1.11

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Popular Reviews

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash · 1 likes

4/5

Not every song works to the same extent. But when a song hits, it really hits. Chills.

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio · 1 likes

5/5

Exactly my cup of tea. Dark Bon Iver with more improvisational elements. Not surprised Bowie was a fan.

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett · 1 likes

2/5

Upon release, Gilmour said: "Perhaps we were trying to show what Syd was really like. But perhaps we were trying to punish him ..." That very much sums up the listening experience.

1-Star Albums (1)

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Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

3/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

put simply: very cool and smooth

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

immature or playful? difficult to say - but is fun.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

need to listen again

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

1/5

Only listened to the hits before. Turns out: the rest of the album sounds the same, only worse. It gets annyoing pretty quick.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

4/5

very self-indulgent, very good.

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Not every song works to the same extent. But when a song hits, it really hits. Chills.

Kenza

Khaled

3/5

Must have been a blast live. Too long though.

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

5/5

Exactly my cup of tea. Dark Bon Iver with more improvisational elements. Not surprised Bowie was a fan.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

4/5

more fun than I remebered

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

understated, suffers from all the bad copies of that style that would follow. very competent.

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

4/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Fun play with repititions. A bit much as an entire LP and slightly dated.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

Very 90s, snutty attitude in the best way. I cab forgive most flaws because it is just very honest and raw

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

2/5

certainly innivative in many forms, but too cynical for my taste

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

3/5

Somewhere between beatles and dylan. competent, but less playful

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Powerful energy, feels like a live album. Sometimes magic, sometimes annoyingly so. Sounds modern (or timeless?) for the 70s. Probably need a re-listen to catch the lyrics.

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

3/5

a lot going on, might re-evaluate later on

Faust IV

Faust

4/5

going places, smashing faces

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

5/5

great bass sound and lines. short and sweet. they were only 20 yo?!

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

2/5

Maybe I could appreciate it more if it were a live show - or a musical. But as an LP it‘s mostly silly (and musically quite tame)

Pump

Aerosmith

2/5

To the people surprised about the albums hornyness: It has a car humping an other car with the word „pump“ on it as a cover, what else did you expect! That‘s not my complaint, since hornyness has inspired great music. Still, while Aerosmith might rock the glam metal thing and the members are all capable musicians - I just don‘t manage to like this genre. „Janie’s got a gun“ is decent though.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

5/5

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Common

5/5

Fragile

Yes

4/5

First listen: This is silly music for nerds. Second listen: This slaps and I am a nerd!

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

2/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

2/5

It starts promising with the comfy „So Far Away“ and the tongue in cheek „Money for Nothing“. But from the annoying „Walk of Life“ on its downhill. You know how McCartney had to stop Harrison from playing a guitar lick after every phrase in „Hey Jude“? Well, nobody stopped Mark Knopfler. As great as his playing is: As a non-guitar-player it gets tyring pretty quickly. If at least the rest of the music was more interesting or the singing better ... Add the dated 80s pop aesthetic and there are just too many elements I do not care for.

Murmur

R.E.M.

5/5

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

4/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

5/5

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

3/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

4/5

Yeezus

Kanye West

3/5

It's Ye's genius and insanity compressed into one album, which makes it a captivating and baffling listening experience at once. For bette or worse.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

3/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Virgin Suicides

Air

3/5

I love the moody, well crafted analogue soundscapes and the pushing drum and bass grooves. As others have pointed out, this is a soundtrack first and an LP second. Having not seen the movie, this lessens the exprience.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

2/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Joan Baez

4/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

3/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

3/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

2/5

On paper this should be right up my alley. Maybe I was not in the right mood, but boy: what a drag. It's not even bad, it's just boring. The problem starts with the stupid name which shows a deeper issue I have with this album: There is little room for real, unfiltered sincerity, there is always a certain level of sarcasm. This could be interesting if the band would fully commit to the sarcasm but they also want to be a serious rock band. All in all they deliver competent but lengthy, soulless bit of music.

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

4/5

„Souvenir“ alone would make this a great album.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

Talented musicians hanging out

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

4/5

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Very talented theater kid energy

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

4/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

2/5

Upon release, Gilmour said: "Perhaps we were trying to show what Syd was really like. But perhaps we were trying to punish him ..." That very much sums up the listening experience.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

3/5

Bummed

Happy Mondays

3/5

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

4/5

Garbage

2/5

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

2/5

I never got into Ryan Adams music. Before I knew anything about this dude I mostly thought it was boring. The album title und cover scream „self indulgent douche“. Having now some surface level knowledge of Ryan Adams private live does not help. In this context every emotion in this collection of songs appears too performative, too calculated. Had to listen to „Motion Sickness“ by Phoebe Bridgers as some form of absolution afterwards.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

5/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

4/5

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

4/5