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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Music Has The Right To Children Boards of Canada	5	2.91	+2.09
Loveless My Bloody Valentine	5	3.18	+1.82
Trout Mask Replica Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	4	2.29	+1.71
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	5	3.5	+1.5
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	5	3.63	+1.37
Djam Leelii Baaba Maal	4	2.78	+1.22

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Achtung Baby U2	1	3.3	-2.3
A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse Faces	1	3.23	-2.23
Rubber Soul Beatles	2	4.12	-2.12
White Ladder David Gray	1	3.06	-2.06
Exodus Bob Marley & The Wailers	2	3.94	-1.94
Nick Of Time Bonnie Raitt	1	2.84	-1.84
Back In Black AC/DC	2	3.84	-1.84
Apple Venus Volume 1 XTC	1	2.84	-1.84
Graceland Paul Simon	2	3.73	-1.73
Odessa Bee Gees	1	2.72	-1.72

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Rubber Soul

Beatles · 2 likes

2/5

I don't care how influential a band or album is, this is boring and misogynistic.

1-Star Albums (8)

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

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My Generation

The Who

3/5

Nice energetic start to both the album and my listening project. I can admit that I have never really listened to this band so this is an interesting start. This really sounds like a British rock album from the 60s. Like the album cover also suggests. I am quite sure that if I delved into this band’s discography, I could start to appreciate it more. However, not gonna do that. But I do understand why this is one of the classics of western rock music. The fastest tracks were the best, there was even a slight sense of danger. Decent 3 for this debut because one of my favourite bars in the city of Turku is named after this band.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

I guess the name of this album comes from i.v., meaning intravenous therapy: ”Intravenous therapy is a medical process that administers fluids, medications and nutrients directly into a person's vein.” And yes, I know this album is officially ”untitled”, but I also know that track A4 has been mutilated by excessive playing and appreciation. So it’s a pretty annoying piece of music at times, even though it’s a masterpiece. Some songs just can’t handle that kind of treatment. And of course it’s not their fault! However, they fade away, and soon they’re lying in a hospital bed, IV tube in hand.

Raw Power

The Stooges

3/5

The album looks good.

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

2/5

I don't care how influential a band or album is, this is boring and misogynistic.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Dire Straits

3/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

2/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

2/5

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

4/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

The last track earned this album an extra star.

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

1/5

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

The Band

2/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

3/5

Gorillaz

3/5

A slightly up-and-down album, but an interesting and influential debut.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

White Ladder

David Gray

1/5

It is completely impossible to listen to this kind of music without being overcome by violent thoughts.

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

3/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

3/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

Excellent overall: orchestration, lyrics, beautiful and sad.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

I listened to RHCP for a while as a kid and teenager, but that time is gone. This is a good example of an album that is too long, and on top of that, uneven and toxic.

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

2/5

I would have liked to like this album.

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

3/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

5/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

2/5

A couple of tricks that many bands do much better and with some soul.

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

4/5

I'm glad I found this album.

1984

Van Halen

2/5

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

1/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

Dry

PJ Harvey

4/5

Talvin Singh

2/5

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

2/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Doolittle

Pixies

3/5

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

2/5

Odessa

Bee Gees

1/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

2/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

1/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

2/5

Femi Kuti

4/5

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

3/5

Street Life

The Crusaders

2/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Debut

Björk

3/5

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

1/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

3/5

Adele

3/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

2/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

2/5

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

3/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

2/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

4/5

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

3/5

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

3/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

2/5

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

3/5

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

4/5

Achtung Baby

1/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Low

David Bowie

4/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

2/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

3/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

The Clash

3/5

Being There

Wilco

3/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

2/5

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

Odelay

Beck

3/5

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

2/5

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

1/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

2/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

2/5

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

2/5

The vocalist is pretty unbearable and I find it hard to understand why such an album is on this list, when significantly better ones in this ”genre” have been released a couple of decades earlier.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

I Against I

Bad Brains

3/5

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

3/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

3/5

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

5/5

This is so much more than just the surface. And preferably listened through headphones. BoC is one the few artists that I still listen to after decades. It is a good sign, their releases age well. MHTRTC is a complex weave of something familiar, but at the same time a little disturbing, like vague emotional memories brought up by the subconscious.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Stankonia

OutKast

3/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

4/5

Sound Affects

The Jam

3/5