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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
BEYONCÉ Beyoncé	5	2.86	+2.14
Immigrés Youssou N'Dour	5	3.08	+1.92
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Sinead O'Connor	5	3.26	+1.74
Emergency On Planet Earth Jamiroquai	5	3.27	+1.73
From Elvis In Memphis Elvis Presley	5	3.35	+1.65
Home Is Where The Music Is Hugh Masekela	5	3.35	+1.65
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	5	3.4	+1.6
Blackstar David Bowie	5	3.48	+1.52
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters	5	3.49	+1.51
Surfer Rosa Pixies	5	3.5	+1.5

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) Bob Dylan	1	3.14	-2.14
Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd	3	4.3	-1.3
Rubber Soul Beatles	3	4.12	-1.12
Heartattack And Vine Tom Waits	2	3.07	-1.07

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...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears · 1 likes

4/5

Very fun! A few standout tracks, most I probably won't go back to. Favorites were the title track and From the Bottom of My Broken Heart 4 stars cause it was fun and goofy and did what it wanted and greatly hate overthinking music ratings. Plus this has to be higher my 3-star rating of (What's the Story) Morning Glory cause that was boooooring

1-Star Albums (1)

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

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Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Nasty good mix on the first track I can't be satisfied guitar is awesome - this is my favorite track The blues had a baby named rock 'n' roll and I definitely have an easier time listening to said baby due to the twelve bars of it all

Fleet Foxes

3/5

Nice! Cute. Don't listen to this type of music often but this would go hard at a summer camp or something.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

3/5

Fine. I never need to hear wonderwall again, it's a boring song. I like Champagne Supernova. Most of this I wouldn't listen to again

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

I liked it! Chill, some really nice moments with 80s drums blending well with acoustic instruments to make sad songs more interesting. I'll probably come back to this one

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

Rest in peace, Bowie, you are a legend. This album is phenomenal, his aged voice is so rich and adds great texture to the whole album. You can hear how much effort it was taking to sing compared to when he was young - he sounds pretty tired throughout and his (with love) old person vibrato is really pronounced, but he makes it work really well with the sound of the album. The instrumentals are so good. Epic fun fact from wikipedia: "Bowie took inspiration from artists including Kendrick Lamar and Death Grips." Makes a lot of sense. And makes sense the band he used is all local jazz musicians, they are very skilled and do so many interesting lines and textures. Crazy this is his *twenty-sixth* album! Goddamn, I Can't Give Everything Away is so incredible. Anyway this is one of my favorite albums. Maybe someday I'll pay attention to the lyrics a little bit :D

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

4/5

Lots of great moments here. I have a hard time with long albums/double albums, especially on the first several listens. I'm impressed with how well this held my attention throughout. I shouldn't be that surprised that I like classic prog rock, since I love new prog rock, and I can hear so much influence. I'll definitely listen to this again, although I'll probably do one half at a time. Phil Collins's drumming has some really standout moments, and the 2007 stereo mix on Apple Music sounds great and modern, which helps the ease of listening a lot. Even listening to the original mix on youtube, it sounds very modern and forward-thinking. Also I love how goofy prog rock is. So much synth!

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

4/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

Really nice! Only a couple songs I wasn't immediately interested in, but a lot of these were very good. My favorite was probably 4 + 20

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Thoroughly enjoyed it!

En-Tact

The Shamen

2/5

Some good grooves and dancy stuff in here. But also lots of very corny, on-the-nose lyrics. Would rather listen to Underworld, Massive Attack, or many other electronic albums before coming back to this. Some cool stuff on Lightspan and other tracks.

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

1/5

I really couldn't enjoy the first CD, his vocal swooping and very droopy harmonica were too much for me. Several times I thought "wow this guy is doing too much for his bob dylan impression" then I remembered it was bob dylan. The second CD is fun though! His talky singing works for me when there's other instruments playing. But in both halves I can't enjoy the parts where his words get really slurred & unintelligible I suspect that the first Bob Dylan album I got from the list will be my least favorite (I already know I like Freewheelin' Bob Dylan pretty well)

1999

Prince

3/5

Love Prince! This dragged on a bit as an album (so many 7-9 minute tracks), though it has some amazing songs.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

5/5

Foo Fighters

5/5

A classic! I grew up with Foo Fighters as my favorite band for many years, I think The Colour and the Shape was my first album I ever owned. This was never my favorite from them — it has some amazing songs (Weenie Beenie, Good Grief, Big Me, This Is a Call all still go so hard) but several that are pretty far down on my list when I want to hear Foo Fighters. Still very enjoyable, very influential to me & to rock music in general. Full marks for you, young, pre-infidelity Dave Grohl!

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

5/5

Flawless. Neat that Caroline Polachek has production credits on No Angel. Tons of great producers here.

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Fun! It's at its best when they're not leaning too hard into the white boy reggae (I'm looking at you, The Bed's Too Big Without You) and let it just be its own thing. Also I just realized I wrote the above before I realized what the title is and I stand by my above unintentional translation, "white boy reggae". On any other day was just too goofy for me. But a very good listen! My mom listened to a ton of Sting growing up, so it was fun to hear a full album. I found a non-remastered version

NEU! 75

Neu!

4/5

Most of this was fine, nice but a little boring. However, Hero was awesome. It was basically a dance punk song, but released in 1975? Awesome. The yelling + electronic sounds reminds me a little of Idles. This had great energy to it

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

3/5

Liked this a lot better than his bootleg "royal albert hall" album. I still have a hard time with Bob's vocal & harmonica style but I think the lyrics are where his music connects. I'm someone who doesn't listen to lyrics a lot by default, so I'm listening to some Johnny Cash covers of Dylan songs and having an easier time understanding why people love this. Maybe if I keep listening to covers I'll start to appreciate the original songs more...

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

5/5

Bangers all around. We need to encourage more 30 minute albums. I'll definitely come back to this one

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

5/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

5/5

Really nice! I especially love Charlie's guitar parts

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

5/5

The tracks go so hard. My favorites were Parental Discretion is advised, Express Yourself, Great album, classic. LMAO "I ain't the one to get played like a pooh butt" these guys are goofballs.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

5/5

This guy's got a great voice, he's gonna go places

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

3/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

Got a little boring with blues twangy, and is too long. But has some great songs! Loved Thorn Tree in the Garden, Layla, & Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Damn, when doves cry -> i would die 4 u -> (baby i'm a star) -> purple rain is maybe the strongest album ending of all time.

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

4/5

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

3/5

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

2/5

Peter Gabriel

5/5

I love 80s new wave! And I've heard the hits from this one, but I didn't expect to enjoy the full runtime so much. Also love the features from Kate Bush, Laurie Anderson, and Nile Rodgers!

Blur

3/5

Liked about half of this pretty well

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

4/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

5/5

Whoa, this is amazing. Favorite track was Maseru

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

5/5

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Too long! Too samey! Nice music, but I don't think I ever need to listen to a whole album of Frank again. Some of these songs are very good, and could be highly romantic in the right context. That context is not surrounded by other equally dramatic romantic songs

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

3/5

Too long and an awful mix, but I like some of these songs. I think Scottish folk singing makes 60s psychedelic music more interesting to me. The low rating on here is surprising, like yes they're not hitting notes all the time but it's nothing like The Shaggs, and their singing is *way* more pitch-accurate (and comprehensible) than bob dylan on his royal albert hall bootleg.

The Stone Roses

3/5

Some incredible songs on here (I Wanna Be Adored, Waterfall), and some jammy stuff I'm not really into (Fools Gold etc).

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

3/5

Lots of great stuff here, I can see why it's such a well loved album. Love the thick guitar/bass stacking on Wish You Were Here. But since I'm rating these based purely on my enjoyment, it gets a 3.5 for the whole thing being very downtempo, and as one review I read said, "it's like they knew we'd be trippin'". So me not trippin' is not the target audience here. I imagine I'll like this more as I get to know it better.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

3/5

Some bangers and some duds. Of course very influential to punk, but wouldn't listen to most of these tracks over earlier garage rock or slightly later punk, except as a history lesson

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

4/5

Nice! Fun to hear punk with a horn section outside of a ska context.

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

3/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

This is so fun to listen to. Sweet Child O' Mine is a very sick riff. Also some filler that was kinda boring. And every song probably doesn't need to be 6 minutes long, but I guess Slash needs his solo time somewhere!

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

Kanye's verses were always my least favorite part of this album. Hard to listen now without thinking of his inevitable Nazification. Unfortunately Kanye didn't listen internalize some of his own lyrics - "Balding, Donald Trump taking dollars from y'all" - or maybe he really meant "y'all" in the exclusive sense Also crazy that I knew "Blame Game" before Avril 14th by Aphex Twin, so I never knew it was based on that sample. Funny to hear it after learning the Aphex Twin song on piano.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

3/5

I love the beatles, but the only track on here that I really dug was In My Life

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Some great stuff, plenty of stuff I'm not super drawn to. Favorite song: Porcelain