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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Miriam Makeba Miriam Makeba	5	3.19	+1.81
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	5	3.39	+1.61
Document R.E.M.	5	3.56	+1.44
Doolittle Pixies	5	3.74	+1.26
Tapestry Carole King	5	3.91	+1.09
At Folsom Prison Johnny Cash	5	3.97	+1.03

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan	1	3.76	-2.76
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	1	3.63	-2.63
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	1	3.36	-2.36
Rain Dogs Tom Waits	1	3.19	-2.19
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted Ice Cube	1	2.93	-1.93
69 Love Songs The Magnetic Fields	1	2.85	-1.85
Yeezus Kanye West	1	2.76	-1.76
Bright Flight Silver Jews	1	2.69	-1.69
New Forms Roni Size	1	2.53	-1.53
Urban Hymns The Verve	2	3.36	-1.36

5-Star Albums (6)

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The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett · 1 likes

5/5

I don't know what to rate this. On one hand, it can be viewed as an optimal "ambient listening album". You doing your chores or talking to someone in a social setting, I wouldn't mind this playing in the background. On the other hand, there are moments of brilliance in the music that make me want to rate it 5/5. But then again, for some people this may never warrant a revisit, while for others they will discover new things in the music on every listen. For some this is just glorified elevator or background music, while for others it is a landmark album. This the "Schrödinger's album". I have listened to it 3 times today, and I can't seem to make up my mind. I will rate it 3 as a middle ground, but that just seems unfair. So I will reluctantly give it 5

New Forms

Roni Size · 1 likes

1/5

Can't believe this is on the list and not Mezzanine. Definitely not essential. 1/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band · 1 likes

1/5

5 for having lead balls to release it. 1 for being actually shit.

1-Star Albums (10)

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Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

3/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

Did not like the vocals, he wasn't in tone and at times was just shouting

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

The first 4 star album of the challenge. Very good punk music. Actually enjoyable

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

1/5

He can't sing for shit

Violent Femmes

3/5

Elvis Presley

3/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Got bored, a slog to get through. A very pretentious Spotify self description. Their music doesn't match to it.

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

You can't actually expect someone to sit down and listen to a full album of this kind of music. It's hard to resist the the urge to dance. But I did and I liked the album. Still a banger all these years later. You don't get this kind of fusion of instrumentation in today's electronic and club music.

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

4/5

First 4 songs were amazing, especially the lead off track closer. the second half of the album falls flat.DID NOT LIKE 17.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

When that guitar hit in maggot brain, I knew instantly this was a banger.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

1/5

Not interested in hip hop. Awful genre. Don't even know why this is on here. Not wasting my time on this. Rating it a 1 just to hate. #NotRealMusic

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Funk Punk Rock. The first actually good album these guys made. 3.5/5. It's not as good as By the Way, though. I will give it only 3 ,because of how long it is. It should have ended after Under the Bridge.

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

Pure bliss. 4/5 . Doesn't warrant many revisits

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

2/5

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Proto Nirvana and Radiohead. Instant 5 stars.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

New Forms

Roni Size

1/5

Can't believe this is on the list and not Mezzanine. Definitely not essential. 1/5

No Other

Gene Clark

2/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

2/5

Kept on losing stars as the album progressed. Too long and not as good as the first track.

Miriam Makeba

5/5

Yeah this one's a 5. Never listened to afro pop before. This is why I love this challenge.

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

2/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

2/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

This is why we do this

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

1/5

Nope

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

1/5

Another songwriter who can't sing for shit. Shit lyrics, swampy and incoherent music. Absolute ass.

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

Above average but average none the less

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1/5

5 for having lead balls to release it. 1 for being actually shit.

Document

R.E.M.

5/5

Unexpectedly pleasant. I did not expect to give a R.E.M. album 5 stars. Superb production and songwriting. There was a saxophone part in one of the later songs, which completely took me by surprise.

Liquid Swords

GZA

3/5

The only ki d of hip hop I can listen to. The modern stuff is just shit.

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

1/5

2 hip hop albums in a row. I can't be bothered with this shit anymore. A lot actually influential and relevant albums missed out on this album because of this shitty music. All he talks about is effing the police and black people getting killed. Irrelevant stuff.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

2/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

1/5

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

2/5