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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
John Prine John Prine	5	3.22	+1.78
Tea for the Tillerman Cat Stevens	5	3.67	+1.33
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits	5	3.73	+1.27
69 Love Songs The Magnetic Fields	4	2.85	+1.15
Ingenue k.d. lang	4	2.95	+1.05
Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) Loretta Lynn	4	2.97	+1.03

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Heroes to Zeros The Beta Band	1	2.9	-1.9
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	2	3.62	-1.62
Aladdin Sane David Bowie	2	3.6	-1.6
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	2	3.59	-1.59
Moon Safari Air	2	3.57	-1.57
At Newport 1960 Muddy Waters	2	3.54	-1.54
American Gothic David Ackles	1	2.49	-1.49
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	2	3.48	-1.48
Hail To the Thief Radiohead	2	3.45	-1.45
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	2	3.41	-1.41

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American Gothic

David Ackles · 1 likes

1/5

I found this to be totally cringe. I am glad that has been mostly forgotten. It sounds like bad community theater.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits · 1 likes

5/5

As good to day as the first time I listened to it in 1985.

1-Star Albums (2)

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Parklife

Blur

3/5

I remember first listening to this album after the sensation of "Song 2" when I went through the Blur back catalogue. "End of the Century" and "Girls and Boys" both caught my ear. I've had this album in my rotation ever since, "Girls and Boys" being the track I probably hear most often. I had been out of touch with music for a while so had missed the Brit Pop trend of the early 90s until being introduced to this album. I preferred Blur to Oasis as more direct successors to The Housemartins.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

2/5

I really did not like the droning noises over most tracks. Should have called the album "Tinnitus"

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

This is my favourite Cat Stevens album. It is also the only one that I have owned. The consistency of the tone and overall quality of the songs keeps you engaged.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Listened together the songs end up sounding too much alike.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

Has several classic radio hits that are familiar but the rest of the album feels like an average jam band to me

Moon Safari

Air

2/5

Meh. This is underwhelming. It is hard to imagine anyone being enthusiastic about this music. It would be fine for background while working but I can't imagine it being something that I would "listen" to.

American Gothic

David Ackles

1/5

I found this to be totally cringe. I am glad that has been mostly forgotten. It sounds like bad community theater.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

3/5

I've never listened to the whole album in order before. The unfamiliar songs were…forgettable. It is a strong album for what was then a young band.

Pretenders

4/5

I found some of the tracks a little too similar to others. Loved hearing the hits in context of the rest of the album.

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

3/5

I hadn't heard of this group at all that I know of though once I looked it up I recognized their hit "Get Together". Seems like an OK album that doesn't deserve to be forgotten but mostly because it is of a time and seems to capture that well.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

2/5

I couldn't wait for it to be over. But for one song I found this unlistenable.

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

2/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

2/5

I had absolutely no idea that they were this gay. I don't mean this as a bad thing but their mainstream presentation was more neutral (or I lack gaydar). It is a dance album that they tried to package as a pop album.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

This doesn't seem like heavy metal…things were different then apparently.

Future Days

Can

2/5

I was unfamiliar with this and listened through twice. It didn't leave much of an impression unfortunately.

Faust IV

Faust

3/5

I can hear how this influenced later work and indeed, continuing to listen to the algorithmic radio station generated for this album I heard a lot that came from this work. Not my favourite work of theirs but formative.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

I enjoyed all the familiar songs but it took a second listen to enjoy the rest of the album. It really fits together. Not everything works perfectly and some sounds very dated but a masterpiece album.

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

4/5

Dire Straits

4/5

Reign In Blood

Slayer

3/5

Not my thing but I do have to agree that it is well produced. I can understand why this was a significant album in the metal genre.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

This isn't as superficial as I thought.

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

2/5

Bored and annoyed by it. 4 minutes of music cut-and-pasted to 1h14m. When the song is the same 18 second loop how do you decide if it should be 4 minutes or 7?

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

Virgin Suicides

Air

2/5

Faith

George Michael

3/5

It is a mediocre album.

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

2/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

The Stooges

3/5

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

2/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

2/5

Listening to it as a whole album I found it sonicaly uninteresting and not engaging.

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

3/5

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

2/5

OK, but not their best. Though a fan I don't think this belongs on the 1001 list.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

2/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

2/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

1/5

Boring and mediocre.

Palo Congo

Sabu

3/5

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

2/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

3/5

Not a strong enough album for 4 stars but this is a worthy 3 stars.

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

2/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

3/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Pyromania

Def Leppard

3/5

Sail Away

Randy Newman

3/5

This is a reluctant "3". I found this album distasteful. The songs are subversive but without benefit. Burn On alludes to the Cuyahoga river burning but doesn't actually have much to say.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

3/5

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

2/5

Boston

4/5

Slayed?

Slade

3/5

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

2/5

Moby Grape

2/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

2112

Rush

3/5

Not m favourite Rush album but worthy.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

5/5

As good to day as the first time I listened to it in 1985.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

This is a generous 3.

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Couldn't wait for it to be over… I had heard that this list was heavy with late 1990s brit pop and dance and this is prime example.

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

3/5

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

I've never appreciated this album.

The xx

3/5

New to me but I liked the guitar. Shame that they screwed over the guitarist and she is not on the later (disappointing) albums.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

2/5

Never heard this before despite knowing what I thought was a good amount of Brazilian music. Didn’t really catch my ear the same way as other Brazilian music has and I don’t know the context for why this is important and possibly beloved.

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

3/5

I remember one or two of these tracks from back in the day. Ironically when playing it was followed by Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet which I enjoyed much more.

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

The Cars

3/5

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

2/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

2/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

Leftism

Leftfield

2/5

Trope filled and highly repetitive. Feels uninspired to me. It would have been a crime if it had beat Portishead Dummy.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

I am not going to pretend I am a middle aged white guy who has any of the necessary context to properly understand this album. I recognize it as significant even from my limited exposure (mostly through GTA) but would be insincere if I rated it higher than the "3--belongs on the list" that I am giving it.

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

3/5

Fred Neil

2/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

4/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

2/5

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

So much energy.

Soul Mining

The The

2/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

Truth

Jeff Beck

3/5

John Prine

5/5

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

3/5

I am always happy when a Lucinda Williams song comes up in my mix. Listening to a whole album they all felt like they were of similar tone and delivery. There was a distinct lack of variety.

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

The wikipedia article says that they wanted to "get back to their roots and make a blues album" but this album does best when it isn't being a blues album. The blues numbers are underwhelming to me.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

2/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

2/5

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

2/5

Never heard this before despite knowing what I thought was

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

2/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

3/5

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

2/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Ingenue

k.d. lang

4/5

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

2/5

Doesn't quite make the cut for "should be on the list". Michael Franti's writing definitely has good moments.

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

2/5

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

3/5

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

2/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

4/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

3/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

3/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

I have not listened to this album before. I was expecting to give it a "yeah, it was significant" three but was really engaged by it. I usually listen to my assigned albums twice through but even after a third listen I thought that i would continue to appreciate this album even more after additional listens.

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

3/5

Tapestry

Carole King

3/5

Ramones

4/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

2/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

This just doesn't do anything for me. The drone of the drums and guitars muddies the musicality and lyrics. If I could remove the 'heavy' I might enjoy this.

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

3/5

Violent Femmes

3/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

2/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

I have listened to this album hundreds of times. I made an effort to listen to it critically and, being honest, it does sound like a debut album. It is a taste of what is to come but not as formed as later work.

Arrival

ABBA

3/5

Some of the non-hits tracks are truly awful.

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

2/5

It seems like they are trying to be everything but nothing specific.

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

3/5

Iron Maiden

3/5

I enjoyed this album where I didn't enjoy Metallica's first album and it comes down to the listening experience. Audible vocals and solos beat the metal drone wall of sound. The lineage to hard rock is also more evident in this album.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

3/5

Headquarters

The Monkees

2/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

3/5

Fleet Foxes

3/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

4/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

3/5

Skylarking

XTC

4/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

2/5

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

2/5

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

2/5

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

2/5

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

2/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

3/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

2/5

I listened to the whole album three times and absolutely nothing caught my ear.

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

4/5

I found this to be a really interesting concept album.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

3/5

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

2/5

Musically this lacks diversity.

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

3/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

2/5

1984

Van Halen

3/5

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Wow, I can't think of an album with music that sounds so dated. I hope that someday a "remaster" is possible with better instruments because this sounds like garbage.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

This was much lower energy than I expected. In the context of the rest of the album even "Get It On" was less energetic than I remembered.

Scissor Sisters

3/5

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

3/5

Revolver

Beatles

4/5