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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Back to Basics Christina Aguilera	5	2.75	+2.25
I See A Darkness Bonnie "Prince" Billy	5	2.97	+2.03
Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts The Adverts	5	2.98	+2.02
Dog Man Star Suede	5	3	+2
Unhalfbricking Fairport Convention	5	3.14	+1.86
Pornography The Cure	5	3.31	+1.69
2112 Rush	5	3.38	+1.62
Surfer Rosa Pixies	5	3.5	+1.5
Born To Be With You Dion	4	2.62	+1.38
Vol. 4 Black Sabbath	5	3.75	+1.25

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Blonde On Blonde Bob Dylan	1	3.49	-2.49
Africa Brasil Jorge Ben Jor	1	3.37	-2.37
Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk	1	3.33	-2.33
Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan	2	3.67	-1.67
With The Beatles Beatles	2	3.66	-1.66
Blackstar David Bowie	2	3.48	-1.48
Raw Power The Stooges	2	3.32	-1.32
McCartney Paul McCartney	2	3.25	-1.25
The Undertones The Undertones	2	3.25	-1.25

5-Star Albums (11)

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McCartney

Paul McCartney · 3 likes

2/5

I think Paul is great, and I love the Beatles, but this is a really really weak album. Some great IDEAS but nothing feels fully formed. Feels rushed out, needed more time in the oven

1-Star Albums (3)

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Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

3/5

Good Guitar texture Not my kind of audio mixing Good album to zone out with but really just not fully my kind of thing. I think a bit too lo-fi

2112

Rush

5/5

Alex Lifeson is a wizard holy moley. Absolutely loved this, amazing piece of prog rock with just some of the best solos I've ever heard

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

A lot of talent indeed, but I found the album was really boring the longer it went on. A lot of sparse instrumentation and repetitive motifs.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

2/5

Tapped my toes to the tunes, but Dylan's voice and singing style just completely take me out of it. A problem with him I don't think I can overcome.

Iron Maiden

4/5

An album that I think is just goddamn fun. A whole bunch of shred and metal to bring adrenaline to the veins

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

1/5

An album I would technically fine and be okay with, if it wasn't for an incessantly annoying squeaky flute on every song that completely ruins it.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Fantasticly done lounge jazz, very conversational between the instruments. Take Five is, of course, an all timer and stand out best song on the album

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

3/5

Incredibly interesting and historical to the art of sampling and even electronic in general. I can hear its influence in many things I love that came out since. That said, it feels very much one of those influential pieces that has been very much topped since, and feels simple in retrospect. The vocal tracks specifically do not feel as ahead of it's time as the rest, instead making it extremely dated to the late 80s. But I can still feel just how genius this album and how important it is for what I love.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

Was alright, but I find I much more into specific Joel sonfs rather than him as a whole. Great storyteller though

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Thought it absolutely phenomenal. The energy and jovialness of the performance just radiated throigh, and the songs are great

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

McCartney

Paul McCartney

2/5

I think Paul is great, and I love the Beatles, but this is a really really weak album. Some great IDEAS but nothing feels fully formed. Feels rushed out, needed more time in the oven

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

1/5

I completely just don't get this type of free-form jazz piano. I'm sure people who get it see the artistry, but to me it always just sounds like playing piano terribly

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Pornography

The Cure

5/5

Insanely good. Liked every single song on this album

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

Already one of my favourites of all time. I love the way it uses the 2 lead singers of The Pixies especially

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

4/5

This one I was surprised by how it hit me. The tone felt very personal and real, resonant. Like something that John Lennon felt just had to come out of him.

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

2/5

The production isn't terrible, but every song felt the exact same, and the lead singer added so little to it all.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

Yeah, everything I've hear about it holds up. One of the best albums of all time for sure. Just stunning. The tone of it is just so beautiful and relaxing. You can tell George wanted to make this for a while. So much creativity and artistry

With The Beatles

Beatles

2/5

Just a BORING album. Feels like, what are we doing here. And what I really don’t get is, you just had 2 fantastic singles, better than anything on this album… why weren’t they there??????

Dog Man Star

Suede

5/5

Fantastic album, some of the best britpop I've ever heard. The second half is a bit slower than my tastes, but also think it is all at equal quality to the first half.

Born To Be With You

Dion

4/5

Really really good easy listening. A warning: Spotify pairs it with another album, Streetheart. So be aware Born To Be Wuth You is only the first 8 tracks

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Love them, and it is to the benefit of the art they are so experimental. But the experimentation does make this album not fully work for me. Love them, but I don't think I'd listen to this AS an album ever again.

Blackstar

David Bowie

2/5

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

3/5

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

5/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

This hit me. The instruments, man. The feeling is just so perfect.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

The music is pretty decent and interesting, but is all stretched way too long. Just an insufferably long active listen.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

3/5

Offensive sounding, an assault on the ears. But I sort of appreciate that about it? When I managed to get into the vibe, I managed to see what it is what about and why someone might like it (even if I didn't)

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

5/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Well... that sure is a wall of sound

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

5/5

The Undertones

2/5

A bland pastiche of punk rock. All the signifiers without any real edge or meaning.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

4/5

The Man Who

Travis

4/5

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

5/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

2/5

This is your goat? I admit I listen to the worse original mix, but I can't imagine a better fix is that much more interesting

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

3/5

I think it is good and sounds good, but goes really against my listening sensibilities, because it is so background and atmospheric

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

4/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

1/5

I already don't like Dylan's voice. It grates on me. But on top of that, I just don't enjoy the vibes of this album. The attitudes he has towards women in the lyrics of this album are not nice and hard to go through.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

I found the production a little hit or miss, as in some songs just over-produced. But the rest is just perfect