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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Green Onions Booker T. & The MG's	5	3.4	+1.6
Diamond Life Sade	5	3.44	+1.56
Bad Michael Jackson	5	3.8	+1.2

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Disintegration The Cure	2	3.86	-1.86
Penthouse And Pavement Heaven 17	1	2.61	-1.61
Machine Head Deep Purple	2	3.58	-1.58
So Peter Gabriel	2	3.54	-1.54
Rio Duran Duran	2	3.49	-1.49
Tusk Fleetwood Mac	2	3.47	-1.47
Metal Box Public Image Ltd.	1	2.42	-1.42
Amnesiac Radiohead	2	3.41	-1.41
Either Or Elliott Smith	2	3.39	-1.39
Deep Purple In Rock Deep Purple	2	3.32	-1.32

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Metal Box

Public Image Ltd. · 1 likes

1/5

I'm good

1-Star Albums (3)

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Horses

Patti Smith

2/5

Big fan of Patti Smith's books but never could fully get behind her music

Diamond Life

Sade

5/5

Gonna be honest, I thought Smooth Operator was by Steely Dan up until listening to this album. The band rips, each solo makes me want to groove. I felt like I was in a 45 min long 80's movie montage where things are going pretty well. Hang On To Your Love slippity slaps

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

5/5

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

3/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

Queen has always seemed more like a song band than an album band to me. Brian May shreds on the opener. Tenement Funster is 10 years ahead of it's time - that song is pure mid-80's arena rock. Overall it's just alright

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

2/5

Deep Purple has all the makings of a band I would love, but it just never clicked for me.

Sincere

Mj Cole

2/5

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

2/5

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

1/5

I'm good

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

I watched Stop Making Sense for the first time during Covid and immediately understood the genius of David Byrne. I see him as a true artist in every sense of the word, someone who follows his own instincts and trusts his creative gut over all else. I could listen to that opening piano/bass/guitar riff of Once in a Lifetime on a loop over and over. This is probably their best album, and I respect the shit out of the decision to end it with a song like The Overload.

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

Didn't really know anything about this band or album. It sounds like a run of the mill 1967 album, using all of the same tropes and hooks most bands were doing back then to try to get some radio play. That said it's still pretty enjoyable for me because I just like that era of music so much.

Third

Soft Machine

3/5

The first song sounds like something that would be playing inside of an avant garde art gallery with some weird video playing on loop. Tough to get past that one but I didn't hate the rest of the album. Would've been a 2 but +1 point for a really dope album cover

Disintegration

The Cure

2/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

3/5

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

Peter Gabriel

2/5

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

1/5

Synth pop and new wave is just not my thing. It feels like this band is searching for anything that might stick in a time where synthesizing everything and over tuning every bass line is the new cool thing to do. In the "80's music sucks" argument, if someone held up this album as a reason why, it would be hard to argue against.

Nixon

Lambchop

2/5

Talvin Singh

3/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

2/5

I want to like Radiohead but I just can't fully get into it. They have all of the ingredients of a band I'd love but it just hasn't clicked yet. Maybe this wasn't the right album for that, as it kind of came and went without me noticing much about it. I Might Be Wrong was the only song here where I stopped what I was doing and fully paid attention.

Machine Head

Deep Purple

2/5

I ain't a Deep Purple guy

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Solid album overall, lots of classic Jack White riffs and really enjoy the acoustic songs too. Seven Nation Army alone brings it from a 3 to a 4

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

2/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Would give it a 3 but Everybody Wants To Rule The World is one of the best songs of all time, so bumping up to a 4

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

2/5

Classic Philly white guy doing borderline appropriating voice inflections

Elvis Presley

4/5

Foundational for music in innumerable ways. It's impossible to remove all of our knowledge of Elvis, his music, and his impact on music when listening to this, so I can only imagine what it felt like to hear this music for the first time in 1956. A culture resetting album. Blue Moon is an underrated favorite

The Specials

3/5

Bumping from a 2 to a 3 just bc of A Message To You Rudy

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

2/5

The messages behind these lyrics is captivating and sadly hasn't really changed since the early 90s, but the music/beats are so dated it's distracting for me. Feel like other groups of this era were doing the political rap/aggressive messaging thing much better than this

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Never been a huge fan of reggae but this album is pretty undeniable. It's an instant mood lifter and feels "big" from beginning to end. The title track is pretty entrancing, you can really get lost in that deep groove for 7 min. Crazy that Bob Marley had the poise and presence to write One Love (& ended the album with it) after his assassination attempt.

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

3/5

Pretty unremarkable 70s music. But I like 70s music generally speaking so it was still enjoyable for me.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

Four of the eight songs are slappers, and I was ready to be let down by the non-hits, but Easier to Love and One More Time are great too.

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

2/5

At times felt like video game menu music, which isn't a bad thing, just not too exciting or interesting.

Rio

Duran Duran

2/5

This album sounds like the 80s as a decade trying to figure itself out. I don't like the hits enough to over compensate for boring songwriting elsewhere. Shelton is right though, great album cover.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

2/5

Not offensively bad, just not my taste. Kinda whiney

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

Not a perfect album but monumental in it's own right. Would kill to have dropped the needle on this record in 1971 and hear those first notes of Baby O'Reilly for the first time.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

2/5

This is my first time listening to Wilco, and before this I always wondered if I was missing out on something. It turns out I was not. This album gives big "my parents just dont get me" vibes. The only reason it's not a 1 is bc of "Jesus, etc" and the album cover.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

2/5

I like Fleetwood Mac but I don't like this album

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

Good album to put on as your entrance music when you join a Zoom meeting

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

A classic. Keeping it from a 5 bc of length and there were a few songs I wanted to skip. Didn't look at the tracklist beforehand so when it transitioned from So Fresh So Clean into Ms. Jackson I was like oooooooof

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

Aja

Steely Dan

4/5

Feel like this band is onto something. I am expecting great things from them

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Thought this was pretty good, def art-house 80s. Feels original to them and a band in their creative peak. Don't think I'll revisit it but I'm glad it was on this list

Woodface

Crowded House

2/5

Nothing really caught my ear besides Weather With You. Had a Beatles sound to it a little bit. Overall a little bland

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

I don't think I really need to give the rationale behind my rating

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

I liked this more than I expected. Brought me a lot of nostalgic feelings and memories for some reason. Bumping from a 3 to a 4 for length and the beautiful album cover

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

This album is like a a pile of neglected compost where rap-rock cliches and oversaturated production go to rot into eternity. He goes for volume over substance, masquerading nonsensical tantrums as some teenage vision of what rebellion is. It's as if a 12 year old kid was given an hour and 11 min to convince the world that he is fact, a man, who should be taken seriously. This is an album that had to convince itself that the main character is dangerous while sounding desperately insecure. This is not street-outlaw music (as it claims more than once), it’s store brand rage for people who think yelling is their entire personality