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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators The 13th Floor Elevators	5	2.95	+2.05
Life's Too Good The Sugarcubes	5	3.08	+1.92
The Boatman's Call Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.2	+1.8
Fun House The Stooges	5	3.27	+1.73
Bitches Brew Miles Davis	5	3.3	+1.7
Pornography The Cure	5	3.31	+1.69
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	5	3.34	+1.66
Cupid & Psyche 85 Scritti Politti	4	2.39	+1.61
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	5	3.5	+1.5
So Peter Gabriel	5	3.53	+1.47

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The College Dropout Kanye West	1	3.31	-2.31
System Of A Down System Of A Down	1	3.27	-2.27
The New Tango Astor Piazzolla	1	2.88	-1.88
All Hope Is Gone Slipknot	1	2.7	-1.7
L.A. Woman The Doors	2	3.66	-1.66
Illmatic Nas	2	3.6	-1.6
Kenza Khaled	1	2.59	-1.59
The Atomic Mr Basie Count Basie & His Orchestra	2	3.5	-1.5
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	2	3.3	-1.3
The Visitors ABBA	2	3.21	-1.21

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Artist	Albums	Average
Miles Davis	2	5
The Cure	2	5

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The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

Popular Reviews

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf · 1 likes

3/5

It's strange to listen to this again in total after so many years. It's a beautiful story arc. I'd forgotten how delicate 'Heaven Can Wait' is; how well placed it is. Overall, the album sounds so much more like a musical than it did when I first heard it. Perhaps because I wasn't accustomed to musicals as a child, and possibly because it influenced so many more to come.

Black Metal

Venom · 1 likes

2/5

Yikes

1-Star Albums (6)

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Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

I first heard this in my freshman year of university. I was cranking Nash the Slash “Dopes on the Water” and some of the metal lads on my floor came to set me straight. Just realized that the Zappa concert fire was on my birthday!

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

The man in black ... In a prison ... Singing murder ballads ... To murderers ... That is all

L.A. Woman

The Doors

2/5

I have a deep detestation of this record. It feels arrogant, but way past ripe. Reminds me of an overripe banana that you can smell across the kitchen, "mmm banana, this'll be good," you think. Then you pick it up, and it's all mushy and disgusting; it must be 27 days old. Not good at all, just in your face and past its prime. There are far better Doors records and far better bananas.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

3/5

I’m sorry I missed this when it was released. Incredible work for a debut. Sophisticated beyond her years, but trying too hard

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

I didn’t pay much attention to the Boss in my youth. Just wasn’t my scene and I sneered at anyone who was a fan. I missed out, some greet song craft here. He’s dark and cynical and if I’d bothered to listen I would have realized.

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

2/5

Dreck

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5

I wish I liked Queen

The White Room

The KLF

3/5

Make sure to listen to the original not the reissue.

Vivid

Living Colour

2/5

There has never been a moment in my life when I felt the mood required some Living Colour.

Kenza

Khaled

1/5

I didn't know Khaled before this adventure; he has sold +80M albums worldwide, I should have heard of him! I was excited to dive into a new adventure. It's fecking awful. The low point was the cover of Lennon's 'Imagine', but I soldiered on through nearly an hour and a half of this pageant (I'm committed). I couldn't figure out how this guy sold so many albums; there had to be more to him -- turns out there is. According to besteveralbums.com 'Kenza' is rated 22,902 (21,901 albums to hear before you die are ahead of this one). He has a live album, 'Hafla', 11,388 places earlier on that same list; that's 31 years of this! Why wasn't that the recommendation? Well, I'm listening to 'Hafla' now, and it's excellent. It's intoxicating; the live energy transports me into the middle of a celebration. I want to be part of that scene. I understand why Khaled is so popular now.

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Nice pleasant hip hop for suburban high end mall dwellers, but it sure is pretty. Nothin wrong with that.

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

3/5

A lifetime supply of Van Morrison in a single serving.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Respect

Iron Maiden

4/5

Took me back quite a few years ... decades

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

My first 5-star rating. This album was my favourite album in the year it was released.

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

1/5

Hahahaha No

Low-Life

New Order

4/5

An Album that shaped my youth

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Not my pick for Velvet’s best but a solid album

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

We got it on

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

I love this record

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

3/5

Well other than the title track there’s not much here, but what an epic track

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

1/5

Sometimes talent isn’t enough

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

1/5

To think we went from the Ink Spots to Slipknot in 70 years, where did we go wrong?

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

4/5

Brian Eno has had a bigger influence on my life than any other artist

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

This album sounds amazing unfortunately there’s not enough get tracks to keep me coming back

Boston

5/5

The last concert I went to in Boston was Boston they played all of Boston

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

The Visitors

ABBA

2/5

I’d never heard this album or any of the tracks before. It was surprisingly mature songwriting and structure. Still it’s ABBA so not my cup of tea.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

Some great songwriting and beautiful tunes. Unfortunately the remaster (2008?) m sounded terrible and sucked the joy out of listening. I’d love to hear the original mono vinyl

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

5/5

Not an easy album. Tried in the past with mixed results. Finally worth the effort. Listen alone not distracted. Let it wash over you, sink into it and wow.

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

5/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

Great Smiths album that I don't listen to often enough. A lot of good tracks, more sculptural songcraft than their previous albums. Worthwhile listen.

Black Metal

Venom

2/5

Yikes

Faust IV

Faust

4/5

I've never heard this before and was blown away -- how did I miss it. This is what I came here for!

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

3/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Cultural appropriation or groundbreaking collaboration? This record certainly brought a lot of controversy at a time when apartheid was in the world's lens, mostly thanks to the efforts of artists to use their influence to draw attention to South Africa and refusing to play there. At the time the album was released, I sided with the views of Billy Bragg and Paul Weller; I was outraged. Over time, this album grew on me, and I think I understand what Simon was trying to do. I'm less outraged and more grateful that he helped artists like Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ray Phiri, and Bakithi Kumalo touch the world with their music. 40 years later, a similar controversy is in the spotlight. This time, the focus is on comedians playing comedy festivals in Saudi Arabia. Art is vital for human development, communicating complex ideas, and making sense of life's experiences. It can express emotions, challenge perceptions, provide pleasure, promote social connection, teach values, and help us understand ourselves and the world. It's easier to hate than to empathize. This album definitely belongs on this list.

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

4/5

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Lovely

Peter Gabriel

5/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

First Snoop album I’ve listened to all the way through. I’ll do that again.

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

3/5

Curious to learn more about out this extraordinary pianist. First track didn’t do it for me and wasn’t a good indication of the rest of the album.

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

3/5

Pornography

The Cure

5/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

Didnt quite get into this at first. I knew "The Cisco Kid" but that was the only song off this album I'd heard before listening. By the time I got through "City, Country, City" I was hooked. Very good album.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

Le Tigre

3/5

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

3/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

1/5

Separate the man from the art? Not this time