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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Yeezus Kanye West	5	2.76	+2.24
Under Construction Missy Elliott	5	3.15	+1.85
Rain Dogs Tom Waits	5	3.19	+1.81
...And Justice For All Metallica	5	3.42	+1.58
Dirt Alice In Chains	5	3.46	+1.54
Document R.E.M.	5	3.55	+1.45
The Cars The Cars	5	3.66	+1.34
Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen	5	3.7	+1.3
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	5	3.71	+1.29
Pearl Janis Joplin	5	3.72	+1.28

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground	1	3.53	-2.53
Hot Rats Frank Zappa	1	3.36	-2.36
Something Else By The Kinks The Kinks	1	3.25	-2.25
Sister Sonic Youth	1	3.02	-2.02
Os Mutantes Os Mutantes	1	2.97	-1.97
Black Monk Time The Monks	1	2.94	-1.94
Electric Music For The Mind And Body Country Joe & The Fish	1	2.85	-1.85
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo The Byrds	1	2.83	-1.83
Faust IV Faust	1	2.78	-1.78
Dire Straits Dire Straits	2	3.72	-1.72

5-Star Albums (14)

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Dub Housing

Pere Ubu · 1 likes

1/5

Like listening to someone slowly release air from a balloon for 35 minutes.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs · 1 likes

2/5

Man this album is such a let down. Head Will Roll is all gas, and then they're just completely asleep at the wheel the rest of the time. So aggressively mid, it's actually impressive. On to the next one.

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits · 1 likes

3/5

As a huge Tom Waits fan, even I'm struggling to understand why this album is on the list. For starters, it was a throwaway recording just to complete his label obligations. But also, it's far from his best or most interesting. I would never use this to introduce someone to Tom. It's really a deep cut album for fans. I have no idea what the rationale is.

4-Star Albums (27)

1-Star Albums (13)

All Ratings

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

2/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

Great, but bloated album. Lose 4-5 tracks and this would be one of the greatest rap albums of all time. Ending this album with "Kim" would have been chilling. Baffling decision to include those last few filler tracks.

...And Justice For All

Metallica

5/5

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

2/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

3/5

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

2/5

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

4/5

British Steel

Judas Priest

4/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

3/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

2/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

2/5

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

4/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

2/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Dire Straits

2/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

2/5

Pump

Aerosmith

4/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

5/5

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

1/5

Like listening to someone slowly release air from a balloon for 35 minutes.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

The Cars

5/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

3/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

2/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

3/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

1/5

It's difficult for me to hand out too many 1-star reviews. Most times if I don't like something, I admit that it's likely just not for me and give it 2 stars. But I struggle to find any merit in this album. Why anyone would listen to this, then feel the need to ever go back to it is beyond me.

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

3/5

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

5/5

This one really surprised me. I had only heard the singles before listening to this, and I'm just shocked how great all of the beats are, and how listenable every single track is. There's zero filler here. Can't believe I'm giving 5 stars to a Missy Elliott album, but that's the beauty of this whole experiment.

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

2/5

I had never heard of this group, so I came in with an open mind despite peeping at some of the reviews in advance. I was honestly vibing to the first song until the vocals came in. My word, what an atrocity. It's a damn shame, because the music is honestly great. The singer needs to go.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Eagles

2/5

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

1/5

Nope

Blackstar

David Bowie

3/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

2/5

Nice to put a band name to Time of the Season, but let's be honest - everything else on this album is forgettable. Extra star for one gigantic song.

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Different Class

Pulp

2/5

I'm sure this album is for someone. But it's not for me.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

2/5

Snooze

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

2/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

3/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

1/5

Like unseasoned boiled chicken

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

2/5

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

5/5

The Score

Fugees

3/5

Must be one of the most overrated albums on the list. 3-4 great songs, but everything else is below average. Also, tacking skits onto all of your songs instead of making them separate tracks is a hate crime.

Virgin Suicides

Air

3/5

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

2/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Superstition and a bunch of songs that are fine.

Faust IV

Faust

1/5

Definitely in the top 3 of German atrocities

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Chilling, raw, and brutally honest. I'd normally roll my eyes at a review like that, but this album sent me somewhere else.

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

4/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

2/5

So here's the thing - it's always important to have context with historically important music. I've never listened to this album, but I know about it, and know of its influence. That being said, I think it's also important to review an album while stripping away that context. Take it on face value. So that being said, this album isn't very good. I'm not saying it wasn't completely original at the time. But being original doesn't make it great. The songs need to be good. And these aren't.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

A surprise 5 for me. I've only heard a small sample of Joplin, and this is really not my era or genre of music. I was shocked with how much passion and soul there is here. Will definitely revisit and explore her other music.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

Completely fine, inoffensive jazz music to have on in the background. Will likely never revisit.

Ramones

4/5

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

1/5

Incredibly bland and unoriginal

Scum

Napalm Death

1/5

Nope. Next.

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

3/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

5/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

1/5

Lifeless and uninspired music. Belongs in the trash. Next.

The Coral

3/5

I was perfectly fine having never heard of this band, and my life is no different after listening to this. Nothing wrong with the music, nothing notable. No idea why it's on this list.

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

3/5

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

3/5

The Velvet Underground

1/5

Honestly fuck this album and fuck this band. One star is too many.

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Sister

Sonic Youth

1/5

I really just don't understand why anyone would sit down and willfully listen to this band.

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

3/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

2112

Rush

3/5

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

3/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

Debut

Björk

4/5

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

3/5

Not sure how to take this one in. Do we need 15 min+ techno tracks? Weird way to start off the album. Almost didn't make it through which is a shame since the last track was actually really good. Giving some grace here because this isn't really my thing.

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

2/5

This really isn't my kind of music, so it's difficult to be totally objective. Two stars because it's not terrible. I just don't like it.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

First time actually listening to this and it honestly sounds a bit dated. The beats are great, but Dre and Snoop come off as below average lyricists here. Every song is seemingly about the same thing. You could swap the lyrics from one song and put them into another and no one would notice. Like most rap albums of the era, it's bloated and overindulgent. Unnecessarily long intros and outros. You could easily cut 20 minutes from this thing and have a better product.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

3/5

I know it's been discussed ad nauseum, but there's just no conceivable way that an album this bloated could ever be a 5. I can't help but laugh at the reviews that are like, oh you can't judge this album on the apple jam, that was just a fun thing thrown in. Are you serious? It's part of the album, so it should be judged accordingly. The truth is, there are 4-5 good songs here. You could easily take this thing down to 10 songs and have yourself a very tight album. Instead we get - this.

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

4/5

Why do I like this so much? What is happening?

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

2/5

This album actually started off promising, but quickly fell off as each song went by, until I was relieved that it was over. I've never heard of this band or album, and now I kind of know why.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Actually had a hard time deciding on this one. The great songs are epic, the others are meh. I just can't give an album with Tuesday's Gone, Simple Man, and Free Bird less than 4 stars.

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

1/5

Makes me wonder if music in general was just a mistake.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

Actually surprised I didn't hate this, as noise rock is not my thing at all. Interested in checking out some other albums now.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

The first side of this is a stone cold 5/5. Dips for me in the second half, hence the 4. Double albums are rarely a good idea in my opinion.

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

3/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

Vespertine

Björk

4/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Man this album really drops off hard. The first 5 tracks are great, then it's straight doodoo water.

All That You Can't Leave Behind

4/5

This album often strikes me as one made by musicians becoming adults, and leaning into their maturity. I know it's easy to hate on U2, but it's also kind of lame to be so dismissive. There's a certain sound on this album that the band captured only once. There's something about that notion that I find endearing. Lightning in a bottle for a band that's got several of those bottles sitting around.

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

2/5

Really struggled to get through this one, which is disappointing since I actually like Everything Must Go quite a bit.

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

What a weird album, in a good way. I feel like you rarely see an album backloaded with hits like this.

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

2/5

Beats are interesting, but ultimately sounds dated and repetitive. Tough to get through.

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

3/5

Didn't hate this, but certainly never going to revisit this in my lifetime.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

I didn't love or dislike this, and I look forward to not loving or disliking all of his other albums.

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

4/5

This one was a real surprise. I've never heard of this band, and unknown proto-punk is not typically my idea of a good time. But the songs here are catchy and strong, and I was shocked to learn they're still releasing music.

Smile

Brian Wilson

2/5

I could barely get through this. This album is definitely built on history and reputation, as opposed to objectively judging it based on the music, which just isn't very good.

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

2/5

Just really boring

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

2/5

My snap reaction was to give this a 1. The relief i felt when I paused the last track halfway through made me realize I was listening to nothing but noise. But alas, I actually enjoy jazz. I even have enjoyed most of the Mingus I've heard so far. This album just isn't doing it for me. I know that it probably requires multiple listens, and I just don't have the time for that right now.

Black Monk Time

The Monks

1/5

Maybe some hidden gems should stay very very hidden.

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

Struggled to get through this. Very dull. Two stars because I know this appeals to some people, it just isn't for me.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

Piece of My Heart is great, but the rest of the album is really lacking for me. This sounds like the kind of band that would be amazing to see live, but it just doesn't translate through recording.

Yeezus

Kanye West

5/5

Listen, I get it. You don't need to explain it to me. Fully aware. All that being said, this album is absolutely a 5. Nothing sounded like this album before it came out, and I can't think of anything that sounds like it since. A true one of a kind that hopefully outshines the horrible person that created it as the years go by.

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

Not bad, but pretty unmemorable.

Os Mutantes

1/5

I'm sorry, this sucks.

Document

R.E.M.

5/5

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

2/5

Dirty

Sonic Youth

2/5

"I'm just from Encino, why are you so mean-o." Are you kidding me? Two stars because a small handful of these songs are half decent and would actually be good if a better band wrote them. I hate this band with a burning passion.