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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Meat Is Murder The Smiths	5	3.33	+1.67
Different Class Pulp	5	3.42	+1.58
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	5	3.45	+1.55
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand	5	3.57	+1.43
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm A Tribe Called Quest	5	3.61	+1.39
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	5	3.61	+1.39
Bubble And Scrape Sebadoh	4	2.65	+1.35
Bad Michael Jackson	5	3.81	+1.19
In Rainbows Radiohead	5	3.85	+1.15
Heroes to Zeros The Beta Band	4	2.9	+1.1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Paranoid Black Sabbath	1	4.19	-3.19
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	1	3.82	-2.82
...And Justice For All Metallica	1	3.42	-2.42
Homework Daft Punk	1	3.29	-2.29
Cross Justice	1	3.27	-2.27
Songs The Lord Taught Us The Cramps	1	2.84	-1.84
Graceland Paul Simon	2	3.73	-1.73
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	2	3.59	-1.59
Ace of Spades Motörhead	2	3.29	-1.29
Countdown To Ecstasy Steely Dan	2	3.28	-1.28

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Popular Reviews

Cross

Justice · 1 likes

1/5

I wonder if anyone rating this above 2 stars was high on drugs because I have trouble believing it’s possible to enjoy thiswithout a shitload of LSD in your system I dont like to say this because I understand music is subjective but here it goes: this is crap

4-Star Albums (30)

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1-Star Albums (6)

All Ratings

Foo Fighters

3/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

4/5

The Specials

4/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

4/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

I’d actually give it a 3.5. It’s a nostalgic album for me but it suffers from something I thought only the last albums from The Black Keys suffered: it does feel like you’re listening to the same 3 songs for an hour. I guess I looked at this one with rose-colored glasses

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

2/5

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

4/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Black Sabbath

1/5

The Modern Lovers

4/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

2/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

I am not a hip hop person at all but this one is amazing

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

2/5

Muse’s greatest song was featured in a film about shining vampires. Take that as you will. I’m giving 2 because I thought it would be much worse actually and because Supermassive Black Hole is a very good song (I just cant take it serious as Muse would like to because it’s intertwined with lines of the likes of “BELLA THIS IS THE SKIN OF A KILLER”)

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

1/5

I felt like stopping it in the middle but my husband said he “loved” this one, so I insisted. As of right now I’m kind of mad with him because I definitely should have stopped in the middle. It does not get better. I liked Whats Behind the Mask, though

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

It definitely suffers from the same problem of so many 90s / early 00s albums: it’s too long and would be much better if it was made to fit in 47 minutes

No Other

Gene Clark

3/5

I was Kinda enjoying and I thought of rating it a 4 but them I had to stop when the last song started and didnt feel like coming back. So it’s a 3

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

1/5

I dont think I can fairly rate this because I do refuse to listen to this in full. Very repetitive, very “mom, look how fast I can play!”. I gave up on track 2 and went straight to One, since so many reviews praise it. This one is ok I guess

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

4/5

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

5/5

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

4/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

My therapist will not like this but I had forgotten how good Radiohead is. I’ll return listening to them on a regular basis

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Garbage

4/5

It sounds so 90s I have no option but to love it. Yes Im a sucker for 90s alt music

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

I feel this could be a 3.5 but Cant Make a Sound melody is so gorgeous in its melancholy I feel compeled to rate it 4

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

I must confess I didnt love the Electric Ladyland, my only experience with a Jimi Hendrix’s album in full, so I was surprised I actually liked this one!

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

2/5

I liked the riffs and melodies way more than I was expecting I'm not the kind of person that believes all lyrics should have deep meanings but these ones are just too silly to ignore, bordering misogyny. I'd give it a 4 for the songs only and 1 for the lyrics. Make it a 2, maybe? or 3? IDK

Blur

3/5

Beetlebum and Song 2 are great but the rest is just OK. 35 albums in and I believe this is the first one I own in a physical format. Overall I think the best album Blur has ever made is their Best Of. Souce: I am fucking MADFERIT. Sorry

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

1/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

more on the 3,5 side; I thought it got a little fatiguing towards the end

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

War

4/5

Kimono My House

Sparks

4/5

I'll be honest and say I got to know Sparks through FFS That's a good record

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

More like on the 3,5 spectrum, but closer to 4, I think. It's not quite my cup of tea but the harmonies are beautiful.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

More like on the 3,5 spectrum. I like it but it can get repetitive at some points

Homework

Daft Punk

1/5

Another electronic music album I am not finishing. I managed to get halfway through it and got the ideia If I wanted to listen to this shit Id take my earphones off on my old gym (and electronic music is the reason I left that one and chose another instead)

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

Different Class

Pulp

5/5

Disco 2000 makes me so nostalgic

A Night At The Opera

Queen

5/5

I've seem people choosing Love of My Life as a wedding song, which is insane. This one is sad as fuck. I love Queen but I cannot listen to Bohemian Rahpsody without thinking of that Glee scene HAHAHAH please don't kill me

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

3/5

Cross

Justice

1/5

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

3/5

Some are killers some are fillers

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

2/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Soul is definitely not my cup of tea but I can recognize this is good and well executed. I'm torn between giving it 3 or 4 stars because I do believe it deserves 4 stars; problem is I was saving 4 stars for "things I'd keep a physical copy of" (even if it's something I think it deserves 3 stars but I like the genre / artist anyway) So.... it's tricky

Rocks

Aerosmith

3/5

White Denim

4/5

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

5/5

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

3,5 actually

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

3/5

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

3/5

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

The Joshua Tree

4/5

Franz Ferdinand

5/5

WORDS ARE POISONED DARTS OF PLEASURE I've had no problem over the years in recognizing that music that I used to love was not good at all but this is not the case with FF's debut. Franz Ferdinand definitely deserves to be here, even more if you consider the amount of bullshit you'll find in this list. I'll be honest and say this is one of my favorite albums ever. Do I think it's a groundbreaking masterpiece? no. Would it still be one of my favorites if it wasn't in this list? yes. FF has marked my teenagehood and my adult life as well. Seeing them live as an adult was a cathartic experience for me I never thought I needed so much Even so, I can see putting any other of their albums in the 1001 Albums list would definitely be a stretch even though I really enjoy them

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Pornography

The Cure

4/5