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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Get Rich Or Die Tryin' 50 Cent	5	3.06	+1.94
Kenya Machito	5	3.27	+1.73
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.3	+1.7
I Should Coco Supergrass	5	3.35	+1.65
Hot Rats Frank Zappa	5	3.35	+1.65
Ágætis Byrjun Sigur Rós	5	3.37	+1.63
Either Or Elliott Smith	5	3.39	+1.61
Stardust Willie Nelson	5	3.39	+1.61
The Gershwin Songbook Ella Fitzgerald	5	3.52	+1.48
Brothers The Black Keys	5	3.55	+1.45

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Murder Ballads Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1	3.08	-2.08
Southern Rock Opera Drive-By Truckers	1	2.81	-1.81
Maggot Brain Funkadelic	2	3.6	-1.6
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	3.48	-1.48
Dirt Alice In Chains	2	3.46	-1.46
Stand! Sly & The Family Stone	2	3.43	-1.43
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	2	3.32	-1.32
Horses Patti Smith	2	3.31	-1.31
Wonderful Rainbow Lightning Bolt	1	2.29	-1.29
Eagles Eagles	2	3.29	-1.29

5-Star Albums (16)

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All Ratings

Brothers

The Black Keys

5/5

Low

David Bowie

3/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

5/5

Tommy

The Who

3/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Black Sabbath

5/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

2/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

5/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

2/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

808 State

4/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

4/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

5/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

2/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

3/5

3 for the hits. Otherwise 2 for generic bar rock with solid production.

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

2/5

Not terrible but wouldn't listen again.

The Clash

3/5

Never listened to much Clash -- punk generally not my cup of tea. But this sounded exactly like what I would have expected and can respect one of the best punk acts of all time. 3 stars for predictability and consistency, but likely won't listen again.

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

Garages that have been full of cigarette smoke for a long time have a distinct smell. This album is that smell.

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

1/5

Nah.

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

5/5

Four stars for the album. Five stars for a generational hater.

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

Fuckin decent.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

This rips

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

The band on this is incredible.

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

Goin' Back sounds a lot like House of Cards by Radiohead. Overall average, fun album with solid production.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Killer arrangements. Frank great as always.

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

3/5

Solid songs, but a few too many of them.

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

3/5

Solid.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

Yes.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Legendary songwriter. Enjoyed this a lot. 4.5.

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

3/5

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

2/5

This didn't really do anything for me.

Eagles

2/5

Liked this a lot less than I thought I would.

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

2/5

Only 40 albums in and I'm already sick of British punk bands.

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

GOAT.

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

2/5

I mean...alright.

Horses

Patti Smith

2/5

Didn't do anything for me.

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

I was not excited to listen to another Brit punk album but this rules.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

Yes lawd

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Hell yeah.

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

3/5

Will probably return to this when I need something in the background, but not all that engaging imo.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

2/5

Edgy like Hot Topic.

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

4/5

Idk why but this kicked my ADHD's ass. Enjoyed overall and will probably listen again when I have to do something I've been procrastinating.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

Production and arrangements are fantastic.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

-1 for Jenny Jenny, otherwise banger.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

Front half is a five, back half is a 4. Overall, this album BANGS. First one on this list I know for sure I'll return to often.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

A lot of the albums on this list enjoy a lot of critical praise. This one deserves it.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

Is there a second hand smoke equivalent for cocaine?

evermore

Taylor Swift

2/5

I am happy for people who enjoy her stuff because there's so much of it. I've tried so many times but I think it's just not for me. Solid production and arrangements.

Vulnicura

Björk

3/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Knew I would enjoy this. Enjoyed even more than I expected.

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

3/5

This made me sad but I liked it.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

I believed the ham sandwich story until I Googled it while listening to this album. The album rips, by the way.

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

5/5

I'd love to hear what Frank would have to say about the state of the world in 2026. This is one of my favorites of his and his band during this era is unrivaled.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

More energetic than I was expecting. Solid.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

I don't know if there has ever been a human being better at writing hooks than Paul McCartney.

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

4/5

This album goes crazy at any line dancing bar in the country. Yoakam is a legend.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

3/5

I think I get it but maybe I don't.

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

2/5

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

3/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Yes lawd

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

4/5

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

3/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

5/5

One of my favorite albums of all time.

Green

R.E.M.

4/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

Easiest 5 on the list so far.

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

4/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

Ananda Shankar

2/5

I think I could have died just fine without hearing this.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

Mostly killer with very little filler. This rips.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

This is stunningly beautiful.

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

1/5

I'm all for fusion but maybe opera and southern rock aren't good candidates.

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

3/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

3/5

Kenya

Machito

5/5

This is fantastic and exactly the type of album I'd hope to discover here.

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

4/5

Liked this a lot more than expected.

Elvis Presley

3/5

Some wild production choices for an album this age.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

yeah this is fine.

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

2/5

Weird, man.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

2/5

Equal parts inoffensive and uninteresting.

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

2/5

These weird cover albums are a drag.

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

3/5

Fun but don't think I'll be back.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

There really isn't a bad song on this.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

I get it, but this album is undeniably good.

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

This is better than the murder one but I think I just don't like this vocal style. Never been a big National fan either. 2 for production but just not for me.