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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Youth And Young Manhood Kings of Leon	5	3.1	+1.9
The Specials The Specials	5	3.29	+1.71
Music in Exile Songhoy Blues	5	3.33	+1.67
The Village Green Preservation Society The Kinks	5	3.4	+1.6
Marquee Moon Television	5	3.5	+1.5
Out Of The Blue Electric Light Orchestra	5	3.63	+1.37
Pink Moon Nick Drake	5	3.65	+1.35
21 Adele	5	3.7	+1.3
Pearl Janis Joplin	5	3.72	+1.28
Beyond Skin Nitin Sawhney	4	2.76	+1.24

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Genesis	1	3.07	-2.07
Music Has The Right To Children Boards of Canada	1	2.91	-1.91
E.V.O.L. Sonic Youth	1	2.89	-1.89
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret Soft Cell	1	2.87	-1.87
Nixon Lambchop	1	2.75	-1.75
Murmur R.E.M.	2	3.41	-1.41
Eliminator ZZ Top	2	3.37	-1.37
Ágætis Byrjun Sigur Rós	2	3.37	-1.37
The Man Machine Kraftwerk	2	3.31	-1.31
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Sinead O'Connor	2	3.26	-1.26

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Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause · 1 likes

1/5

Luckily I had to listen to this on YouTube so I got to hear some Liberty Mutual commercials in between this cacophony.

1-Star Albums (6)

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Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Starting with a banger. Just waiting until I can lock in those 5-stars.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

This album has a gravitational force. There is an Amy Winehouse shaped hole in the universe.

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

2/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Beautifully flowing and complete piece of art. This album motivates me to try to shed my Playlist Listening and go out of my way to listen to full albums.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

1/5

I hate this. It certainly isn't for me and I hope I never meet the person it is for. This challenged my commitment to the entire project.

World Clique

Deee-Lite

3/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

3/5

Viva Hate

Morrissey

4/5

Morrissey sure is the way he is but I still like listening to his songs despite it.

Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

The latter half of the album feels like a 25 minute outro. The first half is absolutely brilliant.

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

I initially thought this could work its way into my regular rotation for work music, but the second half of the record gets pretty hectic. I got something out of this album but I don't see myself listening to again anytime soon.

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

This used to be one of my favorite albums. It is now once again one of my favorite albums.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

I’ve always thought of ZZ Top as Diet AC/DC. They represent a type of rock that I just don’t get anything out of.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

5/5

A second pass through really solidified this for me. The guitar riffs alone made this standout in a big way. I absolutely loved this album.

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

1/5

Luckily I had to listen to this on YouTube so I got to hear some Liberty Mutual commercials in between this cacophony.

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

5/5

What an incredible album. It rips from start to finish. It's a shame that their corners got sanded down after this because the roughness of their sound is what really catapults this one into the stratosphere.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

Yep, that’s Bob Dylan alright. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Chelsea Girl

Nico

2/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

3/5

Killing Joke

3/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

2/5

Very dreamy. Too dreamy.

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

2/5

I didn’t hate this nearly as much as I thought I would. I actually really enjoyed a good portion of it, but there’s no chance I’ll ever voluntarily listen to this album in its entirety ever again because of the other portion.

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

5/5

I knew this album was good but damn. Easy 5 stars.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

3/5

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

4/5

I would have been so into this in the 90’s, had I known it existed. Weighty and unpolished, just how I like it. The weirdness really hits when she goes for it. Probably as close as an album could get to 5 stars for me before it gets the honor.

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

3/5

Love Van but I can't picture myself listening to this over his studio albums.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Dire Straits

3/5

I’m a fan of the Dire Straits but this album never really did anything for me. It’s pretty one-note.

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

1/5

2 very good songs and 16 miserable ones. This was a challenge.

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

1/5

This lasted forever and provided me with nothing.

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

2/5

This wasn't boring at least.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

Fun listen but not many standout tracks outside of the hits.

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

3/5

Signing Off

UB40

3/5

Unremarkable but not unenjoyable.

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

4/5

I really enjoyed this. He felt like a reined in Morrissey. Definitely left me wanting more.

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

3/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

No tracks really stood out but Amy Winehouse could sing me an eviction notice and I'd give it at least 3 stars.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Enters and exits with a bang, barely lets up in between. Call it a 4.5 rounded up. Only imaginable nitpick would be to exercise even a little brevity.

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

Despite this feeling very much like a diluted version of earlier Green Day, it is a rock solid album and an enjoyable listen.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

God damn

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

The Visitors

ABBA

4/5

Love ABBA. There are a lot of bops on this one but overall it might be hard to listen to cover-to-cover, so it comes a little short of five stars for me.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

2/5

Kept afloat by some good hooks but they’re so disconnected that I don’t give full marks even for that.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

The Specials

5/5

There are a few grating tracks but the hits are soooo good. On second listen, the filler was less filler-y and the highs were even higher. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

Call it 3.5 rounded up

Face to Face

The Kinks

4/5

The Kinks rule. It's like if the Beatles had some stink on 'em. If I heard this album in a vacuum it might get 5-stars but it's hard to put out of my head just how good their future work ends up being.

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

2/5

The enjoyable tracks become less enjoyable around the 5:30 mark. This unfortunately is also the case with the songs that start out unenjoyable.

Out of Step

Minor Threat

2/5

Melodies aren’t punk

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

Damn near perfect. Least annoying ten-plus minute song ever written.

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Adele

5/5

Easy 5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

2/5

Not always grating, which may be the best thing I can say about electronica.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

2/5

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

2/5

I had no idea how much Nick Cave had reined it in over the years...

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

2/5

Gris Gris

Dr. John

3/5

Nixon

Lambchop

1/5

What started as being largely inoffensive slowly made me irrationally aggravated. I probably disliked it more than it deserved but I was thrilled when it was over.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

5/5

This is the Kinks I know and love.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

So many hits. Might deserve a 5 but I’m feeling stingy.

Nevermind

Nirvana

4/5

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

1/5

I do not care for Sonic Youth. Please let this be the last of their albums on this list.

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

4/5

I liked the vibes and it felt like a journey. Giving it a 4 on merit because I was definitely impressed, but I don’t see myself feeling the motivation to revisit this.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Somehow I don’t think I’ve ever listened through this in its entirety. It is a collection of phenomenal songs that somehow ends up being much better than the sum of its remarkable parts. Wonderful album.