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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Group Sex Circle Jerks	5	2.75	+2.25
Pacific Ocean Blue Dennis Wilson	5	3.08	+1.92
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	3.31	+1.69
Juju Siouxsie And The Banshees	5	3.33	+1.67
If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Pogues	5	3.33	+1.67
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.34	+1.66
This Is Fats Domino Fats Domino	5	3.37	+1.63
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	5	3.39	+1.61
Ramones Ramones	5	3.57	+1.43
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen	5	3.63	+1.37

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Kid A Radiohead	2	3.71	-1.71
Sheer Heart Attack Queen	2	3.64	-1.64
Moon Safari Air	2	3.57	-1.57
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water Limp Bizkit	1	2.51	-1.51
Queen II Queen	2	3.49	-1.49
Third Soft Machine	1	2.44	-1.44
Metal Box Public Image Ltd.	1	2.42	-1.42
Amnesiac Radiohead	2	3.41	-1.41
Are You Experienced Jimi Hendrix	3	4.14	-1.14
Pyromania Def Leppard	2	3.13	-1.13

5-Star Albums (17)

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

Popular Reviews

Femi Kuti

Femi Kuti · 1 likes

3/5

Album is 27 minutes to long problems.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre · 1 likes

3/5

With a can full of gas and a hand full of matches.

New Wave

The Auteurs · 1 likes

3/5

A rickity bridge between alt, and indie.

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds · 1 likes

3/5

Innovative, groundbreaking, aged as elegantly as roadkill.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan · 1 likes

4/5

Ruckus, brought.

1-Star Albums (3)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

All Ratings

The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

At least it's not "Piano Man."

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

62 year old 'Boy Band' time capsule.

...And Justice For All

Metallica

3/5

Black Album, without the hits.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

2/5

EDM took a bunch of quaaludes.

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Thus, 1,000 musical cliches were born.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Appropriately Christmas-y, on Christmas.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

4/5

On every antique store playlist.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

A (very) short trailer for Wheels of Fire.

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

5/5

Looks like Kenny Rogers, sings like Randy Newman, all Dennis Wilson.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

2/5

Barely survivable, just like the albums namesake condition.

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

2/5

I'm sorry.

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

How much of a tarrif should be applied to this record?

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

5/5

The Big Bang.

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

A sound reminiscent of a Monty Python, or Mr Show, episode.

The Man Who

Travis

3/5

A Radiohead placebo, masked by Matchbox 20, pop styling.

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

2/5

I heard a toddler cover this record, track for track, on a Fisher Price toy piano, with his feet.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Maximum soul, minimum funk.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

2nd verse, same as the 1st.

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

5/5

Good.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

2/5

In the bin at a garage sale.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

Perfection.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

-1 for The Girl Is Mine

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

Never knew it, never heard it, now I have. Excellence.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

4/5

Well crafted.

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

4/5

Didn't enjoy it, Didn't understand it, appreciated it.

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

3/5

Sonically similar to a mid table, nil-nil, premier league, draw.

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

Innovative, groundbreaking, aged as elegantly as roadkill.

Ramones

5/5

Gabba Gabba Great.

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

Perpetually timely.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

Old timey ice cream shoppe music.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Making Rock "and" Roll, cool again.

Pyromania

Def Leppard

2/5

Metal and Pop, can, and do, mix. Neither of these things happened here.

evermore

Taylor Swift

3/5

Taylor's Covid era.

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

3/5

Reminds me, of, "Aloft", if their lobby music was inspired by "Goldeneye" on N64.

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

David Bowie

5/5

Thank you Mam.

Liquid Swords

GZA

4/5

This album got nuthin' to fuck with.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

PBS rock.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Probably the best album Led Zeppelin could say they are associated with.

New Wave

The Auteurs

3/5

A rickity bridge between alt, and indie.

Moon Safari

Air

2/5

Sanitized of all soul or emotion.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Very good.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

3/5

If The Moody Blues hadn't made music like this first, then sure, "Invented."

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

God damned hippies.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

4/5

It works.

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

Welcome to the party Indie Rock.

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

1/5

Post-punk does not suffer without this album in its lineage. Challenging, it is not. Obtuse, it is.

Third

Soft Machine

1/5

Malort is also complex and challenging. That doesn't mean it's tasty.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

Funkadelic, the perfect, bad day medicine.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Ruckus, brought.

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

I love accurate album titles.

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Damn it. More Bowie. Damn it. Still great.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

For The Smiths, it's flat and short.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

A lot to unpack here, and I dont like moving.

Femi Kuti

3/5

Album is 27 minutes to long problems.

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

I had successfully avoided this album for 26 years. This stupid ap ruined that streak.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

With a can full of gas and a hand full of matches.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Gonna need something to cheer me up after this one.

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

4/5

This machine tickles fascists.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Pick whichever album cover you want, this record is still too long.

One World

John Martyn

3/5

Ha. Big Muff.

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

2/5

All this album is missing is a cover of "The Nightman Cometh."

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

5/5

Everything hits, except the cover art. Just sit back, and enjoy.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Poor Otis, dead and gone. Let me hear you sing his song. Pretty little girl with a red dress on, poor Otis, dead and gone.

Bummed

Happy Mondays

3/5

"E" has been around this long? Huh?

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

4/5

I asked Joyce and Vickie, he definitely took the mickey.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

Trent was well on his way to doing soundtracks for Disney movies.

Talvin Singh

3/5

Shorter, and less spoken word, and this could be a great record.

Fever Ray

2/5

That's boring. You're boring. Quit boring everyone.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off? David Byrne

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Feed your head.

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

4/5

I can taste the Cracker Barrel now, and it tastes SO good.

Aja

Steely Dan

4/5

Looking for donations from viewers, like you.

The Joshua Tree

5/5

Both reviled, and adored. I understand both camps, but associate with only one camp.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

4/5

The album Queen wishes it could have made.

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

2/5

Sounds like the mall.

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

3/5

Sonically similar to taking your car for an oil change, but the technician is a circus clown.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

5/5

Smile Shane!

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Do I have permission to kick it?

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

3/5

Tears For Fears, if purchased at 5 Bellow.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

The start of the Seattle sound.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

3/5

Whole Foods soundtrack.

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

3/5

The boy that you loved is the man that you fear. Nice prediction Brian.

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

3/5

Jazz Hands!!!

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

I can absolutely see what pissed off sooooo many people about this album. 🙄

Lost Souls

Doves

3/5

I waited through 59 minutes for that?

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

A nice, curious, surprise.

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Almost ska.

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

Cheese Boyga!!!

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

3/5

Straight from the speakers in a grocery store, in an affluent neighborhood, that sells expensive whiskies, and craft syrup, honey, and candles.

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

2/5

The problem may have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on stage, that was in danger, of being crushed, by a dwarf.

Queen II

Queen

2/5

About as heavy as Paganini.

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

2/5

As a listener, the only challenge, I feel, this recording delivered, was in hearing all 44 minutes of it. This made my tummy hurt.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

5/5

5 stars, because, yes.

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

Identifying as a 'Middle Aged White Man,' I am required to enjoy this album.

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

3/5

Doo! I can't read that book! Its got them big gal dern awful words in it! Luggit that word there, it gotta be a foot long!

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Almost impossible to strip away the myth, and legend, surrounding this album. Doesn't matter anyways.

Different Class

Pulp

3/5

If you don't like Blur, or Oasis, then maybe this is the Brit Pop for you?

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

PJ Harvey is in the dictionary as "Criminally Underrated."

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

3/5

The Svenghoulie of music.

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

3/5

No Derek. No Domino's. Not for me.

Kid A

Radiohead

2/5

There were Muppets that only said, "Yip yip yip uh huh uh huh." This is their favorite album.

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

4/5

Named "The Black Crows", only because, "Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers", was taken.

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

Better back end.