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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Kollaps Einstürzende Neubauten	4	1.92	+2.08
Maxinquaye Tricky	5	3.04	+1.96
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.34	+1.66
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears The Mamas & The Papas	5	3.43	+1.57
Head Hunters Herbie Hancock	5	3.54	+1.46
Live At The Witch Trials The Fall	4	2.64	+1.36
Abraxas Santana	5	3.72	+1.28
Music Has The Right To Children Boards of Canada	4	2.91	+1.09
Pet Sounds The Beach Boys	5	3.93	+1.07
Exodus Bob Marley & The Wailers	5	3.94	+1.06

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Reggatta De Blanc The Police	1	3.44	-2.44
Get Behind Me Satan The White Stripes	1	3.39	-2.39
Destroyer KISS	1	2.85	-1.85
(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) Lynyrd Skynyrd	2	3.74	-1.74
Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen	2	3.69	-1.69
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen	2	3.63	-1.63
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	2	3.59	-1.59
Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.	2	3.51	-1.51
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Ray Charles	2	3.49	-1.49
Parachutes Coldplay	2	3.46	-1.46

5-Star Albums (9)

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The Healer

John Lee Hooker · 2 likes

3/5

Why this one? This is not really a John Lee Hooker record. It's a bunch of other stars playing a collab. Sure, it charted. I'm very glad he got commercial success with it. That shouldn't be why this was chosen over his previous 40+ years of output. Pick any of his records from the 1960s.

Young Americans

David Bowie · 1 likes

4/5

Great musicianship, groove, and vibe. Funky musicians make funky music. Each song is unique but the record is still cohesive.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes · 1 likes

1/5

As much as I tried, I could not find one song I want to hear again.

4-Star Albums (17)

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

1-Star Albums (3)

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The Joshua Tree

3/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

It's ...a pop Christmas album.

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Great musicianship, groove, and vibe. Funky musicians make funky music. Each song is unique but the record is still cohesive.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

I have always loved Thin Lizzy dueling guitar solos, and this record doesn't disappoint in that respect. 🎸🎸 The guitar jams get 10/10. This band was at its best when Brian Robertson was in it. Thin Lizzy is rad. Live recordings, however, are not always rad. Drums sound thin and far away on many tracks. The drum solo on Sha-La-La sounds like he is inside a tube. Phil's mic on Are You Ready sounds like garbage. And the overall recording quality varies from track to track. I'm not sure anyone enjoys listening to crowds that are not clapping in time. The dubbed-in crowd cheers are unnecessarily loud.

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

I'll take a little Motown any day. Is Puzzle People on this list? I like that one more than this one.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

1/5

As much as I tried, I could not find one song I want to hear again.

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

4/5

This thing is brilliant. Orange!

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

Why is this here? There are already four other The Who records on this list ...

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

There is so much joy emanating from this record.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

3/5

John McLaughlin is an otherworldly guitar player (someone neglected to include Mahavishnu Orchestra on this list...). Bass clarinet is a super cool choice for the ensemble. This is a weird, experimental trance fusion jam session.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

11 minute I Heard It Through The Grapevine jam 🔥

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

He danced himself out the womb, ya hear?

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Cover Me has some nice blues guitar. Other than that there's not much here that's for me.

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

4/5

This is an avante garde industrial art installation. Interesting textures, harsh sounds, hypnotic thuds, bare vocals, unsettling vibes. I hear the foundations of so much industrial music in this noise. Pretty neat.

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

2/5

I never much liked Karma Chameleon. Still don't. But there are a couple good songs on this record. Not really a fan of ballads either. Shout out to Helen Terry on vocals.

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

5/5

Hell yeah.

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

1/5

🎶 Bring on something else, I couldn't stand another hour of Sting's voice 🎶

Ananda Shankar

2/5

60s, with some added 60s and then a sprinkle of 60s on top.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

2/5

Not everything on here has aged well. It is quite the time capsule. Express Yourself is still 🔥 tho

Maxinquaye

Tricky

5/5

Martina ❤️ Alison Goldfrapp ❤️ Tricky ❤️ Trip hop ❤️

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

2/5

Marching bands would have fun with many of these tracks. Not totally sure why an album of covers on bongo would be on this list, beyond the Apache breakbeat. But here it is.

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

4/5

This is pretty great

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

This record makes me want to do zoomies around the house.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

2/5

Meh

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

3/5

Good shit.

Parachutes

Coldplay

2/5

I listened to this when it first came out, but not much since then. Listening to it now, I expected to have more nostalgia than I did. Instead I was just bored. I think their other early record is better than this one.

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

Quiet Life

Japan

3/5

Never heard anything from this band before. Sounds like Duran Duran. It's alright. Fretless is always nice. Alien is the track I like best, bass and drum parts in particular.

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

I love this album so very much

C'est Chic

CHIC

4/5

Tony Thompson 😎 Bernard Edwards 😎 This group was a friggin supergroup of musicians. Also, the production on this album is top drawer, as is everything Nile Rodgers touches. The people in this group were far, far more influential, across multiple genres, than maybe some people realize.

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

2/5

I mean, it's a well-crafted pop record, executed by talented people. There is a lot more creativity here than in most of the chart-topping pop out there right now. With that being said, this is not really my jam.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

Step right up.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

Like a warm embrace

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Moog bass is friggin rad

Kala

M.I.A.

3/5

Destroyer

KISS

1/5

I did not need to listen to this before I die.

Parklife

Blur

3/5

This record is kind of all over the place. There is a lot of interesting instrumentation in here, but I didn't always dig what they did with it. Girls & Boys and London Loves are the songs I like best.

The Visitors

ABBA

3/5

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

3/5

I had never heard of this band. Now I have. The Funny Bird is my pick from this album

Rubber Soul

Beatles

3/5

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

3/5

Dub-y and chill. Such an early 90s feel. Carnt Sleep, Girl VII, Spring are the songs I like best.

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

This band is off the charts excellent. Groove 🔥 Harmony 🔥 Pocket 🔥 Arrangement 🔥

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Let's try and unsee this album cover Of all the britpop this list has force fed me of late, this one I think I prefer best. Sofa (Of My Lethargy) is my pick from this one. I hear Beatles and Traffic influences in it.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

2/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

3/5

I definitely think these guys listened to Bob Mould. I mean, this is a very good record, in spite of the cover. But I think I would have liked it more 25 years ago. This list has given me a whole bunch of fuzzy 90s britpop and alt rock all grouped together, and I am realizing that a lot of it just doesn't do much for me right now.

California

American Music Club

2/5

At different moments this reminded me of Bruce Springsteen, Gin Blossoms, and Counting Crows. Ugh. I mean, this sounds like a random band you might find at an open mic night in a medium-sized town in California. I didn't know that was the criteria for this list.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

This is many things.

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

2/5

More fuzzed 90s UK indie. 7 of the last 10 albums fed to me in this list have been fuzzed 90s indie. I'm ready for something else, if the random album generator is listening.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

2/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

I ❤️ Stax Records

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Reign In Blood

Slayer

4/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

2/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

The piano steals the show on this one

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

4/5

I love the way the drums sound, and the bass is hypnotic goodness

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

2/5

This band has always sounded excessively dramatic to me.

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

Willie Colón died today. I'm going to interpret this selection as a purposeful tribute, not a coincidence.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

I'm not sure I've ever listened to Nick Cave before. I didn't mind it, but I'm not sure I'd seek out other records. There She Goes My Beautiful World is a 🔥song tho. I also liked O Children

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Classic. Penalty point deduction for reviving Aerosmith's career.

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

2/5

Not my favorite tenor sound...and oh my that spittle buzz. That's very distracting. Not what I expected when clicking on a jazz record from 1986. Sounds more 1950s, in both vibe and recording quality. I've been obsessed of late with Paquito D'Rivera Live at Keystone Korner (1982). This is not that. I really can't get past the sustained, spittle-infused notes.

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

2/5

Didn't hate it, but also definitely didn't like it

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

The Chain is a 5. Rest of album is 3 for me.

Abraxas

Santana

5/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

2/5

I fully understand why this album is on this list, and how important it was. I also don't want to listen to it again.

Van Halen

4/5

David Lee Roth is a weird alien, but this album is very good. EVH is EVH. Also, I feel like DLR is channeling Burton Cummings a bit in Little Dreamer. I want to give a point deduction for spawning a decade of bullshit hair metal, but I won't.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

3/5

His voice is easy on the ears

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

3/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Low

David Bowie

3/5

Side 2 was really cool At various points on the album I was reminded of Roxy Music, Iggy Pop, Kraftwerk, Dead Can Dance, and XTC.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

5/5

I have always loved The Mamas and the Papas. Mama Cass can sing me anything she wants. Oddly enough, my two favorite M&P songs are not on this album. Wtf is with The Mama's and the Papa's tho. Good god. I can barely bring myself to type it.

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. -Wilfred Owen

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

3/5

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

3/5

Now, this album has 13 songs. Spotify states 13 songs. But only 9 appear. I did find the DK cover on another EP (which was awesome btw). I liked this album. Definite Gil Scott-Heron vibes. This is from 1992. Is the message relevant today? Very much so.