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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Kollaps Einstürzende Neubauten	4	1.91	+2.09
Maxinquaye Tricky	5	3.04	+1.96
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.34	+1.66
Head Hunters Herbie Hancock	5	3.54	+1.46
Live At The Witch Trials The Fall	4	2.64	+1.36
Music Has The Right To Children Boards of Canada	4	2.91	+1.09
Exodus Bob Marley & The Wailers	5	3.94	+1.06
Reign In Blood Slayer	4	2.96	+1.04

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	2.86	-1.86
(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) Lynyrd Skynyrd	2	3.74	-1.74
Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen	2	3.7	-1.7
Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.	2	3.51	-1.51
Parachutes Coldplay	2	3.46	-1.46
Live At Leeds The Who	2	3.32	-1.32
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	2	3.31	-1.31
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	2	3.3	-1.3

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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.

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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