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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Yank Crime Drive Like Jehu	5	2.72	+2.28
Machine Gun Etiquette The Damned	5	3.16	+1.84
Virgin Suicides Air	5	3.23	+1.77
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar	5	3.64	+1.36
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins	5	3.68	+1.32
The White Room The KLF	4	2.78	+1.22
Tapestry Carole King	5	3.91	+1.09
Ten Pearl Jam	5	3.91	+1.09
Foxbase Alpha Saint Etienne	4	2.95	+1.05

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
McCartney Paul McCartney	1	3.25	-2.25
Permission to Land The Darkness	1	3.14	-2.14
The Score Fugees	2	3.69	-1.69
The Atomic Mr Basie Count Basie & His Orchestra	2	3.5	-1.5
Synchronicity The Police	2	3.41	-1.41
Horses Patti Smith	2	3.31	-1.31
Hysteria Def Leppard	2	3.21	-1.21
Trans Europe Express Kraftwerk	2	3.16	-1.16
Exit Planet Dust The Chemical Brothers	2	3.16	-1.16

5-Star Albums (7)

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OK Computer

Radiohead · 1 likes

4/5

Ok Computer is…okay. Like yes it’s good, but that’s it. Don’t worry some pretentious prick with daddy issues will argue with me about this until he’s red in the face. And watch him combust when I tell him that this or Kid A isn’t Radiohead’s best album… Album is good and thoughtfully put together but people really act like there aren’t a million albums on the subject of technology’s impact, and others do it better (The Pleasure Principle). Radiohead’s OK Computer is for men who take SSRIs yet think they are better than everyone else, and think women’s opinions suck (but don’t worry he will call himself a feminist). <3 P.s. the bends is better

1-Star Albums (2)

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Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Okay, it was good few hits. But didn’t feel like I uncovered something I was missing.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Great blues — guitar riffs really good.

Boston

4/5

A surprise on how cohesive this album was.

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

Perfect album for a rainy day

Horses

Patti Smith

2/5

Okay!

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

Solid album! Nothing stuck out to me and grabbed my attention. But good album front to back, would be great as a record for the background.

Synchronicity

The Police

2/5

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

2/5

Not what I anticipated at all. A good listen, but not a ton of diversity in the songs making it feel less cohesive and more stale. The touches of inspiration were really good.

Highly Evolved

The Vines

4/5

Great find, so surprised that I hadn’t heard this before. Great album. Sounds like the Strokes

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Each song a surprise. David Bowie cementing his legacy. Now I see. Near perfect album.

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

2/5

Would be good if I were on ecstasy in a German club!

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

3/5

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Solid

The White Room

The KLF

4/5

An unexpected joy. Not what I would normally gravitate towards and not sure how/when I would listen to it again, but I am glad to have done so.

Virgin Suicides

Air

5/5

Perfect album for me. A few stand out songs, cohesive, with enough diversity to keep you interested.

Hysteria

Def Leppard

2/5

Not as good as the other one. But hard to say, I think this is an album depending on its environment; I think listening on a Walkman in the 80s in the Summer time would change my opinion.

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

4/5

This album is the reason I got into this project in the first place. Finding pieces that are exciting and change your perspective of music and taste of music. Such a strong and revolutionary album. I’m appalled that I waited until I was 25 to hear this. This was amazing a very STRONG 4 — 4.5 for me. The back end is where I think it lost some points but hard to tell because the top half is that strong.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

Good album, would be great to own — I’m not sure what context I’d play it in though. It was a great front to back listen but nothing stood out

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

3/5

Pretty good, found a few songs that I liked.

McCartney

Paul McCartney

1/5

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

Solid album, happy to have seen the cure in here. I don’t think this is their best album! But a good listen through and I should purchase the record!

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Neu!

3/5

May need to listen again.

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

2/5

Someone’s baby daddy loves this album, and I feel sorry for her.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

3/5

A very strong three! A great record to have in the arsenal. The singles definitely out shadow the rest of the album.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Solid album, the singles are standouts. I think it’s more cohesive than I thought it would be, but a little one note. Religious themes more prevalent than I initially remembered.

1989

Taylor Swift

3/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

fell off at the end, overall a good album with some good deepcuts

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

This album is near perfect and should get more recognition and praise. Has great singles, yet cohesive without being boring and one noted. Album is consistently good and keeps you guessing and moving. This is on a must own list for me.

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

2/5

Jazz that’s palatable to white people in the 50s.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Solid, yet unremarkable to me. Solid one to own, but a little one noted for me.

Permission to Land

The Darkness

1/5

The vocals were so damn bad on this I struggled to listen to it, this is coming from a person who historically loves bad vocalists. The music was fine but seriously how is this fucking album on here, 1001 best albums to kick puppies?

Ramones

4/5

Great album, cohesive with great singles and good to listen to front to back!

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

2/5

Mid — did get better at the end

Tago Mago

Can

3/5

3 because it had a strong start…but this is literally MK Ultra Core.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Slacked at the end. But overall good album, you could tell Flea had a blast with this album!

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Album of agony and despair

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

3/5

Non offensive listening!

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

3/5

Somehow overrated and underrated at the same time.

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

Breaking up with your boyfriend in a Lowe’s parking lot core.

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

5/5

Great album! The only thing I disliked about the album is that they are British. Drummer is too good to be British…ugh!!

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Flava Flav try not to say “flava”, “flavor” or “flav” challenge: level—impossible Political, funky, high tempo, creative genius!

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

3/5

Kind of music Wendy puts on in the car and you never hear again.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

The foreplay of jazz. Extra star just for the name.

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

5/5

A post-hardcore artifact that should be revered as one of the best emo albums of all time. The top is adrenaline spiking motion, then dives into a mellowed rhythm. This is the kind of cool Brits wish they were.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

Damp and moody, what I imagine living on the Pacific Northwest does to you. This album deeply suits the depressed, nihilistic, tearful guy who makes his personality drinking PBR and that’s okay . You’ll get her back one day (you definitely won’t) <3 RIP ES

Trio

Dolly Parton

4/5

Trio more like Quadruple

Chris

Christine and the Queens

2/5

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

2/5

This guy was so good in Law & Order SVU!!

good kid, m.A.A.d city