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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Remedy Basement Jaxx	5	2.68	+2.32
90 808 State	5	2.7	+2.3
Toys In The Attic Aerosmith	5	3.26	+1.74
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	5	3.28	+1.72
British Steel Judas Priest	5	3.29	+1.71
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	5	3.36	+1.64
The Village Green Preservation Society The Kinks	5	3.4	+1.6
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	5	3.44	+1.56
James Brown Live At The Apollo James Brown	5	3.45	+1.55
Moon Safari Air	5	3.57	+1.43

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Arrival ABBA	1	3.51	-2.51
Hot Buttered Soul Isaac Hayes	1	3.43	-2.43
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	1	3.4	-2.4
Either Or Elliott Smith	1	3.39	-2.39
Sister Sonic Youth	1	3.02	-2.02
Getz/Gilberto Stan Getz	2	3.65	-1.65
Highway to Hell AC/DC	2	3.65	-1.65
Exile On Main Street The Rolling Stones	2	3.6	-1.6
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea PJ Harvey	2	3.38	-1.38
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	2	3.32	-1.32

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Highway to Hell

AC/DC · 1 likes

2/5

Yes we can all play these 3 power chords.

1-Star Albums (5)

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Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

I really enjoyed listening to the 2013 remaster with lossless audio. Definitely a better experience than the radio version. It's a solid album, and I understand why it's here. Gets a little lyrically repetitive but I feel like that's a reggae thing?

Fleet Foxes

5/5

Quiet horses is clearly very repetitive lyrically, but with all the vocalizing and different pronunciations, and styles to the same words gives a variation you wouldn't ever expect from reading the lyrics. The fact this is a number one charting right out the gate is impressive. Love the minimalist percussion and simple yet full music that results. Blue ridge mountains is probably my favorite track. It transports me back to the lonely little campground in Tennesse.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Rambling and sloppy doesn't do it justice. Parts of this were hard to listen to. I understand why this is here and it's impact on music. I like some of their hits but nothing on this album makes me want to party or dance. Seems like the schlitz of rock n roll. Like I didn't drink schlitz riding around in a pickup truck, but I'm sure my dad did and I'd bet this album was in the tape deck.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

There's several tracks on here that I love, but I much prefer other versions of than this album. The quality is muddy and buzzy and it's not as fun as it used to be.

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

The last two albums being Jimi Hendrix proceeded by the rolling stones, really puts this album in perfect lighting. It's like starting a gnarly greyed rock rolling at the top of a hill and finding a perfectly polished gemstone at the bottom. Taking a new music genre and polishing it to perfection is what the eagles did with their run, and it all lead up to Hotel California. I can hear my dad drumming along on the steering wheel and softly singing when this album cuts on. They put in the work to get here and earned the accolades. Classic rock at its absolute best.

Chelsea Girl

Nico

4/5

This is a great little folk rock album out of the 60s that could've just as easily nestled right into the folk revival of the 2010s. Something about her German accent really makes my ears happy. Steeped in the cultural zitgiest of the 60s, this is a keeper for sure.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

5/5

No notes. Live recording at its perfection. Transports me to a time and place I've never been. Amazing.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

5/5

I'm contractually obligated to give this album 5 stars. 2 years after this album, and one year after stonewall they drop a trans anthem. The big sky is amazing. Much more tight and less buzzy than other rock albums of the time, all while maintaining a rambling and psychedelic vibe. Totally radical dude.

Mask

Bauhaus

4/5

I don't know how... But I'm certain my dad shagged to this album, that weirdo. This is great and fun and so 80s. Hollow hills is exceptionally 90s for 1980. Could've been a cover on nevermind, as is, and would fit right in.

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

2/5

I'm not a big fan of jazz I guess. I felt bored.

British Steel

Judas Priest

5/5

*prostrating* All hail the Metal God First of the Leather Daddies!

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

1/5

4 songs an album does not make

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

2/5

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

5/5

Low rise ultra baggy jeans? ✅ thong? ✅ crop top? ✅ *Shakes ass aggressively*

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

5/5

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

This is not what I expected, but in such a wonderful way. I've never resonated more than with these lyrics "I'm lost in the super market, I can no longer shop happily, I was promised personality.

So Much For The City

The Thrills

3/5

It's mostly alright

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Leonard Cohen composes his own funeral album. Not for me, but it's beautiful.

Blue

Joni Mitchell

3/5

This is what I'm here for. How'd I miss this? That being said, Canada and California being better than Spain in summer has got to be a hot take even in 1971

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

5/5

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

2/5

They really let any white dude with LSD and an iota of talent into the studio in the 60s.

Sister

Sonic Youth

1/5

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

3/5

That was interesting. I liked some of the tracks, didn't hate it.

Arrival

ABBA

1/5

If you remaster an album 5 times maybe it was just bad? Let's not kiss the teacher. Dancing queen and Fernando are the only stand outs for me. I think that more has to do with forced familiarity from 90s and 2000s radio. I could do without this and not be missing anything. It doesnt get me on my feet, I'm not feeling anything, mostly borring pop done well.

Moon Safari

Air

5/5

I started listening to electronic music in 2010 and they were right that it peaked in the 90s. I was wrong.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

Solid album from a great band. Really shocked I had never heard student demonstration time.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

I like Clapton and Layla. The lyrics/singing on this album don't do it for me. The guitar is great.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

1/5

I'm not listening to nazi music. I'm shocked this is even on the list.

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

3/5

It was just alright for me. I've heard they're better in concert.

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

3/5

This is pretty dang great for a posthumous album.

808 State

5/5

The Band

3/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

5/5

Classic

Cut

The Slits

2/5

I really want to like this but I just don't.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

5/5

If you haven't seen 28 years later: bone temple, and you are a metal head. You need to drop what you're doing and go see it right now. The scene with the number of the beast track is amazing. I love this band. I saw them live in 2025 and they still rock so fucking hard.

Dry

PJ Harvey

4/5

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

3/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

1/5

I don't know what this dude is moaning about and I honestly don't care. Boring. Why are we whisper singing? I hate this.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

2/5

Blood, Sweat & Tears

4/5

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

3/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

5/5

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

3/5

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Repeater

Fugazi

2/5

Where is the line between punk and metal played poorly?

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

2/5

Yes we can all play these 3 power chords.

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

2/5

Yes we can all play these 3 power chords.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

4/5

Surprisingly amazing. Pushes all my country buttons. Let's hop in the pickup, down a bud light or 20 and shine some whitetail.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

I want to love this but the singer is letting me down.

Headquarters

The Monkees

2/5

I really thought zilch was like a sketch from bobs burgers and thought my phone was broken. This isn't bad, but crazy that it's their only album they wrote and performed on. Like all the other albums are written by someone else and performed by session musicians. I think maybe they're a big influence for t Swift.