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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective	5	2.9	+2.1
Halcyon Digest Deerhunter	5	3.05	+1.95
Kimono My House Sparks	5	3.06	+1.94
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs Marty Robbins	5	3.33	+1.67
2112 Rush	5	3.37	+1.63
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	5	3.4	+1.6
James Brown Live At The Apollo James Brown	5	3.45	+1.55
All Directions The Temptations	5	3.45	+1.55
Blackstar David Bowie	5	3.48	+1.52
The Gershwin Songbook Ella Fitzgerald	5	3.52	+1.48

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Grievous Angel Gram Parsons	1	2.86	-1.86
Machine Head Deep Purple	2	3.58	-1.58
Document R.E.M.	2	3.55	-1.55
Dirty Sonic Youth	2	3.11	-1.11
Heartbreaker Ryan Adams	2	3.03	-1.03

5-Star Albums (14)

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Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem · 1 likes

3/5

Holy repetition, batman! I also didn't love the singer's voice personally.

Stankonia

OutKast · 1 likes

4/5

Plesantly surprised at just how much I like this album, given my general dislike for rap (just not my genre personally). I've been referencing "So Fresh, So Clean" for maybe my entire life without realizing that was the same guys who were apologizing to Ms. Jackson and also the guys on that very green set singing "Hey-Ya!"

1-Star Albums (1)

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Foo Fighters

4/5

4 stars bc Dave Grohl cheated on his wife. Otherwise I like the album, I think it'll continue to grow on me.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

I! LOVE! OASIS!

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Hit or miss for me.

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

Genuinely great, David Bowie is the master of taking you on a Journey. I don't think I'll add the songs individually to my rotation because they work so well together that I would need to judt listen to the album itself.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

5/5

I only wish I could see him perform live like this. Incredible.

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

5/5

🤠 I liked this album more than I thought I would! Life was Hard in the Wild Wild West

Dookie

Green Day

3/5

No such thing as a bad Green Day album, but I like other releases from them better.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

3/5

I like Radiohead but didn't love this album. First alnum on this list I didn't entirely like.

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

3/5

EXTREMELY hit or miss album for me. I don't enjoy the heavier, louder songs personally, but I did like about half this album.

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

3/5

meh

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

I think I like Neil Young music

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

3/5

meh

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

2/5

I'm not high enough for this.

All Directions

The Temptations

5/5

There's a reason we remember The Temptations!

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

3/5

I can recognize this album as a staple of the genre and an icon, and as a good album. It's just also not an album that's for me!

Kimono My House

Sparks

5/5

Honestly didn't think I would like this album so much, but it's a full banger.

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

Liked it more than I thought I would!

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

Holy repetition, batman! I also didn't love the singer's voice personally.

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

I like this album a LOT. Much better than "In Rainbows" imo

2112

Rush

5/5

I was intimidated by the idea of a 20 minute opener, but I really liked this album! The 20 minute opener didn't drag, and the album is a lot of fun.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

I like this album more than I thought I would, but I don't love the album.

Kala

M.I.A.

4/5

If you go into this album expecting it to sound like paper planes, you will either be surprised it doesn't sound like paper planes OR you will be disappointed. I, however, enjoy this album very much.

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

1/5

This is the kind of sound I personally do NOT enjoy in country albums, but reading the background was so interesting it makes me want to bump this album up to 2 stars. I won't, but it's crazy how that is.

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

B-52's

The B-52's

4/5

I'm doing the 16 dances to this album.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

3/5

Groovin' to this album.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

I was deeply surprised to find so many strong opinions in the reviews of this album. I can't believe so many people hate jazz. I don't, but I don't tend to have a bunch to say about jazz, but I did enjoy this album. It takes the listener on a journey in just 4 songs, which is more than a lot of modern abums can say they do. It's well performed and well recorded. If you really like jazz, this rocks. If you feel kind of middlingly about jazz, this is a very good jazz album. And if you already hate jazz, it's not going to change your mind probably.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

2/5

I liked a handful of the songs, but overall this album is not for me. I have some friends who would love this album though. I really don't like when the woman scream sings. She sounds awful. When she sings normally she sounds fine. Several 7 minute instrumental tracks make up the back half of the album and they wore on me SUPER fast.

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

2/5

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

2/5

I won't be listening to this album again. It is interesting, but I can see whyso many people hate it. You have to be VERY open minded for this album. I can't see a situation where I will happily put this album on for a casual listen, but if you're trying to see how far away from traditional music an album can get, this is it.

Document

R.E.M.

2/5

When people say they like 80's music, this is the kind of music I think of in my head.

Bert Jansch

3/5

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

I don't understand why they chose the live album over and of JLL's studio albums? I enjoyed it but I'm not a lover of live albums.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

She's just got that voice you wanna keep listening to, you know? My only critique is that the songs could be longer, because I want to keep living in her voice.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

It's ZZ Top.

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

3/5

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

I don't hate this album by any means, but I just didn't have any standout moments with this album.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

It's jazz!

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

3/5

I had heard of Leonard Cohen before, but I had never heard any of his music. According to the reviews of this album, this might not have been the best of his albums to start with. I don't hate it (there is a lot of jaw harp though), but I don't think I would put thia album into my rotation. I did like "Story of Isaac"; it always interests me to hear biblical stories from the other perspective.

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

2/5

I actually liked this album, which is a surprise for my taste, but- What was that? ... Ryan Adams is a terrible person? How so? ... Oh. Wow. Won't be listening to Ryan Adams again, but I have been trying to listen through every album on this list fully, so I did listen to it this once. Between this and Casanova by The Divine Comedy, I'm beginning to think the critcs making this list are openly misogynistic...

The Cars

3/5

Another album I don't hate but I don't love either.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

I don't know why the critics decided this behemoth of an album was The One for this list, and I can get why people wouldn't enjoy getting assigned a 3 hour long album. That being said, I loved it. Everysing is so romanticized sounding and Ella Fitzgerald is SUCH a phenomenal singer. No complaints from me!

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

5/5

So many reviews are so riled up over this album for no good reason. I really enjoyed this album! I didn't find this challenging (thanks Throbbing Gristle, nobody is more challenging than you), nor did I find it boring. I think some of you guys just like being angry.

Survivor

Destiny's Child

3/5

Sad to report that I find this album as middling as everyone else in the reviews seem to. The first three songs are the most well known songs for a reason; the next two songs wouldn't see the light of DAY today, and then the rest of the songs are just fine.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

5/5

SO GOOD. Sounds like summer and nostalgia. Immediately on my playlist, every song.

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

4/5

Despite my typical aversion to songs that feature screaming, I really like this album! This'll show my age, but I had never heard of Dinosaur Jr. before getting this album, so I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed the album. It's not my favorite album I've been assigned on this list, but it's certainly up there!

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

4/5

I enjoyed this! It's always nice to listen to other countries' cultural music.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

I feel like there are better Stevie Wonder albums.

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

I liked the overall sound, but I only added about half of the tracklist to my likes.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

What am I supposed to do, not enjoy THE Elton John? Of course this is a good album.

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

3/5

I find the second half of the album significantly better than the first, but I must admit: I'm not the biggest fan of Bob Dylan's singing voice. ESPECIALLY in the first half where that's pretty much the only thing going on. Hopefully you and I can meet again on better terms, Mr. Dylan. But I don't think this was a great pick for my first Bob Dylan album.

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

Obviously "Every Breath You Take" is iconic. I didn't hate listening to this album by any means and would be happy to listen to it if someone else put it on, but it didn't hit me as an iconic album I'll be coming back to personally.

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

3/5

It took me some time to adjust to the way the singer's voice sounds, but I like a handful of the songs.

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

I liked it to start with, just got a little bit tired of listening by the end but I enjoyed the album overall!

Machine Head

Deep Purple

2/5

I am decidedly not the audience for this album. Smoke on the water, though!

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Hozier adjacent, but mopier. Not a bad listen, but I either wasn't in the headspace for this or it's too mopey for me.

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

2/5

The makers of this list are trying to bore me to death. There's nothing of note here, and there are much better examples of indie music that don't require you to listen to 69 songs to finish the album. Some of the "songs" barely meet a minute long. Let's be so fr.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

I like this album more than the other nick cave album on the list! Even added a couple songs to my likes.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Very 60's music, I'm surprised this was considered an experimental album. The only songs I find all that experimental are "Sunday Morning", which sounds VERY contemporary, "Heroin" for it's dissonance at the end, "The Black Angel's Death Song", and "European Son". None of these are experimental by today's standards I think, but I could see it being experimental back in the 60's. I don't hate this album by any means, but I don't love it.

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

5/5

This is just an album that hits all the right noted for me. Nothing more to add to that.

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

3/5

Nothing too groundbreaking, but seeing these reviews... some of y'all need to loosen up. Sometimes music is fun.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

I think this is a fine album, but nothing stands out to me in particular. Maybe I'm not a blues person.

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

2/5

No, I'm okay.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

4/5

I was scared of Alice in Chains going into this album, but was surprised to find that I thought this album was pretty good. You learn something new every day!

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

4/5

I enjoyed this more than I would have thought. I'm finding that I REALLY like jazz and jazz-related music.

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

I get the sincere feeling that I haven't gotten to David Bowie's best work yet, but I do really like the last 3 songs on this album. I've yet to pull Ziggy Stardust, so hopefully that's soon!

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

5/5

What am I supposed to do, not enjoy Ray Charles?

Franz Ferdinand

5/5

I KNOW THIS ONE SONG!

The Joshua Tree

3/5

I think I'm not a big fan of the vocal performance on this album. I'm not sure what bothers me about it. It was fun to finally get to hear this album, though.

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

3/5

This is a very British pull, because I don't think this album made it big in America. I was very 50/50 on the songs, but I do like the overall sound. I'm going 3 for my rating, but a very high 3-- a 3.99, if you will.