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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Street Life The Crusaders	5	3.09	+1.91
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	5	3.34	+1.66
My Aim Is True Elvis Costello	5	3.35	+1.65
Opus Dei Laibach	4	2.39	+1.61
Maverick A Strike Finley Quaye	4	2.74	+1.26
Stripped Christina Aguilera	4	2.87	+1.13

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Histoire De Melody Nelson Serge Gainsbourg	1	2.73	-1.73
The United States Of America The United States Of America	1	2.61	-1.61
Queen II Queen	2	3.49	-1.49
Stand! Sly & The Family Stone	2	3.43	-1.43
Music in Exile Songhoy Blues	2	3.33	-1.33
Bitches Brew Miles Davis	2	3.3	-1.3
Let It Be The Replacements	2	3.25	-1.25
Loveless My Bloody Valentine	2	3.18	-1.18
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Pink Floyd	2	3.11	-1.11
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin	3	4.09	-1.09

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Run-D.M.C.

Run-D.M.C. · 1 likes

4/5

Better than expected.

Peter Gabriel · 1 likes

4/5

It’s cheating for one album to have Sledgehammer, Big Time, and In Your Eyes.

4-Star Albums (24)

1-Star Albums (2)

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Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

The rare perfect album. No notes.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

I can see why it’s good. But it just isn’t my jam.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Very good, a bit long.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

2/5

Too long and cacophonous.

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

Very good and better than expected.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

Better than I remembered.

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

4/5

Surprisingly good.

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

2/5

Noodley and forgettable.

Whatever

Aimee Mann

2/5

Good but nothing really memorable for me.

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

The United States Of America

1/5

Meandering and boring.

Opus Dei

Laibach

4/5

Weird yet engaging and good. I can see how this has influenced Rammstein.

Purple Rain

Prince

3/5

Good but I mostly just like the singles.

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

4/5

Solid all the way through.

Risque

CHIC

3/5

🕺🪩💃🏻

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

I can see this influencing Tom Waits.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Really good. Lots of great songs.

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

This website sure loves noodley records.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Not as good as Folsom Prison.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

2/5

Good, but not my thing.

Let It Be

The Replacements

2/5

Middling to ok.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

2/5

Ok, but nothing that grabs me.

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

4/5

Started out meh, but got stronger throughout and ended up being very good.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Really excellent throughout.

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

3/5

Good but nothing memorable.

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Better than expected.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Really good. EJ put out a solid album here.

Street Life

The Crusaders

5/5

Weather channel? Elevator? On hold? I don’t care. This whole album is tight.

Berlin

Lou Reed

3/5

Good, but I don't anticipate revisiting this.

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

3/5

Nice cozy vibes.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

I like the soulful songs more than the big band songs.

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

2/5

Meh. Just not really into it.

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

3/5

Good 90s Brit pop.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

3/5

Starts strong but overstays its welcome.

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

4/5

Better than I expected.

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

3/5

Pretty good. I prefer when the psychedelic albums have melodies and lyrics rather than endless noodling.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Better than I remembered.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Good, but little too dreamy and ethereal for my tastes.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

5/5

I’ve loved this album for years.

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

Very good. Too bad Eric Clapton is a kooky anti-vaxxer.

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Good but forgettable.

Queen II

Queen

2/5

Disappointed in this one.

The Band

4/5

Quite good. Really enjoyed this one.

Hysteria

Def Leppard

4/5

Vocals as layered as the most feathered hair of the 80s.

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

Hauntingly good.

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

4/5

Who would win in a fight, Lemmy or God? Trick question! Lemmy is God.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

Today I learned Cat Steven’s did not sing Cats in the Cradle.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

Loved the blues rock sound. Wished for more punk.

Le Tigre

4/5

I worship at the altar of Kathleen Hanna.

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

Good but didn’t resonate with me.

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

4/5

The non-singles were better than I was anticipating.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

So good. Some of my favorite Bowie songs here.

Dust

Screaming Trees

3/5

Enjoyable but not much that sticks with me.

Peter Gabriel

4/5

It’s cheating for one album to have Sledgehammer, Big Time, and In Your Eyes.

1999

Prince

3/5

Starts strong and fades into meh.

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Good but nothing that sticks with me.

#1 Record

Big Star

3/5

It felt a little too generic for my tastes.

Headquarters

The Monkees

3/5

Fun and enjoyable, but not my jam. I can tell they tried hard to get away from their early image.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Few albums are pure art. This is one of them. The transition between Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and With a Little Help From My Friends gives me chills every time.

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

1/5

Art does not exist in a vacuum. I don’t think you can objectively evaluate the music without considering the story it tells. And the story here is reprehensible. This album tells the story of a middle aged man raping a child. It’s a stain on this site to include it.

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

3/5

Good but forgettable.

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

Good except that one weird Mother song.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

5/5

Makes me nostalgic for the late 90s and early 00s when big beat was huge.