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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Junkyard The Birthday Party	5	2.16	+2.84
Wonderful Rainbow Lightning Bolt	5	2.29	+2.71
Idlewild Everything But The Girl	5	2.58	+2.42
Tragic Songs of Life The Louvin Brothers	5	2.58	+2.42
Vulnicura Björk	5	2.79	+2.21
Damaged Black Flag	5	2.86	+2.14
Vauxhall And I Morrissey	5	2.96	+2.04
Viva Hate Morrissey	5	2.96	+2.04
Rhythm Nation 1814 Janet Jackson	5	3	+2
S.F. Sorrow The Pretty Things	5	3.01	+1.99

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Only By The Night Kings of Leon	2	3.23	-1.23
american dream LCD Soundsystem	2	3.17	-1.17

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Rolling Stones	3	4.67
Morrissey	2	5
Iron Maiden	2	5

5-Star Albums (41)

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Junkyard

The Birthday Party · 1 likes

5/5

[sitting straight up like Neo in The Matrix] I get Nick Cave

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Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

5/5

When I was in middle school my mom's boyfriend asked me to download this for him on Kazaa but I don't remember ever doing it. 100s of tiny sins such as these litter my life, although that guy was evil.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

uh, holy shit

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

I think it's just that "rock n roll piano" is not my thing I could see myself giving this the full 5 with more context or history under my belt, but in this moment and with the sole rubric being "how much I enjoyed listening to it," it's a 4

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

5/5

certainly not a dance record, and a lot of the beats are pretty straightforward, but the creativity is crazy

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

5/5

oh wow. isn't music amazing? aren't people just great?

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

5/5

I listened to this on a DAP that allowed me to push the volume until my headphones were literally (literally!) vibrating

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

I've been trying to set aside my ego and pride, which have no purpose or value, and reexamine certain things I married myself to an opinion of when I was much younger than I am now. Trying to correct a bad personality, more or less. This record was on that list even before I started doing the album a day thing here. So, acknowledging that I'm not saying anything brilliant or original here: one man can change the world!!!

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

The three big hits are still incredible, especially if you can remove yourself from what I assume is the nearly universal experience of having heard the songs one million times before. The rest of the album doesn't speak to me as much even though I couldn't shake the feeling that it *should* because there's a lot of music in the same neighborhood as this that I have really loved. I believe my rating is the best numerical approximation of the sum of these feelings

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

Margot Tenenbaum type shit

Mask

Bauhaus

3/5

Damaged

Black Flag

5/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

5/5

can you hear the future coming?

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

2/5

for a couple of songs I was tending toward "not that bad" but you know, it's just smoothed edges, creatively devoid. easy to pick the hit out of a line up, and QT was right to do what he did to them

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

5/5

helped me solidify how I want to think about ratings during this project

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

with an open heart and an open mind this nearly got a 5. the attitude adjustment is ongoing.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

5/5

I just kept saying "wow" I think I would never have listened to this album if not for this project, this experience is just what I am chasing. Part of it anyway

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

listen, nobody, if I'm being true to my heart this was a 3 experience. but I so badly *want* it to have been a 4. and in a way, doesn't that make a 4 *more* true to my heart? please don't let me be so uncool that I don't like bowie. one of these is going to hit for me

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

4/5

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

5/5

rock n roll came a long way in 10 years man if one element is stumbling just change your focus. every time I heard a weak lyric I'd just start listening to Phil Collins drumming his heart and brains out

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

hey man. what the fuck.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

5/5

this one came out of nowhere for me

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

5/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

4/5

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

5/5

I was sure I wasn't going to like this, but I was wrong

The Score

Fugees

5/5

stadium-sized cheers every time I catch a movie reference

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

5/5

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

2/5

not completely soulless, but make no mistake, this is selling out

Iron Maiden

5/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

frankly shocked but this is a huge 5 for me

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

5/5

Prejudice - NO Ignorance - NO Bigotry - NO Illiteracy - NO

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

5/5

[sitting straight up like Neo in The Matrix] I get Nick Cave

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

this album art is so damn good

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

3/5

some really cool sounds but I did struggle to appreciate this

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

2/5

maybe I'm just in a bad mood but I see through this and him

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

dips just a little too far toward corny at times. just a little!

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

3/5

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

4/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

my favorite Stones album so far but list I beseech thee give me a break from the Rolling Stones now

Viva Hate

Morrissey

5/5

I can hear an origin of so many albums I like in this, it's hard not for me not to take that into account

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

I introduced the biggest Springsteen fan I've ever known to the love of her life in our college bar sometime in the early 2010s. in some ways it has been fun to be alive

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

5/5

would have been easy to slip into dismissiveness but I love a lot of movies that owe their soundtrack and/or whole vibe to this record to be played in cars with a scent that is not-unpleasant-yet-distinct

Hot Fuss

The Killers

5/5

dude, it has mr brightside on it

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

5/5

there was a man, Frank something, Pendergrass maybe, at the church my granny took me to, he sang just like the Louvin Brothers. *Just* like them. I listened to him lead hymns probably for 10 years. So I'm happy to say I have a cheat code for this album, I get to skip the learning curve completely.

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

once received two box seat tickets to pearl jam misdelivered to my home, and let's just say that a hypothetical past version of me and my roommate used to have a hypothetical habit of opening any and all misdelivered mail. As you can probably imagine that hypothetical habit would get someone into some hot water when they realize they have something a little more valuable than junk mail. Anyway. Music touches our lives

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

the impression I powerfully received is a record full of songs 3 times longer than they need to be, desperately trying to build out "repetition and references" as a theme to conceal that there are only 2 or 3 original ideas hanging around

Vulnicura

Björk

5/5

I was going to give this a 4 for complex internal reasons but there is a sound in the middle of the track Atom Dance that gave me chills, full body goosebumps. Unbelievable

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

5/5

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

5/5

musically very strong, but I have to admit that it falters lyrically somewhat often. that said, it's just so damn lovable

Van Halen

5/5

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

5/5

my life doesn't matter in any way at all

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

cool record. I really do hate to sound square but I did kind of find myself wondering somewhat offhandedly how we got to a place where Reznor is singing "I want to fuck you like an animal"

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Caetano Veloso

3/5

wish this did anything for me but I just can't align my wavelength

Hotel California

Eagles

5/5

sometime around the year 2000 I was sleeping over at my best friend Tyler's house, spending all night talking to girls from school on yahoo messenger until their parents sent them to bed and then, having nothing else to do in the small hours of the night, Tyler played me the song Hotel California. He presented it as if he was bringing a cursed, sinister presence into my life. It was a bit like our stupid little version of playing with a oujia board. Who knows what would have happened in my life if I had done something else that night? There's no way to know and given everything in my life I guess I just have to say thanks and 5 stars to fucking Hotel California

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5