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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hysteria Def Leppard	5	3.21	+1.79
Punishing Kiss Ute Lemper	4	2.41	+1.59
Parachutes Coldplay	5	3.46	+1.54
Kid A Radiohead	5	3.71	+1.29
G. Love And Special Sauce G. Love & Special Sauce	4	2.73	+1.27
A Walk Across The Rooftops The Blue Nile	4	2.87	+1.13
All Hail the Queen Queen Latifah	4	2.87	+1.13
Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits	4	2.94	+1.06
Foxbase Alpha Saint Etienne	4	2.94	+1.06
Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby Terence Trent D'Arby	4	2.98	+1.02

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The World is a Ghetto War	1	3.35	-2.35
Cross Justice	1	3.27	-2.27
The Undertones The Undertones	1	3.25	-2.25
It's Too Late to Stop Now Van Morrison	1	3.25	-2.25
Revolver Beatles	2	4.24	-2.24
Cosmo's Factory Creedence Clearwater Revival	2	3.9	-1.9
A Hard Day's Night Beatles	2	3.9	-1.9
Damaged Black Flag	1	2.85	-1.85
Green River Creedence Clearwater Revival	2	3.77	-1.77
Remedy Basement Jaxx	1	2.68	-1.68

5-Star Albums (5)

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Cross

Justice · 1 likes

1/5

I’ve never heard of this artist. I danced my way through Genesis but never ever ever ever ever want to hear Let There Be Light or Waters of Nazareth again. Ever. Stress…was stressful. Which I guess is the point but whyyyyy would you want to listen to that as music? 😩 I had to fight pretty hard against fast forwarding some of the songs. There were a few four star moments. But there were more negative four star moments…and sometimes both existed in the same song. If I could rate this zero stars I would. Instead I rate it 👵🏼👵🏼👵🏼👵🏼👵🏼

1-Star Albums (6)

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Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

Buena Vista Social Club

2/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

5/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

2/5

Meh

The World is a Ghetto

War

1/5

😩

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

2/5

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

4/5

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Classic

Revolver

Beatles

2/5

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

3/5

Totally forgot this existed.

The Undertones

1/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

2/5

I get it. It’s just so loud. Not for me.

Cypress Hill

3/5

I know them, but didn’t know a single song on the album. But it was good!

Cross

Justice

1/5

Pretenders

4/5

Love. Faves are Kid, Mystery Achievement, and of course, the iconic Brass in Pocket which is the perfect hype song.

1999

Prince

4/5

Started off strong obvs, but then kind of faded a bit. Not sure if there is more than one Prince album on this list, but I would pick Purple Rain over 1999

1977

Ash

2/5

Another artist I’ve never heard of! Too Loud™️

My Generation

The Who

2/5

Meh, which was surprising.

Fragile

Yes

3/5

At least it wasn’t Too Loud™️

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

4/5

Some of the songs (and singing) were off putting, but damn this man can turn a phrase. When I got to “Frank’s Wild Years” I stopped, went back to the first song, and listened and read the lyrics for each song. Heartbreaking album which I can totally see as a play. Favorites are “Johsnsburg, Illinois”, “Rainbirds”, and “Frank’s Wild Years” (RIP Carlos 🤣). Extra star for originality even though it’s not really my thing.

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Ugh I love Radiohead and this is my favorite album of theirs. “Everything In It’s Right Place” is an all time favorite song in general. Other highlights for me are “How to Disappear Completely”, “Optimistic”, and “Untitled”. Truly a masterpiece as far as I’m concerned. A billion trillion stars.

The xx

3/5

I’ve been wanting to check out the xx so this was perfect timing. Definitely an album I think I’d like with repeated listening.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

3 1/2 stars

The Only Ones

2/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

2/5

Too Loud™️

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

3/5

I’m not a fan of Richard Thompson, so at first I was like 😩. But as I listened I was like maybe this isn’t so bad. But as the album went on I was like meh.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

This was a fun one

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

Too Loud™️. But an extra star because it’s the Pixies, and an extra star for “Where is My Mind?”.

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

4/5

Any album on the 1001 albums you should listen to before you die list that mentions Wawa gets an extra star. Favorites include “Cold Beverages”, of course.

Common

3/5

3 1/2 stars

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

2/5

After hearing and recognizing and liking Cry to Me I had high hopes, but the rest was just meh.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

2/5

Meh.

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

2/5

Too Loud™️

Damaged

Black Flag

1/5

Too Loud™️ 😩😩😩

Achtung Baby

4/5

37 albums and only two female artists. 😤😩

Hysteria

Def Leppard

5/5

An extra star for my Nostalgic Youth©️ Day 38 and only two female artists

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

4/5

Metallica

4/5

With some of these albums I wonder if my rating would be different if I was hearing it for the first time and didn’t have such a nostalgic connection to it.

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

2/5

This was made to listen to on a Friday or Saturday night rather than a Tuesday morning before work.

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

4/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

I had no idea that Gangster’s Paradise was practically a cover of a Stevie Wonder song! Faves include As, Sir Duke, I Wish, and Black Man. I can’t include Isn’t She Lovely bc the baby crying creeps me out 🤷🏻‍♀️

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

4/5

This was pretty good!

Very

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

2/5

I knew it was coming. While I respect their place and influence on the music world, I’m not a fan.

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

1/5

A 90 minute two part live album? No! 😩 I love seeing live music, but I hate listening to a live recording.

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

3/5

Another man. Sigh. I did enjoy a bunch of the acoustic songs in the middle of the second album.

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

4/5

This was such a surprise. Never heard of her in my life. Campy, dramatic, over the top, crazy lyrics, weird music…I loved it.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

3/5

So surprised that I only know one song on a Led Zeppelin double album. 🤷🏻‍♀️

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

2/5

Sigh. Honestly who is deciding these are on a list of albums you should listen to before you die? An extra star bc this album legit had some interesting sounds.

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Fine™️

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

I liked this one

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

The Specials

4/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

2/5

Guero

Beck

4/5

❤️

Eagles

3/5

Woodface

Crowded House

2/5

I feel like every time I hear another mediocre artist consisting of British white men I deduct another star.

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

4/5

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

2/5

An extra star for something very different got cancelled out by a star subtraction for every song being so repetitive. You’re going to have seven minute song averages and then give me almost nothing new five minutes in?

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

65 albums in (6%) and we finally have an album that is more in line with what I thought this experience wood be like. Recognizable, loved, and most songs are known or at the very least familiar. Also, extra points for half the band being female.

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

4/5

This was so cool and weird! Favorites include Deer Stop and Felt Mountain, which I swear is either familiar to something else or it was used in a show or movie or something and it’s driving me crazy that I can’t place it.

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

1/5

Three songs in and I’ve heard everything I needed to hear.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

2/5