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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Orbital 2 Orbital	5	2.69	+2.31
World Clique Deee-Lite	5	2.87	+2.13
Pyromania Def Leppard	5	3.13	+1.87
Risque CHIC	5	3.28	+1.72
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.34	+1.66
Dirt Alice In Chains	5	3.46	+1.54
Hounds Of Love Kate Bush	5	3.62	+1.38
What's That Noise? Coldcut	4	2.78	+1.22
Off The Wall Michael Jackson	5	3.8	+1.2
Disintegration The Cure	5	3.86	+1.14

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Time Out The Dave Brubeck Quartet	1	3.83	-2.83
Funeral Arcade Fire	1	3.56	-2.56
The Suburbs Arcade Fire	1	3.5	-2.5
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	1	3.31	-2.31
Rattus Norvegicus The Stranglers	1	3.16	-2.16
Gris Gris Dr. John	1	2.88	-1.88
Colour By Numbers Culture Club	1	2.85	-1.85
Konnichiwa Skepta	1	2.73	-1.73
A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse Faces	2	3.23	-1.23
D White Denim	2	3.22	-1.22

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Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

5/5

Bangers. No skips. Groovy.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

Do not like Japlin's voice at all. Lowkey ruins some of the songs. The songs themselves aren't very memorable. Would not listen to again.

Debut

Björk

3/5

Interesting melodies and bjork's voice is phenomenal. BUT. The lyrics are very "baby's very first writing" and they detracted a lot from the songs. And there are songs I outright didn't like.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Great.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

1/5

I hate jazz. This was no exception.

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Love this with my whole heart. Some of the most iconic sounds. Encapsulates total heartbreak. No other album with similar themes even comes close.

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

1/5

Some of the cringiest lyrics I've heard with some of the cringiest delivery too. The melodies are bland too and the songs just bleed into each other. Had an abysmal time listening to this.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Nice listen. Great start, the middle is a bit bloated, but everything picks right up towards a very great end.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

Konnichiwa

Skepta

1/5

Rap album. A no from me.

Risque

CHIC

5/5

Groovy and solid throughout. Even the more serious songs towards the end are such a good bop.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

1/5

Whole album is dogshit. Dogshit lyrics throughout. I do not care about your Americanisms. Same-sounding songs. If there's an inkling of an interesting melody, it's not utilized at all. The singer cannot sing for shit. How the fuck did this get on this list.

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

3/5

A nice listen but nothing too memorable.

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

2/5

Did not care for it.

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

1/5

Just no. Almost non-existent lyrics. The melodies are so whatever.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

5/5

Classic. Banger after banger <3

World Clique

Deee-Lite

5/5

Super good. Ahead of it's time. Had a blast.

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

1/5

Tragically boring and inconsistent.

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Classic.

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

4/5

Pretty good but it does get a bit tedious to listen to towards the end.

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

3/5

Was okay, nothing special.

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

2/5

A bunch of uninteresting Americanisms. Sounds like the dudes just wanted to play around with riffs and melodies, and the lyrics were a completely afterthought. But even the melodies do not sound good or impressive.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Such a mixed bag. You have some genuinely good songs on this, but they're instantly ruined by the several bad songs. Like, where's the consistency???

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

Objectively good music but it's just not for me. The album cover is also tragic.

White Denim

2/5

Boring and the album cover is ugly.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

A classic but I just don't care for it.

Gris Gris

Dr. John

1/5

Did not like this.

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

4/5

As always, Morrissey delivers.

Elastica

2/5

Derivative.

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Some really banging music brought down by nonsensical intermissions.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

1/5

A bunch of boring American bullshit.

1999

Prince

3/5

Started out promising but it fizzled out towards the end. The tracks are too long, a lot of the speaking segments are just pure cringe, some of the songs feel like they shouldn't even be on the album they're just too different.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

1/5

So they made shitty music from the start and didn't improve even an inch? Incredible. This is just a mish-mash of songs that don't go well together, the melodies are boring, and even if there is a more interesting riff or something, it just disappears, never to be heard from again. The singer just can't sing, and his voice is so grating too, and the backing vocals aren't better either. Had a dogshit of a time listening to this.

Orbital 2

Orbital

5/5

Had such a great time listening to the whole album. Full of bangers, great melodies, and great vocal work. An experimental trip all the way through (lovingly).

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

2/5

Genuinely, why is this album on this list? It's so boring in every aspect and all over the place. Is it because it has several famous musicians that worked on it? Well, they did a shitty job, it's not even cohesive. Plus, this album had like zero cultural impact, so what are we doing???

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

3/5

Mot bad but not great either. Wouldn't listen to this again.

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

One of the few rap albums that I actually like listening to.

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

4/5

Pretty good.

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

2/5

This is the problem with bands like Motorhead - all of their music sounds the same, and this album just proves that. Felt boring and same'ish throughout. Plus, this is the live version, so we have to pointlessly listen to all the dedications and unintelligible crowd work before each song. These should've been cut out, they add nothing to the album, and actually make it worse. Did not even listen to Disc 2 because suffering through Disc 1 was more than enough.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Pretty good, some nice sounds.

Pyromania

Def Leppard

5/5

Great album, had a fun time listening.

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

2/5

Never liked country music and this album embodies everything country. Just not for me. At least it was really short.

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

4/5

Great listen. Morrissey comes off as the biggest loser with a massive ego but he makes it work.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

Great album with some of the most iconic tracks. Very weird to listen to Kanye rap about Donald Trump and custody issues, considering what is currently happening in America and his personal life.

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

Whatever. Becomes repetitive very fast and you just start hoping that it ends soon. Not sure what this album is doing here.

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

2/5

Just did not like. Nothing like Staying Alive, which I guess is the only song I like from them. Some of the lyrics are godawful and cringe. Really dislike how the singer sounds weepy no matter what kind of song it is. He can't even hit some of the high notes. Having a song basically glorifying Israel is also such a choice - I understand that back then they probably did not know the scope of the atrocities happening there, but still, out of all places, fucking Israel???

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

Not a bad album, just not for me. Not in the right headspace for it. Everything sounded the same.

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

3/5

Cannot take this edgelord's music seriously. All of it is just shocking for shock value. Boring.

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

2/5

2013-me probably would've like this album/band. Current me just cannot get into it despite being a fan of synth music. The music sounds very dated, like you can tell that it came out in 2013. Some of the melodic choices in some songs also just clash together and take you out of the song, like it feels like some tracks weren't polished or just should've been scrapped altogether. Disliked the female singer's voice quite a lot, she sounds like a child singing and I just found that really unappealing on a primal level. Didn't like the male singer either, I don't think their voices match well. Also the lyrics are so juvenile and simplistic in a way I didn't enjoy at all.

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

3/5

A disappointing listen. Tainted Love, because it is so iconic, is the only highlight of the album.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

3/5

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

2/5

Jesus fucking Christ I just do not care about this music. It all sounds the same, slow and boring. And all the themes are always the same, can you please get some new material or at least approach it from a new perspective.

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

Not my kind of music.

Ingenue

k.d. lang

3/5

Does nothing for me. Just kind of boring and meandering. The songs are about love and longing and it's just so tiring to listen to these at this point, like you're not saying anything new.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

Phenomenal album. Raw and unhinged in the best way possible. Any time I listen to this, I can't help but go through my own downward spiral along with Trent Reznor, thinking about my own depression, angst, self-destructive behavior, delusions, just the whole thing. I just live through them again in each song. After this session, I did get the thought that it kinda perfectly encapsulates having a manic episode where everything starts to feel unreal towards the end. And of course, what do you do when even your own body does not feel like it's actually there? You harm yourself, and in a twisted way, it helps so much in the moment. The title track hit really hard this time. It's so melancholic and hopeful at the same time, especially considering that "Hurt" comes right after it.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

Pretty nice listen, especially for a live album.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Not bad, but did not impress me at all. It's just not my type of music, reminds me too much of stuff my drunk uncles would play at a family gathering.

Kala

M.I.A.

2/5

The first half of this album sounds like M.I.A. was handed a soundboard and she just mashed buttons randomly and decided all that noise is songs now. The second half is more cohesive with less random soundbites, but that doesn't save the album for me. I do like the social commentary on this, but that's not enough to make it good. The only song that I surprisingly liked is "20 Dollar" because it sounded completely different from the rest of the album. It was actually quite a banger, though M.I.A.'s shaky delivery at times did make me wince a bit. "Paper Planes," of course, is the only song I knew from her before diving into this album. And it slaps. And it also sounds like it doesn't belong on this album.

Van Halen

4/5

Ton of classics.

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

3/5

First off, love his voice. Never heard anything by Leonard Cohen before so it surprised me in a very pleasant way. And I enjoyed the themes of the album, especially as someone who used to believe in god. For me, the problem is that I feel misled? Catfished? The album is titled "You Want It Darker" and the first track is so dark and heavy and moody, especially melody-wise. I got really excited and foolishly thought that the rest is going to sound like that. But it didn't. No other track comes close to match the sound of the title track and I was so disappointed. Looking at the subject matter and the lyrics of the other songs, it makes sense, but it just felt like whiplash? Lowkey soured the whole experience for me, so I didn't get much from this album.

The Doors

5/5

Had such a great time listening to this. ~"You men eat your dinner, eat your pork and beans I eat more chicken than any man ever seen."~ ICONIC

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

2/5

Very telling that when I heard the first song, I looked at the year this album came out and was like "Yeah, makes sense I guess." The slurs really do the songs no justice. You can still portray racism without outright saying them. Like I can't imagine wanting to record an album, essentially immortalizing yourself, saying these things, even though they are "satire." Also, how the hell was I supposed to clock that this is a concept album that's all satire? Only learned this from the comments here. And even then, it was very hard to perceive it? As a non-American, growing up I heard a lot of completely straight songs like these about living in America and being American (minus the slurs at least). All I'm saying is, satire is really hard to clock in music. As for the songs themselves, well, it's all very bland and repetitive. It just becomes background noise after the 3rd song.