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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road Lucinda Williams	5	3	+2
The Specials The Specials	5	3.29	+1.71
The Yes Album Yes	5	3.31	+1.69
Deep Purple In Rock Deep Purple	5	3.31	+1.69
The Man Machine Kraftwerk	5	3.31	+1.69
C'est Chic CHIC	5	3.34	+1.66
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.34	+1.66
Debut Björk	5	3.38	+1.62
The Village Green Preservation Society The Kinks	5	3.4	+1.6
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	5	3.41	+1.59

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Signing Off UB40	1	2.97	-1.97
Vauxhall And I Morrissey	1	2.96	-1.96
São Paulo Confessions Suba	1	2.85	-1.85
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo The Byrds	1	2.83	-1.83
Scream, Dracula, Scream Rocket From The Crypt	1	2.76	-1.76
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	2	3.57	-1.57
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Dead Kennedys	2	3.27	-1.27
Django Django Django Django	2	3.2	-1.2
Lost Souls Doves	2	3.16	-1.16
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter The Incredible String Band	1	2.15	-1.15

5-Star Albums (28)

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Popular Reviews

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno · 1 likes

4/5

its ambient music. quite good ambient music but it is still at the end of the day ambient music

The Score

Fugees · 1 likes

5/5

All time impeccable album

1-Star Albums (6)

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(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

peak britpop. wonderwall overrated and overplayed, champagne supernova a rightful classic

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Not a 10/10 but it has some of the best individual bangers in the entire LCD Soundsystem discography

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

1984

Van Halen

3/5

not my favorite style of songwriting but the guitar playing is pretty undeniable

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

what do you even say about an album as singular and iconic as this one? even 50 years later, nothing else sounds like it.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

one of the all time jazz fusion albums. when 'in a silent way' hits 13 minutes, good god. i dont throw the word genius around lightly but miles was one of them

Adele

3/5

shes got a nice voice and the songwriting is competent but nothing really feels like, sticky, for me

The Specials

5/5

Really fun album, bridges the gap between old school ska and punk so well. You *Really* hear that Elvis Costello influence on some of these songs

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

perfect length for an album, basically the only song that isnt 100% a banger to me is 'welcome to the machine', just a perfect gorgeous album

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

1/5

not my favorite!

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

not my favorite michael jackson album but it contains a handful of the most undeniable pop bangers ever written

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

4/5

a great hip hop album! a little too long, i think dan the automator gets the pacing a little bit better on the deltron albums

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

4/5

really cool, early elements of trip hop in “I Am Stretched on Your Grave"; i think i actually prefer the Prince version of Nothing Compares 2 U

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

2/5

some very solid songwriting but absolutely not my thing

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Django Django

2/5

Wish this were a bit more interesting! It has good tracks but doesn’t really feel “essential”

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

2/5

listenable but overlong and only really had one song that excited me

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Only contains a good handful of the most iconic songs ever written!

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

4/5

Went in with very minimal expectations and ended up very satisfied. Some excellent songwriting, folksy but with just a bit of edge

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

*the* bossa nova album. Easy listening, doesn’t feel groundbreaking but that’s with 60 years of musical tradition building upon it

Pornography

The Cure

4/5

not totally my "thing" but its pretty undeniable for what it is as a canonical entry in the goth rock canon

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Are you experienced has a couple of songs I probably wouldn’t go out of my way for but also has like 3 or 4 of the most iconic songs in the rock and roll canon

Sister

Sonic Youth

2/5

Sonic youth a real “not for me but I respect it” type band

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

2/5

Interesting album, not really connecting for me beyond being interesting and general competent but I do feel like it makes sense that this is on the list. Also regrettably too long

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

5/5

Not my favorite Kinks album but one that I do still think is all in all pretty delightful

All That You Can't Leave Behind

3/5

Enjoyed this a fair bit more than I thought I would. It’s not great but it’s god a few bangers for sure

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

1/5

reallllllly pushing it with this one

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

i really dug that! a lot of fun, good songwriting, a nice little warren zevon riff... whats not to like?

Blur

3/5

overall fun album but I wish i liked it more than I do, doesn't really compare to my favorite Gorillaz stuff

Maxinquaye

Tricky

4/5

rules. sounds so scifi. halfway between fiona apple and bjork.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

5/5

hell yeah. just true 70s disco funk classic

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

3/5

reminds me of latter period pink floyd, in a not so flattering way.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

3/5

had some definite highlights but not my kind of thing overall, a bit too art poppy

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

great album but not my favorite pixies at all which says a lot

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Just one of the great albums of all time. Absolute gold from start to finish

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

A lot of fun and well done for what it is but a bit tough for me to get into I suppose

Medúlla

Björk

4/5

lots of fun sounds!

Debut

Björk

5/5

A much more palatable Björk album to me than Medulla! A real fun time

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

2/5

Production feels very Michael Jackson inspired , but none of his charisma or songwriting. No thanks

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Simultaneously an amazing album and also Talking Heads’ worst album until late in their careers

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

Will basically always get down with desert blues or blues in general

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Last song a bit of a slog but otherwise banger album

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

2/5

more like the craps am i rite okay not that bad but this didnt do much for me tbh

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

3/5

Okay album. Did not need the 20 minute rambling of the last song.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

a lot of fun for what I would consider to be a surprising inclusion. doesn't feel essential in any way but yeah just straight up a fun record

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

post rock has never super been my thing but this was fairly digestible as they come!

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

3/5

That’s some folk music alright

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

4/5

i enjoyed this one a lot mostly on virtue of its just being fairly straightforward and listenable, surely not high art but not without its merits

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

one of the Great Albums! star spangled and all!

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

3/5

Inessential and short. I can see why someone might have thought this was important like decades ago

Blue

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Joni Mitchell has never really done it for me and this isn't changing my mind to be honest

The Yes Album

Yes

5/5

this on the other hand is so directly up my alley it is insane.

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

4/5

fun little folk album, doesn't overstay its welcome, generally not my thing but im not complaining about it either.

2112

Rush

4/5

not my favorite rush and rush isn't my favorite flavor of prog but still a good time!

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

4/5

its ambient music. quite good ambient music but it is still at the end of the day ambient music

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

very good album with a couple iconic hits that make it stand out,

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

3/5

felt very inessential, albeit also very listenable

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

fun album, very light and listenable! definitely enjoyed this one a fair bit

Violent Femmes

5/5

desert island album

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

its all pretty good but it is a bit ... same-y? isnt it?

The Man Who

Travis

2/5

very post-radiohead but not in a way that i particularly liked

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

4/5

not my favorite SK album but a great one nonetheless and doesn't overstay its welcome at all!

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

a perfect album!

Hysteria

Def Leppard

3/5

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

4/5

okay this is a really cool album

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

overlong but the couple of tracks at the start kick ass

The Score

Fugees

5/5

All time impeccable album

Amnesiac

Radiohead

5/5

All time impeccable album

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

3/5

too long and really didnt do it for me.

Pretenders

4/5

really fun!

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

meh. its good but its 1989

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

4/5

side a is incredible, side b cant help but be a bit of a letdown

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

5/5

hell yeah. one of my fav albums

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

didnt dislike this! its not super my thing but i will happily throw this on for a listen and its not overly long by any means

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

3/5

fun in a kind of way! but way too long

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

a raw and incredibly vulnerable portrait of an artist at the peak of his powers

Elvis Presley

4/5

its strikingly clear how much as much as he's known for rock and roll, Elvis was also just an old school crooner / balladeer

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

1/5

baffling album. a bit trip-hoppy but i did not appreciate this one at all.

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

a bit same-y but overall a lot of fun

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

front-loaded but the front half is *so* magnificent

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

amazing album, almost all great songs

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

4/5

not My Thing but pretty fun and doesn't overstay its welcome

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

1/5

so profoundly inessential

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

on the gentle side but entertaining

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

seminal. closer might be the song of all time

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

4/5

Pretty fun!

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

Fun but idk, a bit same-y/ not scratching any particular itch for me

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

2/5

a real document of an era but totally inessential other than a couple fun tracks

Miriam Makeba

4/5

a very fun interesting flavor of world music!

Abraxas

Santana

5/5

santana abraxas

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

4/5

Let It Be

The Replacements

4/5

not my fav replacements

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

2/5

just not my thing!

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

3/5

fun but wouldnt be my choice of an LDR album

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

2/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

2/5

My Generation

The Who

3/5

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

There’s a 5 star 45 minute version of this

Ananda Shankar

3/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

not my thing but Orion rules

Kenza

Khaled

3/5

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

4/5

really fun!

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

5/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

5/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

3/5

Lost Souls

Doves

2/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

5/5

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

1/5

ABSOLUTELY not

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

2/5

The Rise & Fall

Madness

3/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

Drunk

Thundercat

3/5

Signing Off

UB40

1/5

No ~!

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

short!

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

5/5

quite enjoyed!

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Common

4/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

5/5

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

3/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

wish this were like 10-20% more punk

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

3/5

an alright vibe but pretty same-y

Clandestino

Manu Chao

4/5

Quite enjoyed!

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

3/5

Sail Away

Randy Newman

4/5