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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Caetano Veloso Caetano Veloso	5	2.85	+2.15
Chemtrails Over The Country Club Lana Del Rey	5	3.05	+1.95
If You're Feeling Sinister Belle & Sebastian	5	3.19	+1.81
Africa Brasil Jorge Ben Jor	5	3.37	+1.63
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	5	3.5	+1.5
The Atomic Mr Basie Count Basie & His Orchestra	5	3.5	+1.5
Pink Moon Nick Drake	5	3.65	+1.35
Wild Is The Wind Nina Simone	5	3.65	+1.35
Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan	5	3.66	+1.34
Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette	5	3.72	+1.28

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Paranoid Black Sabbath	2	4.19	-2.19
Vulgar Display Of Power Pantera	1	2.97	-1.97
Smokers Delight Nightmares On Wax	1	2.91	-1.91
Bone Machine Tom Waits	1	2.84	-1.84
Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen	2	3.69	-1.69
Moondance Van Morrison	2	3.69	-1.69
The Clash The Clash	2	3.53	-1.53
Blunderbuss Jack White	2	3.39	-1.39
2112 Rush	2	3.37	-1.37
Pornography The Cure	2	3.32	-1.32

5-Star Albums (15)

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Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor · 1 likes

5/5

Voa, Jorge, voa! I wish I could give this even more stars *****

1-Star Albums (4)

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Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

***

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

excellent

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

2/5

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

2/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

4/5

Energizing!

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

3/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

2/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

1/5

Common

4/5

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

3/5

Fun throwback hip-hop by an iconic individual - my favorite track is “Queen of Royal Badness”

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

A hipster millenial masterpiece

Odelay

Beck

4/5

An enjoyable listen, and I respect the experimental approach - highlights include the microtonal kalimba sounds on “Derelict” and the unexpected Schubert Unfinished Symphony sample on “High 5”

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

Nice.

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

5/5

melancholic; iconic

Country Life

Roxy Music

3/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

5/5

Legendary! Angsty for sure, but also with reminders that “everything is gonna be fine, fine, fine” — even when life gives you “ten thousand spoons, when all you need is a knife.”

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

1/5

Feels like background music for a restaurant inside a shopping mall at nighttime or something

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

2/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

Electric

The Cult

3/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

5/5

Voa, Jorge, voa! I wish I could give this even more stars *****

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

Caetano Veloso

5/5

Awesome

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Just lovely *****

The Clash

2/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

2/5

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

3/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

Awesome jazz orchestra sound - plus Basie's way of playing at the piano conveys such cleverness and confidence. "Teddy The Toad" and "Splanky" are classics (and throwbacks to playing in high school jazz band...), and "Flight of the Foo Birds" and "Fantail" are also highlights!

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

3/5

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

4/5

awesome

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

The ambient part was an unexpected surprise after what came before it. I hear resonances with Brian Eno’s “Ambient 1: Music for Airports,” also on the 1001 Albums list.

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

3/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

Closer

Joy Division

3/5

Creates an experience of minimalism through repitition and long timescales

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

"Breaking The Law! Breaking The Law!"

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

3/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

2/5

Low

David Bowie

3/5

Dry

PJ Harvey

2/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

4/5

A pleasant throwback to an era that I never lived through myself - "You Don't Own Me," "Do Re Mi," and "Wishin' and Hopin'" were highlights

Black Sabbath

4/5

DOOM METAL!

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

This is excellent: very 80s, done very well. I was pleasantly reminded that I knew a couple of the hit songs ("Shout" and "Everybody Wants to Rule The World"), and I had a great time getting to know the rest, especially the quasi-ambient tour de force "Listen," which ends the album.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

This still sounds fresh in 2026! I can see how Hayes ultimately influenced classic 90s/00s R&B - but also hear resonances with the styles of newer postmillenial fusion-y artists like Hiatus Kaiyote and Snarky Puppy.

Slayed?

Slade

2/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Awesome sample-based beats that draw on quite an eclectic variety of sources. A quirky and fun listen from classic hip-hop history.

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

3/5

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

2/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

4/5

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

3/5

School's Out

Alice Cooper

4/5

What a pleasant surprise! I did not expect the jazz and West Side Story references and they were great fun.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Pornography

The Cure

2/5

Not my favorite by The Cure - I look forward to their shoegaze-ier music coming up later on this list!

The Blueprint

JAY Z

3/5

I guess I've only ever listened to Jay-Z before as a featured rapper with Beyoncé and Alicia Keys. This album has some nice beats and feels like a throwback to earlier rap and R&B -- though the album felt a bit overly long at times, with some tracks stronger than others.

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

5/5

Fantastic. Twee pop that stands the test of time; the earnest whimsy feels very of this moment now in 2026

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

3/5

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

2/5

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

I acknowledge and understand why this album is important, historically significant, and well deserving of its critical acclaim. That being said, I find it more artful than listenable and it is not my favorite, which I say from the perspective of someone who does enjoy other 21st-century hip-hop and R&B very much!

2112

Rush

2/5

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

1/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

4/5

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

4/5

Play

Moby

3/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

This is the best-selling jazz album and my knowledge of that fact once won me a point in a game of Trivial Pursuit. I also think I once had to transcribe the piano solo on "Freddie Freeloader" for a jazz band class assignment in school. Anyway: this album is classic for a reason, an important early work of modal jazz style. I highly recommend listening to the 2009 chiptune tribute, "Kind of Bloop," after this for some lolz, and for some musical nostalgia of a different variety...

Fleet Foxes

4/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

the "One-Note Samba" (or "Samba De Uma Nota So" in Portuguese) is iconic

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

2/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

3/5