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Album	You	Global	Diff
Roots Sepultura	5	2.79	+2.21
Goodbye And Hello Tim Buckley	5	2.84	+2.16
Queen Of Denmark John Grant	5	3.11	+1.89
The Holy Bible Manic Street Preachers	5	3.15	+1.85
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	3.31	+1.69
Live Through This Hole	5	3.32	+1.68
Blur Blur	5	3.33	+1.67
At Fillmore East The Allman Brothers Band	5	3.36	+1.64
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	5	3.42	+1.58
Aqualung Jethro Tull	5	3.43	+1.57

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Clash The Clash	1	3.52	-2.52
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	1	3.45	-2.45
Life's Too Good The Sugarcubes	1	3.07	-2.07
The Libertines The Libertines	1	3.01	-2.01
Elephant The White Stripes	2	3.84	-1.84
Off The Wall Michael Jackson	2	3.8	-1.8
Arise Sepultura	1	2.73	-1.73
Graceland Paul Simon	2	3.72	-1.72
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	2	3.7	-1.7
Electric Warrior T. Rex	2	3.53	-1.53

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I don't have a lot of genre expertise on which to base this impression, but I will say that from a single listen, I don't doubt this album's status as a classic. But ultimately this style of right-down-the-middle, lyrically-focussed rap isn't immediately appealing to me (even when it's as good as Illmatic), so not necessarily something I'll be picking up to revisit.

I'm of a generation where Gn'R were a constant presence in my musical life, at least from my tweens to early twenties. Never listened to an album, though, and on the evidence of a first Appetite listen, I don't think I ever will again. I don't know if it ever sounded like more than a hundred pale imitators and cover bands, but that's what most of it sounds like in 2026. A few shining examples of iconic songwriting aside, it's mostly just a plodding, expired mess of screech and blues rock

I guess it's a little unfair to give my first five stars to an album with which I was already familiar, but hey. It's In Utero

Goofy, but sounds oh so very good

I mean, "Elizabeth Reed" and "Whipping Post" are worth five stars on their own.