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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Trans Europe Express Kraftwerk	5	3.16	+1.84
John Prine John Prine	5	3.21	+1.79
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	5	3.65	+1.35
The Score Fugees	5	3.69	+1.31
Arise Sepultura	4	2.74	+1.26

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Tusk Fleetwood Mac	1	3.47	-2.47
Amnesiac Radiohead	1	3.41	-2.41
Fever To Tell Yeah Yeah Yeahs	1	3.3	-2.3
Astral Weeks Van Morrison	1	3.26	-2.26
In Rainbows Radiohead	2	3.86	-1.86
So Much For The City The Thrills	1	2.81	-1.81
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	2	3.61	-1.61
Ramones Ramones	2	3.57	-1.57
Brothers The Black Keys	2	3.55	-1.55
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	2	3.48	-1.48

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Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks · 1 likes

2/5

Quite possibly the least sonically interesting album that's been provided thus far. It's not even bad enough to hate; it doesn't provide a single shred of evidence that any creative talent is on display. Incredibly dorky and pedestrian. Fast Cars, No Reply, and I Need feel like songs you'd hear written by a high school garageband. Damn, those cars do be fast & annoying, I guess. Very insightful stuff. If it's British and from the 70s, I guess it automatically gets a spot on the list. At the very least, I suppose it's pithy.

1-Star Albums (5)

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Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

2/5

Odelay

Beck

3/5

When it's successful at cross-pollinating genres, there are definitely interesting sounds that emanate from the project, but those moments don't materialize into whole songs, let alone an album. I find it more of a respectable experiment than something I would revisit.

Brothers

The Black Keys

2/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

1/5

Incoherent and lacking any central idea that makes it worth a listen. Never really been a Fleetwood Mac person so that’s definitely a contributing factor.

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

5/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

3/5

Not at all tuned in to what makes good jazz and what makes great jazz, other than feeling. Honestly, parts of this were great, other parts left me scratching my head. Falls closer to good jazz, but I am sure it's partly user error.

1999

Prince

3/5

How am I just finding out Prince is horny as hell? Clearly, my first experience with Prince and that's definitely my bad. Most of these songs are undeniably too long, but only like one stinker among them (looking at you Automatic). Funky as fuck throughout.

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

3/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

3/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

2/5

Really don't understand the hype here. I've always been hesitant towards attempting Radiohead, outright avoiding them as long as possible, and clearly for the better because I completely bounced off this. Instrumentals are consistently engaging, but are drowned out by vocals that emulate the sounds of trying to stay awake on Ambien. Really disappointed.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

Would have ripped my adolescent heart out. Clearly a masterwork of mood and tone, it probably would hit best during a blowout emotional crisis. EDIT: Didn't grab me the first time through, but have gone back several times since, and it grows on me every time.

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

1/5

Maybe I’m just getting old, but this is just unmitigated noise, that at my most generous can only be described as just the clanking of instruments together. You gotta be physically or spiritually 15 to get anything out of this.

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Admittedly confused with its own identity between Cohen's folk songwriting and the new-age synth instrumentals, but I sorta respect it for how different it is, and at times even enjoy it. Probably the most 80s album ever conceived by virtue of being fueled solely by cocaine and the chase of obtaining a radio pop hit for suburbanites to listen to while driving into the city.

The Score

Fugees

5/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

2/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

2/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

Sampling can change the world

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

3/5

A classic? Really? I mean, it’s fine, good even, but you gotta admit that a lot of this is jamming and noise; when they do add lyrics, it’s not all that groundbreaking. Time is pretty good, but like, it’s not the most intellectual take on the topic of “time gonna keep progressing.” “But the complex themes like greed!” But it’s just a song called Money that features a cash register opening. Guys, come on, be serious…

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

1/5

Nope, can't do it. Quite literally painful. How can anybody stomach multiple 6+ minute ballads of screeching nonsense?

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

3/5

lol. Lmao even. Gotta respect it even if it's not my bag. Gotta be one of the most 80s things ever produced.

Ramones

2/5

Its definably infectious upbeat tone carries the album, but the most I can praise it for is that it's mercifully short. Not winning any awards for innovation because this really is all the same song 14 times. Not even kidding, its the same 3 cords on repeat.

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

2/5

It's undeniable that shes got an amazing voice. If you can connect with that, all the power to you. There is a reason that Beyoncé is one of the biggest personalities in modern music, and it's in part due to the incredible vocal work she's capable of. Personally, I can't ignore the fact that this is structured as 14 singles strung together, nor the overproduced sound that has been focus-tested to the point of often being plastic, diluting so much of the artistry. This contains some great songs, but they are housed between decaying mall music and manufactured #YASSQUEEN anthems.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

The Stone Roses

5/5

Crazy that I've never come across this before. Adored this from front to back. Can see this becoming a regular listen for the foreseeable future.

Suzanne Vega

2/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

2/5

Sorry, but the only influence this can be attributed to is that it allows artists to pass instrumental noise off as art, other than just noise. Just reads as unpolished/trashy, not because it’s an artistic choice, but because it was born out of a lack of talent, motivation, or even just understanding of any level of the recording process. I’ll give it credit for its tackling of “dark” subject matter sonically for the late 60s, but its sound doesn’t do anything to elevate it. People conveniently forget when discussing the importance of this album that there were far more interesting counter-cultural artists across all different mediums at the same time, who actually use formalist talent to portray said touchy subject matter…

Amnesiac

Radiohead

1/5

Yup, more artless wailing by Yorke. Just sounds like a man on a crazy amount of opioids attempting to keep himself awake by reciting a soliloquy. At least In Rainbows’ instrumentation had even the slightest crumb of something to latch onto; here, Yorke’s failing attempts at resisting anesthesia are presented with the saddest excuse for electronic “experimentation” ever given the label. I can’t get anything out of Radiohead; I am repelled on a genetic level.

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

3/5

Starts out exceptionally dull, but then at about the 90-second mark of Pt. 2, you start levitating out of the chair until you reach outer space and meet some Andromedan, who invite you onto their ship to show you the cosmos via a segment not too dissimilar to a DK Eyewitness Intro, then ends pretty dull.

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

3/5

Absolutely harmless 80s-pop. Doing exactly what it sets out to do, providing an upbeat 45 minutes or so, and achieving a charting single. Not really seeing a point to its inclusion, but there have been worse on this list.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

4/5

Honestly, I enjoyed the man out of time; recapturing the crooner era vibe this has going for it.

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

2/5

All these mid 60s folk rock albums sound exactly the same.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

2/5

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

3/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Arise

Sepultura

4/5

Take Me Apart

Kelela

2/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

The United States Of America

3/5

Music to get high to and go "The government man... the government..."

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

3/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

3/5

This is a tough one. Obviously a master lyricist, but I think I am coming at this way too late to understand most of the appeal. Never dull, occasionally powerful, but ultimately held back by not understanding the context that provides a lot of its reputation.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

I mean, like, Take Five is clearly a master work. Rest of the album is great too. I'm dumb as rocks and don't know anything about music theory, but this transcends any lack of knowledge and is just a great time.

So Much For The City

The Thrills

1/5

John Prine

5/5

Not usually a fan of country (and this is only kinda that) but the best of the genre are exemplified by really great, uniquely American storytelling. This has it in spades. Prine is able to balance wit, tragedy, pathos, and rhyme all together to make something that is really special.

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

4/5