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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Le Tigre Le Tigre	5	3.14	+1.86
Blackstar David Bowie	5	3.48	+1.52
White Blood Cells The White Stripes	5	3.66	+1.34
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits	5	3.73	+1.27
Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul Otis Redding	5	3.92	+1.08
Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel	5	3.96	+1.04

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Aha Shake Heartbreak Kings of Leon	1	2.94	-1.94
xx The xx	2	3.35	-1.35
The College Dropout Kanye West	2	3.31	-1.31

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A Hard Day's Night

Beatles · 1 likes

4/5

It's the Beatles, man! How can you not enjoy them? Side 1 is much better than side 2 though.

Nevermind

Nirvana · 1 likes

5/5

I can understand why people dislike this album. I also disagree heavily with those people. This album has only gotten better for me with each listen.

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Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

1. Moby Dick 2. Bring It On Home 3. Whole Lotta Love

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

A good sax solo will do that to people

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Drums on "Blues for Huey" are unmatched "Maesha" is really good

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

1. Life During Wartime 2. Drugs 3. Heaven 4. I Zimbra

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

3/5

Regular John is good, the rest is fine. Which pretty much sums up my experience with Queens of the Stone Age. If they're on, I'm not going to say turn them off but I'm also not going to turn them on in the first place.

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Just a lot of fun, Oye Cómo Va being the standout

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Is Racing in the Street one of Springsteen's best songs? Really good album though I think the hard rock sound for Adam Raised a Cain was the wrong way to go.

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

3/5

Very interesting experiment. I don't think it quite works all the time but I like it.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

It's the Beatles, man! How can you not enjoy them? Side 1 is much better than side 2 though.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

It's just that good

The La's

3/5

Solid album but overall, not terribly moved by it.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

2/5

Kanye West is an awful person, this album isn't much better

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

3/5

It's fun synth-pop.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

He's grooving. And so am I.

My Generation

The Who

4/5

Keith Moon is him.

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

3/5

I fucking hate that Eric Clapton is such a piece of shit because I did really enjoy parts of this album

The xx

2/5

I feel like there's a lot of potential here but it's lacking that something extra, which is probably energy. The atmospheric sound is interesting but at times it feels like they played a wrong note or didn't hold one for long enough. At the end of the day, it's fine I guess.

Play

Moby

3/5

It's fine. Memory Gospel, a B-side, clears everything that did make it on the album by a country mile, except for maybe My Weakness.

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

3/5

Eh. It's alright. Some good stuff but also some mediocre stuff. 2.5/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

3/5

Perfect album if you're an angsty 14 year old. Sadly, those days have passed for me. In the End is still a banger though. 3/5 for nostalgia reasons.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

Damn good album. Man on the Moon and Nightswimming the standouts.

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

4/5

Dinosaur Jr. just kicks ass

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

A lot of the lyrics in the back half of the album are very problematic, especially by today's standards but the power of this album is undeniable.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

It's nice. Some good songs, nothing groundbreaking but it doesn't need to be. 3.5/5

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

Just aggressively mediocre. 2.5/5

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

3/5

There are some songs I really like but it's so stretched out. It's fine. 3.5/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

3/5

Genuinely don't know what to make of this album. There is some music in here that I adored followed by some music I was baffled by. There are also some off-putting lyrics. Really can't make heads or tails

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Muddy Waters is just that guy.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

5/5

Was expecting to like but not as much as I did. I loved this album.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

4/5

The second half is like Pet Sounds-lite, which means it is still absolutely incredible. First half isn't too shabby either. 4.5/5

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

I'd probably rank The Bends fourth out of Radiohead's big four but The Bends to High and Dry to Fake Plastic Trees is an unmatched song run

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

The fuzzy, hazy guitar and Janis' voice? Chef's kiss.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

James Brown! James Brown! He still is the godfather of soul y'all Also I don't get the people who say crowd noise distracts on live albums. I love it, it adds energy to the recordings

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

3/5

It was funky, I had some fun but nothing special tbh

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

Just a banger album. 4.5/5

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

4/5

A lot of fun

1999

Prince

4/5

I don't understand the complaints about some of the songs being too long, grow up y'all.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Do you ever have that itch deep inside you that only certain music seems to scratch? Otis Redding's voice scratches that itch for me.

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

1/5

This was ass. Some of the instrumentation was fine before it eschewed any interesting directions and became generic, offensively inoffensive rock music. Combine that with self-indulgent, self-important, uninspiring lyrics you get some ass music.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

5/5

Is it punk? Blues? Garage? All of them? Whatever it is, it's great

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

3/5

I can appreciate the blending of genres and styles but overall, it's just not really my thing. 2.5/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

I don't think I can say anything that hasn't already been said

The Blueprint

JAY Z

3/5

The beats are great but the lyrics are less so

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

3/5

If I had to rank every album on this list, I feel like this one would end up right around the exact middle. Some fantastic moments but something is keeping me from loving it. 3.5/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

Not as good as Kid A but still very interesting and good

Kenya

Machito

4/5

Such a good time, I'm a sucker for a good drum beat so I will be relistening in the future.

The Poet

Bobby Womack

4/5

I think there's a time and mood that would make this a 5/5. Grading student essays is not the time or mood. It was still a very nice listening experience.

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

4/5

Interstellar Overdrive. That's it. That's the review. 4.5/5

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Kate Bush AND Laurie Anderson!?! Yeah it's a good album

Ten

Pearl Jam

4/5

*insert Skate 3 clip of Jesus shredding for our sins*

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

4/5

Good ol' Prog Rock

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

I can understand why people dislike this album. I also disagree heavily with those people. This album has only gotten better for me with each listen.

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

4/5

The title track is the standout but I really enjoyed this album.

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

RIP Bowie, went out on a high note.

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

After the first three songs, I was thinking 5. It became a bit of a slog, so it dropped to 4. Then Green Eyes came on and I hated that song so it dropped to a 3. Upon further reflection, I do like the rest of it so 3.5/5.

Garbage

4/5

Garbage (band & album name) this was (is?). Garbage (bad music) this was not.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

This was nice and relaxing. Sarah Vaughan is obviously terrific but I also just feel a little meh about it. Great album cover though.

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

3/5

This was my first Morrissey solo album. While this isn't a bad album and there are some songs I quite like, this isn't the Smiths. Another review on here says this album makes you realize Johnny Marr was the heart of the Smiths. I don't agree with that. I think they're both the heart, they suit each other and make each other better. Though this album probably does need some Johnny Marr. Also why are there more Morrissey solo albums than Smiths albums on this list?

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

When I first listened to Pink Moon, I thought it was fine but I didn't quite understand why everyone was so enamored with it so I hadn't listened to any of his other albums before getting assigned this one. I really liked this album so now I think I need to revisit Pink Moon. I'm older and wiser now, perhaps I'll understand it more. Bryter Layter gets a 4.5/5.

Le Tigre

5/5

Just banger after banger. Love the way it seamlessly transitions from dance music to noisy, angry punk

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

3/5

Outside of Waterloo Sunset, it's just really forgettable. Not that it's bad, I just don't care that much. Indifferent.