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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
3 + 3 The Isley Brothers	5	3.59	+1.41
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm A Tribe Called Quest	5	3.62	+1.38
Grace Jeff Buckley	5	3.74	+1.26

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bringing It All Back Home Bob Dylan	1	3.63	-2.63
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	2	3.5	-1.5
Eliminator ZZ Top	2	3.37	-1.37
Melodrama Lorde	2	3.31	-1.31
Songs Of Love And Hate Leonard Cohen	2	3.2	-1.2
Trans Europe Express Kraftwerk	2	3.16	-1.16
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns Joni Mitchell	2	3.12	-1.12
Emperor Tomato Ketchup Stereolab	2	3.03	-1.03

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People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

Popular Reviews

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire · 1 likes

3/5

Fine and forgettable.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós · 1 likes

3/5

I'm rating this 3 stars. But that is because 3 is the average of all possible ratings. This album is the one of the most mood and song-to-song dependent albums I've ever heard. If I'm in the right mood and listening to the right songs, this is an easy 5. Wrong mood and wrong songs? 1 star is being generous.

1-Star Albums (1)

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Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

Great mix of jazz along with the blues.

Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

"Sharp Dressed Man" and "Legs" are bangers, for sure, but the rest of the album really starts to feel the same.

Celebrity Skin

Hole

3/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

2/5

I should like this album. I love the wall of sound concept, and this definitely has it. But in execution here, it's just annoying. And in now way did this album need to be 22 tracks. He ran out of ideas after about 10 and then just kept going.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

Fine and forgettable.

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

Funky and groovy for a lot of it, but disappointingly languid for too much of the album.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

I think I really need to have heard this album when it came out to fully appreciate it. It's good enough music, but isn't blowing me away at all.

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

2/5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j2Pb0YwVH8

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

2/5

You can definitely hear how this impacted quite a lot of electronic music: building a little these/snippet and repeating it with some variation over time. But other than there I couldn't find a whole lot to like about the album. Not bad, just kind of boring. Like with other albums (and I suspect more and more that we'll listen to), it's hard to fully appreciate this when you started with the music that this inspired, which has also been refined, enhanced and expanded. It's kind of like watching dead-ball baseball when you started watching in the modern era.

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

Phenomenal sound quality. The experience is ruined a little bit by all the breaks for introductions, crowd control, etc. I would have preferred more music and less of what was happening at the actual performance.

Fragile

Yes

4/5

Really good album. Roundabout is an all-timer. Lots of really interesting ideas. I really liked Cans & Brahms. About a 3.5 rounded up.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Good album. I really liked the first track and wish the rest of the album could have been that good. Would have been an easy 4+. Also, what a dumb album title & cover.

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

3/5

Fine, just not my cup of tea.

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

2/5

I hate Leonard Cohen as a vocalist. Let me repeat that, I hate Leonard Cohen as a vocalist. Only Bob Dylan might be worse. Every song sounds exactly the same. He takes his voice, which is pretty good in and of itself, and does absolutely nothing with it. Like any sort of inventiveness, dynamism or variety is morally wrong to him. The music itself occasionally has a bit of life, but mostly that is pretty monotonous (except, Diamonds in the Mine, that was a nice change of pace). I now know I'll never need to listen to one of his songs again. The album title is two words too long. Being generous and rounding up 1.5 stars entirely because of Diamonds in the Mine (though the more songs I listen to the harder this becomes).

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

3/5

Nothing special.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

3/5

There's a couple of really high highs. "Sweetness Follows" is one of my favorite songs (not just on the album), and "Man On the Moon" is excellent. However, they aren't enough to raise the entire album to anything more than average for me.

Debut

Björk

3/5

Very innovative music with lots going on. But I'd have to be in the right mood to want to listen to this album too much. Kudos to Bjork for naming her debut solo album "Debut".

Femi Kuti

4/5

Song length really hurt this album. Easily 4+ stars if each song was just shorter. Fantastic music with an incredible rhythm section. This is exactly the kind of album I was hoping to hear from this site. Giving it 4 stars because of that.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

I say this with all sincerity, I'm not sophisticated enough to fully appreciate this album. I liked it, but I believe I need to be more of a musician or jazz aficionado to get the most out of it.

The United States Of America

2/5

Yup

Melodrama

Lorde

2/5

Fine, and I've already completely forgotten it. I would like to hear the justification of why I needed to hear this album.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Brilliant album top to bottom. Incredible and inventive beats perfectly matching Q-Tip and Phife Dawg.

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

2/5

The singer's voice really grated on me. The music wasn't any better.

Gold

Ryan Adams

3/5

If you're going to copy someone, may as well be The Boss.

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

3/5

I really should have liked this more, but it just didn't click. Still good, though.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Not quite Talking Book or Songs..., but prime Stevie Wonder is a treasure. Every song is just a pleasure to listen to.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Better than the other ZZ Top album we had.

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

2/5

A very 90s interpretation of reggae. The problem is that I don't like reggae. This album didn't change that.

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

2/5

Art rock sucks.

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Not at all what I expected. Lots of different sounds and instruments. I didn't like it, but I'm glad I listened to it. I suppose that's the point of this whole thing.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

5/5

How is it I'm only listening to this now?!? It's phenomenal. So much ear candy in every track. And the covers? Blew my mind. I had no idea you could do that to "Summer Breeze".

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

3/5

I am completely indifferent to this album.

High Violet

The National

3/5

Perfectly ok.

Pretenders

3/5

Good album. Chrissie is a great front-woman. At this point, I've heard "Brass In Pocket" too many times, which is sad. I really wish I could have seen them live when this came out. I bet those shows were killer.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

1/5

I've been dreading this day. I hate Bob Dylan. Leonard Cohen gave strong competition, but Dylan remains the worst vocalist of all time. His voice grates on me like no one else's. The music is alright but can't overcome his obnoxious vocals. And while I normally don't care about lyrics, Dylan's are so dumb that I can't ignore them. DNF'd the album.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

Love this album.

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

2/5

Is there some rule that says protest music must be sung by people with the worst voices possible? Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and now Billy Bragg. All have bad voices. Does it somehow make the music more important if the singer sounds like crap? If they played the guitar like they sang, they'd be laughed off the stage. So why is a bad voice acceptable? Anyway, the music is kind of interesting, but Bragg himself was painful to listen to.

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

2/5

I would like to simultaneously give this a 2, 3 and 4. Some songs are a perfect combination of Antony's vocals and the music. And for some songs all I could think of was Tiny Tim without the falsetto. When they're on, this band has some pretty high highs, however that's sadly too rare. But, another album I'm glad I listened to and wouldn't have otherwise - even if I didn't totally like it.

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

2/5

This is one of those "I'm not mad, just disappointed" situations. This album isn't bad, it's just dumb. There isn't any reason for it to exist, nor is there any reason for it to be on this list. It serves no purpose and therefore I can't really hate it. The exception being "AB/7A", that was actually alright. It's like Throbbing Gristle screwed up and put an actual musical song on the album.