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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle Throbbing Gristle	4	1.88	+2.12
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	5	3.33	+1.67
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.34	+1.66
Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow	5	3.35	+1.65
The United States Of America The United States Of America	4	2.61	+1.39
Scott 2 Scott Walker	4	2.63	+1.37
A Wizard, A True Star Todd Rundgren	4	2.85	+1.15

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Highway to Hell AC/DC	1	3.64	-2.64
The Suburbs Arcade Fire	1	3.49	-2.49
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.48	-2.48
Tusk Fleetwood Mac	1	3.47	-2.47
1989 Taylor Swift	1	3.26	-2.26
Only By The Night Kings of Leon	1	3.22	-2.22
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin	2	4.08	-2.08
Will The Circle Be Unbroken Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	1	2.98	-1.98
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys	2	3.73	-1.73
Graceland Paul Simon	2	3.72	-1.72

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Tusk

Fleetwood Mac · 1 likes

1/5

An hour of yawners presented in seventies headache stereo

1-Star Albums (8)

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Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

I can taste cold beer I can hear mosquitos buzz Wait, that's Fogerty

Garbage

3/5

This, Elastica Try to spot the difference Not much. That's OK

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

Misheard "Genocide" Thought he's singing "Donkey Kong" Does that matter? No

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

To invent so much With such confidence, stunning not a moment wasted

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

4/5

I hate long records He could have cut 10 minutes But still... holy shit!

Funeral

Arcade Fire

3/5

Like Neon Bible The whole thing feels overwrought But sincere, at least

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

1/5

An hour of yawners presented in seventies headache stereo

Melodrama

Lorde

2/5

A good vocalist Sabotaging herself Stupid baby talk

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Voice of an angel The sounds of past and future Drum machine kicks ass

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

1/5

Fuck this boring dreck One song caught my attention For a bad reason

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Every cover track Improves the original The funk soul brothers

2112

Rush

2/5

Nice compositions Somewhat masturbatory Stick to the space stuff

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

3/5

I have a theory The author needed filler But this is a jam

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

2/5

Amusing lyrics Inspiration on their sleeve This guy whines a lot

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

2/5

"Yo La Tengo"-esque I don't have enough patience for this sort of thing

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

2/5

Yep. It's a big band I don't know what I should feel Cocktail party time!

The United States Of America

4/5

I'll indulge myself with a cliche: "tour de force" mind-expanding stuff NOTE: The 1001 Albums book lists this record as being 37 minutes long and having ten tracks, which is how it was packaged for the original LP. If you listen on a streaming service, the explosive end of the record immediately gives way to a bunch of demo tracks and b-sides that go on as long as the album itself does and kind of sully the whole thing.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Ba da da da da A powerful performance Ba da da da da

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

2/5

Atmospheric pieces Buried in boring Brit-pop Cut all that crap out

The Visitors

ABBA

2/5

A fun title track And then nothing and nothing And some more nothing

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

4/5

Play this album loud cruising through Arizona post-apocalypse

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

1/5

DNF

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

2/5

The Electric Prunes A wind-up to a punchline Toonerville Trolley!!

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

2/5

Win Butler... shut up! The schmaltz _was_ tolerable But now you're cancelled

Tommy

The Who

3/5

Very ambitious And they kind of pull it off Still… fiddle about…

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

Throbbing Gristle

4/5

Surveillance, control Society decaying Same as ever. Yay!!!

Arrival

ABBA

3/5

Dum dum diddle dum dum diddle dum dum diddle Abba baba boo

Graceland

Paul Simon

2/5

I say... something weird! She says... arbitrary crap! He says... hemisphere!

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

2/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

Fuck you

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

4/5

Moby Grape

3/5

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

3/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

2/5

Scott 2

Scott Walker

4/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

1/5

"They heard me singing and they told me to stop / quit these pretentious things and just punch the clock" — band that bought a church and outfitted it with vintage gear to use as a studio

Phrenology

The Roots

4/5

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

3/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

4/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5