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You Love More Than Most

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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West
5 3.4 +1.6

You Love Less Than Most

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Garbage
Garbage
1 3.39 -2.39
Doolittle
Pixies
2 3.74 -1.74
This Year's Model
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2 3.31 -1.31

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Amazing cover album, his version of hurt is better than the original. Danny Boy and Desperado were highlights for me along with We'll Meet Again.

This Year's Model by Elvis Costello & The Attractions

It was alright, cool use of church organs but didn’t sound like anything I hadn’t heard before

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All Ratings (21)

Rust Never Sleeps by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Apr 17 2026

it was good, powderfinger was my favorite song on it.

B-52's by The B-52's
Apr 19 2026

It was okay, sounded a bit like spy music but rock lobster was funny and a classic.

Doolittle by Pixies
Apr 21 2026

wasn't really my scene couldnt get into it

So by Peter Gabriel
Apr 22 2026

sledgehammer was a good 80s song. production on this is the icture was cool as well.

Apr 23 2026

Amazing cover album, his version of hurt is better than the original. Danny Boy and Desperado were highlights for me along with We'll Meet Again.

Garbage by Garbage
Apr 25 2026

very much not my style of music, it seems like it was game changing at the time but not for me

It's Too Late to Stop Now by Van Morrison
Apr 26 2026

It was a great live album, it reintroduced me to I believe to my soul which I previously thought was only a ray charles song. Great live instrumentation and vocals but a long performance and I couldn’t get to disc 2

This Year's Model by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Apr 27 2026

It was alright, cool use of church organs but didn’t sound like anything I hadn’t heard before

Countdown To Ecstasy by Steely Dan
May 03 2026

Amazing amazing album, steely Dan was introduced to be through an episode of the sopranos. Dirty work was playing in a 15 second segment and it was hilarious. I looked up the song and fell in love with it. This album directly led me to listening to Aja as well. I know we’re not talking about that album (yet! No way it’s not on this list) but countdown to ecstasy had so many great songs. Pearl of the quarter and bodhisattva are highlights for me I’ll definitely be revisiting. Incorporating country elements with such great songwriting was really special. Show biz kids was such a great idea for a song at the time and will age phenomenally. The Boston Rag is an incredible song. The production quality for the time is just something else.

Blue by Joni Mitchell
May 04 2026

It was very nice, need to give it another listen. her voice is very sweet and has a nice vibrato. It's a very sad album to me.

A Hard Day's Night by Beatles
May 05 2026

It’s a good album, music overall has changed so much since the Beatles dropped please please me in 1963 which makes it difficult for me to give this album a high score, it was groundbreaking for the time and still holds up well as an album. A hard days night, can’t buy me love, and you can’t do that are highlights for me.

Tidal by Fiona Apple
May 09 2026

It was okay, couldn’t really get into it outside of criminal

Thriller by Michael Jackson
May 12 2026

It's Thriller. Arguably the single greatest pop album of all time on every conceivable level. Scope, concept, production, and execution. The fact that it's also the highest selling album in history simply cements that fact. Michael Jackson's story from my lens is different from a lot of people. Growing up, I only knew him as a laughingstock who made music and weird adlibs within it. There was a time in my life where I didn't understand the Michael Jackson hype and to be frank, a very very teeny part of that still exists in regards to the god status he's worshipped as. So many highlights on the record including Billie Jean and Beat It. The fact that Billie Jean was a last minute addition to the record is just the cherry on top. Quincy Jones' production was game changing at the time. My personal favorite song on the entire record is Baby Be Mine. To me, that song perfectly encapsulates the perfection of the album.

The Chronic by Dr. Dre
May 13 2026

Not my favorite of the classic hip hop albums (illmatic ftw) but Dr Dre's production was groundbreaking and still holds up exceptionally well. Mixing the synthesizer into drums led to the creation of that unique california/west coast style hip hop sound. My main critique is the lack of lyrical creativity and superficial ideations for the time, that would change in just a few years time. Dre was always a better producer than rapper and Snoop really shines on this project.

White Light / White Heat by The Velvet Underground
May 15 2026

i'm sure it was groundbreaking because it was inappropriate at the time but wasn't my thing.

Gorillaz by Gorillaz
May 16 2026

It was okay kinda weird for weirds sake

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