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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
John Prine John Prine	5	3.22	+1.78
Raw Power The Stooges	5	3.31	+1.69
Dirt Alice In Chains	5	3.46	+1.54
Jazz Samba Stan Getz	5	3.56	+1.44

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Ten Pearl Jam	1	3.91	-2.91
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	1	3.45	-2.45
Nothing's Shocking Jane's Addiction	1	3.17	-2.17
Dig Your Own Hole The Chemical Brothers	1	3.11	-2.11
Microshift Hookworms	1	3.02	-2.02
Nighthawks At The Diner Tom Waits	1	3	-2
Ys Joanna Newsom	1	2.8	-1.8
Suicide Suicide	1	2.47	-1.47
Bitches Brew Miles Davis	2	3.29	-1.29
This Is Hardcore Pulp	2	3.14	-1.14

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Artist	Albums	Average
Pink Floyd	2	5

5-Star Albums (8)

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1-Star Albums (9)

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

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The Velvet Underground

4/5

Was never exposed to Velvet Underground, first time hearing this album, liked it a lot, reminded me of smooth Beatles

Ten

Pearl Jam

1/5

Depressing. Not for me

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

3/5

Was always a fan of Bowie, this album not so much

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Tiny Dancer and Levon are deep in my memory, the rest of the album, not so much. Will always be a sucker for piano. Did not know Rick Wakeman played organ on Rotten Peaches, The best start somewhere.

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Three member band of bass, electric guitar and drums. Little Wing and Castles made of Sand stand out. Mitch Mitchell ranked 8 out of 100 best drummers, no doubt. Noel Redding on bass, impressive. Hendrix, well, Hendrix had a style like no other, though I liked Are You Experienced way better. Still remember the day he died, driving around on a Sunday, so high, so sad.

Stephen Stills

4/5

Love the One You're With is the best song on this album, though many of the others are very good, simply because they are electric guitar, bass, keyboard and drums, clearly defined, distinct, not ugly noise like some of the albums of 1001 albums .. Stephen Stills was best with Crosby, Nash and Young, but there were feuds and power plays going on. Still, for not having heard this album from 1970 back then, I heard it now and liked most of it.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

One of my favorite albums, along with Bare Trees. Classic rock

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

Recognized one song, the rest was new to me. Wasn't crazy about it

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Smooth, easy listening, never heard of this band but I was pleasantly surprised.

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

4/5

First time hearing this band, really liked the album. Vocals reminded me of Mick Jagger on a couple songs, tight guitar, reminiscent of Led Zeppelin, so many sounds, multiple instruments, hypnotizing beats, moving chorals. Impressive

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

Liked the Pyramid Song for the piano, Amnesiac for the percussion, and Life in a Glasshouse for the horns, piano, real music, not synthesized to death like the rest of the album. The whiny, flat, off key vocals were depressing and just plain irritating.

Microshift

Hookworms

1/5

Tried to like this album, hoped every song would be better than the last. Was disappointed. Finally liked the last one, Shortcomings. Too much synthesized noise. Boring vocals with no range, sounded like the same 2 alternating notes were sung, no melody whatsoever. Only real instrument I could hear were drums and they were excellently played. Keyboards were heard a few times. Give me my 45 minutes back.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

2/5

Though jazz has never been a favorite genre of mine, I was aware of this album's critical acclaim among those who appreciate it. I finally heard this album after all these years. For me, it's the connection to John McLaughlin and Mahavishnu Orchestra that's meaningful. I can hear and appreciate the snippets throughout that influenced Inner Mounting Flame, and Birds of Fire. Miles Davis galvanized the movement of fusing rock and jazz.

Scum

Napalm Death

1/5

Vocals are gutteral screaming, guitars and drums are skilled. Sounds like a neo Nazi hate rally. Not for me. The reviews do not disappoint!

Raw Power

The Stooges

5/5

I really liked this, having never heard it before'--solid guitar, bass, drums, vocals. After listening to that garbage sh*t yesterday, (napalm death/scum) this was like Yeah!

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

1/5

Tried to like this, just, nope.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

This album won a Grammy, who knew. I didn't like every song but liked most of them. I look forward to hearing more Prince albums on this site.

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

1/5

Every song had a promising start, guitars, bass, drums, great beats, had me movin', then the vocals ruined the vibe. Every single time.

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

2/5

Not bad, pretty good. Not good enough to listen to ever again. Why is there no Eminem on this list?

Suicide

1/5

Not the worst, no where near the best, won't listen to it ever again

Joanna Newsom

1/5

Can't handle the vocals

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

5/5

I like this!

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

3/5

So I just learned yesterday that Clapton was with the Yardbirds way back, I remember Cream and Derek and the Dominos. This album is okay. Was never a fan of I Shot the Sheriff, still not. Let it Grow was good, reminded me of Blind Faith. Hard to forgive his racism and anti science beliefs.

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

1/5

Maybe I'll give it another try.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

5/5

Favorite track : Rooster Learned about this band watching Mike Starr struggle on Celebrity Rehab in 2010. First time listening to the album, liked it. RIP Mike

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

Knew of the Smiths, hadn't heard this album before today, liked it!

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

I have always liked Tom Petty--he had so many excellent songs and albums, why his first album was chosen for this list is beyond me.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

1001 stars.

Moving Pictures

Rush

4/5

Tom Sawyer and Limelight 5 stars, the rest, 4 stars

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

2/5

Started out ok, went downhill from there. 2 stars

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

4/5

Liked this

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Acoustic guitar, smooth vocals 5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

1001 stars

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

3/5

Smooth, nice beat, got tired of it before the end of the album

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

1/5

Irritating garbage noise. Shit vocals ruin any guitar or drum efforts. Zero stars

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

5 stars

John Prine

5/5

Had only heard Illegal Smile before today. Thoroughly enjoyed this album, the lyrics, pedal steel guitar, slide guitar, piano/keyboards. Five stars. Lyrics relevant in 1971, even more so in 2026, sadly. * Puzzling why this project has left out these artists from this genre: Arlo Guthrie, John Denver, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Brown. Glad this one made the cut.