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User Albums Journey

Exploring beyond the book, one album at a time

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1970

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Ida Con Snock Michael Hurley	5	2.86	+2.14
Chocolate & Cheese Ween	5	3.12	+1.88
Englabörn Jóhann Jóhannsson	5	3.19	+1.81
Moa Anbessa Getatchew Mekurya	5	3.23	+1.77
King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown King Tubby	5	3.28	+1.72
Gemstones Adam Green	4	2.58	+1.42
Afraid Of Sunlight Marillion	4	2.62	+1.38
L'autre... Mylène Farmer	4	2.7	+1.3
A City Dressed In Dynamite That Handsome Devil	4	2.8	+1.2
Tomorrow Belongs To Me The Sensational Alex Harvey Band	4	2.82	+1.18

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Charlie Brown Christmas Vince Guaraldi Trio	1	3.89	-2.89
Check Your Head Beastie Boys	1	3.56	-2.56
John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman John Coltrane	1	3.45	-2.45
Ænima TOOL	1	3.4	-2.4
Madvillainy Madvillain	1	3.38	-2.38
10,000 Days TOOL	1	3.27	-2.27
Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino Arctic Monkeys	1	3.05	-2.05
10,000 gecs 100 gecs	1	2.91	-1.91
Symbolic Death	1	2.78	-1.78
AmarElo Emicida	1	2.75	-1.75

5-Star Albums (5)

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Hadestown

Anaïs Mitchell · 2 likes

4/5

Enjoyed that, thank you

Things We Lost In The Fire

Low · 1 likes

4/5

Absolutely loved this, a very strong 4

"Weird Al" Yankovic

"Weird Al" Yankovic · 1 likes

2/5

I so much wanted to like this but it's not my humour I'm afraid & it doesn't translate very well outside the US

Nail

Scraping Foetus off the Wheel · 1 likes

3/5

That was certainly a mixed bag, but it had it's moments.

1-Star Albums (15)

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Once

Nightwish

3/5

Halfway through I was thinking this is a deeply inauspicious start to the User Albums section but ''Ghost Love Score came to the rescue.

Latin Mass

Os Mundi

1/5

Boys And Girls in America

The Hold Steady

3/5

I Need to Start a Garden

Haley Heynderickx

4/5

4 stars might be a touch generous but I enjoyed that.

Sublime

2/5

Hadestown

Anaïs Mitchell

4/5

Enjoyed that, thank you

Discosis

Bran Van 3000

2/5

Set Yourself On Fire

Stars

4/5

Get Rich Or Die Ryan

Spose

1/5

Dreading this & I've put it off for several days. It's as bad as everyone says & goes on forever.

Ænima

TOOL

1/5

Was this submitted as a piss take? As if 90+ minutes of Spose wasn't terrible enough this follows it & is another of level of bad altogether.

Thunder And Consolation

New Model Army

2/5

Chocolate & Cheese

Ween

5/5

Totally brilliant I'm a new weenie...!! How have I never heard of these before & how did they not make the list?

Bob Mould

2/5

City Of Evil

Avenged Sevenfold

1/5

The first track of this shite was enough to convince me to play something worth listening to while I was in the car & relegate the remaining garbage on this album (i.e. all of it) to background noise later in the day when I had a garden bench to sand down & repaint.

Currents

Tame Impala

3/5

Operation Ivy

2/5

The Black Parade

My Chemical Romance

2/5

Loss

Mull Historical Society

3/5

Austin Powers looms large over this one but it was a very pleasant listen. Was that really a 57 minute Cryptoscam video in the middle of this or did I just get unlucky with youTube's adserver.

Spirit of Eden

Talk Talk

4/5

Goat

The Jesus Lizard

2/5

Symbolic

Death

1/5

Great music to work to. So long as your work involves a large amount of intrusive background noise which drowns out this steaming pile of doghit.

Argus

Wishbone Ash

4/5

Here's a band & album that have been off my radar for many a year. Saw them absolutely smack a festival at Ally Pally in 1973 when I was 17. Andy Powell's rather weak soprano vocals were always a negative but the album's held up well otherwise. Thanks for reviving some long dormant memories

Quadrophenia

The Who

3/5

Nuyorican Soul

2/5

Not as good as I was expecting it to be, but given other comments maybe it merits a second listen.

The Shape Of Jazz To Come

Ornette Coleman

2/5

Great musicianship but jazz isn't my bag I'm afraid.

Transatlanticism

Death Cab for Cutie

4/5

Look Sharp!

Joe Jackson

4/5

Frengers: Not Quite Friends But Not Quite Strangers

Mew

4/5

Rose Mountain

Screaming Females

3/5

Gemstones

Adam Green

4/5

I get how the playfulness might grate with some but I enjoyed a lot of this. 4 stars might be generous, but it's based on a feeling it'll improve on another listen.

Dimanche à Bamako

Amadou & Mariam

4/5

You'd Prefer an Astronaut

Hum

3/5

The Beautiful Letdown

Switchfoot

2/5

One of those choices that leaves you wondering which one of the band is a mate.

Songs Of A Lost World

The Cure

3/5

Things We Lost In The Fire

Low

4/5

Absolutely loved this, a very strong 4

Nonagon Infinity

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

3/5

Really not my genre so I enjoyed that a lot more than I expected. Thank you.

Madvillainy

Madvillain

1/5

Harbor Lights

Bruce Hornsby

2/5

Wild Planet

The B-52's

3/5

Black Devil Disco Club

4/5

The first track's an absolute banger & whilst the rest of the album doesn't quite touch those heights this is still an accomplished & entertaining listen. Thank you.

AmarElo

Emicida

1/5

Given that so much of it's lyrical content is vile homophobic & misogynistic crap is a rap album improved by not understanding what's being said? Whatever the answer, this is truly terrible.

"Weird Al" Yankovic

2/5

I so much wanted to like this but it's not my humour I'm afraid & it doesn't translate very well outside the US

Geography

Tom Misch

3/5

One Life

Malibu

4/5

Englabörn

Jóhann Jóhannsson

5/5

Spilt Milk

Jellyfish

2/5

The list only had about 250 'American rock' groups playing the same indistinguishable stuff so we definitely needed another one.....

L'autre...

Mylène Farmer

4/5

Clarity

Jimmy Eat World

2/5

The art of Amalia Rodrigues

Amália Rodrigues

4/5

What a lovely voice would have been so nice to have seen her in concert.

Don't Throw Stones

THE SPORTS

2/5

Piledriver

Status Quo

4/5

It's The Quo, love it! Seriously, how can the original list have nothing of theirs but 4 albums of risible shite from the Beastie Boys & at least 100 'American rock' albums by groups who aren't fit to tune The Quo's guitars.

Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?

of Montreal

4/5

'The Past is a Grotesque Animal' Immense. Thank you

"Awaken, My Love!"

Childish Gambino

2/5

Save Rock And Roll

Fall Out Boy

2/5

A City Dressed In Dynamite

That Handsome Devil

4/5

Afraid Of Sunlight

Marillion

4/5

I band I knew of but hadn't really heard anything by. The little I knew wasn't very positive so I put off listening to this & did so with very low expectations. Surprisingly I enjoyed this way more than I expected,

O Monstro Precisa De Amigos

Ornatos Violeta

2/5

John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman

John Coltrane

1/5

Zuckerzeit

Cluster

4/5

You & I

Rita Ora

2/5

L'Heptade

Harmonium

2/5

Human Racing

Nik Kershaw

2/5

Oh dear!! Everything bad about the 80's, illustrated by an unimaginably bad video. 2 is being very generous.

Pop Art

Transvision Vamp

3/5

Once Upon a Rhyme

David Allan Coe

3/5

Act IV: Rebirth In Reprise

The Dear Hunter

3/5

Pleasant enough but it feels like stuff Genesis did better & 40 years earlier.

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

Arctic Monkeys

1/5

Oh dear. I know he's from Sheffield &, even better, a Wednesdayite, but my goodness this is truly awful.

Nail

Scraping Foetus off the Wheel

3/5

That was certainly a mixed bag, but it had it's moments.

Kick

INXS

3/5

Not my bag apart from the title track (which lifts this to a generous 3) but I really can't understand how this wasn't on The List given it's popularity & Hutchence's presence & impact.

We Like It Here

Snarky Puppy

3/5

Broken Social Scene

3/5

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Vince Guaraldi Trio

1/5

The worst kind of American cheese..... ....apart maybe from that disgusting stuff that comes in spray cans.

Pulse

Pink Floyd

2/5

There's no shortage of absolute bangers here but I'm afraid this just reinforces a long-held view that most live albums are neither fish nor fowl. They'll never match the audio quality of a studio album but very rarely capture the joy of being at a live concert.

1, 2, Kung Fu!

Boy Azooga

3/5

Bit eclectic but it had it's moments.

Circles

Mac Miller

2/5

Mike Skinner without vocal clarity. Proof that rap doesn't have to be a non-stop dirge of misogyny, homophobia, 'muthafucka' & celebrating a loser culture of drugs, gangs, juvenile strutting & violence. with audible vocals this would have been a decent album.

King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown

King Tubby

5/5

The Great Outdoors Jam

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong

2/5

Out of the Blue

Debbie Gibson

2/5

10,000 gecs

100 gecs

1/5

I've listened to 1167 albums & this is definitely in the bottom 30.

Images and Words

Dream Theater

2/5

I didn't realise that 15 years after it'd sell-by date there were groups still churning out Prog Rock dirges like thjis.

Hand. Cannot. Erase.

Steven Wilson

4/5

A run of recent poor selections might have made this seem better than it is...!

Bloody Kisses

Type O Negative

3/5

What Did You Expect from The Vaccines?

The Vaccines

3/5

Home Sweet Home

Kano

1/5

He was chillingly good in the original C4 Top Boy series (haven't een the later Netflix relaunch so I can't comment on that). Shame that his other job is churning out standard-jssue, MF-laden rap garbage.

Afrociberdelia

Chico Science

3/5

Well there's a lot in here ain't there.....! A very mixed bag but it has it's moments, some nice rhythms especially

Exile On Coldharbour Lane

Alabama 3

4/5

Come On Come On

Mary Chapin Carpenter

3/5

Modal Soul

Nujabes

4/5

Flower Boy

Tyler, The Creator

2/5

One of the better rap albums on this journey. Would have been a 3 but for gross over-use of the N-word.

Check Your Head

Beastie Boys

1/5

WTAF. 4 albums of risible shite on the original list by the world's most ridiculous group was 3 too many, especially given some of the omissions. One of the rare occasions when I've been VERY seriously tempted to skip an album, but I'm so far invested in this project now that I'm seeing it through to the end. So, deep breath, count to 10, & here goes....... .....and 2 hours later - yep it was every bit as bad as I feared.

Tomorrow Belongs To Me

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

4/5

A great live band whose stage presence didn't always translate well onto their albums.

Grand Prix

Teenage Fanclub

3/5

Maestro

Kaizers Orchestra

3/5

Out Of Time

R.E.M.

4/5

Whilst the reviewer who described it as an album which changed music has severely over egged the cake there's no doubt it's a significant omission from the list regardless of musical taste

Que c'est triste Venise

Charles Aznavour

2/5

Foxes in the Snow

Jason Isbell

3/5

Squeezing Out Sparks

Graham Parker

3/5

Decent late-70's rock from a proper trooper.

The Fame

Lady Gaga

3/5

Not my taste & getting both Madonna wannabe vibes & a general feeling that she just does this stuff much better. But given the hits on it & its significance it should have been on the list.

Daisies Of The Galaxy

Eels

4/5

Reading Writing And Arithmetic

The Sundays

3/5

Dilate

Ani DiFranco

3/5

I enjoyed the opening track but not much after that. I'll go with the reviewer who called her a better Alanis Morrisette but I'm afraid that doesn't move the dial very far for me. £ is me feeling extremely generous.

10,000 Days

TOOL

1/5

Yellow & Green

Baroness

2/5

Not the worst of it's ilk but waaaay toooo long. I grew out of this stuff when I hit 20. When I listen to yet another of these it seems firstly like I'm hearing the same album for about the 300th time since I started this project & secondly that in over half a century of trying no-one's found a better way of doing heavy rock than Deep Purple were doing in the early '70's

Ida Con Snock

Michael Hurley

5/5

What an absolute lovely album. 'I stole the right live' is worth 5 stars by itself.

Damien Rice

3/5

Revolution

Q65

4/5

The Decline

NOFX

3/5

Canciones 1989-2013

Extremoduro

2/5

No, gracias

Silent Alarm

Bloc Party

4/5

Absolutely loved this, it's a stunning omission from the original list, considering 4 albums of Beastie Boy dross made it.

Alive Or Just Breathing

Killswitch Engage

1/5

Moa Anbessa

Getatchew Mekurya

5/5

An Ethiopian jazz sax & Dutch punk band - insane....!! Whoever thought of this & made it happen is an absolute genius.

Somewhere In The Between

Streetlight Manifesto

2/5

One of those albums you want to like but it's all over the place really without hitting the mark anywhere.

Fear of a Blank Planet

Porcupine Tree

3/5

Come On Over

Shania Twain

4/5

Good singalong stuff, surprised it wasn't on the original list.

God Shuffled His Feet

Crash Test Dummies

2/5

Savage Sinusoid

Igorrr

3/5

A bit mad in parts, some truly awful stuff but 'Houmous' & ' Au Revoir' made the playlist for further listening.

Transient

Gaelle

4/5

There's a point where elevator muzak becomes cool background vibes. This one's on the right side of that divide. Hovered between 3 & 4, but it's an album I'll listen to again & I'm very certain it'll improve on further listening so a 4 it is.