My User Albums Journey

User Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Diamonds & Gasoline Turnpike Troubadours	5	2.79	+2.21
Control Pedro The Lion	5	2.85	+2.15
An Empty Bliss Beyond This World The Caretaker	5	2.9	+2.1
Diary Sunny Day Real Estate	5	2.97	+2.03
Operation Ivy Operation Ivy	5	3.04	+1.96
The Lioness Songs: Ohia	5	3.09	+1.91
I And Love And You The Avett Brothers	5	3.09	+1.91
Somewhere In The Between Streetlight Manifesto	5	3.14	+1.86
The Shape Of Punk To Come Refused	5	3.14	+1.86
Englabörn Jóhann Jóhannsson	5	3.19	+1.81

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
News at 11 Cat System Corp.	1	2.36	-1.36
Reading Writing And Arithmetic The Sundays	2	3.31	-1.31
Sublime Sublime	2	3.29	-1.29
Imaginal Disk Magdalena Bay	2	3.2	-1.2
Brat Charli xcx	2	3.14	-1.14
Come On Over Shania Twain	2	3.07	-1.07

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Artist	Albums	Average
TOOL	2	5

5-Star Albums (18)

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Home, Like Noplace Is There

The Hotelier · 3 likes

4/5

Evidently, there was an "emo revival" that sounds a lot more like the emo (screamo) that I knew in my youth. Interesting. It didn't hit me at the time because I was already aged out of emo, but I appreciate this newer album that sounded more like emo from 20 years before it.

Psychic Warfare

Clutch · 1 likes

5/5

Thanks for adding Clutch. Good call. Great listen today.

You & I

Rita Ora · 1 likes

4/5

Good voice and amazing production, so this works. Not my standard album by any means, but again better than most of the "required" albums.

Control

Pedro The Lion · 1 likes

5/5

I want to thank whoever added this to the list. One of my favorite concerts was seeing Pedro right before this came out, and it still holds up. Granted, it could kill the best mood, but it's still so damn good.

Things We Lost In The Fire

Low · 1 likes

4/5

I didn’t follow Low, but this was wonderfully dark.

1-Star Albums (1)

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King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown

King Tubby

4/5

First user-submitted album, and it didn’t disappoint. I’d never heard it before, and I loved it.

Comfort To Me

Amyl and The Sniffers

4/5

I do love punk (slightly more than metal), but I have to admit this did seem like a "have to see it live to really love them" band.

From The Lions Mouth

The Sound

4/5

Of dark early 80s post-punk, this was pretty good. I would have watched them with Joy Division in concert.

Control

Pedro The Lion

5/5

Ram

Paul McCartney

4/5

Okay, I've decided in retrospect that Paul might be my favorite Beatle based on what he was able to do without the other three. By that standard, John has become my least favorite, I guess, because I cannot stand the Imagine and Ono phase. Anyway, you could definitely tell this was soon after The Beatles in Paul's career, and I don't mind that at all. Good, catchy songs, and great musicianship.

News at 11

Cat System Corp.

1/5

I feel like I just got trolled by the submitter of this album. There's no way this is their favorite album, and if they think this needed to be heard before I died, we are just very different. It's... random clips from the news and ads and jazz that I would have hated in any format? Seriously, this is a joke, right?

Ida Con Snock

Michael Hurley

4/5

Another artist I had legit never heard of, and another good listen.

Exile On Coldharbour Lane

Alabama 3

3/5

Interesting. This was very much an hour of songs that sounded much like the opening to The Sopranos (a song I enjoy but had never tracked down before).

Symbolic

Death

4/5

This was definitely death metal, and I appreciate that. It was also over an hour, which seems kinda insane for a metal album. I don't know. I really like metal, but it started to wear thin after a while.

Watch Out!

Alexisonfire

4/5

This is my kind of post-hardcore. Not my favorite, but definitely in the ballpark.

Transatlanticism

Death Cab for Cutie

5/5

Loved this album when it came out, and I still do. Could be nostalgia, but it still sounds great to me.

You & I

Rita Ora

4/5

Good voice and amazing production, so this works. Not my standard album by any means, but again better than most of the "required" albums.

I Am

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

This actually should have been on the original list.

The Mantle

Agalloch

4/5

I love metal. I don’t love progressive metal, but I do like it.

Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones)

Jai Paul

3/5

Didn’t expect to enjoy a demo for a type of music that I don’t care about, but the story and the “unfinished” nature were actually very intriguing.

GLOW ON

Turnstile

3/5

I love some good hard rock, and this is really close to that. Or, I guess I love hardcore and metal, hard rock is close enough, and this is hard rock. Anyway, it was great fun. I won’t feel a need to relisten to get anything else out of it, but I enjoyed the time spent.

Stop Making Sense

Talking Heads

5/5

I "cheated" and actually just watched the concert movie for this because you really should do that. So, I can't rightly rate the album outside of that, and I don't care. I love the concert movie.

Ruby Vroom

Soul Coughing

3/5

I don't know. Some part of me totally embraces the teenage feeling of grooving to this, and the other part files it just under ska for shameful joys of the 90s. It's not Soul Coughing's fault, to be fair, but this just feels so of a time that it feels weird to hear it in 2026. Still, my dislike for my own nostalgia is not a fair way to rate this, so I'll have to split the difference.

My Love Is Cool

Wolf Alice

3/5

Act IV: Rebirth In Reprise

The Dear Hunter

4/5

I saw that this was part four in a modern prog collection, and I was concerned, to say the least. This was so very listenable, though. Reminded me more of The Decemberists than any other prog rock.

Diary

Sunny Day Real Estate

5/5

It's hard to be objective after listening to this so many times in high school and having this as one of my "intro to emo" CDs. Still, I love it.

Suzuki

Tosca

3/5

Pony Express Record

Shudder To Think

3/5

Auri

2/5

Because the Internet

Childish Gambino

5/5

Okay. I’m honestly a little surprised now that this wasn’t on the original list, and that was a mistake.

Animals

Pink Floyd

4/5

Hello Rockview

Less Than Jake

4/5

Music For People In Trouble

Susanne Sundfør

3/5

My Brain Hurts

Screeching Weasel

4/5

Somewhere In The Between

Streetlight Manifesto

5/5

Huh. Ska punk that doesn’t just make me think of the 90s. Better punk vocals than most ska. Better musicianship than most punk. I love punk, and I had never listened to Streetlight Manifesto. Very good.

One Life

Malibu

3/5

Norther

Ex-Easter Island Head

3/5

Carrie & Lowell

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Flower Boy

Tyler, The Creator

4/5

Please Don't Take Me Back

Martha

4/5

Modal Soul

Nujabes

3/5

The Best of The Hot 5 & Hot 7 Recordings

Louis Armstrong

4/5

Tragic Kingdom

No Doubt

4/5

An Empty Bliss Beyond This World

The Caretaker

5/5

I had never heard of this, and it was wild! I went in without the backstory, and I still loved the experience.

City Of Evil

Avenged Sevenfold

3/5

Angel Dust

Faith No More

4/5

Imaginal Disk

Magdalena Bay

2/5

Englabörn

Jóhann Jóhannsson

5/5

I didn’t realize I needed this in my life, but I loved it and my blood pressure was lower.

Thank Christ for the Bomb

The Groundhogs

4/5

Fear of a Blank Planet

Porcupine Tree

4/5

The Evil One

Roky Erickson

4/5

Homogenic

Björk

4/5

Stories

Avicii

3/5

The Lioness

Songs: Ohia

5/5

Frengers: Not Quite Friends But Not Quite Strangers

Mew

4/5

Sparkle In The Finish

The Ike Reilly Assassination

2/5

Decent alt rock music. It had more stars until I started paying attention to the dumb lyrics.

Nuyorican Soul

4/5

Atrocity Exhibition

Danny Brown

2/5

I just can’t go with the extreme vulgar hip-hop.

Brand New Eyes

Paramore

4/5

Is Ellipsis

Psyche Origami

4/5

"Awaken, My Love!"

Childish Gambino

4/5

Things We Lost In The Fire

Low

4/5

I didn’t follow Low, but this was wonderfully dark.

Sing To God

Cardiacs

3/5

Hmmm. There were some actually really interesting parts of this, but it was a double album with so many random points I could barely listen to. I think it could have been a great single album.

Reading Writing And Arithmetic

The Sundays

2/5

The Unutterable

The Fall

4/5

Grand Prix

Teenage Fanclub

3/5

Songs For The Deaf

Queens of the Stone Age

4/5

Home, Like Noplace Is There

The Hotelier

4/5

Polygondwanaland

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

3/5

Yeah, I still don't really get the hype, but I realize I'm just not the right audience. That being said, I didn't hate it.

LUX

ROSALÍA

4/5

Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit

Courtney Barnett

4/5

Mingus Ah Um

Charles Mingus

4/5

Brat

Charli xcx

2/5

Café Tacvba

3/5

Oncle Jazz

Men I Trust

3/5

Look Sharp!

Joe Jackson

4/5

Come On Over

Shania Twain

2/5

Que c'est triste Venise

Charles Aznavour

3/5

I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One

Yo La Tengo

3/5

Hand. Cannot. Erase.

Steven Wilson

4/5

Give Up

The Postal Service

4/5

No Balance Palace

Kashmir

3/5

Sublime

2/5

Wow. This is so 90s. Ironically, I remember being annoyed by it in the 90s, and teenage daughter listens to it all the time now in 2026. I still don't get it.

Deltron 3030

4/5

Currents

Tame Impala

3/5

Telefone

Noname

3/5

Rose Mountain

Screaming Females

4/5

The Shape Of Punk To Come

Refused

5/5

Damn. I loved this so much. This was my kind of punk. Hardcore. A little crazy. Anarchist. Loved it.

Yellow & Green

Baroness

3/5

10,000 Days

TOOL

5/5

The Feeding of the 5000

Crass

3/5

More Brit punk, please.

Pinkerton

Weezer

5/5

Okay. I got this for my 16th birthday from my coolest aunt, and it will always have a soft place in my heart. Thank you for adding this. I needed the nostalgia and actual appreciation for late 90s Weezet musicianship today.

Ænima

TOOL

5/5

Psychic Warfare

Clutch

5/5

Thanks for adding Clutch. Good call. Great listen today.

Holy Diver

Dio

4/5

The Monitor

Titus Andronicus

4/5

At some point, this had transitioned into a singalong bar album, and that didn’t upset me.

California

Mr. Bungle

3/5

Well, that was an experience.

Nightbirds

LaBelle

4/5

Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides

SOPHIE

2/5

Are You Shpongled?

Shpongle

3/5

The name and the summary had me worried, but it was not as bad as I feared. I still don't believe "psybient" is a real thing, but this is not the worst British techno I've had to listen to on this list.

I And Love And You

The Avett Brothers

5/5

Such a great album on a Friday.

Pushin' Against a Stone

Valerie June

4/5

I had missed this release completely, but I did really enjoy it. Great songwriting, and I could hear the influence of the Black Keys in the best ways.

Vedergällningen

Garmarna

3/5

Slip

Quicksand

3/5

Not bad at all, but still kinda generic for me. I'm not trying to ding them for their peers, but I was already listening to Helmet and Fugazi by the time this came out.

Bon Iver

4/5

Blade Runner

Vangelis

4/5

Check Your Head

Beastie Boys

5/5

Diamonds & Gasoline

Turnpike Troubadours

5/5

This is surprisingly my vibe of Honky Toni and reminded me of The Old 97s in the best ways.