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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Goat The Jesus Lizard	5	2.79	+2.21
In Between Dreams Jack Johnson	5	3.24	+1.76
WORRY Jeff Rosenstock	5	3.25	+1.75
Recipe for Hate Bad Religion	5	3.26	+1.74
Daisies Of The Galaxy Eels	5	3.27	+1.73
Sublime Sublime	5	3.29	+1.71
Contra Vampire Weekend	5	3.36	+1.64
The Feeding of the 5000 Crass	4	2.68	+1.32
A City Dressed In Dynamite That Handsome Devil	4	2.8	+1.2
Piledriver Status Quo	4	2.83	+1.17

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
LUX ROSALÍA	1	3.51	-2.51
Que c'est triste Venise Charles Aznavour	1	3.22	-2.22
Untrue Burial	1	3.12	-2.12
Djarimirri Gurrumul	1	3.02	-2.02
After Hours The Weeknd	1	2.96	-1.96
Rêver mieux Daniel Bélanger	1	2.96	-1.96
Misplaced Childhood Marillion	1	2.94	-1.94
Sunbather Deafheaven	1	2.85	-1.85
Piñata Freddie Gibbs	1	2.83	-1.83
Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides SOPHIE	1	2.78	-1.78

5-Star Albums (7)

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Geogaddi

Boards of Canada · 2 likes

2/5

Just like the Boards of Canada album in the main list, I forgot I was listening to it at one point.

Phantom Power

The Tragically Hip · 1 likes

4/5

I liked this. Seemed like good rock music.

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

Big Thief · 1 likes

4/5

This was pretty much new to me but I really enjoyed it.

RENAISSANCE

Beyoncé · 1 likes

2/5

I recognize she can sing. But I didn't care or get moved or even interested in any song on this album. It completely faded into the background as I was listening.

A Day At The Races

Queen · 1 likes

3/5

Queen somehow has some of the most amazing songs ever recorded while simultaneously having some of the most meh albums of all time. There is always at least one and usually two or three great songs on an album and the rest of it is just fine. Somebody is great, the rest of the album? It's okay.

1-Star Albums (12)

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Nearer My God

Foxing

3/5

Pretty meh indie rock. I mean, I liked it fine, but forgot about it after listening.

Romance

Fontaines D.C.

4/5

This wasn't bad at all. I'm not up too much on current music, so I didn't really know this band, but I'd listen to this again.

Thank Christ for the Bomb

The Groundhogs

4/5

Completely new to me, but actually pretty good. The album I listened to had a completely unneeded 15 minute version of Soldier at the end, but without that, it's a better album.

People Watching

Sam Fender

3/5

I thought this started pretty strong, but went downhill the more I listened. Never got bad, but got completely forgettable.

I Need to Start a Garden

Haley Heynderickx

4/5

Never heard of this one before and really enjoyed her voice and listening to this indie/folk thing.

Grace And Danger

John Martyn

2/5

I think I liked this one the least of the three I've heard (two on the original list now this one.) Just didn't do it for me at all.

Pulse

Pink Floyd

3/5

I really liked the Pink Floyd we listened to in the main list. It was excellent. But I didn't get anything out of this album I didn't get from the studio ones.

RENAISSANCE

Beyoncé

2/5

I recognize she can sing. But I didn't care or get moved or even interested in any song on this album. It completely faded into the background as I was listening.

Blue Is The Colour

The Beautiful South

3/5

Alt-folk stuff, a genre I tend to like, but this one was a little all over the place. Not sure I needed a Tom Waits knockoff on the one song. I didn't hate it, but didn't love it.

Deltron 3030

2/5

It starts off interesting and sort of funny. But then it never varies up, at all, and continues to be the exact same thing for over an hour.

Boxer

The National

4/5

I like this album and it's probably the National's best. I'll listen again.

Geogaddi

Boards of Canada

2/5

Just like the Boards of Canada album in the main list, I forgot I was listening to it at one point.

Magnolia Electric Co.

Songs: Ohia

4/5

I'm a little torn on this one. I think it's pretty good, and would be a solid 4 if it wasn't for The Old Black Hen. I think I'll leave it as 4, but a little bit reluctantly.

Slip

Quicksand

4/5

Pretty good post-hardcore emo-ish thing. Enjoyed it and will listen again.

California

Mr. Bungle

2/5

There's some interesting stuff in here, that's for sure. But at no point did I enjoy it.

Daisies Of The Galaxy

Eels

5/5

This is the album I would've picked for the main list. I love this album.

A Day At The Races

Queen

3/5

John Dawson Winter III

Johnny Winter

3/5

I liked some of it, some of it I didn't like. Good blues rock on a lot of the tracks. Probably a 3.5 but that one song that felt like a joke of a country song brings it down.

Nia

Blackalicious

3/5

It's way too long. But it wasn't the worst of this type of music I've had to listen to.

Emotional Mugger

Ty Segall

4/5

Lots of noisy/chunky guitar and I dug it.

Exile On Coldharbour Lane

Alabama 3

3/5

Listening to a mix of country and electronica was not what I was expecting when I woke up. Didn't hate it, but didn't love it, either.

Fine Line

Harry Styles

3/5

It's fine, inoffensive, pop. My daughter enjoyed listening to it in the car.

Phantom Power

The Tragically Hip

4/5

I liked this. Seemed like good rock music.

La cagaste... Burt Lancaster

Hombres G

2/5

This wasn't really for me. Some of it might've been a little bit interesting but it faded into the background so fast I forgot I was listening to it.

Year of the Cat

Al Stewart

4/5

I really dug this for some reason. I think I've heard it a bunch before as it was an album my Dad had. It was good to revisit.

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

Big Thief

4/5

This was pretty much new to me but I really enjoyed it.

No Balance Palace

Kashmir

4/5

This was a good listen, and I'd listen to it again.

Djarimirri

Gurrumul

1/5

Not for me, even a little bit.

St. Jude

Courteeners

2/5

Another album I listened to and forgot I was listening to it while it was on

Y Ahora Qué?

Reincidentes

4/5

I enjoyed this quite a bit, way more so that I thought I would.

Apostrophe(')

Frank Zappa

3/5

Like most Zappa I find some of it very interesting and some if it too weird for me. I liked this one about the same as the ones on the main list.

Goat

The Jesus Lizard

5/5

Another brand new to me album and one I liked a lot. Like a whole lot. Not surprised to learn who produced it after reading about it afterwards. It's that driving guitar noise rock thing that I just really like.

Uncovered

Zamilska

3/5

Not my typical style of music, but nothing here to really dislike, either. It was fine,

The Fame

Lady Gaga

3/5

I have to admit that I've never listened to this before. My wife has, and she likes it a lot. I can see why, for a pure pop/pop-dance album, it's not bad. It's better than Madonna's later albums at least. The middle to middle to end of the album dragged a bit. Cut this down to 40 minutes and it's a very good album.

Fashion Nugget

CAKE

4/5

CAKE might be the worst band I've ever seen play live, but this album is good.

Que c'est triste Venise

Charles Aznavour

1/5

Not for me at all.

Hall of the Mountain King

Savatage

2/5

I didn't really enjoy this. Too much prog, too much of that almost parody of a vocal high pitch voice.

WORRY

Jeff Rosenstock

5/5

This is such an amazing album. Probably Rosenstock's best and probably my favorite album to come out in the last 10 years. Ah crap, it's just about 10 years old now!

Ants From Up There

Black Country, New Road

3/5

There's a few songs on here that I like but the album itself is just meh overall.

City Of Evil

Avenged Sevenfold

3/5

Fast drums, shredding guitars, and vocals that aren't terrible. Seems like metal I would enjoy more than I did. It's fine.

Deadwing

Porcupine Tree

4/5

Actually liked this more than I expected when I saw the genre. Wasn't too noodle-y which is good. A lot of alt-rock type influences which I enjoyed.

Feed The Animals

Girl Talk

3/5

This is a perfectly enjoyable to listen to series of mashups. But is it an album? That I'm not sure about.

Quadrophenia

The Who

3/5

I think this is the first time I listened to this album all the way through. And my first impressions are that this is not my favorite The Who album.

Emotion

Carly Rae Jepsen

2/5

Talyor Swift Lite

A City Dressed In Dynamite

That Handsome Devil

4/5

This was weird but not in a bad way. I could see listening to this again.

My Love Is Cool

Wolf Alice

4/5

This was a new one to me, but I enjoyed it. I'll check this one out again.

Chuck

Sum 41

3/5

This is not my favorite Sum 41 album, but it's fine, I guess. Nothing new here, and I'd probably listen to another of their albums before this one, but I probably wouldn't turn it off, either.

Give Up

The Postal Service

4/5

This is good and I'll listen to it again. Both of my daughters, independently and on different days, asked if it was a new Owl City album.

Autobiografia

Duncan Dhu

2/5

Meh, I didn't enjoy ths.

Sublime

5/5

I have listened to Sublime way to much to not give this the 5 it deserves.

The Feeding of the 5000

Crass

4/5

I enjoyed this. Maybe, even for a punk fan like me, it might've been a bit too niche, but I liked it.

L'autre...

Mylène Farmer

2/5

I didn't really enjoy this

Brand New Eyes

Paramore

4/5

I enjoyed listening to this.

Korn

1/5

I didn't enjoy the first albumin the main list. And I liked this one less.

Recipe for Hate

Bad Religion

5/5

American Jesus hits just as hard in 2026 as it did in 1993. Not Bad Religion's best album, but it's still excellent and I loved hearing it again.

Young, Loud And Snotty

Dead Boys

4/5

I quite enjoyed listening to this one! Not quite a 5, but not far off.

Contra

Vampire Weekend

5/5

Indie college pop that hits all the notes I want from that. If I was to choose one album from them, it probably would've been their first, but this is a great one as well.

10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads

Kenny Wayne Shepherd

3/5

I really like blues albums and this seemed to be a good one, but I sort of wish it was just a great blues album from one artist instead of a pseudo-greatest hits album.

Mingus Ah Um

Charles Mingus

2/5

I think I liked this one a little more than the Mingus album we had on the original list, I felt it was more accessible. But I did not finish the original list and think "You know what we need? More jazz."

A Black Mile To The Surface

Manchester Orchestra

3/5

I liked this okay, but wasn't blown away.

Grand Prix

Teenage Fanclub

4/5

I don't think I liked this quite as much as Bandwagonesque but I liked it a lot.

Squeezing Out Sparks

Graham Parker

4/5

I liked this. Felt like early Elvis Costello and we all know we need more music like that on the list.

I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One

Yo La Tengo

4/5

I really enjoyed listening to this one and could see myself doing so again in the right mood.

Piledriver

Status Quo

4/5

Pretty standard 70s rock. But it was good.

Fully Completely

The Tragically Hip

4/5

I liked this one a lot, The Tragically Hip are a band that I don't know as much about as I should

Ænima

TOOL

3/5

I could see this getting up to a 4 at some point, but it's not quite there yet for me. I liked it a lot more than I was expecting to and some of the more industrial experiments were very interesting and entertaining. My biggest problem with Tool is my same problem I have with King Crimson, it's their fans. Tool fans are the vegans of music fandom. You won’t have to ask.

Piñata

Freddie Gibbs

1/5

When listening to the main list I made it a point to never skip a song and listen to each and every one. And I really thought that would continue, but I realized life is too short to listen to music I hate as much as this.

Barton Hollow

The Civil Wars

3/5

This worked for me for a while, but there's no real variation in any of the songs and it leaves me feeling very meh by the end.

METAL FORTH

BABYMETAL

1/5

BABYMETAL are a joke band, right? That's the only thing that makes sense. Even if I can find some pleasure in a single song, the fact that they have multiple albums boggles my mind.

Alive 2007

Daft Punk

3/5

It's fine. Not a huge fan of the genre but they are good at it.

Crack the Skye

Mastodon

3/5

This was fine. Not really my thing but I enjoyed it.

Reconstruction Site

The Weakerthans

4/5

I liked this a lot. Could see it becoming a favorite.

Artaud

Pescado Rabioso

2/5

It was just shy of okay for me.

Super Ape

The Upsetters

4/5

I liked listening to some dub!

Kick

INXS

3/5

The 80s condensed into a single album. It’s fine, if you like that 80s sound, which I do in small doses. The singles are better than the rest of the album

Stormcock

Roy Harper

2/5

I don't know, maybe I wasn't in the right frame of mind, but this one didn't click for me.

Gemstones

Adam Green

3/5

I thought this was fine. I like The Moldy Peaches and was hoping it would be more like that.

Misplaced Childhood

Marillion

1/5

I hated everything about this.

The Empyrean

John Frusciante

2/5

I thought the guitar work was good, but I got so bored by the end.

30 Something

Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine

3/5

Didn't know this one. Didn't hate it

Cleopatra

The Lumineers

2/5

This album starts off okay and I enjoyed it quite a bit. But then it keeps going. And going. And going. And never changing.

In Between Dreams

Jack Johnson

5/5

You can call me a basic bitch, but I just love this album. It's perfect for what it's trying to do.

Latin Mass

Os Mundi

2/5

Did not enjoy this

Come On Over

Shania Twain

2/5

The main list showed me I didn't dislike country as much as I thought I did. This album did the opposite.

Sunbather

Deafheaven

1/5

I thought was going to like this when the music started, that shoegaze/post-punk type guitar and drums were great. Then the vocals started. I couldn't stand that. This was a chore to get through.

Afrociberdelia

Chico Science

2/5

This is for someone, but that someone is not me.

Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides

SOPHIE

1/5

You know how they say not to judge a book by it's cover. Yeah, I did. I was right. This is terrible

Live At Madison Square Garden

Vulfpeck

2/5

This wasn’t for me. I guess it was fine for those who it was for.

After Hours

The Weeknd

1/5

I am flabbergasted that The Weeknd is popular enough to have played The Super Bowl. It makes no sense to me.

Puzzle

Biffy Clyro

4/5

Pretty good! Decent emo vibes but with a Foo Fighters sound. I liked this.

My Morning Jacket

4/5

I've listened to this album before and liked it, and this was no different. It's a good album. Great? Not quite, but good isn't bad at all!

Get To Heaven

Everything Everything

3/5

This was a little better than fine, but not a lot. I'll have to revisit this one in the future and see if it grabs me on a second listen.

Souvlaki

Slowdive

4/5

I tried to explain to my daughters what shoegaze was but they didn't ever quite get it. But I like it.

Once Upon a Rhyme

David Allan Coe

4/5

I liked this more than I thought I would from the cover. But I find that I like outlaw country a lot more than I thought. I hate modern country, but they made some killer albums in the 70s

For Emma, Forever Ago

Bon Iver

3/5

I thought this was fine.

Untrue

Burial

1/5

Complete waste of time. Just do the exact same thing on repetition and call it a song.

Songs Of A Lost World

The Cure

3/5

I didn't like this as much as I did The Cure albums on the main list. But it's fine

The Italian Flag

Prolapse

4/5

I enjoyed this one, except for the last track.

LUX

ROSALÍA

1/5

Hated this

Rêver mieux

Daniel Bélanger

1/5

I really disliked this one and couldn't finish it.

Moa Anbessa

Getatchew Mekurya

4/5

So strange, I expected to hate this one and I ended up quite enjoying it. Mix of jazz with some punk/post-punk/maybe a touch of ska? It was interesting for sure.