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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Are You Shpongled?
Shpongle
|
5 | 2.69 | +2.31 |
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10,000 gecs
100 gecs
|
5 | 2.91 | +2.09 |
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Loss
Mull Historical Society
|
5 | 2.93 | +2.07 |
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Get To Heaven
Everything Everything
|
5 | 3.16 | +1.84 |
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Frengers: Not Quite Friends But Not Quite Strangers
Mew
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5 | 3.17 | +1.83 |
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Grand Prix
Teenage Fanclub
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5 | 3.18 | +1.82 |
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Exile On Coldharbour Lane
Alabama 3
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5 | 3.22 | +1.78 |
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No.1 In Heaven
Sparks
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5 | 3.26 | +1.74 |
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King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown
King Tubby
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5 | 3.28 | +1.72 |
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Dogrel
Fontaines D.C.
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5 | 3.29 | +1.71 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman
John Coltrane
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1 | 3.45 | -2.45 |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Various Artists
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1 | 3.45 | -2.45 |
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Magnolia Electric Co.
Songs: Ohia
|
1 | 3.3 | -2.3 |
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Come On Over
Shania Twain
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1 | 3.07 | -2.07 |
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Foxes in the Snow
Jason Isbell
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1 | 3.03 | -2.03 |
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Old No. 1
Guy Clark
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1 | 2.98 | -1.98 |
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The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
Roger Waters
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1 | 2.97 | -1.97 |
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Misplaced Childhood
Marillion
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1 | 2.94 | -1.94 |
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Images and Words
Dream Theater
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1 | 2.94 | -1.94 |
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Hall of the Mountain King
Savatage
|
1 | 2.89 | -1.89 |
5-Star Albums (19)
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Warren Zevon · 7 likes
5/5
Really glad this list can still turn up a gem like this occasionally, i really enjoyed this.
My pre-listen scan didn’t bode well, 70s American, cover looks like a young Deirdre Barlow, nominated by somebody who rated The Bends as a 1. First song didn’t grab me at first but by the end I was won over
TOOL · 4 likes
2/5
Mull Historical Society · 4 likes
5/5
Loved it, great recommendation
They Might Be Giants · 3 likes
2/5
Not to put too fine a point on it I don’t get all the smug nerd rock bands people seem to feel I need to hear. Emotionless and tiresome
Jason Isbell · 3 likes
1/5
Song names on the cover = crap album
4-Star Albums (82)
1-Star Albums (32)
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Arthur Russell
3/5
Alexisonfire
2/5
Not a fan of the mic in mouth shouty style but this was a better example of the type
Roky Erickson
2/5
Medium metal, a bit too much cheese for me
Tori Amos
4/5
Harmonium
3/5
Damien Rice
3/5
Nice enough, bought it at the time I think but doesn’t stick now
Tally Hall
4/5
Silly but fun, nice selection
Steven Wilson
3/5
Wears its influences on its sleeve a bit too much.
Graham Parker
3/5
Getting 2 better band’s names in the album title must be a record
Bad Religion
2/5
Pink-lite
Joan As Police Woman
3/5
Amy Winehouse impersonates Norah Jones
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
2/5
Chromatics
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Didn’t need this but it’s OK
Amon Düül II
2/5
Josh Ritter
4/5
Probably should revisit
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
3/5
Thanks for adding, was quite fun but probably not anything I’d play again
Chet Baker
3/5
LaBelle
4/5
The Chats
4/5
Shudder To Think
3/5
Sufjan Stevens
4/5
Seemed interesting on first listen, worth a revisit
Mull Historical Society
5/5
Loved it, great recommendation
The Angelic Process
2/5
100 gecs
5/5
Loved it, what I came here for spiky fun
Chappell Roan
2/5
Rude Taylor Swift
Rachel Stevens
2/5
I love a good pop album, unfortunately that was not a good one
Joe Cocker
2/5
Horns sounded good
The Hold Steady
2/5
Modest Mouse
2/5
Oingo Boingo
3/5
3/5
Sparks
5/5
Great additiion, I need more Sparks in my life
Extrechinato y Tu
3/5
Snarky Puppy
2/5
Maldita Vecindad Y Los Hijos Del 5to. Patio
4/5
Good stuff, thanks for adding
Cardiacs
3/5
The Tragically Hip
3/5
Adam Green
3/5
Pink Floyd
3/5
Mary Chapin Carpenter
2/5
Sampha
2/5
Jimmy Eat World
2/5
Calibro 35
3/5
The Dear Hunter
2/5
Marillion
1/5
Nuyorican Soul
2/5
My Chemical Romance
2/5
Koritni
2/5
Cluster
3/5
Garbage
3/5
King Tubby
5/5
Loved this, fills in a lot of gaps in the family tree of music that I love. What I came to the original list for glad this got added in the user list
Streetlight Manifesto
3/5
Mariachi “Punk”
The Amazing Devil
2/5
Protomartyr
3/5
Freddie Gibbs
2/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
4/5
Björk
2/5
Killswitch Engage
1/5
Avicii
3/5
Ty Segall
3/5
The Burning Hell
3/5
Childish Gambino
3/5
Transvision Vamp
2/5
INXS
3/5
Martha
4/5
Dave Matthews Band
3/5
The Beautiful South
4/5
First Aid Kit
3/5
Jai Paul
3/5
Shania Twain
1/5
4/5
Yeasayer
3/5
Savages
3/5
Thee Oh Sees
2/5
Some interesting energy but oddly empty
Gang of Youths
3/5
Khruangbin
4/5
Talking Heads
4/5
The National
4/5
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
1/5
Courtney Barnett
3/5
Jimmy Buffett
1/5
Backstreet Boys
1/5
Jeff Rosenstock
3/5
Debbie Gibson
1/5
Procol Harum
2/5
Weezer
3/5
Angelo De Augustine
4/5
Great Big Sea
2/5
Status Quo
2/5
Daft Punk
4/5
Alexisonfire
1/5
Vulfpeck
2/5
Bob Mould
3/5
Refused
2/5
A rare DNF, 100 mins plus of being shouted at in a pretty uninteresting way, no thanks. Some of the intros were ok though so saved from 1 star hell
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
2/5
Salif Keita
3/5
Louis Armstrong
2/5
The Jesus Lizard
3/5
Polvo
3/5
Charli xcx
2/5
Childish Gambino
3/5
Ian McDonald
3/5
TOOL
3/5
Mylène Farmer
3/5
Korn
1/5
Crystal Castles
3/5
Times New Viking
3/5
Kaizers Orchestra
3/5
Neutral Milk Hotel
4/5
Noname
3/5
Daniel Bélanger
3/5
Bran Van 3000
3/5
Ani DiFranco
2/5
David Baerwald
3/5
Johnny Winter
2/5
Jack Johnson
3/5
Spose
3/5
Anaïs Mitchell
4/5
Jellyfish
3/5
3/5
The Sound
4/5
The Decemberists
3/5
Ex-Easter Island Head
3/5
Courteeners
4/5
Bon Iver
3/5
Sublime
4/5
The Marcus King Band
3/5
Hikaru Utada
2/5
Men I Trust
2/5
Portishead
5/5
The B-52's
4/5
Sam Fender
3/5
Screeching Weasel
3/5
The Postal Service
3/5
Faith No More
2/5
The Upsetters
4/5
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
5/5
Unwound
3/5
Alex Cameron
2/5
Carly Rae Jepsen
2/5
Les sheriff
4/5
Roger Waters
1/5
Self indulgent twoddle
Teenage Fanclub
5/5
Oh yes, even with the incredibly forced rhyme of verisimilitude and platitude it’s a great album and should have been on the list
What I came for, who knew I needed more Danish in my life
Nightwish
2/5
Overblown nonsense
John Martyn
2/5
Lo Fidelity Allstars
4/5
Ornette Coleman
2/5
Yes I do fear jazz
Fontaines D.C.
3/5
The Avett Brothers
2/5
Groaned when I saw the producer
Susanne Sundfør
3/5
Yo La Tengo
3/5
John Mayer
2/5
Jon Batiste
4/5
Igorrr
3/5
Manchester Orchestra
3/5
Final Fantasy
3/5
The Mountain Goats
2/5
Biffy Clyro
3/5
Chucklehead
4/5
Lady Gaga
3/5
The Posies
3/5
Arca
3/5
Death Cab for Cutie
3/5
Neil Cicierega
4/5
Songs: Ohia
3/5
Kashmir
3/5
The War On Drugs
3/5
MF DOOM
4/5
Operation Ivy
3/5
Dead Boys
3/5
Scraping Foetus off the Wheel
4/5
Pedro The Lion
3/5
Avenged Sevenfold
2/5
Type O Negative
2/5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
3/5
Boy Azooga
3/5
Baroness
3/5
Hombres G
3/5
Death
2/5
Al Stewart
3/5
1/5
More derivative than f’’’(x)
TOOL
2/5
Bon Iver
4/5
The Alan Parsons Project
2/5
Vampire Weekend
4/5
Arctic Monkeys
3/5
Alex Turner being arch is OK but is so much more interesting with the energy of the early stuff
Olivia Rodrigo
2/5
Slowdive
3/5
Boredoms
1/5
Imagine if the most annoying bratty talentless kids you know were encouraged by their idiot parents to spend a day in a recording studio, what they would make is better than this
Amadou & Mariam
4/5
The Weeknd
3/5
Freestylers
3/5
Touché Amoré
3/5
Phish
2/5
Ornatos Violeta
3/5
Good to have a change from the UK/US core of the list. Probably the first Portuguese album I’ve knowingly listened to. Can’t make out a word of the lyrics and but it did suit the music well drifting from smoother Spanish sounding to a harder more Eastern European vibe. Personal view decent but probably won’t be revisiting but glad to have heard it and a good addition to the list
3/5
Medeski, Martin & Wood
2/5
TOOL
2/5
Titus Andronicus
4/5
Mustafa
3/5
John Coltrane
1/5
David Allan Coe
1/5
THE SPORTS
3/5
Robyn Hitchcock
4/5
Gurrumul
4/5
Jason Isbell
1/5
Song names on the cover = crap album
blink-182
2/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Bruce Hornsby
1/5
Deafheaven
1/5
HELLYEAH
1/5
Fall Out Boy
1/5
Couldn’t get past that it sounded like 5SOS
Nik Kershaw
2/5
The Lumineers
3/5
Gotcha!
3/5
Porter Robinson
4/5
Chuck Berry
3/5
Tosca
3/5
Tom Petty
4/5
Quite good but found Honey Beea bit creepy
BABYMETAL
2/5
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
3/5
Odd in a good way
Sunny Day Real Estate
2/5
Warren Zevon
5/5
Really glad this list can still turn up a gem like this occasionally, i really enjoyed this.
My pre-listen scan didn’t bode well, 70s American, cover looks like a young Deirdre Barlow, nominated by somebody who rated The Bends as a 1. First song didn’t grab me at first but by the end I was won over
Powderfinger
4/5
Savatage
1/5
Frightened Rabbit
4/5
Harry Styles
3/5
The Stooges
3/5
Vangelis
3/5
"Weird Al" Yankovic
3/5
Magdalena Bay
2/5
Paramore
3/5
Various Artists
1/5
One for breaking the rules of the list, where will it end: greatest hits albums and Now that’s what I call a .. compilations?
Jaco Pastorius
2/5
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
2/5
That Handsome Devil
3/5
Guy Clark
1/5
Vampire Weekend
3/5
Nic Jones
2/5
Frank Zappa
3/5
As usual a curates egg from Zappa
The Heads
2/5
The curse of song titles on the cover strikes again. So much less than the sum of the parts
Emicida
3/5
Tame Impala
3/5
Paul McCartney
3/5
Ozzy Osbourne
2/5
3/5
Ween
3/5
Jóhann Jóhannsson
3/5
Future Islands
4/5
Bright Eyes
3/5
Pink Floyd
3/5
Madvillain
4/5
Shihad
3/5
Mac Miller
3/5
Talk Talk
2/5
Living Colour
3/5
Amyl and The Sniffers
4/5
Stray From The Path
2/5
Depeche Mode
2/5
Q65
3/5
Sufjan Stevens
3/5
Bon Iver
5/5
Aesop Rock
3/5
Ookla The Mok
3/5
Matthew Good Band
3/5
Black Devil Disco Club
4/5
The Chameleons
4/5
Alabama 3
5/5
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore
3/5
Floating Points
4/5
Wet Leg
4/5
Malibu
3/5
Marillion
1/5
Getatchew Mekurya
3/5
A few songs sounded like the theme tune to a cheesy cop show starrimg our hero Nigel Spackman cleaning up the streets of Dresden
Charles Aznavour
3/5
Songs: Ohia
1/5
Had enough Neil Young type nonsense on the list. Music to suck the joy out of life
blink-182
2/5
Baby food punk, the Wiggles have more raw energy
The Church
3/5
Reincidentes
3/5
Dream Theater
1/5
Shpongle
5/5
Nujabes
4/5
Kano
3/5
Deltron 3030
4/5
Beyoncé
2/5
Pearl Jam
2/5
AI generated grunge
Danny Brown
3/5
Thought it was going to be a 1 during the first song but grew on me a bit
Fontaines D.C.
5/5
2/5
The Groundhogs
3/5
The Caretaker
4/5
Vince Guaraldi Trio
4/5
Daft Punk
2/5
August is Falling
2/5
Sports Team
4/5
The Weakerthans
3/5
Turnpike Troubadours
2/5
Margot & The Nuclear So And So's
3/5
Espers
2/5
Spinvis
3/5
Weezer
3/5
Current 93
3/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
Crash Test Dummies
4/5
Enter Shikari
2/5
Various Artists
1/5
Automatic 1 for not being eligible. But anyway it’s a camp panto not an album
Glass Animals
4/5
System Of A Down
3/5
Valerie June
3/5
The Vaccines
4/5
Everything Everything
5/5
Zero 7
3/5
Foxing
4/5
Stars
4/5
The Notwist
4/5
Daft Punk
2/5
Duncan Dhu
3/5
Cindy Lee
3/5
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
4/5
Low
3/5
Massive Attack
5/5
Forgotten how good this is, i tend to go back to Blue Lines when I need a fix but this is great
Billy Squier
2/5
Digable Planets
3/5
Haley Heynderickx
3/5
Slapstick
3/5
No Doubt
3/5
Richard Dawson
2/5
Blackalicious
4/5
Brand New
3/5
Extremoduro
2/5
They Might Be Giants
2/5
A child’s idea of clever, just comes across as smug
Eric B. & Rakim
4/5
Jawbreaker
3/5
3/5
Boards of Canada
3/5
Rodríguez
4/5
ISIS
3/5
Paco de Lucía
3/5
Tom Misch
3/5
Crass
2/5
The Mountain Goats
3/5
Soul Coughing
2/5
Porcupine Tree
3/5
Chico Science
3/5
Mansun
4/5
I remember Attack of the Grey Lantern but hadn’t heard this
TOOL
3/5
Joe Jackson
5/5
My selection, pleased to see this getting some love. It was very much a personal selection as it was a big part of me growing up.
Got this on cassette from a bargain bin at Our Price when I was 14 and it became part of pre-going out routine. The combination of disappointment but hopefulness really comes through and when combined with the energetic urgent playing creates something that improves on each play. Joe wears his talents fairly lightly on this one and I know he doesn’t rate this album but I think this captures more raw emotion and energy than any of his later albums.
Big shout out to Graham Malby’s great bass work.
Right that’s enough
Yello
2/5
The Who
3/5
Rita Ora
2/5
Modern Life Is War
2/5
Billy Strings
2/5
Wolf Alice
4/5
Broken Social Scene
3/5
The Breeders
3/5
Bruce Cockburn
3/5
Os Mundi
2/5
WHY?
1/5
Why? Indeed,
Mansun
4/5
Muse
3/5
Barenaked Ladies
2/5
Amália Rodrigues
3/5
Gerry Cinnamon
4/5
Frank Ocean
2/5
The Sundays
5/5
Agalloch
3/5
The Ike Reilly Assassination
4/5
Primus
3/5
The Housemartins
5/5
Played this to death when it came out but not heard it for years. Stands up pretty well although Paul’s god bothering is more obvious than i remember
The Hotelier
3/5
Garmarna
3/5
Tindersticks
4/5
Zamilska
2/5
The Hold Steady
3/5
Self Esteem
4/5
Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
3/5
Lady Gaga
2/5
Robyn
2/5
Descendents
2/5
The Shins
4/5
Mac DeMarco
2/5
David & The Citizens
2/5
The 1975
1/5
Electric Callboy
1/5
Helloween
1/5
Jimmy Eat World
3/5
The Fall
3/5
Lizzy McAlpine
2/5
Tyler, The Creator
2/5
Zach Bryan
2/5
Switchfoot
2/5
The Last Dinner Party
4/5
Auri
3/5
GRiZ
2/5
New Order
3/5
Gary Clark Jr.
3/5
Gaelle
3/5
Screaming Females
3/5
Pop Will Eat Itself
3/5
The Tragically Hip
2/5
Canadian REM tribute band
Hamilton Leithauser
3/5
Ryan Adams
3/5
Mötley Crüe
2/5
At least it was short
Poets of the Fall
3/5
Café Tacvba
3/5
Pulp
5/5
of Montreal
3/5
GAS
3/5
So hard to rate ambient music. When it was on I drifted off, thought I was stuck on repeat on the same track but was relaxed and oddly energised afterwards so maybe it’s great who knows
They Might Be Giants
2/5
Not to put too fine a point on it I don’t get all the smug nerd rock bands people seem to feel I need to hear. Emotionless and tiresome
Tywanna Jo Baskette
3/5
Wow a dive into musics very long tail. If they ever want to make “Marcel the Shell with shoes on - the musical” this kind of breathy childish but not childlike vocals would be good. Held my interest but not sure I’ll be going back
Bloodywood
2/5
Charles Mingus
4/5
Foo Fighters
3/5
Prolapse
4/5
Mr. Bungle
3/5
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
3/5
Carla Bley
3/5
New Model Army
3/5
Sum 41
2/5
If Oasis did pop punk
Ween
3/5
STARSET
3/5
Lin-Manuel Miranda
1/5
J Dilla
3/5
Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine
3/5
Metric
4/5
Coheed and Cambria
2/5
ROSALÍA
3/5
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
2/5
King Crimson
2/5
W.A.S.P.
2/5
Wilco
4/5
CAKE
4/5
Cat System Corp.
3/5
BABYMETAL
1/5
Beyoncé
3/5
Jeff Tweedy
3/5
dEUS
4/5
Kayo Dot
3/5
Built To Spill
4/5
Clutch
3/5
My Chemical Romance
3/5
Pescado Rabioso
3/5
The Presidents Of The United States Of America
3/5
Counting Crows
3/5
4/5
Interpol
4/5
Queen
2/5
Allan Rayman
3/5
Chloe x Halle
3/5
Queens of the Stone Age
3/5
Confidence Man
3/5
Elliott Smith
3/5