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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
LP1 FKA twigs	5	2.81	+2.19
Walking Wounded Everything But The Girl	5	2.97	+2.03
Blue Lines Massive Attack	5	3.39	+1.61
Timeless Goldie	4	2.51	+1.49
Darkdancer Les Rythmes Digitales	4	2.59	+1.41
Our Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper	4	2.72	+1.28
Metallica Metallica	5	3.77	+1.23
All Hail the Queen Queen Latifah	4	2.87	+1.13
Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy	4	2.88	+1.12
Felt Mountain Goldfrapp	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Marquee Moon Television	1	3.5	-2.5
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	1	3.38	-2.38
At Fillmore East The Allman Brothers Band	1	3.37	-2.37
The Yes Album Yes	1	3.31	-2.31
The Age Of The Understatement The Last Shadow Puppets	1	3.25	-2.25
Are You Experienced Jimi Hendrix	2	4.14	-2.14
Another Music In A Different Kitchen Buzzcocks	1	3.08	-2.08
Germfree Adolescents X-Ray Spex	1	3.07	-2.07
Here Come The Warm Jets Brian Eno	1	3.07	-2.07
Throwing Muses Throwing Muses	1	3	-2

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Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan · 3 likes

2/5

When your drunk uncle brings his harmonica at Thanksgiving and expects you to listen to his rambling thoughts while holding the pumpkin pie hostage

1-Star Albums (13)

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Marquee Moon

Television

1/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

The Yes Album

Yes

1/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Black Sabbath

3/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

2/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

3/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

Le Tigre

3/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

Medúlla

Björk

2/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

2/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

4/5

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

2/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

4/5

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

4/5

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

3/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

2/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

1/5

Roots

Sepultura

3/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

2/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

2/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

2/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

2/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

Rapture

Anita Baker

3/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

2/5

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

2/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Scott 4

Scott Walker

3/5

Too deep for me to have any idea what he's talking about, but I dig it.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

2/5

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

2/5

Parklife

Blur

3/5

Fun House

The Stooges

4/5

omg, why did I actually like this album?

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

3/5

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

2/5

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

4/5

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

3/5

Tracy Chapman

3/5

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

3/5

Virgin Suicides

Air

3/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

The first album I've rated 5 stars. More chill and relaxing than I expected from jazzy horns.

Tommy

The Who

2/5

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

2/5

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

1/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

3/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

2/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

2/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

2/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

3/5

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

Adele

2/5

She has a great voice; there is no disputing that. But the majority of songs by her that I know are obsessive, stalker-like songs. "I keep calling hundreds of times to tell you I'm sorry, but you never pick up the phone!" Girl, get a clue. "Hey, I know you're married now, but I'll never find someone like you - not trying to ruin your relationship or anything, tee hee." Again, girl, tone it down. The non-stalker songs on this album were boring and similar-sounding. You're 25; stop wishing you were young again and move on with your life.

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

3/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

2/5

Adele

3/5

Not as musically boring as 25

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

2/5

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

3/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

4/5

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

4/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

2/5

When your drunk uncle brings his harmonica at Thanksgiving and expects you to listen to his rambling thoughts while holding the pumpkin pie hostage

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

3/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

1/5

No one, and I do mean no one, has any reason to turn a 3 minute song into a 21 minute song. Ever.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Great voice but I just didn't like the songs at all

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

2/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

2/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

Black Metal

Venom

3/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

4/5

Iron Maiden

4/5

10/10 album covers

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

1/5

Glad it was short.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

2/5

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

4/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

2/5

Picked up a lot of vibes from this album: dentist's office, outer space, Deliverance, construction site...

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

2/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

2/5

Ramones

2/5

A couple of songs sounded different than the rest, but other than those, it's just another punk album that sounds like every other punk album out there.

The White Album

Beatles

3/5

Illmatic

Nas

3/5

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

2/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

2/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

2/5

least annoying punk album on this list so far

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

1/5

What even is this genre?

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

The Last Broadcast

Doves

3/5

Some of the songs I liked, and some sounded discordant. Kind of felt like two disagreeing genres.

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

2/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

1/5

Apparently, folk is a genre I don't like. Why does it always sound like drunken men waxing poetic about nothing?

Snivilisation

Orbital

3/5

Typically something I would enjoy but this one was not great.

Suzanne Vega

2/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

2/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Mott

Mott The Hoople

3/5

Trio

Dolly Parton

2/5

All three great singers but this album just bored me :(

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

3/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

2/5

I like rap music. I appreciate the genre, the lyrics, and the message. But this one... this was rough for me. The beats are great, and Snoop has the kind of flow that I'm here for. But given the state of the US today, this really sounded like the conservative narrative about why non-whites don't deserve to be treated like humans. So much commentary about murder, looting, sexual assault... and maybe it has a deeper meaning for the culture (of which I am not a part) beyond the way it sounds. Maybe that's the point; it's relevant to those who live it and just a banger for those who don't. It's certainly not something that I would feel comfortable singing along to, although I did listen to it at work. (I'm a rebel.) Enjoyable, yes, but it was difficult too.

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

3/5

Having really only heard one song by him, this was an interesting mix of styles.

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

2/5

My Generation

The Who

3/5

I ended up listening to a 30 song version of this album, which was about 15 songs too long. Their rendition of "(Love is Like a) Heat Wave" was terrible. I can't distinguish between the British invasion bands anymore because they all sound the same. Still, not the worst thing I've listened to of the list.

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

3/5

Unoffensive and boring, perfect for elevators and offices. +1 for the album cover though.

Timeless

Goldie

4/5

To me, who listens to the 1001 albums while working, this is the best kind of focus music. It keeps me on task while providing a beat that makes me bob my head. Definitely my style but I totally get the bad reviews. It's looooong.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

2/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

4/5

I already knew and enjoyed Michael Franti's music, but I honestly had never heard of this group. Wow. There's some powerful imagery and heavy lyrics to get through, but I loved it. Spotify is missing 4 tracks, as is Apple Music (I believe), but the ones that are available are definitely worth a listen.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

3/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

2/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

4/5

Fred Neil

2/5

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

2/5

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

4/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

5/5

My favorite EBTG album - been listening to it regularly since its release.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

5/5

Massive Attack is one of my top 5 artists. While this is not my favorite of their albums, I still love it.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

3/5

I'd give it a 3.5, but it didn't go over the line for me to make this 4 stars. I liked it, to my surprise. I'd probably listen to it again if it came on. But I have found that I do not like that 70s guitar sound. I'm not sure if it's the recording (this isn't the only album or artist) but it sounds scratchy to me.

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

1/5

No. No. Yucky.

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

3/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

2/5

Metallica

5/5

Throwing Muses

1/5

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

2/5

LP1

FKA twigs

5/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

2/5

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

2/5

Franz Ferdinand

2/5

Synchronicity

The Police

2/5

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

1/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

2/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

3/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

2/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Calenture

The Triffids

2/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

3/5

The Rise & Fall

Madness

3/5

This is considered ska? This is like Depeche Mode, Dire Straits, and the Beatles wrapped into one.

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Honestly would've been 5 stars if it hadn't had four different (yet still identical) versions of Girl From Ipanema. Plus I just listened to Astrud Gilberto's album a few days ago; I've had enough Girl From Ipanema at this point.

Paul Simon

3/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

This is why I'm doing the 1001 Albums - finding little gems like this that I would be very unlikely to find on my own. It's a fun album with a really unique sound.

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

One World

John Martyn

3/5

I don't know that I'd seek him out for a listen, but it was kind of pleasant (except the last song).

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

1/5

British Steel

Judas Priest

4/5

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

2/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Repetitive, as disco tends to be, but some slower pieces too.

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

4/5

Much slower and more ethereal than some of their other albums, but it's still a nice listen.

Ananda Shankar

3/5

There are some gems on here (I particularly liked Raghupati for its style), but a lot of sitar music sounds pretty similar to me, so I didn't love it.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

I love trip-hop, and I think Elizabeth Fraser has one of the most unique, beautiful voices in the genre. That say, I really couldn't get behind this album. I'm not sure if it's because she's not actually saying anything (she's literally just making mouth sounds) or it just didn't jibe with me. I don't dislike music in languages I don't speak, so perhaps fake words shouldn't bother me, but overall I wasn't into this album as much as I expected.

Damaged

Black Flag

1/5

They're like Rage Against the Machine, if Rage was a high school garage band, Zack hadn't yet had his voice change from puberty, and they sucked.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

2/5

Yeezus

Kanye West

2/5

The beats are great, and Kanye actually has good flow. But his whiny voice and his perceived sexual prowess (as evidence by almost every song being about sex) really killed the vibe.

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

Vulnicura

Björk

3/5

I like Björk better if I don't try to understand it.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

He has a surprising number of albums with "genius" in the title. Seems a little pretentious, but it's really not. This album was great. I definitely prefer his old stuff (young voice) to the newer. Definitely worth a listen or two.