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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Machine Gun Etiquette The Damned	5	3.16	+1.84
Selling England By The Pound Genesis	5	3.19	+1.81
Let It Be The Replacements	5	3.26	+1.74
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	5	3.44	+1.56
Paul Simon Paul Simon	5	3.5	+1.5
The Clash The Clash	5	3.53	+1.47
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	5	3.59	+1.41
Hounds Of Love Kate Bush	5	3.63	+1.37
Dookie Green Day	5	3.79	+1.21
The Dreaming Kate Bush	4	2.99	+1.01

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Wall Pink Floyd	1	4.13	-3.13
The Doors The Doors	1	3.94	-2.94
American IV: The Man Comes Around Johnny Cash	1	3.87	-2.87
Harvest Neil Young	1	3.81	-2.81
Let's Get It On Marvin Gaye	1	3.78	-2.78
Songs From The Big Chair Tears For Fears	1	3.75	-2.75
(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) Lynyrd Skynyrd	1	3.74	-2.74
Talking Book Stevie Wonder	1	3.72	-2.72
Remain In Light Talking Heads	1	3.68	-2.68
The Joshua Tree U2	1	3.67	-2.67

5-Star Albums (11)

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Popular Reviews

The Joshua Tree

U2 · 2 likes

1/5

christian summer camp soundtrack

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs · 2 likes

2/5

a little too indieslop for me but does have some bangers

Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath · 1 likes

3/5

talented players with mediocre songwriting

Since I Left You

The Avalanches · 1 likes

1/5

moby did so much damage

1-Star Albums (51)

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

All Ratings

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

Heroes

David Bowie

1/5

just some nonsense

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

3/5

interesting sounds & managed to keep my interest. sounds like more fun to play than it is to listen to and some of the songs go on forever for no good reason

Play

Moby

1/5

music for people who think the breakfast club is a good movie

Paul Simon

5/5

what a delightful album :) beautiful sounds, catchy melodies & meaningful lyrics the talent on display here is unbelievable

Dire Straits

2/5

quintessential dad rock unfortunately very boring and forgettable outside of the 3 popular songs (which are good)

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

1/5

so many apostrophes

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

2/5

truly terrible but at least they're attempting something interesting also why is the mixing so gross

Le Tigre

4/5

i can't believe i'd never heard of them until now!!

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

too long, could've been 5 stars

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

3/5

one of the beatles albums ever

Kala

M.I.A.

3/5

good ideas, execution could be better

The Joshua Tree

1/5

christian summer camp soundtrack

Ray Of Light

Madonna

2/5

she tried

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

absolute masterpiece and a huge inspiration to me personally

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

5/5

this is why i do this challenge

Frank

Amy Winehouse

2/5

vocal talent ≠ interesting music

One World

John Martyn

1/5

made my skin crawl

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

great melodies

Queen II

Queen

4/5

epic

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1/5

man whines over piano

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

1/5

sooo 80's /neg

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

4/5

a visionary

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

2/5

insanely good hip hop brought down by a massive ego

My Generation

The Who

1/5

sure needed to hear this one

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

5/5

practically perfect

Adele

2/5

album for lovers of the color beige

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

2/5

a fine formula that overstays its welcome

American Pie

Don McLean

2/5

pretty but forgettable

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

1/5

it's offensive he thought he could improve any of these songs by sing-talking over a boring guitar

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

1/5

feels violating

Like A Prayer

Madonna

1/5

two madonna albums heard. TWO STRIKES

Black Sabbath

3/5

talented players with mediocre songwriting

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

2/5

harmonicas to me are the opposite of banjos where i'd expect to hate banjos but they produce the most beautiful sound known to man whereas i'd expect to love harmonicas and instead they make me want to stab my eyes with a pencil

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

no skips

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

3/5

pleasant background music

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

1/5

can these books stop glazing anything a random british man does

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

paleolithic music

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

2/5

would you still love me if i was a horse and you'd have to clean my manure

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

2/5

one of the albums ever

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2/5

a little too indieslop for me but does have some bangers

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

1/5

i wanted to like it i swear

More Specials

The Specials

1/5

irredeemably boring

The Predator

Ice Cube

2/5

length often lessens impact

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

2/5

my respect for electronic music has greatle decreased since I started this challenge

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

5/5

few albums with songs this long manage to keep my attention throughout

The Velvet Underground

1/5

i'm so glad we're past the days of this music being acceptable

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

1/5

poena sensus type of album

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

2/5

how do they tell the songs apart

The Real Thing

Faith No More

4/5

music for nana fans (guilty as charged)

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

1/5

All Directions

The Temptations

2/5

way too slow for me

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

too repetitive for me but i can appreciate the talent on display

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

1/5

the 70's were a mistake

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

1/5

david bowie if his lyrics were awful and you stripped him of all charisma and flair

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

3/5

moody and cool

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

1/5

laughable

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

1/5

moby did so much damage

Harvest

Neil Young

1/5

i can't believe this is how i find out neil young sucks

Grace

Jeff Buckley

2/5

not gonna lie so many albums on this list are only praised because the artist died tragically/prematurely and this is one of them

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

1/5

lyrics don't matter when your songwriting sucks

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

2/5

i did not realize led zeppelin were so country pilled

Hms Fable

Shack

2/5

britslop

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

2/5

I've never been a 13 year old boy in the 80's but I'm assuming I would've loved this

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

1/5

how is this popular

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

1/5

maybe if i took lsd this would work

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

3/5

solid & snappy

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

kind of nondescript but very pleasant background music

The College Dropout

Kanye West

2/5

very competent i'm just tired of Kanye

The Grand Tour

George Jones

1/5

if this album was a person i would poke it with a stick until it died

The Clash

5/5

insane debut

Let It Be

The Replacements

5/5

so authentic that it evokes feelings for an era I never lived. perfect punk sound. so damn inspiring

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

I wish it wasn't one of a kind

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

1/5

fuck bob dylan and his fuckass harmonica

Transformer

Lou Reed

1/5

nursery rhyme melodies with the most boring voice reading awful lines over them

Stardust

Willie Nelson

2/5

it actually sounded pretty good it's just not memorable or replayable enough unfortunately

Dirt

Alice In Chains

2/5

too plodding for me

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

1/5

proof that the drummer makes the song no drummer = no song

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

1/5

I can't believe I heard all of that waiting for something to happen

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

2/5

not for me

McCartney

Paul McCartney

3/5

good songwriting but sonically very boring

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

absolutely stellar album if it wasn't for the last four tracks

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

more lows than highs

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

1/5

i wish my heart was on fire

The Band

1/5

country is evil

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

1/5

two 60's country records in a row should be ILLEGAL

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

too droning to be anything more than (good) background music for me

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

3/5

easy to listen to! extra star for being in Spanish

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

iconic album from my favorite era of hip hop

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

2/5

rock album from the 70's

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

2/5

feel like I gotta take a shower after listening to this

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

2/5

didn't really pique my interest at any point unfortunately

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

1/5

fuck this schmuck

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

3 stars for 3 bangers. rest is worthless though

Infected

The The

1/5

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

4/5

what a cool way to find a great band I'd never listened to they had me at Juana's Adicción

The Wall

Pink Floyd

1/5

waste of time

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

1/5

this is what happens when a straight man tries to be sufjan stevens

Tago Mago

Can

1/5

an album not meant to be listened to i can respect it, but cannot give it a higher rating

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

1/5

bored out of my mind with this one

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

2/5

it's music and i listened to it

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

extra star for being an inspiration to some of my favorite artists

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

1/5

boring as shit

Moving Pictures

Rush

2/5

school of rock type beat

Make Yourself

Incubus

3/5

battlestar scralatchtica is possibly the most late 90's song title ever conceived

Hypnotised

The Undertones

4/5

a little too long for this style but it's a good style

Mask

Bauhaus

2/5

they play too much

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

daxter type beats

2112

Rush

1/5

fuck rush

Mothership Connection

Parliament

2/5

it's undeniably good funk but I just don't love funk as a genre, more as a complement to other styles

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

1/5

should've made it FASTboy slim

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

2/5

evil billy joel

Traffic

1/5

refuses to die

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

so bad it made me reevaluate the way I rate albums like THIS is a true 1, maybe I've been too rough on all those other records I gave 1's to

Live!

Fela Kuti

2/5

more a jam session than an album

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

4/5

some dynamic variation in its pace and this could've been a 5/5

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

1/5

dance music should have pace and a soul and this has neither

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

1/5

I accidentally turned the volume all the way down halfway during free bird and decided to keep it that way

Eagles

2/5

sonically competent, musically inept

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

good stuff

Arise

Sepultura

3/5

incredible shredding for background music

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

5/5

I definitely have a soft spot for this one but it's genuinely a perfect punk record

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

1/5

mass production contains possibly the worst bassline ever recorded

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

so extremely competent and yet I find myself bored

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

3/5

groundbreaking and listenable

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

2/5

extra star for portuguese

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

very pleasantly surprised, the atmosphere alone carries the entire record

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

absolutely foundational for me and one of the reasons I started playing bass mike dirnt goes truly insane on this record

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

3/5

good jazz for jazz listeners (not me)

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

a true masterpiece + epic hitchhiker's reference!!!

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

3 great tracks but otherwise it's filler

The Doors

1/5

I haven't listened to The Doors since I was a teenager and I cannot believe I used to actually listen to this. No wonder I was depressed

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

2/5

white boy slop

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

1/5

elvis more like alvisn... and the chimpnuks ;)

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

1/5

emanates a racist aura

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

2/5

good pop songs that are way too long

LP1

FKA twigs

2/5

I wish it was weird in an interesting way

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

3/5

people in the 90's be like: guys they made beatles 2

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

3/5

some absolute bangers in there but ultimately way too long

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

1/5

songs from the poopy butt by tears for fears

Back In Black

AC/DC

3/5

guy who's only ever heard the school of rock soundtrack, listening to back in black: getting a lot of school of rock vibes from this...

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

3/5

3 stars for god only knows

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

2/5

kind of unsatisfying

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

3/5

pleasantly surprised

Django Django

2/5

just not catchy at all