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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
If You're Feeling Sinister Belle & Sebastian	5	3.19	+1.81
School's Out Alice Cooper	5	3.2	+1.8
Mr. Tambourine Man The Byrds	5	3.22	+1.78
Murmur R.E.M.	5	3.42	+1.58
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	5	3.43	+1.57
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water Limp Bizkit	4	2.51	+1.49
Definitely Maybe Oasis	5	3.54	+1.46
Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan	5	3.66	+1.34
Pearl Janis Joplin	5	3.72	+1.28
Lam Toro Baaba Maal	4	2.73	+1.27

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Smokers Delight Nightmares On Wax	1	2.91	-1.91
Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin	2	3.9	-1.9
Bone Machine Tom Waits	1	2.85	-1.85
Songs From The Big Chair Tears For Fears	2	3.75	-1.75
Master Of Puppets Metallica	2	3.72	-1.72
The Genius Of Ray Charles Ray Charles	2	3.62	-1.62
Maggot Brain Funkadelic	2	3.59	-1.59
Boy In Da Corner Dizzee Rascal	1	2.56	-1.56
Moss Side Story Barry Adamson	1	2.52	-1.52
Back At The Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith	2	3.38	-1.38

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Beatles	2	5

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Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock · 2 likes

1/5

(1/7) this guy should play at the super bowl or something

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera · 1 likes

2/5

(2/7) makes me want to commit a crime

Bone Machine

Tom Waits · 1 likes

1/5

(1/7) sounds like RFK did the vocals on every track

4-Star Albums (38)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

1-Star Albums (5)

All Ratings

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

(7/7) Obviously some good stuff on here. Love that rock organ!

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

(6/7) My my hey hey, this one really rocked!

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

(6/7) If this album isn't proof that therapy works, I dont know what is.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

(5/7) I always thought these were fun!

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

2/5

(3/7) The slow jazz ballads really lost me

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

(3/7) meh

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

(7/7) It must've been crazy when this came out

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

3/5

(4/7) A few good ones on here, but the second half feels like one loud, extended guitar solo

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

(3/7) appropriately begins with "Being Boring" and doesn't get more interesting after that

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

(4/7) "Teenage Riot" then a lot of crunchy guitar

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

2/5

(3/7) Too loud

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

2/5

(2/7) if you're looking for something to sing along with I'd recommend skipping this one

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

(5/7) this rocks. no standouts but pretty consistently average or better

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

(5/7) we've had a lot of similar vibes recently but still fun

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

2/5

(2/7) makes me want to commit a crime

Common

4/5

(5/7) very smooth

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

4/5

(5/7) maybe this was "cool" when it came out but today it comes across dorky but in a sort of endearing way

My Generation

The Who

3/5

(4/7) some good ones but today feels a little "generic 60s"

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

3/5

(4/7) the music is fine. but after all his effort and research, did he really not come across the proper spelling of "Illinois"? and what's with these song titles that are so long they don't even fit in the space allotted on spotify? I wanted to listen to music, not read a book. next time, let's keep song titles to 140 characters and the album length to 45 minutes

Odelay

Beck

3/5

(4/7) some normal stuff, some weird stuff, overall fairly listenable

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

2/5

(2/7) I felt like I called customer support and was placed on hold for 45 minutes

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

(1/7) this guy should play at the super bowl or something

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

4/5

(6/7) sad girl sings nice

Country Life

Roxy Music

2/5

(3/7) mid

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

(5/7) some real bangers on here but you have to be in the right mood

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

1/5

(1/7) maybe it sounds better if you're stoned?

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

4/5

(5/7) good for a rage run, probably my favorite metal so far

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

(6/7) cheery and delightful god did save "strawberry jam and all the different varieties". the jelly aisle these days is insane

Electric

The Cult

4/5

(5/7) hard (but not too hard) rock

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

(4/7) a little too funky for my general lifestyle

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

(4/7) I never really listened to this dude before but I suppose he's ok

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

(7/7) never listened to this before. awesome stuff. not a dull moment

Caetano Veloso

2/5

(3/7) no consistent vibes

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

(4/7) the good stuff is good

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

(5/7) I think a lot of these songs get overplayed. But still it's a lot of good stuff on one album

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

(6/7) sweet and intimate

The Clash

4/5

(5/7) fuel for my rebellious streak

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

(4/7) "Alright" indeed

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

(7/7) I forgot how good this was

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

2/5

(3/7) too weird for a Saturday

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

4/5

(5/7) sad girl plays piano

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

(4/7) dude forgot to write the words

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

(5/7) I l liked the jams more than I thought I would

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

3/5

(4/7) nothing especially good, nothing especially bad

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

2/5

(3/7) music for retail shopping in a store that sells weird clothes

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

(6/7) she got soul

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

(5/7) i'm not sure where this lies in his chronology but I assume it's after he was famous enough he could get away with weird stuff

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

2/5

(2/7) I don't see how this can be a "must listen"

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

(4/7) once we got to the top of the hill things started to get weird real fast

Closer

Joy Division

2/5

(3/7) sounds like the background of a strange dream

British Steel

Judas Priest

4/5

(5/7) apparently recorded in Ringo's house

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

3/5

(4/7) a seemingly deliberate attempt to create "art" that no one asked for

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

(6/7) they used to play Van Morrison on the intercom at the beginning of the day in high school so this music reminds me of feeling tired and walking zombie-like to class

Low

David Bowie

3/5

(4/7) c'mon dude you can do better

Dry

PJ Harvey

2/5

(3/7) unremarkable

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

(7/7) the beginning of the Beatles' ascent into the astral plane of music

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

(4/7) is this representative of female vocalists before singer/songwriters became the norm?

Black Sabbath

3/5

(4/7) liked the instant Halloween vibes at the beginning but skews a little too jam heavy for me

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

(5/7) when they rock they rock a little hard for me but I like when they mellow out

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

2/5

(2/7) songs feel long and arduous

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

(6/7) bold and soulful, but the spoken word section really slowed the momentum on my run

Slayed?

Slade

3/5

(4/7) as average as could be

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

(6/7) these guys sound like they have a lot of fun

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

(4/7) it's fine

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

3/5

(4/7) a lot of stuff on here. a few good, and the rest fairly average

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

3/5

(4/7) another long (but largely synthesizer-free) 80s journey

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

(7/7) smooth and cheerful

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

2/5

(3/7) not really my vibe. Many of the songs feel like they loop over and over and over again

School's Out

Alice Cooper

5/5

(7/7) I knew "School's Out" was epic, but the rest of the album is much more eclectic than I expected

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

(5/7) as musical as speaking can get

Pornography

The Cure

2/5

(2/7) a lot of 80s new wave recently, this not as good as recent selections, nor among the best of The Cure

The Blueprint

JAY Z

3/5

(4/7) liked it more than I thought I would

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

5/5

(7/7) I've been a fan of these guys since I Shazamed "Get Me Away from Here, I'm Dying" at a hair salon in Nashville 10 years ago

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

3/5

(4/7) they groove pretty strong but sometimes longer than my attention span

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

1/5

(1/7) some of the beats were fine but the rapping added very little

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

(7/7) not sure how he got involved with the symphony orchestra but it seemed to work out

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

(4/7) I was having fun but that long, slow one in the middle lost me

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

(5/7) unexpectedly bold and artsy; surprisingly complex; not easy listening but interesting listening

2112

Rush

3/5

(4/7) whoever sings has a little too much screech in his voice. other than the 20 minute space opera this was pretty typical fare

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

1/5

(1/7) sounds like RFK did the vocals on every track

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

(4/7) definitely a change of pace, but still too weird for easy listening, and not a lot of variety

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

5/5

(7/7) 31 minutes of jangly bliss

Play

Moby

3/5

(4/7) some fun stuff and some strange stuff

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

(5/7) jazz means long songs with no words

Fleet Foxes

5/5

(7/7) unique, almost haunting at times

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

(4/7) uncontroversial music for generic restaurants and elevators

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

2/5

(3/7) thought it was going to be worse but not too painful, better when they're not singing

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

3/5

(4/7) 1 or 2 good ones but the rest is fairly unremarkable. don't know where they found the saxophone

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

4/5

(5/7) some good stuff, some too experimental

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

(7/7) some very creative instrumentation, at times; the hits are excellent and the rest of the content is strong

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

(5/7) fun stuff

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

(4/7) pleasant

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

3/5

(4/7) more 80s

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

2/5

(3/7) unremarkable (but not unplesant)

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

(5/7) groovin'

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

2/5

(2/7) a series of noises ranging from annoying to unpleasant

Iron Maiden

3/5

(4/7) fine for my run but could do without the long instrumentals

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

(5/7) maybe I was in a good mood but this is some of the better jazz we've listened to, methinks

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

3/5

(4/7) some surprisingly good stuff on here but also a high dose of strangeness

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

1/5

(1/7) without a doubt one of the dumbest things I have ever listened to

Drunk

Thundercat

4/5

(5/7) surprisingly kind of fun

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

(4/7) more enjoyable than expected, despite many weird percussive noises

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

3/5

(4/7) I'd seen this guy's name before but always assumed he was Korean

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

3/5

(4/7) idk if this was cool when it came out but it feels dorky today

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

(7/7) strong (but I could still do without the slow ones)

Ramones

3/5

(4/7) hey ho let's go

Faust IV

Faust

2/5

(3/7) sometimes pleasant but never for very long

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

(7/7) soulful

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

(7/7) bold and artsy

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

(4/7) fun overall but "Killer Queen" is the only thing that stood out

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

3/5

(4/7) really not as bad as the screeching sound at the beginning led me to expect

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

(7/7) a little long and jam heavy but the good moments are astounding

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

2/5

(3/7) didn't really speak to me

The Rolling Stones

3/5

(4/7) average 60s

Eternally Yours

The Saints

4/5

(5/7) kind of fun. I liked the instrumentation, especially on "Know Your Product"

Murmur

R.E.M.

5/5

(7/7) nice stuff, not at all like what I've come to expect from the 80s

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

(6/7) fun stuff

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

2/5

(3/7) some of it sounded like French

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

(4/7) that janis sure can wail

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

4/5

(5/7) very cool

White Ladder

David Gray

4/5

(5/7) some of these sounded familiar. the acoustic style feels very modern - more reminiscient of the 2010s than the 90s

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

(5/7) kind of vibe-y. Sometimes strange but sometimes very pleasant

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

(4/7) some of this is fun

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

(4/7) sounds like an Irish pub

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

2/5

(2/7) music for a long and arduous run

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

(5/7) a few good ones and then some noise

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

2/5

(3/7) I don't get the obsession with Lynyrd Skynyrd

Scott 4

Scott Walker

2/5

(3/7) didn't move me