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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Suicide Suicide	5	2.46	+2.54
Jack Takes the Floor Ramblin' Jack Elliott	5	2.71	+2.29
Songs The Lord Taught Us The Cramps	5	2.84	+2.16
Second Toughest In The Infants Underworld	5	2.86	+2.14
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels Dexys Midnight Runners	5	3	+2
Murder Ballads Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.08	+1.92
The La's The La's	5	3.14	+1.86
Forever Changes Love	5	3.22	+1.78
The Soft Bulletin The Flaming Lips	5	3.28	+1.72
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) The Kinks	5	3.39	+1.61

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Van Halen Van Halen	1	3.63	-2.63
Madman Across The Water Elton John	1	3.59	-2.59
Frampton Comes Alive Peter Frampton	1	3.19	-2.19
The Nightfly Donald Fagen	1	3.02	-2.02
Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel	2	3.96	-1.96
Led Zeppelin III Led Zeppelin	2	3.95	-1.95
The Doors The Doors	2	3.95	-1.95
Rapture Anita Baker	1	2.94	-1.94
Millions Now Living Will Never Die Tortoise	1	2.88	-1.88
Cafe Bleu The Style Council	1	2.87	-1.87

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Flaming Lips	2	5

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Artist	Ratings
Simon & Garfunkel	2, 5

5-Star Albums (20)

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Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Popular Reviews

Graceland

Paul Simon · 30 likes

2/5

Ugh. Sanitised world music for middle class drones with no imagination and less soul. Horrible

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton · 3 likes

1/5

Dismal. How was this ever popular?

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council · 2 likes

1/5

Vile

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions · 2 likes

3/5

Beautifully crafted but also smug and soulless. Not much fun

Suicide

Suicide · 2 likes

5/5

Essential

1-Star Albums (9)

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Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

4/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

2/5

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

1/5

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

5/5

Classic beats taking you back to better times.

Celebrity Skin

Hole

2/5

Utterly generic grunge pop, of its time

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

2/5

I know it’s quality and all that, I just don’t enjoy listening to it.

En-Tact

The Shamen

1/5

The single stand out (but is dated). The rest is generic DJ mixtape from the early 90s forgettable content. Not great

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

5/5

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

5/5

Of its time but timeless. Huge fun.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

3/5

Kind of ok. Sure Shot is a fab, classic tune

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

1/5

Dismal tedious prog rock jazz whatever music for chinscratchers

Third

Portishead

4/5

Solid quality music, if not quite as good as Dummy

Rocks

Aerosmith

3/5

Classic mid-70s rock. Don't like it, but cant deny its effectiveness at being what it is

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

2/5

Forgive me for I hate it.

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

4/5

Surprisingly listenable Oasis-lite

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

It’s another Kinks album. Quality but perhaps over-familiar

Crazysexycool

TLC

3/5

Efficient, formerly ubiquitous mid-90s R&B. Not my thing, but can’t argue it’s not good at what it does

Elvis Presley

4/5

The start of a new era in music. Dated but essential.

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

1/5

Gosh early 80s hair metal was terrible

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

1/5

Ugh horrible saccharine garbage

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

Jazzish bluest vocal and piano singalongs. Inoffensive.

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

4/5

Very solid early 70s rock’n’roll

The Coral

4/5

Super assured retro psych/Brit beat debut

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

2/5

However great they became, this is mostly horrific to modern ears

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

2/5

Hasn’t stood the test of time. Boring by numbers hip hop. I remember it as better than it sounds now

Suicide

5/5

Essential

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

High quality if slightly overfamiliar burbling

School's Out

Alice Cooper

3/5

The first of a great run of albums.

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

4/5

Top quality, influential punk/post-punk/funk. And a few standout tunes.

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Good stuff from essential band. Never really into them but can’t really criticise it’s uniqueness or quality

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Beautifully crafted but also smug and soulless. Not much fun

Iron Maiden

3/5

Iron Maiden sounding like Iron Maiden albeit rougher about the edges.

Blur

4/5

Decent Blur changing track. Some memorable tunes.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

It’s good stuff just not my stuff

808 State

3/5

Hmmm....not as good as I expected

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

1/5

Vile

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

5/5

Great stuff from a band in their prime

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

4/5

Noisy world changing rock n roll

The Clash

4/5

Hate the clash but this isn’t a bad album for a bunch of posh boy pub rockers

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Safe middle class parent music. Really well done but not for me

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

1/5

Dismal. How was this ever popular?

Out of Step

Minor Threat

4/5

Still super fresh US hardcore punk

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

It has a sound. Leaves me a bit cold mind

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

Very decent album from very decent band

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

The origin of FM rock. Very listenable/ as was I think intended.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

3/5

Patchy but in place great. Nice to encounter something new from the list

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

4/5

In the 70s NY was on fire

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

2/5

Bland unengaging RnB. Inexplicably popular

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Top notch angry political tub thumping musically pioneering rap

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

3/5

It’s good and that but not super engaging

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Simple fun

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Fantastic voice but bland bland production. Decent album though

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

5/5

Classic garage rock and roll

Forever Changes

Love

5/5

Very decent indeed.

Graceland

Paul Simon

2/5

Ugh. Sanitised world music for middle class drones with no imagination and less soul. Horrible

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

3/5

Sweet, inoffensive stuff. Background music at best. But good background music

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

Blah

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

4/5

Hi quality vintage hip hop

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

Pretty cool.

Rapture

Anita Baker

1/5

Awful reminder of how bad some parts of the 80a s living experience was

Van Halen

1/5

Ugh, horrific pedestrian plodding enlivened with what are now rather hackneyed guitar solos. Of its time. Not one to tolerate now.

Dry

PJ Harvey

4/5

Better as it ages. Nick Cave-esque

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

Dull. If you put your thumb over Paul Simon's face, it makes Art Garfunkel look like he has massive moustache

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Solid prime era Stones

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Apart from Yellow Submarine, one of their best

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

2/5

Plodding, dull. How was this ever a phenomenon?

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

3/5

Dreary but efficient background electronica

The Doors

2/5

Boringly familiar

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Quality pop

The Real Thing

Faith No More

3/5

Just a bit dreary and ordinary really. Clearly influential. But not of anything I particularly like.

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

5/5

Superb folk tunes from one of the best of his era

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Solid proto-post-punk. More important than many records of that era

Scott 4

Scott Walker

4/5

Scott Walker. Nuff said

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

Great great album

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

3/5

Great but dont like Tom Waits

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

4/5

Yawn

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

4/5

Good stuff again from PJH

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

3/5

Big fab and stupid

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

The La's

5/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

hmmm very good also matt get back to work buddy

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

5/5

Le Tigre

4/5