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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Orbital 2 Orbital	5	2.7	+2.3
Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor Lupe Fiasco	5	3.13	+1.87
The College Dropout Kanye West	5	3.31	+1.69
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	5	3.42	+1.58
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	5	3.47	+1.53
New Forms Roni Size	4	2.53	+1.47
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar	5	3.61	+1.39
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan	5	3.61	+1.39
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	5	3.61	+1.39
Illmatic Nas	5	3.61	+1.39

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi	2	3.29	-1.29
Rubber Soul Beatles	3	4.12	-1.12

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Artist	Albums	Average
Kanye West	2	5
Kendrick Lamar	2	5

5-Star Albums (13)

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Orbital 2

Orbital

5/5

One of the best electronic albums of all time

6 likes

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Rubber Soul

Beatles

3/5

Good start and end, bit one paced at points

The Predator

Ice Cube

4/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

4/5

Great surprise this, could be a 5 after repeat listens

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Sick

Bummed

Happy Mondays

4/5

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

3/5

Slightly too long, but some nice parts certainly

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Not necessarily my bag, but appreciate some of the more atmospheric parts of it

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

4/5

First Fall album I've listened to, basslines are brilliant, generous 4 as it meanders a bit but will improve on repeated listens

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

2/5

I am almost certain that I should give this a 1 but there's probably worse things to listen to

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

I Against I

Bad Brains

3/5

Somewhere between a 3 3.5, will need repeated listens

Low

David Bowie

4/5

Literally could be a 5 on another day and i'll probably regret giving this a 4, the transition between side a and b is a little jarring still but both are awesome.

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

2/5

I appreciate the skill and the introduction but it was repetitive to me after a while

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

4/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Slightly overrated but the singles are huge

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

The Specials

4/5

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

3/5

Pleasant enough

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

4/5

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

2/5

Goes downhill after an impressive first track

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

This is probably closer to 3.5 than 3 and i think could be a 4 in the future.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

Pleasant surprise

Protection

Massive Attack

4/5

New Forms

Roni Size

4/5

Seminal dnb album that paved the way for so much more - lots of material on the anniversary edition to dig into also.

The Band

3/5

2.5 - 3, there are pockets where i really enjoyed this but not enough for me to long to come back to.

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Class

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Third

Portishead

4/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

Very decent 3.5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

Bit one paced but pleasant enough

Django Django

3/5

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

2/5

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

4/5

Pleasantly surprised

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Maybe just below It Takes a Million, but still a seminal release

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

4-4.5, has aged beautifully, unbelievable voice complimented by great production.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

4/5

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

4/5

Very fun album

Goo

Sonic Youth

4/5

Enjoyed this a lot more than I thought, 1st half is great

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

4/5

Not as good as Queen is Dead but still very enjoyable

So Much For The City

The Thrills

3/5

Top heavy album

Orbital 2

Orbital

5/5

One of the best electronic albums of all time

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

5/5

One of the best albums of the 00's

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

4/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

3.5 rounded to 4, prefer white blood cells but only just.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Its a 3.5, slightly too long but rounding up.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

5/5

His best work and one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

So close to a 5 - 4.4, could be 5 upon repeat listens

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

4/5

Did not expect to like this as much as I have, well crafted songs all the way through.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Play

Moby

3/5

The highs are great, but overall has not aged well

Highly Evolved

The Vines

3/5

Some great songs but doesn't really come together cohesively.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

One of the best ever

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5

One of the greatest

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

Big beat classic - harshly rounding down to 4 as it has aged a little.

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Sounds great still today

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

2/5

Partial to some slipknot but this is one of their worst.

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

One of the quickest 5's I can give, a blend of styles brought together effortlessly, back to back tunes.

Debut

Björk

4/5

Unashamedly fun - very pleasantly surprised

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

A generous 3 as its still listenable - but they really started to disappear up their own arse here

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

One of the best albums to come from the 2000s UK indie explosion

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

One of the best albums out of the UK - over 70 minutes with no filler.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Didn't think I'd enjoy this as much as I expected to

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Easiest 5 stars of this project

Moon Safari

Air

4/5