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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Yank Crime Drive Like Jehu	5	2.7	+2.3
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road Lucinda Williams	5	3	+2
Emperor Tomato Ketchup Stereolab	5	3.03	+1.97
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Pink Floyd	5	3.11	+1.89
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg Jerry Lee Lewis	5	3.28	+1.72
Homework Daft Punk	5	3.29	+1.71
The Band The Band	5	3.36	+1.64
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	5	3.38	+1.62
Stand! Sly & The Family Stone	5	3.43	+1.57
Nilsson Schmilsson Harry Nilsson	5	3.44	+1.56

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	2	3.44	-1.44

5-Star Albums (20)

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Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Popular Reviews

Femi Kuti

4/5

hard, if not impossible, to compare his work to his father's. his shadow looms large but this is still worth a listen! fav track: changes

10 likes

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

5/5

call it country or call it a comeback, it's a god damn masterpiece. love letter to dive bars, breakup letter to pain. fav track: 2 kool 2 be 4-gotten

8 likes

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

5/5

Consistently hilarious (“shut up already, damn!”) while showing all manner of musical prowess and staying funky as hell. Both intimate and all-encompassing. Fav track: forever in my life

6 likes

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

4/5

hey lloyd, i'm ready to be heartbroken fav track: perfect skin

6 likes

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

5/5

i am a masochist for this album and it never stops beating me up fav track: super unison

6 likes

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Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

slower zep. fav track: that's the way

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

5/5

Consistently hilarious (“shut up already, damn!”) while showing all manner of musical prowess and staying funky as hell. Both intimate and all-encompassing. Fav track: forever in my life

Fragile

Yes

4/5

incorporates classical in a way i sure like fav track: cans and brahms

Debut

Björk

4/5

a real London record! it's fun to think of bjork as a hot young thing running around the city, maybe saying "fuck John Major" to anyone who will listen. fav track: like someone in love

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

purty decent, if a little obtuse fav track: havalina

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

disaffected jazzy krautrock pop by a man obsessed with cocaine. lovely tho fav track: stay

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

smoky riffy take on the blues. sounds great. fav track: the wind cries mary

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

fittyleven samples coheres into one funk groove

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

5/5

c'es l'avenir! fav track: percolator

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

4/5

makes me want to play it as loud as i can in an actual garage. weird (and great!) to hear ray charles song in this context. fav track: good golly miss molly

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

4/5

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

4/5

nice work, ya fuckin dimebag. sorry Columbus Ohio killed u fav track: hollow

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

5/5

i am a masochist for this album and it never stops beating me up fav track: super unison

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

4/5

feels fresh & original after his work with the wailers. fav track: burial

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

gothy autumnal post punk. sounds like they're conjuring a spell. fav track: arabian knights

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

4/5

fun one. interesting takes on some classic tracks. fav track: let's stay together

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

holy shit, classic funk! fav track: you can make it if you try

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

4/5

hey lloyd, i'm ready to be heartbroken fav track: perfect skin

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

4/5

it’s so weird how well this British woman did Motown Fav track: mockingbird

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

4/5

great bossanova like mom and dad did! fav track: Sem Contenção

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

4/5

american equivalent to Sticky Fingers is good, but not better than Sticky Fingers! come on, mick! fav track: whiskey woman

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

5/5

yesterday the american rolling stones (flamin groovies), today the american beatle. what an incredible record. gorgeous way to start the day. fav track: jump into the fire

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

2/5

post-rock lite. certainly could live a very full life without hearing this record. fav track: green eyes

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

4/5

it's a classic for a reason. bad bitch. fav track: 50ft queenie

Hypnotised

The Undertones

4/5

good post punk. nothing as catchy as “teenage kicks” tho

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

5/5

fucking PRESENCE fav track: long tall sally

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

4/5

solid outing, if overshadowed by their better known work fav track: doin' our own dang

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

5/5

as holy as it is human fav track: hey, that's no way to say goodbye

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

so good it's not even fair. i will play every track on the jukebox until the end of time.

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

4/5

it's big, it's english, it's the 80s fav track: tears are not enough

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

5/5

brought punk to the mainstream fav track: god save the queen

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

ridiculous and old timey and la mf prima fav track: jump, jive an' wail

Miriam Makeba

4/5

somewhat expectedly beautiful african folk. glad to know it. fav track: lakutshn ilanga

Femi Kuti

4/5

hard, if not impossible, to compare his work to his father's. his shadow looms large but this is still worth a listen! fav track: changes

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

perfectly balanced and smooth. as good as rap gets. fav track: it ain’t hard to tell

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

perhaps someday the music of 2002 will appeal to me. but most of it remains offputting and unenjoyable to me in a way i find difficult to describe. fav track: paradise

New Wave

The Auteurs

4/5

pleasant, heady britpop fav track: idiot brother

Homework

Daft Punk

5/5

slobberknocker of a genre mixup girded by house music. perfect debut. fav track: around the world

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

jesus, what a carnival. send me into the ether with this on the stereo. fav track: willie the pimp

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

5/5

call it country or call it a comeback, it's a god damn masterpiece. love letter to dive bars, breakup letter to pain. fav track: 2 kool 2 be 4-gotten

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Great Album that some call The Greatest Album. fav track: let down

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

holy fuck! my favorite led zeppelin album and it's really not even close. bluesy and powerful and huge and perfect. fav track: boogie with stu

Opus Dei

Laibach

3/5

conceptually kinda enjoyable, weird as hell to listen to. fav track: opus dei

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

plays like a greatest hits collection, making it full of highs that are somewhat disjointedly sequenced.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

good, if toothless, folk fav track: suite: Judy blue eyes

All That You Can't Leave Behind

2/5

sonically so y2k that it makes me puke, lyrically and melodically childish to the point of grating. i do not like to listen to this. fav track: stuck in a moment you can't get out of

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

5/5

psychedelic classic. feels like acid. fav track: astronomy domine

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

you know what? i really fuck with it. it's ironic how straightforward alanis is given her most famous song is called "ironic". ok i'm done. fav track: hand in my pocket

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

classic! i prefer his concept records but this is a real crowd pleaser. fav track: makin' whoopee

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

4/5

badass synth pop that must have sounded like the future in 1982 fav track: promised you a miracle

The Band

5/5

absolutely cozy and lived-in well-deserved classic. plays like your favorite pair of jeans. fav track: the unfaithful servant

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears