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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches Happy Mondays	5	2.98	+2.02
Drunk Thundercat	5	3.12	+1.88
Screamadelica Primal Scream	5	3.17	+1.83
Songs Of Love And Hate Leonard Cohen	5	3.2	+1.8
The Poet Bobby Womack	5	3.21	+1.79
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	5	3.3	+1.7
The Band The Band	5	3.36	+1.64
Imagine John Lennon	5	3.45	+1.55
Low David Bowie	5	3.55	+1.45
Wild Is The Wind Nina Simone	5	3.64	+1.36

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	1	3.73	-2.73
Van Halen Van Halen	1	3.63	-2.63
Billion Dollar Babies Alice Cooper	1	3.11	-2.11
Heartbreaker Ryan Adams	1	3.03	-2.03
Groovin' The Young Rascals	1	3.03	-2.03
Gold Ryan Adams	1	2.84	-1.84
American Idiot Green Day	2	3.77	-1.77
Bayou Country Creedence Clearwater Revival	2	3.65	-1.65
Hard Again Muddy Waters	2	3.61	-1.61
Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room Dwight Yoakam	1	2.6	-1.6

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Country Life

Roxy Music · 50 likes

2/5

Now I know what this album sounds like I can confirm that my dad just had this for the baps

The Poet

Bobby Womack · 26 likes

5/5

God bless this coked out mess

Gold

Ryan Adams · 18 likes

1/5

How many albums does this nonce have on the list?

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan · 16 likes

5/5

The last thing I wanted it to be a steely Dan guy but this album really worked for me. Was going to give it 4 but I don’t really know where I’d fault it.

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays · 8 likes

5/5

The sound of an indie band incorporating early rave and it actually works.

1-Star Albums (7)

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Low

David Bowie

5/5

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

2/5

Odelay

Beck

4/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

3/5

This is quite naff but I enjoyed it more than I expected. 'Hangar 18' is sick and 'Rust in Peace... Polaris' sounds like a Kyle Mooney bit

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

Get it up ye

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

2/5

Individually, these tunes might be a bit of bluesy fun but as an album it gets a bit too repetitive. Bonus star for some lovely guitar sounds

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

Is this album a bit over produced? Yes Is it a bit all over the place? Yes Do the bangers make up for it? Yes Can I forgive her for Jig of Life? I’m just not sure

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

3/5

Songs Divorced Uncles Get Turnt Up To

Thriller

Michael Jackson

3/5

This doesn’t even feel like an album because the hits just transcend the rest of the album. I’m taking a star away cause MJ is a bad dude and maybe I’m adding one because of the outro on The Girl Is Mine, I don’t know 🤷🏻‍♂️

Kenya

Machito

4/5

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

3/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

2/5

I liked 2 or 3 of the more recognisable songs but I wasn’t crazy about the rest of the album 🤷🏻‍♂️

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

3/5

This is pretty decent but it’s not even the best talking heads album

The Joshua Tree

3/5

This has some real belters on it that know how naff they are and they just don’t care. Sadly the whole things falls off a cliff in the middle RIP

The Velvet Underground

4/5

This is some seriously chill shit! I don’t know the Velvet Underground that well but this album really cements the fact that I’m going to have a massive heroin phase ✌🏼

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

This slaps a big one

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Awk it was alright

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

1/5

Next album please I’ll not lie, I didn’t listen to all of this but I’m giving it one star anyway just so poor Muddy isn’t bottom of the pile

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

You can’t really go wrong with this album

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

When I was like 15 and going through my first big Beatles phase I decided to abstain from some of their albums so I’d have something to come back to. Although I’d heard a lot of the tracks already I did enjoy it as an album. Yes, there are a few scrappers on it there are a few gems that attempt to make up for it. Overall, I don’t think it’s bad but it’s definitely not on par with some of the other albums by the Beatles on this list.

Bummed

Happy Mondays

2/5

This album sounds pretty cool but a lot of the songs didn’t grab me, probably something to come back to tho

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

1/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

2/5

All That You Can't Leave Behind

2/5

This does have a few Dad Rock Killers™️ but it’s a bit of a snooze fest apart from that

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

3/5

It’s not the same since Art left. This is a weird album. I legit don’t know if it’s one of the best or one of the worst albums I’ve heard so far.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

This is a bit ‘welcome to my twisted mind’ but I fucking loved it. 5 Big Ones

Fred Neil

2/5

I can appreciate this because it really feels like it’s trying to do something different sadly none of the tunes stood out to me. Sweet album cover tho

Foo Fighters

3/5

The Band

5/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

4/5

Even tho this is a week long it’s all pretty consistent

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

This was a lot better than I expected, I’d go as far to say I enjoyed it

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

The xx

4/5

Had an existential crisis listening to this

Phrenology

The Roots

3/5

The Specials

4/5

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

2/5

Now I know what this album sounds like I can confirm that my dad just had this for the baps

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

It feels a bit controversial to give this a three but that’s just how this listen turned out 🤷🏻‍♂️

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

3/5

This was nice and good

The Score

Fugees

5/5

The Visitors

ABBA

2/5

I get this is the last album and they were trying something different but without big monster bangers (excluding One of Us which is pretty tight) it’s all pretty boring

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Nick Drake keeps his shirt on in the pool

Violent Femmes

4/5

Mum, can we get The Pixies for dinner? No, we’ve got The Pixies in the freezer at home The Pixies in the freezer

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

1/5

Smell you later

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

3/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

2/5

Tommy

The Who

3/5

I used to love this when I was a nipper and I think it mostly held up til around the middle where it gets a bit boring. Also, why is there so much rape/molestation craic on this album? Like a concept album about a wee fella playing pinball doesn’t seem like the right venue?

The Cars

4/5

Aye this is a banger, I think it would be a 5 but it does dip pretty hard in the middle

The Poet

Bobby Womack

5/5

God bless this coked out mess

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

3/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

I dig it

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

5/5

American Idiot

Green Day

2/5

Wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be but still not one I’m going to come back to

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

I didn’t do this cause I’d already seen this one, it was pretty good. Micheal McIntyre introduced him and I think Jack Dee did a set after!

Gold

Ryan Adams

1/5

How many albums does this nonce have on the list?

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

2/5

Did they realise the mics were on?

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

The last thing I wanted it to be a steely Dan guy but this album really worked for me. Was going to give it 4 but I don’t really know where I’d fault it.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

3/5

I can appreciate that this is some mad stuff but I don’t think I had the attention for a lot of it.

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

5/5

The sound of an indie band incorporating early rave and it actually works.

Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

2/5

Had touch of the Louven Brothers about it but I doubt this guy has killed anyone. Weak sauce.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

Big beats are best, get high all the time

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

I was going to give this one a 2 but it won me over.

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

This actually pretty decent, it’s a shame that some of the album tracks sort of plod along but the hits really work. Down in the Tube Station at Midnight is a massive tune

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

You can tell Bob was just having fun with this one. Not my favourite but I got a lot more out of it this time round.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

This is dark side of the moon after all

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

This was only alright

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

3/5

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

1/5

Boring!

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

You know what, I really tried to like Jimi when I was a nipper but I was turned off by what I thought was boring virtuoso guitar music. I was a very silly child.

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

1/5

Grow up

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

It’s a shame about kooks

Wild Gift

2/5

Imagine

John Lennon