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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Little Earthquakes Tori Amos	5	3.23	+1.77
Beauty And The Beat The Go-Go's	5	3.39	+1.61
One Nation Under A Groove Funkadelic	5	3.42	+1.58
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan	5	3.63	+1.37

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem	1	3.42	-2.42
Channel Orange Frank Ocean	1	3.31	-2.31
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Elton John	2	3.93	-1.93
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Pink Floyd	2	3.11	-1.11
The Bends Radiohead	3	4.01	-1.01

5-Star Albums (5)

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Popular Reviews

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

1/5

Absolutely horrible. Words cannot express how much I hate this music. Something about the R&B wharble is like nails on a blackboard to me. I can't listen to it.

14 likes

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

5/5

I'd never heard of this band before, but this was excellent.

4 likes

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

2/5

I can see why Elton John is considered a good song writer, but I didn't enjoy this.

2 likes

1-Star Albums (2)

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Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

4/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

I bought this CD, in a plastic cover with no booklet, from an old head - I forget his name - in Kuzmas on Main Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town, some time in the mid-90s, I think for R5. He sold it to buy beer. I'd never heard of Nick Drake, but he assured me it was good. I decided to take a chance; he was right.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

1/5

Never listened to this band before - I assumed I wouldn't like it. I was right. It's horrible.

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

I know Judas Priest, but I've never listened to this album. It's not bad.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

Great. very familiar.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

Good, but I associate it with old man's pubs.

The Bends

Radiohead

3/5

This is supposed to be brilliant, but it never did much for me.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

My favourite Bob Dylan album, with my favourite track: Masters of War.

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

5/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

Conceptually this is great, but the old school hip hop with its scratches sounds really dated and is difficult to listen to.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

1/5

Absolutely horrible. Words cannot express how much I hate this music. Something about the R&B wharble is like nails on a blackboard to me. I can't listen to it.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

5/5

I'd never heard of this band before, but this was excellent.

American Pie

Don McLean

4/5

The title track is era defining. I don't know the rest of the album well, but it's pretty good.

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

4/5

Never heard of this before. Not my usual style, but it's good.

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

4/5

I never listened to the whole album before, but George Michael is excellent.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Concept album that sounds like a movie soundtrack. The familiar tracks are era-defining, but overall the whole didn't impress me. I guess you had to be there.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

Prince is great, but I don't love this album.

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

Never listened to this before. It's pretty good.

Bummed

Happy Mondays

3/5

"Son, I'm flirty - I only went with your mamma 'cos she's dirty" The inimitable Shaun Ryder and the Happy Mondays. It feels out of time and I don't think it's aged that well.

The Joshua Tree

4/5

U2 are a band I blacklisted for arseholiness and haven't listened to for 25 years. But I used to like them, and before Rattle & Hum they were good. This is a good album.

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

I think it's 30 years since I last listened to it. It doesn't really stand the test of time for me.

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

4/5

I didn't listen to this when it came out - I was too busy listening to Portishead. But it's very good.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

5/5

I haven't listened to this before, and didn't expect to like it, but it's fantastic.

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

2/5

I like Pink Floyd, but I've only listened to the later stuff. I didn't like this.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

2/5

I can see why Elton John is considered a good song writer, but I didn't enjoy this.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

This is the best album in the history of the world.