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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Orbital 2 Orbital	5	2.7	+2.3
Dog Man Star Suede	5	3	+2
Underwater Moonlight The Soft Boys	5	3.06	+1.94
Autobahn Kraftwerk	5	3.09	+1.91
A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse Faces	5	3.24	+1.76
Live Through This Hole	5	3.28	+1.72
Boston Boston	5	3.71	+1.29
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	5	3.83	+1.17
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret Soft Cell	4	2.87	+1.13
White Light / White Heat The Velvet Underground	4	2.88	+1.12

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
L.A. Woman The Doors	1	3.67	-2.67
Deja Vu Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	2	3.7	-1.7
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim Frank Sinatra	2	3.27	-1.27
S&M Metallica	2	3.26	-1.26
Honky Tonk Heroes Waylon Jennings	2	3.14	-1.14
Close To You Carpenters	2	3.11	-1.11
The Last Broadcast Doves	2	3.05	-1.05
Felt Mountain Goldfrapp	2	3	-1

5-Star Albums (9)

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

Popular Reviews

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

I've never enjoyed a Cure album, even though I'd like to because Robert Smith is an excellent grumpy goth who hates Morrissey.

26 likes

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

Faces

5/5

I expected to quite like it, but it exceeded my expectations. I thought i already had an opinion on Stay With Me, but that was better than I expected too. Maybe it all caught me in just the right mood.

2 likes

S&M

Metallica

2/5

It's just like a more expensive (and, to be fair, not quite as bad) version of doing an acoustic album. They can have two stars because many of the songs are good, but these are disappointing versions.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (1)

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Picture Book

Simply Red

2/5

I like the big Simply Red hits more than i perhaps ought to. I'm just about old enough to have nostalgia for them. This is still kinda boring though.

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

3/5

This isn't for me. I didn't find it obnoxious or anything, like all the lame people influenced by Joni Mitchell, but it left no impression.

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

4/5

It's not going into my rotation or anything, but I quite liked this. Reminded me of Eels in places.

Black Sabbath

5/5

Yeah, ok Sabbath you can have loads of stars.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

I've never enjoyed a Cure album, even though I'd like to because Robert Smith is an excellent grumpy goth who hates Morrissey.

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

3/5

It's hard to process this as anything other than a historical artifact tbh. It's not bad, but i got nothing from it, apart from wanting to listen to the Alec Empire vs Elvis album again.

Hysteria

Def Leppard

4/5

Fun, but all the songs are too long

Viva Hate

Morrissey

2/5

mopey bs. I do have a soft spot for Everyday Is Like Sunday, and there was a surprise guitar solo that i enjoyed.

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

4/5

I listened to this years ago and found it disappointing and boring. Now I like it.

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

3/5

Can't help but be reminded of my times at ATP. Happy memories, wrapping in mostly-boring indie music.

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

Faces

5/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

3/5

Can't remember whether i've actually seen Wilco during the daytime at a festival while half-sleeping on the grass, or whether they just sound like an ideal band for doing that.

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

4/5

One of these stars is due to nostalgia. I like the Charlatans but they don't exactly excite me.

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

Sounded decent, but i barely even noticed when it finished.

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

4/5

The Undertones

4/5

Tago Mago

Can

2/5

First disc is decent, but the second is pure shite wasting my time.

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

3/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

2/5

Not exactly a criticism, but i just have no need to listen to this ever again.

A Seat at the Table

Solange

3/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Queens of the Stone Age

3/5

It's a good sound, but it gets boring pretty quick

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Got close to that fourth star, but then they went and called a song "Keep On Chooglin'"

Black Monk Time

The Monks

4/5

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

4/5

It veers into the experimental Berlin Bowie (which i'm not so fond of) towards the end, but I liked it for the most part.

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

3/5

The Predator

Ice Cube

4/5

I liked it plenty, although a little suspicious of how often he felt the need to deny being anti-semitic.

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

3/5

One or two standouts

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

3/5

There are decent classic rock sounds here, but also a lot of tiresome muso self-indulgence.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

4/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

Dog Man Star

Suede

5/5

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

5/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

4/5

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

2/5

This is why i don't bother going to see the bands when i'm at ATP

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Blur

4/5

Bit of nostalgia talking here, because I was super hyped for this album at the time. In retrospect some of - including the lead single - is kinda dull, but the good bits are still good enough.

Live Through This

Hole

5/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

1/5

Boston

5/5

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

3/5

This is a generous 3, based on some of the songs being really good - and I didn't make it to the end. But there's no excuse for making the listener do the job of editing your record down to size. Save the crappy ~55 tracks for b-sides and special editions.

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

3/5

The Last Broadcast

Doves

2/5

Only a rung or two above Coldplay, this lot.

Odelay

Beck

4/5

Dummy

Portishead