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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Low David Bowie	5	3.55	+1.45
Idlewild Everything But The Girl	4	2.58	+1.42
Can't Buy A Thrill Steely Dan	5	3.72	+1.28
Parallel Lines Blondie	5	3.76	+1.24
S.F. Sorrow The Pretty Things	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm A Tribe Called Quest	1	3.61	-2.61
Natty Dread Bob Marley & The Wailers	1	3.58	-2.58
Live! Fela Kuti	1	3.44	-2.44
Stand! Sly & The Family Stone	1	3.43	-2.43
Coat Of Many Colors Dolly Parton	1	3.42	-2.42
Toys In The Attic Aerosmith	1	3.26	-2.26
Mott Mott The Hoople	1	2.95	-1.95
Abraxas Santana	2	3.72	-1.72
Queen II Queen	2	3.49	-1.49
Rock 'N Soul Solomon Burke	2	3.36	-1.36

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Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

3/5

This is pleasant enough stuff. But I really don't know what it's doing on a list of the 1001 greatest albums of all time.

23 likes

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

1/5

Forty years ago, I would have pretended to like this. But I've never really enjoyed most reggae. This is no exception. It includes "No Woman No Cry", but it's not the live version that everyone knows. I didn't enjoy this at all.

5 likes

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

1/5

I can see mid-teen me enjoying this. Or, more likely, claiming to enjoy this because he thought it was cool. But it's all rather rather dull and repetitive.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (7)

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

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Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Not one of my favourite Bowie albums (except for the title track, which I love) but still better than most albums or there.

Kenya

Machito

2/5

I don't hate it, but it's really not my thing.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

I love this album. I used to listen to it all the time. Haven't played it for years.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

1/5

Really not very good.

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

4/5

Yeah, this is more my kinda thing. Nice 90s indie vibes.

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

Haven't listened to this for a long time. Really enjoyed it. Need to listen to The Doors more.

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Hard to believe this is 25 years old. It still sounds as fresh as it did back in 1995. It's something I've listened to regularly over that time.

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

I can totally see why people would enjoy this (I might well have done so myself back when it was released) but it's not for me, I'm afraid.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

I used to have this album. Maybe I still do (somewhere). I think I prefer "To Bring You My Love", but this is pretty good.

New York Dolls

3/5

I'm sure this was thrilling in 1973. But since the advent of punk in 1977, it doesn't have the same impact.

Queen II

Queen

2/5

"Seven Seas of Rhye" was the single that introduced me to Queen in 1974. I never really got into this album - but their next three all really impressed me. And coming back to the album for the first time in decades, my opinion hasn't changed. I can see why some people might like it, but it's really not for me.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

2/5

Pretty standard mid-60s Atlantic output as far as I can see. There are a few well-known songs on it but, honestly, if I were looking for music like this I'd reach for a Motown Chartbusters compilation.

Live!

Fela Kuti

1/5

This does absolutely nothing for me.

Abraxas

Santana

2/5

I've never understood the attraction of Santana. This album has one good song on it - and the original version by Fleetwood Mac is far better.

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

4/5

Yeah. This is far better than the last few albums on the list. I never really listened to EBTG back then, but they were pleasant enough backing music when someone else played them. This persuades me that I should listen to them more.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Still excellent :-)

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

Hard to separate this from the curmudgeonly old bastard Morrison has become recently. The music is good, the man isn't.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

1/5

I can see mid-teen me enjoying this. Or, more likely, claiming to enjoy this because he thought it was cool. But it's all rather rather dull and repetitive.

Low

David Bowie

5/5

Another Bowie album and it's (obviously) great. It's very much an album of two sides. Side one is the poppy stuff that everyone knows like "Sound and Vision"; side two is longer, more pensive and mostly instrumental pieces.

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

3/5

This is pleasant enough stuff. But I really don't know what it's doing on a list of the 1001 greatest albums of all time.

Mott

Mott The Hoople

1/5

I have no idea at all what this album is doing on this list. At this time, Mott the Hoople were three years and four albums away from recording "All the Young Dudes" and becoming slightly interesting for a few months. This is just a pointless late-60s rock dirge.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

1/5

No thank you.

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

1/5

I'm confused why this album is on the list. This was released ten or twelve years before any of Aerosmith's popular albums. The only thing this album has going for it is the original version of "Walk This Way", but even that isn't anywhere near as good as the Cameo version.

The Slider

T. Rex

4/5

That's more like it. T Rex at the height of their powers are like a force of nature. And this is about as it gets. It's got two huge hit singles, "Metal Guru" and "Telegram Sam", which means this was released at about the time I first discovered the band. I don't listen to enough T Rex. I'll put that right today.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

1/5

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

4/5

Amazingly, this is the first time I've listened to this album. It sounds like so many other late 60s albums - but I suspect this was the album that invented that sound.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

Still fun :-)