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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Seat at the Table Solange	5	3	+2
Ritual De Lo Habitual Jane's Addiction	5	3.19	+1.81
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) Eurythmics	5	3.24	+1.76
En-Tact The Shamen	4	2.43	+1.57
Queen II Queen	5	3.49	+1.51
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	5	3.56	+1.44
Live At The Regal B.B. King	5	3.67	+1.33
Back to Mystery City Hanoi Rocks	4	2.68	+1.32
Tea for the Tillerman Cat Stevens	5	3.68	+1.32
Odessa Bee Gees	4	2.72	+1.28

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Yes Album Yes	1	3.31	-2.31
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted Ice Cube	1	2.93	-1.93
Tusk Fleetwood Mac	2	3.47	-1.47
Black Metal Venom	1	2.47	-1.47
Coat Of Many Colors Dolly Parton	2	3.42	-1.42
Chicago Transit Authority Chicago	2	3.2	-1.2
Woodface Crowded House	2	3.1	-1.1

5-Star Albums (10)

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AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube · 23 likes

1/5

It does what it does well, but my patience with that level of unashamed misogyny these days is pretty much non-existent. Good delivery, sickening content.

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley · 12 likes

3/5

It's...fine I guess? I think if it had been either a little more or a little less twee I'd have liked it a lot more, but it's not played straight enough to be good or broad enough to be fun.

Tracy Chapman

Tracy Chapman · 4 likes

5/5

Amazing voice and simple but powerful lyrics. Bonus points for being just over 35 minutes long. Says what she has to say and leaves. Great album.

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens of the Stone Age · 4 likes

4/5

Weirdly had QotSA grouped with a bunch of forgettable post-grunge bands without really having listened to much. Turns out this is a actually a really good lo-fi garage rock album. Pleasantly surprising.

En-Tact

The Shamen · 3 likes

4/5

The Shaman were actually pretty good at one point, when Will Sinnott was still around and Mr C wasn't talking over the top of every track. This is probably their peak, when they were still mixing some of their psychedelic roots into a house sound, and before they lapsed into one dimensional rave party anthems.

1-Star Albums (3)

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Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

Solid, the hits are hits and the album tracks are similar but less memorable.

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

3/5

It's...fine I guess? I think if it had been either a little more or a little less twee I'd have liked it a lot more, but it's not played straight enough to be good or broad enough to be fun.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

2/5

Fleetwood Mac at their pop-rock blandest. None of the soul of the early years and not even any of the catchy tunes of Rumours. Occasionally feels like it might go somewhere experimental and interesting but always backs of and heads to safety. Basically forgettable start to finish.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

Good album that's a little too restrained to be great and at times feels inherently constrained by it's concept. Uncritical and unexamined nostalgia that lacks any kind of edge. An occasional album that's well balanced but lacks any standout songs you'll remember half an hour later.

Queen II

Queen

5/5

Easy to forget with where they later went that in the early days Queen were a terrific rock band. Quality, start to finish.

The Yes Album

Yes

1/5

Everything that was wrong with prog. Self-indulgent, uninteresting toss.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

Fine. Good songs, nothing groundbreaking.

Queens of the Stone Age

4/5

A Seat at the Table

Solange

5/5

Laid back and confident soul album that plays around with hip-hop, funk and world-music without feeling like it's trying to hard. Really good stuff.

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

3/5

Better than I thought it would be, although it's clearly not for me. There's some accomplished musicianship in there, along with the angst and anger people come here for.

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

4/5

Never even heard of this bunch before. Nice fun glam mental album.

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

1/5

It does what it does well, but my patience with that level of unashamed misogyny these days is pretty much non-existent. Good delivery, sickening content.

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

3/5

Good but lacking in variety. A bit Tom Waits by numbers.

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

Pleasant enough bit of country rock.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

As good as you'd expect. Nice selection of tracks too. The hits are great and the album tracks often go to interesting and unexpected places. Rock solid start to finish.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

Flawless.

A Northern Soul

The Verve

3/5

It's OK. Doesn't have the standout songs of Urban Hymns, so feels a bit too much of an uninterrupted Verve drone.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Nothing ground-breaking but good solid southern rock start to finish.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

I don't think there's such a thing as a bad Beach Boys song, but this is an album that stocks to their formula with no risks and no innovation. There's nothing wrong with it, but there's also no reason to ever play it when Pet Sounds is right there.

Os Mutantes

3/5

Never heard of the album, the band or even the genre before. Not often that happens. Fascinating, but will need a few more listens to really get a handle on it.

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

4/5

Beth Orton doing what Beth Orton does. Polished folk pop.

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

2/5

When it’s good it’s good, but it’s too often bogged down in some of the most pointlessly self-indulgent experimental toss I’veever heard. And I say that as a King Crimson fan, just to put things in perspective.

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

5/5

Love it. Jane’s Addiction in their pomp, all snarling attitude and screaming guitars. Fantastic album.

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

3/5

Nice to fall asleep to, so it’s not entirely without merit, but I can’t imagine another time where I’d want to listen to it. If this is really your thing, Aphex Twin does it better.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

2/5

If you like this sort of thing this is probably good. I really don’t.

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

4/5

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

Inoffensive but nothing ground-breaking. A few good songs.

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

3/5

A little bland but not unpleasant.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Music for a sexy lift.

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

5/5

Cracking bit of synth-pop, good, catchy tunes start to finish.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Some of the content has dated, some really hasn't, but you can't fault the delivery.

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

4/5

Cracking bit of space-rock.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Not their best, but there's not a bad Zep album.

Odessa

Bee Gees

4/5

That was not what I was expecting. A bit of prog, a bit of country, a bit of folk-rock and no disco in sight. Surprisingly enjoyable.

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

3/5

Bragg rates occasionally, but this odd collaboration with Wilco to record unreleased Woodie Guthrie songs works surprisingly well.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Easy to get lost in the lifestyle bullshit, but jesus, what a voice. Fantastic album.

En-Tact

The Shamen

4/5

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

4/5

More American folk-rock influenced than I thought they were going to be, but none-the-worse for it. Good album.

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Amazing voice and simple but powerful lyrics. Bonus points for being just over 35 minutes long. Says what she has to say and leaves. Great album.

Woodface

Crowded House

2/5

Basically harmless. Bland, but at a level where I'd turn them off if I had the ability within reach, but probably wouldn't bother if I had to get up to do so.

The Clash

4/5

The Clash as 'just' a punk band, before they spread their wings. It's much more limited in it's scope than their later output, but it does simple, 3-chord working class anger as well as any of their contemporaries did.

Soul Mining

The The

4/5

Fine.

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

More interesting instrumentally than earlier Stevie Wonder, and the sons are, of course, great.

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

4/5

That was a pleasant surprise. For some reason I was expecting forgettable 90's Country Radio country, what I got was some mellow and occasionally soulful folky Americana. Really rather pleasant.

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Classic synth pop. Not really my bag but they are very good at it.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Low

David Bowie

4/5

Hms Fable

Shack

2/5

Largely forgettable last gaps of britpop. Seems to be composed almost entirely of Elbow filler album tracks.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

It's a 60's/70's Aretha Franklin album. You don't need to listen to it to know it will be a 5. But I did, and it is.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

5/5

Classic, uncomplicated blues.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

The Beatles at their midway point. Moving away from pure pop but not yet as self-consciously experimental as they would become. The best word to describe this would probably be playful.

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

3/5

Psychedelic folk invariably leaves me wishing it were either more psychedelic and less folk or more folk and less psychedelic. Rarely a combination that works.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

A few good songs but honestly feels more historically important than actually good a lot of the time.

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

3/5

Could not be less my thing, but it's a decent example of what it is.

Black Metal

Venom

1/5

One for the historically important rather than good pile. I get why it's an album that matters, but in and of itself it's a pretty poorly performed metal album with very little to recommend it, and it lays the satanic imagery on so thickly that to modern ears it sounds comedic.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

It's no IV, but then again, what is?

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

4/5