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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bitte Orca Dirty Projectors	5	2.69	+2.31
Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits	5	2.95	+2.05
Smile Brian Wilson	5	3.06	+1.94
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	5	3.37	+1.63
So Peter Gabriel	5	3.55	+1.45
Station To Station David Bowie	5	3.7	+1.3
Grace Jeff Buckley	5	3.71	+1.29
Arular M.I.A.	4	2.83	+1.17
Caetano Veloso Caetano Veloso	4	2.85	+1.15
Innervisions Stevie Wonder	5	3.87	+1.13

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Metallica Metallica	1	3.79	-2.79
Bluesbreakers John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers	1	3.16	-2.16
Better Living Through Chemistry Fatboy Slim	1	2.99	-1.99
Gold Ryan Adams	1	2.84	-1.84
Disraeli Gears Cream	2	3.47	-1.47
Garbage Garbage	2	3.38	-1.38
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	2	3.35	-1.35
Revolver Beatles	3	4.25	-1.25
The White Album Beatles	3	4.18	-1.18
american dream LCD Soundsystem	2	3.18	-1.18

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Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

1/5

Dull and dated. If I were being generous I'd say I'm sure a fully sober middle-aged woman listening to this at 7am is not the target audience, but I found it boring in 1995 too. Just makes me want to listen to the Beastie Boys.

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The Sensual World

Kate Bush

4/5

Quite 'of its time' in terms of sound, but still utterly lush. Particularly like the Bulgarian choir.

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Shuggie Otis

4/5

Phenomenal. Somehow cool and warm at the same time. Irresistible soft drum machines complementing Otis's beautiful voice and guitar; gorgeous chord sequences. I love this.

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

3/5

On first listen I find this inconsistent - some of it immediately catches my ear (Canary, Divorce Song, Stratford-on-Guy) and some will likely need repeat listens.

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

One of my favourite albums of all time. Some moments of complete silliness (Dum Dum Diddle in particular), and a degree of imagination is required to enjoy the ubiquitous Dancing Queen - but Knowing Me Knowing You and the title track mark this as an album of beauty.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

Fantastic album I should listen to more.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

I love Siouxsie and the general sound of this record but was surprised at how little most of the songs held my attention. Think I'm more of a Creatures kind of person.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

3/5

Patchy but when it is good it is great. The opening track is an absolute stormer and the title track is possibly the best version of this song I have heard - perhaps even better than Scott Walker's, which I know is a bold claim, but I love the mania that drives it. The Last of the Teenage Idols is an killer album closer.

Joan Baez

3/5

A beautiful overall sound, if a bit... puritan? I started craving some variation about two thirds of the way through. Inevitable game of 'how do I know this song,' as is always the case with folk. Standout tracks: Silver Dagger, Fare Thee Well, I Know You Rider.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

This is so much fun, especially The Rooster Song and It's You I Love.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

Hypnotic and haunting; a perfect palette of sounds. Luminous musicians creating space for each other to shine.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

A masterpiece.

The White Album

Beatles

3/5

Haven't listened to it in its entirety for probably 20 years and I suspect I fall into the 'this is overrated' camp. Some of my favourite Beatles songs are here (Julia, Sexy Sadie, Helter Skelter) and I'm a sucker for all the self-referential stuff, but Revolution 9 has to be one of the most pointless and self-indulgent things ever committed to tape. Their sound collage stuff works well as an enhancement to what they are good at (songs!) but doesn't stand up on its own merit - it feels like an overreach. I look forward to listening to this again in 2044.

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

1/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Energy, charisma, wit, musical twists and turns. Favourite track: the closing medley.

The Blueprint

JAY Z

4/5

First impression is that this is great. I need to sit and listen to it again with the lyrics in front of me to get the most out of it (I shall print them out in large font and read them through big reading specs on a chain while sitting in a comfortable chair). But even just going by the music it's such a rich, varied listen.

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

5/5

A wonderful album. Dark, sleazy and beautiful.

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

A gorgeous album that includes echoes and future echoes of his other work. The drums are visceral. Favourite tracks: TVC15 and Stay.

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

4/5

One of their best.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

3/5

A fun album.

Fleet Foxes

3/5

A very particular sound and aesthetic: pastoral instrumentation, pentatonic melodies, rich vocal harmonies, everything drowned in reverb. They wear their influences on their sleeves. I remember the first time I heard Mykonos and was absolutely stopped in my tracks by how gorgeous it sounded. Nothing on this album grabs me quite the same way; I think it was over-hyped, and they suffered slightly from being lumped in with inferior bands from both sides of the Atlantic (hello, Mumford and Sons). It still sounds great though.

Gold

Ryan Adams

1/5

I remember Adams being very hyped at the time this came out, but he always left me cold and it seems nothing has changed. I listened to the first few tracks and then skipped through the rest. So derivative (if I want this kind of music I will listen to The Band, Gram Parsons etc) but without the best elements of its influences. Bland, blaaaand, blaaaaahhhh.

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

3/5

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

This list. Fuck me. I'm pretty sure even the members of Green Day don't consider this one of the best 1001 albums ever made. I mean, it's fine (Extraordinary Girl and Homecoming are great) but I don't think I would have regretted never listening to it.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

5/5

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

4/5

Pump

Aerosmith

3/5

Basket of Light

Pentangle

3/5