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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Time (The Revelator) Gillian Welch	5	3.06	+1.94
Music From Big Pink The Band	5	3.36	+1.64
The Atomic Mr Basie Count Basie & His Orchestra	5	3.5	+1.5
Moving Pictures Rush	5	3.59	+1.41
Ill Communication Beastie Boys	5	3.65	+1.35
Bad Michael Jackson	5	3.8	+1.2
Time Out The Dave Brubeck Quartet	5	3.84	+1.16

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes	1	3.5	-2.5
Exit Planet Dust The Chemical Brothers	1	3.16	-2.16
White Ladder David Gray	1	3.07	-2.07
The Scream Siouxsie And The Banshees	1	3.04	-2.04
I Against I Bad Brains	1	2.93	-1.93
Fromohio fIREHOSE	1	2.88	-1.88
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Raekwon	1	2.86	-1.86
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	2	3.83	-1.83
Homework Daft Punk	2	3.29	-1.29
The Stooges The Stooges	2	3.26	-1.26

5-Star Albums (7)

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Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

1/5

Why is this on the list? I could have definitely died without hearing this and had 50 minutes of my life back to listen to something useful.

5 likes

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

1/5

The first album in this 1001 series that I really didn't enjoy at all.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (7)

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Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Hit after hit. Easy listening and wonderful collection of tracks that I'd happily listen to again. Plus the album cover has a cat on it.

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

3/5

Standard early Elvis. Nothing really stood out for me and a few of the tracks blurred in to one another. But enjoyable if you are in a 60s rock and roll mood.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

3/5

Typical 80s - drum machine, keyboards and overly british vocals. A bit of a dirge in places but would listen to them again if they were on the radio or something.

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

1/5

Why is this on the list? I could have definitely died without hearing this and had 50 minutes of my life back to listen to something useful.

Dire Straits

4/5

Great music. Classic Dire Straits sound which is timeless. Very listenable.

Suede

2/5

More listenable than I thought, typifies 90s Brit pop at the time however the substance of the music relies heavily on the vocalist. You take that away and its fairly bland.

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

Upbeat pop princess fun. Some good hooks and would listen again. Pop done well.

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

Faces

3/5

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

Not a style that I think I need to listen to do before I die. 80s punk - music is simplistic and predictable. listening to the one album is enough for me.

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

1/5

The first album in this 1001 series that I really didn't enjoy at all.

Roxy Music

3/5

Really enjoyed. Not a fan of the vocals but the music is well written and enjoyed a lot

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

Great blues/rock sound, really good album with a range of tempos and melodies to suit the genre. Extremely enjoyable and a classic album.

Timeless

Goldie

2/5

Not my thing at all but could have it as background music i suppose.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

A Northern Soul

The Verve

2/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

Violent Femmes

1/5

A highly irritating album. Mostly because of the vocalist. Twangy guitar, terrible bass sound and no hooks/catchy phrases that ever stood out. No thank you.

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

3/5

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

Never really got in to Dylan before, but glad this gave me a chance to listen to an album in full. Still not a huge fan of his vocals, its an acquired taste but thoroughly enjoy the composition, sound and bluesy/country/folk/rock feel. Surprisingly enjoyable

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

Less rock and blues and much more folky than other albums of his I have listened to. A bit samey but prefer Dylans vocals on this album.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

Forgot how great this album is. Great use of samples, lyrically creative and entertaining. Defined a generation.

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

2/5

Really enjoyed the instrumental musical elements of this - and has huge potential. But his voice just ruined every song for me.

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

1/5

Homework

Daft Punk

2/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

2/5

All a bit samey to be honest. Some good bits in places but as a whole album I didn't enjoy it.

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

3/5

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

3/5

Technique

New Order

2/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

3/5

No Other

Gene Clark

3/5

Very traditional country and western of an era. Quite slow paced and down tempo. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

3/5

Virgin Suicides

Air

3/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Classic album, well written, great vocals and musicianship.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

The Band

4/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Only 3 stars because there are only 3 or 4 good songs on this album, the rest is just a filler.

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

4/5

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

2/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

4/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

2/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

3/5

Microshift

Hookworms

3/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

3/5

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

4/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

4/5

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

5/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

The Stooges

2/5

Black Sabbath

2/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

4/5

I Against I

Bad Brains

1/5

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

2/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

4/5

1999

Prince

3/5

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

3/5

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

1/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

White Ladder

David Gray

1/5

I'm glad this list picked the album that has the only tolerable song on it. Babylon was a tune back when I was a teen and listening back to this song brings with it memories of the 90s and carefree days. But I think it's more with nostalgia that I am fond of this rather then any real musical credibility. Not if the rest of the album is anything to go by. I'd like to say it was mediocre and middle of the road, but I think that would be giving it too much accolade. Dreary at best, track after track goes by without a memorable melody, lyric or rhythm. The sort of music you can put on in the background and completely forget its on. It's so disturbingly apologetic that I find it offensive. Bland. Boring. If this is an album I have to listen to before I die, I'd have preferred to have waited til I was in a coma and couldn't remember it.

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

3/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5