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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Seldom Seen Kid Elbow	5	3.25	+1.75
Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow	5	3.35	+1.65
Urban Hymns The Verve	5	3.36	+1.64
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	5	3.36	+1.64
Maggot Brain Funkadelic	5	3.6	+1.4
Oracular Spectacular MGMT	5	3.61	+1.39
Ill Communication Beastie Boys	5	3.64	+1.36
Sex Packets Digital Underground	4	2.67	+1.33
Master Of Puppets Metallica	5	3.72	+1.28
Come Find Yourself Fun Lovin' Criminals	4	2.92	+1.08

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hms Fable Shack	1	2.76	-1.76
Pictures At An Exhibition Emerson, Lake & Palmer	1	2.64	-1.64
Hot Buttered Soul Isaac Hayes	2	3.43	-1.43
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	2	3.32	-1.32
Private Dancer Tina Turner	2	3.3	-1.3
Elastica Elastica	2	3.22	-1.22
Selling England By The Pound Genesis	2	3.18	-1.18
Here Are the Sonics The Sonics	2	3.16	-1.16
Pump Aerosmith	2	3.12	-1.12
Dirty Sonic Youth	2	3.11	-1.11

5-Star Albums (8)

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Ill Communication

Beastie Boys · 7 likes

5/5

Big change sonically from licensed to Ill and Paul's Boutique but still has the unapologetic Beastie Boys vibe. Punk rock influences shine through on a handful of tracks. Essential hip hop album that made Beastie Boys the trail blazers they are. Top tracks: sure shot, Sabotage, get it together, Futtermans Rule

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Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

Atmospheric, very deep themes of love with depressing undertones Fav tracks: plainsong, love song, last dance, fascination Street, same deep water as you

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

Explosion of jazz, gospel, funk, soul and R&B so brilliantly intertwined no wonder they paved the way for artists like childish gambino, Andre 3000 and Thundercat. Favourite tracks: shining star, Reasons, Africano

The Visitors

ABBA

3/5

Good production that feels timeless however for me a lot of forgetful tracks that I would not return to.

Soul Mining

The The

3/5

Fav track: Uncertain smile. took me a while to get into the album. Brilliant production can't see myself returning to it.

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

4/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

4/5

Very cohesive and focused album with an experimental mix of hip hop and R&B. Fav tracks: Johnny is Dead, Won't Trade, You, Move, Believe.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

5/5

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

Very forgetful

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

2/5

Not something I would ever return to or could enjoy

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

3/5

Interesting mix of pop/hip hop/ r&b Fav tracks: Buffalo Stance, Inna City Mamma

Sister

Sonic Youth

3/5

Really like the instrumentation, not massive on the sort of spoken word bits. Fav tracks: Schizophrenia, pacific Coast highway

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Fantastic rock/blues album. A lot more easier to digest for the casual listener compared to some of their other records. Fav tracks: Gimmie Shelter, Let It Bleed, You Can't Always Get What You Want

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

A very chilled listen but with a haunting backdrop. Brilliantly written songs. Didn't care for "for the turnstiles" or the first half of "ambulance blues". Loved every other track

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

Interesting listen, didn't mind it but has no replay ability for me 5/10

Risque

CHIC

4/5

A fun fusion of disco/r&b/soul that doesn't over stay its welcome and has aged fairly well

Maxinquaye

Tricky

4/5

An eerie listen. Once you've got into the first couple of tracks you'll be settled for the rest of the album. 7/10

Hms Fable

Shack

1/5

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

5/5

Beautiful album Fav tracks: Starlings, grounds for divorce, the loneliness of a tower crane driver, one day like this, friend of ours.

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

1/5

Appreciate the effort that probably went into this but my god this is a terrible listen. Amazing if you like pipe organs I guess.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

An acquired taste. Something only Prince could pull off. Some tracks were a bit too niche and off putting for me but Prince isn't really for the casual listener.

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Favourite tracks: Girls and Boys Parklife, to the end, London Loves

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Pleasantly surprised with this album. Enjoyed a big chunk of it. Fav tracks: Rich, Maps, Modern Romance

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

4/5

A very soothing listen however a few forgetful tracks Fav tracks: The Shining, Bewilder, Fall in a River

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

NEU! 75

Neu!

4/5

Leb' Wohl is perhaps the most relaxing song I've heard. Album is an enjoyable listen but not really a MUST listen 7/10

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

3/5

Actually enjoyed this album as a casual listen

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

They don't quite make albums that pop with live instrumentation like this one. Once I got over the weird lyrics I actually enjoyed this album. Probably not something I can see myself coming back to quickly though however.

Palo Congo

Sabu

2/5

I can imagine this encapsulates the Cuban sound very well but to me an average listener its just loud noises that come off as very annoying. Especially in the second track which is just frequent yelling over bongo drums. However I did actually really enjoy the opening track. It's probably something that I just don't understand but this isn't an album I would be running to tell my friends and family about.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Fantastic album. A few tracks that don't hit me as much as others on this but still a brilliant listen. Hendrix truly was one of a kind 8/10

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

2/5

The production is pretty good. I hate the vocals. Honestly think I'd enjoy this more as an instrumental album.

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

4/5

Enjoyable album. Few filler tracks on here but feels like an album I could listen to on a Sunday morning

The Specials

3/5

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

The first 3 songs I didn't really enjoy but the rest if the album was great

In It For The Money

Supergrass

3/5

Elastica

2/5

Didn't hate it but didn't like it. Won't be returning to it.

Queens of the Stone Age

4/5

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

3/5

Dirty

Sonic Youth

2/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

2/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

4/5

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

4/5

An album that doesn't get enough praise from the golden era / sample era of hip hop. I think most tracks could shave a minute or so off of them.

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

The Stone Roses

4/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

5/5

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

3/5

A compilation album. Great tracks but can't rate it as if it was a studio album so I'll go straight down the middle with a 3

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

The Cars

3/5

Pump

Aerosmith

2/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

5/5

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

4/5

evermore

Taylor Swift

4/5

Good song writing that seems to stick to a theme. My only gripe is that a few tracks feel a bit repetitive in subject matter and the album could've done with trimming down a bit but overall an enjoyable listen.

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

2/5

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

2/5

I really do not enjoy the vocals on this... The production is OK. The song writing is pretty good. There's not much else to say. "By This River" might be my favourite track

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

Feels like it has a heavy Jimi Hendrix influence which I guess isn't a bad thing and as live albums go this is actually OK.

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

2/5

I hate prog rock

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

Screamadelica