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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Savane Ali Farka Touré	5	3.02	+1.98
Since I Left You The Avalanches	5	3.28	+1.72
There's A Riot Goin' On Sly & The Family Stone	5	3.29	+1.71
Fear Of A Black Planet Public Enemy	5	3.34	+1.66
All Directions The Temptations	5	3.45	+1.55
Blackstar David Bowie	5	3.48	+1.52
Penance Soiree The Icarus Line	4	2.49	+1.51
Boy In Da Corner Dizzee Rascal	4	2.57	+1.43
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	5	3.57	+1.43
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen	5	3.64	+1.36

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	1	3.66	-2.66
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	1	3.46	-2.46
Who's Next The Who	2	3.91	-1.91
Back In Black AC/DC	2	3.85	-1.85
Exile On Main Street The Rolling Stones	2	3.61	-1.61
Live At Leeds The Who	2	3.33	-1.33
Shake Your Money Maker The Black Crowes	2	3.29	-1.29
Forever Changes Love	2	3.22	-1.22
The Blueprint JAY Z	2	3.21	-1.21
Close To The Edge Yes	2	3.19	-1.19

5-Star Albums (9)

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Savane

Ali Farka Touré

5/5

I sincerely wish I could play guitar as well as Ali. A fantastic album and introduction to African blues/guitar. The layering of instruments is enchanting, and everything from melody to accompaniment feels absolutely fresh and interesting.

2 likes

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

1/5

I'd rather chew on aluminum foil than listen to morrissey.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (2)

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

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Who's Next

The Who

2/5

Ugh. Hard Pass.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

Love the energy!

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

Garage rock gold, not exactly my cup of tea. Nice hooks, great drumming, what more could one ask for?

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

Definitely noise pop, definitely ok.

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

I find that the songs run the risk of same-iness, but is also has perfect places, so... you know, it's not all bad.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

fantastic big band jazz.

Dookie

Green Day

3/5

If you enjoy pop punk, this is a classic slice of fried gold. If you're me, the hits are nice enough and everything else is over quick.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

I enjoyed the stripped down sound of the album. Not a big stones fan, so I found it to drag on a bit.

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

5/5

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

3/5

I feel like I'm too stupid to understand or appreciate this album hahaha

Low

David Bowie

3/5

Atmospheric. Definitely an album that'll get better the more listens you give it.

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

3/5

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

2/5

It's not my cup of tea, dig the funkiness of it, but that's pretty much it.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

5/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

3/5

Definitely a 90's Electronica album. I enjoyed the atmosphere it built, but found that the songs usually blended together into white noise after a bit.

GREY Area

Little Simz

4/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Listen. It has the biggest hits, and my personal fav, "Country Honk". I may not be a Stones fan, I'm also not an idiot.

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

3/5

Better than I thought, not as good as people claim.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

The production is great. I find myself surprised due to TRHCP actually have varied songs. TIL

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

2/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

The Undertones

4/5

After all these years, the tones on that album sound super fresh, a fun album from start to finish!

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

2/5

I'm pretty sure if you hang out at hot topic, are making a sexy vampire thriller, or LARP, this album is for you. otherwise, it's kind of eh

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

1/5

I'd rather chew on aluminum foil than listen to morrissey.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

4/5

4/5

4/5

3/5

The Who

2/5

No Thanks.

Close To The Edge

Yes

2/5

The thing about Prog rock is that while the musicianship is quite amazing, it too often requires one to put up with over indulgence. This is pretty self indulgent.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

All(most) all the hits are here! well produced, and tight musicianship made this a surprising delight to listen to.

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

4/5

Noise/garage rock the brings up tastes of Black Flag and Iggy. Hooky, noise and all around enjoyable.

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

3/5

pretty solid alt/punk.

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

5/5

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

3/5

Synthy and wavey goodness, though I find the album to not be all that engaging.

Sound Affects

The Jam

3/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

All Directions

The Temptations

5/5

This album is timeless, and shows the absolute staying power the Temptations have in the American canon. absolutely stunning.

Very

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

Passionate yet austere. Fantastically arranged and while it can sometimes fall into the same-iness factor that edm/electronica is prone too, each track has a firm separate identity.

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

4/5

Ray Of Light

Madonna

4/5

As much as I've enjoyed the "hits" of Madonna, never did I think I'd enjoy a whole album. TIL.

Fleet Foxes

3/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

I can't fathom putting out something as powerful ,and beautiful before I died. Truly a testament to his mastery of song.

The Blueprint

JAY Z

2/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Being There

Wilco

3/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

2/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

2/5

Truth

Jeff Beck

2/5

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

3/5

To me, the melody and hooks of many of the songs tend to be hidden by an excessive amount of effects. Generally, this type of music and arrangement is right up my alley, and listening to this album I more often than not found myself bored.

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

4/5

This soundtrack pretty much sets the bar any soundtrack after it, and after enough listens, it's understandable why so many other movie soundtracks fail to make the cut.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

2/5

I wish I liked the stones more, to me it's just more of the same.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

A beautiful and weird album. You obviously have the hits, and while that's often enough to carry any album, this album not only delivers on the above but makes sure every track is a fun and unique journey.

Cypress Hill

4/5

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

It's amazing that such an album exists. Darkly cynical, the grooves a hynpotic and yet you rarely feel at ease.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5