My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Reign In Blood Slayer	5	2.96	+2.04
Dog Man Star Suede	5	3	+2
Real Life Magazine	5	3.05	+1.95
Everything Must Go Manic Street Preachers	5	3.12	+1.88
Let England Shake PJ Harvey	5	3.15	+1.85
Little Earthquakes Tori Amos	5	3.23	+1.77
Entertainment Gang Of Four	5	3.25	+1.75
British Steel Judas Priest	5	3.3	+1.7
Pornography The Cure	5	3.31	+1.69
Dub Housing Pere Ubu	4	2.35	+1.65

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.7	-2.7
Disraeli Gears Cream	1	3.47	-2.47
Emergency On Planet Earth Jamiroquai	1	3.27	-2.27
Bluesbreakers John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers	1	3.16	-2.16
Picture Book Simply Red	1	2.88	-1.88
Life Thru A Lens Robbie Williams	1	2.73	-1.73
Queen II Queen	2	3.49	-1.49
Loveless My Bloody Valentine	2	3.17	-1.17
The Wall Pink Floyd	3	4.14	-1.14
The Last Broadcast Doves	2	3.05	-1.05

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Artist	Albums	Average
R.E.M.	3	4.67
David Bowie	3	4.67
Nirvana	2	5
PJ Harvey	2	5
Black Sabbath	2	5
Radiohead	4	4.25

5-Star Albums (37)

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Entertainment

Gang Of Four

5/5

Amazing album. Tight intricate rhythms, with a political punch.

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1-Star Albums (6)

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Smash

The Offspring

3/5

There's nothing wrong with this album. Fun, fast, punk pop. I just really dislike his voice, and still remember Pretty Fly For A White Guy which was awful.

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

Not my thing at all, but nice to listen to.

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

A great album, a very interesting listen. Liked it on first listen, will have to give it a couple more spins.

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

Noisy guitars and dreamy vocals. If I'm honest I was a bit bored.

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

Some great songs, some less memorable. Still a very capable album.

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Theatrical vocals, with music to match. A great album.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

1/5

Not listening to Clapton. Can't stand him. He's a racist.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

A solid album, but not their best.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

It opens with Tiny Dancer, which is a great tune, but the rest of the album doesn't quite like up to it. Pretty solid songs, just not as great as the opening.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

A solid enough effort

The Doors

4/5

A great debut showing their intent and what they would become.

Queen II

Queen

2/5

Just not my thing at all.

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

3/5

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

A great album, one of R.E.M.'s best. Some of the most memorable songs of the 90s, and probably since.

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Third

Portishead

4/5

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

3/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

3/5

Dire Straits

3/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

A fine debut with beautiful songwriting, his whispering voice glides over it all.

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

4/5

Document

R.E.M.

5/5

A brilliant album, among their finest.

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

4/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

A decent live album, definitely worth a listen

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

Great album, Patti Smith really on top of her game

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

3/5

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

5/5

Amazing album. Tight intricate rhythms, with a political punch.

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

1/5

Clapton is a racist

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

The Last Broadcast

Doves

2/5

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

Their best album, a must listen. Cobain writing his epitaph

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Metallica

4/5

Metallica go mainstream. Some great tunes

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

3/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

4/5

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

5/5

Their commercial peak, so really great songs. I'm tempted to remove a star for Australia, but the rest is just so good.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

Great album. Tears For Fears have so many great songs, so well crafted.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

A great album from start to finish

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

4/5

Great album, one of the standout albums of the nu metal era, with proper melodies, and catchy riffs.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

A great album, probably their best. Not a bad song on it.

Play

Moby

4/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

4/5

Great album, very consistent

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

4/5

Reign In Blood

Slayer

5/5

Great album, a metal essential

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

5/5

Bruce brings the power!

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

His best album. A must listen

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

A great album well worth a listen

Tago Mago

Can

4/5

A great album definitely worth a listen

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

A vital political album full of Rage!

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Great album, well worth a listen

The xx

4/5

Pornography

The Cure

5/5

Great dark album, one of their best

Dog Man Star

Suede

5/5

The turmoil that was going permeates this album, but it still doesn’t stop the grandiose splendour and undeniable playing of Butler. An absolute masterpiece

evermore

Taylor Swift

4/5

Not quite Folklore, but still goid

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

The mixture of punk and pop in the hands of this band produces one of the albums of the era. Debbie Harry’s vocal really carry it well.

Slipknot

4/5

Elastica

3/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

The album that got me into guitar music. Too many memories wrapped up in this not to give it full marks. It’s far from perfect but it’s raw and ambitious.

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

2/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

Green

R.E.M.

5/5

Diverse and amazing album.

Peter Gabriel

5/5