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2000s

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You Love More Than Most

Albums you rated higher than global average

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Lexicon Of Love	5	3.08	+1.92
Dust	5	3.16	+1.84
The Sensual World	5	3.17	+1.83
Forever Changes	5	3.23	+1.77
The College Dropout	5	3.31	+1.69
Let's Stay Together	5	3.76	+1.24
When I Was Born For The 7th Time	4	2.91	+1.09

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Albums you rated lower than global average

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Cars	1	3.67	-2.67
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere	1	3.55	-2.55
Van Halen	2	3.63	-1.63
The Dark Side Of The Moon	3	4.43	-1.43
Wish You Were Here	3	4.3	-1.3

5-Star Albums (7)

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Fever Ray

3/5

This is an album that passed me by because, stupidly, I got Fever Ray and Sugar Ray mixed up and just avoided it. Obviously, it turns out that Fever Ray is better than Sugar Ray.

17 likes

Dust

Screaming Trees

5/5

One of my favourite albums.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (2)

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Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

First time I have ever listened to it. Loved it. Would have been five stars if not for the twenty two minute intro on the last track.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

3/5

I've tried this one before a few times and it has never clicked with me. It's obviously objectively a great record but it does nothing for me at all.

Forever Changes

Love

5/5

Has been one of my favourite albums for longer than I care to remember. Flawless.

Van Halen

2/5

It seems churlish to give this a rating because it is so 'of its time', but, you know...

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

An album I was already very familiar with. The overlong last track should knock it down from a 5 to a 4 but it doesn't because it also has Two Words on it.

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

I love this album. The man was a genius.

The Cars

1/5

I decided at the start of this to listen to every album from beginning to end. I regret that now. I guess you had to be there, but with hindsight this feels like a really overly commercial, uninteresting album.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

Solid album.

evermore

Taylor Swift

3/5

I found this album a bit dull. Sorry. There is nothing here that can hold a candle to Shake It Off or Look What You Made Me Do.

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

3/5

I hadn't heard this before and found it interesting hearing the band finding their sound, but it isn't an album I'll return to.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

Great stuff.

Fever Ray

3/5

This is an album that passed me by because, stupidly, I got Fever Ray and Sugar Ray mixed up and just avoided it. Obviously, it turns out that Fever Ray is better than Sugar Ray.

Dust

Screaming Trees

5/5

One of my favourite albums.

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

5/5

This is in my top five of all time. A perfect album.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

3/5

This is one of those albums that I'm sure I would have loved if I had been around when it was released. It's impact has been lessened by my hearing records by bands influenced by it before I heard it. In other words, it's not Pink Floyd, it's me.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

I really enjoyed this. It's got some of their best songs on it. I wasn't sure about the monkey man one, and I've never been convinced by the choir bit at the start of You Can't Always Get What You Want, but yeah, great album.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

Thanks to Hollywood, I just assume that the songs on this album are what the 1950s sounded like. Not bad, if true. Not bad at all.

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

5/5

Brilliant.

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

4/5

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

I was genuinely surprised that this album had made the list. There's nothing wrong with it, but it just doesn't seem to have enough about it to make a list of albums you need to hear. It's not even the bands best album. It's fine. It's ok.

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

2/5

The La's

4/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

4/5

It's undeniably a big stupid album but that isn't necessarily a bad thing.

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

4/5

An album from my youth but one that I hadn't revisited for a very long time. I'm giving it a four, but mostly for the memories.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

1/5

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

I'm a big PJ Harvey fan, but I've never managed to get into this one.

Slipknot

2/5

I saw Slipknot at a festival once. There were about thirty of them and they all seemed to be playing drums. I thought they were pretty funny.

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

This wasn't available on my streaming service so I had to listen to it on YouTube. I thought it was great. I think I would have liked it even more without the adverts for the Donkey Sanctuary between every track.

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

5/5

A perfect album.