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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Yeezus Kanye West	5	2.77	+2.23
Crooked Rain Crooked Rain Pavement	5	3.24	+1.76
The Undertones The Undertones	5	3.26	+1.74
Out Of The Blue Electric Light Orchestra	5	3.64	+1.36
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	5	3.66	+1.34
21 Adele	5	3.69	+1.31
Axis: Bold As Love Jimi Hendrix	5	3.79	+1.21
Dookie Green Day	5	3.79	+1.21
Rip It Up Orange Juice	4	2.9	+1.1
A Hard Day's Night Beatles	5	3.9	+1.1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
m b v My Bloody Valentine	1	2.72	-1.72
Moon Safari Air	2	3.58	-1.58
Moss Side Story Barry Adamson	1	2.53	-1.53
Music in Exile Songhoy Blues	2	3.33	-1.33
Pornography The Cure	2	3.31	-1.31
Mama's Gun Erykah Badu	2	3.25	-1.25
Songs Of Love And Hate Leonard Cohen	2	3.21	-1.21

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	2	5

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Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Unbelievable guitar work. Favourite track: The Wind Cries Mary

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Favourite song: Ain’t No Way

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Really enjoyable listen, great individual songs and also flows so well as a whole. Fav song: Busy Bodies

Fleet Foxes

4/5

Great album, beautiful vocals. Fav track: Quiet Houses

Dry

PJ Harvey

3/5

Interesting sound but found the album quite bland and repetitive

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

4/5

This album was enjoyable from start to finish. Love the infusion of genres and every song felt extremely original. Fav track: I Can’t Help Myself

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

An all time great album. Great collection of all Lennon/McCartney originals and the vocal work between the two is beautiful. Favourite song is hard to choose but I enjoyed the call-and-response chorus of Any Time At All a lot whilst listening.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Enjoyed the swamp rock vibe. Fav track: Bootleg

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

2/5

Eh. Some catchy tracks but not my thing.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Pretty fun album. Fav song: You Can Make It If You Try

Joan Armatrading

4/5

Wow. Never heard of this album before, but was a real treat. Love the folk sound and not surprised to find out it was well produced by Glyn Johns. Fav song: Down To Zero

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

A brilliant album from a legend. Fav track has to be American Girl.

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Hauntingly beautiful album. Enjoyed listening through as a whole.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

An unbelievable album. Vocals are superb, enjoyed the bass work throughout also. Consistency through the whole album is amazing. Fav song: Frankly, Mr Shankly

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

3/5

Pretty good listen but some songs dragged a bit and would’ve liked more variety. Fav track: Astral Weeks

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Was an okay listen. Fav song: Tonight Will Be Fine

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

Mix of some of my favourite genres, classic Byrds sound. Think I’d have to listen a few more times to really get into it. Fav track: Wasn’t Born To Follow

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

1/5

No words for this

Achtung Baby

3/5

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Very enjoyable listen. Fav track: Papa Was A Rollin Stone

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Great album, really nice mix of genres. Fav track: The Weight

Pornography

The Cure

2/5

As far as Cure music goes, this didn’t really resonate with me.

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

3/5

Very important album and musically brilliant. Just not as enjoyable to listen to as I’d hoped.

The Last Broadcast

Doves

3/5

Decent listen, nice sound

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

5/5

What a masterpiece! Flows so well and songs are still great individually. Fav track: Turn to Stone

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

3/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

3/5

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

4/5

Love this album, great psych sound and Indian influence. Fav track: Sunshine Superman

Ananda Shankar

2/5

Not too much of my thing but I can appreciate the good musicality

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

The Kinks

4/5

Big fan of this album. Love the concept and the harmonies always great with the Kinks. Fav track: Victoria

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

Great selection of songs. Fav track: Rip It Up

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Unbelievable album, a really enjoyable listen. Favourite track: Spanish Castle Magic

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Great album from a fabulous artist. Fav track: Everything Reminds Me of Her

Yeezus

Kanye West

5/5

Incredible music. Fav track: New Slaves

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

2/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Very fun listen with some classics. Fav song: Tangerine

Adele

5/5

Undeniably a stunning album

Fun House

The Stooges

3/5

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

3/5

Decent listen. Fav track: China Girl

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Solid album. White Rabbit is a classic but Fav track: She Has Funny Cars

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

3/5

A Seat at the Table

Solange

4/5

Brilliant listen, very strong middle section too. Fav track: Mad

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Undisputedly 5* album. Some absolute classic tracks on here.

Suzanne Vega

3/5

Decent listen, but nothing special. Fav track: Marlene on the Wall

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

1/5

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

3/5

This album was fairly basic, but an enjoyable listen. Fav track: Another Man

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

No clue what was going on but it was a vibe

Moon Safari

Air

2/5

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

4/5

I really enjoyed this album, especially the vocals. Fav song: Percy’s Song

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

2/5

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

2/5

The Undertones

5/5

A legendary album with one of the best songs ever written included. Great range of songs that have a real kick

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

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

Faces

3/5

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

Legendary stuff. Fav track: Welcome to Paradise

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

Forever Changes

Love

4/5

Nice listen. Fav track: Alone Again Or

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

Pretty fucking good album. Fav song: Liability

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

One of the best albums ever. Unbelievable mix of genres and introduction of them into punk. Fav song: Train in Vain

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Fairly interesting album with a few cracking songs (Candy Says, Pale Blue Eyes) and a really quirky tune in The Murder Mystery. Some songs felt like filler but good album overall. Fav song: After Hours

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

5/5

Such a unique and enjoyable album by a great band. Fav song: Elevate Me Later