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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Smile Brian Wilson	5	3.05	+1.95
Heroes David Bowie	5	3.62	+1.38
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	5	3.67	+1.33
Dummy Portishead	5	3.71	+1.29

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Gorillaz Gorillaz	1	3.53	-2.53
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	1	3.41	-2.41
Private Dancer Tina Turner	1	3.3	-2.3
Everything Must Go Manic Street Preachers	1	3.11	-2.11
Hotel California Eagles	2	3.59	-1.59
Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman John Zorn	1	2.23	-1.23
Too Rye Ay Dexys Midnight Runners	2	3.12	-1.12

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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West · 1 likes

1/5

Scum.

1-Star Albums (5)

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

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Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

Street Life

The Crusaders

4/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

4/5

1999

Prince

3/5

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

4/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

4/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

1/5

Quite like the typography on the sleeve cover...

Gorillaz

1/5

Shite

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

1/5

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

1/5

This gave me a stroke...

Heroes

David Bowie

5/5

Absolute classic!

Smile

Brian Wilson

5/5

I love this! I love Brian Wilson. It's like Pet Sounds lost prodigal sibling.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

1/5

Scum.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Wonderfully evocative album. Reminiscent of after club "back to mine's" in the early to mid 90s. Absolute classic.

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Hmmm!!! This was the commercial 'concept' album sandwiched between the classic debut 'Searching for the Young Soul Rebels' and the criminally underrated and long forgotten masterpiece 'Don't Stand Me Down' A couple of Christmas party or wedding reception classics does not a classic album make...

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

4/5

Very much of it's time but has aged surprisingly well because many albums from that era really haven't. A couple of great tunes.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

4/5

I'm a Smiths fan, and I don't think they ever did a bad album. This is amongst their most lauded, but not one of my favourites, but it has grown on me over the years. Oddly for an 80s album is breaks the accepted formula that groups had at the time - 11-12 songs. 45-50 minutes, 3 singles. This I think was under 40 minutes, 9 tracks and no obvious single amongst them, and I still feel like that. Some good tracks on there. Some beautiful guitar playing by Johnny Marr (the real sound of The Smiths) but not one track which you could see having the ingredients to be a single in their own right.