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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
1977 Ash	5	3.03	+1.97
Here Come The Warm Jets Brian Eno	5	3.07	+1.93
Dig Me Out Sleater-Kinney	5	3.07	+1.93
Murder Ballads Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.08	+1.92
Everything Must Go Manic Street Preachers	5	3.11	+1.89
The Boatman's Call Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.19	+1.81
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.3	+1.7
Joan Armatrading Joan Armatrading	5	3.34	+1.66
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	5	3.4	+1.6
Dusty In Memphis Dusty Springfield	5	3.47	+1.53

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson	2	3.35	-1.35
Inspiration Information Shuggie Otis	2	3.27	-1.27
John Prine John Prine	2	3.21	-1.21
The Nightfly Donald Fagen	2	3.02	-1.02
Future Days Can	2	3	-1

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Artist	Albums	Average
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	2	5

5-Star Albums (21)

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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

All Ratings

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Big opener and closer. Odd country version of Honkey Tonk Woman, and and decent chilled numbers. Enjoyed this.

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

3/5

Started really strongly, and there’s some absolutely belting tracks on here. Doesn’t quite hold it together for me over the length of the album though.

High Violet

The National

4/5

On first listen this was an album that I admired rather than loved. Will definitely give it a few more goes though.

John Prine

2/5

Definitely not an album I would have chosen to listen, and it hasn’t really changed my mind about country music not really being for me. Simple songs, some funny lines, and an interesting political stance on a few tracks. If this fella was playing a festival stage I’d sit and have a drink while he played. Not likely to listen to the album again.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

5/5

Amazing voice, beautiful songs.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

Collection of absolute bangers. Like Phil Spector and Roman Polanski, a real example of the ethical dilemma in trying to separate an individual from their art.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

Lovely songs. Amazing voice. Textbook. Didn’t get a chance to listen to all 3 hours, but will return for the rest.

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

4/5

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

4/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

The Band

4/5

Songs had a timeless quality to them, which left me surprised that I hadn’t heard them before. Will return to this album.

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

2/5

Didn’t really connect with this.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

Bit noodly and twiddly for my liking, but clearly brilliant musicianship with a few highlights.

Copper Blue

Sugar

4/5

Really enjoyed this - having never heard anything about it before. Will definitely revisit, and check out some other Bob Mould stuff while I’m at it.

The Last Broadcast

Doves

4/5

Singles are great - rest is also very decent.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

2/5

Still struggling to find the country album that really gets me going. Feels like a collection of assorted demos and outtakes.

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Pretty much a perfect album. A welcome re-listen.

Survivor

Destiny's Child

4/5

Another banger of an album that was a re-listen.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Enjoyed this a lot. Nice beats, but a few problematic lyrics that feel very much of their time.

Adele

4/5

The Adele album that has my favourite songs of hers - wish we’d see a little more of the Rumour Has It and Rolling in the Deep banging soul side of her more often.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

A little overlong for me, with a few diversions that didn’t quite hold me. The highlights are incredible though. Probably one to enjoy over time and allow to develop.

Vivid

Living Colour

4/5

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

3/5

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

3/5

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

Brought back awesome memories despite only remembering a couple of songs. Must have heard in full at some point, but this felt new to me. Great record.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Really want to spend time with this to get more from the lyrics. Some of the beats are amazing.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

Interesting album, but a little too meandering and moody for me to rush to listen again. Prefer their slightly later stuff.

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

3/5

Ramones

4/5

Absolute bangers and only half an hour long. Great album.

Future Days

Can

2/5

In It For The Money

Supergrass

4/5

Singles are great. Remember at the time being a little disappointed following the brilliance of I Should Coco, but time (and age) have clearly mellowed me. Really enjoyed this.

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

The Clash

4/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

2/5

Couple of tracks that take me back to my youth, but the album hasn’t aged well and the schtick wears thin pretty quickly.

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

4/5

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

4/5

Boston

4/5

A lot more fun than I was expecting!

Closer

Joy Division

4/5

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

System Of A Down

3/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

American Pie

Don McLean

4/5

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

2/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

4/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

3/5

Perfectly pleasant background music. Not sure I’m chemically altered to truly appreciate it though…

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

5/5

Joan Armatrading

5/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

Le Tigre

4/5

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

3/5

The Stone Roses

5/5

Pretenders

4/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Superstition aside, I was a little underwhelmed. Prefer Wonder’s funky soulful stuff to his ballads.

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

4/5

Rocks

Aerosmith

3/5

Let It Be

The Replacements

4/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

3/5

1977

Ash

5/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Metallica

4/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

Paul Simon

3/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

3/5

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

5/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

Liquid Swords

GZA

4/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

4/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

4/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

Moon Safari

Air

5/5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

2/5

I’m glad this album exists. I’m also glad that I never have to listen to it again. Sounds like a soundscape for an art installation that I don’t *quite* understand. Just when a sign starts to form, it disappears. Better than another Maroon 5 album though.

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

5/5

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

3/5

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

4/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5