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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Vulnicura Björk	5	2.79	+2.21
Cafe Bleu The Style Council	5	2.87	+2.13
Want One Rufus Wainwright	5	2.91	+2.09
Mott Mott The Hoople	5	2.95	+2.05
Coles Corner Richard Hawley	5	3.02	+1.98
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 George Michael	5	3.16	+1.84
Dry PJ Harvey	5	3.24	+1.76
First Band On The Moon The Cardigans	5	3.29	+1.71
British Steel Judas Priest	5	3.3	+1.7
I Should Coco Supergrass	5	3.34	+1.66

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bad Michael Jackson	1	3.8	-2.8
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	1	3.44	-2.44
Young Americans David Bowie	2	3.62	-1.62
Being There Wilco	2	3.22	-1.22

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Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	3	4.67
The Velvet Underground	2	5
Pink Floyd	2	5
Radiohead	2	5

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Artist	Ratings
David Bowie	2, 5, 4

5-Star Albums (34)

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

Popular Reviews

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

5/5

Was so good really enjoyed 8/10

1 likes

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

5/5

It is a beautiful album. Reminds me of christmas' gone by. beautiful love songs about places the singer misses and remonises about. Nice and slow could imagine slow dancing too it with a significant other. Richard has a great voice and i have learnt that he has played and is friends with frontman of pulp, Jarvis Cocker, that alone adds one extra rating. So many styles in this accoustic album got some country, some singer songwriter but all of it is great and as Alex Turner said when this lost an award 'someone call 999, Richard Halway has been robbed'. 10/10 enjoyed it all the way through it enticed me i could not stop listening.

1 likes

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

5/5

great album cool take on iron man by black sabbath 9/10

1 likes

1-Star Albums (2)

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KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

very enjoyable haven't listened to any og his stuf before

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

I've heard the song Back In Black but never heard the whole album. The opening song Hells Bells is a great introduction to this album. This is overall a great album of the metal and rock genres.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

5/5

I'm certainly on a Highway To Hell. A Classic Rock album that i loved and still love having relistened to it. 9/10

Kenya

Machito

3/5

Not really my taste but I enjoyed it

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

10/10

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

5/5

10/10

Gorillaz

5/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

5/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

3/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

Odelay

Beck

3/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

My Generation

The Who

3/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Kimono My House

Sparks

3/5

The Blueprint

JAY Z

4/5

Released on 9/11 and recorded in NYC, unfortunate but also funny. Great album enjoyed it even though i felt like I was missing some context of the happenings in Jay-Z's life around the creation of the album. 8/10

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

3/5

Being There

Wilco

2/5

Arise

Sepultura

2/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

2/5

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

New Wave

The Auteurs

2/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

Title track is a great song to end Bowies magnificent career, but happily it’s only the beginning of this beautiful final hurrah for the spaceman. Lazurus is an epic track that is probably my favourite of them all. The whole album is a somber affair of Bowie and his struggles with cancer and accepting death. It is probably his best writing and musical ideas put into a final goodbye of one of the best and most influential artists ever.

Scott 4

Scott Walker

4/5

Opener is a banger shall see what the rest becomes. Loving this, World strongest man fav so far. Still loving it half way through Boy Child was a beautiful melody into a fun upbeat but still somber song, Hero of the War. Old man’s back again really mad you feel like a Stalinist. What a beautiful 30 minutes, Scott Walker has a beautiful voice and amazing musical choices. Great first album to him might listen to the other three Scott’s.

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

3/5

It’s good but it ain’t for me, aren’t really feeling it. Favourite got to be Streets of Bakersfield. It was a country album but I do enjoy the easy beats and guitars but it isn’t my cup of tea.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

5/5

Off to a strong start, lovely voice. A chaotic album so far. Ought to Know is my favourite. Never mind, Right Through You is the best song I’ve heard. Great lyricism and the guitars oooooh my. God this is a great album. I love guitars going ham and along with a uke/simtar sounding instrument!!!! Every song just makes this album better and better. And I have heard of her before with Ironic, which is a certified banger. As previously mentioned, IT KEEPS GETTING BETTER. Close to a ten outta ten album. Favs: The final 3 songs; Ironic, Not a Doctor, and Wake Up. Least Fav got to sadly be All I Really Want. 9/10

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

The inspiration for naming my cat :). Let’s see if the title track deserves to be my cats name. Rio slapped lovely the sound, it’s like Depesche mode and other bands like that but British (🤢🤢). Favourite so far is Hungary like the Wolf. Loving me so new wave music, they’re all bops. They’re all bops that are catching but different especially The Chauffeur. The Chauffeur has got to be my favourite, after all those poppy bops this mysterious synth beat songs add so much to the album. Great singer, great lyrics, great instruments overall solid album 8/10.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

An absolute Icon of an album, Led changed the scene. Great guitars as to be expected with a Leddy album. And Kashmir, what a great, beautiful song.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

It’s good. Not listened to much if at all any blues but I’m enjoying it. Simple beats with some wacky pianos. Love me some ragtime. Good album. Nothing really stuck out to me but fav has to be baby pleas don’t go, a classic blues/country/rock n roll sounding name. 7/10

Green

R.E.M.

4/5

Fuck ye REM. Love me some sleep. Good album enjoyed very much. But samey though. 7/10

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

I’ve heard of this man before, might be a stand or something. Got some hot as sounding music. And I mean in a desert dying from the heat in Breathe of the wild desert. HEY ITS THE SONG FROM SOPRANOS!! But seriously Dirty Work is a banger. So many songs I’ve heard before, didn’t know it was by this guy. Real in’ in the Years. A TUNE. I’ve also just found out this was his debut I think so… Steely Dan came out swinging with some classic hits that live on. 8/10

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

Oooooh. Any excuse for listening to Jeff. It’s already a 10/10 btw. Mojo Pin, what an opener and then into the title track Grace. It’s so good. I wish he could’ve made more 😔. God this hallelujah is so good.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

These guys have some funny music videos. It was a 6/10 album.

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

4/5

Yippee Kate Bush time. The Fog really makes you FEEL like a fog. This song, Heads We’re Dancing, is how it feels to talk to someone on the internet with the lyric. “That’s a picture of Hitler” “He’d go ‘Doodoo doo’”. Ok Rockets Tail was good and probably the best if I didn’t love This Woman’s Work because my mum introduced it to me :) 8/10, Kate Bush always servers.

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

3/5

Not really listened to Rap so looking forward to the introduction. Lost at Birth was fun. Nighttrain is a fucking banger. Fav. Half way through haven’t heard any of this before but thourghly enjoying my first real experience with 90s Rap/Hip-Hop. Hadn’t heard any of it before but very enjoyable 7/10

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Fucking great album. She has an amazing voice and it’s a great album. Title track and rivers are bangaroos 10/10 album.

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

2/5

It was alright didn’t really stand out to me, though aren’t the biggest fan of electro music type stuff 4/10

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

2/5

It was alright didn’t really stand out to me, though aren’t the biggest fan of electro music type stuff 4/10

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

No notes a classic 8-9/10 can’t decide.

Bad

Michael Jackson

1/5

No I’m not listening to MJ, at least not a whole album.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

3/5

First listen to anything Lennon or Beatles related it was good. Advanced for its time I think or atleast different. 6/10

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

4/5

What a wacky and different album with song and speaking. Really enjoyed it 7-8/10 idk.

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

5/5

What a different album unlike most things I’ve heard. 8/10

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Fun album enjoyed 7/10

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

An another Leddy and a banger. How does he keep doing it??! anyway was good not as good as the other one but good. 8/10.

Mott

Mott The Hoople

5/5

Banger enjoyed it very much. It’s as old as my mum also 🙃 8-9/10 idk.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

A critically acclaimed album, and I see why was such a good listen. 9-10/10 idk if it is a 10/10 as there was little bits I didn’t like.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

1/5

Nope don’t listen to Coldplay. 0/10

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

5/5

Was so good really enjoyed 8/10

Vulnicura

Björk

5/5

Love bjork but haven’t listens to this one looking forward. Great album emotional and just majestic always a treat to listen to Bjork. 9/10.

British Steel

Judas Priest

5/5

Great album loved it. 8/10

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

4/5

A great electronic album. A different track each time. 7/10

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

Scottish music 🎉🥳. Was so good each song was beautiful and different loved it very much. 8/10

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Queen 🫡. Loved it, listened to take the box before and it’s still my fav at least of the album. 8/10

2112

Rush

4/5

Greatly enjoyed the album. Never heard a 20 minute 6 part song before. 7/10

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

3/5

Was a fun country album. Short n sweet. 6/10

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

BRUCIE! Beautiful 8/10

Low-Life

New Order

4/5

Love me the new order. 8/10

Different Class

Pulp

5/5

I love cock- I mean Jarvis Cocker. Listening to it I’ve realised that I’ve heard most of the songs already thanks to my mum and her impeccable music taste. It made me think about her and that’s made me happier. Nostalgia and reminiscing aside it was also great music obviously if my mum liked it. Jarvis cocker would’ve loved being a theatre kid and you would agree if you’ve seen him live. 9/10.

American Gothic

David Ackles

3/5

He sounds like he would be a theatre kid. Was enjoyable tho 6/10

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

I love beck and this a a great album 8/10

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

4/5

Was very good. Sadly not all about Steve McQueen so a loss of a point 7/10

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Great excuse to listen to shine on you crazy diamond fully. God it’s so good. One of the best long songs ever. Great album also 9/10

Snivilisation

Orbital

4/5

Really enjoyed it so different but familiar as well. 8/10

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

The peak of all peaks. It’s soooo good. Easy 9/10

Dry

PJ Harvey

5/5

Very good. Love this pyjamas Harv guy does a good woman voice. 9/10

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

Was actually good. I get it now. I too want to imagine the perfect life with the perfect person. Anyway this was like a 7/10 kinda generic.

Ten

Pearl Jam

4/5

It is the ideal ‘Hell Yeah, Brother!’ Album and it’s great. Then the last song is like some shit outta a Bowie album. 8/10

The Velvet Underground

5/5

That was beautiful will probably be on of my repeat listen albums like nick one is. 9-10/10

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

4/5

Some old pop. Was very good nice voice super enjoyed it. 8/10

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Great singer songwriter with a short but sweet album with some great themes. 10/10

Mask

Bauhaus

4/5

Was pretty good. thought they were a German techno type bad but I was very mistaken. 8/10

Forever Changes

Love

4/5

Very cool album enjoyed it so much. sounds so modern and new even though its almost 60 years old. 7-8/10

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Holy shit 10/10. Don’t even need to listen to it but I will. I fucking love Radiohead. 9/10 only because they have even better albums.

The Coral

4/5

The corals self titled album is great with a mix of barber shop quartets and rocky pink Floyd esc music was very good. gonna give it a 8/10

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

great as always is Led Zeppelin II, some great songs like Living Loving Maid and Thank You. With albums you also gotta not take for granted how good it sounds and how modern it sounds. still holding up today. 8/10.

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

It was a good album great Ben just feel like it ain’t there best feel like some ideas where not fully tapped into. 7/10

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

4/5

I mean... Brainic Eno and David 'batshit' Bryne together in a studio... MASTERPIECE. Just give it a listen. 8/10

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

5/5

Chelsea Girl

Nico

3/5

Hey its the second half of the hit album Nico & The Velvet Underground. She has a beautfil voice, really unique. I found it quite repetitive but still okay 6/10

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

This is great loved every song was great thoroughly enjoyed all these songs. Especially the 10 minute title track 8-9/10

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

5/5

great album cool take on iron man by black sabbath 9/10

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

4/5

Great album, Ethereal album, love PJ Harvey's voice 8/10

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

enjoyed this would recommend a listen but would probably not listen too it again anytime soon. 7/10.

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

4/5

Love this era of British music. Might be better than Britpop for some of the bands are classics, like the Happy Mondays. Highly recommend. 8/10

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

4/5

Greatly enjoyed this. Never heard of these guys before and thought it was just gonna be some nerdy parody esc album but was blown away from the different sounds and lyrics. If you've never heard of them as well greatly encourage giving at least this album a try. Don't let the name and album cover put you off; as they say dont judge a book by the cover. 8/10.

Bad Company

3/5

Wasnt half bad enjoyed it, nice and calming. Recommend but not a crazy album. 6/10

Black Sabbath

4/5

Rip Ozzy. Its a good album and the start of one of the greatest bands of all time but its easily not their best work compared to, Paranoid or Master of Reality. Still good overall 7/10.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

Never listened to this guy before and was pleasently enthrawled with his sound. Some great funk, soul and tunes. Overall brilliant sound, and still felt new and fresh 50 years (wow) on. 9/10

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

Good ol William Joel. Never listened too an album by him i realise, although this album has some of my favourite songs by him (Vienna and Movin’ out) and ive found a new fav in She’s Always a Woman. Great album highly enjoyed and recommend, will definitely listen to more albums by him. 9/10

Eternally Yours

The Saints

3/5

Great music to listen too on this early morning that I happened to listen them too during. Sounds like The Clash, The Who and Lou Reed’s stuff. Fast and quick but in a good way, these songs don’t have to be long. Recommend. 7/10

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

This album has an example of a cover being better than the original with proud mary by Tina Turner (and Ike I guess) being heads above, Creedence Clearwater Revival's original version. Overall an okay album was anything special but was not bad. Middle of the road. 5/10.

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

The Kinks

5/5

Briliant album. 10/10 Right off the bat. Was an interesting story through the British Empire from Queen Vicky to the Colonies and the many wars in the 20th centurary. Highly recommend a listen to this. Again 10/10.

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Brilliant album. Not listened to in a wee while and was great to listen to again. 10/10.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

I mean Scottish Legend, Dave (I know he left early on in his life but I still claim him. We don't have much going on). A great and unique album by the TH and first with another great producer (and one of my favourite artist) Brian Eno. My one critisim is this expirence flies by but thats minor when you enjoy it all. 9/10

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

ZZ Top to me is a multiple hit wonders. So I've never listened to an album of theirs but have heard their top hits, like Gimme all your loving and Sharp Dressed Man which are on this album, so familiar territory. Overall, a solid rock album, nothing too crazy but not bad. Has catchy songs. Good album. 6/10

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

2/5

Not my cup of tea. Not a fan of dance music, was good though, but as said not for me. 4/10

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Brilliant. Under rated album of Bowie’s, especially by myself. Greatly enjoyed. 9/10