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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Palo Congo Sabu	5	2.69	+2.31
Immigrés Youssou N'Dour	5	3.08	+1.92
Dance Mania Tito Puente	5	3.27	+1.73
Moondance Van Morrison	5	3.71	+1.29
Dire Straits Dire Straits	5	3.72	+1.28
Green River Creedence Clearwater Revival	5	3.78	+1.22
Guitar Town Steve Earle	4	2.81	+1.19
Destroy Rock & Roll Mylo	4	2.89	+1.11

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
In The Wee Small Hours Frank Sinatra	1	3.28	-2.28
Here, My Dear Marvin Gaye	1	3.21	-2.21
Chicago Transit Authority Chicago	1	3.2	-2.2
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry Billy Bragg	1	2.97	-1.97
The Wildest! Louis Prima	2	3.54	-1.54
1984 Van Halen	2	3.51	-1.51
Forever Changes Love	2	3.22	-1.22
Rattus Norvegicus The Stranglers	2	3.15	-1.15
Heartbreaker Ryan Adams	2	3.03	-1.03

5-Star Albums (7)

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Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

1/5

3 songs in, whinging pom set to music.

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1-Star Albums (4)

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Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

2/5

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

Belter, I rinsed this when it first came out, hasn't got a bad song on it!! Great pop melodies

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

2/5

Enjoyed listening to this and thinking about what people would have been doing and how they would listen when this first came out. Couldn't really get into it musically, but enjoyed playing it through

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

4/5

First time listen, enjoyed. Can hear the influence this album probably had on 80s bands

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

1/5

Boring naff soft rock. Very bland addition to this list. Sounds like the band grew up listening to show tunes

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

4/5

I like this. Sounds like unashamed American confidence of the 80s. Reminded me of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty. I enjoyed the instrumentals and harmonies on Down The Road.

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

2/5

70s rock overload, not into it today

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

Belter

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

2/5

Couple of good songs but nothing I thought was exciting or new

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

This was great, I've gone back and listened to albums I've missed. Good concentration music. Bit weird to hear the bloke groan and vocalise because he's so pumped playing the piano, but otherwise very listenable.

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Love this album. My uncle gave me a burnt copy of this CD for my birthday when I was like 10/11 (2004/5). It complements the Mylo album. Nice break from 70s rock.

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

4/5

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

1/5

Snoozefest. Frank Sinatra obviously has bangers...where are they?? Why have the boffins chosen this dud album? Justify your approach to In The Wee Small Hours.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

Love this. I think I got really into The Prodigy when they played at Big Day Out in 2009, and I would use the lineups for music festivals to find new music and download a stack of torrents. I also went down the rabbit hole of watching "epic" live crowd videos on Youtube of Prodigy concerts which got 14 year old me pretty fired up.

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

Damn, this is some serious sad boy music. Pictures of You kicked me in the guts, then I realised it's because a cover was used on a TAC ad about road fatalities with people holding up pictures of their dead family members. Great song but. This wasn't The Cure album I expected to see on this list. I also didn't realise their big songs were so spread out across albums and a long period of time, I thought they were all concentrated around The Head On The Door.

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

5/5

If I had to pick one genre of music to listen to for the rest of my life it would be something like this. I could rant about the under-representation of Latin music on this list compared 70s rock but we're only 2.8% of the way in so happy to give the benefit of the doubt!!

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

1/5

3 songs in, whinging pom set to music.

B-52's

The B-52's

3/5

Are B-52s thought of as a bit of a gimmick / daggy group? When their main songs are so famous, and are about rock lobsters etc, probably hard to avoid. But this album is a great listen, and Rock Lobster is actually a banger that holds up. They describe themselves on their own website as "The World's Greatest Party Band"...happy to run with that.

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

5/5

Loved it. I really want to go to Senegal in the meantime I'll listen to big Youssou.

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

1/5

I skipped through this. Didn't enjoy the synth horn sounds

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

3/5

I got a vinyl player for my 18th bday from my parents with this record. Stars for nostalgia. Other than Superstition this album doesn't do heaps for me

Palo Congo

Sabu

5/5

Pretty easy to get 5 stars out of me, Spanish lyrics and Latin riddimmmms. Love it. Favourite song was the first track El Cumbanchero

Forever Changes

Love

2/5

Not bad, nice to have on in the background on the train to work. The whimsical 60s rock with horn and string sections is interesting but that's not my bag, baby. Favourite track was the first one on the album, bit dull after that.

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

2/5

Not to judge a book by its cover but just reading the Wikipedia extract I feel like I'm going to really not like this.... Yeah not keen this morning.

Dire Straits

5/5

Love this album. Down to the Waterline and Sultans of Swing fav songs

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

2/5

First time listening to this album - didn't love the falsetto, thought it was overused.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

3/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

Van Morrison is a genius, I listened to so much Van Morrison in 2020. Me and dad got a photo outside his house in Belfast on a family holiday lol. Favourite song on this one probably And It Stoned Me

1984

Van Halen

2/5