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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Leftism Leftfield	5	2.9	+2.1
Psychocandy The Jesus And Mary Chain	5	2.94	+2.06
Modern Life Is Rubbish Blur	5	3.13	+1.87
Court And Spark Joni Mitchell	5	3.35	+1.65
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys	5	3.73	+1.27
All Things Must Pass George Harrison	5	3.82	+1.18
Bone Machine Tom Waits	4	2.86	+1.14
Innervisions Stevie Wonder	5	3.87	+1.13

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Wall Pink Floyd	1	4.14	-3.14
The Doors The Doors	1	3.95	-2.95
Can't Buy A Thrill Steely Dan	1	3.72	-2.72
1984 Van Halen	1	3.51	-2.51
Play Moby	1	3.47	-2.47
Thriller Michael Jackson	2	4.22	-2.22
Selling England By The Pound Genesis	1	3.18	-2.18
Here Come The Warm Jets Brian Eno	1	3.07	-2.07
Kings Of The Wild Frontier Adam & The Ants	1	2.83	-1.83
Life Thru A Lens Robbie Williams	1	2.73	-1.73

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Artist	Albums	Average
Radiohead	2	5

5-Star Albums (10)

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Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Popular Reviews

The Doors

1/5

The Doors! One of the most overrated bands of all time. Boring never ending music as a backdrop to pathetic junkie cod philosophy that’s got undeserved kudos because music journalists are generally not that clever.

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1-Star Albums (9)

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Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

5/5

Speaks to me of a time and place and brings me back to being that again and in that place again every time I turn it on. It’s also, not afraid to turn the lens back on that culture and to me it’s both involved in and way more self consciously critical of elements of it than I think is often reflected in commentary.

Pink Flag

Wire

4/5

Fun album. Fun band. So far ahead of the curve that 3 songs into an early punk album they’re already bored and off somewhere else pioneering post punk.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

This album is a pure affirmation of joy. They first two thirds is perfection but it does tail off towards the end.

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

1/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Elton’s sprawling masterpiece. The album where, more than any other, he maintains the quality beyond the singles. The opener is an absolute monster of an 11 minute song.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

My favourite album of here’s. Frighteningly precocious and mature way beyond her years on this debut album.

Leftism

Leftfield

5/5

So this album is perfect. Every track could have been a single. It’s my 4th favourite of theirs because, well, they’re Radiohead and they did a lot right. Street Spirit is the best closing track by a band that specialises in closing tracks. This whole album is a happy place. 10/5 Immerse your soul in love.

1984

Van Halen

1/5

1 for Jump being such a big hit. I’m being very generous here.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

2/5

I was never a huge Jackson fan and of his catalogue this always felt like the slightly less deserving massive hit that followed a much better album. The best thing about this is the video to the title single. In a bubble this would be a 3. He loses a point for being who he was.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Perfect

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Cracking album, one of the best of 2019. I probably marginally prefer his second album, Love & Hate, but that doesn’t detract from this one in any way, shape or form.

Garbage

2/5

A bit slick for me and the singles didn’t have the impact I seemed to remember them having. Kinda average, not an album someone must hear.

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Beautiful, cool, minimal.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

A force of nature.

The Real Thing

Faith No More

2/5

Decidedly average.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

3/5

It’s ok. Rebellion (Lies) is great. It’s a 2.5 that I’ll round up because it really like that one song.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

It the Beatles. It’s one of their best. Run for your life is a stain that should lose it a half point but there aren’t half points and it’s nearer a 5 than a 4.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

5/5

One of Joni’s wonderful 5/5 albums.

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

2/5

Individual tracks are kinda ok in the right humour but it doesn’t work as a whole and some of it is poor.

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

4/5

I like sonic youth and I appreciate what they did but lots of their stuff doesn’t so much leave me cold as much as I don’t really feel the need to listen to it all that often This album is the exception. Could listen to it on a loop. Sprawling magnificent masterpiece.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Hmmm. So The Boxer is very good and The Only Living Boy In New York is outstanding. The rest of the album isn’t great and the title track is a schmaltzy ott dirge that feels genetically designed to be covered by desperate contestants in those exploitative tv talent shows.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

Singles band. This is their best album but I’m still not convinced outside the singles.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

1/5

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

5/5

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

4/5

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

The Doors

1/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

2/5

Buffalo Springfield. Pleasant non essential fare. Only album of theirs that should be on this list is that other one with that song we all know. 2.5/5 rounded down.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

Not Petty’s best, that was still to come, but this is just so much fun. A pure unadulterated adrenaline rush. I can’t listen to this without humming along with a big smile on my face. 3.5/5 rounded up.

Play

Moby

1/5

Who wants a Volvo estate? A Renault Scenic? Maybe a Volkswagen Passat diesel? Shit cars. Shit adverts. Shit music. Shit man. 0/5

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Drunk

Thundercat

3/5

This is really, really good. A little overlong and laboured in places, perhaps, but it is very good. Apocalypse is probably a more focused and realised album. 3.5/5 rounded down.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

Is this original? Nope. Is it clever? Nope. Is it just a whole load of fun? Fuck Yeah!

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

1/5

I love solo Peter Gabriel. I am contemptuous to solo Phil Collins. I’d previously only heard latter day Genesis that was reductive boring FM pop. This is worse. It’s actually worse than the Brian Eno record which is really a new low charted for this list.

1977

Ash

3/5

Fuuuuuuuuuun!

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

Really good album but not their pinnacle which came prior.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

3/5

One of only two Sufjan albums I enjoy. Carrie and Lowell is the other. It’s good but it’s kinda over long. 2.5 rounded up.

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

1/5

Seriously? This is just shit.

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

1/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

My all time favourite album. Perfect from start to finish.

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

4/5

I liked it a lot more than I remembered liking it. Still not a very top tier Joni for me, I like at least 4 other albums more, but much better than I had remembered. 3.5/5 rounded up.

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

5/5

Favourite blur album. Full of quality hook laden tunes. Love Blue Jeans

Homework

Daft Punk

3/5

Fun! Makes you want to dance. My second favourite release of theirs.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

Brilliant. Strongest post Beatles album where all the songs that he’d built up over the previous few years were released in one glorious go.

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Sketches of where they were going to go. A few real iconic songs.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Beautiful tragic influential

Dookie

Green Day

3/5

Fun silly childish but in places inspired

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

3/5

Enjoyable pastiche Walker along side project. It’s not as good as I remember it being.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

1/5

Overlong, bloated, boring and just utterly devoid of approachability. The single most overacted artists in the history of any art form. Not quite the most overrated abli, that will come. Contains musical sleeping tablets in Comfortably Numb. This would be a zero if it could be. Listening feels like putting pins in my eyes.