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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Band The Band	5	3.36	+1.64
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Public Enemy	5	3.37	+1.63
Blue Lines Massive Attack	5	3.38	+1.62
The Wildest! Louis Prima	5	3.53	+1.47
Aladdin Sane David Bowie	5	3.61	+1.39
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	5	3.67	+1.33
Off The Wall Michael Jackson	5	3.79	+1.21
Is This It The Strokes	5	3.81	+1.19
All Things Must Pass George Harrison	5	3.81	+1.19
Brutal Youth Elvis Costello	4	2.82	+1.18

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Aqualung Jethro Tull	1	3.44	-2.44
System Of A Down System Of A Down	1	3.26	-2.26
A Wizard, A True Star Todd Rundgren	1	2.84	-1.84
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins	2	3.67	-1.67
The Number Of The Beast Iron Maiden	2	3.58	-1.58
Court And Spark Joni Mitchell	2	3.35	-1.35
Ace of Spades Motörhead	2	3.29	-1.29
Repeater Fugazi	2	3.13	-1.13

5-Star Albums (11)

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It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Popular Reviews

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce · 3 likes

2/5

There was a time in my life that I may have liked this more, but its not now

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell · 2 likes

2/5

Can be tough-going Joni. When she's great she's super-brilliant, eg River, Both Sides Now, but the jazz-folk fusion can be a bit grating. This album, for me, was more of the latter.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie · 1 likes

5/5

Proper start to finish excellent. Songs like Cracked Actor, The Prettiest Star, The Jean Genie, in fact the whole lot, just sound amazing. An album to be played LOUD and fill the house. Delighted this was a full weekender

1-Star Albums (3)

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Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

5/5

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

2/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

Bo-ring

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

Not an album I know, really quite enjoyed it. Elements of the Cocteau Twins reinterpreted with guitars and without all that is amazing about Liz Fraser

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

If a 4.5 existed I'd rate it that

Repeater

Fugazi

2/5

Enjoyed it more than I thought I would, but can't see me going back to it

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

4/5

Really good album, if not one of his best. Problem with artists as prolific as the 'other Elvis' is that unless you've been in on him since early it's tough to get a grip on the back catalogue. But I've always liked him and the sooner I see him in concert the better.

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

3/5

Pleasant enough, but I've come to the conclusion that 90% of this type of 60s stuff is no more than pleasant really.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

5/5

I love this album, it's a start to finish belter

The Slider

T. Rex

4/5

Thorough bit of 'enjoyness'

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

1/5

What a 'Jackie Brambles'

Odelay

Beck

4/5

Still sounds mostly great. Some bangers in there. Wee bit 'of its time' in places. Have you watched a 90s Tarantino movie recently?

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

3/5

Enjoyed listening to one of the earliest electronic albums for what it was. Not sure any more than a few od the songs stand up on their own nowadays.

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Top top top album

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

Will be surprised if I ever go looking for it again, but passed time and didn't dislike it at all

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

5/5

A top of the tree all-time favourite list album. Contains some of my favourite songs, and in my humble opinion, the best album opening track ever.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

5/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Can be tough-going Joni. When she's great she's super-brilliant, eg River, Both Sides Now, but the jazz-folk fusion can be a bit grating. This album, for me, was more of the latter.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

2/5

Not my cup of tea

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

A brilliant album. Listened to 4 times all the way through since last night, and Fascination Street about 10 times

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

Enjoyable, but not my favourite of his albums

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

1/5

Possibly the worst 'classic' album of all time

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

3/5

I have a split opinion on Otis, at odds with my love of the soul greats, and this album sums it up. When he's good he's amazing, like on the opening track, Ole Man Trouble, Dead in the Valley and I've been loving you to long. But at other times he claws on me, the soul equivalent of Christina Aguilera, all growls and runs that ignore the song itself. I HATE his versions of A change is gonna come and Wonderful world. I don't enjoy Respect, but in its itself its a good version, it's just not Aretha's empowering anthem. Even taking that out of it, Otis' version doesn't come close to Aretha's. How can I love the soul greats and be critical of Otis Redding? Because I do and I do.

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

The Best by Radiohead

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

Odd

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

Still sounds great. Went on a personal REM revival a couple of years and listened to a lot of their albums in their entirety. I do think it got better for them but this is still great and there's some proper Strathclyde University Union Level 8 classics in this album

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

4/5

Really like this album. Brillianty fun and short. I knew it already and after discovering went back to it quite a lot. If there was a 4.5/5 I would give it that. JLL himself was clearly dodgy right enough.

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

3/5

Aye, it's OK

System Of A Down

1/5

Listened to first 3 or 4 songs and found nothing to like

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

2/5

Bad start, but enjoyed bits further into it. Was out walking the dog listening to it and every now and then I'd have a break while talking to someone. When it went back on I would like it again for a while. Last track as bad as the first.

Blur

4/5

Solid

The Band

5/5

Just a joy

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

5/5

Bring the noise!!!

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

4/5

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

3/5

Saw them at Meadowbank Stadium around 1988 and they were brilliant. Not sure their general sound has aged that well in general. I enjoy a song or two now, like the opening track or Promised You A Miracle, but quite quickly lose interest after that

Ten

Pearl Jam

4/5

An album I've listened to a lot

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

I don't think it's ever been a particularly great album, just 'good', and it's not really aged any better than that

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

Deja Vu