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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Cut The Slits	5	2.71	+2.29
Phaedra Tangerine Dream	5	2.73	+2.27
Vulnicura Björk	5	2.79	+2.21
Freak Out! The Mothers Of Invention	5	2.84	+2.16
Another Green World Brian Eno	5	3.12	+1.88
Rain Dogs Tom Waits	5	3.2	+1.8
Fever To Tell Yeah Yeah Yeahs	5	3.29	+1.71
Raw Power The Stooges	5	3.32	+1.68
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs Marty Robbins	5	3.33	+1.67
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.35	+1.65

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
War U2	1	3.48	-2.48
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	1	3.29	-2.29
What's Going On Marvin Gaye	2	3.94	-1.94
Mothership Connection Parliament	2	3.61	-1.61
Gorillaz Gorillaz	2	3.53	-1.53
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters	2	3.5	-1.5
Queen II Queen	2	3.49	-1.49
Blackstar David Bowie	2	3.48	-1.48
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	2	3.44	-1.44
Green Onions Booker T. & The MG's	2	3.41	-1.41

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Artist	Albums	Average
Yeah Yeah Yeahs	2	5
Radiohead	4	4.25

5-Star Albums (24)

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Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

4/5

I likes this. I prefer the stuff he released as SMOG.

1 likes

Debut

Björk

4/5

Not the best Bjork album, but god I love her.

1 likes

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

What a great album!

1 likes

1-Star Albums (2)

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The Slider

T. Rex

4/5

Very good. Was ready for it to end by the last few tracks.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

Bookended by two great Dylan songs.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Loved it. Son of a Prea her man is incredibly horny and Windmills of your Mind is a tune.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

Some great songs here, Pilot Jones, Crack Rock. I wanted to back and listen again ad soon as it famished

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Love S&G. Nice American folk

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

5/5

What can I say, it's The Smiths.

The Cars

3/5

It was fine but ultimately forgettable.

#1 Record

Big Star

3/5

Thirteen was really good. The rest was alright.

Signing Off

UB40

4/5

I'm glad I listened to this as o don't think I knew UB40 beyond RRW.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

He's called The Boss for a reason. I enjoyed this more than I expected to, when it finished I put it on again.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

Enjoyed this. Lyrical themes are a bit repetitive but I think that's a motown issue not a Temptations issue.

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

4/5

It's like Jeff Buckley but if Jeff Buckley fucked. Enjoyable.

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

4/5

This was good. Bluesy.

Gorillaz

2/5

I was really really expecting to enjoy this a lot, a few tracks in it felt like looking after a toddler who was trying to get my attention. Could just be that I wasn't in the mood at the time.

Street Life

The Crusaders

4/5

Finally a bit of jazz

Another Green World

Brian Eno

5/5

I adore Brian Eno. This albumb is drifting, beautiful and weird.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

4/5

Some absolute bangers but not all gold.

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

5/5

I thought this was class. Great music, fun lyrics.

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

3/5

Just okay, not much to get your teeth into.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Every time I listen to the stones I think, I like these more than I thought I did. Shockingly noncey lyrics like.

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

2/5

Drab khaki music for drab khaki boys.

Sound Affects

The Jam

4/5

This was good, Paul Weller should have stopped here.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Amazing. This rocked.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

Grandfather of emo.

Close To The Edge

Yes

3/5

Hmmmm it was okay but didn't grab me at all

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

4/5

He writesa lot if gild but has some duds.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

I like Isaac Hayes but let's be real, this should have been a single.

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

3/5

The sort of 90s hip hop we watched on TV in primary school to warn us about knife crime. It's not for me.

Solid Air

John Martyn

4/5

Smooth jazzy folk

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

Long live NiN

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

4/5

Nice enough sounds but content a but annoying

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

5/5

Weird and very funny

World Clique

Deee-Lite

4/5

Groove IS in the heart

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

2/5

This is the musical equivalent of baby food.

Like A Prayer

Madonna

4/5

Couple of absolute tunes but wanst as consistent as I wanted

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

Excellent

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

5/5

This is a proper bit of me me this

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

3/5

Didn't hold my attention but it was nice enough

Queen II

Queen

2/5

If this had been their first album, no one would be dressing up as Freddy Mercury for Halloween, I promise you that.

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

4/5

I likes this. I prefer the stuff he released as SMOG.

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

3/5

There are so few good US punk band, these are not one of them

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Very fun very cool

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

3/5

I struggled to get past hearing this as a novelty music or something very dated.

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

4/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

5/5

2112

Rush

3/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Sad and pretty

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

Most of it I'd great, some undoubted filler

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

They're all despicable people, but good punk music

Cypress Hill

4/5

Yeah this was good. Touch repetitive by the end.

Fragile

Yes

3/5

This may not be a fair shake but I'm a bit burned out on 70s prog rock

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Khaaaarmaaa Pooooliiiice

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Just some of the best pop songs

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

3/5

Pleasant enough but didn't really hold my attention

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

5/5

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Not every track is Glory Box, but ai enjoyed it.

Skylarking

XTC

2/5

I just didn't care fir this. Overly twee.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

Not my favourite Talking Heads album but I liked it

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

4/5

I enjoyed this. Emotive.

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

Never listened to early Echo and The Bunnymen but I liked it

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

1/5

Dido girl, you should have killed this little bitch when you had a chance.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

She's an icon

Pelican West

Haircut 100

3/5

I liked yhe sound at first but got a bit bored after a couple of tracks

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

4/5

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

4/5

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Thus is a perfect album. Her voice is unparalleled and her songs her devastating.

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

2/5

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

3/5

Nice enough but not particularly exciting or interesting

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

I was excited to finally get some jazz, but this was mid.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

A Northern Soul

The Verve

2/5

Two decent tracks, the rest was music for Emmerdale characters to take heroin to

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

I adore REM but this album is not amazing. Bring on Automatic For The People.

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

4/5

I love goths

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

This album is so good. The YYYSs are absolute juggernauts who don't get the recognition they deserve.

Black Metal

Venom

3/5

I want to like metal, but its all a bit cringe isn't it. It was fine.

Blur

2/5

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

Now this is more like it.

Wild Gift

4/5

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

This is such an interesting idea and had some interesting moments but it felt mostly incoherent

Sheet Music

10cc

2/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Joan Armatrading

4/5

Loved this a lot.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

This is a really good album, would have been a five but I hate the little voicemail narrative device.

War

1/5

Honestly, it's a miracle I didn't drive into the ocean listening to this. Music is trite and Bono's voice it deeply unpleasant to listen to.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

The United States Of America

3/5

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

3/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

4/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

3/5

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

4/5

I think this album review is a victim of comparison because I enjoyed Rain Dogs more, but I still really liked it.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

2/5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

3/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

Debut

Björk

4/5

Not the best Bjork album, but god I love her.

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

Fame is a tune, the rest are fine.

Tom Tom Club

4/5

I hadn't heard this before. It was fun and interesting.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

2/5

Very annoying

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

What a great album!

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

3/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

5/5

Made me tear up in Lidl

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

3/5

I really wish I could enjoy thrash metal but it always just sounds chiched.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

2/5

May be an unfair raring but I just wasn't in the mood for this one

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

3/5

Nowhere

Ride

4/5

Tommy

The Who

2/5

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

2/5

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

4/5

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

2/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

3/5

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

2/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

Illmatic

Nas

3/5

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

2/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

Third

Portishead

4/5

Django Django

3/5

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

3/5

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

3/5

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

3/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

2/5

Green

R.E.M.

3/5

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

2/5

The Stone Roses

3/5

Timeless

Goldie

2/5

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

3/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

2/5

Among The Living

Anthrax

2/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

2/5

Vulnicura

Björk

5/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

4/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

4/5

The Coral

3/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

4/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

2/5

Adele

3/5

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

3/5

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

The Last Broadcast

Doves

4/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

3/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

3/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

2/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

2/5

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

The Undertones

4/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

4/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Purple Rain

Prince

3/5

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

2/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Repeater

Fugazi

3/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

I feel like Carrie Mathison

Future Days

Can

4/5

Electric

The Cult

2/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

Now why is Bon Iver here, may I ask.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

It's the orangutan from The Jungle Book!

Foo Fighters

2/5

Sister

Sonic Youth

3/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Woodface

Crowded House

3/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

3/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

4/5

Cut

The Slits

5/5