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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Debut Björk	5	3.37	+1.63
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	5	3.56	+1.44
Jazz Samba Stan Getz	5	3.56	+1.44
Catch A Fire Bob Marley & The Wailers	5	3.63	+1.37
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	5	3.63	+1.37
21 Adele	5	3.69	+1.31

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Moving Pictures Rush	1	3.58	-2.58
The Chronic Dr. Dre	1	3.33	-2.33
Atomizer Big Black	1	2.72	-1.72
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan	2	3.63	-1.63
War U2	2	3.48	-1.48
Ágætis Byrjun Sigur Rós	2	3.37	-1.37
25 Adele	2	3.36	-1.36
Raw Power The Stooges	2	3.32	-1.32
Rum Sodomy & The Lash The Pogues	2	3.25	-1.25
John Prine John Prine	2	3.22	-1.22

5-Star Albums (8)

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New Wave

The Auteurs

2/5

Not cool enough to be pixies. Not bare enough to be pavement. Just a bit drab. Like a quite good high school band.

12 likes

Movies

Holger Czukay

3/5

I didn't hate that nearly as much as I thought I was going to. Eclectic and musical enough to be intriguing throughout and not get boring.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (3)

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Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Adele

5/5

How can you not give this five stars? Some absolute belters on there, and it culminates in the iconic Someone Like You.

Adele

2/5

A few very strong tracks, but overall it felt like a slog to get through it.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

2/5

I'm sure there's a time and place for Sigur Ros, and I have enjoyed their music at times, but after a while it just blurs into one long Icelandic whinge and uber-effected guitars.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

I enjoyed this more than I expected. While I've been an Elton fan for a long time, I've always just bounced around the classics and never taken a deeper dive into any albums other than Goodbhe Yellow brick road. This starts off with a personal favourite, tiny dancer, and maintains a good tempo and pop-hooks well into the album. 9 whole minutes of the title track didn't do much for me, and a few tracks thereafter seemed a bit self-servibf, but otherwise Elton's growling rock and roll vocals and aggressive piano made for a decent listen. 3 stars because as good as it was I likely won't listen again.

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Great listening. Lots of layers give each track a rich, full sound. So much better listening to a full bob Marley album than all the singles.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Deserves 5 stars for shine on yourl crazy diamond and wish you were here alone. Tbh tracks like have a cigar don't do much for me. But if I gave Adele 5, I've got to give this 5.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Movies

Holger Czukay

3/5

I didn't hate that nearly as much as I thought I was going to. Eclectic and musical enough to be intriguing throughout and not get boring.

New Wave

The Auteurs

2/5

Not cool enough to be pixies. Not bare enough to be pavement. Just a bit drab. Like a quite good high school band.

Raw Power

The Stooges

2/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Some modern classics, and a very listenable-to album, but a few too many background tracks to achieve that extra star.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

So much talent, and a well-produced bluesy rock and roll album. Just not altogether something that tickles my fancy.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

It's easy to forget how big this album was when it came out. And I think we've all heard some of these tracks so much (Praise You, The Rockafella Skank) that we take them for granted. But this was big and I feel it changed a lot in terms of what sort of music was popular in the UK. At the time of its release the UK album charts included Bewitched, Phil Collins, The Corrs, Ladysmith Blackmambazo, The Beautiful South, Cliff Richard and Boyzone - I shit you not.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

2/5

I love Dylan, but not this side of him.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

3/5

A really decent pop album...just not something I would ever put back on myself.

Queens of the Stone Age

3/5

It would be a 4/5 if the whole album continued as strongly as it starts, but towards the end it feels a bit same-y.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

I'd forgotten how good this album is. Just hit after hit. And even the filler is excellent.

The Libertines

2/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

4/5

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

2/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

5/5

John Prine

2/5

Fucking awful

The Stone Roses

5/5

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

3/5

A bit R.e.m.ish in some ways. Quite liked some of the tracks but not enough for more than a three.

Violent Femmes

4/5

Very decent. Low-fi. Reminds me a bit of Pavement. Would listen again.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

Rejudged this after years of absence. Really solid. A high 4.

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

3/5

Femi Kuti

4/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

I think I have a natural aversion to queen, and while I didn't hate this - I still wouldn't take the time to listen to it again.

Fleet Foxes

4/5

I've been going back time and time again to this album for many years now - it fits very nicely into my musical taste. But is it a five star album, along with the likes of The Stone Roses etc? I'm struggling to justify that, hence the 4*.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

1/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

1/5

No, no, no...no. How to write a rush track... 1. Start with a drum beat. 2. Realise that a sick drummer is all you have going for you. 3. Have entirely forgettable guitar parts. 4. Stick some palid vocals over the top. 5. Somehow get very popular with a certain type of music fan.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Debut

Björk

5/5

Love this album.

Nixon

Lambchop

3/5

A nice album. I could quite happily have this on in the background for its chilled out, melodic vibes. However, there's not enough to grab onto to give it more than a 3*.

Protection

Massive Attack

4/5

War

2/5

Not as awful as some albums we've had on here, but nothing to suggest they should have lingered in the public consciousness for as long as they have.

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Better than expected.

Atomizer

Big Black

1/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

A big fan of this album. Other than heavy metal classics like 'Paranoid' and 'Iron Man' this album shows off some much softer, more musical tracks, like Planet Caravan.

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

3/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5