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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Eli And The Thirteenth Confession Laura Nyro	5	2.94	+2.06
Pelican West Haircut 100	5	2.96	+2.04
Nighthawks At The Diner Tom Waits	5	3.01	+1.99
Halcyon Digest Deerhunter	5	3.05	+1.95
Le Tigre Le Tigre	5	3.14	+1.86
Here Are the Sonics The Sonics	5	3.16	+1.84
Femi Kuti Femi Kuti	5	3.25	+1.75
Sunday At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio	5	3.31	+1.69
At Fillmore East The Allman Brothers Band	5	3.38	+1.62
Bossanova Pixies	5	3.38	+1.62

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Sticky Fingers The Rolling Stones	1	3.87	-2.87
21 Adele	1	3.69	-2.69
Hotel California Eagles	1	3.6	-2.6
The ArchAndroid Janelle Monáe	1	3.45	-2.45
C'est Chic CHIC	1	3.34	-2.34
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	1	3.33	-2.33
The Chronic Dr. Dre	1	3.32	-2.32
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	1	3.32	-2.32
Behaviour Pet Shop Boys	1	3.04	-2.04
evermore Taylor Swift	1	3.03	-2.03

5-Star Albums (20)

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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Popular Reviews

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

5/5

Fantastic album.

2 likes

evermore

Taylor Swift

1/5

So bad. It really is beyond me how she is so popular, it's obviously not for the quality of her music. When you get this album in your list, you have my deepest sympathies.

1 likes

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

5/5

No one has a voice like Gerry Roslie. Those screams are amazing and fit perfectly, especially at the end of Psycho. A brilliant album.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (16)

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Tracy Chapman

2/5

I just couldn't get into this one. I remember it being played a lot back when it was first released and, just like then, it never had any impact on me. I'd say that Ed Sheeran has been influenced by this. Not my cup of tea at all.

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

I'd forgotten how good this album really is. Straight ahead rock n roll with some great drum work. Back of the Bus is the stand out track for me. Supergrass were one of the truly great bands of the britpop era, far better than Oasis or Blur, imo.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

The Clash

5/5

I've actually been listening listening to this album a lot recently. I'm a big fan of punk music from this era and this is up there with the best of them.

The Velvet Underground

4/5

I do like the VU and this is a pretty good album. I can hear harmonies similar to the Grateful Dead and some of the organ work is reminiscent of The Doors but it is still a good album.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

What more can be said about this album? Or this man, for that matter? True genius.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

1/5

I tried, i really tried. The music he samples is pretty good but the lyrical assault was just too much for me. There are only so many bitches, niggaz and gun references that i can take. Chronic would have been a better title for it.

Hotel California

Eagles

1/5

Pure rubbish. I couldn't put myself through this bittersweet nonsense. I listened to a bit of each song and found each one nauseating.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

5/5

Arguably the greatest live album of all time. I've owned a copy of this for a long time and never tire of listening to it. One of the best examples of having a lot of genres(Blues, Jazz, Soul, Rock)all rolled into one and played by a group of amazing musicians at the peak of their power.

Dookie

Green Day

3/5

This is my first time listening through this whole album. These guys done their homework cos the influences from all the great punk bands are apparent to hear, pistols, clash, DK's. I think this could have been a classic punk album if it had been released about 1981 but instead it was a springboard for bands like Blink 182 who were at the forefront of the American punk revival of the mid 90s along with Green Day. This is probably the best album i've heard from that time and genre. Well worth a listen.

Street Signs

Ozomatli

1/5

Not my cup of tea. This is what i say when i think something is shit. The English inner city indian rapper during the first song is enough for me to stop listening. If you want to hear something similar to this only better and done by a better musician then give Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan a listen to.

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

About what i expected, REM being REM. Welcome to the Occupation is a good song, reminiscent of The Smiths. Not a bad album.

Paul Simon

2/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Fleet Foxes

2/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

1/5

This is so bad. I'm sorry i listened to it.

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

I own a couple of Sly Stone's earlier albums and they're pretty good. This is my first time listening to this particular album and i'm completely underwhelmed. It hasn't a patch on the other two. I'm pretty disappointed in this, was expecting more.

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

Good album. This is what i should have been listening to in the 80s. It's a shame it's taken me 40 years to realise that ffs. Anyway, this is good music.

Back In Black

AC/DC

3/5

White Denim

3/5

Never heard of this band before, not bad.

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

Sail Away

Randy Newman

1/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

5/5

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

1/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

5/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

The last album of phase one, I ONE IX ^ HE DIE, No. 49, Cranberry Sauce. Brilliant album, so easy to listen to. Top notch.

C'est Chic

CHIC

1/5

Exactly as i expected. Late 70s American disco music, there were a lot of bands in this genre, i prefer The Crusaders to this though. Found it a bit repetitive and the lyrics weren't very imaginative.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

5/5

Lovely stuff. Reminds me of numerous 80s indie bands, Echo, Siouxsie, Cure, Pixies and others. Definitely gonna buy this.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

1/5

Dummy

Portishead

2/5

I always thought of Portishead as a band that college students would have liked just to sound cool. To me they're just a band who try to be too clever by using as many effects as they can. I got sick of the singers voice and almost identical style for each song. Pretty boring.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

2/5

Adele

1/5

Pure rubbish.

The Next Day

David Bowie

4/5

Not bad, some good songs.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

Femi Kuti

5/5

This one took me by surprise. I was expecting some awful tribal world music but this is reminiscent of the best soul/funk of 70s America. Amazing album.

Purple Rain

Prince

3/5

Great 80's throwback. Probably the most underrated guitarist of all time.

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

In my all time Top Ten albums, my favourite group of all time, i don't need to say how great this is, it's enough just knowing it.

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

2/5

I don't like the singers style of singing, he makes each song sound the same.

Beautiful Freak

Eels

2/5

Too dark.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

1/5

Springsteen is one of these artists who i just cannot get into, he's like a mixture of Dylan and Tom Waits(both of whom i love, by the way)and it just doesn't work for me.

Bossanova

Pixies

5/5

Outstanding, one of the last truly great bands.

evermore

Taylor Swift

1/5

So bad. It really is beyond me how she is so popular, it's obviously not for the quality of her music. When you get this album in your list, you have my deepest sympathies.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

5/5

No one has a voice like Gerry Roslie. Those screams are amazing and fit perfectly, especially at the end of Psycho. A brilliant album.

No Other

Gene Clark

4/5

Not bad, listenable. Not as good as his debut album, Echoes.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Good album with plenty of Zeppelin classics, Gallows Pole being the standout track.

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

1/5

Bloody awful.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

1/5

I just don't like the rolling stones. I gave each song a quick listen and found them dull.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

Just not for me.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

I've never been a fan of the Rolling Stones so i've never listened to this album before, so i was surprised by how good it was. Jim Morrison definitely listened to this as the last song, What To Do is what he sounded like live.

Pelican West

Haircut 100

5/5

I was totally surprised by this one. I remembered Fantastic Day and Love Plus One from when they were first released. Back then i was just a kid who was into the whole Mod revival and considered Haircut 100 as a novelty act, one hit wonder type of band but the musicianship on this album is amazing. I will definitely be getting this on vinyl, highly reccomended.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

2/5

I'm always underwhelmed by this album. The title track is a good song, also Bennie and the Jets but i couldn't really get into the rest of it. There is a tune that's very Steely Dan-esque but i cant recall the name.

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

1/5

Terrible, every song sounds the same.

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

1/5

More rubbish.

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Fantastic album from the only modern band of any note.