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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Frank Amy Winehouse	5	3.46	+1.54
Queen II Queen	5	3.49	+1.51
Low David Bowie	5	3.54	+1.46
Wild Is The Wind Nina Simone	5	3.65	+1.35
Remain In Light Talking Heads	5	3.67	+1.33
The Gilded Palace Of Sin The Flying Burrito Brothers	4	2.92	+1.08

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Aphex Twin	1	3.2	-2.2
Kick Out The Jams (Live) MC5	1	2.91	-1.91
Dire Straits Dire Straits	2	3.72	-1.72
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters	2	3.48	-1.48
Liquid Swords GZA	2	3.29	-1.29
Queens of the Stone Age Queens Of The Stone Age	2	3.29	-1.29
A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse Faces	2	3.22	-1.22
The Colour Of Spring Talk Talk	2	3.08	-1.08
Devil Without A Cause Kid Rock	1	2.01	-1.01

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	3	4.33

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Foo Fighters

2/5

meh, made very little impression

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

Very awkward lyrics but I quite like the soundscape, a couple of standout tracks

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Too long for me to fully grapple with, but lots of really good songs, interesting and distinctive sound. I'd like to listen to more!

In Utero

Nirvana

3/5

Liked a couple of tracks but I don't have enough angst to connect with it

The Doors

3/5

3.5, liked the instrumentation a lot

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

Wow. Her voice is incredible, and so full of emotion, it makes every song feel profound. Even the ones that were written for someone else - it's hard to imagine anyone doing them better than this. The first track was maybe my least favourite, and really didn't prepare me for what was coming - it was followed by Four Women, which pretty much made me stop what I was doing and pay attention. Fantastic.

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

1/5

Half hold music, and half the background music after you finish a race in F Zero and you're looking at the results. Didn't get anything out of this, but to be fair I'm listening in a context that doesn't suit it (eagerly awaiting a new Greatest Album every day). Dunno why it's on the list though. On the bright side it didn't distract me from my admin!

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

2/5

Yeah, didn't really speak to me. The whole thing just felt kinda milque. Probably not helped by me getting The Band yesterday, which was hella crunchy

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

4/5

On my first listen I was really enjoying the start, but eventually I started losing interest. It turned out I was accidentally listening to the deluxe edition with half a dozen demo tracks at the end sooo problem solved ✅ But on the flipside, the demo version of Aurora Borealis at the end was one of my favourite tracks 🤷‍♂️ Less flashy than its album counterpart, but just kinda groovy and chill. This was a great discovery! Full of ideas, nice short tracks, lots of energy but also kind of meandering about. Thanks 1001 albums generator ❤️

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

Didn't pay a ton of attention, and suspect this isn't really my genre, but I liked the organ and general operatic vibes

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

I want to listen to this more I think - I liked the start and end but it blurred together in the middle. But some of these tracks really evoke a whole world.

Van Halen

4/5

Loved the energy on this, lots of bangers

Dire Straits

2/5

I'm kinda shocked this was such a big hit. I couldn't really grab on to anything - found it tepid and nothingy

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

4 for speakerboxxx, 2 for the love below. I wasn't expecting to like Big Boi's album so much more, but it was banging, funky, lots of highlights, not as esoteric as some Outkast albums but more energetic, and great lyrical flow. Andre's album...is coherent narratively, but often cynical, and musically kind of all over the place. It's ambitious, but the length is trying and I found a lot of the genre riffs hollow. I'll listen to it again some time, separate from speakerboxxx, but for now it didn't land with me.

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

2/5

Rough and interesting, but probably too much of a downer for me to come back to

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

1/5

Pretty flat for a live punk album

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

2/5

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

4/5

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

3/5

3.5

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

3/5

A lot of very weak lyrics but pretty good production, 2.5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

2/5

Starts mid and gets worse from there, droning on and on and endlessly winding down. Gypsy woman is a bad kind of wtf moment. The exception is Buzzin' Fly, which actually transported me somewhere I wanted to stay - there's a time and place for the kind of constant breezy melancholy it conjures up, and it hit me in the right mood.

Liquid Swords

GZA

2/5

I respect this album and its dark spooky atmosphere, but I don't actually enjoy listening to it much.

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

3/5

Dust

Screaming Trees

3/5

Liked it a bit more than Nirvana

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

3.5

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

2/5

Interesting, but not sure I'll revisit it and I give too many 3s

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

Sound Affects

The Jam

3/5

Low

David Bowie

5/5

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

Really liked 'Everybody wants to rule the world', otherwise liked the sound but the songs went on a bit

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

The songwriting on this is wild, every track has some super catchy hook and almost all of them are excellent. Goes down smooth after listening to the White Album - Revolver still has an interesting mix of styles, but it's really coherent as well, a great album listen. Also the average track length is really short (2.5 mins) - might be a product of the era? Either way it's great.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

Highlight of this is definitely the drum fills

Destroyer

KISS

3/5

The rockers are fun, the ballads are bad

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

4/5

3.5+

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

My Generation

The Who

3/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

Extra star for the very nice Neon Lights

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

3/5

Some great production but I don't like Common and his lyrics much

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

One of my favourites, Born Under Punches blew my mind the first time I heard it and still does

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

The Band

4/5

Music from Big Pink has gone up from 4 stars to 5 since I rated it on here - maybe this will too. King Harvest was a great ending!

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

Everyone has an ELP limit, mine is definitely before this

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

Like a better version of the Kiss album I got a while back. Enjoyed the first half more than the second, but I'll happily round up to 4⭐

Queen II

Queen

5/5

My fave Queen album. I don't even like the first half very much, but the second half is SO GOOD and such a perfectly structured sequence of songs (I love how they all flow together, ending with Funny How Love Is, then having Seven Seas of Rhye as a palette cleanser). Totally packed with ideas and has the classic Queen sound. I'm also so used to albums giving you their best stuff early and then fizzling out, that having an album do the exact opposite is super refreshing. Love it!

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

Not listening to 70 minutes of this

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

2/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

Nice vibes, but didn't find it super memorable