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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Seventh Tree Goldfrapp	5	3.08	+1.92
Pink Flag Wire	5	3.21	+1.79
Fear Of A Black Planet Public Enemy	5	3.34	+1.66
Rock 'N Soul Solomon Burke	5	3.37	+1.63
Ramones Ramones	5	3.58	+1.42
Let It Bleed The Rolling Stones	5	3.83	+1.17
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	5	3.83	+1.17
Arular M.I.A.	4	2.83	+1.17

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
With The Beatles Beatles	1	3.66	-2.66
In The Court Of The Crimson King King Crimson	1	3.6	-2.6
Talking Heads 77 Talking Heads	1	3.56	-2.56
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young & Crazy Horse	1	3.55	-2.55
Rust Never Sleeps Neil Young & Crazy Horse	1	3.53	-2.53
Bryter Layter Nick Drake	1	3.51	-2.51
Parachutes Coldplay	1	3.46	-2.46
Hail To the Thief Radiohead	1	3.44	-2.44
More Songs About Buildings And Food Talking Heads	1	3.42	-2.42
Doggystyle Snoop Dogg	1	3.38	-2.38

5-Star Albums (7)

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Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

2/5

Two fantastic songs. Lots of unremarkable discopop

1 likes

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

1/5

Redolent of much better musicians who work in this type of sound. Musicians who don't have Yorke's irritating whine all over their music

1 likes

1-Star Albums (21)

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With The Beatles

Beatles

1/5

Early Beatles leaves me cold.

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

1/5

Tedium

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

4/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

1/5

Pish

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

1/5

Not my thing

Smash

The Offspring

1/5

Can't stand the singers voice

Teen Dream

Beach House

1/5

Music for critics

Live!

Fela Kuti

2/5

Pretty good. I don't like live albums

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

2/5

A couple of highlights

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

1/5

Awful awful singing voice

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Finally, a good album.

Pelican West

Haircut 100

2/5

Some bangers but ultimately not my bag

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Music for music critics

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

1/5

Hate his voice so much

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

Several bangers but several borers as well

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

2/5

They're getting there but it's not for me just yet

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

1/5

Not now, rod, I'm busy

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

One banger after another. God bless Meg White

New Wave

The Auteurs

1/5

Nope

Ramones

5/5

Tremendous album. Perfect

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

1/5

Dated sounding

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

1/5

He's enormously pleased with his own shtick.

B-52's

The B-52's

2/5

Not for me, thanks

My Generation

The Who

2/5

Not enough bangers

Feast of Wire

Calexico

2/5

Gimmicky

Blackstar

David Bowie

2/5

Too sad

Brothers

The Black Keys

2/5

Music for beer adverts

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

5/5

Peerless. Had it not been for ITANOMTHUB this would be PEs best album. As it is, it'll have to settle for second best.

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

1/5

Soy face: the album

The College Dropout

Kanye West

2/5

A few highlights. Not my cuppa

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

2/5

Wanted to like it but it's just a bit too aimless for me

Parklife

Blur

2/5

Too few bangers, too many smug wankers

Arise

Sepultura

1/5

Hate this shit

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

Dance for indie kids.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

5/5

Soul power is the cleanest energy source and may just save the human race

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

1/5

This guy again :(

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

Not my thing, but there's a couple of decent tunes. That corgan tho.

Parachutes

Coldplay

1/5

Absolutely not

Marquee Moon

Television

2/5

Seminal but the whiny yelp singing voice turns me right off

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

Not into live albums or The Who so this was a tough one. Despite that there's no denying they were a great live act

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

1/5

This is absolutely not an album you need to hear before you die. I'm shocked at the quality of these 1001 albums so far. So much tedious acoustic drivel. Pop stars pretending to be men of the earth. Neil Young, I'm looking at you. Anyway, this is more of that nostalgia for a time before penicillin

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

3/5

Overrated but there is a small handful of great songs

Black Sabbath

5/5

Magnificent.

Pink Flag

Wire

5/5

Think of a number (10) divide it by two (5(stars))

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

1/5

Gangsta rap should've been strangled at birth

LP1

FKA twigs

3/5

I feel maybe I'm too old to get it but I mostly liked it

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

2/5

All filler, some killer. The good songs are extremely good but the rest is the definition of album track

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

1/5

An awful waste of time

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

2/5

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. It's still very far from an album anyone needs to hear before they die. Apart from maybe coke heads and they're scum so who cares

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

2/5

Two fantastic songs. Lots of unremarkable discopop

Germs

3/5

Decent punk rock music. Nothing special

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

1/5

Redolent of much better musicians who work in this type of sound. Musicians who don't have Yorke's irritating whine all over their music

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

3/5

Decent jangle pop, which you'd expect from The Byrds. Just a bit thin and watery for my taste

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

5/5

Astonishingly good. From earthy pagan psychedelia to glacial disco via pure pop. I don't know how they did it but they did. Outstanding.

Odelay

Beck

2/5

Beck managed to get a lot of praise using breaks and samples that were played out 6 years previously in hip hop.

Arular

M.I.A.

4/5

Fun!

Kid A

Radiohead

2/5

It's got my favourite Radiohead song so it's not all bad

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Painfully dated but still a decent party album with a few crowd pleasers.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

2/5

Too unfocused for me. Honestly just sounds like a big old mess.

Survivor

Destiny's Child

2/5

Pop music. It's fine.

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

1/5

I give up. This is dogshit. Nearly all of these records are guitar bands from America. A tiny cross section of what's available. Ok, they might throw in the odd Zappa to show how wacky and irreverent the list is but it's just the same beef, different gravy.