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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Sunday At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio	5	3.31	+1.69
The College Dropout Kanye West	5	3.31	+1.69
From Elvis In Memphis Elvis Presley	5	3.36	+1.64
Arrival ABBA	5	3.5	+1.5
Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.	5	3.51	+1.49
Paul Simon Paul Simon	5	3.51	+1.49
Hotel California Eagles	5	3.6	+1.4
In The Court Of The Crimson King King Crimson	5	3.6	+1.4
Illmatic Nas	5	3.6	+1.4
...Baby One More Time Britney Spears	4	2.67	+1.33

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Metal Box Public Image Ltd.	1	2.42	-1.42
Trout Mask Replica Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	1	2.29	-1.29
Here Are the Sonics The Sonics	2	3.16	-1.16
The Holy Bible Manic Street Preachers	2	3.14	-1.14
Sunshine Superman Donovan	2	3.09	-1.09
Scum Napalm Death	1	2.07	-1.07
Underwater Moonlight The Soft Boys	2	3.06	-1.06

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All Ratings

The Next Day

David Bowie

4/5

Debut

Björk

4/5

V unique sound, really fun and dancy. I enjoyed this a lot.

Tracy Chapman

3/5

Chill, short, good lounge music

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

3/5

Varying energy, a couple of songs you'd recognise, better than I expected

Clandestino

Manu Chao

3/5

Consistent sound, relaxed and upbeat

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Punchy, as expected, would be brilliant live. Unique sound.

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

2/5

Pretty slow, annoying voice, discordant vocals and instruments at times. If someone put it on I wouldn't complain but I wouldn't enjoy it.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Infectious beat, unique & consistent sound. Love Chuck D's voice. Sometimes aggressive so needs to fit a certain mood.

Elvis Presley

4/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

Thought this was great

Out of Step

Minor Threat

3/5

Punks not massively my thing, but it was alright

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

2/5

Metal not really my thing, I thought the lyrics were pretty uninspired and the music pretty easy to write

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Really enjoyed listening to this

Hotel California

Eagles

5/5

Great album

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

4/5

This was so good what the hell

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

2/5

Music was fine, album was an hour and a half too long

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

Decent, didn't stand out

Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

Good album, pretty much what you'd expect

Snivilisation

Orbital

4/5

Surprisingly fun - a bit weird and a unique sound, but super enjoyable. Quite varied throughout the album

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

3/5

Enjoyed this because I would never have listened to it without this website.

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

2/5

This really did not feel like anything special. Uninspired melodies/chords and ultimately felt a bit boring

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

I really like soul, so this was bound to do well. Otis' voice is brilliant, and the brass sounds great behind it. Fun to hear him do these covers

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Catchy songs, enjoyable listening - a good time had by all

Music

Madonna

4/5

The production on this was quite cool, I enjoyed this more than I expected to. Dance vibes

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

5/5

I listened to this while cooking and it couldn't have set the vibe better - so relaxing and smooth.

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

4/5

You could feel the energy of the live performance, which was cool, and fun to hear smoke on the water.

1999

Prince

3/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

Pretty chill, a fair few songs I recognised. Probably wouldn't play this a huge amount myself but recognise it's pretty good.

Scum

Napalm Death

1/5

28 songs in 33 mins was a plot twist - It definitely felt longer than 33 mins. The entire album was lots noise with grunts and yells. I don't think I'm angry enough to ever choose to play this.

All That You Can't Leave Behind

3/5

I wanted to dislike this more, but tbh thought it was good. I haven't really heard any U2 apart from beautiful day

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

3/5

Bit weird - kinda enjoyable

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

5/5

Just a great album

Paul Simon

5/5

Gentle, relaxing, I enjoyed it a lot

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

1/5

I genuinely believe I could write this. Moaning voice, repetitive music, pretty minimal creativity. Didn't enjoy the album

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

2/5

This album was so varied - It started with songs that were fairly ambient and chill, had a couple of interesting ones, and then played a couple of garbage songs that were v abrasive. I wouldn't listen to it through again, but there were a couple of songs in here that were alright.

Basket of Light

Pentangle

3/5

Voice a bit droney, music pretty ok.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

This was fun, I enjoyed it throughout. La Grange is an excellent song too. Guitar riffs were great

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

5/5

This was brilliant, I enjoyed it v much. The soul vibe!

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

2/5

Songs were very much a 3/5 average not bad, but to make 3 hours of them is self indulgent and a waste of everyone's time

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

This album was great! Really interesting music, a few songs I recognised, really cool name and artwork, I just like this a lot.

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

3/5

Gentle, easy music. All a bit similar, but still fairly nice to listen to.

Parklife

Blur

3/5

Iconic britpop. The sound of blur. Bit of a repetitive sound throughout the album.

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

Good music, I'm not mad into punk, felt like a slightly worse version of green day, but still enjoyable to listen to.

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

3/5

Pretty chill, decent as background music. Didn't feel like anything too special.

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

4/5

This was always going to be a good time

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

Decent, peace frog was banging - I enjoyed the album but it didn't feel outstanding.

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Production is super cool and rhythm of the lyrics I enjoyed too - quite a few songs I recognised. V fun this came up, I've been meaning to listen through for a while.

Arrival

ABBA

5/5

I feel it's hard not to give this a 5, even though it's not massively my music, because of the profound impact and popularity of abba.

Live Through This

Hole

3/5

Black Monk Time

The Monks

2/5

808 State

2/5

Felt a bit mundane, uninspired and not that interesting

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

Easily the most enjoyable punk band - you get what you expect but it's also what you want.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

4/5

Great album, a bit past their prime

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

Easy 3 - I liked a few songs, but wouldn't choose to listen to this. Felt very generic Paul Simon. Bloody loved call me al though.

Guero

Beck

3/5

I enjoyed the first song, the rest were meh. Wouldn't listen again, but not unpleasant. Chain reaction sucked.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

I love 50s music, always makes me think of fallout. Big brass, lively music, classic blues riffs - super fun

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

2/5

It wasn't bad, but I definitely would have net preferred not to listen to this album. Wasn't really my thing, felt a bit repetitive and non-imaginative.

The xx

4/5

Cracking album. The intro is beyond banging. Really cool, super enjoyable.

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

4/5

I would never have listened to this, and actually kinda vibed to it. I also found the opening song quite interesting - it's a very different way to approach music than the standard western "this is 4/4 tempo, here's middle C and a C major triad".

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

Nothing wrong with the album, I just wouldn't listen to it again

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

Enjoyable, good music - I probably wouldn't hunt it out but didn't want to change to something else. The longer songs were particularly cool, ideally would give this a 3.5

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

I like his voice, and thought some of the guests he brought on were cool. I'm not mad on blues generally, but this was reasonably enjoyable

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1/5

"a reputation as one of the most challenging recordings in the 20th century musical canon" Wikipedia didn't lie