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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Songs From The Big Chair Tears For Fears	5	3.74	+1.26
Scream, Dracula, Scream Rocket From The Crypt	4	2.77	+1.23
Tapestry Carole King	5	3.91	+1.09

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
1984 Van Halen	1	3.51	-2.51
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	2	3.83	-1.83
Ramones Ramones	2	3.58	-1.58
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	2	3.39	-1.39
Channel Orange Frank Ocean	2	3.31	-1.31
Since I Left You The Avalanches	2	3.28	-1.28
Sweet Baby James James Taylor	2	3.24	-1.24

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Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

I'll be honest, I had very low expectations, and half of this album met those on the nose. But once we got past the usual misogynistic dross, there were a few tunes in here that I kind of enjoyed - Super Rich Kids had me humming along, Bad Religion I liked. Enough to come back to it? I doubt it, but I don't regret listening.

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Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Ramones

2/5

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

2/5

As sonic wallpaper while I worked it was fine, but I don't know why someone would deliberately sit down and listen to this.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

A bona-fide classic.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Admittedly Malian blues funk isn’t usually high on my list of dog walk listening material, but good work lads

In Utero

Nirvana

3/5

As a child of the 90s, Nirvana is in my wheelhouse, but I think this is the first time I’ve listened to In Utero end to end. It’s… fine?

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

3/5

Pleasant enough for a Sunday afternoon

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

2/5

Meh. Didn't hate it but not likely to be coming back

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Just give me this one every day and we’ll call it quits yeah?

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

It feels a bit like cheating when you get an album that you already know well, but don't mind this one bit. I can see it might not be everybody's taste though, and perhaps it needed a couple more upbeat tracks to round it off.

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

4/5

Good rock'n'roll

Black Sabbath

2/5

Meh

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

This is already in my music downloads on my phone, because it’s a classic

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

4/5

Nice

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

4/5

Liz Phair, dearly beloved of mid 90s music press, but somehow passed me by. To my great regret, because I really enjoyed this

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

2/5

Bonus point for the relief I felt when I realised it wasn’t Limp Bizkit

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

Ignore the snobs. Pop greatness.

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

3/5

Fine as sonic wallpaper

Liquid Swords

GZA

3/5

If it was my sort of thing I’d probably love it, but it’s not so I don’t

1984

Van Halen

1/5

Yeah... no. This is of a time that I think is best forgotten. On the plus side, it's only 33 minutes long.

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

As someone who thinks Surrender is one of the best pop songs ever written, this has long been on my "to listen" list. Sadly I have to agree with many of the other reviewers, I don't think I've really missed out. Other than Surrender it's pretty vanilla rock'n'roll.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

I'll take it

Third

Portishead

3/5

Not my jam, but let's not pretend that if this was Radiohead you wouldn't be calling it the best album ever.

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

3/5

Nice, but I don't think I'd make a point of listening to it

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

4/5

Being of an age to have seen RFTC live at Reading in '96, this has a certain nostalgia for me. It does fairly rock along too, although it's not the most sophisticated music going, and the well-known songs (On A Rope, Born In '69) are probably the highlights.

The Blueprint

JAY Z

3/5

Jay-Z has a small winky, pass it on. As it happens, I was going to skip this but in the spirit of the project I ploughed on fully expecting to hate it, but ... I didn't. The music production is great, a rap record where I don't just think every song sounds the same. But, ffs guys, let's find something else to talk about than h*es and n*ggas?

All Mod Cons

The Jam

4/5