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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Haunted Dancehall The Sabres Of Paradise	5	2.37	+2.63
Sincere Mj Cole	5	2.38	+2.62
Cupid & Psyche 85 Scritti Politti	5	2.39	+2.61
New Forms Roni Size	5	2.52	+2.48
Calenture The Triffids	5	2.55	+2.45
Welcome to the Afterfuture Mike Ladd	5	2.56	+2.44
Kenza Khaled	5	2.6	+2.4
Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche Koffi Olomide	5	2.62	+2.38
Bubble And Scrape Sebadoh	5	2.65	+2.35
Bummed Happy Mondays	5	2.65	+2.35

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Ramones Ramones	2	3.56	-1.56
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	2	3.32	-1.32
The Man Machine Kraftwerk	2	3.31	-1.31
S&M Metallica	2	3.26	-1.26
I'm Your Man Leonard Cohen	2	3.1	-1.1

Artists

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Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	4	5
Radiohead	5	4.6
Stevie Wonder	4	4.75
Neil Young	3	5
Miles Davis	3	5
David Bowie	8	4.25
Beatles	4	4.5
Peter Gabriel	3	4.67
Steely Dan	3	4.67
Paul Simon	3	4.67
R.E.M.	3	4.67
Aretha Franklin	2	5
Ray Charles	2	5
Michael Jackson	2	5
Slipknot	2	5
Stan Getz	2	5
Coldplay	2	5
Fleetwood Mac	2	5
Tim Buckley	2	5
Black Sabbath	2	5
Nirvana	2	5
Yes	2	5
OutKast	2	5
Deep Purple	2	5
The Prodigy	2	5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions	2	5
Amy Winehouse	2	5
Goldfrapp	2	5
Green Day	2	5
The Beta Band	2	5
M.I.A.	2	5
The Rolling Stones	2	5
Beck	3	4.33
The Byrds	3	4.33
Talking Heads	3	4.33
Queen	3	4.33
Sonic Youth	3	4.33

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Metallica	2, 3, 5
Leonard Cohen	2, 4, 5

5-Star Albums (300)

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Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Popular Reviews

Awesome - classic

A few decent songs but Jesus Christ

Nice surprise to find out Mike Patton is the vocalist. Was stuck between a 4 and 5 but leans more 5 for me for top-class vocals and instrumentalists

Great!

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Classic but repetition of ideas and motifs throughout

Nice '80s vibes with darker alternative feel. Some tracks, especially opening track make me think of Mike Oldfield. Really like this album sonically as well. Listened to the remastered version so not sure how faithful it is to the original, but really nicely produced.

Great vibes from the '60s and '70s. I kind of thought this had an American sound to it for an English band, as weird of an idea that might be... Perhaps it's just a sound of the time rather than sound of a nation but influence could come into it. Lots of interesting instrumentation and arrangements across the whole album. Lyrics are often gentle and abstract which is nice... There are a couple of songs, especially the last one where lyrics get a bit direct and heavy (like Closer by Nine Inch Nails) so I wouldn't be surprised if there's weirder stuff made abstract in other lyrics. A very long album at ~24 tracks (some are short though).

Really nice jazz / orchestral

Very heavy and moody. Well put together with a lot of elements to keep the listener on the edge of their seat. I can hear how this was a very important early grunge album, especially given its time.

Great album with details to listen to everywhere. Guitar heavy and reminiscent of some Zappa stuff musically

Captures rock of its era

Definitely a classic but with lyrics that won't age well?

Awesome album. A few tracks I recognise but never knew the name of, especially the last song. Will listen again.

Classic frog. Recognised a few tracks

Nice album... Something my old guitar teacher would have probably liked. Interesting sonically as well

Damn good emo / grunge album. Think I've heard of the band before but feel like I missed out not hearing this album until now

Great downtempo album. Very reminiscent of the time for me. Some tracks don't progress very much but the theme behind the album might be the reason.

Excellent jazz album

Product of its time - nostalgic

Amazing soft bluesy rock kind of album

Awesome - classic

I suppose early emo kind of stuff, so impressive for that

Pioneering

Now I can appreciate why this is a classic

Makes me think of a more modern Nick Drake, or Nick Drake / Gotye hybrid

The rap is dated, lyrics are really dated. Some tracks are good musically. I like the skit format usually but these seems a little try hard and fake but I should do my research

Good but monotonous

There's good stuff here, particularly instrumentally. Some lyrics are interesting but this feels like an anthem for boomers with only just above average music taste. Maybe earlier stuff was better.

Would be a 4 if it weren't Kanye West, credit for most of it should go to the songwriters

Incredible album!

It's very U2

Good but gets samey

Must have been damn ahead of its time

Okay, this is actually a really good album. If this came before that Yeezus album then this one went to his head and he thought he could take the piss

Highlights their average less. I should listen to their first 3-4 albums because they apparently were innovative, but this shouldn't be on this list

The stuff that made your nan swoon. Pretty basic but had an interesting scat part towards end of album

A few decent songs but Jesus Christ

A favourite

Musically, it's brilliant, but I find the lyrics really superficial yet they're given an over-confident delivery which I just feel is totally mismatched. Would be 5 stars for me if either the lyrics or vocals were better, would be 2 stars without the good music behind it

Objectively good but not really my kind of thing

A bit of a whopper but very good

There was a good guitar solo somewhere I'm confident was a guest player because it was too good

Nice surprise to find out Mike Patton is the vocalist. Was stuck between a 4 and 5 but leans more 5 for me for top-class vocals and instrumentalists

Now I get what people meant

Nice synths

Sounds very experimental. Will have to look into this artist /album as I'm sure it's creative in its use of technology, but it lacks in musicality. Would be 2 if I didn't suspect a lot of work went into it.

Some repetitive instrumentation throughout album and from other albums of his. He was probably mainly responsible for vocals but still considering it as whole piece

Gets a bit samey

Was working while listening so a bit distracted but didn't stand out but was nice enough

Might have to listen again and reconsider rating

Vocals not quite my thing but overall very good

Gold from the start! Instant buy

Okay, this was actually good. Maybe I just don't like what sounds like his newer stuff

A bit biases for R.E.M.

Old favey

Good album, probably very forward for it's time. Very good and creative vocals but I still find them a bit grating

A definite Paolo Nutini influence

Banger, especially the first song

Maybe a 4 but going 3 for now

Something between a 3 and 4 for me as it leans on a couple of singles but doesn't strike me much otherwise

Excellent!

Not quite my bag at points, but can appreciate how good it is

Good but does lean on its singles

Wow - musical, haunting, catchy. Maybe I's realign some of my other ratings if I could but, since I can't, I'd give this 6 stars

Great!

Was growing a bit weary of his music, especially since I feel he's disproportionately represented on this list (too much). However, this album's great!

This was probably very experimental and cutting edge at the time, but I can't appreciate it so much. Might have to revisit and read some backstory

Good but now I need to sit in a dark room

Bonkers. Must have been even more bonkers at the time

Lots sampled from this

Must have been innovative in its time but doesn't really stand up today

Wow. Incredible. Really nice album (or whatever you would call this at 69 short songs long). Also, 69 is a choice

Was between a 4 and a 5. Going for 4 because I think the extra point is for nostalgia vibes. Also not a 5 because there's 5 minutes of them throwing up at the end and I wasn't in a good mood as it was

Damn!

Must have been groundbreaking at the time, so 4 stars, but would be 3 or less for me if released now

Other noises going on while playing so shoulder listen, but definitely 5 stars

There is virtually nothing musical or enjoyable about this. I read the brief... I don't care when it was released, and I don't care that it's supposedly a reference to other genres. This is people spending years learning how to prepare fine cuisine and then purposely giving everyone food poisoning. Maybe that's the point with its supposed punk references, but you just know they were enjoying sniffing their own farts when they made this. 2 stars instead of 1 for the sake of the people not playing brass.

Awesome

Always was a banger

Gets a bit too noodley for me at times

A bit different

Nick Drake vibes. I wonder if he took any inspiration from her.

Great!

Very good but drags a bit. Can't figure out if the guitarist loves tape or a whammy bar a lot

Great!

Always a banger

Objectively very good, particularly the production. Not my bag though.

A bit of a fever dream