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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Skylarking XTC	5	3.04	+1.96
Step In The Arena Gang Starr	5	3.17	+1.83
All Mod Cons The Jam	5	3.25	+1.75
Come Away With Me Norah Jones	5	3.39	+1.61
Ellington at Newport Duke Ellington	5	3.43	+1.57
Rio Duran Duran	5	3.49	+1.51
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	5	3.66	+1.34
Abraxas Santana	5	3.72	+1.28

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hot Fuss The Killers	1	3.74	-2.74
Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow	2	3.36	-1.36
Junkyard The Birthday Party	1	2.16	-1.16
Berlin Lou Reed	2	3.1	-1.1

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Hot Fuss

The Killers

1/5

U2 have a lot to answer for. Soulless arena rock for chartered accountants. Stopped after 4 songs and put on Spirit of Eden 😡.

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White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

Quite a few lumpen plodders like I can learn. Hotel Yoruba = Dylan goes garage. Best were Dead Leaves and I fell in love with a girl. I struggle listening to a whole album of this.

Berlin

Lou Reed

2/5

Self indulgent. A few interesting ideas for songs in there but needed someone to sort it out. A few good bass lines in there.

Elvis Presley

4/5

Good moody ballads. Really great ballsy rockers. Wondered what they sounded like fresh back in 1956

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

5/5

Great mix of jazz. Slow Blues. Jive. Horn players going mad for it.

Abraxas

Santana

5/5

Good fun. Very much of its time. Prefer the tunes to the extended instrumental work outs. Haven’t listened to it for years. Good to go back to.

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Never REALLY listened closely to them. A bit like a Talking Heads for the 21st century. I need to listen to them more. A good find!

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

5/5

Perhaps a bit too familiar as I played it to death. Remembering holding baby Hana and swaying to some of these 😁. A few fillers I’d forgotten about but overall a great soft pop album with jazz, country, blues influences.

Skylarking

XTC

5/5

Brilliant. Absolutely loved this. First XTC album heard all way through. Kept thinking of the Beatles.

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

1/5

Nope. Not for me. A few riffs in there somewhere but not enough to hook me in

Let It Be

The Replacements

4/5

All Mod Cons

The Jam

5/5

Brilliant. Great tunes with great lyrics. Mini stories. A classic.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

Brilliant opening track. Goes off a bit with some slower whimsical songs but a great run of songs at the end. Bigmouth. Boy with a thorn. There’s a light. Love it.

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

5/5

Love it. So far I’ve been listening to hip hop playlists and getting into that way. Good to listen to a recognised album. Definitely the kind of stuff I like

Rio

Duran Duran

5/5

Classic stuff. Forgot there are so many tunes on this. Tacky but brilliant

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

3/5

Can see how it influenced everyone from Zeppelin to Spinal Tap. But in the end it’s too much of its time to interest me much.

Arrival

ABBA

3/5

Classy 70s pop. They really knew what they were doing. Shame some of this has been borrowed by Partridge as a joke. A couple of fillers - real Saturday Seaside Specials. When I kissed the teacher would be more than a bit suspect these days. But very good for what it is

Hot Fuss

The Killers

1/5

U2 have a lot to answer for. Soulless arena rock for chartered accountants. Stopped after 4 songs and put on Spirit of Eden 😡.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

2/5

Wanted to like it but apart from Midnight in a Perfect world I was a bit underwhelmed. Loud beats. Some not v interesting dominates too much.