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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Seldom Seen Kid Elbow	5	3.24	+1.76
Africa Brasil Jorge Ben Jor	5	3.37	+1.63
At San Quentin Johnny Cash	5	3.79	+1.21
American IV: The Man Comes Around Johnny Cash	5	3.88	+1.12
Fuzzy Logic Super Furry Animals	4	2.94	+1.06
The Doors The Doors	5	3.95	+1.05
Led Zeppelin III Led Zeppelin	5	3.95	+1.05

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	1	3.38	-2.38
Toys In The Attic Aerosmith	1	3.25	-2.25
Green R.E.M.	2	3.47	-1.47
The Yes Album Yes	2	3.31	-1.31
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim Frank Sinatra	2	3.27	-1.27

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Artist	Albums	Average
Johnny Cash	2	5

5-Star Albums (6)

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Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Superb selection of songs, performed with an almost fervent anarchic energy. The garage rock recording style does impede on some of the polished soul warmth however. A great performance, but perhaps not a great album.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

An over produced, rock opera straddling the bounds of parody. Its also brilliant. Wall to wall bangers from a ridiculous human that never takes himself too seriously.

Green

R.E.M.

2/5

Dreary Barlow. Did not enjoy.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

An album bursting with musical technicality, atmospheric sound scapes and heavy, doom laden blues rock. Sadly lacking in some of their more obvious belters.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

5/5

A fervently dynamic album that keeps you dancing from track to track.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

A diverse and idiosyncratic album. Enough bangers to make it good, but too uneven to be truly great.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

An excellent collection of songs, beautifully performed to the criminal and condemned. The spoken elements give a real insight into the man in black, his warmth and humanity shine through.

Paul Simon

4/5

A beautifully, written, performed and produced collections of songs from the pint sized balladeer of mid-century America. His usual magpie nature sees him borrowing from such diverse influences as Mississipi Delta Blues to Reggae, but his delivery lack either the authenticity of these influences, or the later inventiveness of 'Gracelands'.

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

2/5

Like so many things that are so effortlessly cool, it is also incredibly boring and lacking in substance.

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

3/5

Beautifully produced, expansive electronica, enriched and lifted by its South East Asian influences.

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

1/5

Aeroshit

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

A beautifully ominous, disjointed masterpiece

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

3/5

Beautiful but maudlin to an almost unbearable extent

Blur

3/5

Some excellent tracks including a foray into some heavier American influences. Though this includes some bangers, they fail to carry the weight of an uneven collection of songs.

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

No.

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

Best comeback album of all time. Perfection.

Stankonia

OutKast

3/5

An inventive album, who's cartoonish eccentricities act as a reminder as to why anyone only knows two Outcast songs

The Poet

Bobby Womack

3/5

Sleek production can't save this slightly boring 'soul by numbers' record

Ctrl

SZA

2/5

Over produced, under written

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

Absolute madness that this album is as widely loved as it is. Sparce, cold, depressing, genius.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Wall to wall bangers

The Doors

5/5

Exceptional song writing, beautifully performed by the enigmatic, idiosyncratic lounge lizard

Yeezus

Kanye West

2/5

Manages to be abrasive and heavy, while sounding thin with no richness of sound. With the exception of Black Skinhead it is devoid of bangers. Some of the worst lyrics and melodies I have heard on this list.

New Forms

Roni Size

3/5

Solid dance album, still sounding fresh

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

1/5

Thoroughly shit

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

4/5

Lyrically inventive cartoonist fun. Not to my personal taste, but you can't deny it's songwriting and production.

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

3/5

Fun party album.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

Smooth as fuck. Play it over your workday and elevate your life to mid-century modishness

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

4/5

Absolute better. Perhaps the best Wales has ever had to offer. Heavy, dense, psychedelica infused fun.

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

5/5

A beautifully beery sentimental album

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

3/5

Obviously a highly influential and well constructed album, but I can't get over the horne voice and find it difficult to distinguish between the maudlin warblings.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Hauntingly cold, beautifully stripped back.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5