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You Love More Than Most

Albums you rated higher than global average

Album	You	Global	Diff
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry	5	2.97	+2.03
The Colour Of Spring	5	3.07	+1.93
Hysteria	5	3.21	+1.79
Peter Gabriel 3	5	3.29	+1.71
I Should Coco	5	3.34	+1.66
There's No Place Like America Today	5	3.37	+1.63
Cupid & Psyche 85	4	2.39	+1.61
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water	4	2.47	+1.53
Konnichiwa	4	2.74	+1.26

You Love Less Than Most

Albums you rated lower than global average

Album	You	Global	Diff
Parallel Lines	1	3.76	-2.76
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill	1	3.63	-2.63
Electric Warrior	1	3.54	-2.54
Tommy	1	3.34	-2.34
Live Through This	1	3.28	-2.28
The Stooges	1	3.26	-2.26
Street Life	1	3.09	-2.09
Smile	1	3.06	-2.06
Exile In Guyville	1	3.02	-2.02
Nighthawks At The Diner	1	3.01	-2.01

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	2	5

5-Star Albums (8)

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Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

1/5

2004 must have been a year reviewers where smoking crack and taking bungs. How this is rated is beyond me, let alone in this list Absolutely terrible.

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Vulnicura

Björk

3/5

It had some good songs but also felt it wondered too much in places.

Germs

1/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Absolutely love this album. Lennon BVs sound incredible and Paul hasn’t gone full parlour songs yet.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

2/5

Not a big Stevie Wonder fan but this was quite gospel in places and enjoyed the last song

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

My favourite Beatles album. Good memories of hearing this for the first time. Reason why I have a massive framed poster

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

3/5

Okish. Be a good background album. Opens with Let’s Stay Together.

Nowhere

Ride

3/5

A few decent tracks. I used to love this album but just not feeling it as much anymore. Not sure what’s changed in me to not rate it as much.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Some great songs on here. A few remind me of moving to wales when I was young. Driving up the M4 at night while my mum played Dusty

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

1/5

2004 must have been a year reviewers where smoking crack and taking bungs. How this is rated is beyond me, let alone in this list Absolutely terrible.

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

At 44 mins it seemed longer. Well produced and love how fat the bass sounds. Good debut. Only a 3 as not many stand outs.

The Visitors

ABBA

4/5

Great opener. A fair few good songs on it. Enjoyed this.

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

2/5

Appreciate the work but it’s not for me.

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

1/5

WHO WOULD RATE THIS?!?! About 4 songs that are ok. The rest is mental illness on toast. Who makes an album 2hrs and 30 odd minutes long. I listened to the lot trying to make sense but it just wound me up to be honest. The reviews are insane. Should have just called it 1000 albums to listen and leave this off.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

What an album. 35 mins of pure smooth down tempo funk. Crispy highs and punchy lows. Sounds great, plenty of space.

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

4/5

Really wasn’t expecting to really like this album. So ridiculously 80s it’s near on perfect. Well produced and sounds sonically good. Synth pop at its best. Another way to look at this is if Savage Garden were in the 80s.

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

5/5

Just wow. What an incredible album. Steve Lillywhite produces a masterpiece. Gabriel is such a great songwriter and his voice is so powerful.

The Predator

Ice Cube

3/5

Fleet Foxes

4/5

Really well produced and relaxing with headphones on. I did enjoy these at their peak but always a band I forget about. Well worth playing again

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

1/5

Street Life

The Crusaders

1/5

Wow. Really is an album for it’s time. Sounds crisp but very boring and dated. Not for me.

Konnichiwa

Skepta

4/5

I’m defo not the target audience however, I really did enjoy this. Hints of Dizzee and Kendrick

Metallica

4/5

Love this album since it came out. Probably haven’t played it all the way through for 20 years. Still holds up. Remaster is better in my opinion.

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

4/5

Some great dark tunes and plus the singles but some not so good tunes. Love the production and the guitar work from Wes

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

1/5

Hysteria

Def Leppard

5/5

Pull down rock with high production. Still holds up for me

Among The Living

Anthrax

3/5

Speed mental kings! Sounds very dated but still great for the genre.

GREY Area

Little Simz

4/5

Not the target audience but really liked the production and with it only being 50 mins there’s no fatigue

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

2/5

Few good tracks and there’s the singles. Very much stuck in time

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

1/5

Not my cup of tea. One to leave in that decade

Smile

Brian Wilson

1/5

To listen to this the day after he passed away is great. Personally, not a great album for me. Great production and a few stand outs but just sounds like mental illness. Fly high Brian!

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

1/5

How is this even on here. Really full of ego and ramblings. Got to a minute in of Do Wop and thought life is too short to be listening to this tripe.

I Should Coco

Supergrass

5/5

I was 13 when this came out and absolutely loved it. Still do now. Holds up after all these years. Raw and pop in places.

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

5/5

Sonically huge. So crispy turned up. Perfect summers evening album. Mark Hollis is massively underrated and often missed off lists. Tune in, zone out and let this wash over you.

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

1/5

Really tried with this album but the vocals give me fatigue.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

1/5

Definitely a singles band. I’m surprised I didn’t like this.

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

1/5

Absolutely not.

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

1/5

Leave it in the Junkyard

Tommy

The Who

1/5

What a load of rubbish. Soundtracks shouldn’t be allowed on this list.

Dry

PJ Harvey

2/5

Only one song I liked, a little sloppy and the volume is all over the place.

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

1/5

I feel like Tom Waits did singing as a laugh and then someone signed him and the joke became lost. He has been forced to maintain it. Well the jokes not lost on me.

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

3/5

Some great tunes and a hint of Arcade Fire here and there. Kind of remember the album when it came out and enjoying it.

The Stooges

1/5

I suppose you’d have to have been there. Overrated.

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

2/5

Some really cool parts Can hear 100 Reasons in some songs, then went a bit too Santana for me

Live Through This

Hole

1/5

Haven’t listened to this since I was around 14-15 years old. Around 1995 I now know why I’ve left it decades. The desperate angst is very tired after one song

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

5/5

Loved this. Never used to rate him but saw him at the Roundhouse in Camden and can appreciate the songs.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

1/5

Struggle with Blondie. I will turn the radio over when they come on. Find them overrated and dated. Maybe I’m in a mood but really couldn’t wait for this album to end.