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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	5	3.47	+1.53
Rust Never Sleeps Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.53	+1.47
Aladdin Sane David Bowie	5	3.61	+1.39
Live At The Harlem Square Club Sam Cooke	5	3.77	+1.23
Exodus Bob Marley & The Wailers	5	3.94	+1.06

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Seldom Seen Kid Elbow	1	3.25	-2.25
Music For The Jilted Generation The Prodigy	1	3.07	-2.07
Happy Trails Quicksilver Messenger Service	1	2.8	-1.8
A Grand Don't Come For Free The Streets	1	2.67	-1.67
Hotel California Eagles	2	3.6	-1.6
Disraeli Gears Cream	2	3.47	-1.47
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	2	3.4	-1.4
Juju Siouxsie And The Banshees	2	3.33	-1.33
Your New Favourite Band The Hives	2	3.12	-1.12
Your Arsenal Morrissey	2	3.05	-1.05

5-Star Albums (6)

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Disraeli Gears

Cream

2/5

dreck. sounds like a worse version of hermans hermits. Clapton was overrated from the get go.

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1-Star Albums (4)

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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

All time great tracks and a couple cringey/corny ones as well.

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

good, innovative stuff that still sounds good in 2024, but quite long

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

4/5

With radiohead going weird and off the grid with kid a this was coldplays chance to take up the thoughtful modern rock mantle and they do a fine job of it. While I am no fan of the band this album works very well, particularly the front loaded first half, with In My Place being the best song they've made.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Stone cold, stoned, cold, classic.

Adele

3/5

Extremely frontloaded and some of the most overplayed songs of all time, but a solid album

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Listened a million times as a kid, still sounds great today. what a voice.

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

2/5

Def not one of the top 1001 albums, who decided this should be on the list? not unlistenable, but very unremarkable.

Vivid

Living Colour

4/5

great stuff. impossible to categorize, lots of fun

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

a few all timer killer tracks, way too much chaff

Gorillaz

4/5

Really great listen, been years, forgot what a vibe this is. Sucker for anything with a melodica

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

Wow loved this one. Very happy to have discovered it here. So much to discover in this album, def needs many listens.

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

3/5

It's fine. I get it.

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

1/5

What is this this garbage how did this make any list of anything.

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

2/5

There's several better Dwight albums than this

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

Great great stuff. Almost impossible to overstate his influence on rock and pop music. Sad he's never gotten the credit he deserves

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

Feel silly for not listening to this before. No better album for a bad time.

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

2/5

had never heard of this album or group before. guess there's a reason for that.

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

3/5

almost 30 years later and every album still tries to sound like this

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

4/5

A pleasure to listen to. Gets bumped an entire star just for passin me by, one of the greatest hip hop songs ever written.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

5/5

For 99% of other artists this would be their unquestioned masterpiece. For Bowie, it's just another album. Absolutely loaded with hits.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

2/5

dreck. sounds like a worse version of hermans hermits. Clapton was overrated from the get go.

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

3/5

Fun album, though nothing really matches the singles I was already familiar with

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

2/5

One star each for baby one more time and you drive me crazy, the rest, not so much.

Destroyer

KISS

2/5

Joke band but one of their better albums

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

2/5

Breathe is good at least

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Thought this would be an easy 5, I mean, the weight alone would make this a 3 star album, but honestly I prefer dylans original basement tapes versions better than these. Love him but there's too much danko falsetto on here. Not my favorite by the band but still a classic.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

This was a nice surprise, I like her later work but hadn't heard this one.

Led Zeppelin

4/5

A little rickety, very derivative, but still a hell of a debut album.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

A concept album that only covers one side while the second side is random singles, kind of funny.

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Lovely. Beck fella has talent

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Massive, monster of an album, one of the best records of the 70s. one of those albums you could teach an entire course on. Even better on versions that include the non-album single Punky Reggae Party

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

1/5

Another gd prodigy album? Only listing 1001 albums ever made and TWO of them are prodigy albums? What a joke.

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

3/5

Hey something different! Enjoyed this a lot wish this list had more stuff like this

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

Really liked this! Especially side 2

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

Singles are bad and the album tracks too. Gets an extra star for victim of love, which is good.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

I respect people's differing opinions on music but you shouldnt trust anyone who doesn't love this album with their whole soul.

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

1/5

Absolutely not. Hard, hard pass.

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

2/5

Morrissey makes pretty effortlessly easy to listen music but this felt like very little effort and some predictably atrocious lyrics

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

3/5

this was pretty good, very well made, catchy, nice mix of genres. didn't need to be so long though

Moving Pictures

Rush

4/5

Great great album, loses a point for having a weaker second half

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

Took me several attempts over this years but this time it just clicked for me! I get it now, great stuff.

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

2/5

Furs just never did anything for me, in one ear out the other, a xerox of better bands

Live Through This

Hole

3/5

good stuff! catchy

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

2/5

not for me, couldn't even finish.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

3/5

Good album

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

great album! didn't hit me as hard as unknown pleasures and a bit too long but i totally get why this is such a big deal.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

2/5

Probably not fair this came after disintegration on my list but still didn't do anything for me

Real Life

Magazine

2/5

It's fine I guess

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

3/5

Pretty cool how back then you could make an entire career out of playing dylan songs

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

Not a fan of the who but this is good stuff

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

good album, but gets a bit repetitive

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

This was really good for a genre I struggle with. Everything was clear and tight very fun.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

3/5

Always nice to hear John's voice, a good chance to see what he's like untethered from McCartney's discipline.

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

1/5

Had to turn it off after 20 minutes of a very poor cover of who do you love.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5