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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
New Forms Roni Size	5	2.53	+2.47
Live At The Witch Trials The Fall	5	2.64	+2.36
A Grand Don't Come For Free The Streets	5	2.67	+2.33
Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy	5	2.88	+2.12
White Light / White Heat The Velvet Underground	5	2.89	+2.11
Eternally Yours The Saints	5	3.06	+1.94
The Holy Bible Manic Street Preachers	5	3.14	+1.86
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space Spiritualized	5	3.15	+1.85
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) Bob Dylan	5	3.15	+1.85
Here Are the Sonics The Sonics	5	3.16	+1.84

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hotel California Eagles	1	3.6	-2.6
1984 Van Halen	1	3.5	-2.5
Green Onions Booker T. & The MG's	1	3.4	-2.4
Celebrity Skin Hole	1	3.29	-2.29
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg Jerry Lee Lewis	1	3.28	-2.28
Get Rich Or Die Tryin' 50 Cent	1	3.05	-2.05
Rhythm Nation 1814 Janet Jackson	1	2.99	-1.99
Rapture Anita Baker	1	2.94	-1.94
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	2	3.83	-1.83
Heaux Tales Jazmine Sullivan	1	2.68	-1.68

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Artist	Albums	Average
Bob Dylan	4	5
Beatles	4	4.75
Johnny Cash	3	4.67
The Band	2	5
Massive Attack	2	5
Creedence Clearwater Revival	3	4.33
David Bowie	5	4

5-Star Albums (45)

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Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Popular Reviews

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

Yes, drugs are bad. But on the other hand; Station to Station by David Bowie.

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1-Star Albums (9)

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Fleet Foxes

4/5

Iron Maiden

4/5

Heavy metal is not my thing usually, but I liked the raw production and punk influence in parts. Even some of the more Proggy sounds weren’t too sickening. Enjoyed it on the whole, especially all the singing about running, nice to hear of such a healthy bunch of lads.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Really loved revisiting this. There’s a great, eclectic mix of funky hip hop, raucous punk and really evocative lyricism and vocal delivery. As an album we’re getting our moneys worth for sure.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

The highlight on this album is the orchestra /band, they sound sharp and I bet this gig was amazing. It’s also charming to hear Brown before his funk period, there’s almost an innocence to the record in hindsight.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

There’s 10 songs on this album and 5 are about dancing, 4 about girls and one about work. Still, good album. Before the… unpleasantness…

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Ramones

5/5

Right, not much to say about this album apart from the fact it laid down the blueprint of punk as it is still recognised today. Still sounds fresh, still punches, superb.

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

Lots of noodling guitars and blues-y riffs. Not bad, certainly better than Smoke on the Water suggests.

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

2/5

Sounds exactly like a pastiche of the genre and time it was released. I tried to get in to it but it sounds like Flight of the Conchords ripping 80s European electronic pop, though not funny.

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

4/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Still bangs, sounds fresh and his ear for a sample is near unparalleled

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

5/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

5/5

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

3/5

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

So sleepy now

Timeless

Goldie

4/5

So sleepy now

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

In its historical, socio-political context I understand how this was an important record, but it doesn’t really seem to deviate from a single musical motif the entire album.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Sounds exactly as you’d expect.

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

3/5

A real sense of place and time with this one; funky psych guitairs, vinyl scratching, gravel voiced rapping; all very evocative of NYC in the late 80s/90s. A surprising diversity of approach and songwriting. Not all of it lands but still holds up well.

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

2/5

Drunk

Thundercat

3/5

Funnier than I was expecting, real wit in the songwriting.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

A rap album.

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

3/5

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

3/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

It’s a shoegaze album. But a critically acclaimed shoegaze album. Make of that what you will.

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

Yes, drugs are bad. But on the other hand; Station to Station by David Bowie.

I Against I

Bad Brains

3/5

The Stone Roses

5/5

It’s one of the greatest albums of all time, if not the greatest.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Darker and more stripped back than some of his other offerings, but great guitar led, introspective, thoughtful folk

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

4/5

Pleasantly surprised by this record. Great lo-fi indie reminiscent of British indie in its unpolished era, with hints of Neutral Milk Hotel (before the… unpleasantness….). Was a bit put off initially by the sheer number of tracks but the album never drags. Definitely one to revisit.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Pretenders

3/5

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

4/5

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

2/5

Blues album that never really kicks out of second gear, some flashes of brilliance, before the… unpleasantness… Might be a bit unfair because he was 76 when it was recorded, but there we are.

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

1/5

Nope.

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

3/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

5/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

5/5

All time classic.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

Sounds like listening to City of God (before the… unpleasantness…) playing in the other room. Never quite hooks enough to make you sit down and watch the film, maybe because you saw it in Uni and think you remember the ending, but then BAM, they’re at the door with the pizza and you’re thinking I didn’t order pizza, what’s going on here. Then you realise it must have been an online order delivered to you in error, meaning they can’t take it back, so you basically have a free pizza. So you think maybe you’ll sit down and watch City of God after all. And do you know what? You quite enjoy it. That’s what this album is like.

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

2/5

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

After all the years I’ve listened to REM I’d never actually listened to this in its entirety. I will definitely be doing so again. Early enough to have that rawness to it it, but late enough to sound distinctly assured.

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

2/5

Nice voice and opens with an ok track, before the… unpleasantness… Cheesy, radio-friendly soft rock/pop. Mad to think this guy was in Traffic.

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

1984

Van Halen

1/5

This is unpleasant

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

4/5

Bonkers, but wicked.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

Jazz

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

4/5

Forgotten how rave-y this album was. So evocative of the 90s jungle scene in Bristol, as it matured into something beyond warehouses. Before the… unpleasantness… Hard recommend and got 2 spins today, one immediately after the other.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

Jazz

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

Jazz

Black Sabbath

2/5

Mad to think that it sounded like this BEFORE the drugs. And… unpleasantness… Still, clearly important if not particularly enlightening in this day and age.

Roxy Music

2/5

Mad to think that it sounded like this BEFORE the drugs. And… unpleasantness… Still, clearly important if not particularly enlightening in this day and age.

The Band

5/5

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

4/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

3/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

2/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Always thought of Cooke as more of a crooner, but this set bangs at times. Great backing band, unmistakable charisma and a virtuoso performance. I’m a convert!

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

3/5

So Much For The City

The Thrills

3/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

5/5

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

2/5

Future Days

Can

4/5

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

3/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

3/5

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Throwing Muses

2/5

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

4/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

3/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

3/5

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

4/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

3/5

Smash

The Offspring

5/5

Ananda Shankar

3/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

1/5

Just a load of repetitive noise from a piano-bashing nonce.

Movies

Holger Czukay

4/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Forgot how awesome this record is. Hits are hidden among soulful and sweet and sonically luscious tracks. Absolute solid gold.

Feast of Wire

Calexico

3/5

Celebrity Skin

Hole

1/5

I understand why he blew his brains out now.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

3/5

Fragile

Yes

2/5

Kid A

Radiohead

3/5

Low-Life

New Order

3/5

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

3/5

Eagles

3/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

3/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

3/5

Protection

Massive Attack

5/5

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

4/5

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

5/5

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

4/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

2/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

2/5

Pitiful self-pitying jangle fest from a racist. I know the 80s were bleak but there’s no excuse for this.

Boston

3/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

2/5

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

Cross

Justice

4/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

5/5

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

3/5

Elvis Presley

3/5

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

3/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

1/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

2/5

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

4/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

3/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

3/5

Eternally Yours

The Saints

5/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

2/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

3/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

2/5

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

3/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

4/5

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

1/5

Odelay

Beck

3/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

4/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

2/5

I was born in the decade this was made and I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have liked this even then. Saying that, it’s a very evocative record that I’m sure makes sense for the soundtrack of a period drama about the 80s. Not for me, but I get why people dig it.

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

Foo Fighters

4/5

Different Class

Pulp

5/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

3/5

Remain In Light