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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Fisherman's Blues The Waterboys	5	3.2	+1.8
The Specials The Specials	5	3.29	+1.71
The Man Machine Kraftwerk	5	3.31	+1.69
Smash The Offspring	5	3.36	+1.64
Live! Fela Kuti	5	3.44	+1.56
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	5	3.48	+1.52
Getz/Gilberto Stan Getz	5	3.66	+1.34
Histoire De Melody Nelson Serge Gainsbourg	4	2.73	+1.27
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine	5	3.99	+1.01

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Dirt Alice In Chains	1	3.46	-2.46
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	1	3.28	-2.28
The White Album Beatles	2	4.17	-2.17
Get Rich Or Die Tryin' 50 Cent	1	3.06	-2.06
The Bends Radiohead	2	4.01	-2.01
Ten Pearl Jam	2	3.91	-1.91
Tapestry Carole King	2	3.91	-1.91
Heroes David Bowie	2	3.62	-1.62
After The Gold Rush Neil Young	2	3.62	-1.62
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	2	3.5	-1.5

5-Star Albums (9)

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Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey · 1 likes

2/5

Far out this is a boring album. All songs sound the same

1-Star Albums (3)

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Dire Straits

4/5

Actually enjoyed it a lot, which I didn’t think I was going to.

The White Album

Beatles

2/5

Confirmed that I don’t enjoy the Beatles except maybe their first albums where the music was simpler. Listened to it twice and couldn’t get into it properly. A nice few songs though, blackbird specifically.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

1/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Really enjoyed this album. Nice production, very 80s but nice round sound. Loud but clear. As far as I can remember it’s the first time I’ve listened to a MJ album from top to bottom, took me back to the 80s!

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

2/5

Really did not do it for me. I loved elephant but didn’t like this album at all. Good production and Jack Black is a great player but felt quite soulless

Blur

3/5

As someone born in the early 80s, Ive been primed to like song 2. But the test of the album was pretty meh. Listened to the 2012 remaster and it sounded pretty flat with loads of distortion which didn’t amount to much

Boston

3/5

Some great classics. Great production, but starting to get tired of white boys with rocky guitars

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

Pretty chuffed for this album. Starts with SMBU followed by breathe wow. Good gym accompaniment! The rest has probably not aged too well but still a cracker. Took me back to London

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

Beautiful calm album. My boss introduced me to Sade 25 years ago and I remember thinking that it was ok for a lounge bar when it was quiet but no more than that. How wrong I was ! Cheers Stephanie you wackjob!

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

2/5

A break from rocky stuff. A bit weird in its instrumentation, some haunting tunes, not my cuppa but aye, gotta make it to 1001

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

I love how some albums can be defining of an era and a place, but at the same time enjoyed all over the place anytime. The start of trip hop. Hadn’t listened to it for years and was unaware that the vocals in multiple songs are from Horace Andy!

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Beautiful and haunting. Hadn’t listened to any other tunes than Roads in a very long time. Second trip hop album, nice!

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

2/5

Another 60s rock folky album. Nothing offensive about it, just not my jam

Elastica

4/5

Heaps fun. Loved it 20 years ago. It has certainly aged better than what Id have imagined

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

2/5

Nothing offensive about it. Nothing to hook me on either. Just pop rock with piano. It felt like the same song was playing on repeat.

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

2/5

Quite psychedelic, very 70s. Just not my favourite style

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

I had forgotten how cool this album is. Old school hip hop with bits of NYHC, even bossa! Really enjoyed it!

Closer

Joy Division

3/5

I like joy division, but feel that closer is nowhere close to unknown pleasures. Ok listen but not great

Heroes

David Bowie

2/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

Actually enjoyed it quite a bit. Not my style but dark and moody and quite jarring. Would give it s 3.5 stars if I could

Illmatic

Nas

3/5

Not a bad album, again, I mostly associate rap with going to the gym because I can listen without paying attention

Murmur

R.E.M.

2/5

It sounds well produced, specially the drums, but feels like mainstream radio formula rock. Not one for me.

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

2/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

Just Bob Dylan being Bob Dylan. Nice for a change of pace.

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

4/5

Great samply album. Still remember the dancing miner!

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

This is what i was expecting this list to be, things Ive never heard but that are cool. Jazzy live album, maybe her voice is too prevalent and the music hard to hear clearly. Nice though

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

2/5

Just more radio friendly fillers. Next

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

4/5

Pretty weird new age. Interesting though. More like this!

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

No much to say. Just Aretha.

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

You can’t dislike an album with hells bells, back in black and you shook me all night long. Fun

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

2/5

Some beautifully crafted songs, but too 70s overall

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

4/5

Amazing. Never heard before. Wow

Joan Armatrading

2/5

Listened while commuting. Nothing overly out of place, but absolutely nothing to remember either.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Nothing I can say that has not been said. I was wondering when this album was going to pop up

Guero

Beck

2/5

Couldn’t get into it.

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

4/5

Bloody awesome. They’ve played in tons of festivals Ive attended and never seen them. They remind me of the pixies on valium. What an album. Goddes on a hiway is a corker. Very dreamy and spacey in a good way

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

2/5

Can’t do another American dad rock band. Sorry

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

3/5

Frank Black mentioned that the Pixies were just trying to rip off Husker Du. Now I get it. I enjoyed the yuxtaposition of the melodic singing with the distorted guitars

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

5/5

I was surprised of the lack of electronica, and here we go with the grandfathers of electronic music. Great relisten!

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

3/5

Much better than what I thought, considering its glam rock

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

Pretty standard funk/souly album. That lady and summer breeze are pretty cool songs!

Adele

3/5

Well produced pop music. She’s got a great voice, but all songs are pretty similar. Hope she gets a good boyfriend and heals her heart soon

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

2/5

It was just normal 70s rocky, bluesy music, but then they added the sitars and lost me…

Mask

Bauhaus

3/5

Exactly what I expected from a Bauhaus album. 3.5 but as it is out of 5…

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

1/5

I just can’t stand it. The type of hiphop that 14 year olds believe it’s edgy because of the cocking gun sound effects and white chicks love to wohoo in da club 🤮

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

2/5

Far out this is a boring album. All songs sound the same

The Clash

3/5

Not their best album. Enjoyed it, but nothing special

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Blueprints for early 90s hiphop

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Nice calm album. The older I get, the more I enjoy these types of records

Make Yourself

Incubus

3/5

Stoner rock. Not so good, not so bad

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

Nothing I can say. Just great

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

Oasis’ quintet album, it’s actually aged better than what I thought it would.

Different Class

Pulp

3/5

One of the bands I think defines britpop for me. This album has a time and a place.

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

3/5

Really weird album. Not unpleasant, but doesn’t make sense to me. Really liked the song with Nick Cave.

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

2/5

It just sounded too cafe del mar 2003.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

3/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Another britpop classic.

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

4/5

Great album. Fantastic early punk, and you can hear how they influenced so many other bands

Black Sabbath

4/5

The best thing to come out of an industrial accident!

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

2/5

Not for me

The Specials

5/5

Still the best 2tone album for me!

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

4/5

The Modern Lovers

3/5

I didnt know that Jonathan Richmand was the front man. Sounds like a bored velvet underground though

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

Mumble rap. Just can’t get into it

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

2/5

Too 80s and not even the good 80s. All the vocal play lost me from the same song

Justified

Justin Timberlake

2/5

If I would have not known that it was justin timberlake I might have more lenient. Good production, but it’s just poppy r&b

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

I always feel like I’m missing most of what is going on when I listen to jazz, but I found it quite enjoyable

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5

It takes me back to the 2010s indy wave. Very enjoyable album!

Sulk

The Associates

2/5

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

3/5

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

3/5

Nice bluesy album. Not my favourite album of his, but not bad

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

What i expected from a Doors album

1984

Van Halen

2/5

Too 80s hard rock for me. I can appreciate the mastery at the guitar and drums but…

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

3/5

Not bad, but nowhere near Pixies material

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

4/5

To me it sounds like the definition of west coast hip hop. All the talk of bitches ends up being a bit repetitive, but i liked the overall production

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

3/5

It’s the first time that I feel like an album released during my adult life is dated. Will resurface in 20 years like a masterpiece though

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

2/5

It sounds like something from the 70s! Can recognise the mastery with the guitar, but not my favourite style

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

2/5

I just really struggle with country music…

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

It’s a nice little album, but Norah’s voice is a bit too subdued for my liking, and all songs are pretty similar

Ten

Pearl Jam

2/5

Would have loved it while at high school, not so much now…

C'est Chic

CHIC

4/5

Beautiful polished production, not a bad song in the whole album

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

3/5

Pretty weird post punk. Deceiving title, no dub sadly

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

It end up being a bit repetitive. But not too bad.

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

3/5

Easy listening, good background music, but wouldn’t be able to pick up a single track

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

Nice jazzy album, although a couple of tunes are more blues. Like most jazz, nice background music

New Forms

Roni Size

3/5

Not bad, but a whole album felt way too long

Iron Maiden

2/5

I’m just not a fan of heavy metal, better than i thought though

Blue

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Actually, the first album of the stones that I have listened to from head to toe

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Seminal album. Had never listened to Tearz, what a cracker!

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Very early 2000s but it has aged well. Maps and rich are corkers

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

Sounds like early 2000s indie, surprisingly from the 80s

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

2/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Wasn’t expecting to enjoy it so much!

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

2/5

Can i please have some distortion in my distortion?? Certainly not to listen to on your way to work

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

2/5

Never before had listened to a full bee gees album, more complex than what i thought, nice harmonies, but not my jam

NEU! 75

Neu!

4/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

4/5

Beautiful album swinging between pop and rock

Tapestry

Carole King

2/5

Just couldn’t get into it.

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

2/5

I have nothing against this album or radiohead, but just couldn’t get into it

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

2/5

Well produced, but country is just not for me…

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

5/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

1/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Common

2/5

Clean sounding hip hop, could not get into it

The Bends

Radiohead

2/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

2/5

Smash

The Offspring

5/5

Pornography

The Cure

3/5