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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
System Of A Down System Of A Down	5	3.27	+1.73
Beauty And The Beat The Go-Go's	5	3.39	+1.61
2112 Rush	5	3.39	+1.61
Pretzel Logic Steely Dan	5	3.4	+1.6
Nilsson Schmilsson Harry Nilsson	5	3.44	+1.56
Raising Hell Run-D.M.C.	5	3.51	+1.49
Illmatic Nas	5	3.6	+1.4
Ill Communication Beastie Boys	5	3.65	+1.35
Bubble And Scrape Sebadoh	4	2.65	+1.35
Master Of Puppets Metallica	5	3.73	+1.27

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Parachutes Coldplay	1	3.46	-2.46
Lost In The Dream The War On Drugs	1	3.39	-2.39
Ambient 1/Music For Airports Brian Eno	1	3.07	-2.07
I See You The xx	1	2.99	-1.99
Ctrl SZA	1	2.92	-1.92
The Contino Sessions Death In Vegas	1	2.91	-1.91
Rip It Up Orange Juice	1	2.9	-1.9
One World John Martyn	1	2.82	-1.82
A Grand Don't Come For Free The Streets	1	2.67	-1.67
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	2	3.66	-1.66

5-Star Albums (11)

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The xx

2/5

Calming enough, but dissapointed by the lack of progression. Not a lot happens all album long.

2 likes

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

2/5

Struggled with this one. Don't usually mind Bowie, but there was nothing on this album to grip my attention.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (9)

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That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

Incredible instruments. Bass steals the show. Not a fan of the vocal style, but that is more personal taste than lack of artist ability.

The xx

2/5

Calming enough, but dissapointed by the lack of progression. Not a lot happens all album long.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

Every song drags a little too long. They find a cool sound, but do nothing but repeat it. It felt like they didn't know how to close off their songs. Decent sounds, but lose their effect by running too long.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

Takes me back to being a teenager. Fantastic album that finds a good balance between cutting chuggs and melodic, technical riffs. Perhaps not for everyone, but a clear winner for the genre.

Adele

2/5

Incredible singer. Her talent is likely to be generational. However, the tracks themselves are the musical equivalent of a stock image. I'm not familiar enough to know where this album fits in with her portfolio, but it struck me just how safe and samey each song was. Unfortunately, Adele's incredible voice was not enough to break the monotomy.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

2/5

Was surprised by how many tracks I recognised and can see why it's on the list. Not my cup of tea as I found each track a bit repetitive.

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

1/5

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

3/5

Not particularly notable. Sounds like an amalgamation of artists who came before. Not sure it's deserving of the list, but wasn't terrible either.

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

5/5

Genre defining. There are few albums that can illicit feelings of nostalgia and "simpler times" without feeling dated - this is one of them.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

Always found Nine Inch Nails to be an aquired taste. I've heard the album a few times before, but it's only recently started to click. Unnecessarily pretentious at parts, but an undeniably important cog in the musical niche they've created.

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

2/5

You know those 90's daytime show jingles? This was the longform version of those.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

2/5

Struggled with this one. Don't usually mind Bowie, but there was nothing on this album to grip my attention.

One World

John Martyn

1/5

I just don't get it? There was nothing musically impressive and the album just drones on. It's only saving grace is that it was over quickly.