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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Tago Mago Can	5	2.79	+2.21
The La's The La's	5	3.14	+1.86
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band John Lennon	5	3.25	+1.75
That's The Way Of The World Earth, Wind & Fire	5	3.5	+1.5
Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Frank Sinatra	5	3.52	+1.48
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	5	3.56	+1.44
L.A. Woman The Doors	5	3.66	+1.34
The Low End Theory A Tribe Called Quest	5	3.7	+1.3
Graceland Paul Simon	5	3.73	+1.27
Harvest Neil Young	5	3.81	+1.19

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden	1	3.4	-2.4
Meat Is Murder The Smiths	1	3.33	-2.33
Achtung Baby U2	1	3.3	-2.3
Clandestino Manu Chao	1	3.23	-2.23
Slanted And Enchanted Pavement	1	3.04	-2.04
Electric The Cult	1	3.01	-2.01
Disintegration The Cure	2	3.86	-1.86
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys	2	3.73	-1.73
The Score Fugees	2	3.69	-1.69
Heaux Tales Jazmine Sullivan	1	2.68	-1.68

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The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Butter- track 4-horn line ⭐️ Verses from the abstract sample ‘heatwave- the star of a story - Ron Carter- bass

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

Four cornered room- track 4- dead funkadelic!

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Didn’t listen- will when I get home from glasto x

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Great band, great backing vocals Ball and chain, guitar sounds like a car at the beginning. Love on ‘oh sweet Mary’ the way it drops to the vocals and the drums coming out of it

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

2/5

Enjoyed more than I thought I was going to

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Love this record some of my fav Beatles songs on it. Michelle If I needed someone

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

Liked it much more than I thought I would. Loved the track ‘enjoy the silence’ personal Jesus and halo. Enjoy the silence was my fav.

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

3/5

Like the vocal energy Very persistent with the drums. Loads of toms Like the magnificent 5 intro with the whistle Jolly Roger 😂

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Like the first track- cherry-colored funk 😃 Really enjoying it. Not something I’d put on all the time. Vocals are great. Sounds summery

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

3/5

Pretty good. Sounds a bit like Tom petty on some tracks

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Love this record. Everything about it , her voice, the music , the sounds. Classic record. Back to black is a classic track

The Score

Fugees

2/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

1/5

Not really into this. It bores me a bit. It’s a bit of a drag. Some good sounds but not too keen

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

2/5

Like some of it. Good lyrics.

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

4/5

What a record. Great songs. Great instrumentation. Perfect harmonys Always it’s you- great song I’d like to learn. Didn’t know this one. Includes ‘Love Hurts’ 💔Ends with Cathy’s clown. ❤️ Learnt about felice/bryant- husband and wife songwriting team

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

Beautiful record. Few covers. Love stardust. Duke Ellington wrote ‘don’t get around much anymore ‘ with bob russell

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Love this. Love his version of in my life. Boss glockenspiel at the end Hurt is great too - NIN tune

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

2/5

Liked certain bits but not my thing really on a whole. Ended up skipping a couple of tracks. Went on a bit

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

3/5

I liked it. Great sounds and parts. Saved a song to try and learnt the sax

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

2/5

Really like ‘feel flows’ boss flute

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

This is one of my favorite albums. Amazing songs. Going to relearn some of them xx Merry Clayton on BV’s on way over yonder. Joni Mitchell on BV’s on will you still love me tomorrow 😮 James Taylor on acoustic

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Love this record. Love the glockenspiel thing on penetration - unexpected

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

2/5

Was ok. Got a bit bored

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Live this record although it’s a bit depressing. Love him. Love his guitar playing and lyrics

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

Good record. Love the one he does. His own. ‘I surrender dear’

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

3/5

Like this record.

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Quite interesting. Like flip side the best so far. Some interesting sounds popping in and out Mirror ball is nice

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

Great album, Love painted lady

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

4/5

Really liked this. Especially the first track. Never heard of it before

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Liked it. Great sax in first tune

L.A. Woman

The Doors

5/5

One of my favorite records ever. Fav drum fill on the changeling

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

2/5

Only listened to half. Was alright

Arular

M.I.A.

3/5

Like this. Nice when the singing comes in in ‘sunshowers’🌞 Love Amazon, good percussion and backing track

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Love this record

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Amazing album will finish tomorrow

Skylarking

XTC

3/5

Liked it especially the first couple of tracks and the last one where it sounds like a kid singing the intro

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Liked it but didn’t really listen properly as Russ was here and we were chatting. I have times when I love them and times when I can’t be bothered with them

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

1/5

His voice annoys me. Don’t find it very melodic. Only listened to a few songs

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Good record. Lots of strings and backing vocals.

Arrival

ABBA

3/5

Feel nostalgic listening to this. I like the some of the songs but the sound of it gets a bit much for me.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

Liked it but didn’t get through it

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

2/5

Got bored didn’t listen till the end the historie one was alright

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

5/5

Love everything about this record! The sound of it the lyrics all the songs. Up there with the best. Xx

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Sounds very airy, could be the drum sound with the cymbals. Nice not as down as I thought it was going to be

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

5/5

LOVE this record. It’s perfect.

Iron Maiden

1/5

Only listened to a few songs. Was ok but wanted to move on

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

Fun record

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Love scar tissue, probably my favorite rhcp track but the whole album got a bit boring

Disintegration

The Cure

2/5

Disappointing. Started off good and got worse. Very long songs - pieces

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

3/5

Love the drum sound in ‘I talk to the wind’ pretty good in all. Great sounds

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Liked it. Preferred it to LED zep 2 Love when the levy breaks and the California

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

Liked it more then I thought I would

Lost Souls

Doves

2/5

Only listened to a couple if tunes will listen tomorrow

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

2/5

Was ok. Didn’t listed to if All. Liked the music more than the vocal

Violent Femmes

3/5

Will listen tomorrow

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Love the bass on patterns. Reminds me of‘white rabbit’ Jefferson airplane

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

3/5

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

1/5

Didn’t like it. Only listened to 4 or 5 songs

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

2/5

Was ok. Didn’t finish jt

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

5/5

Love it!

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Liked it. Love the song maps. Likes modern romance too

Justified

Justin Timberlake

3/5

The xx

2/5

Ok, I like the intro tube and I like some of the sounds they get but don’t love it as a whole xx

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2/5

Was alright. There’s a high sound that gets a bit annoying after a while. A frequency I like her voice

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

2/5

I like some of it. But I can’t stand Nico’s voice if she wasn’t on it I’d give it a higher rating

Electric

The Cult

1/5

Didn’t love it

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Brilliant 💋

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

One of my fav albums

Yeezus

Kanye West

2/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

4/5

Blood, Sweat & Tears

3/5

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

3/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

The La's

5/5

Achtung Baby

1/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Tago Mago

Can

5/5

Dry

PJ Harvey

4/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

Clandestino

Manu Chao

1/5

Only listened to 2 songs. Couldn’t be. Bothered with it

Frank

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5