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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Music For The Jilted Generation The Prodigy	5	3.07	+1.93
Wild Wood Paul Weller	5	3.09	+1.91
Dust Screaming Trees	5	3.16	+1.84
John Barleycorn Must Die Traffic	5	3.17	+1.83
The Real Thing Faith No More	5	3.21	+1.79
D White Denim	5	3.21	+1.79
My Aim Is True Elvis Costello	5	3.33	+1.67
Hot Rats Frank Zappa	5	3.35	+1.65
Pretenders Pretenders	5	3.35	+1.65
Back At The Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith	5	3.37	+1.63

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	1	3.39	-2.39
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	1	3.33	-2.33
A Girl Called Dusty Dusty Springfield	1	3.33	-2.33
Tommy The Who	1	3.3	-2.3
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	1	3.29	-2.29
Made In Japan Deep Purple	1	3.28	-2.28
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg Jerry Lee Lewis	1	3.26	-2.26
Bad Company Bad Company	1	3.24	-2.24
Deloused in the Comatorium The Mars Volta	1	3.18	-2.18
Vespertine Björk	1	3.18	-2.18

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Beastie Boys	2	5
Aretha Franklin	2	5
Stevie Wonder	5	4.2
Eagles	3	4.33

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Björk	6	1.5
Cee Lo Green	2	1
The Mars Volta	2	1
The Incredible String Band	2	1
The Who	3	1.67
Bad Company	2	1.5
Pet Shop Boys	2	1.5
Deep Purple	2	1.5
Dusty Springfield	2	1.5
The Byrds	4	2
Sonic Youth	3	2
Arcade Fire	4	2.25

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Elvis Costello	5, 2
Pink Floyd	2, 1, 3, 5
Simon & Garfunkel	2, 5, 2
Led Zeppelin	4, 5, 2, 2
Madonna	1, 3, 4

5-Star Albums (43)

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Here comes the sun and come together are 5 stars. The rest... Overrated

Good album, no bad tracks, couple of bangers OBvS... Just doesn't quite stick to my soul

Ugh

Fine

I hate morrisey

4-Star Albums (214)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

1-Star Albums (39)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

All Ratings (765)

Ok, not my personal taste.

Honestly a bit disappointing. Francis farmer is great tho

Ok, some good songs, not sure Iggy pop is for me.

So old school, I loved it

Mojo Jazz

I need to listen again.

A bit too jazz

About as good as pop gets for me

The songs I like, I love.

Good dark breakbeat

Really thought I'd like this more

Better than I expected

I already know and love, but had forgotten just HOW good it is.

A classic

Fine

Bit cold for me

V jazzy, preferred their first earlier stuff.

V 90s funk rock

Hectic

Smooth techno edged soul

Toploaded, but great songs

Bit too 60s for me

Really amazing soul. A little too stretched in places.

Very nostalgic but not my era of beatles

Vocals a bit grating

It's so good. I'm surprised how good it is.

Wonderful

A weird dreamy scratch album

This was surprisingly good. The weird stuff was too weird but the song quality was great

I hate Mark E Smith. Album was fine

This was what I hoped Bad Company would be.

Not for me.

Not as good as later James Brown

Last 2 tracks were great, but the turgid folk/prog from the rest of the album was not for me.

Id probably like it more once I knew it, but I can't get there.

Such smooth style with real messages

Wonderful. The songs with the female vocal were better.

Smooth, soulful, never boring.

I think I'd need to listen again to truly appreciate.

Lovefool is still ruined by overplay for me but this album is great.

Too messy

Some good punky tracks.

Good punky rock, a little unfocussed as the album unfolded

I prefer their earlier stuff but there are some great songs here.

Enjoyed more than I thought

Really hippy

This was wild. Really very good. 4.5.

Unlistenable to my ear

Some good, most not for me

Too jazzy

Yeah, great

It just reminds me too much of the pwl style production at the time.

Great

So funky

Bit muddy

Bangin

Some good, some bad

Really good

Three good songs, the rest I hated.

Either very strange or a bit interesting in equal parts

Meh, don't love the stooges

Smooth and lyrical

I like early jamiroquai

What I expected

I love prince

Actually beautiful

Fun

Like a bit weedy

Not for me

Beautiful but too sad for me

I enjoyed

The songs are good, but the 60s production gets in their way a bit.

V dylan

I love queen

Surprisingly jazzy and soulful. Could do without the drum solo

Bit too melancholy for me

Great, I liked this

I do like frown land

Really good. Light punky folk

One of my favourite albums

3.5

Banger

I like van

I like this album. -1 star for being a dick ryan

Bit too west coast

I love the stones but the 60s production curse strikes again.

I expect I will enjoy other Ray Charles albums more.

Some good, bit toff

Ugh

Some good

Fine easy listen. Very 1994

You know what, it was good. Fred Durst really beloved he was the voice of the generation recording this.

The good is great

I think I hate Solo Bjork. I wish I was a bit cooler.

Lovely jazz country

I find them so bland and pompous

Half great, half shit

Don't love kraftwerk

Good bits but too cold for me

I like, but not love. Voice not my favourite.

I feel there is better Ray Charles to come.

Love it

3.5, good pop

I liked it less than expected

3.5

A favourite

I like madness, this was a bit conventional

3 stars for the 3 songs I liked. Hated the rest

Clichè, but I loved it.

Jangly post punk, good

Some great, some meh

3.5, more pop than I expected

There are better queen albums

I thought I was in for a long listen after first track, the rest I loved.

It's great

4.5

Very nice Cuban chill

This would have been 5* when I was 15. It just doesn't have it for me anymore.

Early beatles

Quite liked. Didn't realise Julian Cope

Fine, not keen on vocals

Production is poor, songs are strong.

I'm not keen on folk it appears

Lovely french jazz

3.5

Fine

Cute

Bit overrated

Bit sad

Alright. Not keen on vocals

I don't love t. Rex

Singles were good

Some good songs but a bit busy overall

3.7, great texture

Good bits are good, sad bits are sad.

2 because drive, 1 for the rest. It feels like everyone is uncomfortable with the sound they make.

There comes a pont where I feel I just want to hear a song. And I love pink Floyd!

Loved this

The good is good

Its the best zep album I've heard I reckon.

Loads of songs I knew, all bad

I mean, it's fine for what it is. But not for me.

I am not sold on 'challenging' jazz

Great songs first half, great moods second half

Very solid

There is some generic 80s producer with blood their hands.

Good songs but too much unaccompanied guitar wankery

I don't mind the fall, not keen on mark e smith

4 for the songs. -2 John Lennon -2 Phil Spector +2 Jealous Guy

I was dreading this a bit. But this is more ambient than I expected. It's before the dentist drills and chaos drums phase that followed.

I mean, it's what it is

First third 4 stars. Last quarter 4 stars. Got lost there in the middle forgetting to make songs.

This music is so ubiquitous to me. I feel like it's the soundtrack to a million scenes in a million shows. It's just music for the background to me. Harmless.

Great singles, the rest felt a bit unfocussed.

Started strong and then fell off for me. This feels like the transition album where they were learning how to fuse psychedelic sounds with pop songs and not quite getting there.

I enjoyed it as background

I love 70s Stevie

Some good, some a bit harsh for me

Fabulous

I don't think I care too much for the doors

Kevin Rowland's voice.

Thought the first three tracks were 5stars.

It's such a cliche to like Elvis Costello, I hate it.

Just terrible

Got a bit lost in the middle but such strong songs

Meh, I found his shtick a bit annoying on this one

Obvs some good songs, but too much pretentious twaddle.

I remember this from yore

Some of their finest work.

It was ok. 2.5

It's dated in many places, but it's still a jam

Just excellent

I have a new appreciation for gangsta rap as I get older

Couple of fun moments but deeply bland

Bit backgroundy

Too sad for me

Too self indulgent to ever be good

Proto jazz punk too far for me

Good songs, so long

I bought this when it came out.nits pretty good. A lot of covers

Bland

Great vibes later in the album but awful 80s production dude...

Not for me

A gentle beautiful tjing

I loved the first 2 portishead albums. This one is poor by comparison.

I think I might not be keen on folk music

I find geddy's voice grating, but this is titanic regardless

Some great grooves let down my lots of atonal interjections

Just so self indulgent. I feel he wanted a Jeff Lynn thing, but he ain't him.

A lot of chaff but some good stuff here

Here comes the sun and come together are 5 stars. The rest... Overrated

I expected to give this 2 stars but it was pretty good actually

Great sound, needed a few more songs

The funk tracks massively overshadow all the rest

Poor for prince

Like, a bit disappointed

It really is a template for so much modern indie

Very tasteful jazz

I like it

Tricky one, his talent is truly exceptional. He hasn't hurt anyone in real life. His career was driven as an antithesis to the manufactured boy/girl groups. However, the misogynistic and homophobic language feels from another era entirely and I find I don't vibe with it the way I once did.

There was a familiarity to a lot of the songs here. I didn't expect to like it so much.

Such a disappointment after Young Americans

Lots of great grooves but lacking some hooks to really bring me in.

Some great tracks but a bit inconsistent. 2.8

I like jazzy punk it seems

Still a bit stale but the best stooges album I've had

Bland

Expected more

Nice, gentle samba

I like electro but a bit samey

It sounds so cliché

Such a lot of fun

I like dolly

Fucking dreadful

This album feels like the apex of their beat era

Really good again. 4.5

Started as a 1, finished a 3

Obvs some great songs but inconsistent.

I hate morrisey

Awful

Nice smooth gangsta rap

Something about his melodies

1.7

Love some dreampop

I think a lot of folk might not be for me

A total shock to me. I find Zappa a bit incoherent occasionally and this was a jam from start to finish.

Cool psych blues

A bit anonymous

A bit inconsistent but smash it up is 6 stars

A touch pretentious?

The hits are mega, a LOT of questionable lyrics.

Bit too 60s for me

Very good.

Pretty good 3.4

Good pop

Bit jazzy

Great voice, couple good songs. Lot of airy filler

Quality modern pop

Loads of great songs intercut with a lot some weird cheesy nonsense

Every song was good

Gentle and lovely but a lot of covers that aren't great

I'd give zero if poss

I can hear that it's good, but I'm also aware how overplayed all the singles were.

Pretty good

As far as Avant Gard music goes, it was pretty good

Good songs, never need a drum solo

Some good songs but her voice grates me a lot

Sounded fine, I don't know enough to know

Cliche in a good way

The bastardisation of this form has bluntened the power this must have had back yore

Banger

Bit ott

Great, Drum solo -1 star

Not his best

V screechey

Smooth, jazzy, political. V nice

I like his stuff. -1 for content

It's a no

Not for me

Some great songs but trying a bit hard sometimes

Fucking great.

Lot of covers

I wanted to hate this

I find Brett's voice and Bernard's guitar tone equally enjoyable.

I want to like it more

It's fucking magic

I've always quite enjoyed this era of 90s dance when it went full "Whale-Kissing Moon-Maiden"

Angular and musical

It has good songs

Not quite good enough to be as grubby as it is

Standard pop punk

I get it but it's not for my ear. All feels very produced and processed.

Samey in a good way

Dated

Good album, no bad tracks, couple of bangers OBvS... Just doesn't quite stick to my soul

Some good songs but a bit dreary

Bangers all

Bland

3.4

I hate this guys schtick

Not my kind of hip hop

I was hoping for a deeper look at folk from a pop perspective. What I got was lilting pop with some acoustic guitar. Fine, just a bit disappointing.

I prefer their next album. Same energy but better songs

Pretty but a bit sad

Love rise, the rest is too Avant guard for me

Noisy in a good way

I can't believe I got this today. Ozzy RIP on this day.

Really great. Even better on a second listen. 4.5

Classic

Jazzy

Potential there but I'd need more time with it I think

Absolutely fab

Extra star cos the full version of common people is epic

Pretty anonymous

V good. Somehow missed them first time around.

Vocals not for me

V nice country blues

I mean, I get it, but not for me

Yeah it's good

Couldn't get in to this

Such a textural banger

The guitar is so poor I couldn't take it. Enjoyed Joplin tho, felt she deserved a better sideman

Some epic tracks, and some that are more of a miss

I got this album as a teenager and I didnt care for it, back then I had no idea what dub was. It's fine now.

A bit anonymous

Too close to musical theatre for me

His voice

+1 Annie Lennox

I mean...

It's just... Not for me

Enjoyed this more than some of his other stuff

Very good. Not far off a 5

Surprisingly great. Close to 5*

Too messy

I prefer first album a bit. This feels transitional

Nice

Gentle and beautiful

Bits have aged poorly, but most of it sounds so fresh still.

Good, not his best

Prefer his later stuff

Like 2 quite good completely different albums squished together

Dreamy

This was awful, I know they can do better

Prefer their later, weirder stuff

V nice

Some good songs but the rest too samey

Not my favourite of theirs

Fine, but I miss real drums

Meh

Fine. But a little lacking in personality

More manufactured sounding than I remember

Really good

Too noisy

I liked

Too old skool, feels v synthetic.

She's so unusual

V good

Fine. A little non descript

Nice voice. Terrible songs

GOAT

Too cold

Not my favourite of theirs

-1 morrisey

A better album than her others

Banger

Masterpiece every song amazing

Gentle. Sweet but lacking drums for me

His best I think

Couple good songs bit weird

Bit too stark in places

I wish I was cool enough...

Not enough corners for me

Not their best

Good start but inconsistent

One of the great British albums

Music 2 stars. Lyrics and vocals -1

One of my all times

It's wild but good.

Not their best

Some bangers, some a bit too much

Great band once

Too much

Weird but good

Very safe

Too punk for me

Too weird but frownland rips

The Lindsay songs are odd no doubt, but charming

I was surprised

Banger. Voice is challenging but songs so strong

Love zappa. This be shit

Bit fey

Overrated

There were moments of palatability

My bag

I was surprised how much I enjoyed

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