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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle Throbbing Gristle	5	1.88	+3.12
L'Eau Rouge The Young Gods	5	2.32	+2.68
New Forms Roni Size	5	2.53	+2.47
Live At The Witch Trials The Fall	5	2.64	+2.36
Space Ritual Hawkwind	5	2.68	+2.32
Bitte Orca Dirty Projectors	5	2.69	+2.31
New Boots And Panties Ian Dury	5	2.7	+2.3
The Infotainment Scan The Fall	5	2.72	+2.28
Good Old Boys Randy Newman	5	2.86	+2.14
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret Soft Cell	5	2.87	+2.13

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Moving Pictures Rush	2	3.58	-1.58
Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd	3	4.3	-1.3

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Rolling Stones	3	5
The Fall	2	5
Kate Bush	2	5
Joy Division	2	5
The Who	2	5

5-Star Albums (63)

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D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Popular Reviews

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

5/5

Very good!

4 likes

All Ratings

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Surprising horror movie vibes with swathes of organ. Interesting and varied.

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

Enjoyable listen, well sung and played. Takes me back to the Eighties!

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

Invented a whole genre. Good stuff!

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

5/5

Came for the bangers but stayed for the lesser known tracks, all immaculately sung and played.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

An odd one in that any single track is enjoyable on its own, especially the singles, but taken together as a half hour listening experience they become too samey to distinguish.

Scott 4

Scott Walker

4/5

I thought you’d have to be in mood to enjoy these literate, lavish songs, but they put you in the mood!

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Good songs, great players and not just the guitarist. Try listening to the version that comes with an interview attached - very interesting.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Beautiful, atmospheric, sad.

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

4/5

Heavy!

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

5/5

Rousing tunes very enjoyable

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

4/5

Moody, doomy, compelling.

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

Instant appeal and thought provoking lyrics

Le Tigre

4/5

Bright and lively with interesting lyrics

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

5/5

Really strong record, still holds up today, great beats and pertinent lyrics.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

5/5

Rich variety from heart wreaking ballads to motorik beat

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

4/5

Shiny strut

Black Metal

Venom

3/5

Cartoonish themes, slick and heavy playing, one.song’s sexual politics haven’t dated well, but enjoyable overall.

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

5/5

Brilliant, very atmospheric, lived in vocals perfect for the material

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Great record!

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

5/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

5/5

Uniformly excellent!

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

5/5

Perfect!

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

4/5

Some bangers on here. Takes a while to sink in.

Fever Ray

4/5

Great background music for going about your day. I could get used to it.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

In one ear and out of the other

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

5/5

Very good!

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

Thé uptempo one’s aren’t bad.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Great fun when music and words do gel.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Masterpiece

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

4/5

Very enjoyable

Eagles

3/5

Easy on the ear background music. I didn’t hate it.

Blur

4/5

Good album, top band

Moving Pictures

Rush

2/5

Not for me

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

5/5

Emotional vocals, soaring melodies, poignant lyrics. A revelation.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Entertaining and a bit different.

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

5/5

Every single song is beautiful and very affecting - a perfect record!

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

4/5

Easygoing charm

Phrenology

The Roots

3/5

The parts that are less hip hop and more soul/rock n’ roll are the parts I prefer.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

That’s entertainment!

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

4/5

Classy, tuneful, emotional

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

4/5

Great fun!

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Lotsa banging toons

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Not my thing at all but I can see why it is so popular

Blunderbuss

Jack White

5/5

Really enjoyed this

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

5/5

All killer, no filler, perfect pop!

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

5/5

Very enjoyable

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Edgy.

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Stone cold classic.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Much better as a collection and a representation of the band than the other albums, more varied and instrumentally interesting. Enjoyed this one.

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

5/5

Very exciting

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

An enjoyable classic but still surprising

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

3/5

1999

Prince

5/5

Pure pop perfection

Ananda Shankar

2/5

Not my thing

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

5/5

Swaggering Weimar white blues

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

5/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

I really liked the beats but cannot relate to the lyrics

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

5/5

Highly literate, wholly convincing mixture of biting and tender songs.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

3/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Familiarity sometimes breeds taking songs for granted, but to hear them in sequence reveals how brilliantly one follows on from another and every one of them is five star.

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Very enjoyable

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

Bliss.

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

4/5

Variée, tasteful, full of heart

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

4/5

Beautiful, surprising.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

I enjoyed both singles and Mama Cassé letting rip on “The In Crowd” but the rest sounded pretty twee to my ears.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

Interesting lyrical content and musical stylings.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Can blue men play the whites? Oh yeah!

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

Sparky

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Séminal masterpiece.

Dire Straits

4/5

Music snob here. I played this with low expectations but really enjoyed its sound and liked the lyrics too.

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

4/5

Surprisingly entertaining.

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

5/5

Great background rumble!

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

5/5

Top!

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

New Forms

Roni Size

5/5

Very enjoyable

White Ladder

David Gray

3/5

Liked the single, the rest not as much

Closer

Joy Division

5/5

Redolent of those times, relevant today.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

5/5

All bangers.

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

Enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

Get the edition with live tracks and hear the eerie difference Martin Hannet made - two untimely deaths with this record.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

All great tracks by a great band but the overall effect is less than the sum of its parts.

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

5/5

Really intense and you don’t have to understand French.

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

3/5

Same old Mozza Always bleating!

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

Veery cool!

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

Stone cold classic, which works both as ambient music and dynamic, emotional, driving exploration.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Great!

Ray Of Light

Madonna

4/5

Cool. Apparently the video for the title track gives an approximate expression of the sensory overload some people with autism experience sometimes.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

All bangers, great fun!

The Specials

5/5

Great!

Konnichiwa

Skepta

4/5

Fun

The Visitors

ABBA

3/5

Not my sort of thing but done well.

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

5/5

While not my favourite, it’s still a dance floor banger!

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

5/5

Thoroughly enjoyed this from beginning to end.

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

2/5

Scooby Snacks and the title track are the best songs. The rest is very samey.

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

4/5

Enjoyed it

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

3/5

Very good!

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

Repays hearing right through. Great production.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

5/5

Very good!

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

4/5

Beautiful

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

It’s a grower

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

4/5

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

The Modern Lovers

3/5

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

4/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

5/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Movies

Holger Czukay

4/5

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

3/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Not for me

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

4/5

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

5/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

5/5

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

Truth

Jeff Beck

5/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

5/5

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

5/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

5/5

Top!

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

5/5

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

4/5

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

4/5

Sheet Music

10cc

5/5

Low-Life

New Order

3/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

5/5