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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Maxinquaye Tricky	5	3.04	+1.96
Elephant Mountain The Youngbloods	5	3.07	+1.93
Selling England By The Pound Genesis	5	3.18	+1.82
Made In Japan Deep Purple	5	3.29	+1.71
C'est Chic CHIC	5	3.34	+1.66
Sulk The Associates	4	2.36	+1.64
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) The Kinks	5	3.39	+1.61
Pretzel Logic Steely Dan	5	3.4	+1.6
Amnesiac Radiohead	5	3.41	+1.59
Odessey And Oracle The Zombies	5	3.42	+1.58

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Dig Me Out Sleater-Kinney	1	3.08	-2.08
Slanted And Enchanted Pavement	1	3.03	-2.03
Fear and Whiskey Mekons	1	2.6	-1.6
Different Class Pulp	2	3.42	-1.42
Elvis Presley Elvis Presley	2	3.38	-1.38
Blur Blur	2	3.33	-1.33
Dry PJ Harvey	2	3.24	-1.24
Actually Pet Shop Boys	2	3.18	-1.18

5-Star Albums (20)

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Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

Popular Reviews

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

The Smiths are dead. Long live the Smiths.

1 likes

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

Too pompous.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (3)

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Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

Fluttery, indecisive, prone to pretentiousness. No boldness in any way.

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

Catchy but slick.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

Fresh and energetic.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

Hopelessly outdated seen from 2024. Not more than interesting compared with their musical contemporaries.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

Pompous, but in an acceptable way.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

Ray is a genius. Not this time.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

3/5

38 minutes of good songs played in a row. When they are over … it‘ s done. Technically under par.

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

1/5

Neh

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

1/5

As boring as it can get. That is alternative rock? Yes, that was it. The label for mediocre artists with mediocre material ( badly performed on … did they use equipment?)

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

Right between the eyes.

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

5/5

Hard rock standard. Like a Schubert Lied or Bach Kantate. Period.

Feast of Wire

Calexico

3/5

Engaged, doesn’t keep its promise.

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

2/5

Hmmm.

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

2/5

Better listen to Etienne de crecy: Super Discount.

Van Halen

4/5

Indispensable classic ( for young white male rock fans)

Elvis Presley

2/5

One killer (Blue suede shoes), the rest are fillers. Certainly his fame wasn’t founded in the lp era.

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

5/5

Better than Abbey Road

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

3/5

Sounds like a German group. Laid back or overbored?

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

As a single outstanding ( Buona sera) the rest too repetitive.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

Ahead of their time. Still palatable.

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

5/5

Great, great, great.

Maxinquaye

Tricky

5/5

One of my favorites

Blur

2/5

Not my cup of beer.

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

2/5

Not uninspired, vivid, to male.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

Classy

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

4/5

Seriously trying, but not overly gifted. Worth listening still.

The White Room

The KLF

3/5

Hasn‘t aged as well as xpected

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

4/5

I don’t know, what it is. This kind of simple or that kind?

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Insurmountable

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

2/5

Poor man‘s R.E.M.

LP1

FKA twigs

2/5

First track: wow. Second: björky, third: neh.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

Indispensable.

Skylarking

XTC

3/5

It‘s ok

Different Class

Pulp

2/5

Don’t know why, but I can’t take the lyrics serious or meant to be honest.

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

5/5

Great album in the great class of ‘69.

The Doors

5/5

One of the best debut albums ever. Indestructible.

The Score

Fugees

5/5

Yes, yes, yes.

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

4/5

Artistic benchmark meets commercial availability.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Great American Songbook, Nelson Riddle, Tin Pan Alley, repeat ad lib…. Anyway great album

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

1/5

Incompetence, not eccentricity.

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

2/5

Cars ride by with the boomin systems… Dat‘s all, fokes.

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

4/5

To start an debut album in 2000 with a cello and a horn was a bold move.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Miscellaneous, failed and successful. Classics and extraordinaries.

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

Too much „Shang-A-Lang“. „I‘m glad“ saved it.

Teen Dream

Beach House

4/5

Surprisingly musical richness of melodies. Monetary restrictions of production budget limits.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

Nick Cave or Neil Diamond?

Sulk

The Associates

4/5

Still fresh in a strange way.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Still fresh in a rare strange way.

McCartney

Paul McCartney

3/5

Okay

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

Can‘t judge it.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

3/5

Without judgement

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

Actually boring

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Underestimated.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

2/5

Nice try

Electric

The Cult

3/5

Poor Man‘ s Guns’n Roses

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Solid pop music.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

5/5

Timeless.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

5/5

One of my favorites

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Imagine, they have written their songs for Elvis!!!

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

3/5

17 tracks, many ideas, none grabbed me. I‘m sorry. 3 stars without rating.

Dry

PJ Harvey

2/5

Super boring

Odelay

Beck

4/5

Unique, even amongst Beck‘s oeuvre.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

No rating possible

C'est Chic

CHIC

5/5

Yeah, Baby, yeah.

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

4/5

Thanks, Bangs!

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

The Smiths are dead. Long live the Smiths.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

You can listen to and dance to too.

Quiet Life

Japan

4/5

1979, worth to listen to again.

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

3/5

A bit too plasticky.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

Strong female act

Moon Safari

Air

5/5

Has become an alltime classic for me.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

Very nice. For you, for me and my squirrel. Very nice.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

Great pop culture, good music.

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

4/5

Extraordinary, sophisticated but not snobbish.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

5/5

Five stars for Time Of The Season!

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Unique

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Hard to excel

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

Can‘t live without ( the title track)!

Eagles

4/5

More success than talent.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

Too pompous.