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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84) Simple Minds	5	2.95	+2.05
Duck Stab/Buster & Glen The Residents	4	2.03	+1.97
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes	5	3.5	+1.5
Illmatic Nas	5	3.61	+1.39
A Love Supreme John Coltrane	5	3.63	+1.37
Superfly Curtis Mayfield	5	3.7	+1.3

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bad Company Bad Company	1	3.26	-2.26
So Peter Gabriel	2	3.55	-1.55
Pretzel Logic Steely Dan	2	3.4	-1.4

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Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

I was expecting the blues and country rock influences, which I liked. A very enjoyable listen

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

2/5

Not for me

Violent Femmes

5/5

Wonderful

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

Don’t take the brown acid

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

3/5

Shame about the dodgy lyrics

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

An absolute corker of an album and one I’ll go back to again and again

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Not really my bag, but rather lovely nonetheless

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

3/5

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

A lovely record full of well crafted tunes. I don’t know why I’d not heard the album before as I love the debut record. Oh and the MFSB cover on the extended version is divine

Virgin Suicides

Air

3/5

Not a patch on Moon Safari

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

This is one of those nose in the air, know all the words, sing-a-long record for me. Probably still the Bowie album I know and love best

Black Sabbath

3/5

Their debut is not one of my favourite Sabbath records, but there are glimpses of the magic(k) to come over the next five albums.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

I’d not heard this record is years. It was a favourite of mine when I was much younger and it still holds up pretty well. It’s much funkier than I remember, which is no bad thing. Minus one point for all those tedious solos. I’m looking at you Moby Dick

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

I enjoyed this one. I perfect time capsule of early ‘80s pop. Oh and ‘Time After Time’ is a masterpiece

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

Another classic from my youth. Minus one point for the clunky innuendo. “Let me cut your cake with my knife”? Oh matron!

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

The full version of “Papa was a rollin’ stone” is glorious, but the rest of the album is patchy

Bad Company

1/5

Awful dad rock.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

More dad rock, but an extra point for Jon Lord’s moustache

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

A modern classic. Well crafted songs, wonderful lyrics and perfect production. The Dap-Kings take this album to the next level.

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

Better than I remembered

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Hugely enjoyable but way too long.

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Magnificent. Probably the greatest hip hop album of all time

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

4/5

Weird and wonderful…and thankfully quite short.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

Perfect

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

Another wonderful record.

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

5/5

Stone cold classic

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

This record hasn’t aged well. It’s overly long and there’s too much filler. Columbia seems to go on forever, and the second verse of Supersonic includes several of the worst rhyming couplets ever written. That said, the snarl of Rock ‘n’ Roll Star and the swagger of Cigarettes and Alcohol still take me back to drunken nights in Camden in the mid nineties.

Peter Gabriel

2/5

Probably too eclectic to be wholly coherent album. I couldn’t get past the 80s production either. Sledgehammer is still a banger though.