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3.92

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Fear and Whiskey Mekons	5	2.61	+2.39
The Sounds Of India Ravi Shankar	5	2.85	+2.15
69 Love Songs The Magnetic Fields	5	2.85	+2.15
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake Small Faces	5	2.95	+2.05
New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84) Simple Minds	5	2.95	+2.05
Steve McQueen Prefab Sprout	5	2.98	+2.02
Ray Of Light Madonna	5	3	+2
The Last Broadcast Doves	5	3.05	+1.95
Tanto Tempo Bebel Gilberto	5	3.07	+1.93
Another Music In A Different Kitchen Buzzcocks	5	3.09	+1.91

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Getz/Gilberto Stan Getz	1	3.65	-2.65
Stand! Sly & The Family Stone	1	3.43	-2.43
The Band The Band	1	3.36	-2.36
Call of the Valley Shivkumar Sharma	1	2.94	-1.94
Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective	1	2.9	-1.9
Chore of Enchantment Giant Sand	1	2.64	-1.64
The Atomic Mr Basie Count Basie & His Orchestra	2	3.5	-1.5
Tidal Fiona Apple	2	3.45	-1.45
Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen	2	3.42	-1.42
25 Adele	2	3.37	-1.37

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
The Who	3	4.67
Iron Maiden	2	5
Black Sabbath	2	5
Deep Purple	2	5
Kate Bush	2	5
Coldplay	2	5
Michael Jackson	2	5
The Clash	2	5
David Bowie	6	4
Radiohead	3	4.33

5-Star Albums (105)

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4-Star Albums (83)

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1-Star Albums (7)

All Ratings

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

The Joshua Tree

4/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

1/5

Iron Maiden

5/5

Different Class

Pulp

5/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Another Green World

Brian Eno

4/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5

Reign In Blood

Slayer

4/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Low

David Bowie

4/5

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

3/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

4/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

3/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

2/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Suzanne Vega

4/5

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

4/5

Electric

The Cult

3/5

Common

3/5

Tommy

The Who

4/5

Hysteria

Def Leppard

5/5

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

3/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

5/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

2/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

GREY Area

Little Simz

4/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

Heroes

David Bowie

5/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

5/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

5/5

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

1/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

4/5

Caetano Veloso

3/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

Fleet Foxes

4/5

Dust

Screaming Trees

5/5

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

3/5

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

5/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

2/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

3/5

Night Life

Ray Price

2/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

5/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

2/5

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

5/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

5/5

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

5/5

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

1/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

5/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

2/5

Drunk

Thundercat

3/5

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

5/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

5/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

5/5

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

4/5

The Cars

5/5

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

4/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

5/5

Fun House

The Stooges

5/5

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

3/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

2/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

5/5

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

3/5

Guero

Beck

4/5

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

2/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

5/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

Ray Of Light

Madonna

5/5

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

4/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

Franz Ferdinand

5/5

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

4/5

Music

Madonna

3/5

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

2/5

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

5/5

Achtung Baby

4/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

5/5

The Score

Fugees

5/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

5/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

5/5

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

5/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

5/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

5/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

3/5

Cross

Justice

5/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5

The United States Of America

4/5

Germs

4/5

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

4/5

Understandably influential on the more moodier side of what would become indie with the likes of Radiohead. I can't see myself coming back to this often but for what it is and what it eventually influenced, its worth checking out.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

3/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

Great country singer, loved songs like El Paso, Strawberry Roan and Running Gun. A few others sounded like filler but as a fan of Johnny Cash, I enjoyed the outlaw vibe.

Medúlla

Björk

2/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

4/5

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

3/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

2/5

Whilst this is a trendsetter for what was to come in the dance genre during the 2000s, as a whole i found the album falls into the trap where whilst a lot of the songs sound great individually, listening to the entire package drags by the end.

Signing Off

UB40

4/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

5/5

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

3/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

5/5

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

2/5

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

5/5

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

4/5

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

3/5

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

5/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Beautiful Freak

Eels

4/5

Ctrl

SZA

4/5

The Doors

4/5

Rio

Duran Duran

5/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

4/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Kid A

Radiohead

3/5

A Seat at the Table

Solange

3/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

5/5

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

5/5

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

4/5

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

5/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

5/5

Fantastic mixture of funk, soul and at times almost psychedelic. The production and instrumentation is a highlight on all tracks, particularly on the extendes covers of Walk on By and By the Time I Get to Phoenix. The song lengths might seem off-putting but they flow by seamlessly.

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

3/5

First time hearing of this group. I enjoyed the laidback feel of the songs, however I felt the album went a bit too long. I can see a lot of these tunes growing on me.

The Last Broadcast

Doves

5/5

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

3/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

5/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

1/5

Just couldn't get into this one ☹️

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

A very standard Bowie album IMO. Nothing on here to the caliber of his classics but still some good songs.

Parachutes

Coldplay

5/5

Gorillaz

4/5

A preview of greater things to come.

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

4/5

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

5/5

Between this album and Hounds of Love, Kate Bush was on another level in her prime.

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

3/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

2/5

Sea Change

Beck

5/5

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Feels like a teaser of greater things to come. Ironically it'll come in the same year.

Eagles

3/5

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

3/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Vulnicura

Björk

2/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

5/5

Gold

Ryan Adams

4/5

A very grandiose listen in terms of scale, several classics here. The album I found dipped in quality around the midway point but picked up during the last quarter.

I Should Coco

Supergrass

5/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

3/5

The xx

5/5

Soul Mining

The The

2/5

Honestly, songs are not bad but I can't find anything that hooks me in.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

5/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

5/5

I had put this one off for a while. Not because I didn't have the patience or a lack of interest, but more the idea of listening to the same artist for nearly 3 hours. For me, this is not an album that I can sit down and fully integrate with, however as something playing in the background, its a decent time. The aforementioned 69 love songs are exactly that, there's no need to break down the content thankfully. The main standout is Merritt's voice, I don't think I've heard a register as low as his, but it somehow works, its unbelievable. It's also good that other vocalists take the lead throughout so Merritt's bass tones don't outlive their welcome. I can't see myself coming back to this often cause of the length but certainly great songs, a unique delivery and yeah give it a try.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

4/5

Arrival

ABBA

5/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

5/5

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

4/5

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

5/5

Other than her 2 big hits (behave!), this is the first time I've listened to Dolly. Unfortunately country music rarely translated into the UK market, but following from this I fully understand why she earned the moniker Queen of Country, a voice you could just listen to and just enjoy without skipping a track.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Being There

Wilco

4/5

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

3/5

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

2/5

Kinda drifted with this one, instrumentally there were some nice moments but not too big a fan of the voice

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

5/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

5/5

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

4/5

Goo

Sonic Youth

4/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

3/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

2/5

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

1/5

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

5/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

World Clique

Deee-Lite

3/5

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

5/5

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

3/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

5/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

Its the quintessential Metallica album. One of the greatest metal records of all time. Not much else to say that hasn't been said already.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Such a unique sound its difficult to categorise but not one skippable track on here.

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

3/5

Good mix of psychedelic and early proto-punk.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

5/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

I debated whether to give 4 or 5 stars to this album. Whilst it is the best-selling record of all time, I don't think its perfect, The Girl is Mine is the weaker of the two songs Michael did with McCartney and The Lady in my Life is kind of a weak closer. Having said that though, there's a reason why this is highly regarded. The hooks on here are phenomenal even in the weaker tracks. Michael was on top form here with hit after hit after hit. Its genuinely an essential pop album.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

2/5

The La's

5/5

A love letter to the sounds of British institutions like The Who that somehow managed to also be a precursor to what would become known as Britpop. There She Goes may be their most popular song they ever released but don't sleep on the rest of this!

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

This is where David Bowie truly started to come into his own as a songwriter.

Let It Be

The Replacements

4/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

5/5

One of my favourite trios of all time. So many classics here!

Skylarking

XTC

3/5

British Steel

Judas Priest

5/5

A cornerstone in the world of heavy metal. Whilst "metalheads" will and have debated about British Steel being a heavy metal record, there is no denying that these 9 tracks rock!

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

3/5

Ahhh the early 00's where nearly every indie band started with The. Honestly, apart from Valerie (which is on the follow-up) I have not heard the singles from this debut since then. Honestly listening to this, its not a bad little album, but apart from the singles, there's not much else that sticks with me.

Leftism

Leftfield

3/5

Adele

2/5

As incredible a singer Adele is, there is not much on her 3rd outing that hooks me in like its predecessor. It peaks on the first song and after that its all run of the mill.

The Band

1/5

I just couldn't get into it sorry.

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Sail Away

Randy Newman

3/5

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

3/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

Tiny Dancer will forever remain the highlight, but there are plenty of gems aside here to enjoy.

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

5/5

Jay-Z may have released The Blueprint but this is THE BLUEPRINT for what would become hip hop. Essential listening.

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

4/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

One of the better live albums I've heard recently. A lot of them tend to be fixed in studio, this here by Sam Cooke is so raw you could imagine being there.

Elastica

4/5

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

3/5

I strangely heard Wild Flag before Sleater-Kinney. I think its pretty average, nothing horrible but then nothing amazing either.

The Clash

5/5

One of my favourites of all time.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Took a while to get the layout of the story being told bur overall a nice album.

Live Through This

Hole

3/5

The Stooges

3/5

There is no denying just how important this album was in the birth of punk. Now having said that, I think The Stooges hit their stride on the follow-up. 1969, I Wanna Be Your Dog and No Fun are absolute classics but then We Will Fall will always remain a dredge to get through.

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

3/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

So, how does an artist follow the biggest selling album of all time? By releasing a Bad one of course. Joking aside, Bad is a fantastic pop album much like Thriller, its 1A and 1B in terms of his best work. If Thriller earned Jackson his King of Pop title, Bad let him continue to sit on his throne.

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

It is their greatest triumph. A double album that goes through genre after genre yet neither drops in quality nor outlives its welcome. Essential.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

5/5

This is probably where Elvis was at his peak from a vocal perspective. From the get-go, he is front and centre stage belting it out. I didn't actually know any songs from this record apart from In the Ghetto, but every one just runs so smoothly with hints of soul, country, gospel and blues.

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

3/5

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

Simple Minds

5/5

First time hearing this album. I've always loved new wave and synth-pop, so to me this is up there with the likes of Duran Duran's Rio or Depeche Mode's Violator.