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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Welcome To The Pleasuredome Frankie Goes To Hollywood	5	3.11	+1.89
Tonight's The Night Neil Young	5	3.23	+1.77
High Violet The National	5	3.24	+1.76
The Age Of The Understatement The Last Shadow Puppets	5	3.25	+1.75
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	5	3.32	+1.68
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	5	3.36	+1.64
Bossanova Pixies	5	3.38	+1.62
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	5	3.38	+1.62
Either Or Elliott Smith	5	3.39	+1.61
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	5	3.41	+1.59

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Time Out The Dave Brubeck Quartet	1	3.83	-2.83
A Love Supreme John Coltrane	1	3.63	-2.63
Hard Again Muddy Waters	1	3.61	-2.61
Live! Fela Kuti	1	3.44	-2.44
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	1	3.39	-2.39
Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk	1	3.33	-2.33
Live At Leeds The Who	1	3.32	-2.32
Sunday At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio	1	3.31	-2.31
Bitches Brew Miles Davis	1	3.3	-2.3
Dance Mania Tito Puente	1	3.27	-2.27

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Neil Young	3	4.67
Coldplay	2	5
Pixies	2	5
R.E.M.	2	5
Arcade Fire	3	4.33
Leonard Cohen	3	4.33

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Muddy Waters	2	1.5
Fiona Apple	2	1.5
Can	2	1.5

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
The Who	1, 4, 5, 3

5-Star Albums (37)

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Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents · 2 likes

1/5

Never again

The White Room

The KLF · 2 likes

4/5

Yeah, difficult but possible to find on Spotify, but this album was a real surprise and exactly the reason why I love this project. Will be coming back to this band again.

Either Or

Elliott Smith · 1 likes

5/5

I have listened to some Elliott Smith songs before and tried to get into some of his albums. Really liked a few songs (Between the Bars and Say Yes from Either/Or) but never got into the albums or they never stuck with me. Therefore I was a bit skeptical about this one being on the list. I was wrong. I was lucky enough to get this album on a Friday, meaning I had the whole weekend ahead of me where I could listen to Either/Or for three days and finally give it the chance it deservers. On late Saturday something happened, and what I can say now is this album is near perfect. Not one bad song on this one and it's so hard to pick the best songs, but here I will try: Between The Bars Rose Parade Say Yes Alameda Speed Trials Angeles

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast · 1 likes

3/5

Way too many songs and therefore way too long album at over 2 hours. But the good songs are really good.

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison · 1 likes

2/5

First of all way too long at over 90 mins. Secondly, this is a live album which I usually don't really care about. 2/5.

1-Star Albums (23)

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Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

2/5

Didn't get into it

Achtung Baby

3/5

An ok album, maybe I'm just too late to the party.

The Clash

2/5

It was ok, didn't partucularly like this one.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

1/5

The Blueprint

JAY Z

4/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

5/5

I've loved it since my brother gave me the album for Christmas in 2002

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Never really liked this one and always found it overrated. It's better though than I thought.

Mask

Bauhaus

1/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

First two songs start the album in a good way and then #4 is Stairway to Heaven which is of course a classic. A really good album but 1 or 2 songs that drag it down from 5 stars to 4.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

2/5

Difficult to rate this album as I have very limited knowledge and listening history of jazz music. Sounds a bit like background music or music to put on during dinner party.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

It was ok. Was expecting a bit more but some really good songs on this one, Alison being the favorite.

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Really good synth-pop album, good flow from the first song until the last. The Chauffeur was a "surprise" for me because I had only heard it from the Deftones cover album. The original Duran Duran version is a solid one as well.

Survivor

Destiny's Child

3/5

Inconsistency is the word that first comes to mind. Some good pop/rnb songs on this one but also some songs that I wasn't bothered about. A nice discovery was Emotion, a cover version of the Gibb brothers song. All in all a pretty good album.

Destroyer

KISS

4/5

Probably the biggest surprise so far. Never liked Kiss but this album was a good one.

Live At Leeds

The Who

1/5

Boring

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

3/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

2/5

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

2/5

Between 1 and 2 stars so I round up to 2

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

3/5

Always hated The Sugarcubes but when I think about it, I've never really given them a proper listen. This album was at least much better than I thought.

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

1/5

This is album #28 and this is the fourth album that I have given 1 star. For the other 3 albums, although I did not like or get into them, I could still understand why they were on the list of 1001 albums to hear before you die for historical or influential reasons, but for this one I just don't get it. Rather dull and uninspiring to be honest. Did like the voice of the female singer though.

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

3/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

A great bunch of songs. 2 or 3 songs I would have removed which is the reason I give it a 4 but not 5.

Crazysexycool

TLC

3/5

A bit too long, was expecting more because the only song I knew before listening to the album, Waterfalls, is so good and a r&b classic

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Dripping with influence

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Very good and cohesive album. One of it's strenghts is how effortlessly the next song follows the previous one.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

2/5

Not that bothered.

Franz Ferdinand

5/5

Brilliant album from start to finish

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

Good album, 7/10 but lowering it down to 3/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

No words needed, almost a perfect album

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

1/5

Never again

Either Or

Elliott Smith

5/5

Common

3/5

Pretty good album but the intro is the best intro song I can remember. 3.5/5 but goes down to 3/5.

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

2/5

First of all way too long at over 90 mins. Secondly, this is a live album which I usually don't really care about. 2/5.

The Man Who

Travis

4/5

Good but simple songwriting. Nostalgic to me which might affect the rating.

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

1/5

Another background music album that I don't care about or can't relate to. Strange that it's on this list in the first place.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

The first 12 songs and I'm thinking...This is like a best of album. Goes downhill a little for the last 3 songs but wow, what an album. Feels like I'm 16 again.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

2/5

Movies

Holger Czukay

1/5

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

This is probably the hardest album to rate so far. I really do like some of the songs but others I don't like that much but feel like I "should" like them. Maybe I just need to give it more time and it will all come together. The songs that I currently relate to are in no particular order: - Louvre - Green Light (of course) - Sober - Writer In The Dark This is somewhere between 3 and 4 but with time, and I will listen to this album again, I think it will be more like a 4 than a 3.

The Undertones

3/5

Tapestry

Carole King

3/5

Never heard of Carole King before (?!) so this was a bit of a surprise to me. Easy listening, nice soft rock with a bit of country as well. Decent.

The White Album

Beatles

3/5

The first half is good but there are some songs on the second half which could easily have been left out. Way too long and too much inconsistency between discs (1 is great, 4 is just average at best). The songs that I liked the most: Dear Prudence While My Guitar Gently Weeps Happiness Is A Warm Gun I'm So Tired Blackbird I Will Mother Nature's Son

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

A grunge classic, some incredibly good songs and a couple that prevent this album a five star rating.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

I've never got into this album so I wasn't expecting much but having listened to it three times today I can say it's alright. Better than my expectations at least. Still believe it is been better for those who were old enough to listen to it when it was released (I was 5 or 6). Californication and By The Way still my two favorite RHCP albums with this one coming in third or fourth along with Stadium Arcadium.

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

1/5

Incredible. Incredibly boring I mean.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

Did not listen that much to this album when it came out except for the singles. Didn't really like it in the beginning now, but it grew on me. Between 3 and 4 but leaning towards 4.

Bossanova

Pixies

5/5

All time great

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

2/5

Meh

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

2/5

Mixed opinion on this. Not sure if it's ok or just rubbish.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

I liked this 50s album from the 60s

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

Not that impressed. Too long. Some good songs here though. Might have to give it a listen later.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

2/5

Rapture

Anita Baker

1/5

Between 1 and 2

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Fast Car is great but so are other songs on here as well. Good album.

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

What an album. Listened heavily to the singles when the came out but never gave the album a proper listening time until now. Wow. Best tracks: - The Hardest Button To Button - There's No Home For You Here - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself - The Air Near My Fingers ...and yes, Seven Nation Army. Little Acorns is also cool.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

2/5

Alright but far from good.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

1/5

This might be technically good but this is a jazz album and I just find jazz boring most of the time.

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

3/5

Future Days

Can

2/5

Want to like this album more but I have to go with my feeling

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

3/5

Some good tracks here but a few not so good. Between 3 and 4 on this one.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

This is 80 minutes long and didn't get all too into it. In the album's defense, there are some good tracks here and giving it more time than just 1 day will definitely make me like this album more.

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

2/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

Way too many songs and therefore way too long album at over 2 hours. But the good songs are really good.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

A great album

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

3.5 rounded down to 3 because of a bad album cover, worse album name and the grammar in the band name.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

5/5

Wow this one was a surprise. Didn't think it would be any good but turned out I was very wrong.

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

5/5

Loved it ever since it came out in 2008

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

All time favorite, love to see in this list. Best tracks: - Debaser - Tame - Wave Of Mutilation - Here Comes Your Man - Monkey Gone To Heaven - Hey - Gouge Away

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

A good album slightly dragged down by the number of songs/length of the album. 1/3 of the album dropped and it's a definite 5 star album. It might even be a 5 star album because the other 2/3 is so good, but to be consistent with other long albums I've rated, I'm gonna give this one 4 stars.

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

3/5

Probably better than I expected

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

5/5

An easy 5

The La's

2/5

Pretty dull album with the exception of There She Goes and Looking Glass is a really good closer.

Different Class

Pulp

5/5

The first song I ever heard from Pulp was Disco 2000 from Now That’s What I Call Music 33, which my uncle bought in the UK and gave me as a Christmas present in 1996 when I was 11 years old. It became my favorite song on the album and one of my most listened to songs of my childhood. Then of course I heard and loved Common People but for some reason I never bothered with listening to the full album, which is strange because I'm an "album person" and this is exactly the type of music I listened to in my 20s. But now after having listened to the full album three times, wow, what an album. So many great tracks I've never heard before but are so fucking great; Something Changed, F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E., Underwear and Bar Italia to name a few. Different Class is my 85th album of this project and easily a top 5 so far and perhaps the best one yet. An album I will listen to for years.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

1/5

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

3/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

An easy 4 out of 5. The sound on this album is so good.

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

It was pretty good, nothing spectacular but I understand the influence it had on the shoegaze genre. I'm between 3 and 4 on this one but giving it a 3.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

1/5

Simple. Jazz is just not my type of music.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

5/5

Love this album. Listened a lot to it when it came out and still do occasionally.

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

3/5

It was ok. Not a big fan of bands like Soccer Mommy, Snail Mail and Lucy Dacus to name a few but Liz Phair has obviously inspired lots of these current bands. For me this album is a 2.5 but giving it a three because it will most likely get better with more spins.

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

Powerful, energetic and brilliant. All of the songs are good on this one. Easy 5.

Connected

Stereo MC's

2/5

Don't see the fuzz about this one. Ok at it's best, nothing more.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

5/5

So smooth. So unbelievably effortless considering the circumstances. So good. Best tracks: Treaty, Leaving The Table, If I Didn't Have Your Love & Steer Your Way.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

3/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

4/5

Leftism

Leftfield

1/5

Sail Away

Randy Newman

3/5

Was it great? No. Did I need to hear it? No, but it was alright.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

A classic. Loved it since I was 11.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

Not special but not bad either.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

Running Up That Hill changes it from a 2 to a 3

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

1/5

Nah

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

3/5

It's alright, need more time for this one than just 1 day, but I can see some potential here.

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

Quiet Life

Japan

4/5

Pleasantly surprising. Love the overall sound. Best tracks: Quiet Life, Despair, Alien.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

Solid rock and roll. Light 4/5.

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

2/5

Rather outdated musically but really outdated lyrically.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Already a classic

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Surprisingly good. Great riffs, proper dirty rock but also really fantastic lighter melodic moments. High 4/5, close to 5/5.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

3/5

When I saw the album cover I was sure it would be proper shit but it turned out to be alright.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

A different Beach Boys album. Dark and at times psychedelic but I liked it. Production is top notch.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

2/5

Not my thing, never was and probably never will.

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Few songs but all of them are good. Best tracks: Station to Station and TVC15.

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

2/5

Elvis Presley

3/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Liquid Swords

GZA

3/5

This is the perfect example of an album that requires repeated listens. First time I'm listening to it and it's ok but after second and third listens, I feel it's getting better. Will give it a three but can easily see it as a 4 after giving it more time.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

1/5

Would have voted 0 stars if it was possible

High Violet

The National

5/5

A perfect album and I'm so happy to see it here. Top 5 favorite albums of all time. All the songs are good but these are the standout ones: * Sorrow * Bloodbuzz Ohio * Conversation 16 * England

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Not Neil Youngs' best album by any means but still á solid albun

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

2/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

2/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

3/5

Os Mutantes

1/5

No thanks

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

3/5

Powerful and gripping

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

2/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

5/5

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Classic

System Of A Down

4/5

Close To You

Carpenters

3/5

Paul Simon

3/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

Not the best nor my favorite Beatles album but still good. Not many probably won't say this but I absolutely love All My Loving.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

3/5

Black Sabbath

3/5

Atomizer

Big Black

2/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

5/5

A great album consisting of 4 absolutely outstanding songs and 4 other really good songs. You know which category each song goes into.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

2/5

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

3/5

Better than I thought it would be but still you can hear it's a little outdated. Alright though.

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

2/5

Tago Mago

Can

1/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

5/5

I just love Parachutes and don't give a fuck what others think

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

2/5

Phrenology

The Roots

3/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1/5

Unlistenable

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

2/5

The Specials

3/5

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Dark, moody, strangely sexy. Love it.

evermore

Taylor Swift

4/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

4/5

Surprisingly good, or at least much better than I thought it would be. Private Dancer is a great song.

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

2/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

An album I've loved since 2007

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

World Clique

Deee-Lite

2/5

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

4/5

White Denim

3/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

2/5

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

2/5

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

3/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

5/5

All time indie classic, simple as that.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

3/5

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

3/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

4/5

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

I want to like this album more, but somehow can't. Three really good tracks; Golden Age, Guess I'm Doing Fine and Lost Cause.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

2/5

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

2/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

Gold

Ryan Adams

2/5

2.5 lowered to 2

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

2/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

808 State

3/5

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

2/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

1/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

4/5

Influential album with some really good songs

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

3/5

American Gothic

David Ackles

2/5

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

1/5

I just don't like jazz, period

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

2/5

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

2/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Tommy

The Who

4/5

This one was a nice surprise. Didn't expect much as my previous experience with The Who was mostly My Generation so this album felt like a Christmas present.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

I might a too soft on this one. I feel like it's a two but might be giving it a three because of Jimi's guitar work. The album itself isn't that good, I think the songs are scattered throughout the album and two songs are way to long and lost my attention.

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

2/5

Not his best record, there is a certain someone I owned on CD in the 90s and still love. This one was pretty dull.

The White Room

The KLF

4/5

Yeah, difficult but possible to find on Spotify, but this album was a real surprise and exactly the reason why I love this project. Will be coming back to this band again.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

4/5

Slide Away is a masterpiece. Some other great songs as well but not as great as What's The Story. Overall a good record, close to 5.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

Far from as good as Funeral and The Suburbs. 4 or 5 good songs but 4 or 5 songs I didn't care about.

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

4/5

Maybe a three but it has crazy hits so give it a four

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

Not sure about this album although I listened to it 3 times. Good songs are good but feel like they could easily have cut 4-5 songs off it and make it a 45 minute album instead of 70 mins.

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

Damaged

Black Flag

3/5

If this was part of a Tony Hawk's Pro Skater soundtrack, I would probably have liked it more.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

5/5

An album I loved when it came out in my early 20s and haven't really listened to it a lot since 2009/10. Listening to it now brings back a lot of good memories and the album is surprisingly better than I anticipated.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Masterpiece

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Miriam Makeba

3/5

The Joshua Tree

3/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

Did not have high hopes but it was surprisingly good

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

3/5

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

1/5

Truly pathetic

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

3/5

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

2/5

Glad it's over

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

2/5

Not terrible but far from interesting

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Some very high highs but not consistent enough for 5 stars

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

4/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

2/5

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

2/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

5/5

This album is so good. I will never forget in 2006 when I was sent for two weeks by my company to work in eastern Iceland up in the mountains building a power station. It was mid to end of May and it was around 0 degrees, no internet and just total shit. I even forgot my iPod at home so I was without music for the whole time. Working hours were from 7 in the morning until 9 in the evening which was fine because there was absolutely nothing else to do but we were tired after working for 2 weeks with no days off. After the two weeks we were driven to the airport and I sat down on the plane to Reykjavik and the guy sitting next to me was listening to his iPod. I asked if I could use it for 5 minutes and he handed me the earbuds and one song was finishing and another one was starting, a song I didn't know at the time. That song was Suzanne by Leonard Cohen and it was and is still the best single song I've ever heard given the circumstances. Relaxing, soothing and pure class.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Parklife

Blur

4/5

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

2/5

Maxinquaye

Tricky

3/5