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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
American Gothic David Ackles	5	2.49	+2.51
Phaedra Tangerine Dream	5	2.73	+2.27
Group Sex Circle Jerks	5	2.75	+2.25
What's That Noise? Coldcut	5	2.77	+2.23
More Specials The Specials	5	2.95	+2.05
Will The Circle Be Unbroken Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	5	2.98	+2.02
american dream LCD Soundsystem	5	3.17	+1.83
The Beach Boys Today! The Beach Boys	5	3.26	+1.74
Low-Life New Order	5	3.29	+1.71
If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Pogues	5	3.33	+1.67

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bad Michael Jackson	1	3.81	-2.81
Superunknown Soundgarden	1	3.64	-2.64
Moving Pictures Rush	1	3.56	-2.56
Disraeli Gears Cream	1	3.46	-2.46
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs Derek & The Dominos	1	3.38	-2.38
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	1	3.38	-2.38
Doggystyle Snoop Dogg	1	3.36	-2.36
The Yes Album Yes	1	3.31	-2.31
Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi	1	3.29	-2.29
Darklands The Jesus And Mary Chain	1	3.23	-2.23

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Beastie Boys	3	5
Muddy Waters	2	5
Bob Dylan	2	5
The Beach Boys	2	5
Steely Dan	2	5
Beatles	5	4.2
Black Sabbath	3	4.33
Radiohead	5	4

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Prince	5, 4, 2
Beatles	4, 2, 5, 5, 5

5-Star Albums (52)

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Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Popular Reviews

Diamond Life

Sade · 1 likes

2/5

I'm sure this is really well crafted and she's got a wonderful voice but it's just not for me, Clive

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream · 1 likes

5/5

Never heard anything like this. Obviously has to be listened to in a certain situation or it doesn't work, but this hit me at the exact right time

1-Star Albums (17)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

All Ratings

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

Listened while working so a load of the lyrics went right past me, I would concentrate harder on this with a relisten. But in terms of the music composition this is a great album. Two all timer REM tracks on it as well (It's The End Of The World As We Know It and The One I Love).

Urban Hymns

The Verve

4/5

Great album, love the soundscapes and some of the lyrics are brilliant. Bittersweet Symphony is obviously an all timer but I'm not sure there's a bad song on here

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Good album, I imagine at the time some of this would have been pretty groundbreaking. Hard to ding it for anything but not sure how often I'll be coming back

Diamond Life

Sade

2/5

I'm sure this is really well crafted and she's got a wonderful voice but it's just not for me, Clive

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

5/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

Starting to hear bits of what they would become, too many of them are a bit bland by the standard of The Beatles. I always forget how good their voices actually are!

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Brilliant album but Christ, Marvin was horny. The final track is absolutely devastating

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

Would have been great live in a tiny bar

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

Okay but quite easy to drift in and out of

Faith

George Michael

4/5

Never really tried George before but really enjoyed this. Read about how controversial it was at the time; nowadays it seems so tame. Very 80s production coded too

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Sorry Stevie not one of your best for me

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Perfectly listenable but unfortunately they all kinda sound the same. Rio is a banger though

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

All sort of blended together as one

Pretenders

5/5

Very good stuff. Chrissy Hynde's voice is brilliant

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Clearly very good, unfortunately got distracted by work so didn't appreciate it as much as I could have

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Bob is clearly the best to ever reggae

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

Really unique album and I just love a hip hop drum beat

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Fleet Foxes

3/5

Blue Mountain Ridge is amazing, aside from that, I found this a bit bland

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

4/5

Really nice surprise this one. Didn't realise they were this bluesy

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

What a banger. If I wasn't being given another album I would probably just go back through it again

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

1/5

Shite

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

3/5

Can see how it influenced others but a bit too scattershot for me to truly enjoy it

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

2/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Really good stuff Curtis

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Expected this to be very glum and slow but was really full of life

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

4/5

Very very strange

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Cracking voice, not sure it did quite enough for me to properly love it

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Dunno if this counts as Dad Rock but call me Dad because this Rocks

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

Not David's best. CBA with Eno's bullshit

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

5/5

Never heard anything like this. Obviously has to be listened to in a certain situation or it doesn't work, but this hit me at the exact right time

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

Incredibly effecting stuff

Bad

Michael Jackson

1/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

Already a huge fan but this album shot up in my estimation after listening to this yesterday

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Decent

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Don't really understand the hype

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

Serviceable. I think whatever it is R.E.M. are trying just doesn't speak to me like it does others

Hot Fuss

The Killers

3/5

The singles are great (especially so if you haven't had them thrown at you for 20+ years) but the back half is so forgettable

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

The people were right

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

2/5

Forgettable

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

3/5

I thought this would be terrible but he's actually alright

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

Enjoyed this more than I thought I would but I think musically it's just not going to interest me enough to come back repeatedly

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Good stuff although not as good as Exodus

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Really enjoyed Bowie does soul. Fame is an absolute all timer

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

Got some great stuff on here but slightly too long and muddled to be a 5 star one

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

4/5

Brilliant

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

2/5

Below average and largely forgettable

Moving Pictures

Rush

1/5

More like Pants

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

4/5

Great stuff; always liked The Hives and this was brilliant

1999

Prince

5/5

Properly great and funky

Femi Kuti

4/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

It's a classic for a reason!

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

The Rise & Fall

Madness

1/5

Sorry Suggs, couldn't make it to the end

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

3/5

Very weird to hear Nirvana being nice boys while on stage, not the myth I've been sold!

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

All timer

Slipknot

1/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

Too corny to get a 5 star but it's great fun

Superunknown

Soundgarden

1/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Just great stuff innit? Not a bad song on there

I Should Coco

Supergrass

5/5

Didn't realise this would be so good. Brilliant Britpop album

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

5/5

Perfect hardcore album

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

4/5

Terrific synth pop album

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

4/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

1/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

This is just brilliant stuff

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

3/5

3 star jungle

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

3/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

The Yes Album

Yes

1/5

Wakeman shouldn't have been allowed to express himself: stick to the piano on Hunky Dory

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

3/5

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

3/5

Odelay

Beck

2/5

The Doors

3/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

1/5

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

4/5

Odessa

Bee Gees

1/5

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

4/5

Always liked them from the Greatest Hits album. This one is also good stuff

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

2/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

4/5

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

3/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

1/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

Tracy Chapman

3/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

5/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

5/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

3/5

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

1/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

5/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

4/5

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

3/5

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

2/5

Throwing Muses

2/5

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

1/5

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

4/5

Play

Moby

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

Violent Femmes

2/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

Repeater

Fugazi

3/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

3/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

4/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

Harvest

Neil Young

2/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

4/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Lost Souls

Doves

4/5

Dire Straits

4/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

4/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Elvis Presley

3/5

Headquarters

The Monkees

3/5

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

3/5

Common

4/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Close To You

Carpenters

4/5

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

4/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

1/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

3/5

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

3/5

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

4/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

The Poet

Bobby Womack

4/5

Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

3/5

Damaged

Black Flag

2/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

2/5

The Band

4/5

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

2/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

1/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

3/5

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

4/5

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

1/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

Low

David Bowie

4/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

3/5

Synchronicity

The Police

5/5

Drunk

Thundercat

4/5

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

Low-Life

New Order

5/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

No Other

Gene Clark

3/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

5/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

The Libertines

4/5

Suicide

3/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

Blur

4/5

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

4/5

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

4/5

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

4/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

2/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

3/5

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

3/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

2/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Maxinquaye

Tricky

4/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

2/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

5/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

American Gothic

David Ackles

5/5

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

Elastica

3/5

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

2/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

4/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

Ramones

4/5

Trio

Dolly Parton

3/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

2/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

2/5

The Stone Roses

5/5

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

3/5

Ctrl

SZA

3/5

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

4/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

2/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

2/5

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

3/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

5/5

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

5/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

4/5

Celebrity Skin

Hole

4/5

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

5/5

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

5/5

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

4/5

Ananda Shankar

2/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Aja

Steely Dan

5/5

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

4/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

3/5

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

2/5

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

2/5

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

3/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Joan Armatrading

4/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

2/5

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

3/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

4/5

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

3/5

Black Sabbath

4/5

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

4/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

5/5

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

4/5

Hms Fable

Shack

4/5

Da Capo

Love

3/5

B-52's

The B-52's

3/5

More Specials

The Specials

5/5

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

3/5

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

2/5