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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Vulgar Display Of Power Pantera	5	2.97	+2.03
Rum Sodomy & The Lash The Pogues	5	3.25	+1.75
Siembra Willie Colón & Rubén Blades	5	3.29	+1.71
Live And Dangerous Thin Lizzy	5	3.32	+1.68
Live At Leeds The Who	5	3.32	+1.68
2112 Rush	5	3.39	+1.61
Crosby, Stills & Nash Crosby, Stills & Nash	5	3.49	+1.51
Rust Never Sleeps Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.53	+1.47
Moving Pictures Rush	5	3.58	+1.42
After The Gold Rush Neil Young	5	3.63	+1.37

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) The Kinks	2	3.39	-1.39
Fifth Dimension The Byrds	2	3.07	-1.07

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Artist	Albums	Average
Johnny Cash	3	4.67
Rush	2	5
Bruce Springsteen	2	5
Black Sabbath	2	5
Beatles	4	4.25

5-Star Albums (24)

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At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

A remarkable piece of history. Even though from reading about it, this isn't the full recording, it's well put together and has a real feel of being in the room and a slight air of menace even all these years later. Playing San Quentin and then San Quentin again straight after and positioning it as improvised is a masterstroke

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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

One I actually knew pretty well, a big Neil Young fan though not a completist. Love the sound of this album, love Crazy Horse and the feel of a band in a room together. It's got really raw riffs and it takes its time, marking itself as the template for everything Neil Young and Crazy Horse did afterwards. Danny Whitten did a lot more than I remembered, plenty of important vocals etc. Great band. This comes just after Buffalo broke up and before CSNY really took off but obviously he came back to Crazy Horse as necessary. Just a brilliant indicator for starting this listening project to get to re listen to an album I know.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Another that I knew. One of my favourite Stones albums. Probably at their best for me

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

Brilliant listen, or at least the first half is. Absolute bangers of tunes, it's like a perfect half album

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Not really my kind of thing. I get the importance and the influence but I'm too old for this kind of indie emo now

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

Love this album. Jack White slightly wandering outside the self-imposed White Stripes template but the bangers are still that loud sparse style. Blue Orchid, My Doorbell, Little Ghost all great

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

5/5

Brilliant, so much fun

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

Classic for a reason

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

5/5

Ha love this one. I'm very familiar with it, overdubs and all! I think that it's a great album no matter whether there are overdubs after the fact, which there are and it's never affected my listening. The epic drumming from Brian Downey is a particular highlight

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

My favourite of these American recordings. Obviously it has Hurt which is the best known track of this era but this is the top end of this concept of covering songs in the late Cash style. This album feels vulnerable and raw and is all the better for it. There are a few I'm not a fan of - Danny Boy and Desperado are songs I don't like no matter who is singing. I Hung My Head, The Man Comes Around and his reinterpretation of his own Give My Love to Rose are my favourites.

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

3/5

Fine, liked the opener, bit samey after that. Interesting to listen to rather than enjoyable

Whatever

Aimee Mann

4/5

Pretty cool, hearing a lot of Tom Petty in it. I was expecting it to sound a little dated but the guitars and drums have that 70s feel that lend itself to a sort of timelessness, stays away from the overly jangly guitar of some of the 90s. Strong voice and really good songwriting, a confidence to the whole album really

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

3/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

5/5

A joy

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

2/5

Mediocre and messy

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

5/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

Yes

Dirt

Alice In Chains

4/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

Really good, easy to listen to in the car

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

5/5

Sounds like the cover. You will run through a wall. I don't like it but my wife has strong feelings

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

Great production

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Great stuff, hadn't listened to all of it before but a great jam

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

4/5

Not my favourite, not my least favourite. Some great tunes, some ok tunes.

Pyromania

Def Leppard

3/5

Solid classic rock

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Hits

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

4/5

Brilliant sounding as it was then

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

4/5

Revolver

Beatles

4/5

Ah the cool Beatles album of the moment. Used to be Sgt Peppers and then we all changed our minds. This album is great, with some absolute bombs. Yellow Submarine is unlistenable. Your Bird Can Sing is my favourite on the album, I wish Tomorrow Never Knows was about 12 minutes long.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

One of the best

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

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

The Kinks

2/5

The singing seemed out of tune on a couple songs. Some nice little riffs but overall not great

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Love Neil, just saw him live last night! Serendipity

Celebrity Skin

Hole

4/5

One of the best on the list so far. Really eclectic mix from classic 90s loud singing with acoustic guitars to sweeping instrumentation, really showing off the Billy Corgan collaboration.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

3/5

Tough going, some great songs, bit of a slog

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

I like a few songs, used to play them in a cover band. A bit overblown would be the kind version

L.A. Woman

The Doors

5/5

One of my favourites

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

One of my favourite Sabbath albums and a day after Ozzy died. What a life

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Mott

Mott The Hoople

2/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Foo Fighters

3/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

5/5

Banger

Abraxas

Santana

5/5

John Prine

4/5

Surprisingly entertaining and funny clever lyrics

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

2112

Rush

5/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

It's Abbey Road, you don't need another opinion on it

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Another where another opinion on this one isn't going to make much difference. I like this album, I was later to it than other Pink Floyd big albums but now really love it

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

3/5

Impressive that all of these big songs are on one album. I'm just not a big fan

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

5/5

One of my all time favourite albums from my favourite band. I still have a track or two that I'm not fond of but I love the flow between some of the songs, the slightly concept album of it all and the still young ambition of the band. Brian May was coming back from serious illness and felt the need to prove himself again, coming up with the deceptively complex solo for Killer Queen and the bombast of Brighton Rock. It became a cornerstone of the live show, allowing him to show off his unique triple harmony delay with the Red Special and the wall of Vox amps that became his signature. This is a band still on the rise, pre Bohemian Rhapsody and it has all the swagger still of a more established band.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

5/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

3/5

It is a relic of the era. Very grating and manic in parts but then has 6 really good songs

Hunky Dory

David Bowie