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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Arular M.I.A.	5	2.83	+2.17
A Girl Called Dusty Dusty Springfield	5	3.33	+1.67
We Are Family Sister Sledge	5	3.48	+1.52
Here's Little Richard Little Richard	5	3.56	+1.44
Triangle The Beau Brummels	4	2.71	+1.29
The Only Ones The Only Ones	4	2.91	+1.09
Ingenue k.d. lang	4	2.94	+1.06
A Date With The Everly Brothers The Everly Brothers	4	2.96	+1.04

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Joshua Tree U2	1	3.66	-2.66
Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin	2	4.11	-2.11
Remedy Basement Jaxx	1	2.68	-1.68
Frank Amy Winehouse	2	3.45	-1.45
Cheap Thrills Big Brother & The Holding Company	2	3.42	-1.42
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	2	3.32	-1.32
Homework Daft Punk	2	3.29	-1.29
Murder Ballads Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	2	3.08	-1.08
Heartbreaker Ryan Adams	2	3.03	-1.03

5-Star Albums (5)

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Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf · 2 likes

4/5

Absolutely ridiculous. One of the stupidest albums I've ever heard. Highly recommend.

Junkyard

The Birthday Party · 1 likes

3/5

Abrasive, unpleasant, obtuse, unfriendly, but excellent.

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds · 1 likes

2/5

Hard one to review because it's such a mixed bag. On tracks like Stagger Lee, Henry Lee, Where the Wild Roses Grow, Death is not the end, it's a swaggering, raunchy, redblooded compendium of passion and woe. But on tracks like Song of Joy, The Curse of Millhaven and the absolutely interminable O'Malley's Bar, it's the dullest, most cringeworthy school-shooter incel power fantasy you can imagine, with lyrics that telegraph their rhymes from over the horizon. The good bits are great, but the bad bits are an absolute embarrassment.

1-Star Albums (2)

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Frank

Amy Winehouse

2/5

Grew on me as it went on, but fundamentally not my cup of tea. Not awful for a relaxing morning listen with Baby J. Best tracks: Help Yourself, In my Bed, Amy Amy Amy.

The Joshua Tree

1/5

Big, loud, empty, boring. Apparently, it's inspired by "America"

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

Starts strong, and is petty good, but not really enough of anything to make a huge impact. Not quite danceable enough, or hard enough, or sad enough. Title track is a banger tho.

The Cars

3/5

Love the sound, like the tunes. Good vibes, just would have liked more bangers. No bad songs, but no songs better than Just What I Needed.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

Have never truly loved Blues, but this is probably about as good as it can get, for me at least.

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

SMOOTH AS SILK AND BOLD AS BRASS

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

5/5

So good. Wonderful voice, evergreen melodies, wide range of sounds and emotions. So many good songs on this album.

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

4/5

Fun and breezy, occasionally freaky folky vibes. A couple of transcendant moments, didn't outstay it's welcome

Homework

Daft Punk

2/5

The bangers still bang, but too much filler and it gets lonely and boring long before the end. Definitely lived up to its title.

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

4/5

All of the songs basically sound the same and do the same thing, but that thing is incredibly fun and enjoyable for easily more than the albums length

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

Really good when it's good but too long and kinda outstays its welcome. I enjoyed myself, but I wasn't sorry when it ended.

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

100% holds up. Sweet, scary, expansive, intimate, everything

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

3/5

Abrasive, unpleasant, obtuse, unfriendly, but excellent.

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

Sad but hopeful, way better than I'd been led to believe. Great for a sunny morning.

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

2/5

Not enough art to separate it from the artist. Boring.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

Needs time, good headphones, an open mind, no interruptions, and ideally an epic landscape to walk across to enjoy properly, but still worth it with at least a couple of those things.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

2/5

The guitars and vocals are raw and fuzzy and great, but the songwriting is non existent. Just endless bluesy noodling. Sure it sounded good at the time, but that time has passed.

Metallica

4/5

Dark, warm, and crunchy. Maybe I shoulda been a metalhead all along.

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

3/5

The lyrics are witty and the 80s instrumentals are beautiful, but the tunes aren't there, and nothing sticks.

Gorillaz

4/5

The filler tracks are utterly skippable, but Clint Eastwood, Slow Country and M1A1 are worth two extra stars on their own.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

3/5

Pretty decent, considering I never thought I was a Dylan fan, bit samey after a while.

The Score

Fugees

4/5

The skits and ad libs are horrible and dated (bing!), but the tunes hold up pretty well and Lauren Hill still sounds great.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

3/5

Chunky, powerful and fun. Would have been better if it had been weirder.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Solid bluesy rock, v short, doesn't outstay it's welcome

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

3/5

Maybe needs headphones and no distractions to lock in properly, bit lacklustre and distant for me. Not unpleasant to listen to.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Still so heartbreaking, excellent songwriting, haunting but rich

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Dry, low energy, never really comes alive. Gets an extra star just for red eyes tho

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

3/5

Pretty nice, rolls around quite nicely for a bit, doesn't outstay it's welcome

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

3/5

listened walking with j by the river, nice to have another live album, proggy and odd and fun and pretentious in a good way

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

4/5

Listened playing with J on the mat, booombapboombapbombebappe

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Listened riding to peter's and back, really fun varied tunes.

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

Actually much nicer than I thought. listened while play with j on the mat

Arular

M.I.A.

5/5

Ingenue

k.d. lang

4/5

Listened during a river walk with jj, real nice and chill for a sunny day.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

5/5

Pure disco soul bliss. Absolute perfection.

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

3/5

Hasn't aged super well, but still raises a chuckle and a gasp or two.

Joan Armatrading

4/5

Beautiful stuff from a very underrated artist, wonderful easy listening for a sunny morning with J

Smile

Brian Wilson

3/5

Kinda disappointing, noodly, self indulgent and quite annoying with all the slide whistles and circus crap. Maybe Mike Love was the talented one. Gets a bonus star for the version of Good Vibrations tho.

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

3/5

Profoundly unremarkable but inoffensive bluesy pub rock. Way too many albums like this on this list, frankly

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

It's exactly what it says it is. All the songs are utterly charming and completely interchangeable. Zero surprises, zero disappointments

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

Absolutely ridiculous. One of the stupidest albums I've ever heard. Highly recommend.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

2/5

I mean it's fine.

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Pretty fun, eclectic and joyful, still miles better than anything Oasis could manage, but has too many similar songs and drags on just a touch.

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

2/5

Really interesting instrumentals let down by boring songwriting and lacklustre scotch morrisey vocals

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

Genius confirmed

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

4/5

SOOOO much more fun than led zep.

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

1/5

The only way I can make it through this album is by writing this while I listen. This sucks so much. It's boring and annoying, it's like being trapped in an endless conversation that just won't stop in a airless broken elevator. A genuine chore to listen to. And it's not just because I generally don't like dance music, I gave MIA's Arular 5/5. The penultimate track Don't Give Up is the closest thing this has to a saving grace, but it's too little too late, and no forgiveness is earned. I only finished the album out of spite. I win, you lose basement jaxx.

Justified

Justin Timberlake

3/5

This album would get 5/5 aside from the facts that I don't like JT, or RnB, and it's too long.

The Only Ones

4/5

Solid pop punk joy. Much better than the Clash.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

Still fresh, still a good time

A Date With The Everly Brothers