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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
You Are The Quarry Morrissey	5	2.86	+2.14
Under Construction Missy Elliott	5	3.14	+1.86
Actually Pet Shop Boys	5	3.18	+1.82
A Girl Called Dusty Dusty Springfield	5	3.33	+1.67
Blue Lines Massive Attack	5	3.38	+1.62
Disraeli Gears Cream	5	3.47	+1.53
The Gershwin Songbook Ella Fitzgerald	5	3.53	+1.47
Funeral Arcade Fire	5	3.56	+1.44
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys	5	3.73	+1.27
Slayed? Slade	4	2.89	+1.11

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) Lynyrd Skynyrd	2	3.75	-1.75

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Artist	Albums	Average
Pink Floyd	2	5

5-Star Albums (12)

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

Popular Reviews

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

5/5

Bangers a-plenty. Really enjoyed this, although the spoken word bits sound like an earnest podcast. Tunes though!

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At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Not a country person, but loved the energy and the humor in this performance.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

3/5

Not a country person, but loved the energy and the humor in this performance.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Dreamy record that I reckon I could really fall for in my youth when I had more time and less choice at my fingertips. Not an instant love though.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

Getting hit with some jazz records early in this challenge. Enjoyable background music, but I struggle to stay focused on record, and feels more like the type of thing that would be so much more powerful and engaging live. This is just me, struggling to connect with jazz as a genre. Great name though!

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

2/5

Mostly swamp rock that didn’t quite fit the idea I had from Free Bird or Sweet Home Alabama. Was fine, but didn’t really grab my attention until the last track. Doubt I’ll revisit.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

Not at all what I expected, but really enjoyed this.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Whenever I hear reggae music I enjoy it, but have never truly dug below the surface because it seems like such an overwhelming genre to dive into without a decent guide to it. Maybe this is my starting point - will revisit

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

5/5

Bangers a-plenty. Really enjoyed this, although the spoken word bits sound like an earnest podcast. Tunes though!

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

Decent live album, but lacked the spark of Johnny Cash at Fulsome Prison for example.

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

3/5

Perfectly pleasant, but totally overshadowed by All I Wanna Do, with none of the other tracks leaving a lasting memory.

Berlin

Lou Reed

4/5

A rare re-listen on the same day. Not as immediately accessible as Transformer, but not at difficult a listen as I’d been led to believe. Really enjoyed this and will return.

Slayed?

Slade

4/5

Was not expecting this to be so much fun. Seems I have always underestimated Slade as part of the glam movement.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

5/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

5/5

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

5/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

A few bangers that I already knew, but am now annoyed at myself for not digging into this album before. There are signs here of the band that (in my opinion) produce one of the great runs of near-perfect albums within a decade. Will definitely listen again.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

My third favourite Pink Floyd album, but still a stunning achievement. So many layers, and little things that open up on every listen.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

One poor song at the end can’t derail a 5-star album the rest of the way. Assuming you can also separate the art from the artist.

Play

Moby

4/5

There’s a five-star album in here, but the back end, although still interesting, doesn’t fit the vibe of the early stretch of the album. That said, some absolute tunes on here.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

5/5

A debut album has no right to contain this many classics. Brilliant.

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

3/5

Half the album are stone cold classics, with the other half being somewhat forgettable.

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

3/5

Decent listen, but didn’t grab me. Worth it for the acapella version of Back To Life though!

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

4/5

Don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t this. Opened my eyes to a completely new band and given me a new found appreciation for the use of the flute in rock music.

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

Fun album, with definite glimpses of the band the Beatles would become. Few too many covers to be a classic album IMO.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

One heavily blues inspired album that I think would sound better live. None of the songs particularly caught my attention, but it was a perfectly pleasant listen.

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

Fine.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Really grew on me as it went on. Encouraged me to delve further into Talking Heads than my best of CD.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

One of my favourite bands live, and a great album. Just short of 5 star status as it loses a little momentum towards the end. The highlights are incredibly high though!

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

4/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

Not at all what I was expecting - this album turned out to be an absolute riot!

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

2/5

Like something Nick Cave would play after you get home from the pub at midnight. Each song sent me through a journey that went “what the hell?” to “okay, this is interesting” to “why are they doing that now?” Glad I gave it a try. Would not listen again.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5