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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Solid Air John Martyn	5	3.17	+1.83
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.3	+1.7
Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow	5	3.35	+1.65
Murmur R.E.M.	5	3.41	+1.59
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	5	3.44	+1.56
Sign 'O' The Times Prince	5	3.45	+1.55
The ArchAndroid Janelle Monáe	5	3.45	+1.55
War U2	5	3.46	+1.54
Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys	5	3.46	+1.54
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen	5	3.63	+1.37

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Tusk Fleetwood Mac	1	3.47	-2.47
Tommy The Who	1	3.33	-2.33
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	1	3.31	-2.31
The Seldom Seen Kid Elbow	1	3.24	-2.24
Loveless My Bloody Valentine	1	3.18	-2.18
...The Dandy Warhols Come Down The Dandy Warhols	1	3.13	-2.13
Roxy Music Roxy Music	1	3.09	-2.09
Want One Rufus Wainwright	1	2.91	-1.91
A Wizard, A True Star Todd Rundgren	1	2.84	-1.84
One World John Martyn	1	2.81	-1.81

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	3	4.67
Beastie Boys	3	4.33
Radiohead	3	4.33
Stevie Wonder	3	4.33
Bruce Springsteen	3	4.33
The Rolling Stones	3	4.33

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Artist	Ratings
Fleetwood Mac	5, 1
John Martyn	1, 5

5-Star Albums (24)

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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

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Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon · 1 likes

4/5

This is really good, a middle ground between Simon and Garfunkel and the Paul Simon of Graceland I grew up with.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay · 1 likes

5/5

I like my version of X&Y more, but this is a better album. So much promise of what they could be vs. what they became.

1-Star Albums (15)

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Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

An OK listen, not bad but not a lot grabbed me.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

More sophisticated zep, needs another listen.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

4/5

This is really good, a middle ground between Simon and Garfunkel and the Paul Simon of Graceland I grew up with.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Very seashantish; not bad, but that is what is most memorable.

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

1/5

Not a good sign when, listening to the first track, you think to yourself: this just goes on and on...

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

What an album! 70s Soul is a gap in my music library and this is a good addition- I wish I could add half stars because this album is almost perfect.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

A solid album that falters in the latter half of side 2.

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

3/5

Its age is showing, if I'd heard this in the 90s, I probably would've loved it dearly.

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

4/5

Not a Dead fan, but this was good. Their reputation as a jam band isn't really on display here- for the better. Just a nice set of good tunes.

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

3/5

Sound Affects

The Jam

3/5

LP1

FKA twigs

3/5

Probably 3.5 stars, but a solid album.

Bummed

Happy Mondays

3/5

Really captures the music at the end of the 80s/start of the 90s. May sound dated now, but I can hear the inspiration many artists pulled from this band.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

4/5

endless harmonies

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

I just can't with this band- either I like it or immediately tune it out.

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

It doesn't have the flow of Rubber Soul, but it signals growth in their songwriting and studio experimentation.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

2/5

Psychedelica and long guitar solos still elude me- some quality songs, but I could not finish this.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

3/5

Good, but nothing really grabbed me.

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

The hits good, some are great! But the rest is forgettable.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

5/5

I like my version of X&Y more, but this is a better album. So much promise of what they could be vs. what they became.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

3/5

His baritone was not yet there.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

The hits are great, the misses...

More Specials

The Specials

2/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Not bad, but nothing grabbed me.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

4/5

The context is important here- the roots of indie and emo are here.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

Quite good

Street Life

The Crusaders

3/5

Good light jazz, very 80s.

Trio

Dolly Parton

3/5

Quite good and soothing

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

Despite its short length, there are a few songs that just seem to go on too long. The misogyny is also glaring, it is easy to see why they rarely played many of these songs.

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

4/5

The Grand Tour

George Jones

4/5

This is what a broken heart sounds like.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

4/5

Should be 4.5! A great album, but Within You Without You is borderline unlistenable.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

4/5

Missed out on this when it came out, need to relisten to this.

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

A great take on classic songs.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Led Zeppelin

4/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

4/5

3.5- just the right amount of excess.

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

1/5

I tried...

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

2/5

Foo Fighters

4/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

3/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

3/5

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

A masterpiece that captures the turn of the century post 9/11 discontent.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Good but very long and bloated

Repeater

Fugazi

3/5

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

3/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

3/5

A mixed bag of really good to great songs, and some not-so-good material. I know this album has a strong cult following, but I wonder how his early death contributed to his borderline canonization as an iconic artist. Are people reacting to his work, or to what they think he might have become based on a small sample size?

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Really good! The rambling in front of By the time I get to Phoenix is the only blemish.

Harvest

Neil Young

3/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

Very good but flawed album.

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

3/5

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

3/5

A good album, but not my thing.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

3/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

4/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

3/5

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

3/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

3/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Joan Baez

2/5

Her high pitched singing relly gets in the way and distracts from the music.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

3/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

2/5

Should be 2.5 - some are really good, while others are instantly forgettable.

Violent Femmes

4/5

Joan Armatrading

4/5

Tommy

The Who

1/5

I just can't with The Who- either it's some of the best music I have ever heard, or the worst dreck ever to befoul my ears.

Tom Tom Club

3/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

3/5

Not as "punk" as I was expecting, but you can hear the roots.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Have to listen to Midnight Rambler again, seemed to just go on and on

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

3/5

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

2/5

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

2/5

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

4/5

May have to come back and rerate this a 5- what a great album!

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

It's very good, at times great, but an editor was needed- a flawed masterpiece.

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

3/5

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

4/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

3/5

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

3/5

Low

David Bowie

4/5

Adele

3/5

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

1/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

2/5

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

3/5

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

2/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Should be 3.5- cannot believe they do not allow half stars.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

Interesting, but feels crammed- like a few songs could be removed

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

3/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

3/5

Crazysexycool

TLC

3/5

Roxy Music

1/5

Could not finish. Maybe have to try again.

Ramones

4/5

Vivid

Living Colour

4/5

The Joshua Tree

4/5

4.5- still a wonderful album but 1-2 songs are hit or miss: Red Hill Town and Trip Through Your Wires

Kenza

Khaled

2/5

DNF- will have to try again, not in the mood for this type today.

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

1/5

The singer's voice really turned me off.

Snivilisation

Orbital

2/5

The constant dialogue clips are often distracting from the music- should try this one again.

Murmur

R.E.M.

5/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

3/5

Take Me Apart

Kelela

3/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

4/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

Common

4/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

2/5

Hard listen- have to give it a relisten

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

3/5

The Blueprint

JAY Z

4/5

Metallica

4/5

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

2112

Rush

3/5

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Liquid Swords

GZA

3/5

Scott 4

Scott Walker

3/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

Born To Be With You

Dion

3/5

Paul Simon

3/5

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

1/5

Queen II

Queen

3/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

3/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

4/5

Moby Grape

3/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

4/5

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

3/5

In Utero

Nirvana

3/5

I can only listen to so much feedback and screaming before I hit skip

War

5/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

4/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

3/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

3/5

Man, side two really shits the bed

Boston

5/5

#1 Record

Big Star

3/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

3/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

3/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

Miriam Makeba

4/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

1/5

Could not finish- just an odd collection that did not seem to flow from one song into another.

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

4/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

4/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

3/5

Nowhere

Ride

3/5

Not sure what is going on during the first two songs, but the album takes on a very different tone starting with the third song and gets significantly better.

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

The Only Ones

3/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

An absolute masterpiece that marks the beginning of a stellar 4-album run for the Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique, Check Your Head, Ill Communication, Hello Nasty. While there is still some misogyny from License to Ill present here, it is not nearly as rampant. The Dust Brothers provide the music, and it is awe-inspiring; this album and De La Soul's Three Feet High and Rising set impossibly high standards for sampling that few albums have matched.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

1/5

I just can't with Wilco

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Eclectic mix of songs, not the folksy tunes I was expecting... the last track is quite startling, to the point where I had to Google it to find out about it.

Fun House

The Stooges

3/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

1/5

Could not finish

Fleet Foxes

3/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

3/5

Good, but just too long. I wonder if it would be better if a few songs were cut out.

Blur

3/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Tame by today's standards, just look at the Billboard 100 for 1982- this would be shocking for the time for those who are trying to "protect" the youth.

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

1/5

The Cars

4/5

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

3/5

The Kinks have always felt like they are following the popular trends of the time, trying to fit in but never really believing in what they were doing. Their music isn't bad, but it is bland.

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

4/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

4/5

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

3/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

3/5

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

4/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

Should be 4.5 because, let's face it, The Girl is Mine and Lady in My Life are not good songs.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

3/5

Quite interesting, the lead singer's voice is unique and not for everyone.

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

4/5

It is very good, but also extremely easy to ignore. I've had this album since it came out and every listen I have to force myself to focus on it; I enjoy it when I do, but it often just becomes musical wallpaper.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

4/5

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

3/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5