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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Destroy Rock & Roll Mylo	5	2.88	+2.12
Eli And The Thirteenth Confession Laura Nyro	5	2.94	+2.06
Double Nickels On The Dime Minutemen	5	3.12	+1.88
Ragged Glory Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.14	+1.86
Being There Wilco	5	3.23	+1.77
The Predator Ice Cube	5	3.25	+1.75
It's Too Late to Stop Now Van Morrison	5	3.25	+1.75
The Message Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five	5	3.28	+1.72
Since I Left You The Avalanches	5	3.28	+1.72
Low-Life New Order	5	3.29	+1.71

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Make Yourself Incubus	1	3.08	-2.08
Shadowland k.d. lang	1	2.87	-1.87
21 Adele	2	3.69	-1.69
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below OutKast	2	3.45	-1.45
Odessey And Oracle The Zombies	2	3.41	-1.41
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	2	3.34	-1.34
Tommy The Who	2	3.33	-1.33
Pornography The Cure	2	3.31	-1.31
All Mod Cons The Jam	2	3.25	-1.25
Rocks Aerosmith	2	3.12	-1.12

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	4	4.75
Bob Dylan	2	5
Oasis	2	5
Pixies	3	4.33
Radiohead	3	4.33

5-Star Albums (48)

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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

1-Star Albums (3)

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Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

Didn’t listen this time but remember it as a deeply sad album.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

The Beatles starting to find their feet.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Funky

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Decades ahead of its time.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

Over the top, ridiculous, but utterly brilliant and unlike anything else. If anyone else tried to make an album like this it wouldn’t work, it shouldn’t have worked when Meat Loaf did it, and yet it does.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

Enjoyable 70s prog rock time capsule, has aged well

Eternally Yours

The Saints

3/5

Quintessential punk.

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

5/5

Intent to shock and does but still great tunes.

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Nice melodies.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

5/5

Classic after classic

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

3/5

Eighties

Moving Pictures

Rush

3/5

Interesting album, guitar oriented rock, difficult to pigeonhole into one genre.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

Enjoyed it more than I thought I would, soulful.

Gold

Ryan Adams

4/5

Shame he’s such a prick because this is a great album.

Low-Life

New Order

5/5

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Pornography

The Cure

2/5

Who's Next

The Who

3/5

Some great songs, the rest hasn’t stood the test of time

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

New, eclectic, brilliant. Knocked me out the first time I heard it.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

5/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

3/5

Closer

Joy Division

3/5

Dark

Gorillaz

3/5

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

4/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

Deserves a quiet night.

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

3/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

2/5

The obligatory rap related misogyny but without the good tunes. Overall boring.

Metallica

5/5

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

2/5

It has been my opinion for a while that the reputation of The Fall exceeds the quality of their music. This album hasn’t changed my mind. Not bad, just not all that good either.

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Eclectic. Yes, there are weaker tracks but the good stuff is more than in most shorter albums.

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

4/5

Manages to be both backward looking and forward looking at the same time.

Van Halen

4/5

Fun

Foo Fighters

3/5

Enjoyable, not exceptional

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

System Of A Down

4/5

Fun

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

2/5

I’m not really feeling it, sorry. Left out the first part of the title. His son was decent though.

Hot Fuss

The Killers

3/5

Chris

Christine and the Queens

3/5

Good pop, very clean sounding.

Cross

Justice

4/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

3/5

Dire Straits

4/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

3/5

Adele

2/5

If Michael Buble is a pale imitation of Frank Sinatra, Adele is a pale imitation of Aretha Franklin. I get the appeal, she does have a great voice but this is not a consistently strong or original album.

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

The greatest by the greatest. Broke down the walls that everyone afterwards walked through.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

Absolute perfection, every song shimmers. Fast paced, fun, gorgeous melodies, relentless.

All Mod Cons

The Jam

2/5

Never fussed on the Jam/Paul Weller, never sounded original enough to stand out from other bands. I’m still not, it’s all very similar.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Beautiful Freak

Eels

3/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

Virtuoso rock, full of energy.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Clandestino

Manu Chao

4/5

Atomizer

Big Black

3/5

Repeater

Fugazi

4/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

4/5

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

4/5

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

The Predator

Ice Cube

5/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Basically sex music.

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

3/5

Nice background music

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Virtuosity and some great tunes but a bit too self indulgent.

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

3/5

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Smooth, and there isn’t enough saxophone in modern music.

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

4/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

3/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

Angry. Not my type of music but I enjoyed a lot of it, hated a lot of the rest of it.

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

2/5

Too angry for me to enjoy it.

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Quality rock

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

2/5

Nothing special, I don’t get the hype

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

3/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Sounds like Dylan and I love Dylan

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Love a bit of soul

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

3/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Rocks

Aerosmith

2/5

Meh

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

Soulful

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

3/5

Headquarters

The Monkees

2/5

Of it’s time

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Calenture

The Triffids

4/5

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

3/5

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

4/5

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

Melodic anger

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Shadowland

k.d. lang

1/5

Dreadful country shite, nothing remarkable about it at all, has no place being on this list.

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

3/5

Save it snobs, this is good pop. No, it’s not Revolver, but for what it is it, it’s great.

The xx

3/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

All time hard rock classic.

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

3/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

5/5

Yes, the lyrics are a bit misogynistic but it’s over 40 years old and was never about the lyrics. Every song is a banger, has to be 5/5.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

To others saying that this is some sort of pastiche of 60s music or that she isn’t sincere, you’re wide of the mark. The best music takes something familiar and changes it to make it new, that’s what Winehouse does here. As for sincere, listen to the lyrics then look at how her short life panned out. She meant it.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

3/5

I think what is said about Wagner applies to this ‘it’s better than it sounds’. Not for me, no melody, no structure. Influential/important etc. etc. yes, clearly. Enjoyable to listen to? Nope. All the 5/5 people are giving it that to look like they’re musical intellectuals but I doubt if they have this on vinyl that it’s worn out.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

Beatles inspired but enough of its own thing to make it enjoyable.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

3/5

Slightly ridiculous and of its time, but enjoyable in parts.

Odelay

Beck

4/5

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Paul Simon

5/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

LP1

FKA twigs

2/5

I can appreciate that she’s talented but this was boring to me

War

3/5

Tracy Chapman

4/5

White Denim

4/5

Slayed?

Slade

2/5

Of its time. The unique thing about them is Noddy Holder’s voice, which is also the worst thing about them, they seem to be a decent bunch of musicians held back by that screaming banshee of a man.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

One of the defining albums of my teenage years, I can’t not give it 5 stars. It holds up well after 30 years.

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

3/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

Loved this

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Fun

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

3/5

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

4/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

Celebrity Skin

Hole

4/5

Enjoyable rock

Gris Gris

Dr. John

3/5

Ray Of Light

Madonna

3/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

The epitome of psychedelic music.

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

3/5

Influential but also boring in parts.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

3/5

Fun rock

Illmatic

Nas

3/5

Elvis Presley

4/5

The hits still stand up well after almost 70 years.

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

2/5

I don’t like country.

Iron Maiden

4/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

Very enjoyable

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

3/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

The Man Who

Travis

3/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Wild Gift

3/5

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

Wonderful indie rock

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

3/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

Funky

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

4/5

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

2/5

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

4/5

Weird but entertaining.

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

4/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

The Rise & Fall

Madness

3/5

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

3/5

Primal Scream before Primal Scream

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Common

3/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

3/5

Yet more Neil Young!

Close To The Edge

Yes

4/5

Over the top in places, but surprisingly very enjoyable.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

Colossal!

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

5/5

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

5/5

To date (over twenty years later) this is his only album, and you can hear why. How do you top this?

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

3/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

4/5

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

3/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

Fun House

The Stooges

4/5

A magnificent snarl of an album

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

5/5

Sinatra at his best, timeless.

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

4/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

3/5

Very eighties.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

2/5

The word ‘country’ filled me with trepidation but it wasn’t too bad, but not too good either. I can hear that it has been influential but I found it a little boring.

Tommy

The Who

2/5

Hasn’t aged well, some decent songs but the rest has dated.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

Fleet Foxes

5/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

4/5

Fun

White Ladder

David Gray

2/5

Some good songs but overall mediocre.

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

2/5

I can’t fairly grade this since I don’t understand the lyrics but from what I can hear, unlike her producer, I could have died without hearing this.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

4/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

The Doors

5/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

2/5

Far too long and self indulgent. About 30 minutes of decent music padded out to over 2 hours.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

2/5

Of its time. Hard to judge it nearly 50 years later as a lot of what sounds tired now would have been fresh then.

Arise

Sepultura

4/5

Enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

3/5

The good stuff is brilliant but there’s still a lot of filler.

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

3/5

Sincere

Mj Cole

2/5

Generic turn of the millennium dance music, didn’t notice it at the time, I can hear why.

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

3/5

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

4/5

Unknown to me beforehand, good find

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

3/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

2/5

Stoner/garage rock. Would have given it 3/5 except for the track with snoring in the background.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

There’s just so many great songs on here, even though not all 2 hours is excellent, I can’t not give it 5/5. Others will say it’s too long of course, but I can’t overlook the quality of it.

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

5/5

Funky social commentary

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

3/5

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

2/5

Didn’t like them at the time, still don’t

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

3/5

Enjoyable.

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

2/5

I love the Divine Comedy but this was just dull.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

10/10 a genuine genius at his peek.

Sulk

The Associates

2/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

3/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

2/5

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

4/5

Lovely surprise, great fun.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

3/5

Some decent tunes but could have been edited to remove a few of the lesser tracks.

Being There

Wilco

5/5

Extraordinary

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

3/5

Funky but dated in parts.

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

5/5

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

5/5

Eclectic and great.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

3/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Nice ambient sounds

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

4/5

Just good fun, not earth shattering or pushing the boundaries but great rock.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

5/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

Of its time, decent.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

3/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Fun

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

5/5

Excellent

Make Yourself

Incubus

1/5

Questionable name, boring and at times annoying music. Nu Metal is absolute gash.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

4/5

Roxy Music

4/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

No bad tracks. I don’t feel funereal vibes, I just remember it from the time as a great live performance by a great band. No need to get maudlin about it.