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Album	You	Global	Diff
Sea Change Beck	5	3.33	+1.67
Dub Housing Pere Ubu	4	2.35	+1.65
Out Of The Blue Electric Light Orchestra	5	3.63	+1.37
Space Ritual Hawkwind	4	2.68	+1.32
Master Of Puppets Metallica	5	3.73	+1.27
KIWANUKA Michael Kiwanuka	5	3.74	+1.26
Metallica Metallica	5	3.79	+1.21
In Rainbows Radiohead	5	3.84	+1.16
Apple Venus Volume 1 XTC	4	2.85	+1.15
Pet Sounds The Beach Boys	5	3.93	+1.07

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Off The Wall Michael Jackson	2	3.78	-1.78
L.A. Woman The Doors	2	3.67	-1.67
Van Halen Van Halen	2	3.63	-1.63
A Love Supreme John Coltrane	2	3.63	-1.63
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan	2	3.62	-1.62
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand	2	3.57	-1.57
Oar Alexander 'Skip' Spence	1	2.46	-1.46
Reggatta De Blanc The Police	2	3.45	-1.45
Diamond Life Sade	2	3.42	-1.42
Blunderbuss Jack White	2	3.4	-1.4

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Metallica	3	4.67

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Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

So interesting to hear this, and recognise so much of other bands they influenced.

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1-Star Albums (2)

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The Doors

3/5

Fairly middle of the road, and found all of the songs merging together. I can usually handle quite a bit of noodling around but had to skip a few.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Hadn’t listened to this from start to finish for many years, and it was such a treat to spend time with it again. No songs skipped, even after multiple listens in one day I was hearing new things.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Really struggle to like Elvis, I know he’s a product of his time but I found the lyrics quite repetitive and they didn’t entertain or grab me emotionally. Excellent performances from everyone, and lush production, but didn’t move me.

Foo Fighters

3/5

Another one from my teenage years, but didn’t find that this one held up as well. A few stand out tracks, but found myself struggling to connect.

The La's

4/5

This was such a pleasant surprise, I’d not heard anything other than There She Goes before, but such a rich album that I can’t wait to go back to.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

This was such a lovely chance to revisit an album I listened to when I was a teenager, and also to see that it still held up after all these years. Didn’t get the urge to skip, and they all sounded as fresh and exciting as I remember.

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

3/5

Was a fun nostalgic listen, but didn’t grab me or make me want to revisit regularly. 3.5 if half stars were available!

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

2/5

Don’t think Bob’s for me - there are a few songs that are so profound and capture an important sentiment, but the rest blur and I found it hard to connect.

Feast of Wire

Calexico

3/5

3.5 First time listening to this album? Bit Za fan of Calexico’s other work. Not my favourite of theirs, but still a great listen.

Metallica

5/5

Peak Metallica, no skips, such fun.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Hadn’t listened to this before, but was such a bop. Have saved for future listens!

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Nothing really stood out to me aside from Tiny Dancer and a lot of it blurred into one.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

A fun new album to listen to when I need to do some groovy tasks.

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

Courtney Love, patron saint of weird girls ❤️double bill of this and The Substance today was a wild ride.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Loved this one, hadn’t listened to a full Simon & Garfunkel album before - what a treat! Highlight: one of my fave Christmas songs and “I’ve lost my harmonica, Albert”

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

3/5

Some good moments, but not sure I’d go back to it regularly.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

Lovely mellow album, wonderful performances all round, and helped prevent me losing my shit while trying to get Power Bi to work.

I See You

The xx

3/5

One or two songs I’d listen to again, but typically “meh” from The XX.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

Banger

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

3/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

Didn’t know Belinda Carlisle was a punk

Sea Change

Beck

5/5

One of my all time favourites ❤️

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

2/5

Not for me - managed a listen but not one I’d come back to.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Before unconscious uncoupling we got ground up in the garbage disposal of our dreams

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

Another casualty of my teenage self’s totally unfounded beefs 😂 such a fun listen, will definitely revisit!

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

Would give a 3.5 if I could. Not a bad album, but doesn’t quite have the heft of previous LCD Soundsystem.

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

2/5

I think The Doors are simply not for me.

Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

Fun listen, but not sure it’s something I’d return to regularly.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

I’d give it a 4.5 if I could. Had never listened to Janis Joplin before, what an amazing voice and talent. Can’t wait to listen to more!

Ingenue

k.d. lang

2/5

Not for me.

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

2/5

Hasn’t listened to a full Eminem album before and while it’s technically very good there are only so many rape jokes I can handle.

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

3/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

3/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

3/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

2/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

3/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

2/5

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

4/5

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

3/5

This listening challenge has turned me into an unironic lover of bossa nova. Didn’t enjoy quite as much as Getz/Gilberto, but still a nice listen.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

4/5

Upgraded this one after a few more listens, it’s giving Shostakovich but prog rock.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Django Django

4/5

I’d totally forgotten this album existed, so was a delight to revisit!

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

2/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Pelican West

Haircut 100

3/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

3/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

Vespertine

Björk

4/5

Headquarters

The Monkees

3/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

So interesting to hear this, and recognise so much of other bands they influenced.

Arise

Sepultura

3/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Van Halen

2/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

3/5

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

4/5

Slightly mad, but liked it more with each listen. I have lots of respect for anyone brave enough to rhyme festival with best of all

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

1/5

It sounds like the second song that features on a 90s Disney film credits.

Slayed?

Slade

3/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

Loved this - different side to The Beach Boys, but reflects the changes music and culture went through in the 60s into the early 70s.

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

Such a nostalgic listen.

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

4/5

The Swans, the Soft Cell, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics. Loved this - so raucous, can see their influence on everything that came after.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Ray Of Light

Madonna

3/5

I honestly expected to like this more, but ended up with the urge to listen to Tori Amos instead

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

2/5

Sounded very smooth and lovely but just couldn’t get into it. Ended up relistening to the Archandroid instead. Sorry D’Angelo!

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

1/5

Not for me, didn’t even make it half way through

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

2/5

I’m simply not jazzy or spontaneous enough for this one

Violent Femmes

3/5

Good fun, like a sillier version of the pixies.

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

2/5

Struggled with this one

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

2/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

4/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Hysteria

Def Leppard

2/5

Pink Flag

Wire

3/5

Need some extra listens but loved the first few

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

4/5

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

4/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

3/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

3.5. Think there are some sublimely lovely moments in this but I think I connect more with the YYY’s sweatier albums.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

George is my favourite Beatle, and this albums explains why - loved it!

Parklife

Blur

4/5

This was such a fun listen - much sillier than expected!

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

2/5

Really struggled to finish this one, might need to come back to it when I’m feeling more chilled.

Iron Maiden

3/5

Adele

3/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

3/5

I only listened to this once properly, but think it’ll grow on me with more listens.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

2/5

Pornography

The Cure

4/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

4/5

Not what I was expecting, but a fun listen

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

Very smooth!

Back In Black

AC/DC

3/5

Signing Off

UB40

4/5

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

3/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

2/5

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

4/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

Opus Dei

Laibach

3/5

This felt like a boss fight soundtrack, in the best way

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

2/5

Never thought I’d say it, but too silly for me

Ramones

3/5

Had to remove a point for the excessivr ‘hey little girl’-ing but accept that ‘age appropriate adult woman’ doesn’t have the same ring.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

Enjoyed this and reckon I’ll enjoy it more with a few extra listens

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

2/5

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Franz Ferdinand

2/5

Hasn’t held up as well as I hoped - while there are a lot of nostalgic and fun moments it doesn’t really hold together well as a complete album

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Such a beautiful listen, rich and complex

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

3/5

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Didn’t get on with this one

The Stone Roses

3/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

4/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

5/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

3/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

Faust IV

Faust

3/5

Bloopy - definitely one I think will grow on me if I revisit

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

3/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

2/5

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

3/5

Not sure I was quite in the mood for this one yesterday, so will come back to it.

Diamond Life

Sade

2/5

Lovely voice and lots to admire, but not really to my taste.

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

5/5

Wall to wall bangers

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

2/5