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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Colour Of Spring Talk Talk	5	3.08	+1.92
The Poet Bobby Womack	5	3.22	+1.78
2112 Rush	5	3.37	+1.63
Stardust Willie Nelson	5	3.39	+1.61
Parachutes Coldplay	5	3.46	+1.54
Scott 2 Scott Walker	4	2.63	+1.37
Moondance Van Morrison	5	3.69	+1.31
Boston Boston	5	3.7	+1.3
Kid A Radiohead	5	3.71	+1.29
Let's Get It On Marvin Gaye	5	3.78	+1.22

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Rio Duran Duran	1	3.5	-2.5
Sign 'O' The Times Prince	1	3.45	-2.45
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Dead Kennedys	1	3.27	-2.27
Purple Rain Prince	2	4.02	-2.02
When I Was Born For The 7th Time Cornershop	1	2.91	-1.91
Music Madonna	1	2.69	-1.69
Raising Hell Run-D.M.C.	2	3.5	-1.5
The ArchAndroid Janelle Monáe	2	3.45	-1.45
Be Common	2	3.35	-1.35
Horses Patti Smith	2	3.31	-1.31

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Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division · 1 likes

3/5

Consistently bleak, which has the effect of rendering it quite one-note. 3.5

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People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

1-Star Albums (5)

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Dear Science

TV On The Radio

3/5

Fine, but completely inconsequential. 2.5

Rio

Duran Duran

1/5

Dreadful. Everything wrong with the 80s

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

Excellent songs, if overproduced. 4.5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

Far more interesting and varied than the typical "Greatest Hits" played on repeat would suggest. 4.5

Horses

Patti Smith

2/5

Inoffensive but dull. 1.5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Interesting, and would likely improve on further listening. 3.5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

Incredible musicianship

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Competent covers of good songs. 2.5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

Enjoyable fluff. 3.5

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

2/5

Like being shouted at by an angry friend in a busy pub. 2.5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

Smooth

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

2/5

For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they would like. 2.5

Scott 2

Scott Walker

4/5

Wonderfully overwrought. 3.5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

It's Nick Cave

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

3/5

Good, Shangri-La being the highlight. 3.5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

4/5

Tuneful, interesting proto-Britpop. 4.5

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

1/5

One hit wonders for a reason. 1.5

Purple Rain

Prince

2/5

Repetitive and quite boring, not helped by the incredibly dated production. 1.5

Music

Madonna

1/5

Insipid lyrics, nothing memorable, completely skippable

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

Energetic pop-punk. Great fun. 3.5

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

3/5

Generic, but not bad. 2.5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

4/5

Quite special

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

'Expecting to Fly' is a highlight, but otherwise middling. 2.5

Parachutes

Coldplay

5/5

A genuine suprise, really fantastic songwriting. 4.5

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

A cut above the indie dross of the time. 3.5

Permission to Land

The Darkness

4/5

Fantastic debut, a lot of fun

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

3/5

Punk with a country twang. Enjoyable

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

4/5

Slow start, but picks up and delivers

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

3/5

Stupid, infantile, and way too long, but a lot of fun. 3.5

Hysteria

Def Leppard

3/5

It's hair metal - hard to hate, difficult to truly love. 3.5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

I wanted to like this much more than I did, but it just didn't hold my attention

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

3/5

It's OK, but quite generic. 2.5

The White Room

The KLF

2/5

More hype than substance. Fine. 2.5

The Modern Lovers

2/5

Whilst not actively repulsive, so not worthy of 1 star, it is incredibly amateurish, sounding like a pub band nervously playing their first gig. 'Girlfriend' is a particular lowlight. 1.5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Like if Dylan and Springsteen had a baby

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

Close to perfect, easy listening in the truest sense. 4.5

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

1/5

Some fleeting moments of musical interest, otherwise dire. 1.5

C'est Chic

CHIC

4/5

Funky

Django Django

2/5

Bland. 2.5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

Consistently bleak, which has the effect of rendering it quite one-note. 3.5

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

3/5

Can't decide if this great or absolutely terrible

Bad Company

4/5

Classic classic rock

The Poet

Bobby Womack

5/5

An absolute gem

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

1/5

Stretching this over two discs transforms it from something merely irritating into a form of audible torture. Overrated dreck

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

2/5

A strange inclusion - not terrible, and the influence is clear, but as an album it's lacking

The Stooges

4/5

Still sounds urgent and surprisingly modern. 3.5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Excellent

The Band

3/5

An enjoyable listen, wth some standout tracks worthy of revisiting. 3.5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

4/5

Smooth

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

I'd like to give this a higher score, the songs are good and the playing is flawless, but nothing grabbed me. 3.5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Joyful

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

3/5

An excellent example of the genre, but it's not a genre I particularly enjoy

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

2/5

Life's too short. 1.5

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Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Great Southern Rock

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Great vocals, classic sound

Soul Mining

The The

3/5

Perfectly serviceable, some nice piano, but the singing and drums start to wear after a while

I Against I

Bad Brains

2/5

Some nice guitar, but the vocals are off-putting, and there's nothing I'd revisit. 2.5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Not being a fan of rap, I went in with low expectations, but was pleasantly surprised.

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

3/5

I can’t imagine an occasion when I would listen to this again

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

Having heard some Talking Heads before, this is exactly what I expected

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Another album where I wanted to like it more, but it washed over me

1984

Van Halen

3/5

A few decent songs, but lacking any kind of bite

Stardust

Willie Nelson

5/5

Wonderful

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

3/5

Clearly innovative and influential, but not something I would revisit

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Historically significant, and an enjoyable listen, but nothing stands out

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

2/5

I fell asleep

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

2/5

This album should be half as long. Some big hits, but too much filler. 2.5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Quite stunning

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

4/5

Not what I expected at all, but pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it

Ray Of Light

Madonna

2/5

Vastly superior to Music, which is to say, mediocre. I’m left wondering who this is for, and what artistic impulse it serves

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

4/5

One of the best punk albums I've heard - lots of energy, fantastic musicianship, with elements of funk and other influences

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Pop genius

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

There's something here I can't put my finger on, but I like it

Boston

5/5

An almost perfect rock album

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

A collection of great songs let down by the production - why does everything sound so flat? 4.5

Woodface

Crowded House

2/5

Inconsequential

Being There

Wilco

3/5

Would benefit from continued listening. 3.5

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Other than the title track, quite generic. 3.5

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

4/5

Some parts are a bit overblown, but some excellent songs along the way

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

Average

Common

2/5

A frustratingly mediocre album, capped off by a pretentious closing track

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

2/5

A couple of decent songs, and pretty in places, but too much filler. “Wondaland” is particularly poor. Oddly lightweight despite all the bombast

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Incredible guitar playing

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

3/5

I always feel as though I’m missing something with Dylan. I can’t quite understand the hype

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

5/5

Great vocals, big, expansive songs, and a wonderfully chunky organ sound

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

That voice

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Nightswimming alone makes this top tier

The Undertones

3/5

Middling. 3.5

2112

Rush

5/5

Amazing

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

"All In Love Is Fair" is fantastic

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

2/5

So much distortion I could barely make it out

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

Good, but doesn't reach the levels of their 90's masterpieces. 3.5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Probably my favourite Springsteen

Paul Simon

4/5

Pleasant, but I can't say I loved it. 3.5

Shadowland

k.d. lang

3/5

Wonderful voice, unexceptional songs. 3.5

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Experimental, and worthy of further listening. 4.5