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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Poet Bobby Womack	5	3.22	+1.78
Stardust Willie Nelson	5	3.39	+1.61
Scott 2 Scott Walker	4	2.63	+1.37
Moondance Van Morrison	5	3.7	+1.3
All Things Must Pass George Harrison	5	3.81	+1.19

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	3.26	-2.26
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
Horses Patti Smith	2	3.31	-1.31
Django Django Django Django	2	3.2	-1.2
The Modern Lovers The Modern Lovers	2	3.05	-1.05

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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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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

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

4/5

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