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70
Albums Rated
4.69
Average Rating
6%
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1019 albums remaining

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2000
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Metal
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UK
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54
5-Star Albums
0
1-Star Albums

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You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Bummed
Happy Mondays
 5 2.65 +2.35
The Infotainment Scan
The Fall
 5 2.71 +2.29
Movies
Holger Czukay
 5 2.71 +2.29
Life Thru A Lens
Robbie Williams
 5 2.72 +2.28
Our Aim Is To Satisfy
Red Snapper
 5 2.73 +2.27
Chris
Christine and the Queens
 5 2.81 +2.19
69 Love Songs
The Magnetic Fields
 5 2.85 +2.15
Warehouse: Songs And Stories
Hüsker Dü
 5 2.85 +2.15
Fromohio
fIREHOSE
 5 2.88 +2.12
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Small Faces
 5 2.94 +2.06

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
The Bends
Radiohead
 3 4.02 -1.02

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ArtistAlbumsAverage
Creedence Clearwater Revival 2 5

5-Star Albums (54)

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Tubular Bells Blunderbuss Master Of Puppets Smile Off The Wall Be Dirt There's No Place Like America Today Paul's Boutique Unknown Pleasures Chris Rubber Soul Bayou Country Countdown To Ecstasy Bummed Black Sabbath Grace Dry Treasure Crime Of The Century Doggystyle Bossanova The Village Green Preservation Society 69 Love Songs Ogden's Nut Gone Flake 2112 Live And Dangerous Band On The Run The Velvet Underground The ArchAndroid Dummy Rio You've Come a Long Way Baby Warehouse: Songs And Stories Fromohio The Infotainment Scan Graceland Microshift Jagged Little Pill Bitches Brew Play Life Thru A Lens Mothership Connection Here, My Dear Marquee Moon Movies From Elvis In Memphis Green River Violator It's Blitz! Lost Souls Our Aim Is To Satisfy The La's The World is a Ghetto

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Tubular Bells
Mike Oldfield · 1 likes
5/5
I've listened to this album many times throughout my life, but I think that for progressive albums of this type, each time you listen to them you end focusing on different sections, so there's always a sense of novelty. Mike Oldfield recorded all the instruments for Tubular Bells at 19 years old, which is rather impressive. There's not a lot of, we could call it, "virtuosity" in the way the instruments are played, instead the focus is on storytelling through musical structures. There's some very memorable sections, like the slow vocal introduction of instruments at Part I 20:20 and the growling at Part II 11:45. Historically speaking, this is [Virgin Records](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Records)' first published album and was its earliest success. It's fun to read that the huge Richard Branson's present conglomerate had its beginnings in the early 70's as some record shop in Notting Hill Gate specializing in krautrock imports.

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77% of ratings are 1 or 5 stars. Only 9% are 3 stars.