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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Very Pet Shop Boys	5	2.93	+2.07
Berlin Lou Reed	5	3.1	+1.9
...The Dandy Warhols Come Down The Dandy Warhols	5	3.13	+1.87
Juju Siouxsie And The Banshees	5	3.33	+1.67
Either Or Elliott Smith	5	3.38	+1.62
Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys	5	3.47	+1.53
Blackstar David Bowie	5	3.48	+1.52
Crosby, Stills & Nash Crosby, Stills & Nash	5	3.49	+1.51
Surfer Rosa Pixies	5	3.5	+1.5
Document R.E.M.	5	3.56	+1.44

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hysteria Def Leppard	1	3.21	-2.21
Your New Favourite Band The Hives	1	3.12	-2.12
Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo MC Solaar	1	3.09	-2.09
Electric The Cult	1	3.02	-2.02
Dookie Green Day	2	3.79	-1.79
All Hope Is Gone Slipknot	1	2.7	-1.7
Diamond Life Sade	2	3.42	-1.42
Aftermath The Rolling Stones	2	3.38	-1.38

5-Star Albums (21)

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Caetano Veloso

3/5

Harmless Brazilian pop. Don't think I'll ever listen to it again, but didn't hate it.

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1-Star Albums (5)

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System Of A Down

4/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

A 3.5 taken to a 4 by the sheer awesomeness of Hungry Like the Wolf

The Joshua Tree

5/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

3/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

More of 4.5/5. Better than a 4 but not quite a 5.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

5/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

3/5

Closer to a 3.5, not quite a 4. Really fun and interesting but not one I'm really eager to relisten

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

4/5

Reading some reviews I expected to hate it, but it's a really fun record. Perfect for background music. Plus, there's a great remix of the James Bond theme (Radio 7).

Caetano Veloso

3/5

Harmless Brazilian pop. Don't think I'll ever listen to it again, but didn't hate it.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

Ananda Shankar

4/5

Really fun and interesting. Definitely not for everyone, but it surely is for me!

Moby Grape

3/5

Not terrible, not great. Just some pretty standard 60s pop. Lazy me is quite good though.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

The Coral

4/5

Where has this album been all my life, that was so fun!

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

5/5

Albums like this are what makes this project worth it. Don't know if or when I would have listened to this. But now it might become a new favorite!

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Helper, Thumb and Going Home were really good, but the rest was one big slug.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Never heard of this artist before, but this is a really fun, original and interesting record. Highly recommend! Reminds me of some early Janelle Monae.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

3/5

A 3.5/5. Probably my least favorite Sonic Youth album so far, but it's still pretty good.

Metallica

4/5

Really Really good album, but a bit too long. Should have ended with Nothing Else Matters.

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

Dog Man Star

Suede

3/5

Mostly uninteresting, but The Asphalt World is a great song.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Dookie

Green Day

2/5

That was boring.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Pretty good, bit too long. 3.5/5.

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Cypress Hill

3/5

Fun, but far from a favorite of the rap genre. 3.5/5

Live Through This

Hole

3/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Would be a 3 but Number and Hills are such great songs, they bump it to a 4.

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

1/5

My new favourite band? Yeah, nah I don't think so.

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

Amazing debut, almost a 5 but knowing that they're next 3 albums are all better I'll give it a 4

Joan Baez

3/5

Pretty fun but nothing remarkable. 3.5/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Fun, but gets quite repetitive after a while. 3.5/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

One of the greatest album of all time. Completely unique, nothing else sounds like it. It won't show in the ranking here, but just how I like to add a .5 to some albums, a select few will brake the scale and receive a 6. This is the first one. There aren't many perfect songs, but Cloudbusting is one of them. A true masterpiece, might be the best album of the eighties.

Vivid

Living Colour

3/5

Good, but not really my thing. Should listen to it more. Cult is great tho. 3.5/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

Pretty fun and Kicks is a great song. 3.5/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Rest in peace Ozzy. Thank you for the music.

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

1/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

4.5/5. Really Really good but not quite Pink Moon level good

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Definitely not bad, but also definitely not my thing.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

4/5

I knew and loved the hits. But, this is a really fun album all throughout.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

5/5

Love, love, love this album.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

4.5/5. Really good, but I think I prefer Thriller and Bad a bit more, and those tow are fives.

Berlin

Lou Reed

5/5

Another one of my 6/5. This album rivals VU & Nico for me. The music, the storytelling, the lyrics, everything is perfect. One of the saddest and greatest album of all time.

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

Fun album, better than I expected. 3.5/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

5/5

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

4/5

Really interesting album, totally not what I expected.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

One of the absolute greatest rap albums of all time. Groundbreaking sampling.

Suzanne Vega

4/5

I knew of, and quite liked, Tom's Dinner but this really surprised me with how great it was. She's got a new fan in me

Electric

The Cult

1/5

Why is this on here? What a stupid waste of time

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

3/5

A nice and fun little palette cleanser after the atrocity that was Electric by The Cult

Frank

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Quite good, but there are some of her vocal inflection that gets on my nerves a bit. But still, it's good and I'm curious to listen to more form her. 3.5/5

Signing Off

UB40

4/5

Really fun and interesting. 4.5/5

Document

R.E.M.

5/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

Diamond Life

Sade

2/5

Not bad, but definitely not my kind of stuff. Smooth operator is dope tho.2.5/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

Quite fun but not sure I'll listen to it often. 3.5/5

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

A really good album, I remembered liking it years back but it's even better than I remember. Not a top tier of that era and genre, but pretty up there.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

4/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

4/5

A really fun electronic/house/dance album. Perfect to put in the background while gaming.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

Really really fantastic album. Listening to his old stuff, make's it all the more depressing to know how he turned out. Still, this is one of the greatest rap albums ever, and he gets even better later. 4.5/5

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

2/5

Pretty forgettable, not the worst thing I've heard but not that far off.

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

1/5

The Score

Fugees

5/5

I think this just became my favorite rap album ever. Jesus it's so fucking good.

Hysteria

Def Leppard

1/5

Stupid cock rock

2112

Rush

4/5

The title track is one of the greatest things in music history, but that also means that the rest of the album pretty much doesn't compare, even if it's still pretty good.

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

2/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

2/5

More of a 2.5/5. First half was fine but second half really droped off. I don't necessarily hate narration as a concept, Terry Allen does it very well, but it really sucks here.

Very

Pet Shop Boys

5/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

I love Ram and Plastic Ono Band. Ringo, Imagine and Band on the Run are all great. But All Things Must Pass is just on another level of transcendent greatness. It's so fucking good. To think he had a lot of these songs in the bank and he was still limited to 2 or 3 songs by albums is just ludicrous. Another one of my 6/5 stars.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

5/5