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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
LP1 FKA twigs	5	2.81	+2.19
Leftism Leftfield	5	2.91	+2.09
Africa Brasil Jorge Ben Jor	5	3.37	+1.63
Back At The Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith	5	3.39	+1.61
Five Leaves Left Nick Drake	5	3.46	+1.54
Head Hunters Herbie Hancock	5	3.54	+1.46
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar	5	3.62	+1.38
Bringing It All Back Home Bob Dylan	5	3.64	+1.36
Pink Moon Nick Drake	5	3.65	+1.35
Remain In Light Talking Heads	5	3.67	+1.33

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Isn't Anything My Bloody Valentine	1	2.75	-1.75
Honky Tonk Masquerade Joe Ely	1	2.68	-1.68
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	2	3.67	-1.67
Calenture The Triffids	1	2.56	-1.56
Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Frank Sinatra	2	3.52	-1.52
Frank Amy Winehouse	2	3.46	-1.46
...And Justice For All Metallica	2	3.42	-1.42
Sea Change Beck	2	3.33	-1.33
Sunday At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio	2	3.31	-1.31
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	2	3.31	-1.31

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Artist	Albums	Average
Nick Drake	2	5
Beatles	3	4.33

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Artist	Ratings
Bob Dylan	5, 2
The Who	5, 2, 4

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Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt · 2 likes

2/5

Found myself wanting this to be over halfway through, very average mid 90s ska punk

4-Star Albums (79)

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

1-Star Albums (3)

All Ratings

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

3/5

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Adele

4/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

5/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

2/5

So Much For The City

The Thrills

3/5

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

The Kinks

3/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

4/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

4/5

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

1/5

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

3/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

2/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

4/5

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

3/5

Tago Mago

Can

2/5

Violent Femmes

3/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

3/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

2/5

Black Sabbath

3/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

3/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

4/5

Suzanne Vega

4/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

2/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Miriam Makeba

4/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

3/5

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

2/5

Fun House

The Stooges

3/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

5/5

Loved tracks 1 and 2

Future Days

Can

3/5

Great production and drums, last track in particular about 3 days too long

LP1

FKA twigs

5/5

Blew me away, great music, two weeks, pendulum and kicks all stand outs but whole album is amazing

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

Iron Maiden

4/5

Much better musicianship than I thought

Chelsea Girl

Nico

2/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Pretty good, feel like this is the US version of Status Quo, mindless rock you don't need to think about (although musically more interesting)

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

3/5

Very pleasant lofi chill beats

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Very bland and forgettable

Debut

Björk

4/5

Bonkers but brilliant, very much a musician's musician, never knew what was coming next

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

3/5

Interesting beats, not the best flow, felt like beat poetry at times, found it a bit of a slog

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

3/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Fantastic album, think the last two tracks peter out a bit but there are some amazing grooves before this. Born under punches and once in a lifetime absolute stand outs

The Only Ones

3/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

The Poet

Bobby Womack

3/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Really liked this, Hurt an all time classic and really enjoyed Desperado and We'll Meet Again

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Loved this, great grooves, Every Ghetto Every City a real stand out for me

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

2/5

Achtung Baby

2/5

Quite dull, Coldplay for the 90s

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Some really good tracks, especially enjoyed Time to get it together

Hms Fable

Shack

2/5

Felt quite average, grew on me a bit from a very uninterested start

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Blur

3/5

Great one two opener but dont feel the rest of the album lives up to it

Van Halen

3/5

The Rolling Stones

4/5

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

Damaged

Black Flag

2/5

I'm sure it's vital, just not a huge fan of punk

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

3/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

3/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

More interesting than I thought by quite a margin

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

3/5

Good grooves throughout, felt it faded into the background a couple of times but overall enjoyed it

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

Some proper classics in the first half but trails off a lot in the final 3-4 tracks

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Enjoyed a lot of these, especially roundabout, felt some tracks could have been shorter though

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

2/5

The jazziest jazz to ever jazz, the ur-jazz. I know there's skill involved but not skill I'm interested in

Clandestino

Manu Chao

3/5

Not a style I'm familiar with but was ok

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

First half is 5 star, peters off towards the end. Incredible bass

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

3/5

Makes me want an Aperol Spritz

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

2/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

Throwing Muses

3/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Struggling to think of an album with a better run of songs than this

Kimono My House

Sparks

4/5

Weird but very enjoyable, really liked Equator

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

2/5

Found myself wanting this to be over halfway through, very average mid 90s ska punk

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Amazing first half, felt some of the second half of the album was filler. 5 stars for the first half, 3 for the second

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

4/5

Not been a huge fan of much of the punk on here so far but this really impressed me. Surprisingly good musicianship, punchy songs, would like to hear more

...And Justice For All

Metallica

2/5

Just goes on forever, thought the production quality was a bit poor

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

Lost Souls

Doves

3/5

Fairly MOR stuff, didn't hate it but not much to distinguish it from a lot of other late 90s/early naughties guitar bands

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Snivilisation

Orbital

3/5

Pleasant enough bleeps and bloops

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

2/5

Found this incredibly slow and ponderous, the last track is a proper slog and felt like the family guy Randy Newman parody

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Gorgeous warm bath of an album

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

Not my favourite Kinks album but pleasant enough

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

Typically excellent stuff, really enjoyed three little birdies down beats

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

Being There

Wilco

3/5

Really interesting with some great tracks, felt this could have been cut down a bit and been a real banger. Some 4 star tracks but 3 stars overall

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

Much less sure about this one felt it was a bit overlong and none of the tracks really stood out

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Bit overlong but full of bangers

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

Pure bombast, seven songs in a row on the theme of Meatloaf being dtf right now

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

Dust

Screaming Trees

3/5

Interesting, some solid rock suns and some interesting baroque influences

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

4/5

Super chill, amazing that this was done in the 70s, left me feeling very relaxed

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

3/5

Adequate bar rock

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

Prefer his later stuff but some nice tracks on here

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Really enjoyed the last few tracks on this one

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

2/5

Another example of standout album from a genre i dislike

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

Not sure about this, found myself nodding along a few times but found some of it a bit too avant garde, would probably grow on me with a few more listens though

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

3/5

Beautiful voice, elevated the music quite a bit

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

4/5

Some timeless tracks on the first half, peters out a little

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Got some classics and even the less known songs have some astonishing guitar

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

3/5

Some classic old school beats, not bad flow

Calenture

The Triffids

1/5

Didn't really enjoy this, felt like a very minor entry from the 80's, nothing particularly exciting about any of it and found it a bit of a slog

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Out of Step

Minor Threat

4/5

Incredibly punchy, great driving drums, enjoyed it a surprising amount

Repeater

Fugazi

3/5

Followed Minor Threat with this, enjoyed it, incredibly punchy

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Great rhythm section, average guitar, drivel for vocals

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Medúlla

Björk

3/5

Feels designed to trigger misophonia but I enjoyed it nontheless

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

1/5

Very uninspiring grunge rock

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

4/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

4/5

Very enjoyable, surprisingly adept musically and doesn't outstay its welcome

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Not bad, though however good the lyrics are the only bit I'll really remember is shouting "Leonard Bernstein"

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Liked breakdown and American Girl, some of it a bit average

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

4/5

Liked this one a lot, really good production and interesting songs

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

3/5

Short and punchy songs, some great memories but the second half drops off a lot

Boston

4/5

Enjoyed this a lot, Smokin' and Foreplay/Long Time my personal favourites

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Some great tracks, a few too many skits for my taste

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

5/5

Unexpectedly loved this, incredible groove throughout, great production, will try and get this on lp

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Liquid Swords

GZA

4/5

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

3/5

Somewhere between 3 and 4 on this

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Enjoyed this but dont know why it's a must listen

Frank

Amy Winehouse

2/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

2/5

Maybe not every single song needs a 4 minute outro

Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

3/5

Very pleasant, slight country twang but a bit Alexi Murdoch

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Thought this was lobby music at first but I warmed to it by the end

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

3/5

You can't have the Beatles, we've got the Byrds at home

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Astonishing voice and some great songs

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

2/5

Fairly average thumb picking folk, sure there are better examples of this

The xx

4/5

Liked this a lot, worth a re-listen, gentle lo-fo beats, reminded me a little of monsters and men

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

4/5

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

2/5

Avant gard jazz punk, not sure about this one

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Good for Christmas

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

4/5

Really like this, takes me back to uni

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Enjoyed this, nineteen hundred and eighty four is a banger

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

Finally made me get the regard for Keith Moon

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

2/5

Faded into the background a bit

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

Incredible psychedelic side 1, track 2 in particular a banger, slightly less keen on side 2 but overall really liked this

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Fun album, solid classic rock

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

4/5

Very nice, lofi chilled, quite synth wavy in places, title track is great

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

2/5

As always, I should theoretically love the smiths but they always leave me cold

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

Not the best Bowie album but still decent

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

3/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

NEU! 75

Neu!

4/5

Really enjoyed this, some great beats, track 3 felt a bit like early Sigur Ros

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Some absolute classics of my youth

Nowhere

Ride

2/5

Found this fairly forgettable, quite drone-y guitars

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

3/5

Out of the gate fully formed, very pleasant piano throughout

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Great stuff here, amazing voice and some superb blues riffs

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

Didn't mind this, interesting drums

Pink Flag

Wire

3/5

Blimey, they don't fuck about. Enjoyed that a lot for punk

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

2/5

Didn't love those, bit whiny and dull, felt derivative of Jeff Buckley in some ways

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

5/5

Absolutely loved this, was tapping my foot throughout, will definitely check out more of his stuff

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Incredible voice and some great songs

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

Really enjoyed this, weirdly the two most famous tracks (our house and teach your children) felt a bit out of place. Lot of good, full bodied rock songs, really enjoyed almost cut my hair and thought 4+20 was subtle and beautiful.

Kala

M.I.A.

3/5

Grew on me by the end, interesting beats with a lot of world music influence, would listen again

The Clash

3/5

Not bad for punk

Spiderland

Slint

2/5

Felt like being trapped in an av piece in a pretentious gallery

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Liked this a lot, really cohesive album, enjoyed racing in the street a lot, would listen again

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

Fantastic title track and enjoyed can't sit down a lot, felt some of it wad a little muzaky

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

Enjoyed this, felt incredibly fidgety and most of the songs could have done with one or two less ideas but always interesting

Leftism

Leftfield

5/5

Loved this, every single track a banger but with unique ideas throughout, space shanty a real banger

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

Didn't mind it, quite punky but with more complex melodies, can see why they were so popular

Common

4/5

Enjoyed this a lot, great flow

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

4/5

Liked this a lot but preferred fat of the land. Poison and voodoo people both great, felt like the middle few tracks were the strongest

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

3/5

Jazzy and funky, not bad but some of the tracks go on a bit

Sea Change

Beck

2/5

Not unpleasant but a bit monotonous and faded into the background

Parklife

Blur

3/5

The more i hear, Blur have a few great singles every album bit not enough here to justify the length

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

Liked this, a lot of interesting tracks, Hamady Boiro a funky stand out

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Not bad, good driving guitar throughout and a great voice

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

Fascinating to hear more early stuff, such a tight band

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

2/5

Didn't love this one, felt like it was ripping off some other 80's bands and was pretty unessential

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

3/5

Liked this, interesting mix of rock and vague psychedelic elements

Dire Straits

4/5

Great debut, crisp guitars and good production, really enjoyable

Sincere

Mj Cole

3/5

Way too long, disc 2 could have been an email. Did enjoy some of disc 1 though, felt like a fairly meat and potatoes approach to Garage, would be interested to hear more of the genre if it comes up

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Very 80s, didn't mind it, nice lyrics and production

Protection

Massive Attack

3/5

Pleasant lo fi beats

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Even the weaker tracks on side 2 are great, would listen to any and all of this again quite happily