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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Rio Duran Duran	5	3.5	+1.5
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground	5	3.53	+1.47
1999 Prince	5	3.59	+1.41

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Elton John	2	3.92	-1.92
Moondance Van Morrison	2	3.7	-1.7
Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson	2	3.34	-1.34
Every Picture Tells A Story Rod Stewart	2	3.24	-1.24

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Rio

Duran Duran

5/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

It's really hard to separate this from my preconceived notion of what it was going to be like. She's got a great voice but the songs themselves are a bit hit and miss. I'm not 100% sure whether "Man will seek the mystic rails of the mystery" is deep or doggerel (though I've got a suspicion.)

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

Revolver

Beatles

4/5

The Velvet Underground

5/5

A fantastic album - all the more remarkable because it's probably not their best.

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

3/5

Not quite a four. Pioneers of a kind of music I really like but not something I'm going to play very often. I know it's pretty sparse already but I like the bits without the melody or singing best.

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

2/5

OK I guess but not really a genre that does much for me. Doesn't feel like a 1001 album.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

2/5

Can't really see what the fuss is about this album. Not a big country fan though.

Moondance

Van Morrison

2/5

Love that his voice is kind of thin and reedy. If it weren't for that it'd all slip down a bit too easy. Moondance is a great tune though.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

2/5

I hadn't heard this before. The hits are great but a lot of the rest of it seemed dull and weirdly misogynistic which I didn't expect at all.

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

2/5

Great voice, songs don't really do it for me. More mandolin than I was expecting.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

Rocks

Aerosmith

3/5

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

The Kinks

3/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

It's brilliantly done, it sounds lovely, a technical achievement, some amazing songs. Am I likely to listen to it in the next 12 months? No.

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

3/5

Pretty good - better than I remember them being.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

I never really know whether I get Steely Dan or not - and I quite like that. If the songs were more obvious or less interesting then it'd all be a bit too slick but as it is I keep going back every once in a while.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

1999

Prince

5/5

I love this album despite its flaws - some dubious lyrics and at least one track that probably didn't need to be 8+ minutes - but that's Prince all over.