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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Rum Sodomy & The Lash The Pogues	5	3.25	+1.75
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	5	3.27	+1.73
Metal Box Public Image Ltd.	4	2.41	+1.59
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	5	3.43	+1.57
One Nation Under A Groove Funkadelic	5	3.43	+1.57
Queen II Queen	5	3.48	+1.52
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	5	3.48	+1.52
OK Talvin Singh	4	2.56	+1.44
Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen	5	3.69	+1.31
Superfly Curtis Mayfield	5	3.7	+1.3

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
1989 Taylor Swift	1	3.26	-2.26
Nick Of Time Bonnie Raitt	1	2.84	-1.84
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	2	3.63	-1.63
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand	2	3.57	-1.57
Synchronicity The Police	2	3.4	-1.4
Melodrama Lorde	2	3.31	-1.31
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	2	3.29	-1.29
Crazysexycool TLC	2	3.07	-1.07
Chemtrails Over The Country Club Lana Del Rey	2	3.04	-1.04

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Artist	Albums	Average
Black Sabbath	3	4.67

5-Star Albums (13)

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One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic · 2 likes

5/5

Funkalicious. Like it more the more times I listen

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees · 1 likes

4/5

Not the shitty 80s pop I was expecting at all. Pretty good actually

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd. · 1 likes

4/5

Lydon’s best work apart from Country Life butter

1-Star Albums (2)

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To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

2/5

Not a fan, but preferred this to KL’s more recent output. He sounds less like a cartoon character. Production crisper.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Needless to say I’m a Sabbath (and Ozzy) devotee. I’d pick any of the 3 following albums over this one. But it’s still a banger. RIP

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Top drawer. Lindsey Buckingham is underrated as a guitarist.

Synchronicity

The Police

2/5

Some interesting stuff going on, but not enough for a second listen. Once the album finished Spotify played the far superior “Something About You” by Level 42.

Highly Evolved

The Vines

3/5

Okay. Sounds like a mixture of other bands, not always in a terrible way.

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

1/5

Bonnie Raitt? Bonnie Shaitt more like

Blur

4/5

Enjoyable, listening to it after a long long time. Only criticism is maybe Albarn’s vox are a bit lame here and there

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

A bit of harmless fun.

Ramones

3/5

They're the AC/DC of first wave punk. Fun up to a point.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

Some great lyrics in here.

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

2/5

The way she sang the line “down at the Men In Music Business Conference” immediately made me think of Jermaine Clement singing “Team Building Exercise ‘99”. Couldn’t take it seriously from that point onwards (about 30 seconds into the opening track)

Common

3/5

OK as background music. For Starbucks or the lift.

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

The songwriting is brilliant. I just can't get past Lennon's hippy egomania and the annoying personality cult around it.

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

5/5

Genius.

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

4/5

I started out thinking "it's OK, wouldn't listen again". A few tracks in, that'd changed to "actually I quite like some of this, still probably wouldn't listen again". By the end of the album I realise I'd happily listen to it again. Which was nice.

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

2/5

It’s for the background of Gossip Girl or similar American TV teen dramas. Hard for me to treat it as music in its own right.

Melodrama

Lorde

2/5

I didn't hate this as much as I expected, but wouldn't choose to listen again. The production / sound is awesome though

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

3/5

Our own decisions

Black Sabbath

4/5

I feel like I have to give a 5 due to its seminal status. Rounding down to 4. Much bluesier, rock-and-rollier, Zeppelin-er than their following albums; a product of the end of the 60s rather than the start of the 70s

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

A pleasant enough listen

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

I would buy this record

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

4/5

Fretless

Let It Be

The Replacements

4/5

A gem

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

Yeah, go on. It’s quite pleasant

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Iconic, atmospheric, and maybe even a little homoerotic.

Protection

Massive Attack

3/5

I like it, but feel underwhelmed…

Feast of Wire

Calexico

3/5

Didn’t mind this AT ALL. Might even re-listen. Yet, I’ll err on the side of three stars.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

I realise, hearing it again after a fair few years, that this album means a lot to me.

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

I wouldn’t consider myself a VanMorrisonhead, but enjoyed this more than expected

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

4/5

Sounds like more off-the-shelf flowery psychedelia at first but with an enjoyable darkness, edging it over into ‘bad trip’ territory… IN A GOOD WAY

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Not the shitty 80s pop I was expecting at all. Pretty good actually

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

4/5

One of Watford's finest musicians

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

It’s OK. Always had a feeling that Public Enemy were one of the weaker “golden age” artists but get outsized attention.

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

5/5

A delightful romp

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

3/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

Never heard of Ms Apple. This was awesome!

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

3/5

Goes on a bit

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

It’s OK, not bad, not as good as I remembered. Definitely the kinda thing that’s better live.

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

4/5

The vibe and general sound of this album, I like a lot.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

A lorra, lorra Kristmas klassics but I’m too bored to finish my thought

Franz Ferdinand

2/5

Pants Turd-wee-bland

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Feels cliche to say it but truly a revolutionary and original musician, I think the way he played his guitar in the 60s would still be considered unorthodox even today.

Fleet Foxes

5/5

Was forced to listen to this album on repeat for about a month while working at Borders Books. Unexpectedly, this resulted in me loving it.

1989

Taylor Swift

1/5

The blandest swill available, and the masses are lapping it up. It’s the soylent green of music.

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

3/5

Liked. Wouldn’t listen again.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Inoffensive

Queen II

Queen

5/5

Heavier than one might expect.

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

4/5

Exceedingly pleasant. Though I doubt I’d listen again out of choice in future. So it’s a strong 3-bagger, but I’m gonna give Lenny an extra bag since he played all the instruments and self-produced it

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

4/5

Banger. My parents had this on vinyl which suggests that, in spite of their mild homophobia, Frankie’s message cut through. It was my favourite LP as a kid based solely on the gatefold design.

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Started out feeling pretty fatigued with Neil Young albums, but liked this one by the end of it

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

Quite liked

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

5/5

Funkalicious. Like it more the more times I listen

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

Yeah, it’s decent. You can hear a little bit of punk in there. Did I thoroughly enjoy it? Not really.

Crazysexycool

TLC

2/5

Not bad. Not good.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

There’s a lot of good tunes. A lot of punk/ska that followed takes its cues from here In other news, my album backlog is now in the hundreds

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

3/5

He’s a great lyricist but a lot of his music just don’t float my boat. Much of this album feels like filler. It is definitely listenable and re-listenable, though

Blackstar

David Bowie

3/5

Self-indulgent. I could grow to like it.

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Like Bob Dylan, but better

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

2/5

The music can be quite nice. The vocals are wank.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

Funky Monks

Talvin Singh

4/5

This is the kind of music that gets played at lunchtime in a beachfront bar in Goa or Phuket frequented by Russian tourists with plastic surgery and translucent white shirts. Four stars.

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

4/5

Lydon’s best work apart from Country Life butter

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

4/5

A nice surprise, I quite liked it. Heavy pop. Instinct says three stars but I’m going to be generous and give four because I’ve given four to MUCH worse on here

Guero

Beck

3/5

It was an enjoyable, though ultimately forgettable, listen - with some high points

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

A few absolute bangers, a few bits of filler makes it a four

Suede

4/5

Over here they’re called “The London Suede” due to a trademark dispute.

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

2/5

Some of it is OK; quite good, even. Most of it is meh. I believe that I could learn to enjoy more of this album, with repeated listens. But that’s almost certainly not going to happen.