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295

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3.72

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Metal Box Public Image Ltd.	5	2.41	+2.59
Isn't Anything My Bloody Valentine	5	2.75	+2.25
Alien Lanes Guided By Voices	5	2.76	+2.24
Ys Joanna Newsom	5	2.79	+2.21
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret Soft Cell	5	2.86	+2.14
Psychocandy The Jesus And Mary Chain	5	2.96	+2.04
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns Joni Mitchell	5	3.12	+1.88
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) Bob Dylan	5	3.14	+1.86
Hejira Joni Mitchell	5	3.14	+1.86
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space Spiritualized	5	3.14	+1.86

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Thriller Michael Jackson	1	4.22	-3.22
Bad Michael Jackson	1	3.81	-2.81
The College Dropout Kanye West	1	3.31	-2.31
The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones	1	3.24	-2.24
Dookie Green Day	2	3.79	-1.79
Hot Fuss The Killers	2	3.73	-1.73
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	3.68	-1.68
Slipknot Slipknot	1	2.68	-1.68
Bayou Country Creedence Clearwater Revival	2	3.63	-1.63
Morrison Hotel The Doors	2	3.57	-1.57

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Bob Dylan	3	5
Beatles	3	5
Miles Davis	3	5
David Bowie	6	4.33
Radiohead	4	4.5
Led Zeppelin	2	5
The Band	2	5
The Cure	2	5
Pink Floyd	2	5
Jane's Addiction	2	5
Joni Mitchell	2	5
R.E.M.	3	4.33
Steely Dan	3	4.33

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Michael Jackson	2	1
Kanye West	3	2

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
The Rolling Stones	4, 1, 4

5-Star Albums (66)

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Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

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At first you’re cynical and presume this is one of those jazzy 80s things with a bass player with his axe strapped up too far, but it doesn’t take long to succumb to the quality of the first three tracks. Five of these songs are very familiar radio hits; the close listening on headphones reveals lovely double tracked harmonies and very slick percussion. Still loungey and not really my thing, but her voice is beautiful and the whole thing is perfectly realised. Some filler on Side Two, where you don’t realise the time has gone but you’re on to the final track. Highlight: Your Love is King, and the really patient build to the vocal on Why Can’t We Live Together? Low points: Sweet as Cherry Pie and the line about sticking together hand in glove.

Tasteful. Clear to see why it’s a classic. Lots of room in the mix and swagger in the band. Getz plays sax in an effortless series of phrases and the vocals are chilled and a little exotic. In keeping with yesterday’s Sadé, this is something to hear at a dinner where the wine is better than the risotto and you’re hoping for a big dessert to make up for the fact that the starter was soup. Lovely, but really, really tasteful.

On which the band tries synths and sounds like every other 80s rock except for the guitar, which is amazing but frequently shoehorned in, and Dave’s characteristic swagger, which is mainly incoherent. Their first record is ten million times better, but Jump and Panama are terrific and the rest? Not so much.

A whole lot of record. At its worst it’s a little Crue-ish but the guitar reminds me of the Pistols now and again and I love it when Paradise City ends and you realise it’s still only half way through. I never bother with the last two tracks, but this is a real classic.

Very tasteful, with that VH1 sheen, but the songs and the singing are impressive .

Takes a little while to get going but has several moments of greatness.

Far romantic than anyone would admit at the time, this is also a great, cool, noisy album and it contains Taste The Floor, one of the truly great tracks, like, ever.

Nope, not good.

The streaming version cuts out the booing, which is the point. This is superb: the inexplicable nature of the booing is essential in our ongoing study of stupidity.

Loses a mark for Let Me Put My Love Into You; otherwise a banger.

The best of this sounds better on Pack Up The Plantation: the studio dates some great songs here.