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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Germfree Adolescents X-Ray Spex	5	3.04	+1.96
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Dead Kennedys	5	3.27	+1.73
Scott 2 Scott Walker	4	2.64	+1.36
Apocalypse Dudes Turbonegro	4	2.9	+1.1
Exodus Bob Marley & The Wailers	5	3.94	+1.06
London Calling The Clash	5	3.98	+1.02

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
1984 Van Halen	1	3.51	-2.51
Come Away With Me Norah Jones	1	3.39	-2.39
xx The xx	1	3.37	-2.37
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	1	3.29	-2.29
Gentlemen The Afghan Whigs	1	2.9	-1.9
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young & Crazy Horse	2	3.55	-1.55
Rio Duran Duran	2	3.49	-1.49
Dirty Sonic Youth	2	3.11	-1.11

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1-Star Albums (5)

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Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

This is a bit of a dirge, but I liked it. I give it 3.

The xx

1/5

Too dull to hold my attention. Mikey put me right off!

Scott 2

Scott Walker

4/5

Loved this. Perfect for a dinner party. Will definitely listen again. A beautiful voice right there!

New Forms

Roni Size

3/5

Listened to half of it. It was ok. Nothing to object to here.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

Love the feel of most of this 1960s jazz. Such influential music! One piece, however, sounded to me like a disappointing school orchestra. I'll still give it a 4 though - you've gotta be good and brave to compose music like that!

Blur

4/5

Well, I did like this one. I like Blur and I like Gorillaz and here we find Damon Albarn nodding his head in both directions. A drop in quality towards the end. I give it 4.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

2/5

It's all ok. Just one track would have been ok though. It wouldn't matter which one.

Being There

Wilco

3/5

I like what I hear on this album. Although I've only listened to half of it, I've enjoyed the variety of styles across the tracks. A pleasant change after yesterday's monotony.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Like it. We saw Femi Kuti, his son, play at The Festival Hall a few years back.

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

Started off being impressed with the live musicianship here, from all members of the band. However, I soon tired of Keith's incessant, manic banging of the drums - calm down Keith, calm down! Didn't appreciate the 'comedy' about the girl guide. Won't listen again.

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

1984

Van Halen

1/5

We should never speak of this album again. Awful! And yet, as I write this (on my hols, in a local cafe), you'll never guess what's just come on the radio. Go ahead and jump!!

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

5/5

I loved this high energy masterpiece. Identity is in my top 10.

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

1/5

Unable to listen to this for more than 5 minutes. Wanted to appreciate crackin talent but it's too much for me. I'm out!

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

3/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

1/5

Three words. Dull as ditchwater.

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

4/5

I liked this. Didn't wanna listen too closely to the lyrics, but I enjoyed the energy. It had a 'Spinal Tap meet the Ramones' kinda vibe, I thought. I'll give it a 4, but really I felt it was a 3.75.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

2/5

I thought this was ok. I only listened to half of it. A variety of tracks that did have one thing in common. No tune!

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

1/5

I didn't like this. The world is far too full of this type of thing. Who does this guy think he is? Get lost!

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

5/5

Well, it's hard for me to give this anything but a five, as it contains two tracks which were massive favourites in my youth. So I give it 5.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

I don't know any P J Harvey. I've always wondered who she was and what she sounded like. Turns out, she occasionally sounds very much like Radiohead! I liked this album very much. I've been missing out! High 4

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

Lovely, relaxing music.

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

Well, in the end I thought this was just ok. Too samey! I think one of these tracks on a compilation would be a delightful breath of fresh air. All the tracks together, though, was too much for me. And too shrill in places. One piece, called Parallelograms, stood out. But then I realised it was a different artist that Spotify had selected. I'd like to hear more from Linda Perhacs!

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

I thought I'd know all of this LP but infact, I didn't recognise about half of it. Some absolute classics with some new ones to discover. Uplifting and groovey! I give it 5.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

I haven't finished this yet, but I'm gonna give it 4. A mixture of 60s cheese and (soon to become) 70s funk. The Jackson 5 and The Osmonds owe a lot to these guys!

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Really liked a lot of the music, but the 'monologue' on the last track finished me off. Didn't make it to the end.

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

3/5

I can't ever really forgive Eric Clapton for Layla - one listen of it would have been enough, and yet we've all had to hear it thousands of times. However, I think this album chugged along ok.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Love Dusty. We named our cat after her! Always good to hear Preacher Man, and Windmills of Your Mind is such a good song. It's a 4 from me!

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

I found this very enjoyable. It chugs along in a very relaxing manner.

Rio

Duran Duran

2/5

This album was disappointing at the time. Duran Duran had already lost their edge and I think most of the album tracks are lazy and pretty unmemorable. Rio the track, and its video were ridiculous. It's still disappointing. I give it 2, only because of Save A Prayer.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

3/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5