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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Savane Ali Farka Touré	5	3.02	+1.98
Veckatimest Grizzly Bear	5	3.05	+1.95
Me Against The World 2Pac	5	3.25	+1.75
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	5	3.34	+1.66
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	5	3.36	+1.64
Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem	5	3.42	+1.58
Green R.E.M.	5	3.48	+1.52
Brothers The Black Keys	5	3.56	+1.44
Darkdancer Les Rythmes Digitales	4	2.59	+1.41
Birth Of The Cool Miles Davis	5	3.63	+1.37

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Joshua Tree U2	1	3.67	-2.67
Vivid Living Colour	1	3.2	-2.2
Truth And Soul Fishbone	1	2.97	-1.97
Sail Away Randy Newman	1	2.97	-1.97
Ten Pearl Jam	2	3.91	-1.91
Gentlemen The Afghan Whigs	1	2.9	-1.9
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret Soft Cell	1	2.87	-1.87
One World John Martyn	1	2.81	-1.81
Off The Wall Michael Jackson	2	3.8	-1.8
American Idiot Green Day	2	3.77	-1.77

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Artist	Albums	Average
Radiohead	2	5

5-Star Albums (12)

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MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana · 2 likes

5/5

One of the best live albums of all time. Closes with a Leadbelly cover, superb.

1-Star Albums (10)

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Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

4/5

Lovely and soothing.

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

3/5

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

4/5

Very cockney The concept part strikes me as a piss take but that might be my retrospective view. Narrator is familiar... Was he on round the horn?

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

2/5

A bit too warbly for me. Prefer the songs in a lower key. I'm assuming some form of trans anthem. Ok, but I prefer James Blake style vocals.

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

4/5

Fuck yes. Perfect, but hate the metal song at the end

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

2/5

Too warbly

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

5/5

Delighted to see this this morning. Chill, inventive, perfect.

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Started strong but faded away a bit towards the end.

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

2/5

Ehhhhh.

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

3/5

Ok, but very sad rock.

En-Tact

The Shamen

1/5

Did not age well.

Truth

Jeff Beck

3/5

Another classic rock, perfectly serviceable

Green

R.E.M.

5/5

Hell yeah

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

5/5

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

5/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Alright too many 9 minutes songs

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

3/5

Slightly too much keyboards

Feast of Wire

Calexico

2/5

Alright, a bit long

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Nostalgia.

Chelsea Girl

Nico

3/5

Man, a little Nico goes A LONG way

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

4/5

The lyrics here did not age as well as the beats.

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

3/5

Pleasant, calm

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

1/5

hate the vocal style here

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

3/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

Jesus Christ this a long album.

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

One of the best live albums of all time. Closes with a Leadbelly cover, superb.

Eagles

2/5

The epitome of dad rock, as such, so so

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

4/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Hell yeah.

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

4/5

Very good, oddly fitting for a commute. I don't know if I would listen to it again but I enjoyed my time for sure.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

An amazing opening 5 track run, I think weekend wars is my favourite off this album

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

3/5

Ok but a bit samey.

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

4/5

Hell yeah

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

4/5

Lovely, perfect Monday morning commute album

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

2/5

Solidly mid for me, started off a bit discordant but the back end was for more interesting to me. Odd as I usually like this sound.

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

Nice, first time I'd properly listened to them.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

Enjoyed this for the most part, HATED the Betty Boop voice, loved the weird Clash style Reggae track

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Sensational end to the week, remember how everyone talked about this album changing everything when it came out.

Ctrl

SZA

4/5

Love it, it's been a while since a full listen, but perfect.

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

2/5

Turns out I don't like an entire album of pavement that much.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Chill start to the day.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

Superb album, though his live show from a jail was better

Orbital 2

Orbital

2/5

A bit too floaty for me

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

A few different genres on this one which was nice. Wind is the wind and black is the colour of my true loves hair were my favourites.

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Loved this, another great commute album to chill to.

Yeezus

Kanye West

2/5

The production on this hasn't massively aged well, nor have the lyrics. You can deff see the turn here.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

2/5

Still not sold on him.

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

2/5

Eh.

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

2/5

Holy crap, an album couldn't be more 80s, that vocal style...

The Libertines

2/5

Holy shit this is the most specific year and tone possible.

Ten

Pearl Jam

2/5

No thank you.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

That first track sounds so weird to modern ears

One World

John Martyn

1/5

Very breathy...

White Light

Gene Clark

3/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

5/5

Amazing.

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

4/5

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

1/5

Viva Hate

Morrissey

2/5

Berlin

Lou Reed

3/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

This man is very horny.

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

4/5

Fuck yes, groovy as all shit.

Ray Of Light

Madonna

2/5

I thought I'd like this more than I did

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

Hell yeah, I don't think I'd actually listened to this pixies album before.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Their best album?

Goo

Sonic Youth

3/5

I wish Iiked Sonic Youth more than I do.

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

3/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

Me Against The World

2Pac

5/5

Just superb

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

4/5

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

3/5

Another artist I want to like more than I do

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

4/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

3/5

Chill but not hugely engaging.

Dire Straits

2/5

The Joshua Tree

1/5

Every song sounds the same.

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

5/5

Always a delight

Low

David Bowie

3/5

Fucking weird man.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

3/5

Better but still rough for me.

A Northern Soul

The Verve

3/5

Liked it just a tad long though.

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

2/5

I don't like him with this kind of early 90s rock.

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

4/5

Liked this, great commuting music.

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

3/5

this is the most early 80s sounding hip hop/DJ albumm I've heard. Some tracks are fine but any with Malcolm's actual voice in them are oddly unsettling

The Stone Roses

3/5

I feel like I liked this more as a teen.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

Apart from a couple of standout tracks this seems very forgettable

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Actually hadn't listened to this all the way through.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd