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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Suicide Suicide	5	2.46	+2.54
I Against I Bad Brains	5	2.93	+2.07
Heartattack And Vine Tom Waits	5	3.07	+1.93
This Is Hardcore Pulp	5	3.14	+1.86
Crooked Rain Crooked Rain Pavement	5	3.24	+1.76
The Soft Bulletin The Flaming Lips	5	3.29	+1.71
The College Dropout Kanye West	5	3.31	+1.69
My Aim Is True Elvis Costello	5	3.35	+1.65
Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow	5	3.36	+1.64
Different Class Pulp	5	3.42	+1.58

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Moving Pictures Rush	1	3.58	-2.58
Come Away With Me Norah Jones	1	3.38	-2.38
John Barleycorn Must Die Traffic	1	3.17	-2.17
461 Ocean Boulevard Eric Clapton	1	3.12	-2.12
Electric The Cult	1	3.02	-2.02
Vulgar Display Of Power Pantera	1	2.97	-1.97
Led Zeppelin III Led Zeppelin	2	3.96	-1.96
Time Out The Dave Brubeck Quartet	2	3.84	-1.84
Nick Of Time Bonnie Raitt	1	2.83	-1.83
Superunknown Soundgarden	2	3.66	-1.66

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Artist	Albums	Average
Pulp	2	5
Beatles	2	5

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Different Class

Pulp

5/5

Fucking banging, not a bad song on the album. Sheffields king of sexy kitchen sink verse covers topics such as shagging, class politics and getting off your nut. 9/10

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

4/5

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

3/5

Ramones

5/5

Brilliant songs, fast, funny and dumb. New York’s daftest sons absolutely smash it. Favourite songs on this listen were Judy is a punk and Havana affair.

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

1/5

Fucking hate this prick. Dull uninspired music from a dull uninspired man. All skill no soul. Blues lawyer music, no thanks.

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

4/5

Yeah really enjoyed it, good fun times good lyrics

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

5/5

Brilliant, did nothing but listen to pavement all day after this.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

Banging. The way I swaggered into work after this should be a HR violation. Love it.

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

1/5

Why bother writing good tunes when you have your pal freaking out on the flute. Some cool organ work and the opening track wasn’t bad, and then they started singing songs. The title track is quite good though, burns poem turned folk song. Irritating flute remains present however.

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

5/5

So so so beautiful. Perfect blend of experimental and wonderful songwriting, listened to it driving to Nottingham and we saw a rainbow. Trancendental.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

2/5

Pleasant driving music, laughed and sang along when “without you” came on unexpectedly. Was horrified when the “lime in de coconut” song began blasting out with all the Mike Read energy. An interesting album, don’t like all of it but quite enjoyed listening to it.

Black Sabbath

3/5

Yeah fucking sick as fuck, first and and nib are mint. Let’s fucking go

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

2/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

Banger after banger, shame he’s a bellend.

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

I declare I don’t care no more! Fucking brilliant, love it from start to finish. 90’s green day is great and this is probably the best of it.

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

David Bowie

4/5

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

Lovely stuff

Van Halen

2/5

It is what it is

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

1/5

Big fat no from me. Silly without giving me any joy. Makes Bubbles happy though, so there’s that.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

Belting, always love talking heads. Toe tapping and funky, clever and funny and man what a voice. Life during wartime could raise me from the dead.

I Against I

Bad Brains

5/5

Let’s fucking go, bad brains dialling up the guitar rock gives us this belter of an album. Brilliant songs, with some top positivity through hardcore lyrics. “Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.” Mint.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

Against all my better judgement about how this album seems to me, I really fucking like it. I find something incredibly endearing about the overblown romantic declarations in the title track. Also paradise by the dashboard light slaps, containing both an earworm of a chorus and the stupidest fucking bridge I’ve ever heard in a song. Love it.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

Liam Gallagher claims ownership of the words “sunshine” and “lasagna”. Noel Gallagher couldn’t have done a better job writing these songs. Shame they’re blue bastards. Perfect.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

2/5

A few good moments, but not an exciting album really. And from a brilliant band, what can ya do.

Electric

The Cult

1/5

Boring, I was bored.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

2/5

His voice grates on me, a few cool riffs but essentially not for me

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

Sounds like I’ve bought a 20 bag in the mid 2000’s. Weird considering I was 9 when it came out. Tight buds, inner city pubs and adidas clothes. Top album, love it.

Suicide

5/5

Alan Vega rock and rolls over throbbing synth fuckery. Brilliant.

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

1/5

This was not very good at all.

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Yeah fucking absolutely mint, listened to it while playing Jenga. Maxwells silver hammer is fucking stupid, every other track is astounding. Can’t not give it 5

Arrival

ABBA

2/5

Obvs knowing me knowing you is sick, but nah. Only scanned through it but I’m not listening to all that.

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

1/5

Boring stadium metal voice strikes again, rubbish.

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Yeah really like this album, the bangers bang. rich, pin and date with the night are top tier. And the slow song is a perfect slow song. Karen oh my god, you get 4 out of 5!

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Shades on, arm hanging out of the window, everyone on the M18 wants to shag me. Good driving music, enjoyed this album. First track and peace frog very good.

Kenza

Khaled

1/5

Boring

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

5/5

Flawless album from Sheffields top shagger/wordsmith/gyrater Fantastic selection of tracks with a wonderful sound to them, slow burn epic torch song vibes.

Roots

Sepultura

3/5

Cool riffs and Brazilian folk metal, enjoyed it!

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

Weakest album by them, still really good. But yeah doesn’t reach that level.

Odelay

Beck

5/5

Brilliant set of songs, really stands up to repeated listens. Brothers and sisters just clap your hands

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Had a great time listening to this, a few of the soul songs on here have better versions but this seems a minor quibble. Great voice and wonderful songs.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

5/5

A masterclass in sardonic songwriting. Elvis is king.

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

5/5

Sing it Tom, is there better Tom waits albums? Absolutely, but this still gets a 5.

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

Some of the tracks are brilliant, they are. It just leaves me a bit cold, dirty Diana is sick as owt like

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

It’s nice background music, I don’t fully get it tbh

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

3/5

Cool album, some good songwriting and that 60’s “freak out the squares” vibe which I quite enjoy. Not as bogged down in guitar solos as some of his other stuff. Made me think about how the weed they smoked was nowhere near as strong as the weed we have now. They had blocks of plant matter full of stems and seeds, but they was appeh.

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

2/5

Wanted to like it, but it didn’t grab me

Common

3/5

Enjoyed it! Intro was sick as fuck.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

2/5

It’s fine, music to put on while thinking about other stuff

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Yeah brilliant, lovely to have on. Love nowhere man, Michelle, in my life. Not a band song. Beep beep…..beep beep yeah! (Norweg)Ian would recommend.

Viva Hate

Morrissey

4/5

Love it, not my favourite from Moz but a brilliant album with some of my favourite songs. Hard to give a proper review to someone whose work you’ve fully internalised for decades. Shame he turned into stretford hitler.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Fucking yeah well good, loads of bangers

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

Absolutely astounding, #1 best cool guy so far. My best guy in the list, top lad. This is a song about a superhero named Tony, it’s called Tony’s theme. Yes Kim.

Risque

CHIC

4/5

As Nile Rodger’s bangers flow through my kitchen on a Sunday morning I think to myself, Ian you’re a dancer. Let’s go.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

It’s a belter, always fun emphasising words like a fourth beastie boy

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

Hate the opening track, the rest of it was good. The very good songs were very good. I’m very tired. Bwaaaa