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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Yank Crime Drive Like Jehu	5	2.7	+2.3
Slanted And Enchanted Pavement	5	3.03	+1.97
Goo Sonic Youth	5	3.24	+1.76
Dub Housing Pere Ubu	4	2.35	+1.65
Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem	5	3.42	+1.58
Metal Box Public Image Ltd.	4	2.42	+1.58
Odelay Beck	5	3.46	+1.54
Casanova The Divine Comedy	4	2.67	+1.33
Faust IV Faust	4	2.77	+1.23
Millions Now Living Will Never Die Tortoise	4	2.88	+1.12

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Van Halen Van Halen	1	3.63	-2.63
Hotel California Eagles	1	3.6	-2.6
Highway to Hell AC/DC	2	3.66	-1.66
Sheer Heart Attack Queen	2	3.65	-1.65
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	2	3.48	-1.48
Disraeli Gears Cream	2	3.47	-1.47
Reggatta De Blanc The Police	2	3.45	-1.45
Aqualung Jethro Tull	2	3.44	-1.44
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden	2	3.4	-1.4
Led Zeppelin IV Led Zeppelin	3	4.35	-1.35

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Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

Debut

Björk

4/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

Faust IV

Faust

4/5

Great stuff, influenced half of what I listen to. Iconic opener.

In It For The Money

Supergrass

4/5

Great bunch of lads

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

3/5

Never heard of this album but it's not bad

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Good fun

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Have heard the odd song over the years but I never realised they were this good

Mothership Connection

Parliament

3/5

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

4/5

Not their best album but still good

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

2/5

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

5/5

Favourite Pavement album and probably one of my favourite albums ever

Black Sabbath

3/5

Rage Against The Machine

3/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

4/5

This is really good, Boards of Canada of the 70s

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

3/5

A band I've always meant to listen to, sounds quite similar to some stuff I like a lot but none of it is as memorable as I'd like it to be

The Clash

3/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

Odelay

Beck

5/5

Wall to wall bangers

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Great production, prefer The Low End Theory but this isn't far behind

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

2/5

Not as good as Señor Burns

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

2/5

The Undertones

3/5

Solid

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

3/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Was never that fussed about Black Keys, but everything Danger Mouse produces sounds lovely

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

4/5

Good lad

Green

R.E.M.

4/5

80s REM is the best, prefer some of the albums before this but this is still a good one

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

4/5

Don't know the rest of their stuff very well but I've always liked this one

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

2/5

Not for me

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

One of my go-to albums whenever I have a wee jazz phase. Very satisfying when that great bassline finally comes in. Way better than Kind of Blue.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

2/5

Not for me

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

Not bad, like listening to proto-Ty Segall. Gets a bit samey though.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

3/5

Good stuff

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Enjoyed more than I expected to

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

Solid

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

4/5

Great stuff, nice and weird. First two PiL albums are far more interesting than the Sex Pistols.

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

4/5

Another post-punk classic

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Tical

Method Man

3/5

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

4/5

V good album

Maxinquaye

Tricky

3/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Great craic

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

2/5

Real Life

Magazine

4/5

Back to the post punk albums. Shot by Both Sides is a banger

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

The Visitors

ABBA

3/5

Some great basslines

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

3/5

Always heard great things about this album, and it was decent but not as good as I was expecting. Enjoyed Albuquerque. Not as good as On the Beach.

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

3/5

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

2/5

Not for me, but I didn't mind the Dylan cover

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Hotel California

Eagles

1/5

Lebowski was right

Copper Blue

Sugar

4/5

Never got round to listening to Sugar before but enjoyed this a lot, great guitar tones

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

3/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

Great, one of their best

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

His best songs are great but there always a few that don't do it for me

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

Great

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

GREY Area

Little Simz

4/5

Never really got round to listening to her properly before but this is class

Kala

M.I.A.

3/5

Paper Planes is still a banger

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

2/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

I'm more into his weird Berlin era but this one's solid as well

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

5/5

Fantastic

Different Class

Pulp

3/5

Goo

Sonic Youth

5/5

Not my favourite Sonic Youth album but it's up there

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

3/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

2/5

Enjoyed the first song but lost interest after that

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Was my favourite album when I was 12, very nostalgic

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

3/5

Fine, goes on a bit.

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Great

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

2/5

Bad band

Spiderland

Slint

4/5

Fantastic. Almost a 5 but always think Don Amon drags on a bit

Chelsea Girl

Nico

3/5

3 and a half, solid record.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Another 3 and a half

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

A bit dull but nice enough

More Specials

The Specials

3/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Some decent tunes but goes on a bit

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Great bunch of lads

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

3/5

Some nice tunes on here but they're much better after they discover drugs

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

3/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

Pyramids is great

Dry

PJ Harvey

4/5

V good

Van Halen

1/5

Absolutely not for me

Disraeli Gears

Cream

2/5

It's ok but a bit boring and Clapton's a racist.

White Denim

4/5

Good stuff, a band I always mean to listen to more

C'est Chic

CHIC

2/5

Couple of decent tunes but mostly not for me

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

Great lad

LP1

FKA twigs

3/5

Decent

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

3/5

Hit and miss and a bit long but a few good songs. Nirvana definitely picked the best ones to cover.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

Decent

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Led Zeppelin 3 out of Led Zeppelin 5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

Never listened to this one beyond the singles before. Not their best album but pretty good.

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

3/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

4/5

V good

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

3/5

Quite a 3/5 band generally

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

4/5

Full of bangers

Being There

Wilco

4/5

Not my favourite by them and a bit long but it's good stuff

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

3/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Great Christmas album, banging production. Shame he's a murderer.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

4/5

The difference some drugs make

Permission to Land

The Darkness

3/5

Loved this at the time but can only handle it in small doses these days

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Smile

Brian Wilson

4/5

Long but good, production is great

Iron Maiden

2/5

Didn't hate it like I expected to, a lot more soft arpeggios than I expected, still not really for me though.

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

2/5

Not for me, even the title is annoying

Low-Life

New Order

4/5

Never listened to this one beyond the singles before. Always preferred their gloomy post-Joy Division period but really enjoyed this

Feast of Wire

Calexico

4/5

I only know their Iron & Wine collaborations but this is very good