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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Second Toughest In The Infants Underworld	5	2.86	+2.14
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 George Michael	5	3.17	+1.83
Meat Is Murder The Smiths	5	3.32	+1.68
Kenza Khaled	4	2.58	+1.42
The White Room The KLF	4	2.79	+1.21
Want One Rufus Wainwright	4	2.9	+1.1
Dog Man Star Suede	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
I See A Darkness Bonnie "Prince" Billy	1	2.97	-1.97
Cosmo's Factory Creedence Clearwater Revival	2	3.92	-1.92
(What's The Story) Morning Glory Oasis	2	3.84	-1.84
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	2	3.82	-1.82
Green River Creedence Clearwater Revival	2	3.78	-1.78
New Boots And Panties Ian Dury	1	2.7	-1.7
Catch A Fire Bob Marley & The Wailers	2	3.63	-1.63
Lust For Life Iggy Pop	2	3.6	-1.6
The Number Of The Beast Iron Maiden	2	3.59	-1.59
Stankonia OutKast	2	3.55	-1.55

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Kenza

Khaled

4/5

No idea what the songs are about as they're either in French or Algerian, which I don't speak. But great music, I can hear many different influences in there, and couldn't stop my toes from tapping

1 likes

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

2/5

Maiden are great. In small doses. The main tracks Number of the Beast and Run to the hills are great galloping, pantomime horror lyric fuelled Maiden metal. 🤘🏻 The rest is the usual galloping, pantomime horror lyric fuelled Maiden metal but dull.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (3)

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

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I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

1/5

Possibly the most depressing album I've ever heard. Someone with a voice that mournful shouldn't be singing unless accompanied by some upbeat music

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

2/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

3/5

Sounds to strut to

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Adele

3/5

Great voice but apart from a couple of tracks, all the songs have the same subject. He's left, she misses him and she'll change if he comes back. By the end of the album I wanted to give her a good shake and tell her to get some self respect and stop wallowing

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

3/5

Scissor Sisters

4/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

2/5

I'm not really a fan of modern jazz so although this is clearly talented playing, it just sounds like discordant noise to me. Wasted on me totally I'm afraid

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

4/5

Kenza

Khaled

4/5

No idea what the songs are about as they're either in French or Algerian, which I don't speak. But great music, I can hear many different influences in there, and couldn't stop my toes from tapping

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

2/5

Classic American rock n roll. I liked the music ok, but not the vocals and the lyrics were samey

The White Room

The KLF

4/5

Kenya

Machito

2/5

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

2/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

Low

David Bowie

3/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

2/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

Love the quirky lyrics in particular

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

2/5

Could hear Beatles influence, some Crowded House, bit of punk, but most of the time sounded like an out of tune garage band

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Mellow and beautiful

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Forgot what a classic this album is. MJ's voice is superb and every track totally earns its place on the listing

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Some absolute classics on here. Good songs but I don't really enjoy her vocals so not an album I'd listen to

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

What I think of as lazy Sunday jazz. Chilled and inoffensive with a couple of more upbeat numbers. Didn't grip me but I didn't hate it

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

3/5

Enjoyed the music, quite uplifting.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

2/5

I didn't like Cyndi Lauper's high pitched squeaky vocals in the 80s, and it seems time hasn't improved my opinion. The album just sounds very dated and jumps between styles, didn't enjoy at all

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

2/5

Sounds like a movie soundtrack from the 60s/70s and in fact that's exactly what it is. Probably would have helped if I'd actually seen the film, otherwise I wouldn't have thought this is just a bizarre album

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Love it. Stone cold classic

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

I don't think I've listened to the whole of this album since I was a young kid. Still a great album to sing along to and I'll no doubt be playing it again now I've rediscovered it

Live!

Fela Kuti

2/5

Funky but lengthy

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

4/5

Great voice and a lovely mellow album. Worth another listen

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

2/5

Tuneless and boring

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

On paper this should be right up my street. But it just didn't grab me at all. Just ok

Hms Fable

Shack

3/5

Sounds like they're trying to be any one of a number of bands from the 90s. Without really achieving an identity of their own. Occasionally, particularly on the more melodic pieces they sound like there's something there but otherwise it's cut and paste 90s indie pop guitar band

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

5/5

I bought this album when it came out. It's still fabulous

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

1/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

2/5

Old fashioned rock n roll. If you're fond of a lengthy guitar solo, you'd like this. I just got bored

Lost Souls

Doves

4/5

Dog Man Star

Suede

4/5

I always considered Suede one of the better bands of the Britpop era, although pre-Spotify I was never a big enough fan to check out their albums. Really enjoyed this one. Brett Anderson has a distinctive voice with great range and a beautiful tone. Will definitely be adding this to my playlists

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

2/5

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

3/5

If you're a fan of poppy pop then I'm sure this is wonderful

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

I used to like this album a lot but it feels very tired now

More Specials

The Specials

2/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

2/5

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

2/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

2/5

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

2/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

What a voice, what a loss to music

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

2/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Great album. Never listened to a full album of this before although have been a fan of the odd tracks I've heard previously

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

2/5

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

5/5

One of my growing up albums so I know the tracks like I know the lines on my own palm. I haven't listened to the entire album in ages though, and I still love it

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

3/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

2/5

wtf?

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Beautiful

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

2/5

Black Sabbath

2/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

2/5

Can't stand him, and this is absolutely my least favourite genre of music so I'm negatively biased but I know it has some merit even if I don't appreciate it

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

2/5

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

5/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

Washed over me without really making an impact but pleasant enough

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

2/5

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

3/5

The problem I have with British folk music from the 60s and 70s is that I like the music and lyrics but not the reedy female vocals that are typical of so much of the songs I've heard. This is no exception. On the rockier tracks they're fine but as soon as it slows down it loses me

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

3/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

Pleasantly surprised by this. I don't usually like live albums of Thin Lizzy but this rocks and I really enjoyed it

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

2/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues