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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	5	3.32	+1.68
Get Behind Me Satan The White Stripes	5	3.41	+1.59
Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen	5	3.42	+1.58
Marquee Moon Television	5	3.5	+1.5
Natty Dread Bob Marley & The Wailers	5	3.58	+1.42
Graceland Paul Simon	5	3.74	+1.26
Beyond Skin Nitin Sawhney	4	2.77	+1.23
Happy Trails Quicksilver Messenger Service	4	2.8	+1.2
Automatic For The People R.E.M.	5	3.82	+1.18
Da Capo Love	4	2.82	+1.18

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bluesbreakers John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers	1	3.16	-2.16
Pearl Janis Joplin	2	3.73	-1.73
Madman Across The Water Elton John	2	3.59	-1.59
Here's Little Richard Little Richard	2	3.57	-1.57
Parklife Blur	2	3.38	-1.38
Come Away With Me Norah Jones	2	3.38	-1.38
Aftermath The Rolling Stones	2	3.38	-1.38
Tommy The Who	2	3.34	-1.34
Horses Patti Smith	2	3.31	-1.31

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Artist	Albums	Average
Bruce Springsteen	2	5

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Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Love it, have loved it for a loooong time.

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Ananda Shankar

3/5

Was alright, don't mind a bit of something different but not sure I'd rush back to this.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Love it, have loved it for a loooong time.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

One of my favourites, contains my wedding song Nightswimming.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

What to say? Some say the greatest album ever. One of a handful on this list with a genuine claim.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

I really only know Rumours that well, this has a similar split personality thing going on, but it doesn't feel like the sum of its parts adds up to quite as much. Hard going to be judged by that album I guess, but inevitable in hindsight.

Common

4/5

I liked this when it first came out and listening again I remembered why.

Play

Moby

3/5

Enjoyable. Surprisingly the lesser known songs in the second half of the album were the ones I enjoyed the most.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

It somehow sounds both distinctively unique and all over the place at once.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Never listened to sabbath before, but I actually enjoyed this. Thought it would be "heavy metal" as i understood it, but it's more like prog/rock ala king crimson or similar.

Country Life

Roxy Music

4/5

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

3/5

After the first song I thought I would hate this. But I didn't in the end.

Sister

Sonic Youth

4/5

Better than I expected. I was into the Parquet Courts for a little bit without ever having listened to Sonic Youth, but now I know where they got that sound from.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Started off well, bit too much of that organ or whatever for my liking.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

5/5

I've always considered this to be a tightly orchestrated masterpiece. My opinion has not changed.

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Thought I'd like this more than I actually did.

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

4/5

Parklife

Blur

2/5

1994 brit pop is an era I lived through and haven't spent much time revisiting. Some of the songs on this album are national consciousness level, which doesn't always bode well for a sit down album listening experience. In the end I'd say this is a mixed bag.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

I was literally singing Dirty Work in my head when this came up! I think because of One Battle After Another. Not a hard album to love if you like this sort of thing, and my word do I like THIS sort of thing.

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Enjoyable bit of prog on a Monday morning. As a child it seemed like Rick Wakeman was a formiddable presence on the TV. He seemed to be part of every panel show, quiz game on the box. And he was a bit annoying. For most of my early years I assumed that was his job. Only later on did I learn he was in a band called Yes, which I assumed based on his TV appearances, would be crap. So it was a pleasant surprised when I later learned that they were not crap at all.

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

3/5

Rock is the right expression for this. I'm not sure I understood who PJ Harvey was, but this is not really what I expected. Pearl Jam, Led Zepellin, quite heavy going in spots. Not in a bad way really just surprising.

The Specials

4/5

Da Capo

Love

4/5

Fantastic. Think I love 60s Psych.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Enjoyable.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Love it, bought it back in the day. Dreamy.

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Enjoyable if a little samey.

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

Enjoyable.

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

2/5

Starts fast with the two big hits and then disappears into the early 90s at quite the pace. It makes me think of watching movies when I was a kid. When they sort of tried to bring rap to the mainstream via things like Turtle Power and Do the Bartman.

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Loved it.

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

3/5

Didn't think i'd like any of this but I did.

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

4/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

3/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

2/5

Listened a couple of times. Enjoyed a couple of songs. Bit screechy? Is that sacrilege?

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Solid, prefer this to the soft bulletin

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

I've already listened to this album thousands of times. It's five out of five.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

2/5

Feels like being in an American Diner in the UK in the 90s. Very soulful in places. All this 50s rock and roll sounds approximately the same, but I guess it worked.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

3/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

2/5

Bought this when it came out. I remember it being quite a big deal. On first listen it reminded me of all the songs I remembered, but actually the second side feels quite a lot more of my taste now. I thought this was going to be a dud but I found something i liked in the second half.

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

Sometimes this throws up an album you know and love and that's today.

Fred Neil

4/5

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

3/5

Enjoyed. Very jazzy. Too jazzy for some.

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

3/5

Exactly what I’m here for, good stuff I’ve never heard of. Enjoyed it enough to go and listen to another of theirs.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

Love REM. This isn't my absolute favourite, but it's in the era I love.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

2/5

Horses

Patti Smith

2/5

Didn't like this as much as I thought I would.

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

1/5

Surprised that I did not like this at all.

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Tommy

The Who

2/5

My experience of Quadrophenia colours this quite badly. I don't think this comes anywhere close to that. Some good tracks, a lot of pomp and bombast and some frankly weird stuff.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

2/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

2/5