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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Dirty Sonic Youth	5	3.11	+1.89
Double Nickels On The Dime Minutemen	5	3.12	+1.88
Music in Exile Songhoy Blues	5	3.33	+1.67
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	5	3.41	+1.59
More Songs About Buildings And Food Talking Heads	5	3.42	+1.58
Now I Got Worry The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion	4	2.52	+1.48
Darkdancer Les Rythmes Digitales	4	2.59	+1.41
Kid A Radiohead	5	3.71	+1.29
Broken English Marianne Faithfull	4	2.88	+1.12

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The White Album Beatles	2	4.18	-2.18
...The Dandy Warhols Come Down The Dandy Warhols	1	3.13	-2.13
Ten Pearl Jam	2	3.92	-1.92
Dire Straits Dire Straits	2	3.72	-1.72
Oracular Spectacular MGMT	2	3.61	-1.61
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	2	3.49	-1.49
Blunderbuss Jack White	2	3.4	-1.4
Eliminator ZZ Top	2	3.38	-1.38
Pornography The Cure	2	3.31	-1.31
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Beatles	3	4.26	-1.26

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Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

Listening to the remastered version and the completely isolated instruments in stereo is disconcerting.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

2/5

I've listened to this album quite a few times over the years and the more I listen to it, the less I like it. Somehow I feel patronised. Like The Wiggles for adults. Something about "here's instruments for a few bars, now here's me singing my poetry" rinse repeat. Smug. It feels smug.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Half asleep in the back of the car while we're on our way back from a family day out" vibes, which is chill 🙂‍↕️ Adequate dad-rock. Wouldn't turn it off, but wouldn't be itching to put it on again.

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

I shouldn't be trusted to give an unbiased opinion as this came out in my early teens and is embedded in my dna.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Holds up. I would happily indulge in this, only just not quite a 5 for me but close. Not completely scratching that itch.

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

I expected to love this, but found it difficult to really get in to. Took a few tries but warmed up and eventually yearned for more. Likely just getting to it a bit late, but intrigued to listen to the legacy version at some point

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

I'm a big Bowie fan, but this is not my favourite. Some good ones, started off a chill 3 but warmed up to 4

Stephen Stills

2/5

This is an album I have listened to

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

2/5

I would listen to the instrumental version of edgelord woody's roundup maybe.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

3/5

Good Sunday afternoon vibes. Not something I would throw on again randomly but enjoyed the meander.

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

3/5

Interesting to hear the early stuff but also reeks of being cornered by someone's dad with a pint who won't stop talking about how he used to hang with Mark E. Smith and list all the "not quite famous" bands he played bass in and how they could have been as big as The Fall if they didn't settle down and have kids.

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

5/5

Varied but cohesive. Enjoyed the meandering of it and would happily come back to the album again. A surprise new favourite.

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

4/5

Would happily pop this on again. Was fun to actually listen to the album and not just the singles. Could see this as a car ride jam.

The White Album

Beatles

2/5

I can't. Not in the mood for this. I'm sure it was great at the time, but today it just feels very indulgent and the old-style mix is nails on a chalkboard for me.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Realised I don't know that much about Neil Young. Really got in to this, caught me off- guard for sure. Hells yeah, get that fuzz.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

3/5

Yep. That's Johnny Cash 👍

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

yeah!

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Dookie

Green Day

3/5

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

1/5

Tried to get all the way through. Got to Hard on for Jesus and gave up. There's just nothing there. I'd rather listen to clanker music.

Signing Off

UB40

2/5

wanted to rate a 3 but it's just not engaging enough, even if the context is interesting

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

2/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

American Gothic

David Ackles

3/5

I feel like I need to "watch" this to truly appreciate it, so giving it an average for the listening experience.

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

4/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

3/5

tailed of a bit, still in to the singles

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

2/5

The Last Broadcast

Doves

3/5

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

3/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

3/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

2/5

Thought I liked this but gradually went from "this if fun" to "I wouldn't mind if this was on" to "I'm not sure I'd sit through the whole thing again"

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

4/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

5/5

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

4/5

had to relisten to a few songs as I think I came in to this album with low expectations and it's actually a grower. Bumping to a 4 to keep on my radar

Dirty

Sonic Youth

5/5

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

4/5

Low-Life

New Order

3/5

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

2/5

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

4/5

bumping up because I want to explore more from this band

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

3/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

3/5

tbf, I wouldn't actively turn it off - and there's some nostalgia here I can't escape

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Pornography

The Cure

2/5

Could be brut

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

4/5

Impossible not to see the influence this had on the much heavier synth stuff I listen to now. Also biased because I referenced JMJ in my school electronics project way back when.

Illmatic

Nas

3/5

Not enough variation to get higher, and it just sort of... ended. Solid vibes.

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

4/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

Love me some Bowie but not the strongest album

Low