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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	5	3.32	+1.68
GI Germs	4	2.53	+1.47
Pictures At An Exhibition Emerson, Lake & Palmer	4	2.64	+1.36
Superunknown Soundgarden	5	3.65	+1.35
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	5	3.72	+1.28
Gentlemen The Afghan Whigs	4	2.9	+1.1
Sheet Music 10cc	4	2.95	+1.05

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Veckatimest Grizzly Bear	1	3.05	-2.05
So Peter Gabriel	2	3.53	-1.53
That's The Way Of The World Earth, Wind & Fire	2	3.5	-1.5
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	2	3.44	-1.44
Achtung Baby U2	2	3.3	-1.3

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Tom Tom Club

4/5

Fun. Really good. Lorelei, Wordy Rappinghood, Genius Of Love - all bangers.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

5/5

Heard a million times. A banger.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Good album - comes across like a band on the run. A hit and run of great tracks, ends on a high.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

Good solid old rock album. Perhaps a little old to do too much for me without the context of its time, but enjoyable.

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

Some seriously good tracks, obviously. Not really my bag, but good.

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

Just a good blues album isn't it - I mean that in a complimentary way

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Yeah, it's good - experimental and ambitious, would have gone hard in 1976. Golden Years is a bop. Title track does drag a little...

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Really good pop album. Obviously Rio, HLTW, The Chauffeur are all standouts.

Sheet Music

10cc

4/5

This is a stone cold banger of an album. Very Steely Dan? Zany but also actually great.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

Yeah really good - not my bag, but enjoyable and an excellent performance. Worked really well as an album as well, despite being live.

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

4/5

Surreal and psychedelic, pretty unique. Good album. I Wanna Destroy You and You'll Have to Go Sideways in particular are bangers.

Adele

3/5

It's no 19 or 21 (whichever the good one is - I think 21, really sad? Maybe I'm just remembering the banger tracks), but it's pretty good but far from ground breaking. Hello is an incredible track. Her voice carries the album, of course.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

Jazz isn't my bag but this is brilliant. 5*.

Germs

4/5

Aggressive, fast, raw - but there is nuance at times! Excellent early hardcore.

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

3/5

Oxygène, Pt. 4 is that surreal music on Soccer AM. FINALLY FOUND IT. On the album though, I'm sure it's good, but it's really not my bag. Nice soundscape-y vibe and does feel a bit ahead of its time, but it's so far before my time it's hard to judge contextually. Gives off film soundtrack vibes - quite atmospheric.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

They're saying it's the best jazz album of all time. I'm no jazz guy but yeah this is good - insane that it's basically all improvised with no real prep etc as well. Influential, so gets points for that, but it's also a masterpiece. 5* (bonus for the improvisational element).

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Yeah just a good bluesy rock album. La Grange is good.

Highly Evolved

The Vines

3/5

A good garage rock album; nothing crazy.

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

3/5

Just quite hard to judge it without knowing a lot about the genre! Really good and cool that there are explainers in there - it's literally to intro Western audiences to the genre and it works! Enjoyable album.

Mott

Mott The Hoople

2/5

Bit of a slog this, in all honesty. Honaloochie Boogie, Violence, I'm a Cadillac, and I Wish I Was Your Mother aren't bad.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Banger

Achtung Baby

2/5

Fine - not really doing much for me.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

This is some good prog. Great start to the album with School and Bloody Well Right - Dreamer and Crime of the Century are also brill. Can be a bit twee lyrically.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

5/5

Know and love this album. Absolutely perfect album.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Solid! Prefer The Low End Theory but this is a really really good album.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Fantastic album, some proper 5* songs here: Around the World, Scar Tissue, Road Trippin', etc.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

This is far too good to be a soundtrack, what on Earth.

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Dark for funk/soul. Good album, interesting.

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

4/5

This is so prog. I love it.

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

2/5

Just fine - didn't really do much for me

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

4/5

Good album - ambitious, sprawling, and clearly influential

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

Fair play, love this album. Do It Again, Dirty Work, Only A Fool Would Say That, Reelin' In The Years - bangers.

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

3/5

Enjoyable. Psychedelic in a very drone-y way.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

What is there to say.

1999

Prince

4/5

Great album! Starts bopping, slows down. Some great pop on here. Pretty horny dude, this Prince.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

2/5

Nothing revolutionary or exciting, but genuinely not a bad start to this album.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

Solid, bangers all over the place. Bluesier than the earlier stuff.

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

4/5

Grim and grimy, good album.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Good album with some all-time bangers (Zero, Bullet With Butterfly Wings, 1979). Broad, ambitious. Does actually feel like two albums, so fair play. Probably is a bit long though.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Really good reggae album.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

Very good! Brimming with gold.

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

3/5

Decent! The first side being one long song is fun. Good album

One World

John Martyn

3/5

Some real moments of beauty. Very effects-heavy/atmosheric. Guy's got a weird voice (not in a bad way). Love the ambient background in Small Hours.

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Great album!

The xx

3/5

Yeah pretty good, surprised I hadn't heard it before. Starts better than it ends. Quite Tycho-y.

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

3/5

Eccentric, experimental. Like it a lot.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

Banger

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

The Cars

4/5

Tight album - a lot going on but really tight with the arrangements. Just What I Needed a particular highlight but a really strong album.

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

3/5

Drunken Angel and Can't Let Go the highlights. Good album, gritty.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

3/5

Not really my bag but a couple of all time bangers on it. Just fine really, probably would've blown my mind in 1966 though.

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

What is there to say - obviously incredible album

Truth

Jeff Beck

4/5

Yeah this is a good album! Didn't know Rod Stewart would be on it. Very Yardbird-y/Led Zep-y, obviously.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Killer album! Forgotten how good it was. Must have never listened to it with decent headphones either because I'd never noticed the bass - some good basslines knocking around.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

Really good album! The obvious tunes are bangers (Running Up That Hill, Hounds Of Love, Cloudbursting, etc). I think I prefer The Dreaming as an album (just about) but I can see why this is the more popular!

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

Not a bad album, Freak Scene is a tune. Took a couple of listens to get onboard.

Peter Gabriel

2/5

Fine, not doing a particular amount for me! Sledgehammer an obvious banger though.

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

1/5

Hey Two Weeks is that prime advert song. This is a very 2009 album, gives me a bit of an Alt-J vibe somehow. Other than that one song, a bit of a slog. Folk-y/alternative rock.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Their best album imo, banger.

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

3/5

Not really my cup of tea but pretty good country.

Pretenders

4/5

Great album! Brass is on it but basically every song is good.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Not my favourite Sabbath album but a banger, obviously.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

Not as good an album as I remember but Time to Pretend, Electric Feel, and Kids obvious bangers.

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

Good album - The Cisco Kid a highlight.

Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

Very good - archetypal stuff.

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

Come Out and Play followed by Self Esteem is a great one-two. Solid album. Grimier than the newer stuff, angrier.

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

2/5

Good fun, reasonably problematic band name...???! Nothing revolutionary, just a fun punk/glam album.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Class. Pop-y in comparison to Can't Buy a Thrill, still great.

Debut

Björk

4/5

Some stone cold bangers (Human Behaviour, Crying, Venus As A Boy, Big Time Sensuality, Come To Me). Starts off pretty cooky electro/dance-y and gets cookier.