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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
American Gothic David Ackles	5	2.48	+2.52
New Forms Roni Size	5	2.53	+2.47
The Who Sell Out The Who	5	3	+2
Legalize It Peter Tosh	5	3.07	+1.93
Lost Souls Doves	5	3.16	+1.84
Loveless My Bloody Valentine	5	3.17	+1.83
Marcus Garvey Burning Spear	5	3.19	+1.81
D White Denim	5	3.21	+1.79
Elastica Elastica	5	3.22	+1.78
Dance Mania Tito Puente	5	3.27	+1.73

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
1984 Van Halen	1	3.51	-2.51
Melodrama Lorde	1	3.31	-2.31
Liquid Swords GZA	1	3.28	-2.28
The Blueprint JAY Z	1	3.21	-2.21
Elvis Is Back Elvis Presley	1	3.19	-2.19
The Wall Pink Floyd	2	4.14	-2.14
Floodland Sisters Of Mercy	1	3.04	-2.04
Get Rich Or Die Tryin' 50 Cent	1	3.04	-2.04
Rhythm Nation 1814 Janet Jackson	1	2.99	-1.99
Spiderland Slint	1	2.98	-1.98

5-Star Albums (22)

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Popular Reviews

The Wall

Pink Floyd

2/5

Loved them right up until this album, tiring

1 likes

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

5/5

Oh how I dislike Morrissey… Bloody brilliant album though.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (12)

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The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Sublime from start to finish

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Great album, definitely a keeper

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

3/5

A good album but never a fan of Mick Jagger’s vocals

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

5/5

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

Never listened to a full B&S album before, thoroughly enjoyed it. A keeper and a grower

Aja

Steely Dan

3/5

I just wish it was The Royal Scam, my favourite Steely Dan album

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

1/5

Probably a very good album for some but an endurance for me

White Denim

5/5

Excellent album, a first for me, definitely a keeper

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

Solid album

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

2/5

Meh

I Should Coco

Supergrass

5/5

Absolutely solid album, every song a winner

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Elvis Presley

2/5

28 minutes I’ll never get back

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

3/5

Love Billy, early stuff only though not a bad album

Snivilisation

Orbital

3/5

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

The Specials

5/5

Absolutely seminal

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

2/5

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

2/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Liquid Swords

GZA

1/5

Lost Souls

Doves

5/5

I’d forgotten how much I love this album, utter beauty all the way through

1984

Van Halen

1/5

This is certainly an album I could've done without hearing before I die!

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

One World

John Martyn

1/5

I respect the guy, obviously talented but his voice makes me physically sick. 38 minutes lost. I would’ve happily died before hearing this

Melodrama

Lorde

1/5

This is certainly an album I could've done without hearing before I die!

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

2/5

I accept that he has influenced pretty much all the artists I love from the Beatles to Punk, for that I give it 2 stars. I can only imagine though that there was bugger all else to listen to back in the day because to me it's just bloody awful bollocks.

Horses

Patti Smith

5/5

Pure class

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

5/5

Still totally fresh, a massive aural trip, love it

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Solid, reliable album!

The Blueprint

JAY Z

1/5

Musically better than expected, but that’s from a massively low bar. Still bloody awful

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

3/5

Not really my bag but I got on with it well enough, would I listen to it again? Unlikely

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

Great to revisit this absolutely sublime album

The Wall

Pink Floyd

2/5

Loved them right up until this album, tiring

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

3/5

Loved revisiting this, stands the times well

The Slider

T. Rex

2/5

A bit of an ordeal, always struggled with Bolan’s voice but I have to credit him for influencing some amazing bands

Back In Black

AC/DC

3/5

41 minutes of pure rock cliche. The title track is of course genius however, so 3 stars for that alone.

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

1/5

When I first heard this in 1987 it was a fairly torturous listen but revisiting this 38 years later it’s a little bit worse.

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

3/5

Lyrically very good, not a bad album and that’s ignoring Morrissey, for whom I have no time for at all

Buena Vista Social Club

2/5

Cracking opening track, talented musicians. Bored the pants off me

Close To You

Carpenters

3/5

In the recent sea of shite on here this comes across as charming and refreshing! I’ll never listen to it again although I know most of the tracks anyway

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

1/5

An album concentrating on the N word, MF word and his extensive knowledge of guns…shite

American Gothic

David Ackles

5/5

At last, an album I’ve never heard that I’m actually glad I’ve heard before I die! Elements of Scott Walker and Nick Cave, it’s a keeper

Stankonia

OutKast

2/5

Not a terrible album but probably 45 minutes too long and full of fillers. Heard it before back in the day, didn’t need to hear it again.

Odessa

Bee Gees

1/5

Normally there’s at least one track I like on even the worst album but this is utter bilge. I never want to see this album ever again, my day is ruined

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

1/5

Is there some kind of algorithm that determines I get to hear albums most likely to offend my lug ‘oles? Utter garbage from the first note, full of irritating cliches. Bloody awful dirge

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

A sold album, the very good tracks outweigh the obvious fillers

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

5/5

Absolute sure fire classic

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

1/5

Unlistenable cack

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

2/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Elastica

5/5

Still sounds fresh, great album

The Who Sell Out

The Who

5/5

Ground breaking!

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

5/5

Oh how I dislike Morrissey… Bloody brilliant album though.

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

5/5

A fantastic bit of fun! A massive antidote to the shite R&B, pop and Bloody Elvis you’ve forced me to endure

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

5/5

Stone cold classic

New Forms

Roni Size

5/5

Well, this has sent me down a massive Drum’b’Bass wormhole, bloody love it!

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

2/5

Guys, Rumours has done well, we’d better knock out another album. Yeah, we’ve got some songs left over, they’ll do. There’s a couple that are half decent. Mick: I can’t be arsed to drum though. Don’t worry Mick, a basic effort is all that’s needed, punters will buy anything…

Spiderland

Slint

1/5

Art school jank. Wouldn’t go near it again

Queens of the Stone Age

4/5

Class

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

5/5

Utterly beautiful throughout, never get tired of it!

Synchronicity

The Police

2/5

It’s a bit like being visited by distant relatives, not a deeply unpleasant experience, there’s some fun moments but you didn’t really want to see them and you’re just as happy if you never see them again. I think this’ll be the last time I listen to this and I’m very happy about that.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

My third favourite Pink Floyd album and still unutterably brilliant. Honestly you have to be a total psychopath not to absolutely adore this album.

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

3/5

I’m not a fan of country music, whatever age it is, I must say though that this wasn’t as shite as I was expecting. I could probably listen to it again if pushed, doubt I will though…

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

5/5

Every track’s a banger, they never bettered this!

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

5/5

One of the greatest reggae albums ever made. In fact, just a bloody wonderful album.

1977

Ash

4/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

3/5

Starts with a bang, fades out in a whimper. Plenty of bangers but doesn’t result in an album I’ll want to listen to again