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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Yeezus Kanye West	5	2.77	+2.23
Among The Living Anthrax	5	2.85	+2.15
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Pink Floyd	5	3.11	+1.89
Clube Da Esquina Milton Nascimento	5	3.13	+1.87
Modern Life Is Rubbish Blur	5	3.13	+1.87
Protection Massive Attack	5	3.25	+1.75
S&M Metallica	5	3.26	+1.74
Chirping Crickets Buddy Holly & The Crickets	5	3.29	+1.71
Bitches Brew Miles Davis	5	3.3	+1.7
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.34	+1.66

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Strangeways, Here We Come The Smiths	1	3.44	-2.44
Cupid & Psyche 85 Scritti Politti	1	2.39	-1.39
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	2	3.3	-1.3
Roxy Music Roxy Music	2	3.1	-1.1

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Artist	Albums	Average
Fleetwood Mac	2	5
Metallica	2	5
Nirvana	2	5

5-Star Albums (28)

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Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins · 1 likes

4/5

Body count higher than a Quentin Tarentino film.

Van Halen

Van Halen · 1 likes

5/5

Screaming guitars, screaming vocals. Belter.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen · 1 likes

5/5

Smashed this up loud for my morning commute. Listened to Brighton Rock as I drove through Brighton. Perfect.

Among The Living

Anthrax · 1 likes

5/5

My first metal gig was Iron Maiden at Wembley arena and a certain Anthrax were supporting. They absolutely rocked and this was a pivotal day in my enjoyment of music, never looked back and its bands like this that sewed that seed. Cracking album even if the production is a bit thin at times.

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Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

Grew on me and understand where Nick Cave got a lot of his influence now.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

5/5

Great set of 50s 2 minute songs, absolutely brilliant.

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

Yes? Yes! Proving that a track less than 8 minute long just isn't worth the bother.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Kept coming back to this album, got better each time.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Loved it, especially the well known tracks.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

Ended up listening a few times, really grew on me.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

So many great songs, loved it.

Cypress Hill

4/5

Amazing such a unique sound. Always feels like a few mates getting together to enjoy themselves.

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

New album to me, but really enjoyed it. Will listen again.

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

4/5

Body count higher than a Quentin Tarentino film.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

3/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

The quintessential 5* album against which others are measured!

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

3/5

I like Astrud a lot but maybe not her best album!

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

1/5

Just awful

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

I listened to this while in a room on my own and had to take a cold shower to calm myself down.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Solid 🪨

Metallica

5/5

Solid 🪨

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Ok but quite an odd collection of tracks that doesn't seem that cohesive as an album. A few good classics metal tracks but interspersed with some quite average tracks.

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

2/5

Not really for me.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

Cranked it up and drove around Goring-by-Sea with the windows wound down in my Vauxhall Cavalier SRi. This offered a great opportunity to pretend I was in a real life version of Grand Theft Auto trying to avoid getting a cap in my ass and to not come across one of the many hoes I had wronged. Other than that, some great music, album far too long and could have done without the sex noises creating an awkward moment while I was waiting for an old lady to shuffle across the road at the belisha beacons.

Protection

Massive Attack

5/5

Loved it, super smooth and really enjoyed the variety of vocalists and instrumentals in this. Took me back to being 20 again, and chillin with my mates.

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Tub thumping swamp music. Never really heard them before, but worth listening to twice on the same day.

Tommy

The Who

3/5

I'm a big Who fan and play quite a few of their tracks in my covers band but had never actually listened to this album. I sort of enjoyed this but felt like a massive self indulgence punctuated by a few decent tracks. I've never worked out how they were such an amazing live band, possibly one of that best of all time, but they failed to get that raw brilliance down in much of their studio recordings.

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

3/5

Van Halen

5/5

Screaming guitars, screaming vocals. Belter.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

3/5

Good songs, but a lot of talking. Not sure this list needs two Johnny Cash prison gigs though.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

Funky as.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

I've heard OutKast described as Hip Hop for people that don't like Hip Hop and on listening to this, I can sort of hear why. I thought there were some great songs on here and the production level was really high. But.... at over two hours they could afford to pick some winners and put out a more concise and higher quality album. Couldn't quite manage all of it but will probably return and finish it off at the weekend.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

The La's

3/5

It was ok I guess.

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

4/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

Never really got The Smiths. And still don't. The instrumental band is pretty amazing and I hadn't appreciated just how good they are. I find Morrisseys tunes a bit samey and struggle to relate to what he's on about. Maybe will try them again, guess there will be other Smiths albums on the list...

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

4/5

Never heard of Lucinda Williams before, and enjoyed this enough to have it on a few times.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

Sensational! Ability to switch between beautiful ballads and full on swing is amazing and such an amazing level of one take musician ship.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

5/5

Smashed this up loud for my morning commute. Listened to Brighton Rock as I drove through Brighton. Perfect.

S&M

Metallica

5/5

I loved Metallica in the 90s. I played in an orchestra in the 90s, even toured into Europe. have been meaning to listen to this album for over 25 years. Loved it, enormous in its ambition and execution.

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

2/5

Meh

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

5/5

Loved the simplicity and beauty of this album. Was a lovely surprise on my commute to work in the dark on a cold winter morning!

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Not really my bag, but appreciate it's beautifully made.

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Destroyer

KISS

3/5

1* so many clichés 5* they were first to quite a few of those cliches 3* overall

Elvis Presley

3/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

5/5

Mind expanding, so much going on in the detail, the grooves, the evolution of tracks. My kind of thing.

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

Loved it on the whole. The stuff about the pervy old train driver hasn't aged well. Don't think live albums should be on here at all, but guess it's not my list!

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Great fun.

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

3/5

Ok I suppose for that 80s kind of synth pop. think there are better examples out there, but there is some pretty great playing on here all the same.

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

5/5

Sound of my teenage years. Loved it.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

All killer no filler.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

1/5

Moany moany morrisey. Never really got the Smiths but appreciate for some they are the most amazing band of all time. Maybe one day someone can help me get there....

Da Capo

Love

4/5

Tracks before Revelations- quite enjoyed, especially Orange Skies **** Revelation- if you have run out of ideas, just stop and call it there. *

Mott

Mott The Hoople

2/5

If I was a football pundit that spoke only in cliches, I would be reaching for 'bang average' after listening to this. Nothing objectively wrong, but never really piqued my interest.

Yeezus

Kanye West

5/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

Been enjoying this album for years, and nice to dust it off again. Fuck the flute haters, sounds great!

Different Class

Pulp

3/5

Grew up with this album but have always struggled to relate to it. Some objectively great songs though...

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Loved it.

Woodface

Crowded House

4/5

Nice. Really nice.

Among The Living

Anthrax

5/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

This guy has issues.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

Belter. Loved every minute of it. Dark, edgy, moving, intriguing. Some truly amazing lyrics.

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

3/5

Who knows, can't work out if I love or hate this. Some ok tunes but never felt like it was made with any real passion.

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

3/5

Super cool, loved the vibes, no idea what they were really on about although I know enough French to recognise a few words and keep the intrigue up.

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

5/5

Had this on a double cassette with Saucerful of Secrets as a teenager and played it to death. Loved hearing something out of this world and it blew my mind. I'm not sure if I heard for the first time now whether I would be as enthusuastic, but top marks for the memories!

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

Some great tracks and some average tracks

Roxy Music

2/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

3/5