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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Group Sex Circle Jerks	4	2.75	+1.25
At San Quentin Johnny Cash	5	3.8	+1.2
Ten Pearl Jam	5	3.92	+1.08
The Only Ones The Only Ones	4	2.92	+1.08

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Love Supreme John Coltrane	1	3.63	-2.63
Back At The Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith	1	3.39	-2.39
The Chronic Dr. Dre	1	3.33	-2.33
Figure 8 Elliott Smith	1	3.32	-2.32
Back To Black Amy Winehouse	2	4.02	-2.02
Nick Of Time Bonnie Raitt	1	2.83	-1.83
Can't Buy A Thrill Steely Dan	2	3.72	-1.72
The Clash The Clash	2	3.54	-1.54
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below OutKast	2	3.46	-1.46
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	2	3.38	-1.38

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At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Absolute classic. Extraordinarily tight for a live album. Genius at work.

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1-Star Albums (5)

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Group Sex

Circle Jerks

4/5

Huge number of ideas crammed into very very short songs. Songs about a minute long with rhythm changes part way through.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

2/5

Not my style of music at all but fine

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Classic blues rock

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

1/5

Inessential jazz noodling

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

Epically good. Experimental electronic sounds mixed with straightforward hard rock.

Adele

4/5

Sublime

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

Classic album. Singles all outstanding. I’d forgotten about the slurs in I Want My MTV

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Absolute classic. Extraordinarily tight for a live album. Genius at work.

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

3/5

An album I’ve not listened to in years

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

3/5

Not my genre. Hell of a voice though.

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

2/5

The remix is better than the album track

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

One of my favourite albums

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

Cecilia Ann, Velouria and Dig for Fire are great tracks

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

2/5

Very mid 70s soft rock. It’s only Reelin’ in the Years that keeps it above 1 star. Otherwise it’s elevator music.

Dire Straits

3/5

A good but minor album. It’s interesting to listen to because of the band that Dire Straits would grow into.

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

3/5

I haven’t listened to this album since 1995. The horn section made me thinking of it as ska, but listening now it feels more like west coast Punk. Nothing on the album is as good as On a Rope.

Stankonia

OutKast

3/5

Excellent album but overlong

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

1/5

Fairly unremarkable. Good background music but nothing that pulls you in.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

2/5

Very familiar with the singles but not heard anything else. The other tracks were ok.

A Seat at the Table

Solange

3/5

Sweet album

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Excellent album - made we want to listen to all of the albums by The Police

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

A great album with a couple of standout tracks. Does so much to showcase Hendrix’s genius

Beautiful Freak

Eels

3/5

Really casual feeling but also really carefully put together.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

On the one hand it’s a superior but of mid 80s pop. On the other the arrangements and production is avant garde.

The Only Ones

4/5

Terrific album I’d never heard of - except for the single that I’d heard and loved without knowing who it was by

The Clash

2/5

An essential band but not an essential album

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

1/5

No better than ok. Forgettable.

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

2/5

The singles are strong, rhythm and hook, the flow is strong but there’s only so much hyper-masculine posturing before everything turns camp.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

Ethereal. Beautiful. A little too long.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

2/5

Feels less like a double album and more like two albums jammed together randomly. The Love Below is the better of the two - more ambitious and has the standout single in Hey Ya. TLB = 3, Speakerbox is a 2.

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

2/5

OK easy listening country album I guess. Did not live up to its reputation. Did I miss something?

Kala

M.I.A.

3/5

Single Paper Planes is excellent. Nothing else gets as good, but interesting and eclectic.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

2/5

Well, my shoes have been thoroughly gazed at and I didn’t entirely enjoy it. Bonus point for some of it being in French

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

1/5

Dre beat Drew Wallace. Dre gets no stars.

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

1/5

Insipid - you can hear the influence on Shania Twain - it’s obviously an influential album - but minutes later I’d forgotten every track.