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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
One World John Martyn	5	2.82	+2.18
Deep Purple In Rock Deep Purple	5	3.32	+1.68
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	5	3.48	+1.52
Gorillaz Gorillaz	5	3.53	+1.47
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	5	3.55	+1.45
The Number Of The Beast Iron Maiden	5	3.58	+1.42
Dire Straits Dire Straits	5	3.72	+1.28
Songs From The Big Chair Tears For Fears	5	3.74	+1.26
Our Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper	4	2.74	+1.26
(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) Lynyrd Skynyrd	5	3.75	+1.25

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
In Rainbows Radiohead	1	3.85	-2.85
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters	1	3.49	-2.49
Blunderbuss Jack White	1	3.4	-2.4
Rubber Soul Beatles	2	4.12	-2.12
OK Computer Radiohead	2	4.11	-2.11
Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman	2	3.79	-1.79
Playing With Fire Spacemen 3	1	2.55	-1.55
Green R.E.M.	2	3.47	-1.47
Cheap Thrills Big Brother & The Holding Company	2	3.42	-1.42
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea PJ Harvey	2	3.39	-1.39

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One World

John Martyn · 1 likes

5/5

Blending Celtic folk with smooth jazz, dub and electronics then adding in a distinctly pop sensibility is the name of the game here. One World sounds ten years ahead of its time and still sounds fresh and interesting. The Trip-Hop/Illbient bands of the 90's owe John Martyn some royalties because the formula for both genres sits here, 15 years before either hit the mainsteam.

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Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Sparse, somewhat rambling second track, singing doesn't follow the song's melody. Voice is open, honest and raw. Important album, but unenjoyable.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

5/5

Kicks off with probably the heaviest and fastest song yet, Speed King and doesn't let up until the third track, Child in Time which is Ian Gillan's finest moment as a vocalist. An all out sonic assault which announced the Mark II lineup's arrival with a declaration of war that defined speed and thrash metal nearly a full decade before either gained steam. Quite simply one of the greatest rock albums in history.

OK Computer

Radiohead

2/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Coming in between the bluesy rock of The Man who Sold the World and the magnificently overblown rock opera of Ziggy, Hunky Dory is a much more conventional pop album with a much tighter focus on songwriting rather than the showmanship that became a staple of Bowie's later music. Not for nothing did many of the songs on Hunky Dory become staple songs of Bowie's live concerts all the way till the end of his career, there's a raw emotion that radiates from every song and the short nature of the tracks (only three of the eleven on the album go past the four minute mark) means nothing ever lingers long enough to bore the listener. It's probably the most straightforward album Bowie ever wrote and the one that firmly established him as pop rock's vanguard for the rest of the 1970's.

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Gorillaz

5/5

Varied, clever and skillfully written and thus far more interesting than anything Albarn ever wrote with Blur, this genre-buster marks the start of the most creative alternative rock project of the 21st century. A little uneven (Punk has a whiff of the pop-punk fad of the era) and not quite as polished as later efforts but all of the core components are here. An album very much of its time (was there another time trip-hop was this mainstream?) and worth a listen if you want a look at a route hip-hop and rock could have taken without the rise of Bling and the garage rock revival respectively.

One World

John Martyn

5/5

Da Capo

Love

2/5

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

3/5

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

4/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

5/5

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

3/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

2/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

3/5

Tracy Chapman

2/5

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

2/5

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Repeater

Fugazi

2/5

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

3/5

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

4/5

Ambient electronic turn of the millennium trip-hop with a side order of acid jazz. Think Massive Attack with more of a groove. Listening music, not dancing music. You're either going to find it an odd but interesting album or you'll consider it a bunch of aimless guff over a two bar drum loop. Best enjoyed with a good set of headphones and some quality weed.

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

2/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

1/5

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

3/5

Solid Air

John Martyn

3/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

5/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

3/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

5/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

2/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

2/5

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

2/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

Soul Mining

The The

2/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

2/5

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

3/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

1/5

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

2/5

Elvis Presley

4/5

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

3/5

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

2/5

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

3/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

5/5

One of the greatest albums of all time. You're welcome to disagree but if you, you're wrong.

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

2/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Bert Jansch

3/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

3/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

This is straight up one of the tightest and most groovy soul albums you'll ever hear by absolute royalty of the genre. Yes, the title track is an absolutely monster cut (so much so it gets recycled two tracks later for Mo' Onions) but every cover (nine of the 12 tracks on the album) has all of the band members completely in the pocket. This album has the legendary "Stax sound" in full swing and shows off exactly why these guys were tapped up for just about every blues and soul artist worth a damn in the Memphis scene at the time. If there's a negative, it's that the middle of the album brings the tempo and the energy down to lounge music levels of chill and the kind of stuff your grandparents listened to. Thankfully the energy picks up again in the back third of the album and we head home with a fantastic version of Comin' Home Baby. If you don't like soul music or the blues, you'll hate this album but if you have more than a passing interest in either, this is worth your time.

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SZA

2/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

4/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5