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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	5	3.67	+1.33
Space Ritual Hawkwind	4	2.69	+1.31
Metallica Metallica	5	3.77	+1.23
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Elton John	5	3.92	+1.08
Out of Step Minor Threat	4	2.93	+1.07
London Calling The Clash	5	3.97	+1.03

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Rattlesnakes Lloyd Cole And The Commotions	1	2.9	-1.9
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits	2	3.74	-1.74
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	2	3.57	-1.57
Jazz Samba Stan Getz	2	3.56	-1.56
Stankonia OutKast	2	3.55	-1.55
The Village Green Preservation Society The Kinks	2	3.4	-1.4
Sunday At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio	2	3.31	-1.31
Fetch The Bolt Cutters Fiona Apple	2	3.2	-1.2
Miriam Makeba Miriam Makeba	2	3.19	-1.19
Junkyard The Birthday Party	1	2.16	-1.16

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All Ratings

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

3/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

4/5 - Enjoyed it overall, not something I'd listen to regularly, but it's very interesting to listen to it with the context of when it was made and its historical importance.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

5/5 incredible album, not a single bad song on there

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

4/5 - fun album, not super special to me but very groovy

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

3/5 - First couple of songs and Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale were very good, aside from that cool but not really noteworthy

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

1/5

1/5 - got bored partway through, DNF

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

5/5, not every song was a banger but it was very consistently groovy as a baseline with a lot of giga bangers

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

1/5

1/5, another DNF, kinda painful to sit through. Certainly interesting going from Songs In The Key of Life yesterday to this today

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

2/5

2/5 - Seems like decent jazz which just isn't my thing, very good for background music though

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

4/5 - fantastic album but not my favourite by Metallica

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Not my type of music but a very important album to me

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

3/5

3/5 - cool punk "album" (really a compilation, not sure why it's on here), not too special though

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

2/5

2/5 - favourite part of the album was the first 30 seconds of the first track, the rest was pretty boring and inoffensive

Stankonia

OutKast

2/5

Bizarre and pretty disappointing compared to what I hoped it would be

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

3/5

3/5 - pretty cool stuff, not something I'd listen to regularly but I like the sound throughout

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

2/5

2/5 - cool music but just not my thing

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

2/5

2/5 - another one that's just not my thing, first track was pretty cool though

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Miriam Makeba

2/5

I enjoyed having it on but wouldn't choose to again. The artist seemed to be an incredible person from a little research though

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

3/5

3/5 - pretty good album but too laid back for me

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

3/5 - really good background music, not my thing though

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

4/5 - cool album with an interesting sound, very Beatles-y

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

3/5 - a lot of bangers but also a lot I just don't care about

Permission to Land

The Darkness

4/5

4/5 - aside from my favourite track, I Believe in a Thing Called Love, this was just a generally good rock album

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

3/5 - would give 3.5 if I could. I enjoyed the album overall, just not something I'd probably go back to listen to again. First couple of songs I really enjoyed, the rest were solid but not stuff I'd listen to.

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

2/5

2/5 - Living in Another World was fairly interesting, apart from that I found it pretty boring

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

4/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

2/5

2/5 - fairly interesting but not for me

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

5/5 - Easiest rating so far, one of my favourite albums of all time

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

3/5

3/5 - pretty cool, not at all what I expected, I think I mixed up Alice Cooper and Ozzy Osbourne

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

2/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

3/5

3/5 - Some really cool songs, a lot I wasn't hugely interested in

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

Very

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

3/5 - couple of cool songs, I didn't outright dislike any but consistently alright

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

Damaged

Black Flag

3/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

4/5 - Christmas bangers all the way through

Metallica

5/5

5/5 - this was my first Metallica album when I started listening to the band so maybe that's why, but I don't get the hate that some people have for this. Every song is a banger imo

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

2/5

2/5 - I didn't hate it but a lot of the songs irritated me. I didn't like the repetition of lyrics and something about the rhythm of the vocals really bugged me.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

4/5

4/5 - fantastic album overall, couple of songs I'm not as big a fan of but no misses

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

4/5

4/5 - This felt way ahead of its time, I'd never guess early 70s if someone asked. I probably wouldn't listen to this as an album due to the interludes and overall length, but I really enjoyed the songs. I found the repeated lyrics a bit mixed, I enjoyed it sometimes and didn't others, but the instrumentals were consistently really impressive.

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

3/5

3/5 - Walk This Way is incredible, Sweet Emotion was really good, aside from that it was all good but nothing that stood out to me personally

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

3/5 - Not bad but not my thing

Out of Step

Minor Threat

4/5

4/5 - Consistently enjoyable, I'd be happy to listen to it again if it came on. None of the tracks hugely stood out though, but it seemed like a couple did some cool things by potentially using tempo changes? Solid overall

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

2/5

2/5 - Not my thing at all, pretty generic

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

3/5

3/5 - Not generally a fan of country but this was pretty good. Apart from a couple of songs I probably wouldn't listen to it again.

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

3/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

2/5

2/5 - Probably good for its genre, really not my thing though. Would work well as chill background music but I wouldn't actively listen again

The Real Thing

Faith No More

4/5

4/5 - Would give 3.5 if I could, I enjoyed it almost enough to listen to again. I liked the cover of War Pigs, aside from that consistently good.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

3/5 - Somewhere between a 3 and 4. I really liked parts of it that felt really unique and interesting and fun to listen to, but there were multiple songs that I didn't get on with at all

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

3/5 - Great beats throughout and super important historically from what I can tell, but the lyrics and flow just don't hold up that well. Enjoyed the whole album, especially the dynamics with the vocalists, but not enough to listen to again

Caetano Veloso

2/5

2/5 - Really not for me. For me to like non-English language music it's got to really stand out to me and this didn't, the music itself wasn't bad though.

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

2/5

2/5 - Very much not for me. Generally not a fan of live albums but the recording seems to have been done well for this one. Easily the Frenchest album I've ever heard.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

3/5 - Not a fan of the first slower and sadder half just out of personal taste, second half was pretty good though. Maybe not much I'd listen to actively but definitely interesting.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

3/5 - Paint It, Black is fantastic, aside from that nothing stood out

Kimono My House

Sparks

4/5

4/5 - Super unique, I enjoyed most if not every song, some did go on too long though.

Quiet Life

Japan

3/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

4/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

3/5 - very groovy but too slow and samey for me. The vocals started to grate on me about half way through

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

2/5

2/5 - As much as I love their debut album, this really didn't do it for me. Really enjoyed Money for Nothing and Your Latest Trick but apart from that really not for me, I was getting pretty bored during the second half.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

4/5 - Really really solid all the way through, and even though I didn't pick up on much deeper meaning I can tell there's a lot there. On a repeat listen after looking into the album more, could easily be a 5.

Shadowland

k.d. lang

3/5

3/5 - Not my taste but I did really like Waltz Me Once Again Around the Dance Floor

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

3/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

2/5