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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space Spiritualized	5	3.15	+1.85
The Genius Of Ray Charles Ray Charles	5	3.63	+1.37
Pink Moon Nick Drake	5	3.65	+1.35
Vauxhall And I Morrissey	4	2.96	+1.04
A Date With The Everly Brothers The Everly Brothers	4	2.96	+1.04

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
In A Silent Way Miles Davis	2	3.62	-1.62
Oar Alexander 'Skip' Spence	1	2.46	-1.46

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1-Star Albums (2)

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

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Clandestino

Manu Chao

4/5

Green

R.E.M.

3/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

2/5

I like other Mile Davis Songs/Albums, that's why I'm surprised I didn't enjoy this as much as I thought I would. The trumpet is lovely though and I like the bass line in the middle and end of In a silent way. Felt more like a 2/5 at first (tho it is more like a 2,5 but not quite a 3/5), but the trumpet and bass line, as well as the atmosphere at the end safed it to a 3. I might have a more positive view, when I revisit.

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

It's ok, a bit over 3 but not a 4.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

5/5

just wow

Kala

M.I.A.

2/5

Paper Planes is the big hit here. The rest is very creative and unique and I like it for that, I probably won't really listen to the other songs though.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

it's a low 4, more like a 3.X rounded up

High Violet

The National

3/5

Would listen to it again, but nothing really outstanding about it, from my perspective

The Real Thing

Faith No More

3/5

Nothing too outstanding. The sudden rap part in Epic took me by surprise tho

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

2/5

I like this kinda odd music but I'm just not big fan of most live albums, there was nothing too outstanding to make up for it. That combined with the length probably keeps me from listening to it again anytime soon.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Mother Nature and I ain't got nothin we're unexpected bangers

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Classic, Better than 4 stars but just not quite 5/5. I might change this rating later on tho...

Different Class

Pulp

3/5

Somewhere between 3 and 4, but not a 4

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

A lot of good songs, but feels all over the place from time to time. For me, it kind of lacks the structure/"identity" I expect from a 5/5 album. Probably slightly above 4, but not the full 5/5.

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

2/5

There were songs with a nice little jazzy/swingy vibe to it, others really were just background OST songs and some were straight up unpleasant to listen to. The few nice songs could by times really belong in almost a 4 Star category but the others just pulled down the album rating so much

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

3/5

Nothing really outstanding for me, but nothing particularly wrong with it

Odelay

Beck

3/5

Crazysexycool

TLC

3/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

3/5

Arise

Sepultura

2/5

1999

Prince

3/5

I like Prince, but the crying and moaning women irritated me :(

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

3/5

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Album itself is rufffly a 4 but Purple Rain lifts it up

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

Gold

Ryan Adams

2/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

Noise, but fun noise 4/5 I can see tho why others might give it more stars, I can see why others might give it less

Pretenders

3/5

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

3/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

Better than 3 but not 4. The Hits here are "Girls wanna have fun" and "Time after time" which obviously slap, but the other songs can't quite keep up Somebody said "Too much Cindy Lauper" regarding her voice and style of singing.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

The Doors are kinda weird for me, they have the potential to be a hit for me, but it just doesn't do much for me. I think the only Doors song I really feel is People are Strange. I really enjoyed the vibe of Indian Summer tho

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

1/5

The first one I give a 1/5 to. One or two songs in this style are fine and quite interesting but 22 Songs? 1 hour? 1 hour of non special guitar songs with mumbling, sounding like a drunk is just way too long. Thought about giving 2/5 because some songs were fine but it was just way worse than the other 2 star songs I already have

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

3/5

I like the usage of instruments that are not often used in bands like the strings and the brass instruments. It's nothing too special tho

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

4/5

Wonderful 4/5

Garbage

3/5

Low 3/5, but 3/5

Vulnicura

Björk

2/5

It's ok, you have to like Björk and even then it's pretty long and a lot of Björk

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Brilliant. More a low 5, it wouldn't be a 10/10 but it is closer to a 5/5 than to a 4/5

New Wave

The Auteurs

2/5

Faust IV

Faust

2/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

4/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

3/5

Low 3, pretty basic overall but had some interesting sounds in-between

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

High 4/5 but not quite 5/5. The Thriller -> Beat It -> Billie Jean sequence are just banger on banger but I didn't quite warm up to the other songs in this album as a whole. Maybe because the other three songs are just as big of hits that they are and therefore stand out too much compared to the other songs, the album doesn't feel as smooth as I would like a 5/5 album to be. Maybe it's just me and this rating may change (very probably only higher) in the future.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Solid 4, nice vibe

En-Tact

The Shamen

2/5

Yea this was not it, it got better at the end tho. I'm not going to revisit this any soon. Also: we get it, you can move any mountain 2/5

Black Metal

Venom

2/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

A low 4/5, at first it was just ok, a straight 3/5, but after a while it kind of grew more on me so as of now it's a low 4/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

3/5

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

3/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Surprisingly good

The Doors

4/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

Fever Ray

2/5

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

3/5

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

3/5

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

4/5

Low 4 stars

Blur

3/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

3/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

3/5

The Bongos were a nice gimmick but idk listening to over an hour of bingo music made me kind of tired of Bongos tbh

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

My Generation

The Who

4/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Low 5 :)

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

A high 3 but not a 4

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Gris Gris

Dr. John

3/5

Low 3

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

4/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

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

Throbbing Gristle

1/5

This might have been a hit for me, I like the idea of "nonsensical" ambient noise like that but this just didn't hit the spot. It was a thin line to walk and it didn't make it.

Goo

Sonic Youth

3/5

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

3/5

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

3/5

Future Days

Can

3/5

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

5/5