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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
You're Living All Over Me Dinosaur Jr.	5	3.08	+1.92
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	5	3.45	+1.55
Green R.E.M.	5	3.48	+1.52
Machine Head Deep Purple	5	3.59	+1.41
Boston Boston	5	3.71	+1.29
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	5	3.83	+1.17

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Ellington at Newport Duke Ellington	2	3.43	-1.43
Blunderbuss Jack White	2	3.4	-1.4
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Pink Floyd	2	3.11	-1.11

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Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

3/5

It works as a film soundtrack type of album, or an audiobook telling a story. But I find rap hard to listen to for its sheer repetition.

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

3/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

2/5

This starts off ok but deteriorates into mediocre plodding rock.

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

Good vintage key sounds. Boring songs.

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

A bunch of radio songs about love. Well done. Sound is basic, but it’s 1963!

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Nothing really wrong with it, but it’s very unexciting. Vocals annoy.

Boston

5/5

Top drawer classic rock. Great vocals and guitar sound.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Makes all the right classic rock sounds of the era, but it’s a boring plodder compared to the best of that era.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Not too bad. Reasonably enjoyable but I’m not sure if I’d listen to it again.

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

3/5

Second rate indie. 3 out of 5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

Yeah now we are talking. A fantastic rock album.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Not that great

The Grand Tour

George Jones

3/5

Country music isn’t my thing

Black Sabbath

5/5

Full of classic riffs. Hard hitting. Fantastic.

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

3/5

Okay, maybe a bit boring overall

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

Sounds great. 70s and funky

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

Great bass lines!

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

3/5

Green

R.E.M.

5/5

I know this one well. It’s a good album.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

As good as rap gets

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

5/5

Top drawer alternative rock. Five stars.

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

4/5

Not bad! Four out of 5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

5/5

Wonderful!

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

4/5

Decent Rod before he sold out.

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

2/5

These guys love their Steve Albini…. Sounds great at first. But it gets monotonous very quickly.

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

Mixed bag. Some good, some boring.

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

2/5

Not my thing

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

3/5

Kate bush is ok

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Middle of the road, unexciting. Like Tom Petty.

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

3/5

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

2/5

Boring

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Well produced Christmas songs.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

2/5

Goo

Sonic Youth

3/5