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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Vespertine Björk	5	3.16	+1.84
GREY Area Little Simz	5	3.24	+1.76
System Of A Down System Of A Down	5	3.26	+1.74
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	5	3.44	+1.56
Sign 'O' The Times Prince	5	3.45	+1.55
Dirt Alice In Chains	5	3.47	+1.53
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	5	3.64	+1.36
Doolittle Pixies	5	3.74	+1.26
In Utero Nirvana	5	3.83	+1.17

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Back At The Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith	1	3.39	-2.39
Supa Dupa Fly Missy Elliott	1	2.92	-1.92
Slayed? Slade	1	2.88	-1.88
Ill Communication Beastie Boys	2	3.64	-1.64
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Lauryn Hill	2	3.64	-1.64
Out Of The Blue Electric Light Orchestra	2	3.64	-1.64
Coat Of Many Colors Dolly Parton	2	3.42	-1.42
C'est Chic CHIC	2	3.34	-1.34
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars David Bowie	3	4.26	-1.26
The Blueprint JAY Z	2	3.21	-1.21

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A Hard Day's Night

Beatles · 1 likes

3/5

Enjoyable but more of a relic of a time before the band started doing more interesting things instrumentally

1-Star Albums (3)

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Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

5/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

2/5

Sabotage aside easily the less of the two other Beastie Boys albums on this list

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Enjoyed this but thought it was quite front loaded. Cecilia was the best track IMO

Dirt

Alice In Chains

5/5

A 4.7 but let’s be generous. Riffs for days and really liked Layne’s pained vocals. Bit of a somewhat overlooked grunge gem

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

2/5

I liked some of the storytelling but the instrumentals felt too samey and bland

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Went into this with no knowledge of the artist at all. Enjoyed this, especially when it went full bends era Radiohead on Go or Go Ahead

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Front loaded but goes toe to toe with the other big hitter grunge records from that time

War

4/5

Never attached listened to U2 properly just had a lot of questionable feelings about anyone who would call themselves “the edge” but this was a pleasant surprise. Nice post punk twang mixed with more contemporary stadium rock vocals. Favourite track: New Years Day

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Really liked the dark vibes, reminded me of the acoustic mid era Swans output

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

If Dolittle is their Nevermind, this is their bleach

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

2/5

Enjoyable in the background, it’s no Aphex Twin or Boards of Canada but I’d probably put it on again

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Really enjoyed this, thom yorke guest vocals a nice touch

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

3/5

Enjoyable but more of a relic of a time before the band started doing more interesting things instrumentally

Vespertine

Björk

5/5

Incredible production on this

GREY Area

Little Simz

5/5

Loved it, especially how forward in the mix the guitars and bass are for a rap album

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

2/5

It’s not bad bad but it’s always in these sorts of lists and I’ve never really got what the hype was

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

3/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

3/5

Copying from my other account, this is the best of the three beastie boys accounts on this list, Fight for your right easily being there best song

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

Enjoyable, feel like I’d actually heard more of this passively before that I thought I had going into it

The Blueprint

JAY Z

2/5

Some bops on this for sure but didn’t really see the hype for the most part

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

2/5

Some fun moments of glam excess but not really essential listening

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5

Some bangers on here, even the most overplayed song of all time is still quite charming in the context of the full thing

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

3/5

Step down from the walls of sound in the first album and I never need to hear supernova or wonderwall ever again but there’s some bangers on the tracklist

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

3 Beatle-ish smooth fun. Sunny afternoon and Party lane are complete bangers

System Of A Down

5/5

GOATed

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

3/5

Had no context to these guys, enjoyed it! Quite a varied bit of classic rock

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Really like the riffs on this one

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Never need to hear come on Eileen ever ever again… yet it was cool to hear it in context. His vocals really remind me of Robert Smith. Good pop rock

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

4/5

Yes it’s quite an unoriginal record label reply to the Beatles, nevertheless thought there were some great tunes on this and really liked the drum sound. Great

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Strong 3, fell off abit in the middle but enjoyed the vocals and range of themes. Clocking that Cypress Hill had sampled the start of preacher man was abit jarring…

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

2/5

Reviewing from a rammed aircoach in Baltic -2 Dublin which has probably influenced the score abit here but outside of a few stand out tracks “Birmingham Blues, Jungle and Sweet is the night” I found this is pretty tedious, over long and vocally poor. A light 2

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

2/5

Quite unoriginal but not awful, some of the guitar tones were quite nice

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

2/5

Slayed?

Slade

1/5

These vocals are like chalk and cheese. It worked on the Christmas song. It falls firmly flat on its face here

The Stone Roses

5/5

The guitar tone on this is just gorgeous. Five stars

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

1/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

2/5

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

David Bowie

3/5

Very good but I thought I’d like it more than I did. Heroes tops this quite firmly, found the instrumentals quite dull and basic at points. Suffragette City was my favourite track

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Instant five no notes, okay some notes: this is easily there most consistently brilliant album, there are moments on the bends and in rainbows that individually top this, and even some of the modern stuff… really love “burn the witch” from moon shaped pool and “spectre” their go at a bond theme… but this is lots of things, but most of all it’s consistent

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

Some of their best tracks (Norwegian Wood) and the first great album from them

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

4/5

Coldplay are overrated IMHO, this has some total bangers on it

Nowhere

Ride

4/5

Loved it, big fan of shoegaze and whilst others would go on to top this it was really cool to get around to listening to one of the first albums in the genre

Germs

3/5

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

1/5

Not awful, awful but tediously long and instrumentally bland. A strong 1 star

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

I want to keep consistency between my other account so I’ll keep it at a 4.. but it’s really a 4.5, love how whimsical this record is

Fleet Foxes

5/5