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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Green River Creedence Clearwater Revival	5	3.78	+1.22
Scott 4 Scott Walker	4	2.8	+1.2
Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin	5	3.92	+1.08

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Dire Straits Dire Straits	1	3.72	-2.72
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	1	3.56	-2.56
We Are Family Sister Sledge	1	3.48	-2.48
Ghosteen Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1	2.97	-1.97
Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective	1	2.9	-1.9
Vincebus Eruptum Blue Cheer	1	2.8	-1.8
Let's Get Killed David Holmes	1	2.68	-1.68
Raising Hell Run-D.M.C.	2	3.51	-1.51

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Scott 4

Scott Walker

4/5

Highly influential pop star turned crooner, david Bowie looked up to him. A world away from his avant garde concept song cycles in his later career. A really distinctive voice

Liquid Swords

GZA

3/5

Clearly a great rap album, but I couldn’t fully identify a clear concept lyrically despite its comic art work and intro track.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Their second of three 1969 albums, 29 minutes of economic rockabilly. It just feels right and this band could’ve been the next biggest band of them all. Fabulous music

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

An album supposedly dwarfed by a historic rock anthem in ‘freebird’, it confounds expectations of a dumb southern rock record with some varied approaches to playing and writing. Impressive band

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

1/5

Essentially a Chic album with a different set of vocalists. Rare for a late 70s pop album to have four top notch hit singles on it. You can hear the sound Diana Ross would develop with Nile and Bernard the following year. One of the best disco albums of the era.

Dire Straits

1/5

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

2/5

Slightly groovier than I expected and clearly influential - just a little bit too long

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Pop quality with a new wave touch. They’re still a better singles band.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

The start of the California sound - a true supergroup - they just weren’t that prolific. Harmony singing of great invention

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

1/5

Never liked them, led zeppelin samples and a threat to VW cars…..

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

3/5

I feel this perfectly adequate debut album is dwarfed by a sublime cover of Hard to handle - the bastard child of Zep and the stones

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Co written produced by David Bowie, during a remarkably productive Berlin period, and fracturing (future Tin Machine) rhythm section Tony and Hunt, this is a proto punk effort with 2 stonewall classics on it and a couple of tracks (tonight and Neigbourhood threat) that ended up on Bowie’s awful Tonight album 7 years later.

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

1/5

The origins of the who’s cover of ‘Summertime Blues’ and some pretty average psych/ stoner rock. Not a classic…..

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

2/5

A formative influence on the genre and it contains the first crossover with walk this way. Can live without it though……

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

1/5

Not a fan AT ALL

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Excellent album, continuing their upward trajectory as David Bowie’s favourite band in later life.Grammy winning, tuneful, conceptual.

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

One of the all time great rock albums - 8 tracks recorded in 74/5 that were too long for a single album and so we also have 7 extras from earlier albums. Just outstanding - a real journey into their world

Fleet Foxes

4/5

A hugely well received debut album which was the definitive statement in the burgeoning indie folk scene. A lot of 60s/70s fans would’ve been taken by the Crosby stills, Nash harmonies. Sounds fresh now.

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Produced by Ian Brodie with two significant hits on it, they were nip and tuck with U2 for the post punk alternative crown at the time. Not well reviewed at the time but it has aged well - sounds more of its time now

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

1/5

This is total bobbins - psychedelic nonsense!

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

3/5