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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Signing Off UB40	5	2.97	+2.03
Floodland Sisters Of Mercy	5	3.05	+1.95
War U2	5	3.47	+1.53
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm A Tribe Called Quest	5	3.61	+1.39
L.A. Woman The Doors	5	3.66	+1.34
Basket of Light Pentangle	4	2.76	+1.24
Let's Get It On Marvin Gaye	5	3.78	+1.22
More Specials The Specials	4	2.95	+1.05
Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby Terence Trent D'Arby	4	2.99	+1.01

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Brutal Youth Elvis Costello	1	2.82	-1.82
Scott 2 Scott Walker	1	2.64	-1.64
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	2	3.3	-1.3
The Rising Bruce Springsteen	2	3.05	-1.05
Nighthawks At The Diner Tom Waits	2	3.01	-1.01

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1-Star Albums (2)

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Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

2/5

There's the odd good song, but all the droning intro's an in-jokes make this a hard listen. I do get the appeal of Waits, but the good is outweighed by the bad in this one.

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

Not my jam really but it’s a good listen.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Led Zeppelin

4/5

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

Paul Simon

3/5

Some highs, some lows. I feel like I listened to this as a teenager 20+ years ago so a handful of songs were familiar. Slow start, strong middle, weak end. Would give it a 3.5 if that were possible.

Dry

PJ Harvey

4/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

3/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

4/5

Basket of Light

Pentangle

4/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

5/5

War

5/5

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

3/5

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

4/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

3/5

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

2/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

2/5

Great music ruined by inane lyrics and a whiny singer. Different vocalist and this would be close to 5 stars.

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

4/5

I was 14 when this came out, and listened to a lot of Hives. Agree with others that Veni Vidi Vicious should be on this list instead. Solid 4.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

4/5

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

2/5

Low-Life

New Order

3/5

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

1/5

Have never listened to Elvia Costello before. Glad I’ve never wasted my time.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

I have this album and listened to it plenty when it came out. There’s some really memorable songs and also some stuff this has been wiped from my brain. Sprawl 2 is great, I can’t stand Rococo and have always skipped it. Can’t decide whether I love or hate this now. Given that it was on high rotation but I haven’t touched it for 10 years plus, it’s getting a 3. Middle of the road.

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

Gets an extra star for Keith Moons drumming.

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

4/5

This was going to be a 2.5, probably rounded up to a 3. But then I hit the last two tracks and it totally shifts gears into something far deeper. An album with a great opener and a couple of great closers with some decent 80s pop in the middle.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

5/5

The beauty of this list. You get to discover gems like this. Don’t know how I’ve never heard this before.

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Scott 2

Scott Walker

1/5

I thought the opening track ‘Jackie’ was the theme tune for Thunderbirds for about 3 seconds. That was where the highlights ended. This style of crooning has not aged well. Very 60’s but not in a good way.

Signing Off

UB40

5/5

I’m ashamed to say I knew nothing of UB40 besides “Red Red Wine” before this. Solid dub and reggae with top notch socially conscious lyricism.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Strong start, the hits are hits for good reason. Weaker middle. Mothers Talk and I Believe are a bit too experimental 80’s pop for my liking. Head Over Heels is a decent track that needs to be a minute shorter. The closing track Listen was a surprise change up and a great way to finish - takes it from 3 up to 4 stars.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Joanna Newsom

2/5

I *get* it, but I don’t like it. This was a tough listen. Someone else said Bjork from wish.com, which is apt. Give me Fleet Foxes instead. If that makes me an uncultured normie so be it. 2.

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

3/5

More Specials

The Specials

4/5

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

4/5