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Album	You	Global	Diff
Nick Of Time Bonnie Raitt	5	2.84	+2.16
The Rise & Fall Madness	5	3.05	+1.95
Pacific Ocean Blue Dennis Wilson	5	3.08	+1.92
Actually Pet Shop Boys	5	3.18	+1.82
Hysteria Def Leppard	5	3.2	+1.8
Clandestino Manu Chao	5	3.22	+1.78
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) Eurythmics	5	3.24	+1.76
Inspiration Information Shuggie Otis	5	3.27	+1.73
Cross Justice	5	3.27	+1.73
Chirping Crickets Buddy Holly & The Crickets	5	3.29	+1.71

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Phaedra Tangerine Dream	1	2.73	-1.73
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	2	3.43	-1.43
New York Dolls New York Dolls	2	3.12	-1.12
Golden Hour Kacey Musgraves	2	3.08	-1.08
Tanto Tempo Bebel Gilberto	2	3.07	-1.07
Smile Brian Wilson	2	3.04	-1.04
Water From An Ancient Well Abdullah Ibrahim	2	3.03	-1.03
Safe As Milk Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	2	3.01	-1.01

5-Star Albums (43)

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Clandestino

Manu Chao · 1 likes

5/5

Few songs added to the summertime playlist from this album!

1-Star Albums (1)

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Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

5/5

Unreal album, historic, monumental - one of the best ever.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

Learning so much, like that this was the band Eric Clapton started after Cream.. another band I need to listen to. Glad I listened, and it's good background work music!

The Band

3/5

Quite cool, interesting that they were Bob Dylan’s first electric band too!

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Few good songs, but just very same same after that

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

Incredible

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

I'm glad I have discovered this band, new to me kind of! Obviously heard the top 2 Spotify songs, but this album is excellent

The Stooges

4/5

Second track - I wanna be your dog is such a tune. Another old rock album on this quest so far!

Blood, Sweat & Tears

4/5

I am so glad I listened to this album, it felt quite pivotal - whether it was or not is a different question, but i recognised a lot of the songs and definitely think a few modern ones took samples from it!

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

Time of the season is such a classic

Fleet Foxes

2/5

Repeater

Fugazi

3/5

Greed is a good track - I respect this album for it's place in music history... but I won't be rushing back to listen.. But i also won't skip when it shuffles?

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

1/5

I respect the history, and if I ever find myself in need of atmospheric film music I know where to go.. but ultimately it's not really sit down and listen to music?

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

5/5

Damaged

Black Flag

3/5

TV party is a highlight

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

4/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

The girl from impenema! what a legendary song. This album is great, I am 100% putting it on whilst I cook something fancy and drink red wine.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

What a voice, and what an album. The son of a preacher man is a particular highlight.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Completely inspired by the beatles, very nice calming album, few interesting guitar riffs - would listen again!

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

Legend of an album

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

A classic

Cypress Hill

4/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

Yes

Debut

Björk

4/5

Suitably weird, glad to listen whole way through!

The Visitors

ABBA

3/5

hmm

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

4/5

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

5/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

3/5

Le Tigre

4/5

First song is iconic

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

5/5

Actually loved this, easy listening and a few 'funny' songs to go in the playlists!

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

5/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Paul Simon

4/5

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

4/5

New York Dolls

2/5

Garbage

4/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

This is incredible story telling

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

It was alright

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

2/5

Not for me really.

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

3/5

It's alright, nice and chill - but only 2/3 songs I would listen to again.

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

Such good background music

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Yes! Great album, and comes straight in at the most known banger for song 1

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

5/5

So good, will 100% re-listen

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

4/5

I mean, I understand why my mum liked Rod Stewart so much

The Score

Fugees

5/5

Unreal

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

5/5

Cross

Justice

5/5

One of my favourites.

Hysteria

Def Leppard

5/5

I feel like I want to get into more 80's rock

Adele

5/5

Obviously

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Obviously an incredible album, obviously.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

5/5

Listening on one of the first sunny days of the year, it just makes so much sense - increase in happiness after this!

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

5/5

When I saw this was 2 hours long, I rolled my eyes, but boy was I wrong. This is incredible, and exactly the reason I started this project - to discover artists like this.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

5/5

Classics - start to finish.

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

4/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

5/5

Legend of an album, will be playing this again.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

Would be a 5, but it's so longggg

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

5/5

I surprisingly absolutely loved this, it sounds like something my gran would listen to.

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

I know it's number 1 album ever.. but not for me? Maybe one day.

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

2/5

I understand why some people like it but it wasnt really for me.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

5/5

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

So good

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

2/5

Not for me

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

Attitudeee

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

It deserves all the hype - every song is incredible.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

Unreal - still sad I didn’t get to see them live last year

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

The Velvet Underground

4/5

So chill and lovely

The Rise & Fall

Madness

5/5

I feel like I grew up with this music, it’s so nostalgic

Tracy Chapman

5/5

I feel like this album is so much more than the ultra famous 'Fast Car' - Incredible, will definitely be listening again.

Van Halen

5/5

Honestly, I started this thinking its a bit of a joke - but its actually a great rock album, I loved it.

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

3/5

It's good, but it's alot of the same.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Smile

Brian Wilson

2/5

Honestly, it's just a bit of a repeat of the same.

The Stone Roses

5/5

Legendary, iconic, many of the songs were already in my playlist so listening to whole album just made sense.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

She's just such a legend isn't she.

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

2/5

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

4/5

Actually quite liked this

Clandestino

Manu Chao

5/5

Few songs added to the summertime playlist from this album!

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

It is exactly albums like this that made be begin this project. Wild World is just incredible.

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

It's hard to listen to Come Together and not hear the DNB version...

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

5/5

Kinda genius?

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

5/5

Classics, added a few to my 'cooking' playlist

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

4/5

So very britpop, experimental, you never knew what you were getting with each song. Kinda loved it.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

5/5

The drama, very interesting to listen to, the absolute opposite of background music.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

5/5

What an album, no wonder everyone wears T-shirts of this on

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

5/5

Another one, didn’t think I would like it… loved it

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

2/5

Kinda cool, quite forgettable.

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

Got the big bangers - love the horns

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

Such beautiful easy listening. Weekend morning music!

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

Put the lime in the coconut