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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Murder Ballads Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.08	+1.92
Dusty In Memphis Dusty Springfield	5	3.47	+1.53
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	5	3.49	+1.51
KEAH** (Psalm 69) Ministry	4	2.69	+1.31
Grace Jeff Buckley	5	3.73	+1.27
At Folsom Prison Johnny Cash	5	3.97	+1.03

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The College Dropout Kanye West	1	3.31	-2.31
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	1	3.3	-2.3
A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse Faces	1	3.23	-2.23
Shadowland k.d. lang	1	2.87	-1.87
Brutal Youth Elvis Costello	1	2.82	-1.82
Basket of Light Pentangle	1	2.76	-1.76
Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen	2	3.7	-1.7
Aja Steely Dan	2	3.47	-1.47
Crime Of The Century Supertramp	2	3.4	-1.4
Music From Big Pink The Band	2	3.36	-1.36

5-Star Albums (7)

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The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks · 1 likes

4/5

Enjoyed listening to this album. The key and tempo changes consistent throughout the album kept me engaged. At some points reminded me of The Doors, especially Wicked Annabella. Also enjoyed some of the tongue in cheek lyrics, people take pictures of each other could’ve been written today

1-Star Albums (6)

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

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Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

One of the best albums ever made. It’s hard to put his music into a genre, it goes places that are inspirational for other musicians

Parklife

Blur

3/5

The happy nature of this album contrasts significantly to the grunge movement in the states that was also popular at that time, but very much conforms to the sound of other British rock bands also prevalent in the early 90’s. A very solid album. Highlights: End of a century, title track, boys &girls

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

Iconic album, transformer feels like an album where directly inspired blues rock transitions into something more contemporary

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

Aja

Steely Dan

2/5

Very “yacht rock”. Listening to this makes me think of upper middle class boomers wearing white linen and Camilla dresses on a summer afternoon, frothing harder than their sparkling white wines listening to this album. Not my cup of tea but I can appreciate the musicianship. Stoked it’s only 7 songs long

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

2/5

I can hear what they’re trying to achieve, but I’m sure there were better examples of this genre of music in the 70’s. “If everyone was listening” and “crime of the century” hold their own though

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

3/5

Pretty cool album, enjoyed the musicianship

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

1/5

This album sounds like if someone bought the Rolling Stones from Temu. Or if I tried to explain the concept of blues rock to someone but actually hadn’t listened to any of it myself

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

I can’t stand country music, it’s so contrived, so shit, and so fucking preachy. Luckily Johnny Cash isn’t country, he’s punk rock. This album he performs songs about doing coke, committing crime, and getting hung, at a prison while clearly higher than two Charlie Sheens. This album wouldn’t have been made today, it’d incite riots. If it isn’t 5 stars just for the cojones of the guy, at least the music is catchy too

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

1/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

5/5

Jesus, I was not expecting this this at all. Each track unravels and takes you down like a sniper.

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

So far this list has been a bit disappointing. Lots of albums from the 70’s and 80’s that are “classic albums” but to be honest they all kinda suck, this album included. There’s a few hits that absolutely slap; dancing in the dark, I’m on fire, and the title track, but the rest of the album feels like filler. I can appreciate Bruce’s place in American culture and his immense success, but I have to also recognise I’m not the target audience so I’m probably not going to enjoy it the same way others might

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

1/5

This album reminds me of the point approximately 3.5m in from the fog line…Middle of the road

Basket of Light

Pentangle

1/5

This album felt like eating a kebab at midday, you know you won’t really appreciate it unless it’s 3am and you’ve had a gazillion beers. I felt the same way listening to this album sober, maybe if I had three tabs of LSD I’d appreciate it more. In saying that, night train made me think of a cut scene in a surf movie, where they’re driving around barren roads somewhere between get shacked off their melons

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

I love the hip hop and rap, and much as I enjoy listening to songs about street politics on my daily commute, it’s also good to listen to an album that’s upbeat. This album is as much about the production and DJ skills of Maseo, as it is the rapping. I hadn’t heard much de la soul prior to this, and was blown away at how many samples I recognised from other songs created much after this one. So I guess that says a lot about their influence on hip hop through the years, and this album in particular

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

It’s the Beatles at their best in my opinion. Listening to this album you can tell a lot of thought was put into creating something that is best listened to start to finish, and it still holds up today. 5 stars

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Hungover, big fight with the missus, told her this was it, no coming back. Listened to Amon Amorth prior to this. Wanting to sink into the eternal darkness, the music in my ears matches the darkness of everything around. Why has no one ever listed them as an inspiration? If I didn’t know it would be a early 2000’s band that was the side project for Sigur Rös

Night Life

Ray Price

3/5

Not my cup of coffee, however the lyrics are great. Someone definitely hurt Ray Price and he wants them to know about it on this album

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Musically, the first 2/3rds of the album reminds me of what you might hear in a quirky 80’s movie or sitcom. Then, out of nowhere “waiting for the big one” hits you with a great bluesy refrain from the 80’s power of love style of rock, would almost call it prog. Down the dolce vita and waiting for the flood also each go to contrasting places that make you wonder if Peter had a deal with the label where he was only able to fully send it for 30% of each record. Was going to give this album 2 stars until I heard the last 3 songs, glad I hung in there

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

3/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

1/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Such a classic album, its darkness is only matched by the quality of the storytelling. I found it confronting the first time I heard it a long time ago, but it’s still a classic. The final song, death is not the end finishes the album perfectly

Technique

New Order

3/5

A typical new order album, with some quirky departures mixed through. Not their best work though, if I were to compare this to brotherhood or get ready

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

I can see how other bands have been influenced by this album, and refined this sound into something more appetising for the wider population. Shoegaze isn’t really my thing, but I can appreciate the art of this album

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

3/5

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

Very interesting album. The riffs, and chunky bass of yours is no disgrace is a great opener. Listening to this I was thinking the sound is similar to the Who, who I understand were first in developing this particular type of prog rock, but the level of skill on this album can’t be denied. So I guess if you are going to copy another band’s sound, at least do it well and take it to some different places, like Yes have on this album

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

You really can’t dispute the longevity of RHCP’s career, they’ve had a knack of popping up and blowing a generation away with an album that becomes the soundtrack to your teenage years. I missed out on the timing for this album but was old enough for the Californication buzz. This album and one hot minute were those that your older siblings would have on 24/7. Listening to this now, I still think it holds up, you can hear the influence for 311, and the whole genre of nu metal

Shadowland

k.d. lang

1/5

Yeah no thanks. Lounge and country music fusion. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

3/5

Before listening to this album I was thinking I’m not super keen to hear songs from Toy Story today, then I listened to the way he dismantles and takes the piss out of rednecks, wealthy people, the government and the French, and was surprised and impressed. Sorry Randy, I was not familiar with your game

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

2/5

Mid 2000’s folk. It’s alright I guess

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

You sorta know what you’re in for with Neil Young, but it doesn’t take away from the sound. What he does really well is convey the emotion of each song to the listener, harder than it seems.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

2/5

The Band are so revered amongst musicians, to be honest though I’d never really heard much of them apart from watching the last waltz. Listening to this start to finish I think I was a little underwhelmed. What I’ve realised so far doing this list is there are many bands & artists that are technically gifted, but what makes a 5 star album in my opinion is the technical skill and the je ne sais quoi that makes songs memorable/catchy and make you want to listen on repeat indefinitely. There wasn’t really anything I heard that made want to revisit this album

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

The moodiness of this matches perfectly with Beth Gibbons vocals. Trip hop had a pretty good moment through the 90’s/early 00’s and Portishead were at the forefront of it. A good album start to finish, glory box is the perfect closer

All Mod Cons

The Jam

4/5

This was a good listen, could hear a lot of influence for punk music. A bit different to other punk influences like the clash or ramones, more like cheap trick maybe

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

2/5

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

4/5