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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Pleasure Principle Gary Numan	5	3.15	+1.85
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	5	3.43	+1.57
Zombie Fela Kuti	5	3.46	+1.54
Blue Joni Mitchell	5	3.5	+1.5
The Clash The Clash	5	3.53	+1.47
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	5	3.55	+1.45
Lust For Life Iggy Pop	5	3.6	+1.4
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Lauryn Hill	5	3.66	+1.34
Siamese Dream The Smashing Pumpkins	5	3.83	+1.17
Pet Sounds The Beach Boys	5	3.92	+1.08

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
It's Too Late to Stop Now Van Morrison	1	3.25	-2.25
Youth And Young Manhood Kings of Leon	1	3.09	-2.09
Transformer Lou Reed	2	3.66	-1.66
1999 Prince	2	3.59	-1.59
Eliminator ZZ Top	2	3.37	-1.37
Aftermath The Rolling Stones	2	3.36	-1.36
Revolver Beatles	3	4.23	-1.23
Dust Screaming Trees	2	3.16	-1.16
Third Portishead	2	3.13	-1.13

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It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison · 1 likes

1/5

a live album and a double album of it at that … it’s a no from me

1-Star Albums (2)

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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

songs i know and love but i don’t think i’ve ever sat down to listen to the album through? very enjoyable and great start. clearly the blueprint for so much music, im hearing so many samples in these songs

The Clash

5/5

despite releasing in 1977, it still sounds fresh and relevant today almost 50 years later - songs about unemployment, anti-americanisation, and frustration at the political system in the UK. great high energy throughout its tight 36 min run time and just a generally really good album!! 5/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Boston

4/5

fun prog rock/rock opera vibes! can see why people went crazy for this when it came out

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

depressing! i liked the demo vibe, i don’t think i was massively in the mood for this when i listened. good storytelling for the characters in the songs but it does start depressing and doesn’t let up

1999

Prince

2/5

i just don’t think this was for me. songs are too long. i feel like i got very intimate with prince and i didn’t like it

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

3/5

i enjoyed this!! may listen again looking at the lyrics properly based on other reviews. i like bob dylan but i don’t think i’ve listened to an album through so this was a good place to start i think

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

can imagine this blowing peoples minds in the 80s

Calenture

The Triffids

2/5

it started okay and now it’s awful. holy water could be a least fave song of this whole project so far. why is there 17 songs and by song 8 i hate it already. hope it picks up my god

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

2/5

boring, repetitive, weirdly misogynistic

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

5/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

america is one of the best songs of all time so that makes this album a 5. i thought the interludes brought the album together well. really good album and i love the sillyness of being an english muffin or kelloggs cornflake

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

3/5

i feel like this is more of a 3.5 cause when it’s good it’s great and when it’s not, it’s just pots and pans banging around

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Really enjoyed this!!

Sister

Sonic Youth

4/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

3/5

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

1/5

a live album and a double album of it at that … it’s a no from me

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

some crazy homophobia and misogyny in the lyrics but it’s a fun album!! sounds slightly corny now just with how the genre has progressed since, but you can understand the tensions in compton in the 90s through this album and it’s still relevant today. maybe not a personally relevant album to me but enjoyed none the less - 3.5

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

3/5

sounds like the beatles, guitar is a nice sound but quite samey, not bad not amazing

Fleet Foxes

5/5

loved this!!

Third

Portishead

2/5

don’t think this is for me massively, quite boring but very intense at the same time?

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

5/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

3/5

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

2/5

i feel like i should like it but it doesn’t stand out to me at all, very middle of the road, 2.5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

feels like my dad has sat me down for an hour to show me “music was better in the 80s”, which is what a lot of this list is feeling like sometimes. nothing wrong with it massively just very samey and by the end i was waiting for it to be over.

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

potentially the most accurate band name ever obviously i love it, it’s cheesy and extra in the best way 4.5/5

The Real Thing

Faith No More

3/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

suppose if you were there at the time this would blow your mind. fun and classic songs on here but to listen to the album front to back is very intense, i feel like i have a high tolerance for jazz and blues but this tested me

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

2/5

the singles i know from this album are really good, but everything else was so drawn out. the male vocals were awful!! so so grating!!

Revolver

Beatles

3/5

i never know what i think of the beatles, a few great songs here but the album as a whole was okay? more of a 3.5 that i’ll give a 3

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

i’m normally queen of beatles are overrated nation but i have to admit this is quite a solid album

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

this album is so peak!! every song is a classic

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

1/5

dull and uninteresting, confused how this snuck onto this list as it just sounds like a poor imitation of all the 70 rock on here already

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

4/5

so many bangers with some random covers bringing it down a star for me. why don’t people make 13 min synth rock album openers anymore?

Transformer

Lou Reed

2/5

not for me, some good moments but i do think the musicality of an album is quite important to my enjoyment of an album, and this is maybe more freeform than i’d prefer shall i say

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

5/5

this is so good and now i need to listen to all his other stuff!! finding albums like this is why i love this project

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

3/5

some songs were a miss for me but i loved the overall experimentation and sound of this album!! 3.5

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

2/5

generic 90s punk made for the radio which is fine but confusing why it gets a spot on this list!

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

3.5 from me, liked the sound of this album but felt too long in places

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

3/5

a few good songs but the rest is maybe a bit too freeform for me

Dust

Screaming Trees

2/5

it was fine but not very memorable to me!! agree with some of the reviews questioning how this album got onto this list

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

love finding albums like this through this list!!

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

The Doors

4/5

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

3/5

keep trying to listen to this in full and getting distracted so i don’t know if this is a fair rating, i have enjoyed it but it doesn’t seem so jump out to me