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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Surf's Up The Beach Boys	5	3.3	+1.7
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	5	3.44	+1.56
Definitely Maybe Oasis	5	3.53	+1.47
Exodus Bob Marley & The Wailers	5	3.94	+1.06
The Dreaming Kate Bush	4	2.97	+1.03

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Let Love Rule Lenny Kravitz	1	3	-2
Bad Michael Jackson	2	3.8	-1.8
Our Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper	1	2.74	-1.74
Music Madonna	1	2.68	-1.68
Cloud Nine The Temptations	2	3.41	-1.41
xx The xx	2	3.36	-1.36

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Reign In Blood

Slayer · 1 likes

2/5

Wanted to like this more than I did. It’s just not that interesting

1-Star Albums (3)

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Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Better than I remembered. Pocahontas, thrasher, sail away, powder finger all bangers. Sedan delivery not great.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

I do like it, and some of the individual songs are amazing. But it is very long and lacking any change in texture. Reality is too good for 3 stars, but good enough for 4.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

So fresh and so clean. Speakerboxx hardly ever lets up. Love below is much more experimental. 2 hours+ but flew by.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Middle of the pack Led Zep album. Immigrant song, Since I’ve Been Loving You, That’s the Way are highlights.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

5/5

So good

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

3/5

Jazzy and experimental. Cool direction for hip hop / rock. Some of the instrumentals were cool. Still too long.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

The great Christmas album.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

2/5

Bland. Poor cover of grapevine. I like other temptations stuff but this wasn’t it

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

2/5

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

Permission to Land

The Darkness

4/5

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

1/5

If I’d never heard of Prince or Stevie I would be impressed, but I have and I’m not

Tracy Chapman

3/5

Some brilliant bits of songwriting. Very strong

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5

Bonkers. Actually a bit annoying in parts but then also bohemian rhapsody

Kala

M.I.A.

2/5

Not my thing but I can see the merit. Some good party tunes.

Reign In Blood

Slayer

2/5

Wanted to like this more than I did. It’s just not that interesting

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

Surprisingly good. Starship trooper was great. The clap kind of sticks out like a sore thumb but it is class so no harm done

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Brilliant album. Red Rain was a great opener. Some of the production is a little dated, on Big Time for example. Overall a great listen, somewhere between a 4 and a 5.

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

Good album. Fades a bit towards the end

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

2/5

Tricky one to rate. I don’t love grime. I find some of the beats repetitive and some of the sound effects obnoxious. But the highs, like Fix Up Look Sharp, Wot U On and Do It are really good.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Love La Grange. The rest of the album was a little bit disappointing. Nice bluesy stuff but all quite samey.

Miriam Makeba

4/5

Enchanting rhythms and a beautiful voice. Blew me away the first time I heard it and still love it now.

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Light years away from “My Girl”. Funky and earthy 70s offering. I like it

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

4/5

Batshit but I love it

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

An extraordinary album that feels like a greatest hits package. Side 1 is a cohesive mix of slinky midtempo reggae jams, whilst side 2 is anthem after anthem

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Masterpiece

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

I just want to share the comedy podcast Three Bean Salads take on Led Zeppelin: https://youtu.be/Gj8FihIIaic?si=mAhteZQikrLhVTkT

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

3/5

One of the first albums in this list that I don’t recall hearing before. Really enjoyable Afrobeat stylings from Mr N’Dour

Bad

Michael Jackson

2/5

It’s not bad. It’s not good. It’s just fine

The xx

2/5

I can see what’s good about it but it is incredibly dull

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

1/5

I do have a copy of the book, but I don’t remember this at all. Presumably it only made it into one edition, and it’s not hard to see why

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Proper prog rock

Music

Madonna

1/5

This hasn’t aged well and I didn’t like it when it came out

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

Rock opera. Springsteen for drama kids. It’s one step up from Grease and as far from punk as you can get. By rights I should hate it. But it is absolutely brilliant

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

3/5

Hard not to compare to Different Class, which is obviously in a different, better class. Feels like it could be a grower and I’ll try to revisit it a few times. For now, it’s a 3

Slayed?

Slade

3/5

Excellent party rock album

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Chef cooks

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

4/5

Songs of wonder and beauty from the man with the child in his voice. Won’t be for everyone but it works for me