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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Walk Across The Rooftops The Blue Nile	5	2.86	+2.14
Lady In Satin Billie Holiday	5	3.23	+1.77
Ágætis Byrjun Sigur Rós	5	3.37	+1.63
Marquee Moon Television	5	3.5	+1.5
Gorillaz Gorillaz	5	3.53	+1.47
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan	5	3.61	+1.39
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar	5	3.63	+1.37
Station To Station David Bowie	5	3.69	+1.31
The Low End Theory A Tribe Called Quest	5	3.7	+1.3
The Sounds Of India Ravi Shankar	4	2.85	+1.15

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	1	3.3	-2.3
Who Killed...... The Zutons? The Zutons	1	3.15	-2.15
Tubular Bells Mike Oldfield	1	3.1	-2.1
Vauxhall And I Morrissey	1	2.96	-1.96
The Cars The Cars	2	3.66	-1.66
3 Feet High and Rising De La Soul	2	3.45	-1.45
Doggystyle Snoop Dogg	2	3.37	-1.37
Smash The Offspring	2	3.36	-1.36
L'Eau Rouge The Young Gods	1	2.32	-1.32
Trio Dolly Parton	2	3.13	-1.13

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David Bowie	3	4.33

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The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus · 4 likes

4/5

One second you’re enjoying a sophisticated manhattan whilst chatting up someone at the bar. The next, running from the mob through back alleys in a foreign country. Romanic, chaotic and so much tension

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan · 1 likes

5/5

Legendary

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits · 1 likes

3/5

Another band swept up in 80s softness, not that it’s a bad thing in same cases… Songs are far too long. Feels like it’s made for a few pop tracks but all up, doesn’t flow very well and the slower tracks come across just dull a lot of the time. Give me the self titled any day. Fave tracks: Money for Nothing, Ride Across The River

1-Star Albums (6)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

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Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Berlin pt3. Turns out milk and cocaine makes you pretty productive

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

Who?

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

2/5

I get the significance, but this is goofy af

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

Makes me want to smoke Winnie blues and drive a truck

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Ridiiiiiinnnnggggggg you all the way

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Hit after chaotic hit

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

I remember enjoying this back in the day. Still decent but pretty straight up and repetitive…

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

What an ending

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

🕺🏻

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

It’s long but thrilling

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

3/5

I feel like this is something I might have really liked back in the day

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

Iconic and very enjoyable

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Innit

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

1/5

Snooze. Boring and pretentious

Trio

Dolly Parton

2/5

Fairly enjoyable if not pretty forgettable. Weird AI album art on AM unsettled me

Quiet Life

Japan

3/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

3/5

Solid

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

1/5

In favour of Brexit and a Trump supporter… out of the Oldfield’s, I MUCH prefer Sally.

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Hard not to love this album!

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

3/5

You gotta love it for what it is

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

4/5

Weird and wonderful

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

3/5

As lengthy as it is, shit slaps

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

J A Z Z

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

3/5

Why would you put horses on the cover if you wish you were an eagle? Is this from the eagle’s perspective? Pretty sure eagles don’t have grainy ass vision

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

To quote Domhnall Gleeson in Ex Machina - “I like Depeche Mode.”

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Sick cover

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

I refuse to listen to 2 hours of this

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

2/5

I didn’t enjoy this one bit

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

2/5

Bitt of a nothing album

Smash

The Offspring

2/5

Smash? Pass. Fave tracks: Come Out and Play, Self Esteem

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Parklife better

Slayed?

Slade

3/5

Slayed? Kinda. Filthy mullet though - extra point

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Bring the funk

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

3/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Signing Off

UB40

3/5

Relaxing

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

This kicks way harder than I was expecting

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

3/5

As much as 14 year old me loved this album, it’s just okay isn’t it

Shadowland

k.d. lang

3/5

Feels like an ode to a bygone era, released 20 years too late, with a country twist. Appreciate the vocal / lap steel accompaniment being pushed hard on the opener

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

4/5

Always a delight

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

4/5

Sensual soul with down-tempo beats, what’s not to love! Fave tracks: Ascension, Dancewithme

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

3/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

5/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

Slaps

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

What a debut…

White Ladder

David Gray

3/5

Start the car

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

10/10 Truly hard to fathom that the influence this had on modern rock music… Started recollected records this year and this was one of my first purchases. A masterclass for art-punk and the nyc guitar scene. Top tracks: Venus Marquee Moon Elevation

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

1/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Yeah nice!

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

3/5

Genuinely thought this was Meet the Muppets 2 (I’m dyslexic) and was in for a rude shock. As far as cowpunk goes, it’s fine, whatever.

Paul Simon

4/5

1984

Van Halen

3/5

Shows it’s age..

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

5/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

Yep

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

3/5

Gorillaz

5/5

Get the cool shoeshiinnnneeee

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Don’t mind this at all, especially the second half

Crazysexycool

TLC

3/5

Spicy!

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

3/5

One big joke that didn’t age particularly well. Fun along the way and captures the mood - feels like a soundtrack album for 80s New York

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

2/5

You know what, I don’t hate it…?

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

Covers for your mothers. Very pleasant listening!

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Funky, groovy, joyful. Nothing standing out but all really smooth

The Band

4/5

Pack the bags, cigarettes and hard liquor, it’s time for a good old fashioned road trip across the midwest. Fave tracks: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Jawbone & The Unfaithful Servant

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

3/5

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

You see beef, you know it’s going to be weird

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Let’s gooooooo, no disputing it. Fave tracks: The Art of Peer Pressure, Good Kid & Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

1/5

I’d rather shop at Morrisions than listen to this shit again

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

3/5

Yeah it’s good

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

2/5

Seems like a pretty weak inclusion overall. Sure, you could call it the inception album for the cold cut/ ninja tune legacy… enjoyable though

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

4/5 Not my fave Dylan, but still goes. Fave track: stuck inside with the Memphis blues again

Phrenology

The Roots

3/5

Experimental, groovy and unexpectedly heavier in parts Fave tracks: the seed 2.0 & rhymes and ammo

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

Harry, mark and john

Achtung Baby

3/5

Unsurprisingly not very satisfying and a bit same same.

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

1/5

Wasn’t sure if noise cancelling was broken in the middle of London. Lots of scattered ‘ideas’… maybe. A tough listen at 8am.

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

2/5

Crazy to go from this to menulog ads. Hasn’t aged well.. beats are good if you can get past everything else

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

1/5

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. It’s just not good, is it?!

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

Any day of the week

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Blob Dylan brings it all back home

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

There’s parts of this I really like, and others I don’t care much for at all - maybe even give me the ick… I can see why it appealed so much to a certain demographic. Kinda cool the first track (after watching the TM movie of the same title) came to inspire Nebraska Fave tracks: Badlands, Something in the Night & Prove It All Night

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

Live albums are always a funny one. Is it the recording itself, the string songs or significance of that performance.. and on a personal level, how much do you resonate with the songs and how does it differ to the studio cut. I’m not sure this has any of those things specifically, yet there’s definitely some magic here and beautiful vocals. A very relaxing morning listen.

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

3/5

Listened to this half asleep on a flight to Germany (not Constantinople) and it genuinely frightened me a bit. An experimental string of stream-of-concious tracks of someone undergoing a drug psychosis. Can imagine it influenced bands like King Gizz, Thee Ohh Sees, Ariel Pink, Deerhunter etc. Think the B-Sides are better and enjoyed getting electrocuted at the end. Fave tracks: Semolina, Weight-lifting Lulu

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

Lovely stuff

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

3/5

The space of ades

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5

Legendary

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Goes pretty hard!

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

Beep-beep-mm-beep-beep, yeah.

Scissor Sisters

3/5

Can’t fathom how this could make the rankings. Seems like a knock off EJ. In saying that, it’s pop, cheeky, queer and honestly, maybe what 2004 needed. Not sure the Comfortably Numb cover sticks though, but at least it’s different…?! Fave tracks: Take Your Mama (classic), Filthy/ Gorgeous

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

GOATed

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

Bangers and Nash Fave tracks: Our House, Almost Cut My Hair, Deja vu

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

3/5

Can’t see myself ever revisiting this

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

Bro was born a decade or two too late

Adele

3/5

She’s got the vocal chops, but this is a snooze fest. At least 21 had some chutzpah

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

Yeah niceeeeee

The xx

4/5

Pure nostalgia

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

4/5

Real Aus nostalgia on this one

The Cars

2/5

Not too shabby, but I can’t take this seriously.

Vulnicura

Björk

3/5

Never gotten into Björk, didn’t mind this. I think this kinda stuff ends up really growing on you

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Never been a Beck fan, but this ain’t half bad

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Maxo relaxo

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

The hits hit. Not sure about the rest

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

2/5

Not sure about this one.

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

4/5

A sample “oh fuck yes” spoken when this popped up says it all. Fave tracks: Bag Lady, Didn’t Cha Know

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

4/5

Me gusta mucho esto!!

Boston

3/5

Not half bad

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

3/5

Never been a massive pavement fan. Fave song: Conduit for Sale!

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

An absolute gem! Roger’s and Edward’s bring the beat Fave tracks: He’s the Greatest Dancer, Lost in Music, Thinking of You

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

Another Green World

Brian Eno

4/5

Weird and wonderful, Eno to a tee. That perfect moment between Roxy Music and getting really conceptually ambient Beautiful artwork too

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

2/5

Another late 2000s indie UK band makes the list… I remember listening to this back in the day and kinda enjoying it… In reflection, the lyrics and vocals are testing a lot of the time when Hayden (?) is singing and much preferred the tracks with Tom (?) on vocals. A mercury prize nomination? Glad this lost out to The XX

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Ok, let’s go.

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

2/5

Busy suggin on his ding-dong

Leftism

Leftfield

3/5

Into this! If anything a little underwhelming

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

A classic. Short and sweet, powerful and so well mixed

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

5/5

Hard to not enjoy this. Revisiting on a Sunday morning with Bloody Mary in hand, smoking a cig indoors

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

3/5

Byrd up

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

An Incredibly emotional and moving debt, some serious talent to write this at 20

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

3/5

Not for me but enjoyed it more than I thought

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

The Thom Yorke wannabe and co. debut album really brings back early memories of music. Always felt more of an affiliation to Rush of Blood to the Head & X&Y, but this holds its own. Fave tracks: Don’t Panic, Spies, Trouble, High Speed

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

4/5

It’s pretty cool Columbia records released this back in the 50’s to be like “stop being so white, other music exists”

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Think he was trying to tell us something here..

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

2/5

More parody than progression

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

3/5

Doot doot

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

4/5

Love this album, concept and all. Reminds me of jerkcurb or vice versa

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

2/5

So a 28min promotional album capturing the first 3 years of the band makes the cut? I’ve never got The Hives hype. On paper I should enjoy this, but it just feels like the empty soul of something it’s trying to emulate.