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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Suicide Suicide	5	2.47	+2.53
Better Living Through Chemistry Fatboy Slim	5	2.99	+2.01
Clandestino Manu Chao	5	3.22	+1.78
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	5	3.43	+1.57
Moss Side Story Barry Adamson	4	2.52	+1.48
Brothers The Black Keys	5	3.55	+1.45
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	5	3.57	+1.43
Pink Moon Nick Drake	5	3.65	+1.35
Dr. Octagonecologyst Dr. Octagon	4	2.69	+1.31
In Rainbows Radiohead	5	3.85	+1.15

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
I’m a Lonesome Fugitive Merle Haggard	1	2.87	-1.87
Let It Bleed The Rolling Stones	2	3.81	-1.81
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	2	3.4	-1.4
The Chronic Dr. Dre	2	3.31	-1.31
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	2	3.3	-1.3
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 George Michael	2	3.17	-1.17
Pieces Of The Sky Emmylou Harris	2	3.12	-1.12
Shaka Zulu Ladysmith Black Mambazo	2	3.08	-1.08

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Suicide

Suicide · 1 likes

5/5

Exactly the sort of grinding repetitive synth noise that I love. Happy with this find. Although I was not quite prepared for the trauma of Frankie Teardrop. Lovely coincidence that the song and album features on the Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere which I watched later in the day on a flight.

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Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Quite incredible how old this album is and that TRS are still recording and touring.

Queen II

Queen

3/5

This album was mostly unfamiliar to me, apart from Seven Seas of Rhye, which I absolutely loved as an 10, 11-year old. It brings strong memories of listening to the Queen Greatest Hits while playing a fantasy role player book called City of Thieves. The entire album seems to fit that genre for me.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Sounds so contemporary!

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

Definitely a classic, so much misogyny though

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

3/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

The album that made me properly become a Radiohead fan.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

4/5

A classic.

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

4/5

This was huge when I was at university, ‘Frontier Psychiatrist’ seemed to be on student radio all the time. Fun album.

Scissor Sisters

3/5

Keep thinking I'm listening to Elton John. Fun; little bit too bouncy for me.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

This was such a big album for me in my early-mid 20s. Love it.

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Some absolute gems.

Vivid

Living Colour

3/5

Sounds so contemporary for a record from 1988.

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

2/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Impossible not to be drawn into Sinatra’s smooth style!

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

4/5

One of a kind voice. Love the Bowie influence on this one.

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

2/5

Social commentary.

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

I remember this taking the world by storm back in the late 90s but somehow it never connected at that time. Now I see the similarity with Calexico, right up my street - not to mention it's español.

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

2/5

Very much reminded me of Paul Simon and then it turned out that’s because they featured on an album from when I was small. Or perhaps even before that. Good facts.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

3/5

Odd, proggy, chaotic - a forerunner of GOAT? My first introduction to this band was via The Simpsons and it’s an association that won’t budge.

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

2/5

I want to like it but it's so very country.

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Classic but also a little uneven. And yet..a classic.

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

2/5

Good to listen to but maybe won’t return to it. Freedom!

The Specials

3/5

This is a great debut album. Not one I want to listen to a lot though.

Tommy

The Who

3/5

Definitely one to return to. An epic.

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

1/5

This was a real stretch for me! Interesting to go in a very different direction.

Whatever

Aimee Mann

2/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

1999

Prince

4/5

Incredible that this album came out in 1982.

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

3/5

Musically I like this although there’s some questionable subject matter that distracts. ‘Sweet Emotion’ is beautiful.

Moby Grape

3/5

Nice discovery.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Something about the instrumentation and pacing of this one really cuts through for me. Love it.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Another classic full of coming-home songs.

Suicide

5/5

Common

4/5

Fleet Foxes

5/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

3/5

A long and varied album. I feel like if it was edited down it would be tighter and more impactful.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

3/5

Undeniably has some bangers but can get a bit samey.

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

Some bangers indeed.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

3/5

I liked this; would I listen again? Maybe.

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Some great moments.

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Evocative on an era when I was small. I don’t love it but it seems like great music.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

3/5

Dire Straits

4/5

Stripped down, sounds good.

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

3/5

Not sure I’d revisit but didn’t hate it!

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

5/5

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

4/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Gorgeous.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

4/5

A lot of great tunes.

Brothers

The Black Keys

5/5

Liquid Swords

GZA

3/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

Clandestino

Manu Chao

5/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

Hard not to love the bangers on this one.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

2/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

2/5

Illmatic

Nas

3/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

2/5

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

4/5

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

3/5

Reminds me a lot of the Flying Nun bands of the same era.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

2/5

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

3/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Lost Souls

Doves

4/5

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

4/5

Quite unusual, very much a concept soundscape experience.