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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Age Of The Understatement The Last Shadow Puppets	5	3.25	+1.75
Bossanova Pixies	5	3.38	+1.62
Green R.E.M.	5	3.47	+1.53
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	5	3.55	+1.45
Talking Heads 77 Talking Heads	5	3.56	+1.44
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	5	3.66	+1.34
Transformer Lou Reed	5	3.67	+1.33
Live At The Regal B.B. King	5	3.67	+1.33
Bad Michael Jackson	5	3.8	+1.2
Pet Sounds The Beach Boys	5	3.93	+1.07

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Morrison Hotel The Doors	1	3.59	-2.59
Tommy The Who	1	3.33	-2.33
James Brown Live At The Apollo James Brown	2	3.45	-1.45
Odessey And Oracle The Zombies	2	3.41	-1.41
C'est Chic CHIC	2	3.34	-1.34
Rocks Aerosmith	2	3.12	-1.12

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Transformer

Lou Reed · 1 likes

5/5

10/10 I love that Bowie production, I love the weird songs, I love the sheen of cool over the whole thing. Completely my speed

1-Star Albums (2)

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Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Crown of Love and then Wake Up, wow. Shame the singer’s a perv.

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

6/10 Not as timeless as eg Funeral by Arcade Fire, but a lot of fun. The big hits are phenomenal but the rest feels a little shallow.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

8/10 Octopus’s Garden and Bring Back That Leroy Brown are cut from the same cloth. Otherwise simply excellent, but dragged down by one bat-shit song.

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

7/10 Nas isn’t the most engaging rapper over the course of a whole album, but there’s so many all-timers on here it’s an undeniable great

Foo Fighters

3/5

6/10 Fascinating to hear that Foo Fighters sound fully formed straight out the gate. Odd to hear it without it being on any of the huge hits.

Bossanova

Pixies

5/5

9/10 Incredible!

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

7/10 AC/DC always deliver exactly what you expect of them

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

1/5

2/10 The USA only had two good bands in the 60’s and 70’s (Beach Boys, CCR), so they latched onto any old shit (The Doors).

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

7/10 I loved so much of this, but there’s too many long, meandering, ABABABAB songs to hold my attention throughout

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

10/10 I love that Bowie production, I love the weird songs, I love the sheen of cool over the whole thing. Completely my speed

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

9/10 Frustratingly, despite Morrissey, this is damn near perfect.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

2/5

3/10 Barely held my attention and that stereo split is terrible.

Tommy

The Who

1/5

0/10 Pete Townshend is a pedophile.

Leftism

Leftfield

2/5

4/10 I think you had to be there

Signing Off

UB40

4/5

7/10 UB40 should never have released Red Red Wine. Pretty great Sunday evening listen

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

5/5

10/10 The musicianship is fantastic, but the pure joy comes from the audience cheering and hollering after EVERY line

Miriam Makeba

3/5

6/10 Beautiful voice, not always the most exciting listen

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

7/10 Very cool, but left me asking why she sings like that.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

5/5

10/10 Pure David Byrne bias.

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

9/10 Half the album is greatest hits and 2-3 more could also be. I hope all victims of abuse find justice and peace, but this is a fucking banger.

C'est Chic

CHIC

2/5

4/10 Chic just aren’t for me at all

Green

R.E.M.

5/5

9/10 Could be a big year for R.E.M. in my listening stats.

Rocks

Aerosmith

2/5

4/10

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

2/5

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

3/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

5/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

3/5