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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Music Has The Right To Children Boards of Canada	5	2.91	+2.09
Here's Little Richard Little Richard	5	3.56	+1.44
Moving Pictures Rush	5	3.57	+1.43
Machine Head Deep Purple	5	3.58	+1.42
Pearl Janis Joplin	5	3.72	+1.28
Live At The Harlem Square Club Sam Cooke	5	3.76	+1.24
Steve McQueen Prefab Sprout	4	2.98	+1.02

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	1	3.61	-2.61
Sheer Heart Attack Queen	2	3.65	-1.65
Black Metal Venom	1	2.47	-1.47
Haunted Dancehall The Sabres Of Paradise	1	2.37	-1.37
Horses Patti Smith	2	3.31	-1.31
Trout Mask Replica Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	1	2.28	-1.28
Another Green World Brian Eno	2	3.12	-1.12
Talking Timbuktu Ali Farka Touré	2	3.12	-1.12

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Reggatta De Blanc

The Police · 1 likes

4/5

Ending the 70s in style and setting the tone for the early 80s. If you were in the uk you could not avoid the singles! Funky post-punk pop.

Black Metal

Venom · 1 likes

1/5

Nope. Didn’t get it the first time round. Still nothing 30+ years later.

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Machine Head

Deep Purple

5/5

Fleet Foxes

4/5

First time listener to fleet foxes. I think they could only have come from the USA with this sound. Layered guitars and layers vocals. When the keyboards came in, I was reminded of the keyboards in Peanuts/Charlie Brown. I mean this all in a positive way! I think the lyrics may be less uplifting than I’m feeling from the music on first listen.

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Ok…in my wheelhouse…not a diner party went by late 90s without this super cool vibing duo. I do wonder if Tony Banks got some royalties for “la femme d’argent”…which could have been lifted off his keyboard on Genesis’s “The Lamb…” 😂

Debut

Björk

3/5

Actually bought “Human Behaviour” single when it came out (& I prefer the single remix to the album version). I do find a whole album of Bjork a hard listen.

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Ending the 70s in style and setting the tone for the early 80s. If you were in the uk you could not avoid the singles! Funky post-punk pop.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

1/5

If Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones had a vocal love child. Proof that people on drugs and not just boring to talk to but also to listen to… “Let’s hold the one note for 5 mins straight” I know I am supposed to think this is one of the greatest most important pieces of work ever. I just don’t get it. 🤷‍♂️

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Ignoring the 1 octave vocal range, this is a great live album. Humour and some great uptempo music.

Tommy

The Who

4/5

Worth listening to once all the way through…but you know the good stuff off this already. Pinball Wizard, and We're Not Gonna Take It being the standout tracks

Another Green World

Brian Eno

2/5

The lineup tells you it’s going to be technically great - Eno, Fripp, Collins…and the stand out for me, Percy Jones on bass. Eno is never a straight forward listen but this is on the easier end of his work for me. Still wouldn’t play it out of these listening sessions though. Pleased that artists like him exist…like high end fashion, he goes first so that others may follow.

New Wave

The Auteurs

2/5

Perfectly pleasant but offering nothing new (even for 1993). Felt I'd heard it all before and I find the vocal quite weak.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

Fantastic stuff…great sounding gig. 100% showman. Band are fantastic too.

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

4/5

This is good, “From Langley Park to Memphis” is great 😀

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

2/5

Skilful guitarists just not something I would listen to

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

5/5

Brilliant. Game changing in its day too. Love it. Rock. And. Roll.

Horses

Patti Smith

2/5

Eclectic, sometimes frenzied, sometimes meek. If Jagger, Dylan, and Siouxsie Sioux had a daughter… …but it seems I need more “toons” (melody), and less a fan of solo vocal artists with the voice as the central instrument.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

Never listened to Janis before…but I love Ian Gillan and she reminded me of him! Sensational range, emotion, energy. Love this.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

2/5

Killer Queen was the only track I knew. Caro has Bowie, I have Queen. On paper they should be one of my favourite bands, but outside of the singles I just don’t get them. Outstanding musicians? Yes. Freddie one of the greatest showmen? Yes. I just don’t love the album tracks :-(

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1/5

Pretentious drivel.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Very cool. Reminded me of John Martyn.

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

Their best album? To a lot of Rush fans - yes. Mixing guitar and keyboard and moving into the 80s with a different sound I LOVE this. We should be able to give 10 ⭐️ not just 5. I don’t know how to review this album it’s so good.

Black Sabbath

4/5

Great debut album. Can’t believe I have never listened to it before! Much more reminiscent of Cream than Led Zeppelin for me.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Open track I quite like…a bit like The Damned 15 years previous…each track thereafter is a bit 1-dimensional. Adding the choir defo help to elevate some tracks. Can’t warm to his speak/singing. Probably a lot better live.

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

5/5

Love this. Ambient grooves. Very cool. Reminiscent of Porcupine Tree’s Voyage 34. And fae Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿…what’s not to love 😀

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

“Vivid sound” claims the cover…but this recording is anything but! “Muddy, scratchy, thin sound” would be more honest. I’m sure I’ve heard/seen much better James Brown live performances than this. 😢 That aside…it’s James Brown! The godfather!

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

1/5

Yikes. A struggle to listen to. At least there were some beats… Any of the tracks over 90s were too long by however many seconds over 90s they were.

Born To Be With You

Dion

2/5

I’m inclined to concur with Dion himself and distance myself from this durge.

Black Metal

Venom

1/5

Nope. Didn’t get it the first time round. Still nothing 30+ years later.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

Boldly going where they had gone with their first album, but without the hits. If you like the BB you’ll like this too.