1001 Albums Summary

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Dusty In Memphis Dusty Springfield	5	3.47	+1.53
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm A Tribe Called Quest	5	3.61	+1.39
In Rainbows Radiohead	5	3.85	+1.15

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Either Or Elliott Smith	1	3.39	-2.39
Sea Change Beck	1	3.33	-2.33
Low-Life New Order	1	3.29	-2.29
Medúlla Björk	1	2.73	-1.73
Fulfillingness' First Finale Stevie Wonder	2	3.57	-1.57
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes	2	3.5	-1.5
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	2	3.39	-1.39
The Chronic Dr. Dre	2	3.32	-1.32
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	2	3.31	-1.31
Horses Patti Smith	2	3.3	-1.3

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1-Star Albums (4)

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Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

2/5

Sea Change

Beck

1/5

Monotone drone

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

3/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

2/3 bangers 3.5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

5/5

Kenya

Machito

4/5

Mad Cuban jazz, i like it

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

1/5

When whispering your faux teenage angst is the M.O.

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

2/5

2.4. Few slappers intertwined with slop

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

15 x CTRL C, CTRL V. Lovely craic, easy silliness let down by early warble

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

4.3 top tier sheet ruffling material.

Horses

Patti Smith

2/5

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

3/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

2/5

Tinny clangy

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

2/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

2/5

Boring start Beautiful arrangements with some real nice sounds unfortunately mixed with too much nasal warble

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Western start - perfect who dun it music Slow grind with a wurli organ If a crime series was a musical x vampire

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Dreamy soundscapes

The Grand Tour

George Jones

3/5

Not my genre

Low-Life

New Order

1/5

Dreadful out of tune sounding singing combined with twangy non interesting tracks. What happens when the frontman loves the sound of his own voice.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Feels like a great gig - hectic start - settle in - interesting - varied

Violent Femmes

2/5

Strong start Instantly forgettable middle order Xylophone interlude Wagging tail Epstein esc finale

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

2/5

Attention deficit hyperactivity dogfight giggle Mislabelled sample pack / Boosh episode All makes sense when you realise he was off his nut whilst writing.

NEU! 75

Neu!

2/5

Lyricless without interest.

Elastica

3/5

Lovely grungy stuff

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Nice and varied Went into it assuming brit pop shite Nice lil fair ground interlude Smidge too long, lost impact towards the end

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

Music made to be mixed Model = most getmanic track of all time Nice sounds, ultimately boring. Probs will revisit 1 TA: The Model

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

2/5

Switzerland if an album Yoghurt if an album Egg shell white if an album Clutch depressed, gear stick centered, if an album

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

3/5

Decent start Lovely Midlands angst Nice variety and ideal length

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Soviet immigration x fair ground intro Pretty similiar throughiut m, show tune esc stuff Chilled ending Too long

Ramones

4/5

Belter off the bat CtrlC Crtl V for the short of attention.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

3+ Being told you have dandruff and b.o. whilst being lyrically and musically soothed - lovely Strong start, tails off massively - Too long Imagine going into recording booth and making sex noises and thinking it's a good idea to put it out.

Close To The Edge

Yes

2/5

Just split the tracks up Too long overall, why repeat a track? Some nice sounds

Sail Away

Randy Newman

3/5

Lovely story telling with with backing to match. Unfortunately non stick out particularly

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

Strong start, Lil sameh through the middle. Sun day licks. Odd Vfx

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Silky backing with silkier vocals. Prime length

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Supppper boring stuff - faux injection of energy with open all night. Most interest track at the end ffs

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

3/5

Far too long Psyco synth sex fury Can't get onboard with the New Order esc vocals After all the initial hype looses attention + lil sameh, albeit with nice synth soundslike combining a Duke box with a pinball machine Not something to take too seriously

Feast of Wire

Calexico

3/5

Remix albums, not for me Nice sounds From country indie to smooth jazzesc Strangely varied

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

3/5

Ideal length Lovely grungy stuff but few standout tracks

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

Horrendous start - ghettomusik Absolute yo-yo, some utter drivel mixed with belters. Interludes are terrible Like making a dish from all the ingredients in the fridge: some mouthfuls having you hugging the toilet, others = musical elixir Genuine 4/5* tracks intertwined with swamp Far too long

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

Lovely jazzy tunes Ideal length

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

2/5

Why make one track when 3 (the first three) will do. Warble warble. Feeling free is decent. Few decent track interspersed with boring drivel

Medúlla

Björk

1/5

First track is just the sound of Shambalas healing field More sounds from the obstetric yoga yurt Beat boxing never sounds good on a track