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Album	You	Global	Diff
B-52's The B-52's	5	3.3	+1.7
Bryter Layter Nick Drake	5	3.52	+1.48
Electric Warrior T. Rex	5	3.53	+1.47
Rising Above Bedlam Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart	4	2.6	+1.4
Penthouse And Pavement Heaven 17	4	2.61	+1.39
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	5	3.61	+1.39
Raw Like Sushi Neneh Cherry	4	2.7	+1.3
So Much For The City The Thrills	4	2.81	+1.19
I Am a Bird Now Antony and the Johnsons	4	2.84	+1.16
Second Toughest In The Infants Underworld	4	2.85	+1.15

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits	1	3.74	-2.74
Tical Method Man	1	2.94	-1.94
KIWANUKA Michael Kiwanuka	2	3.74	-1.74
Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan	2	3.66	-1.66
After The Gold Rush Neil Young	2	3.62	-1.62
Funeral Arcade Fire	2	3.55	-1.55
Rust Never Sleeps Neil Young & Crazy Horse	2	3.51	-1.51
Fragile Yes	2	3.32	-1.32
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	2	3.32	-1.32
Kenya Machito	2	3.27	-1.27

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Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays · 1 likes

4/5

A fun, exciting, expansive album showing that cross over between guitar and beats. Shaun Ryders lyrics are funny, poignant making him a very underrated writer. Still relevant and has not dated.

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Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

An album I avoided listening to at the time. At that time I was listening to alternative guitar music. The singles on this album were huge and on constant rotation. Went back to this album for work purposes (music tutor at college) and realised what a great intelligent brilliantly written pop album this is.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Not my favourite Zeppelin album, but see how the link between 1,2 and 3 would make Led Zeppelin 4 the major album it became. Too folky for me, but perhaps the band needed that change from the big bluesy rock of the first two albums? However, as with my previous album, having gone back to it now, I have warmed to it.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

2/5

Not for me. Like him as a musician and a person, but find his albums derivative and too bland for my own taste.

Debut

Björk

4/5

Love this album. I was a big fan of the Sugarcubes and Bjork in particular. This was a ground breaking album and cemented Bjork as a special talent.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

A groundbreaking album. Apart from Muddy Waters vocals, you have Pat Hare on guitar, with that overdriven distorted sound and Otis Span on keyboards.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

5/5

I love Nick Drake and Bryter Layter is my favourite of his albums. For me it’s the perfect Sunday morning album. Side one is just the most beautiful and sublime of any album. We are lucky to live in the area that his sister Gabrielle and the Nick Drake foundation are based, and have become friends of theirs. Nick Drake’s will continue to live on and inspire both listeners and musicians alike.

Fragile

Yes

2/5

Not my thing. I can appreciate the musicianship, but to overblown.

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

This is a visceral piece of work. All the earlier Bad Seeds albums are my favourites. It’s unhinged, noisy, dark, beautiful and storytelling at its best. I have been lucky enough to this band play these songs live and those gigs are some of the most memorable I’ve been to.

Scott 2

Scott Walker

3/5

I like this album for its weird lyrical stylings. The sound is sumptuous in that baroque pop way Walker was moving towards. “Jackie” is a great song and I had know no idea it had been banned. Not my favourite Scott Walker album, but still very good.

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

A brilliant album amongst an array of Radiohead brilliant albums.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

2/5

An album that had a huge impact at the time. Not really for me as I found it somewhat overblown, overbearing and sloganeering.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Really love this album. Any album opening with Sympathy for the Devil you k no is is going to be something special. As usual the Stones musically are ragged and it’s a bit all over the place, but for me it makes it all the more listenable. Shrouded in Brian Jones decline and eventual sacking on top of that. Part of a string of albums that truly captures the Rolling Stones at their imperious best.

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

4/5

An unbelievable debut album. Anthony’s spectacular voice, the sparse but all enveloping music marked this out as a special album by a special artist.

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

2/5

Not for me. At this time, 1973, I was 15 and deeply into Bowie/Roxy Music/Mott and not prog rock. I was waiting for the next thing which for me was punk/new wave. This music did not speak to me at all, especially the emphasis on virtuoso playing.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Good album. Not a massive fan of Neil Young but this second album with Crazy Horse musician’s is good.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

A classic album tainted now by Amy’s personal life. The album barks back to 1960s soul with the production skills of Mark Ronson. The album is littered with fantastic songs, great playing, great singing, brilliant lyrics and fantastic production.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

2/5

I’m afraid I’m not a fan of Leonard Cohen. I have tried and there’s the odd song I like. I prefer the cover versions or other interpretations. I do appreciate and understand his position in musical history.

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

4/5

A brilliant album. I love Jah Wobble’s infectious love of all music. This really set the tone for music of any genre, any nation being commercial by mixing it all together. Justin Adam’s who went into play with Robert Plant is great and of course Sinead and Natacha’s vocals are sublime.

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

4/5

A fun, exciting, expansive album showing that cross over between guitar and beats. Shaun Ryders lyrics are funny, poignant making him a very underrated writer. Still relevant and has not dated.

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

4/5

Loved this album when it came out. Was genre defining and have seen them live and Glen Gregory had and still has the most amazing voice. Facist Groove Thing is a fantastic single. They also get no credit for relaunching Tina Turners career either.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

A genre defining album. In particular Grace Slick’s position as a political forward thinking vocalist. A huge influence on female singers.

Hot Fuss

The Killers

3/5

Debut album and I lucky to see them on that first short tour of the UK to promote it. They were brilliant and this album has 6-7 brilliant songs. This is the only album for me. Each album got less alternative or more mainstream for me.

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

2/5

Their debut album was so good, that whatever came next had a lot to live up to. Unfortunately for me this does not match up.

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

4/5

I love this album. Fun, brash, exciting. A new voice at the time and still sounds fresh today. Her autobiography is brilliant as well.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

1/5

Sorry not for me.

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

A classic genre defining album. Something I listen to to relax especially on car journeys

Tical

Method Man

1/5

Not for me!!

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

2/5

Not his greatest album and the one before Graceland.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

Loved this album when it came. A defining album in this genre.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

One of the great live albums. Superb musicianship.

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Loved this album. It’s their breakthrough into the mainstream. Ms Jackson is a classic song and really set the album off.

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Classic album and my favourite Marvin Gaye album

The White Room

The KLF

3/5

I’d heard tracks before this on bootleg tapes that a friend had. This is the full commercial version. I loved the PR campaign around them and these songs especially the singles are brilliant.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

Seminal album. Chock full of classic songs that still sound as fresh and relevant as when they were originally released. Songs on here have been covered numerous times over the years.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Another in the classic cannon of Bob Marley. This is where Marley’s songs start to gain weight and substance in the music world.

I Against I

Bad Brains

3/5

Such a legacy from the original albums. Hard to sustain that quality. Still, a good album.

Copper Blue

Sugar

4/5

Bought this album when it came out and loved it. Singles were great. I was/am a huge Husker Du fan, but this was a commercial alternative guitar album which showed Bob Mould’s songwriting skills.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

A brilliant album. Not just in terms of genre defining but big big singles on this album. Videos are brilliant to the songs as well.

B-52's

The B-52's

5/5

One of my favourite albums ever. Loved the quirkiness, the girls vocals, the weirdness. Still relevant today.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

A brilliant album. Like the B-52s debut. Weird, wonderful but still commercial.

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

4/5

Came to underworld via this album. The best title!! Stayed with this band for four albums. The best for me of this genre.

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

3/5

Great album. Cut up techniques and odd samples and sounds.

Pornography

The Cure

4/5

A great album that changed The Cure’s direction. I have been a huge since day and see them probably more times than any band.

Led Zeppelin

4/5

One of the best debut albums ever.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

Some brilliant songs and some filler. Was a defining album for her. Just overblown a little.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

2/5

I’m not a Dylan fan but know the esteem this is held in.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

2/5

Not a fan of Neil Young

So Much For The City

The Thrills

4/5

Loved this album. Should have been a bigger band. This is CSNY alongside the Monkees!!

The Joshua Tree

4/5

One of the defining and turn around albums for U2. I was a huge fan until Achtung Baby. This album is steeped in Americana from the bands constant touring in attempt to break the US market. Every track is brilliant and shows how much they as musicians soaked up their influences.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

One of the best live albums

Medúlla

Björk

2/5

Not listened

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

3/5

Kenya

Machito

2/5

Not listened

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

5/5

One of my favourite albums ever. Not a duff track on here. Before he went pop, this album is a rock album. Three huge singles as well.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

3/5

A brilliant album from a run of brilliant albums by Stevie Wonder

Music

Madonna

3/5

Love the single Music and played it many times!!

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

One of my favourite albums by one of my favourite bands.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

I love CCR. Not their best album but has Proud Mary on it. Still underrated as a band.

Ray Of Light

Madonna

3/5

This is a brilliant album. A second phase for Madonna with William Orbit on production duties. I felt this transported Madonna into a more contemporary music world.

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

Not my thing but a standout album.

The Band

4/5

A brilliant album from start to finish. Great songs, outstanding playing.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

A brilliant album from start to finish. Great songs, outstanding playing.

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Brilliant album. Genre defining. The film alongside was a cultural phenomenon.

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

I’m a huge fan of the Pixies. This album was more mainstream and commercial, and I felt it unjustly got some disappointing reviews in the press. Yes it isn’t noisy and abrasive, but I think this was a natural progression for any band.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

One of the greatest albums. A pop band turning into something more significant. This and Revolver for me are the best two Beatles albums of their whole catalogue.

Fleet Foxes

4/5

Having read Simon from Bella Union records account of Fleet Foxes. Their emergence fully formed is remarkable. I personally think this set the whole alt country genre into a new league and copied by many.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

3/5

Their big album that really cemented their career. Not a fan after the first two albums, but love Jeff Lynne and all his writing and production.

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

2/5

Not a fan of Neil Young I’m afraid. I know his legacy and like some songs but a whole album is not for me.