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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Crooked Rain Crooked Rain Pavement	5	3.24	+1.76
Live! Fela Kuti	5	3.44	+1.56
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below OutKast	5	3.45	+1.55
Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.	5	3.51	+1.49
GI Germs	4	2.53	+1.47
Atomizer Big Black	4	2.73	+1.27
This Nation’s Saving Grace The Fall	4	2.89	+1.11

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Red Dirt Girl Emmylou Harris	1	2.86	-1.86
Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan	2	3.66	-1.66
The Cars The Cars	2	3.66	-1.66
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	2	3.44	-1.44
Crime Of The Century Supertramp	2	3.4	-1.4
Either Or Elliott Smith	2	3.39	-1.39
The Yes Album Yes	2	3.31	-1.31
Mr. Tambourine Man The Byrds	2	3.22	-1.22
Fetch The Bolt Cutters Fiona Apple	2	3.2	-1.2
The White Album Beatles	3	4.17	-1.17

5-Star Albums (4)

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Run-D.M.C.

Run-D.M.C. · 1 likes

4/5

Fantastic to run to. A very important piece of work.

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals · 1 likes

3/5

Really enjoyed that. Cool mix of rock and bleeps.

1-Star Albums (1)

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The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

Alright. His voice is quite whiney and annoying . The sad songs at the back end were good.

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Some highlights in what started off sounding like nonsense but once my ear tuned in was enjoyable. Could not do this every day

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Classic Americana. Great stuff. Enjoyed it more than I thought. Loved Glory Days, hadn't heard that before.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

3/5

Very nice. Nothing really stood out. An easy and enjoyable listen. Might check out some more of his stuff after this.

Atomizer

Big Black

4/5

This is a bit of me. I should have heard this before now really. Industrial. Jarring. Excellent.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

A couple of classic formulas over and over again. Joyful listen. There are more girls in this album than there is the fifth mambo.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

2/5

Raspberry ripple. Veins of great taste running through mostly bland and homogeneous vanilla stuff. It became background music after 3 songs. Dreamer came and went and I was gone again before the end.

The Specials

4/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

What a time to be alive. Greta show.

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

2/5

People Hold On is great. Did not enjoy a hour of this. First time the YouTube ads have been welcomed. Feels like some PEDs are needed for this one.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

It's alright. He's got a great voice. I prefer his version of Without You to the Christmas lady's.

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

2/5

Elite foyer music. Perfect for people that need to concentrate on something else.

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

2/5

Weak commune tunes. Would have been a 1 if not for the cowboy song. I can't even be bothered to go back and look what it's actually called.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

3/5

Dry

PJ Harvey

3/5

A good balance of grungy and melodic. Really enjoyable listen.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

Fantastic stuff, I love disco. Some terrific bass lines.

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

2/5

Jangly Rickenbacker, second meeting with that Crosby guy. It's alright, i guess. Marked down for doing mainly covers; a lot of Bob Dylan's work. Mark added for not sounding like Bob Dylan. We'll Meet Again was a jarring listen.

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

1/5

She has successfully crossed over two of my least favourite musical genres. A dull, warbly slog. My first 1 star.

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Very poetic. Some shanty-like numbers and some powerful slower songs. I liked Brother, My Cup Is Empty

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

5/5

Fantastic bit of work. Thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing. I have done multiple times and I will do multiple times more.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

3/5

Some great songs. I hate the delivery. He sounds like a boy making a motorbike sound.

Country Life

Roxy Music

4/5

Awesome bass player. Quite showy.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

5/5

I'm rounding up because it was so good.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Oye Como Va and the Guitar Hero song. A really cheesy English singing voice.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Pretty one paced. Gets a nostalgia round up even though all the hits are elsewhere.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

2/5

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Fantastic to run to. A very important piece of work.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

All the songs sound the same. But they do sound good.

Pelican West

Haircut 100

3/5

Pretty average new wave

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

2/5

Some interesting noises.

Germs

4/5

Lovely! Some classics one here.

Eagles

3/5

Decent two catchy songs bookending rocky, country sounding stuff.

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

3/5

Dubby, a bit of trip hope. Decent couple of songs I there.

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

Not great. None of the classic PSB hits on here. Some criminal rhyming.

Paul Simon

3/5

Enjoyed it more than I thought I would on the second listen.

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

4/5

Great riffs, great album. The creepy, catchy notes from the first song stuck in my head all day

Close To You

Carpenters

4/5

Three big singles in here. Cresent Noon while walking the dog in the forest was lovely.

The Cars

2/5

Just What I Needed is catchy but cheesy. The rest is just cheesy.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

5/5

Powerhouse.

Night Life

Ray Price

2/5

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

4/5

You should seeeeeee my new house!

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Gorgeous voice, great storytelling songwriter

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

Only one more of these to get through. The No Album. Worse than Fragile.

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

4/5

Great album. Not as good as CR,CR

Smile

Brian Wilson

2/5

It's not Pet Sounds. Is this written for children?

Harvest

Neil Young

3/5

Meh, ok

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Songs as long as the titles

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

2/5

Why is this on the list? It's not even good within it's genre.

Fleet Foxes

2/5

I didn't like it when it came out. I still don't like it.

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

3/5

Really enjoyed that. Cool mix of rock and bleeps.

The White Album

Beatles

3/5

There's a good single LP album in there. In hindsight, it would have given loads more to the 'unreleased/newly discovered bits' market that seems to be drying up nowadays.

London Calling

The Clash

3/5

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

3/5

Some catchy tunes

Eliminator

ZZ Top

4/5

Not much to the lyrics but quite fun

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

4/5

I'd totally missed WC died 10 days ago. RIP. Thanks for this and the rest.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

2/5

Can you whisper and drone at the same time? The other one was better

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

3/5

Jazzy and ambient enough to balance out the folky bits

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

This album is great.

The United States Of America

3/5

Some great songs some annoying nonsense. The woman has a great voice, bass player is top.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

3/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

2/5

She has a decent voice. Seems like an album a young person would make. Very surprised she's knocking 50 years old

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Top, top, top drawer.

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

2/5

Long. Boring. Shit.

Odelay

Beck

4/5

Solid mix of a load of stuff. Dog on the front too

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

Diminuendo in Blue is outrageous! The Original Album is available on Spotify but it's not linked from here, it's half the length with less of the comperes.