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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	5	3.32	+1.68
Fear Of A Black Planet Public Enemy	5	3.34	+1.66
From Elvis In Memphis Elvis Presley	5	3.34	+1.66
Africa Brasil Jorge Ben Jor	5	3.37	+1.63
The Wildest! Louis Prima	5	3.52	+1.48
The Gershwin Songbook Ella Fitzgerald	5	3.52	+1.48
Van Halen Van Halen	5	3.62	+1.38
Kala M.I.A.	4	2.92	+1.08
Pet Sounds The Beach Boys	5	3.93	+1.07

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Aqualung Jethro Tull	1	3.44	-2.44
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs Derek & The Dominos	1	3.39	-2.39
Doggystyle Snoop Dogg	1	3.37	-2.37
B-52's The B-52's	1	3.3	-2.3
One World John Martyn	1	2.81	-1.81
Kid A Radiohead	2	3.71	-1.71
The Suburbs Arcade Fire	2	3.5	-1.5
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	2	3.43	-1.43
Synchronicity The Police	2	3.41	-1.41
Tuesday Night Music Club Sheryl Crow	2	3.05	-1.05

5-Star Albums (10)

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1-Star Albums (5)

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Kid A

Radiohead

2/5

Not my favourite Radiohead album. Interested to see which other RH albums made the list. It’s coherently its own thing, which I respect. Listened on my phone speaker - perhaps unfair. Given that I’m not expecting any of these albums to be objectively terrible, I’m going to use a pretty harsh rating system. This gets a 2 - I wouldn’t mind if I don’t hear it again!

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

Through the first 4 overplayed tracks I thought this album was for the bin, but the rest of it surprised me

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

5* straight out the gate, I thought. But wth is that Frank Lloyd Wright track 😆

Van Halen

5/5

Love

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

5/5

In love. Can’t believe it’s new to me. Will listen to this many times.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

3* = I value this and would like to hear some tracks again

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

1/5

Insufferable, apart from Layla. If I’m going to listen to blues, I’d prefer the original stuff! Some other people’s reviews amused me: “Uninspired trash over basic blues backing. If I wanted to listen to this, I can go to a local dive bar on a Tuesday evening show with a bunch of aging rockers who believe in conservative fiscal policy.” Also: “ If you want something that goes on for ages and then you hear Layla, watch Goodfellas.”

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Finding it a bit stark how many 60s 70s British bands were thieving music from black America. Again, a lot sounds pastiche / inauthentic. But it’s not all bad

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

5/5

Delightful

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

1/5

If I could tune out the lyrics it would get a 5, but I can’t so it’s a 1.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

The simplicity of some tracks makes them sound like a high school band, but the distinctive sound makes me happy in itself. “A Forest” is such a fun track.

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

The pace is well-described as ‘torpid’. Some of the vocals grate with effort in a way I don’t like. Enjoyed instrumental tracks more. After listening to it three times (only six tracks!) by the evening I rather liked it.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

Divine! Five stars! (Did anyone else hear Cruella De Vil in there?)

B-52's

The B-52's

1/5

Unlistenable. Curious how it made the list. Was it groundbreaking at the time?!

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

2/5

This guy’s not doing so well with the ladies. Not totally sure I listened to the right version of the album? A crooner. Archetypal, but, for me, meh

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Sweet, amusing, relaxing, fun, musically interesting. Listened multiple times.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

17-yr-old Amber was blown away by this album and 40-yr-old Amber asserts confidently that it is one of humanity’s greatest artistic achievements. If you disagree, you should listen to it five more times.

One World

John Martyn

1/5

Not did-not-listen, but could-not-listen. I don’t want to be rude but I didn’t like it.

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

So beloved to me, and only gets better. I need a sixth star. I want to see them live - missed a 2025 tour!

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

2/5

Meh. Kept skipping tracks. One or two nice melodies, but most tracks sound like white noise.

Doolittle

Pixies

3/5

Synchronicity

The Police

2/5

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

3/5

Not yet managed to listen to all three hours, but I appreciated the concept and enjoyed listening

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Undeniably good, but sort of faded into the background. I’m learning I prefer music with a little drama. Also I’d love to hear an album by a woman any time soon - not Muddy’s fault, but this list is warped.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Imagine having the confidence to have this voice and actually become a singer, and succeed.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

2/5

31 days in and still no album by a woman, I present: Dreamland by Black Box. Enjoy!

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

5/5

LP1

FKA twigs

3/5

I am disappointed that our forest album by a woman in nearly two months of listening to the list is such a male gaze choice. Who wrote this book?!

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

1/5

Completely unmoved and took no pleasure in this

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Quite like this ambient mood

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

I made it thought two and a half of the albums before reaching saturation. That’s a good review.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

5/5

Of course

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

4/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

I’m learning that hoarse, grating vocals are not my fave (Springsteen, James brown, Janis…) but expressiveness makes up for it in this case

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

Kala

M.I.A.

4/5

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

2/5

Leaving Las Vegas was painful to listen to… and not a good way. I’ve always thought I disliked Sheryl Crow and now can confirm it through direct experience.