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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Like Water For Chocolate Common	5	2.95	+2.05
The Suburbs Arcade Fire	5	3.5	+1.5
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins	5	3.67	+1.33
At San Quentin Johnny Cash	5	3.8	+1.2
Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul Otis Redding	5	3.93	+1.07

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
(What's The Story) Morning Glory Oasis	1	3.84	-2.84
The Man Who Travis	1	3.01	-2.01
Rattlesnakes Lloyd Cole And The Commotions	1	2.9	-1.9
Picture Book Simply Red	1	2.88	-1.88
Van Halen Van Halen	2	3.63	-1.63
Eliminator ZZ Top	2	3.37	-1.37
Raw Power The Stooges	2	3.31	-1.31

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Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder · 1 likes

5/5

You finish Side 1 and think “damn this is a great album” Then Side 2 opens with Isn’t She Lovely and it becomes one of the greatest album of all time.

1-Star Albums (4)

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KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Really enjoyed this album and I can't believe I'd not heard it yet! Probs 4 stars

Van Halen

2/5

I don't really like classic American rock! The best part of this was The Kinks cover

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

It’s Bowie! There so much of him! But it’s good. I like this

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

5/5

Genuinely up there as a modern masterpiece for. Absolutely incredible album

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

3/5

Its The Beatles! I know they are good! But also I listen to them and I feel bored But then Can't By Me Love comes on and holy moly I get it. (this will happen with every Beatles album. I don't think they are an album artist)

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

5/5

I think The Soulaquarians are probably the most important group of musicians of the 90s and 00s, this is so good

New Forms

Roni Size

2/5

God this is a lot of DnB for a Saturday morning. I probably need to revisit this more in the mood. I can see the influence which always bumps ratings up for me, but not my sort of thing

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

What an absolutely weird album. The Police are a singles band for me and of course I know Every Breath You Take but to have it mashed into all these other really interesting tracks... Wow. Good stuff.

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

2/5

I liked bits of this! Its nice also to have a name to this sort of sound with Qawalli

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Generational voice, never actually sat down and listened to him as a full album artist. Really special

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

1/5

Agonisingly boring.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Completely incredible. Cash's voice is divine, the humour between songs and the honesty of the prison system. Wow wow wow.

Dire Straits

4/5

Dire Straits are the classic rock band I really gel with and have been for all my life. Potentially a nostalgia thing but god Knopfler’s guitar is just a joy on every track

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

I was so ready to dislike this as a) 90s rock bothers me b) its two hours long c) its Billy Corgen singing for two hours Eating humble pie. The highs on this album are incredible, I know the big ones but tracks like Galapogos and Thru The Eyes of Ruby are new discoveries that I just adored. It sprawls out over you and makes you take notice, it feels like a jungle that you hunt for the view from the top. Magic.

The Man Who

Travis

1/5

After yesterday I thought I would have to start reconsidering my 90s music dislike. No I'm still correct. GOD I'm so bored. (Why Does It Always Rain On Me slaps, and I quite liked Slide Show)

The Doors

4/5

Krieger’s guitar tone is one of my favourite noises in music and Morrison’s voice is iconic. Deserves the praise and then you get to The End and it’s this gorgeously big track that drives forward for the run time. Gives it an entire extra star.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

1/5

Appallingly boring in scope, lyricism and musicality. I’m trying to give it a fair listen but I just want to listen to anything else

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

You finish Side 1 and think “damn this is a great album” Then Side 2 opens with Isn’t She Lovely and it becomes one of the greatest album of all time.

Picture Book

Simply Red

1/5

I'm not really sure why this is in this list? Its not exactly anything exciting, and that Heaven cover is really quite bad? Hucknall's voice however is so good he needs to be on a house track.

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

3/5

Is this the best album ever? No not really, but I still enjoyed it! Treason is that song!? Obviously I think you can track the soundscape in British music from this new wave / post punk sound into the Britpop era of the 90s... but I have to ask why they moved so far away from this. This feels interesting.

Raw Power

The Stooges

2/5

Guitars sound thick and dirty which I like, but I find Iggy gets lost over the top.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

Real good album. Weird and trippy, all the stuff I like about The Cure

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

4/5

This is what I wanted from this challenge. I know how important Kraftwerk and this album is, but I never think “I should listen to this” so it’s just unlistened to me Holy shit. Just fantastic electronic music that you can let soundtrack your life in what you’re doing.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

This started out great and then it kinda faded for me? I love Ian Curtis's voice throughout though but ended a little samey.