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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Rejoicing In The Hands Devendra Banhart	5	2.82	+2.18
Definitely Maybe Oasis	5	3.53	+1.47
Stankonia OutKast	5	3.55	+1.45
Low David Bowie	5	3.55	+1.45
The Infotainment Scan The Fall	4	2.72	+1.28
Doolittle Pixies	5	3.74	+1.26
Siamese Dream The Smashing Pumpkins	5	3.83	+1.17

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
She's So Unusual Cyndi Lauper	2	3.48	-1.48
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Genesis	2	3.07	-1.07
The Good, The Bad & The Queen The Good, The Bad & The Queen	2	3.03	-1.03

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Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

Absolute rock blues stomper. Starts ok, whole back stretch is superb

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

2/5

Not for me. Some fun production in places, but it's basically 2 big singles and a lot of loud, mostly forgettable filler

Stankonia

OutKast

5/5

An iconic duo at the peak of their powers. Oozes charisma. Incredible production. Every feature works. One of my all time rap favourites

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Wonderful record. Amazing to see and hear the record's influence on other artists and projects I love. Walk On By is the masterpiece, one of the great soul tracks of all time. The rest is very good but cannot compare.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

A beefy, memorable and catchy album, epic lyricism. Bruce Dickinson's objectively amazing voice is too theatrical at times for me though. Pretty essential, even for someone for whom NWBHM isn't a go-to genre

Low

David Bowie

5/5

Moody. Bowie and Eno lock in fully to the post punk synth experience and it's some ride.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Mega. Great hearing them evolve from the pure love song format on this. Some of my favourite Beatles songs on this. The Elvis cover at the end is a bit odd

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

Is it perfect? No. Is it even as good as the band claim it to be? No. But it's rock pop written and played with the passion and vigour of lads that knew they had one chance to be the biggest band in the world. And they took it.

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

3/5

Some interestingly composed and well put together tracks, but largely forgettable and badly produced in places

Electric

The Cult

3/5

Meat and potatoes hard rock. Great drums and vocals throughout, but didn't move me.

Pornography

The Cure

4/5

Nice slab of cold dark goth rock. Rhythm section is killer. Dense and atmospheric. Robert Smith's depressing lyrics and limited vocals add to tensions. One or two tracks need a bit of extra something though, bit flat in parts, but great overall

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

Raw, honest, human, but man is it sad. Some excellent songs on here, particularly those with a bit more meat in the arrangement, but many are too sparse and I can't get on with Smith's voice for the most part. Good, but wouldn't hurry back to this

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

A complicated album to review. Some magnificent instrumentation, especially in the rhythms and fretless bass playing. But Simon's twee storytelling and thin voice just doesn't mesh well overall and hinders more tracks than it compliments (You Can Call Me Al and Diamonds... being clear exceptions).

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

4/5

Slick, groovy, with just enough Smith snark to scratch that itch. Nice influence of rave and industrial on the often excellent rhythm tracks. First Fall album done back to back and I'll definitely be going back to it

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

2/5

This album definitely enjoys the smell of its own farts. A few interesting instrumental arrangements aside, it's all pomp and no soul. Not for me

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

2/5

Some nice moments on most tracks but this is largely unmemorable

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

3/5

The first half of this thing flies out of the gate. By the midway point it starts to lose me. Bar one or two exceptions, the songs become less memorable, the instrumentation too dated. Tina's voice is an absolute force throughout

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

This album is perfect and I pray at the temple of Kim Deal

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

5/5

Beautiful, mysterious, unpredictable, intimate and strange. Can't wait to discover more Devandra Banhart after taking in this freaky folk masterpiece a few times.

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

2/5

Sub-standard forgettable Gorillaz-lite fare. I read it was inspired by Fela Kuti and Tony Allen, can't hear it at all

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

3/5

"Antmusic for sex people" made me laugh out loud. At one point I'm hearing yodelling over a Link Wray lick. It shouldn't be good but it is. Mostly.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Alongside OK Computer as the best alt rock album of the 90s. Magnificent

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

A near flawless record

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

Lean, catchy, immaculate

Killing Joke

2/5

Some cool moments, some of the punk and proto industrial elements were interesting but this was largely forgettable and too one-paced

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

4/5

Great debut, hard gritty sleaze rock. Uneven though and definitely a level below some of their future records