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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Scum Napalm Death	4	2.07	+1.93
Elastica Elastica	5	3.22	+1.78
Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk	5	3.33	+1.67
Tidal Fiona Apple	5	3.45	+1.55
Raising Hell Run-D.M.C.	5	3.51	+1.49
Maggot Brain Funkadelic	5	3.6	+1.4
KIWANUKA Michael Kiwanuka	5	3.74	+1.26
Night Life Ray Price	4	2.81	+1.19
(What's The Story) Morning Glory Oasis	5	3.84	+1.16
Cosmo's Factory Creedence Clearwater Revival	5	3.91	+1.09

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.7	-2.7
A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse Faces	1	3.23	-2.23
Bluesbreakers John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers	1	3.16	-2.16
Youth And Young Manhood Kings of Leon	1	3.1	-2.1
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits	2	3.74	-1.74

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Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis · 1 likes

4/5

Before I heard this album I was a complete dorkus malorkus. Now, upon hearing it for the first time, I am driving through midtown Manhatten at midnight in a Lincoln Continental, shades on. I'm wearing a pinstripe suit, I have a martini in my hand and a knockout dame on my lap.

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon · 1 likes

1/5

The best KOL album, which is an extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemley low bar.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic · 1 likes

5/5

I don't care who you are. I don't care where you're from. I don't care how old you are, how much money you have, who you like to fuck or what you like to drink. This is some of the realest shit ever commited to wax and you need to get down to it before you make a damn fool of yourself.

Night Life

Ray Price · 1 likes

4/5

Who up honkin' they tonk?

1-Star Albums (4)

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

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Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

2/5

Some of the most gorgeous and evocative guitar playing of all time, and some quite lovely song writing, are crushed beneath mind numbingly boring arrangements and production. Too long, too slow, too sparse, too spineless by half

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Play this loud. Elemental, vital, no frills rock n roll played with soul, muscle and heart. For a band so woven into the fabric of our pop culture CCR still seem underrated. Incredible album.

Garbage

3/5

I listened to this album a lot when it came out, so this was tinged with nostalgia. Very 90s, well produced with a satisfying blend of teen angst and adult sophistication.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

A cultural juggernaut and part of the firmament of what made the 90s the 90s, listening to this with fresh ears I'm neither blown away or disappointed, it's every bit as enjoyably extra as I remember.

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Songs 3.5/5 Vocals 4/5 Atmosphere 5/5 Grooves 100/5

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

1/5

The best KOL album, which is an extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemley low bar.

Bummed

Happy Mondays

2/5

Sloppy, obnoxious, strangely charming. The guys in this band all seem dodgy as hell but they can find a cool and unique groove. If I was 20 and on drugs when this came out it would've blown my mind.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

5/5

Classic sounding without being boringly reverant, soulful and emotional but never histronic, ecclectic in it's influences but cohesive in it's vision and sound. This is a true album as a defined piece of art. Richly satisfying and my favourite new discovery so far.

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

1/5

There are some albums that are so influential you are able to overlook how horribly dated and boring they sound. This is not one of them.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

5/5

The older I get the more I deeply enjoy listening to jazz. Not for the songs themselves, but for the thrill of hearing musicians in the real playing music of supreme quality and expression, taking me on an aural journey.

Infected

The The

4/5

At first I found this album annoying jarring, pretensious and painfully unenjoyable. As I listtened it grew on me and I came to appreciate it's clear, singular vision and the song structure and overall tone grew on me. In the end I respect this album and never want to hear it again.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

It's hard to hear this with fresh ears given how insanely influential it is, but the groove is undeniable. Not what I reach for, but I respect the technique and the stature.

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

3/5

The brutal, blast beating hardcore side of this blast rules and is a strong 4. The histronic bleating emo side of this album stinks and is a weak 2. So we'll split the difference and call it a 3.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

Three supremely talented sex pests and one hilariously untalented sex pest make the most inane, annoying and ultimately gutless bullshit going. Fuck this band and fuck this album.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

Night Life

Ray Price

4/5

Who up honkin' they tonk?

Scum

Napalm Death

4/5

Shit rips. It's like drinking from a fire hose, but once you get in the zone this is a suprisingly cohesive, enjoyable album.

Elastica

5/5

Somewhere between perfect pastiche and earnest genre piece. Absolutely reamed full of hooks and ineffably c o o l.

Fragile

Yes

4/5

As an old punk I fully expected to hate this but I found myself locking into to the virtuosity, the bananas timing and arrangements and the baroque weirdness of it all. I must be getting old.

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

3/5

The highs on this album are fabtastic - the title track is an absolute barnstormer and their cover of Born to Run rips. Unfortunately however the lows really make the album sag.

Closer

Joy Division

3/5

Undoubtedly extremely influential and a remarkable achievement, subjectively speaking this is all a bit too slow and gloomy for me. Love the bass and drum sound, and some of the faster tempo numbers were fun, but all in all a bit of a slog.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

God DAYUM that's funky. And when I say funky, I mean in the 'tight as a fishes booty hole, stanker than a jazz cigarette' old school cool proto funk. Soul funky groove baby, yeAHHH!

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

The fact that Oasis are still so beloved despite releasing nothing but shite for their final FIVE albums is testament to how beloved and fantastic their first two are. Huge, dumb, loveable choons and lightning in a bottle chemistry and charisma and chutzpah to pull them off

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

1/5

Music to Drunkenly Leer at Girls By

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

5/5

WELL NOW Old school rap is kind of CORNY AS HECK But that don't mean it don't DESERVE RESPECT The 808 is POPPIN' and the rhymes are KICKIN' And in your head these songs will be STICKIN' This album rules and that's NO JIVE So clap your hands and slap a FIVE

Tidal

Fiona Apple

5/5

Oh how I adore this album and this artist. Tidal is an extraordinary opening salvo from one of her generations most unique, exceptional and intoxicating songwriters and performers. As incredible as this album is it is only an appetiser for a run of albums that, when the dust settles, may prove to be THE discography of all time. She is that good. 100/5.