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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Specials The Specials	5	3.29	+1.71
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden	5	3.4	+1.6

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes	1	3.49	-2.49
Home Is Where The Music Is Hugh Masekela	1	3.35	-2.35
Beautiful Freak Eels	1	3.27	-2.27
Nowhere Ride	1	3.02	-2.02
Ramones Ramones	2	3.58	-1.58
GI Germs	1	2.53	-1.53
Play Moby	2	3.46	-1.46
The College Dropout Kanye West	2	3.31	-1.31

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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

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Suicide

Suicide · 1 likes

2/5

Second rate Bowie Berlin era electro pop

1-Star Albums (5)

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Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

Jazz with distinctive sax sound

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

The great Sam Cooke one of the best voices in soul music

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

Very good transitional album with psychedelic overtones

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Sixties Dusty Springfield album

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

An amazing album but what can anyone say that hasn’t been said 100’s of times already

Foo Fighters

3/5

Good debut from former Nirvana drummer

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Mixed bag compilation from sixties icons

Germs

1/5

Can’t say much about this one, probably the least imaginative so called proto punk band that was foisted on an unsuspecting music world

Suicide

2/5

Second rate Bowie Berlin era electro pop

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Big selling hit album from the boss which catapulted him to the top league of artists

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Groundbreaking hip hop album that deserves its place on this list

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

One of several great sixties James Brown albums

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

Seminal 1977 album

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

3/5

Although Mr Cook had the hit with Brimful of Asha this is an interesting crossover album

Iron Maiden

5/5

Great debut album from NWBHM stalwarts

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

3/5

Good sixties album from one of the kings of C&W

Atomizer

Big Black

3/5

Big Black definitely a big influence on Trent Reznor on the Downward Spiral album

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Hip hop from the LA Dr Dre school possibly the best in the field

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

3/5

Not the best album from Tom but an important artist none the less

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

One of Elton’s run of great albums

The Specials

5/5

Great maybe the best debut album by anyone

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

1/5

Cod jazz hokum done properly by FZ check out Hot Rats etc

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Great debut but better things were to come

Nowhere

Ride

1/5

Dire sub REM dirge that wouldn’t be on a 1000001 list

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Multi million seller but not the Tops best

Frank

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Good album from blues/jazz chanteuse

Fred Neil

2/5

Nice sixties singer songwriter album with the original “Everybody’s Talkin’”

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

Great debut possibly their best album

Violent Femmes

1/5

Dreadful outdated pseudo new wave tosh not deserving of inclusion on this list

I See You

The xx

2/5

Not too bad but the first album was better

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

Great debut from one of the founders of rock n roll

The College Dropout

Kanye West

2/5

Hi hum hip hop from Mr West

Ramones

2/5

The best album by The Ramones and debut

Ctrl

SZA

2/5

Decent cont R&B

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

One of the best albums made by anyone

Beautiful Freak

Eels

1/5

New wave light from USA

Rage Against The Machine

3/5

Great US rock/punk album

Machine Head

Deep Purple

4/5

Great rock album from seventies giants

Play

Moby

2/5

Dance crossover album in Fatboy Slim vein, very popular in early 2000’s