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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
The Who Sell Out The Who	4	2.99	+1.01

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Surrealistic Pillow Jefferson Airplane	1	3.52	-2.52
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
Exit Planet Dust The Chemical Brothers	1	3.16	-2.16
Slanted And Enchanted Pavement	1	3.04	-2.04
Nowhere Ride	1	3.02	-2.02
All Hail the Queen Queen Latifah	1	2.87	-1.87
Time Out The Dave Brubeck Quartet	2	3.83	-1.83
Rejoicing In The Hands Devendra Banhart	1	2.81	-1.81

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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 (13)

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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

The Who Sell Out

The Who

4/5

One of the best sixties albums

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

1/5

Dreadful folk junk not deserving of its place

Blur

2/5

Damon Albert doing a creditable impression of Ian Hunter on a not bad album

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

3/5

Great debut from Icelandic pioneers

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

Great electronic album

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Great Flaming Lips album

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Great hip-hop pioneer album from sample wizards

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

1/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

2/5

Great pioneer jazz album with Take Five

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

3/5

Great eighties funk classic from the Liverpool band

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

1/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

Great art rock album produced at the end of the seventies by Brian Eno

Dare!

The Human League

4/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

3/5

Good album from the Manchester boys

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

On of Neil’s mid seventies classic albums

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

1/5

Pseudo psychedelic nonsense

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

Great psychedelic soul album

Arise

Sepultura

3/5

Great early 90’s metal album

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

Great 80’s album from 60’s icon

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

1/5

Not worth a star

Street Life

The Crusaders

2/5

Late 70’s jazz crossover good album

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

1/5

Pseudo psychedelia from 1966 although released in 1967 including the iconic “white rabbit”

Debut

Björk

3/5

Great debut from the Icelandic maestro

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

2/5

Hi hum hip hop

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

1/5

What is this doing on a list of only 1001 albums, who is doing this list, also you can’t give less than one star so this album gets way more than it deserves

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Great Cocteau album

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

3/5

Great debut from Josh and the boys

White Light

Gene Clark

2/5

Good album with cover of “Stand by me” from the former Byrd