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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Damaged Black Flag	5	2.86	+2.14
I’m a Lonesome Fugitive Merle Haggard	5	2.86	+2.14
Junkyard The Birthday Party	4	2.16	+1.84
John Prine John Prine	5	3.21	+1.79
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg Jerry Lee Lewis	5	3.28	+1.72
Celebrity Skin Hole	5	3.3	+1.7
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.32	+1.68
Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson	5	3.35	+1.65
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea PJ Harvey	5	3.38	+1.62
Locust Abortion Technician Butthole Surfers	4	2.39	+1.61

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5-Star Albums (12)

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Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

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Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

This album evokes the mild frustration of listening to a juicy story told by someone who is choosing their words carefully. Submit to he who knows better than you what is good for you.

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

It’s hard to rate innovative music post-post-post-innovation. The vibes were fun, I liked the separate, distinguishable sound for each musician.

Green

R.E.M.

4/5

Felt very familiar - I recognised a few songs, and their style has been consistent through to the later stuff I probably know better.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

Narrative albums with recurring motifs are cool.

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

4/5

I liked the (now) retro horn sounds and old school delivery and beats. Maybe 3 or 4 songs on this album I’d listen to based on first listen. Some of the stuff a bit too antic, percussive, and unpolished to my uneducated ear.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Epic, stirring, uplifting.

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

I wanted to dislike this! But I couldn’t - bar the odd acid flashback of manga haired guitarists jumping off speaker stacks, there was lots to like here. Weird song title mash-ups means loving and hating the same song. Jesus of Suburbia was very enjoyable.

Celebrity Skin

Hole

5/5

Listening to this album made me teenaged for fifty minutes. I listened to it and read about the band at the same time. And then I read about CL. I know what power pop is now. Kind of. John said his favourite Hole album is Live Through This. I’m listening to it now.

Machine Head

Deep Purple

5/5

Vibes! A good morning album, to listen to when driving or walking to work. Sometimes a bit cheesy, but mostly pleasing to hear all the themes and ideas from blues, and the those that show up metal albums later.

John Prine

5/5

Musically it’s pleasant, with some engaging stuff, but the real joy is in the lyrics. So funny and human. A delight.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Pastime Paradise is unreal (it’s a crime I didn’t know it’s the basis for Gangster’s Paradise), but there are 21 tracks on the Spotify result for this album, and I could only fit in the first nine on this listening session, so I’m hedging my bets on a four star.

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

4/5

I enjoyed the DIY aesthetic, and the youthfulness. It reminds me that the emotional quality of music is so important.

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

4/5

Spare Parts I was my favourite song. Atmospheric album. Comes with its own ambience.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

LOADS of great songs on this album. A fun listen.

Damaged

Black Flag

5/5

Another fun listen. Lots of energy and humour. Punk but melodic in a clashy, trashy way.

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

4/5

Boppy sixties pop-rock. Pleasant, a bit anachronistic lyrically - feels like the imagined female audience is being condescended to in a couple of the songs.

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

5/5

Energetic and revitalising, a literal banger.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

Enjoyable retro-pop feel to some songs, and the futuristic sound I know better from her later albums on others. Didn’t get to listen to the full thing.

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

5/5

Sounds like daytime film scheduled on weekend TV when I was a child. Comfort and nostalgia.

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

4/5

Raw, punky fun.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

Nostalgic, retro fifties sound, with edgier lyrics.