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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Psychocandy The Jesus And Mary Chain	5	2.95	+2.05
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	5	3.32	+1.68
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground	5	3.53	+1.47
Snivilisation Orbital	4	2.7	+1.3
Vanishing Point Primal Scream	4	2.82	+1.18
Music Has The Right To Children Boards of Canada	4	2.91	+1.09
When I Was Born For The 7th Time Cornershop	4	2.91	+1.09
Superfuzz Bigmuff Mudhoney	4	2.93	+1.07
The Who Sell Out The Who	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd	1	4.3	-3.3
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin	1	4.08	-3.08
The Stranger Billy Joel	1	3.86	-2.86
Time Out The Dave Brubeck Quartet	1	3.83	-2.83
Bad Michael Jackson	1	3.81	-2.81
Songs From The Big Chair Tears For Fears	1	3.74	-2.74
Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette	1	3.72	-2.72
Master Of Puppets Metallica	1	3.72	-2.72
21 Adele	1	3.69	-2.69
Tea for the Tillerman Cat Stevens	1	3.67	-2.67

5-Star Albums (3)

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The Yes Album

Yes · 1 likes

1/5

This is terrible, although TBF unlike most albums this far down in the one stars there are fleeting moments when listenabilty breaks through…Tom.

Goo

Sonic Youth · 1 likes

3/5

OMG, they signed to a major, when did that happen? Tom.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears · 1 likes

1/5

Are you properly joking me? Worse than I. Maiden. Tom.

1-Star Albums (28)

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

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Highway to Hell

AC/DC

1/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

1/5

Too trad/lounge for me I’m afraid - rounders as opposed to cricket as it were. 2/10. Tom.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

2/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

1/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

2/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

1/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

1/5

Common

3/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

Solid Air

John Martyn

2/5

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Smash

The Offspring

1/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

1/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

1/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

1/5

Smile

Brian Wilson

2/5

“I have never found a way of enjoying listening to this album despite often wanting to. I have always thought that “Vege-tables” was a great song though, for which an overall 2 stars”. Tom.

Teen Dream

Beach House

1/5

There is very little that gets my goat as completely as “faux indie” so I was surprised to find that this was quite the best of the one star albums we’ve endured so far. Tom.

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

2/5

I enjoyed this, although I prefer “Singer of Sad Songs” as an album. A solid two stars. Tom.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

They would do anything To materialize their every wish… 4 stars.

Led Zeppelin

1/5

FFS…unlistenable!!!!!!!

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

2/5

I love Scottish Pop, I love Dream Pop, I love Shoegaze, I love 4AD, I love that moment in the late 80’s when indie bands popped their heads above the Radio 1 daytime playlist parapet and I love the Cocteau Twins and from that landscape RGP gives us this…FFS…top of the 2 star albums thus far. Tom.

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Incredible - 5 Stars.

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

1/5

Make it stop, FFS…Right down there among the bottom of the one stars. Tom.

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

1/5

Not for me, but top of the current one stars given he sang the lead vocals on “God Only Knows”.

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

3/5

I like this album, a very strange mix of Roddy Frame meeting Rod Stewart with Edwyn on the production decks. “Stay” is a great song - 3 stars.

The Yes Album

Yes

1/5

This is terrible, although TBF unlike most albums this far down in the one stars there are fleeting moments when listenabilty breaks through…Tom.

Stankonia

OutKast

3/5

My 4th favourite OutKast album, love it. Tom.

Homework

Daft Punk

3/5

You have been on absolute fire this weekend RGP ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Tom.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

1/5

Dearest god no…

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

3/5

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

4/5

I mean like they wrote “Velocity Girl” but this is quite good too. Tom.

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

4/5

Love this…Tom.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

1/5

Would it were shorter…not the worst of the one stars thus far…Tom.

Killing Joke

3/5

Lovely stuff, “Primitive” remains a great song, thanks for sharing RGP.

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

4/5

The source❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Noodles away a bit after a very strong start with “Cinnamon Girl” but a solid three stars for this.

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

4/5

I only have this on CD, what a CD though, soaring among the 4 stars!!!!!! Tom.

Adele

1/5

I quite like “Rolling In The Deep” but this is unlistenable, albeit more listenable than the Zep and the other albums unfeasibly below 25 in the one stars. Tom.

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

5/5

Among my top 10 all time favourite albums of all time, thank you for sharing Random Generator Person❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

3/5

Love this, right towards the top of the three stars. Tom.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

3/5

Good album, great title, excellent band, the celebratory sing-a-long misogyny is horrible. Three stars. Tom.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

2/5

Not terrible, but pretty close - towards the bottom of the two stars. Tom.

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

3/5

New to me and I enjoyed this very much, especially “Either Way I Lose”, thank you for sharing RGP…Tom.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

4/5

Love this, their last good record really. Tom.

Snivilisation

Orbital

4/5

One of the all time greats, thank you RPG!!!!!

Iron Maiden

1/5

This is beyond unlistenable, unfathomably worse than even Bat Out of Hell and the Zep…FFS!!!!! Tom.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

2/5

Right in the middle of the mid table of the two stars. Tom.

Ray Of Light

Madonna

2/5

New to me, I enjoyed it, especially the opening songs, tailed off towards the end. Two stars. Tom.

Goo

Sonic Youth

3/5

OMG, they signed to a major, when did that happen? Tom.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

1/5

Are you properly joking me? Worse than I. Maiden. Tom.

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

1/5

We’re in a one star doom loop. Tom.

Raw Power

The Stooges

3/5

Good album, three stars. Thank you RGP. Tom.

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

3/5

Loved this, which was new to me. Thanks for sharing RGP. Three stars. Tom.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

2/5

A singles band, but two stars for the couple of good ones on here. Tom.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

A treat, thank you RGP…Right up there towards the top of the three stars. Tom.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

1/5

Beyond dreadful.

Purple Rain

Prince

3/5

Uneven overall, the good songs are very good. Three stars. Tom.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Absolutely incredible, “Breathless” is often in or around the top 10 of my “All Time Favourite Songs of All Time” list.

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

2/5

Some great tunes on here, not least the title track but I could do without the milky cereal misogyny - two stars.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

Great album, love “My Best Friend” particularly - on the “Didn’t Make The Long List of My All Time Favourite Albums of All Time” list, so a solid three stars.

Bad

Michael Jackson

1/5

FFS. I can’t believe there is something worse than Tears For Fears, physically unpleasant to listen to.

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

3/5

“When Love Breaks Down” worth three stars on it’s own…⭐️⭐️⭐️

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

1/5

Ummmm…a tricky one, for the first 20 seconds or so of most of the songs I feel that perhaps I shouldn’t disparage it as much as I do then the cod philosophy kicks in alongside the saccharine melody, reminding me why it sits so firmly among the one stars, albeit superior to Deep Purple. Tom.

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

2/5

I know I should like this and I’ve tried hard quite a few times over the years including this morning to find a way to do so, but I just don’t I’m afraid. In no way terrible just doesn’t grab me. 2 stars. Tom.

Repeater

Fugazi

3/5

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ - “We owe you nothing, you have no control”…Three stars. Tom.

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

2/5

I hadn’t listened to this in a while, and it was more disappointing than I recalled, all a bit sub Beta Band/Gomez, “A Minha Menina” remains a great tune though. Solid two stars.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

One of the all time great Hertfordshire albums❤️❤️❤️, perhaps the only one? Three stars.

1999

Prince

3/5

Great album, feels like there might be quite a lot more Prince to come…3 lovely stars…

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

1/5

I had no preconceptions of this at all, absolutely not terrible but pretty bad, “War In Peace” bears another listen, if only for the proto sampling - towards the top of the one stars. Tom.

In It For The Money

Supergrass

1/5

I like “Pumping On Your Stereo” and “Caught By The Fuzz” but this album is dreadful. Tom.

Adele

1/5

FFS…will there be more AC/DC too? Higher among the one stars than “25” due to “Rolling In The Deep”. Tom.

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

3/5

Is every day going to be a duplicate from now on…great album though, 3 stars!!!!!!

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

4/5

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ - Genius…Tom.

Street Life

The Crusaders

2/5

Not for me I’m afraid, scrapes into the bottom of the 2 stars on the strength of the title track. Tom.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

1/5

A new low RGP…Tom.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

2/5

Seriously? That was my first thought, followed by honestly RGP what are you playing at now…but actually having now listened this was not as abjectly terrible as I’d assumed it would be, towards the bottom end of the 2 stars but 2 stars nonetheless.

New Wave

The Auteurs

3/5

Lovely stuff RGP 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

1/5

Err…55 minutes of my life that I’ll never get back, utterly without merit.

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Ohhhh nice, not quite as close to 5 stars as I remembered but 4 stars nonetheless. Tom.

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

4/5

I assumed this would get 5 stars but in the end was surprised and saddened to only give it a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - the excellent songs remain excellent but the weaker ones weaker than I recall. Tom.