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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Liege And Lief Fairport Convention	5	3.1	+1.9
Tonight's The Night Neil Young	5	3.24	+1.76
Music From Big Pink The Band	5	3.35	+1.65
Power In Numbers Jurassic 5	5	3.47	+1.53
Blue Joni Mitchell	5	3.5	+1.5
Here's Little Richard Little Richard	5	3.55	+1.45
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	5	3.61	+1.39
After The Gold Rush Neil Young	5	3.62	+1.38
Graceland Paul Simon	5	3.73	+1.27
American IV: The Man Comes Around Johnny Cash	5	3.87	+1.13

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Melodrama Lorde	1	3.31	-2.31
1989 Taylor Swift	1	3.26	-2.26
Skylarking XTC	1	3.03	-2.03
Music From The Penguin Cafe Penguin Cafe Orchestra	1	3.02	-2.02
...Baby One More Time Britney Spears	1	2.69	-1.69
Dirt Alice In Chains	2	3.46	-1.46
I Should Coco Supergrass	2	3.35	-1.35
Dance Mania Tito Puente	2	3.29	-1.29
Only By The Night Kings of Leon	2	3.23	-1.23
The White Album Beatles	3	4.17	-1.17

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Neil Young	2	5

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Taylor Swift	2	1.5

5-Star Albums (12)

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The Libertines

The Libertines · 1 likes

2/5

Given the hype around these lads at the time and the fact that Pete Doherty would tell anyone who would listen that he was the reincarnation on earth of the poet Shelley while high on smack, you'd think his output would've aged better. This album was meh. Can't Stand Me Now is alright, I suppose, but I was actually quite bored for long stretches. 2.7/5.

1-Star Albums (5)

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Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

Dated a little but still a watershed album.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

5/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

2/5

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

2/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

Play

Moby

4/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

2/5

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

3/5

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

2/5

Follow The Leader

Korn

3/5

Black Sabbath

4/5

The Rolling Stones

4/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

evermore

Taylor Swift

2/5

The White Album

Beatles

3/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

3/5

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

War

3/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Sedate Sinatra is not my favourite Sinatra. I much prefer him when he's sexually-aggressively reprimanding a dame for "blowing on another man's dice" through the medium of song. This was okay, melodic, if a little dull at times.

Very

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

Skylarking

XTC

1/5

Fair to say I hated that. Basically a guy whining off-key to the sound of a ticking clock. I gave up after three songs and put on Raw Power.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Now we're talking. Love the spare yet hooky, late 60s/early 70s New York asthetic of this record. Interspersed with dark street poetry, it was ahead of its time when it was made and still sounds great. Sometimes history requires people who don't give a fuck, and Lou Reed had the minerals. It's impact on the culture is still felt today. There are minor criticisms I could make, but overall this is a triumph.

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

1989

Taylor Swift

1/5

Empty-headed nonsense.

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

3/5

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Sublime. Haven't listened to this record in ages but it still sounds great. A real watershed in terms of what a folk music album can accomplish when done right. 4.5.

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

McCartney

Paul McCartney

3/5

There are no bad songs on this album and I'd even go as far to say I enjoyed it, but there's something about Paul McCartney's solo stuff that gives me the ick sometimes. It's sort of safe, centrist dad music. Fine if that's what you're into, but it makes me want to go out and buy some smack and share a needle with a hooker. 3.8

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

2/5

I didn't dislike this album and actually found myself enjoying some of the songs, but the virtue signalling lyrics started to grate after a while. While I enjoyed it, this record isn't for me, it's for 22yo girls from North London with rich parents who describe themselves as "spiritual", take gap years to work with NGOs in South America, and do Capoeira on the weekends.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Having not listened to this album for about 15 years, I'm starting to feel Wayne Coyne's Moog synthesiser didn't get to the credit it deserved at the time for the amount of heavy lifting it's doing on this bloody record. The hits remain the the hits here. But the rest, as Walt Whitman said, is middling psychedelic guff. 3.2.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

2/5

Never found Portuguese the most lyrical of languages. I listened to two songs then went "nope, I'm sorry, I just can't today." My fault, probably no fault of this album.

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

5/5

I wasn't sure I'd like this at all, but howling tin whistles - a folk music banger! Abso-lute-ly marvelous! Loved it!

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

1/5

...and I'm being kind with 1.

My Generation

The Who

4/5

I prefer later Who, but this wasn't bad. 3.7

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

3/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

When listening to this I tried to tap into the 90s teen angst I must've been feeling at the time. But I couldn't. That teenager is gone and all that's left is this dry husk of of a man, his promise and optimism smashed into bewildered fragments like a child's forgotten toy due to the accumulated weight of years and constant disappointment. This album still stands up though. Rape Me is a pure banger. 3.8/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

5/5

All killer, no filler.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Melodrama

Lorde

1/5

It's important in this post-truth world that we be as honest and straightforward about things as we can be. With that in mind, I can say without fear of straying into mendacity that this album is dog shit wrapped in cat shit. She lost me early doors with the lines, "those great whites, they have big teeth, hope they bite you". Carole King she is not.

Miriam Makeba

3/5

A few songs feel like they were stuck on here to make this album more commercially viable for the mainstream audience of the time. Those have aged less well, while the more traditional and original songs still sound great. 3.5/5.

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

5/5

My favourite Neil Young album and possibly the greatest collection of songs recorded in a single sitting fueled by Tequila, regret and tetrahydrocannabinol.

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

A phenomenal piece of work. 5/5. If I could give more, I would give more.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Solid live performance from ol Dusty here. 3.7/5.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

The Joshua Tree

4/5

Metallica

4/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Still sounds great. Immediate. 4.5/5.

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

This is a solid album, but if I had to choose a Black Keys record, I'm not sure it would be the one I'd put on this list. 'Howling For You' still sounds great though. 3.5/5.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

3.8/5.

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

Viva Hate

Morrissey

3/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

The more I listen the more I appreciate The Band. There's some great songs on this album. 4.7/5.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

A real confidence to Sabbath on this record. A band at the total sum of their powers. 4.2/5.

The Libertines

2/5

Pump

Aerosmith

4/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

1/5

Not my bag. At all.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

First half is admittedly got more going for it than the second but a solid album overall. Great band, always pushing the envelope.

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

2/5

This album was where I got off with The Kings Of Leon. Loved the first three records and was pretty disappointed when they shifted to this more commercial sound. Sex on Fire was everywhere for ages, and not in a good way. More like in the 'everyone in my platoon has crabs' kind of way. 1.9/5.

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

For those first few trembling piano bars at the beginning of Personal Jesus alone, it's a five for me. Stunning record.

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Great album. Some absolutely ironic tracks. 3.7/5.

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

2/5

2.5/5.

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

I remember seeing the video for Self Esteem when I was 11 or 12 and thinking "this is fucking brilliant". Still sounds great despite me not really becoming a fan after all. I can tell this is a great band at the beginning of its journey, they just weren't for me.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

I remember a flatmate having this album and we listened to it a lot. Still a bit of a mishmash of bluesjam mixed in with truly great songs. 3.4/5.

Ten

Pearl Jam

4/5

Hadn't listened in years, but really enjoyed it. Particularly the first half. 3.7/5.