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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Roxy Music Roxy Music	5	3.09	+1.91
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg Jerry Lee Lewis	5	3.26	+1.74
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	5	3.48	+1.52
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan	5	3.75	+1.25
Apocalypse Dudes Turbonegro	4	2.9	+1.1
Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts The Adverts	4	2.96	+1.04
Pelican West Haircut 100	4	2.97	+1.03
Fire Of Love The Gun Club	4	2.98	+1.02
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road Lucinda Williams	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits	1	3.73	-2.73
Hotel California Eagles	1	3.59	-2.59
Synchronicity The Police	1	3.4	-2.4
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs Derek & The Dominos	1	3.38	-2.38
Moby Grape Moby Grape	1	2.95	-1.95
The Doors The Doors	2	3.94	-1.94
Stripped Christina Aguilera	1	2.88	-1.88
American Idiot Green Day	2	3.77	-1.77
Hot Fuss The Killers	2	3.73	-1.73
G. Love And Special Sauce G. Love & Special Sauce	1	2.73	-1.73

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The Cars

The Cars · 1 likes

2/5

New wave for people who like Tom Petty.

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce · 1 likes

1/5

Blandness can't be great.

1-Star Albums (9)

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Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

Personal Jesus and Enjoy The Silence are obviously bangers. Not yet sure about anything else on this album.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

1/5

What a pile of wank.

Hotel California

Eagles

1/5

Well I've listened to it once before I die. Cocaine has a lot to answer for.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Mannish Boy is a monster of a song, always has been always will be.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

2/5

I like grunge, but how this lot became as big as they did (say compared to The Screaming Trees) is a mystery on the basis of this album.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Huge fan of Neil Young but hadn't listened to this before. Helpless is a cool song, but not taken by anything else really.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

I remember how exciting this was when if first came out. Still is. The casual misoginy though...

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

I listened twice but couldn't see why this one caught the eye. Perfectly fine but not spectacular.

Low

David Bowie

4/5

A bit of a classic. Less sure of the second side/half but still...

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Enjoyed this more than I thought I would.

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Terrible people can make amazing music.

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

I think this album was ruined for me by how ubiquitous it was when it came out. On listening again it's got some fine songs which for me are taken down a notch or two by too much bad 80s synth.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

I listened to this a lot as a teenager. Grace Slick has an amazing voice and White Rabbit and Someone to Love are all time favourites. The rest I can leave to be honest.

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

2/5

Hummmm... Aren't live albums a way to fulfil a contract when you don't want to produce anything new? Obviously this was massive when it was released, and I like a walk me home guitar solo as much as the next middle aged man, but really? Show Me The Way and Baby, I Love Your Ways are fine, the rest is too bland to be memorable.

Dire Straits

4/5

I've got a soft spot for the earlier part of Dire Straits career, so loved listening to this album.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

I listened to this quite a few times, as it wasn't one of his I'd heard before. Lamar is very clever, and I can see what people love about him, but somehow it didn't quite work for me.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

I liked this. Hadn't heard it before, but will definitely listen again.

Garbage

3/5

I guess it's been at least 20 years since I listened to this. There was a chance that this sort of music wouldn't have become stadium rock, but that's what it is.

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

3/5

Post-punk before punk is quite an achievement. I'm not sure that this is their best album, but really interesting.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Yeah, it's not bad.

Sea Change

Beck

2/5

Bland.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

2/5

Bland.

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

2/5

Strong voice, just a pity that the music is weaker than it should have been.

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

4/5

Yeah, can see why this one made the list.

Moby Grape

1/5

60s nonsense.

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

3/5

It's fine, but not their best.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

2/5

It wasn't my thing, and I wonder if it'd make the list if that were to be done again.

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

3/5

Okay.

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

4/5

I had Gary Gilmore's Eyes as a single (out of a charity shop) when I was a teenager, so yep, liked this.

Pelican West

Haircut 100

4/5

I didn't think much of Haircut 100 when they were in the charts, but I'm glad that this album is on the list. Favourite Shirts (Girl meets Boy) is the standout song.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

I think this was the first album I ever bought. Solid.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

2/5

Adele

2/5

Say no to power ballads

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

2/5

Middle of the road.

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

2/5

Late period Marvin feel to it, but without his genius I'm afraid.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

You know it's not terrible.

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

Roxy Music

5/5

Yep! Stonking songs with just the right amount of weirdness.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Some strong songs and enough weirdness.

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

1/5

Nope, not for me.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Love a bit of punk-funk, so yeah this was good.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

2/5

Willie's vocals are fragile and lovely, but an album of covers can't be the best thing he's done.

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

4/5

Lovely.

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

Banger

The La's

3/5

It was fine.

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

2/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

2/5

Different times.

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

4/5

Love this sound.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

3/5

It's been a long time. Probably going to be another long time.

Ramones

4/5

Hey Ho!

Hot Fuss

The Killers

2/5

Having thought I didn't know The Killers it turns out I have heard quite a lot of this album. Can't say it will be one I'll deliberately go back to. Power ballard rock isn't it?

Synchronicity

The Police

1/5

Really hated this one. But still not as much as they hate eachother.

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

4/5

That was fun! Big rock, lovely big rock.

Live Through This

Hole

3/5

Brought back memories of being 22 and taping John Peel radio shows.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

3/5

Dense!

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

Not my kind of R'n'B

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

Some true classics on this one.

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

Funkier than expected.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

2/5

Bog standard 90s rock

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

3/5

Not my favourite of his late period albums, but still good to hear again.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

2/5

Not in my top 5 Stevie Wonder albums, kind of feels like it is a big influence on where R'n'B in the 90s came from.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

I'm a dilettante when it comes to Dylan, but this one is pure genius.

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

3/5

Good fun.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

The Cars

2/5

New wave for people who like Tom Petty.

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

Really enjoyed this one. Much more Art (ie weird noises) than I was anticipating.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

1/5

Nope, not this one. This was the album where Dire Straits and I parted ways. Writing songs with Sting is never a good idea (except for your bank balance).

Music From Big Pink

The Band

2/5

I own this one, probably for The Weight cause not much else did it for me.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

A favourite from when I was a teenager. Still gets me.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

Captures the energy and genius of the early JB exceptionally.

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Probably their weakest album (disclaimer I've not really listened to the newer ones), but still pretty damn good.

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

I listened to a lot of Nick Cave before and after this album, but never this one. It was fine, but for me unhinged Cave is the best Cave and there wasn't quite enough of that.

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

2/5

Ho hum

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

Very funky.

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Nebraska