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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Closer Joy Division	5	3.22	+1.78
Urban Hymns The Verve	5	3.36	+1.64
Metal Box Public Image Ltd.	4	2.42	+1.58
Idlewild Everything But The Girl	4	2.58	+1.42
Bummed Happy Mondays	4	2.65	+1.35
Kilimanjaro The Teardrop Explodes	4	2.86	+1.14
Blood And Chocolate Elvis Costello & The Attractions	4	2.91	+1.09
Music Has The Right To Children Boards of Canada	4	2.91	+1.09
Very Pet Shop Boys	4	2.94	+1.06
New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84) Simple Minds	4	2.96	+1.04

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	1	3.72	-2.72
Back In Black AC/DC	2	3.84	-1.84
Get Behind Me Satan The White Stripes	2	3.39	-1.39
Are You Experienced Jimi Hendrix	3	4.15	-1.15
Queen Of Denmark John Grant	2	3.13	-1.13
Heartattack And Vine Tom Waits	2	3.07	-1.07

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R.E.M.

4/5

nice bass lines

Violent Femmes

3/5

it’s a fine album, i’m sure if you’re into this kind of thing you’ll appreciate it more, but i’m unfortunately not. i did like add it up but after that everything merged into one

Back In Black

AC/DC

2/5

at least the riffs aren't bad. it's a shame that the rest is. not really sure i'd consider this album a MUST listen to before i die, the title track is fine but i'm not sure the rest is worth listening to honestly

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

short album but really sweet. i'm a big fan of neil's voice, especially loved round & round. have never been big on country type stuff but this got me somewhere deep down

Low

David Bowie

4/5

i think this is great... i really like the instrumentals i think they're really really interesting, it does make the second half feel a bit weaker to me but it doesn't matter all that much. also i'm a big fan of kraftwerk so i love hearing the influences here BLUE BLUE ELECTRIC BLUE 🔥🔥🔥

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

velouria and all over the world have made me get the pixies. i've never been able to get into them much but i used to be really into bands like the smashing pumpkins so this album did appeal to that deep down part of my brain. big fan, think i will be listening a lot in the coming days/weeks

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

2/5

Timeless

Goldie

3/5

very cool, easy to get lost in which i really liked. inner city life is great

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

lost me a little bit in the middle but shining star is GREAT and even when it drops off a bit it isn't bad by any means. good album

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

i don't really remember a lot of the middle but i didn't hate it. probably not an album i'll be putting on a lot but there's some good stuff here... also i recommend the siouxsie and the banshees cover of this wheel's on fire, it's pretty good

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

4/5

this was a revisit for me and i had sort of forgotten how long the second half of this album feels, although thief of baghdad is a standout for me. i do really like this album though despite that. i think it has a really unique sound to it, the guitars are great. and although i'm not the biggest fan of julian cope, i do actually like his voice for the most part. enjoyed a lot

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

3/5

i feel quite bad now for actually not minding this lmao. i am not particularly fond of adam ant's voice but i do find that it works on some songs (dog eat dog, feed me to the lions, etc). i absolutely love the instruments here, i think they do save the album a bit. i'm quite ashamed of the fact this was the best selling album of 1981 here... there's so much better from that year...

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

4/5

really loved this one!!! very sweet but also very melancholy, all around a great album

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

4/5

very impressed by this one, janet has a gorgeous voice

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

shocked this album came out in 1972, sounds way ahead of its time and the extended jamming parts on here are amazing. would never have thought to listen to this without it being generated but i'm really glad i did.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

a fun album, thought a lot of the samples here were very cool

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

2/5

just really didn’t like this one, i can’t even really put into words why, guess i just don’t like tom waits’ voice here that much… although i did like the sheer anguish you can hear come through at times. also feel the need to highlight that a few hours after i listened to this, a friend of mine messaged me to ask if i was alright because he was “bedazzled” to see me listening to this. sorry tom waits i’m sure your other stuff is good.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

cool in so many ways

Sail Away

Randy Newman

2/5

i mean it was fine, felt quite nostalgic in a way? doesn’t really mean it was good though.

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

thought this was awesome. need to get on the neil grind more

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

not amazing, not terrible. i do like how many different inspirations you can hear on here but this also didn’t exactly blow me away

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

3/5

Closer

Joy Division

5/5

i cannot express how much both this and unknown pleasures mean to me. this album is very haunting in a way, when it comes to tracks like isolation and the eternal i feel like you can hear how truly troubled ian was. and i think decades is absolutely brilliant, it has such a hopeless tone to it. i love the synths here and i do really wonder what they could have done if they had the chance to make a third album.

The Last Broadcast

Doves

3/5

actually not that bad for the most part, although a fair few songs feel like a "how similar can i sound to chris martin" contest

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

beautiful

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

1/5

would have rather watched paint dry than listen to this

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

have to retype this since the website keeps lagging… i thought this was alright honestly. does go on slightly too long but i do think rufus has quite an interesting voice. just maybe not being used quite as well as it could be here. not bad at all in my opinion though 😆

Very

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

great, i’ve only ever been a casual fan of PSB but i loved this. can you forgive her is such a tune

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

3/5

me and my friend were harassed in a record shop a few days ago, the owner was absolutely insistent that we buy this. i mean it's a good album but maybe not THAT good

Lost Souls

Doves

3/5

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

4/5

can’t stand john lydon but my god this album just has everything going for it, love love love the bass

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

i loved this album a lot when i was like 14, i think it’s maybe not as good as i thought it was. but i do still like it

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

2/5

i’m not QUITE sure this needed to be 2hrs long. i liked some of the guitar stuff going on but i did check out about 1hr 20mins in unfortunately

Bummed

Happy Mondays

4/5

this album is one of the most ridiculous things i have ever heard in my life but i loved every single second of it. i am surprised the happy mondays have any living members

Urban Hymns

The Verve

5/5

i love this album so much, i can’t believe how many hits it has. the drugs don’t work is one of my favourite songs ever and it’s one i listen to a lot when i’m down. brilliant album and i had my shazam out the entire time

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

3/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

gorgeous...

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

4/5

really enjoyed, good mix of soul influences / new wave

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

3/5

probably more like a 3.5, i wasn't massive on beggars banquet when we rolled it, but i quite liked this one - has a bit more going on.

Eternally Yours

The Saints

4/5

had never even heard of the saints until now, wow i've been missing something great. loved this

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

i highly doubt i would have given this such a high score, but i'd been dealing with a lot of shit during the course of listening to the album so it seriously hit me hard. loom of the land is beautiful, i loved this album a lot

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

3/5

3.5, cool shit

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

surprised this one has such a low average rating, i really liked it?? i want you was definitely the standout track but i didn't really think it was that bad

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

4/5

sick sick stuff, actually some of the coolest stuff i've heard in a while

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

2/5

please shut up. don’t make me listen to this again.

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

3/5

quite cool modern synth stuff, doesn't quite live up to my favourites in the genre but for what it is, it's good

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

2/5

i described this guy to my friend as, “a bad jeff buckley impersonator who wrote his lyrics by flipping to random pages in the dictionary”. i liked it to begin with and then felt like it wasn’t even worth listening to around 30 mins in

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Black Monk Time

The Monks

3/5

pretty cool considering the time it came out, but not my fave

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

4/5

i really like simple minds (although i prefer their earlier stuff), this was a very good listen. great use of synths without sounding too dated

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

some cool instrumental stuff, only knew the title track prior but this was a chill listen. slightly stale towards the end? but still different enough for me to maintain my interest