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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand	5	3.57	+1.43
Is This It The Strokes	5	3.81	+1.19
Os Mutantes Os Mutantes	4	2.98	+1.02
A Seat at the Table Solange	4	3	+1
Hunky Dory David Bowie	5	4	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
White Ladder David Gray	1	3.07	-2.07
Disintegration The Cure	2	3.86	-1.86
Axis: Bold As Love Jimi Hendrix	2	3.78	-1.78
Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan	2	3.66	-1.66
Black Metal Venom	1	2.47	-1.47
Zombie Fela Kuti	2	3.46	-1.46
Tidal Fiona Apple	2	3.46	-1.46
Imagine John Lennon	2	3.44	-1.44
Strangeways, Here We Come The Smiths	2	3.44	-1.44
Garbage Garbage	2	3.38	-1.38

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Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

3/5 good to hear the early days of grunge and proto garage rock but other than Gigantic and Broken Face fairly forgettable.

The Next Day

David Bowie

4/5

4/5. A Bowie I had never encountered before. Excellent and melancholic.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

Very mixed opinions. A few tracks fairy dull or overly wrong, but also some absolute bangers. Might revisit.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

A classic with a particularly strong opening seven tracks, however, it does tail off.

OK Computer

Radiohead

3/5

A mixed bag and do not really get the fuss. But Paranoid Android and Karma Police are great and might improve on repeated listens.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

Excellent funky baselines (obviously). Very catchy and accessible rocky funk which I am delighted to be exploring.

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

I have a sneaky feeling I know this. A bonified masterpiece that is responsible for inspiring so many other bands that I adore.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

A bit too many long guitar solos for me tastes but tracks like Highway Chile are absolute bangers.

A Seat at the Table

Solange

4/5

An unexpected gem. Really enjoyable rnb with elements of soul.

White Ladder

David Gray

1/5

Turgid and dull crap.

Low-Life

New Order

2/5

A dull band I have never got the fuss over.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Excellent blues rock. Back Door and Travellin Band are bangers.

Imagine

John Lennon

2/5

Beyond Imagine and Crippled Inside turgid rubbish.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Excellent.

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

4/5

Opening four tracks are stunning but it tails off after that.

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

3/5

Interesting rnb but not my thing. Much preferred the indie and funk inflected Solange.

Sulk

The Associates

1/5

Utter warbling bollocks.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

3/5

I find my feelings about jazz very complicated as I don't know what I am missing but I think the problem is with me.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

Hip-hop is not my thing but this is the better end of the spectrum. Political and sharp.

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

Excellent desert blues. Really reminded me of John Lee Hooker.

Live!

Fela Kuti

3/5

Not my thing but it has grown on me with repeated listens. Each track has aspects that I like but that is not enough for each 15 minute epic to be worth regular revisiting.

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

One or two tracks that interested me but generally a bit dull. However, I didn't dislike any of it but I doubt I will remember it in a weeks time.

Black Metal

Venom

1/5

My musical nightmare: an Unlistenable wall of noise. I honestly lasted one track before I couldn't take it anymore.

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

4/5

Superb. Not an artist I had ever heard. Wonderful vocals, funk inflected rhythms and just made me want to dance.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Catchy hip-hop with some real funky and danceable backing music. A pleasant surprise.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

Just wonderful. Beyond the famous singles tracks like Queen Bitch and Kooks are bangers.

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

Some of it gets a bit proggy for me but there are also some bangers.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

2/5

Again there is interesting stuff here but far too jazzy for me.

Da Capo

Love

3/5

Interesting 60s pop with some psychedelic elements to it but I didn't like it enough to go back to it.

Franz Ferdinand

5/5

One of my favourite ever albums. Michael is genuinely one of the best singles of the 2000s. Take Me Out, This Fire, Jacqueline, 40ft etc are all top draw.

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

2/5

I didn't hate it but it was a pretty tedious combination of prog-rock and folk.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

3/5

It is fine? I know the way to really appreciate Dylan is to listen to the lyrics carefully but not had the time today.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

I am still not his biggest fan but I preferred it to Highway 61.

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

2/5

Some superb guitar (as expected) and obviously a really experimental work but mostly not my thing. Far too often it descends into discordant noise. I much preferred Electric Lady Land.

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

3/5

Very 80s powerbalads but better than I expected.

Palo Congo

Sabu

2/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

2/5

Honestly, quite boring. I adore the Queen is Dead but this was much more maudlin album that lacked any standout catchy singles.

Blood On The Tracks