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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Homework Daft Punk	5	3.29	+1.71
90 808 State	4	2.7	+1.3
Exodus Bob Marley & The Wailers	5	3.94	+1.06

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits	1	3.74	-2.74
Out Of The Blue Electric Light Orchestra	1	3.63	-2.63
Hard Again Muddy Waters	1	3.61	-2.61
Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Frank Sinatra	1	3.52	-2.52
Dirt Alice In Chains	1	3.47	-2.47
Ellington at Newport Duke Ellington	1	3.43	-2.43
Parklife Blur	1	3.38	-2.38
Billion Dollar Babies Alice Cooper	1	3.11	-2.11
Tubular Bells Mike Oldfield	1	3.1	-2.1
Shaka Zulu Ladysmith Black Mambazo	1	3.08	-2.08

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The Lexicon Of Love

ABC · 1 likes

4/5

This is why I love this. I would never have listened to this album but I thought it was a perfect bit of 80s pop. I it’s a high 3.5, nearly a 4 for me which I didn’t expect when it came up.

1-Star Albums (13)

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Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

Great start.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

It’s hard not to appreciate this given what followed, I mean I love Primal Scream… overall this was slightly better than I thought it would be and there are some good tracks, but a bit too much filler. Before I listened I thought this would be a 2 but after a full listen it’s up to. a 3 for me

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Such a good listen, my first 5 of the year!

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

I love shake your rump and you have to respect a 12 minute melody of just random bits of songs mashed together but overall not quite the same impact as licence to ill.

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

The title track is a clear 5, the rest of it not quite as good. I’ve rated 3 but really it’s a 3.5

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

2/5

This is so far away from tje music I was listening to in 1998… I didn’t hate it, but unlikely to listen again

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Never listened to this before, there are some wonderful tracks on it, feel like I’m going to have quite a few 3.5 Motown albums in this list, I am more likely to listen to this again than Marvin Gaye so put this slightly ahead of that.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

1/5

Mannish Boy gets a 1.5, could have turned it off after that

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

4/5

This is why I love this. I would never have listened to this album but I thought it was a perfect bit of 80s pop. I it’s a high 3.5, nearly a 4 for me which I didn’t expect when it came up.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

1/5

Eurgh… borderline unlistenable. Half a mark for ‘Believe Me Now’ because it was short and sounded a bit like Air…

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

3/5

New to me… enjoyable snd would listen again

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

1/5

A 3 hour train journey yesterday and the 42 minutes of listening to this was not ideal

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

4/5

I’ve got a soft spot for country and there are some of my favourites on here. I LOVE Matty Groves

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

Got a feeling there may be a few Queen albums in this and I think this is one of the better ones

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

2/5

I think we will have a few Led Zep albums to get through too and it may be a case of whether they score 1 or 2 for me…. This is probably a 2. Some quite good intros and outros. Kashmir ruined by reality TV

Street Signs

Ozomatli

3/5

Bit of a struggle to listen (had to use YouTube). Interesting and you can see how this would be brilliant live.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Lovely stuff

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

3/5

I do really like this but to have this and not Original Pirate Material in this list is criminal… the story telling is great though

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

1/5

There’s probably a place for this but I can tell you that being stuck in traffic on the A46 in the pissing rain is not that place. Boring.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

2/5

Nice

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

1/5

On a drizzly walk through Southwark this faded a bit into the background… Skin Deep the best track and pushed this up to a 1.5 for me

Music

Madonna

1/5

I mean come on. How is this album in this list… although I quite like ‘Don’t Tell Me’

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

1/5

This is well outside my wheelhouse…

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

Well this is just brilliant. It’s probably not quite a 5 but a solid 4.5 for me as a couple of the tracks are so so… Satellite of love remains one of my all time favourite songs.

Skylarking

XTC

3/5

This is a really interesting album. The US version of this album includes the song Dear God which is a great tune

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

2/5

I mean, it’s pleasant enough but ultimately I found this quite boring. After a full listen I went back to 1 track ‘Everything Means Nothing To Me’ which I did enjoy, think it was the repetition of the chorus that I quite liked…

Homework

Daft Punk

5/5

Just brilliant. From start to finish

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

1/5

1 or 2 songs in the background while pottering around the kitchen are quite nice but a whole album in one go is a bit much… 1.5 for me.

Traffic

2/5

This started badly but in the end I grew into it a bit…. ‘…40,000 headman’ was good

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

2/5

This is the second Common album I have listened to this year. I think I prefer this one… it’s got some good tracks on it but as an album it’s too long…. 2.5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Lovely. 3.5

New Wave

The Auteurs

3/5

Parts are a bit dreary but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. This is an album I think I would like the more I listened to it

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

A great album. Love ‘Elevation’

Parklife

Blur

1/5

I really dislike this… End of the century is ok and probably pushes this up to a 1.5 but the rest of it is not for me

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

2/5

Quite enjoyable. Bang in the middle. 2.5

The Real Thing

Faith No More

2/5

Never really got into this band. Epic and War Pigs are good songs but a whole album is a bit much

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

New to me and not sure I would listen regularly but did enjoy

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

I wasn’t too keen when this popped up but actually, its pretty good…

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

1/5

Experimental prog rock…. Not for me, the last 5 minutes of the 24 minute part 2 are relatively interesting….

Hms Fable

Shack

3/5

New to me, some really interesting songs and overall a pretty enjoyable listen. No immediate stand out tracks but would listen again

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

3/5

This is nice and perfect working background music, was between a 2.5 to 3 for me

Dirt

Alice In Chains

1/5

Even though many of the tracks are 3 minutes, they feel like they go on forever… struggle to get thought this…

808 State

4/5

Glorious. 4.5

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

4/5

This was great, not usually a fan of jazzy hip hop but really enjoyed this

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

1/5

I wondered if the nostalgia value might increase the rating, but sadly no, it’s bad…

Whatever

Aimee Mann

2/5

Pretty inoffensive but never really got going for me. She was in the Big Lebowski though (and did the soundtrack for Magnolia) so that’s worth an extra star

Ananda Shankar

1/5

If I was a hippy in 1970 on acid then I imagine I would love the 13 minute ‘Sagar’ track…. But I’m not. The stones cover was quite good, the doors one less so…. 1.5

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

3/5

This is an album I listen to when in the car on my own…. My family hate it but I am drawn to it… Jersey Girl is great

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

There are definitely better Bowie albums but i love ‘Fame’

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

3/5

Really enjoyed this. 3.5

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

3/5

This started so well and I loved the live instruments…. But then got slower and more annoying…. Overall maybe averaged out…