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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Ambient 1/Music For Airports Brian Eno	5	3.08	+1.92
...And Justice For All Metallica	5	3.42	+1.58
Bringing It All Back Home Bob Dylan	5	3.64	+1.36
Heaux Tales Jazmine Sullivan	4	2.68	+1.32
Pearl Janis Joplin	5	3.72	+1.28
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake Small Faces	4	2.94	+1.06

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.69	-2.69
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	2	3.38	-1.38

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Heroes

David Bowie · 1 likes

3/5

Didn’t love it on the first listen. The Brian Eno of it all shone through on second listen, particularly in the second half, but still didn’t resonate as a full, coherent record. One to revisit.

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Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Pretty great. Dying was a good career move.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

2/5

Not as good as Wish. Songs of a Lost World from ‘24 absolutely slapped.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Lots of room to breathe in the tracks. Some challenging time signatures early on but mostly a fairly great, straightforward jazz record. Feels like a good gateway album for the genre. Will revisit.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Utterly brilliant. Witty, often surreal lyrics that feel like they’re occasionally going to break out of folk’n’roll into full-blown hip-hop. Does the history of the album and the ‘Judas’ moment make it more compelling? Probably, but ultimately it’s just glorious songwriting.

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

Didn’t love it on the first listen. The Brian Eno of it all shone through on second listen, particularly in the second half, but still didn’t resonate as a full, coherent record. One to revisit.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Solid storytelling pop. Only the Good Die Young earned it the fourth star.

High Violet

The National

4/5

Beautiful arrangements and instrumentation. Last 3 songs make for a stunning close. Requires quite specific surroundings to really appreciate it.

Ten

Pearl Jam

4/5

Not as grungy as I remember and more guitar shred. Kitchen mosh-worthy.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

It’s difficult to get over how annoying the personalities are, which is interesting, and what actually is a Wonderwall? But, the guitar shreds and many of the best tracks were not the singles/classics, which may just be over saturation rearing its head.

Whatever

Aimee Mann

2/5

Pretty boring. Might revisit as only gave it one listen through, but didn’t really grab me.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

Was very ready for a bit of psych but this didn’t hit as much as the first few tracks suggested it would. Picks up again after a baggy middle.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Very listenable, but it says a lot that I didn’t notice when it started playing other bands when the album finished. Background indie.

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

5/5

Utter bliss.

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

4/5

Superb vocals, lyrics and vibe, just a little samey at times.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Not a Stevie I knew but perfect kitchen boogy music.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

Glorious. Never listened to a Janis album in full and it was superb. Her voice is incredible. A fun, witty album to throw on any time of day.

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Some absolute classics, but the ballads are so boring that it throws the rhythm of the whole thing.

...And Justice For All

Metallica

5/5

Yes, yes, yes. ‘One’ still hits like a landmine and the whole album is like jet fuel for the day.

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

4/5

Delightful. Folk revival flavours, witty and strange, good psych tracks. Will listen again.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

The singles are good, particularly Scar Tissue and Otherside, but the rest is so annoying. It sounds like a band trying to sound like they’re jamming. I confess this may be PTSD from seeing them at Earl’s Court 15 years ago which was just such an awful, self-indulgent gig.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

4/5

Stonking good thrash again. The remaster album is too clean, though. But the bass comes out better than on Justice, which may also be about being pre- and post-Cliff Barton.