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Album	You	Global	Diff
Snivilisation Orbital	5	2.7	+2.3
Entertainment Gang Of Four	5	3.26	+1.74
At Newport 1960 Muddy Waters	5	3.54	+1.46
1999 Prince	5	3.59	+1.41
Catch A Fire Bob Marley & The Wailers	5	3.62	+1.38
Getz/Gilberto Stan Getz	5	3.66	+1.34
Innervisions Stevie Wonder	5	3.87	+1.13
Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul Otis Redding	5	3.92	+1.08
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Elton John	5	3.92	+1.08
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You Aretha Franklin	5	3.93	+1.07

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Urban Hymns The Verve	1	3.36	-2.36
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	1	3.34	-2.34
Figure 8 Elliott Smith	1	3.33	-2.33
Coles Corner Richard Hawley	1	3.03	-2.03
Rejoicing In The Hands Devendra Banhart	1	2.81	-1.81
Hms Fable Shack	1	2.76	-1.76
California American Music Club	1	2.69	-1.69
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	2	3.63	-1.63
The Gershwin Songbook Ella Fitzgerald	2	3.51	-1.51
Antichrist Superstar Marilyn Manson	1	2.45	-1.45

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I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

One of my favourites. My dad played this album excessively when I was a kid.

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

Fantastic album. I need more bossa nova in my life.

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Amazing album. 'Stop that Train' sent me into a Peter Tosh rabbit hole that went late into the night.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

A favourite. I spun it 3 times.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

5/5

Tight band, classic tunes, the energy of a live performance - amazing.

Snivilisation

Orbital

5/5

Amazing. I was unfamiliar with this album/artist. Pleasantly surprised. Added to my rotation.

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

5/5

An old favourite. Listening to this on a proper hifi system is a treat. Love

California

American Music Club

1/5

This isn’t it. Depressing, unpleasant musically - I’m not sure why this album is on such an esteemed list.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Easy listen. I'm not the biggest fan of Elvis' crooning, but there are some well known hits on this one.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Another favourite. Heavy rotation

Throwing Muses

4/5

This was totally new to me, and I enjoyed it way more than I thought i would. I spun it twice. It got better

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

1/5

I was a teenager in the 90s. I hated NIN then. 30 years later - I still hate NIN. This noise ruined my day.

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

3/5

Fun album. Not my favourite to come out of the WuTang camp, or even my favourite Ghostface album, but there are some great tracks here.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

Great album. Brought back many memories.

Parklife

Blur

2/5

I don't hate this album, but I don't particularly like it either. It doesn't offent me in any way, but I have absolutely no desire to hear a single track from this album ever again.

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

3/5

I liked the first half of this album more than I thought I would. The bluesy stuff was great. It's shame, but 'Highlands' killed it for me. Who wants to listen to Bob Dylan singing for 16.5 minutes about nothing? Nobody. When I got to minute 10, the words of my 16 year old daughter came to mind: 'Bro - this is low-key pissing me off'.

Viva Hate

Morrissey

2/5

Easy listen, but a bit boring a melodramatic for me.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Fun. Frenetic. Top notch musicians. I'm glad I was introduced to this album.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

So much fun. Definitely a 5/5. I’m glad I came back to this.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Sometimes a little bit corny, and the album is a bit long, but the music is just so FUNKY.

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

2/5

I had a hard time with this. Noisy and boring.

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

Two spins of this and I’m still not sure what I think. That usually means I’ll like it on the third

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

1/5

Hard pass.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Classic album, with some dull spots. Overall - a great listen.

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

4/5

After close to 30 hours of travel, and spending the day in the chaotic, filthy beauty of Saigon, this was exactly what I needed to calm my overstimulated brain.

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

3/5

This grew on me on the second spin. I don’t hate it.

Django Django

2/5

If you somehow plugged a Beach Boys cassette into a ColecoVision video game system, and then lightning struck - like in Weird Science - instead of Kelly LeBrock and a Ferrari Mondial, you’d get a lady that looks like Mrs Doubtfire and this album.

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

2/5

This was my first experience with this album, and likely my last. Jagged Little Pill-esque with boring musicianship and a MUCH less talented singer.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

2/5

Beautiful voice, but this was 3:15 of the same song

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

This was a fun one to revisit.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

1/5

Torturous. I will never spin this again. This sits right next to Trent Reznor’s nonsense on the burn pile.

Infected

The The

2/5

Not bad. But I could have done without it

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Funky. Always a fun listen.

2112

Rush

2/5

Sonically great - sounds amazing in the headphones - but I feel no connection to this.

1977

Ash

3/5

I enjoyed this. Pretty typical of the time period, but it was a good listen. I will probably spin it again.

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

2/5

Fun bar band music.

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

3/5

Fun, although it gets pretty repetitive sonically.

1999

Prince

5/5

I have always loved this album.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

1/5

I hate Bitter Sweet Symphony and it is the best track on this album. Bored to tears. I can see why the Drugs Don't Work.

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

3/5

Easy listen

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

I really enjoyed this.

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

2/5

A theater kid's fever dream. Too weird for me.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Lots of favourites here.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

2/5

Somewhat cool on the headphone rig, but there wasn't much that stood out for me here.

Solid Air

John Martyn

3/5

I had never heard of John Martyn before this. I dug this album. It is definitely going into the rotation.

World Clique

Deee-Lite

2/5

A few tracks bring back memories, but this is DEFINITELY not an essential album for me.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

Great album. Added to the library

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

1/5

Spun it twice. Nothing here for me.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

This one is a favourite. I can spin it on repeat.

In It For The Money

Supergrass

2/5

Not bad, but this is another album where nothing jumped out at me

Hms Fable

Shack

1/5

So boring

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

2/5

There was some nostalgia in this one for me, but listening to it almost 40 years later - I realize it just isn’t that good.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

2/5

There are a handful of listenable tracks on this. I will never understand the Kendrick Lamar obsession

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

Good album, but maybe not DB’s best

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

3/5

I like this. Short, angry, and sweet.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

Fun

Highly Evolved

The Vines

2/5

It’s fine - just nothing special

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

3/5

I enjoyed this intellectually, but I couldn’t connect with it for some reason.

Black Sabbath

4/5

Love.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

2/5

Cool for 5 minutes. Not for 1 hour

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

1/5

Terrible. Terrible. Terrible.

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

1/5

Another dud. I didn't enjoy this.