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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Arrival ABBA	5	3.52	+1.48
Wild Is The Wind Nina Simone	5	3.65	+1.35
Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman	5	3.79	+1.21
A Walk Across The Rooftops The Blue Nile	4	2.87	+1.13
Walking Wounded Everything But The Girl	4	2.97	+1.03

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Suede Suede	1	3.1	-2.1
Superunknown Soundgarden	2	3.65	-1.65
Jazz Samba Stan Getz	2	3.56	-1.56
Live At Leeds The Who	2	3.32	-1.32
Here, My Dear Marvin Gaye	2	3.21	-1.21
...The Dandy Warhols Come Down The Dandy Warhols	2	3.13	-1.13
Water From An Ancient Well Abdullah Ibrahim	2	3.03	-1.03

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Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane · 1 likes

4/5

It's got 2 fantastic singles on and the rest of the songs are also pretty good. Hehe

1-Star Albums (1)

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Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Well good I thought. Best songs are Visions, Living for the City and Higher Ground, but there wasn't a bad song on the thing! Good start

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

I've heard the singles off this album before. Lots of good stuff here, mayhaps a touch samey when played as an album. Best song of the new ones to me is Working on the Highway.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

2/5

Yawnnnn! Nice and short at least, but twas just 33 minutes of lift music.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

Always nice to hear Janis Jopping, but I think a lot of this album is missing the intensity I like from her. There's some obvious highlights (Turtle Blues is very good and I hadn't heard it before) but yeah not sure about her with the band

Arrival

ABBA

5/5

I love all of these songs more than my own children. Truly firing on all cylinders. Going from When I Kissed the Teacher to Dancing Queen is a stroke of pure genius. Absolutely love it x

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Some good songs I know and one or two that are new to me that I liked. Generally samey, and the cover of Spanish Harlem going "lala lala" throughout annoyed me. Generally good tho

Funeral

Arcade Fire

3/5

Second half of this album is better than the first. Enjoy the "Wake up" song from the Tommy Lee Royce nice gay play, and the final song from the blizzard first half. Can't always tell what he's saying and it's not the music I love, but good array of instruments and styles to keep me engaged.

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

2/5

All rather samey, no real bangerz and it's all a bit "why won't me bird kiss me". We need something exciting at least once I think x

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

2/5

Well, 9/10 of these songs was just silly indie music that should be in the background of some teen film or Gavin and Stacey. Nice guitars I guess. However the song called "Don't" was fab, just screaming over and over again. Not enough to raise it into a pass I'm afraid x

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

Second Arcade Fire album already! Prefer this one to the first, great first 5 songs (best is Intervention, like a good organ) but it drops off a bit at Ocean of Noise. Not as good after that U C, that song was much too obvious. Still solid though

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

3/5

She's got a lovely wee voice and it's all very easy to listen to. Would be nice to have on with a car ride with ar Stephanie. But at 75 mins it does go on a wee bit, would maybe rate higher if it was 45 mins. Overall solid tho

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

2/5

Nice background music, but that's all it is for me. Where's the drama x

Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

Got this album this morning and went "ugh". I finished all 72 minutes of it and thought "not half bad". Some highlights (Pictures of You), but it's not really my musical style. Regardless, tis good, better than their poppy singles.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

His best song is "Just give a kidney, to a father or a dad", and that wasn't on this album for some reason. Really disliked the singing on this in the morning but the backing band is great! Some great wee tunes, but lacklustre writing and ok singing performance. Overall good

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

4/5

Ooooo one I really like! Not familiar with their electronic stuff much before today, but I was having a right groovy old time here. Love the juxtaposition of electronic music and Tracey Thorn's voice, creates a chill but still boppy vibe.

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

I appreciated this album for it's wide use of instruments and varying wee songs. I enjoyed my time and think it's rather good, but I'm not gonna listen to it again. A change is as good as a rest though, far better than the usual boring men x

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

Groovy baby! Coulda done with 1 or 2 more bangers, coz nothing else compares with the first song

Suede

1/5

Fucking BORINGGG every song is the sameeeee shut up

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Oh Tracy Luv.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

First time listening to a PJ Harvey album. Love this gal, but I'm reluctant to give this a 5 because I think she's gonna have freakier stuff. Some fantastic songs on here, good horse content.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

2/5

Nice Simpsons song, mid rest of it yaknow. Bring the drama divas x

Peter Gabriel

3/5

The only Peter Gabriel solo album here not to feature Kate, smh. This album is best when it leans into prog and operatic vibes, and less so when in the middle songs where it feels a tad dull. All albums should have a song called Moribund the Burgermeister though.

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

2/5

She took the kids 💔 literally get a grip. Build a bridge and get over it you know what I mean x Each and every one of these songs sounds the same as all of the others. Far too long. Give us some bops diva

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

Nina Simone is pure perfection, you feel every word she sings, and her piano playing is next to none. Truly one of the best performers of all time. She is woefully underrepresented in this list. I think she has better albums than this, but I just die for Nina singing any song really. Beautiful piece of music

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

2/5

Was expecting some rhythm and blues, got some reet dull 90s rock. Ew. Not the one for me. Looked them up on Wikipedia and became more annoyed lol. Does not deserve to be on the list.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

2/5

God I miss the days of vinyl records. The invention of CDs was truly terrible, because it means that albums don't have to stop at the 45 minute mark. This woulda done so much better if it was condensed. It's got some nice tunes. Almost passes.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Went in with low expectations and found myself rather nicely surprised. Funny! Nicely paced lyrics so you could anticipate the rhyme, and was caught off guard by some genuinely fabulous lines. Fun!!

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My Bloody Valentine

2/5

If you're gonna make indecipherable music at least try and make it sound nice. I just put it on in the background. Where is the love x

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

2/5

They forgot to put the banger from Flushed Away on this album. For shame. Also if they chopped this album at 45 mins maybe I would have passed it. The final 20 mins were a true slog.

Lost Souls

Doves

3/5

I had a nice walk around the reservoir whilst listening to this album which probably helped, but it did have nice tunes and wasn't drowned out by electric guitar. Probably a smidge too long but not awfully long. Wilmslow represent.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

It's got 2 fantastic singles on and the rest of the songs are also pretty good. Hehe

American Pie

Don McLean

4/5

2 of the best songs in this album. Discovered some other good ones here. Some of them felt a wee bit like repeats but yaknow the good outweighs the bad by a long shot.

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

Hmmmm I don't think so babes! Just guitars and drums and waiting for things to happen.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Nice to see Cameron Diaz in the album list. Nice easy listening with the best song saved til the end. Not too long. Can't see myself listening again.

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

4/5

Never heard of it before but really enjoyed this one! Great vibes and songs were all a good length (they suit the slower vibe of some of the music without droning on too long). He's got a lovely voice. Almost gave it a 5. Second listen confirms it as a 4