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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Planet Rock: The Album Afrika Bambaataa	5	2.79	+2.21
Back At The Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith	5	3.38	+1.62
Moon Safari Air	5	3.57	+1.43
In The Court Of The Crimson King King Crimson	5	3.6	+1.4
Beggars Banquet The Rolling Stones	5	3.61	+1.39
Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club	5	3.67	+1.33
Talking Book Stevie Wonder	5	3.71	+1.29
A Hard Day's Night Beatles	5	3.89	+1.11
Pelican West Haircut 100	4	2.97	+1.03
The Who Sell Out The Who	4	2.99	+1.01

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Is This It The Strokes	2	3.81	-1.81
Ys Joanna Newsom	1	2.8	-1.8
Dire Straits Dire Straits	2	3.72	-1.72
Crooked Rain Crooked Rain Pavement	2	3.25	-1.25

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	2	5

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The Score

Fugees

4/5

Despite its ubiquity in my youth, I'm not sure I've ever properly listened to this end to end. How wonderfully referential and beautifully stripped back.

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

What a joy. I should have known it was more like Low than the title song suggests.

Is This It

The Strokes

2/5

Listened to it. I've rarely been prouder of my teenage self, who rightly concluded that this is a essentially a boring pastiche of late 70s New York Punk. There's nothing wrong with the songs and Last Nite is a good enough pop song.

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

Em, I think that might have been great... It's harder work than I need first thing in the morning.

The Clash

4/5

It's obviously amazing, but saving my 5th star because this isn't London Calling

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

It's been a long time, but it is really a work of genius.

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

3/5

I have neither the words not the experience to really know if this is any good. It sounds like a lot of other country from the time to me. I love 'If you want to be my woman' though. Banger.

Boston

3/5

I had always read about Queen liking Boston. Apart from that one song, I had never listened to Boston. Boston sounds like a lost early 70s Queen album.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

3/5

I was ready to give this 5 stars but it's nothing like I remember. The highs are up there, but a lot felt like filler. This makes me so sad.

Moon Safari

Air

5/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

I have never knowingly listened to a full Neil young album before. That was joyous.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

a surprise. A beautiful surprise

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Yes, yes, yes. why haven't I listened to this before?

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

A real joy. Maybe it's because I've been watching The Beatles Anthology, but it's so clear how much they were influencing each other.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

Yup, That is a jolly good album

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

3/5

I have listened to this multiple times now, but every time I find it hard to focus. I feel like this may be a feature, not a bug. It's kind of lovely.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

4/5

Pelican West

Haircut 100

4/5

This was a lot of fun

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

Queen II

Queen

4/5

I always forget how weird queen albums are.

Joanna Newsom

1/5

Almost unlistenable. Had to turn it off.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Respect!

Dire Straits

2/5

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Liquid Swords

GZA

4/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

5/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

5/5

Absolute banger. Love hearing genres being invented in real time!

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

5/5

It is still just an absolute pleasure.

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

Still as wonderful as when I first heard it.

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

It's weird being nostalgic for an album that I didn't really like at the time, but this feels like a soundtrack to such a big part of my life and I really didn't mind it at all.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

I had real high hopes going in but this just wasn't quite there for me. Had it's moments but less than the sum of it's parts.

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

2/5

I had to stop listening. I really want to like it, and can see why it would have been great at the time. But not for me.

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

That was a lot of fun - far less synth based than I'd presumed. Making me nostalgic for the early 2000s when Donnie Darko was definitely my jam.

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

I mean it's probably my 4th or 5th favourite Beatles Album and I find it a bit patchy compared to some others. It is still one of the best things ever recorded.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

They might almost all just by "I love you" songs but my god they are good ones.

Close To You

Carpenters

4/5

This is a really lovely album. They have suffered a lot over the years with a stigma of being MOR but this is beautiful.

Da Capo

Love

2/5

I really found this quite unlikable. Can see what they were doing, but nope: not for me.

1999

Prince

3/5

Em, I feel awful, nothing wrong with it but hard to describe as better than fine

The Who Sell Out

The Who

4/5

This was really fun.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

Really funntongonback to this. +1 for inclusion of a Spanish Harlem cover.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

So I always thought that I don't like Arcade Fire. Turns out I was wrong, this album is entirely my jam.

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

2/5

A fine little album but I found it impossible to really focus on it.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

3/5

that was lovely

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

4/5

this album was not what I expected. Some absolutely joyous tunes

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

For quite a while I was going to say this was transcendent. I was going to forgive Without You as being a song that has suffered from over playing and parody. But what is Coconut all about?

Aja

Steely Dan

3/5

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

lovely stuff