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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Mask Bauhaus	5	2.85	+2.15
Ingenue k.d. lang	5	2.95	+2.05
Killing Joke Killing Joke	5	2.99	+2.01
Hail To the Thief Radiohead	5	3.45	+1.55
Surrealistic Pillow Jefferson Airplane	5	3.51	+1.49
Aladdin Sane David Bowie	5	3.6	+1.4
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar	5	3.64	+1.36
Transformer Lou Reed	5	3.66	+1.34
Band On The Run Paul McCartney and Wings	5	3.67	+1.33
Djam Leelii Baaba Maal	4	2.79	+1.21

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Dig Your Own Hole The Chemical Brothers	2	3.11	-1.11

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Artist	Albums	Average
David Bowie	3	4.67

5-Star Albums (13)

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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

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Young Americans

David Bowie · 1 likes

4/5

4.5 Didn't quite enjoy it as much as the first two Bowie albums I got but it's still really good

4-Star Albums (30)

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

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Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Would be a 5 if most songs weren't covers i think

Fragile

Yes

4/5

4 Rest of the album doesn't quite live up to Roundabout but it is one of the best songs ever written to be fair. Still a solid album though

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

4/5

4 A bit inconsistent but the highs are high and the lows not that low

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

4.5 My least favourite of their first 6 albums but still great

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

3.5 Could do with being a bit shorter

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

5 Amazing from start to finish

Van Halen

3/5

3.5 Eddie van halen is really talented but at points it seemed he put showing off over the actual music :/ really enjoyed some of these songs though

Killing Joke

5/5

5 Loved this and never would of heard of these guys otherwise. Requiem is a sick opener and the rest of the album lives up to it

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

2/5

2.5 Really not my thing, can recognise its good though but I wouldn't want to listen again

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

5 Feel like I've been resisting listening to Bowie for so long because he couldn't possibly live up to the hype. He does though

The Poet

Bobby Womack

3/5

3 A nice listen, nothing special though and feels quite dated

More Specials

The Specials

3/5

3.5 Opening/closing song a bit weak imo, enjoyed most of the rest though

Back In Black

AC/DC

3/5

3.5 Some bangers but quite overrated as a whole I feel :/

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

5 Incredible. Been a long time since I listened the whole way through and forgot how it all connects so well with the story throughout

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

4/5

4 Bongo bongo

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

3/5

3.5 Australian smiths? Some really nice songs, but ultimately nothing super special

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

4 Refreshingly unserious, you can see how crazy influential these guys were

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

4/5

4.5 Guitar is entrancing at times. Not understanding the vocals allowed me to focus on the music more in a way I feel

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

2/5

2.5 Really frustrating in that everytime it seemed to be building to something good it just faded out instead. At certain points there also seemed to be one annoying instrument/sound ruining otherwise pleasant music

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

4 Really cool hearing the crowdwork between the songs

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

5/5

5 Like this even better than ziggy stardust I think

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

4/5

4.5 Liked this more than I was expecting

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

3/5

3 Can't believe they went with that holocaust line

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

3.5 She has a great voice, enjoyed the adlibbing on the last track

En-Tact

The Shamen

2/5

2 Inoffensive, boring though

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

3 Was kind of expecting him to have a stronger voice

Slayed?

Slade

4/5

4 Can see why these guys were so big in the 70. Can also kinda see why they haven't had the same long term popularity as other bands from that era tbh. Overall thought it was great though, really fun rock album

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

4.5 you're all wrong tbh, the flute is sick

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

3/5

3.5 Pleasant enough but no idea why this is on the list. Is she mates with the author maybe? Upped a star on second listen to be fair

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

3/5

3.5 Nice chill album

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

4.5 Man has a genius for spouting absolute nonsense but convincing you it must somehow be profound

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

2/5

2 Feel like he's just making the stuff he nicked from other artists worse

Da Capo

Love

2/5

2.5 First 6 songs were alright but usually there was that something holding them back from being really good, maybe the vocals/lyrics? The last song was just ridiculously overindulgent, thought it was starting to drag on by minute 4 and then it lasted 15 more

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

3/5

3 'Morrissey Sings His Reddit Post History'

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

4 Enjoyed this a lot more than the other electronica albums I've heard. Could still do with trimming down a bit tbh, cut out a few songs.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

5/5

5 This was great. Bluebird, let me roll it, nineteen hundred and eighty five... wouldn't be at all out of place on any Beatles album quality-wise Third listen and I'm upping it to a 5

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

2/5

2.5 Actually enjoyed this whenever there was no vocals, but his voice was so grating

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

5/5

5 Loved this, new a couple of the songs but was really surprised how strong it was throughout

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

4/5

4 Interesting voice haha, I preferred the more upbeat songs to the slower ballads but still pretty solid throughout

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

2/5

2.5 Enjoy stuff like this far more when the vocalists aren't trying to sound 'scary'

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

4/5

4 Pretty cool for the most part. Could have done with that one song where he's trying to defend his right to beat his wife and hate the gays

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

5 Absolutely perfect album

Sister

Sonic Youth

4/5

4 Wasn't huge on the sonic youth songs I'd heard before but this was a pleasant suprise

Sheet Music

10cc

4/5

4.5 Disagree so much with some of the top reviews here. This was really good, sounds so ahead of its time and some really fun lyrics

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

3.5 Acdc album is acdc album

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

4/5

4 After the first song I was dreading the rest but after that I actually really enjoyed it. The guy is a really good songwriter and sounding a bit like thom Yorke isn't exactly a bad thing

Let It Be

The Replacements

4/5

4 Nice album, wasn't expecting a love song about a trans couple on an 80s punk album

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

4.5 Really good, and I'm not usually huge on purely instrumental stuff

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

4 Enjoyed this, she has a really nice voice

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

4.5 First if heard of Costello and tbh his voice is not what I was expecting from a man who kind of looks like woody Allen. Admittedly wasn't huge on the first track but it really got better after that

Black Monk Time

The Monks

3/5

3 The only two ways I could find to listen to this album were a YouTube playlist complete with ads for online casinos and cat food, or an Internet archive recording intercut with commentary in Spanish. I wasn't sure which of these was closest to how the band originally intended.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

4.5 The two longer songs do drag a bit but the shorter ones are all great. Is quite funny that these guys are from california and weren't born anywhere near the bayou

Mask

Bauhaus

5/5

5 On first listen I honestly thought this was a bit rubbish but then putting it on again I dont know what I was thinking, its great

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

3/5

3 Can definitely see how influential it's been but really hasn't stood the test of time the way a lot of other 60s stuff has imo

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

5/5

5 Has never been my favorite of theirs but on this listen it really clicked

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

4 Not quite as good as some of their later stuff but most of the songs are still pretty good and it does have psycho killer

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

3/5

3.5 A lot of the songs start off really well but do kind of dissolve into being a bit samey

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

3/5

3.5 I reckon there's a much better 40ish minute album here but some of the songs either just didn't really work for me or were a bit boring

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

5 Their best album imo, can't you hear me knocking might be their best song too

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

3/5

3.5 Another one where I really liked large parts of the album but was dragged down by several weaker/uninteresting songs (usually the ones where the fake accent was more pronounced)

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

3/5

3.5 De la soul with better rapping but also less interesting production

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

4.5 Didn't quite enjoy it as much as the first two Bowie albums I got but it's still really good

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

L.A. Woman