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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Chronic Dr. Dre	5	3.31	+1.69
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) The Kinks	5	3.38	+1.62
Scott 2 Scott Walker	4	2.63	+1.37
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins	5	3.68	+1.32
Dire Straits Dire Straits	5	3.72	+1.28
Doolittle Pixies	5	3.74	+1.26
London Calling The Clash	5	3.96	+1.04

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Ambient 1/Music For Airports Brian Eno	1	3.08	-2.08
World Clique Deee-Lite	1	2.87	-1.87
Is This It The Strokes	2	3.81	-1.81
The Beach Boys Today! The Beach Boys	2	3.26	-1.26
Rhythm Nation 1814 Janet Jackson	2	3	-1
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road Lucinda Williams	2	3	-1

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

1-Star Albums (2)

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Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

Absolutely class album. Hesitating to give 5 stars for the irrational reason of rating the first of 1001 albums. But love the Doors

Is This It

The Strokes

2/5

Not bad, not good either. It’s just not so interesting and doesn’t captivate or tell a story.

Dire Straits

5/5

Everything on this album just clicks. Hard to give a rating lower than 5 for any album with such guitar play of Knopfler. Absolute no skip and also an album that you can listen to everyday, while doing anything. Cooking, drinking, sports, reading, that’s rare.

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

No questions asked. Hands down best and most creative punk album ever made. Might feature in best albums ever, at least it is mine. For how inkovative and alternative this album is, absolute no concessions were made on quality.

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

FTL: This album is like being spawned in a tropical rainforest, not knowing where the fuck you are. Surrounded by exotic bird sounds and trees breathing lively, a talking bonobo shows you the way. Really hearing influences of Miles Davis throughout the record but combined with the synths, flute and sly influences, this really is an amazing record.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

FTL: Very interesting album. Quite like nothing I’ve heard specifically. Intensifying melodies followed by very soft an distant ones. Some eerie sounds in there. Has some features of the Doors. Also heard some Pixies elements in there but guess that would be the other way around, timeline wise. Was even more intrigued after googling the band afterwards and noticing the glam and goth style with Bowie influences. Album doesn’t get more than 3 stars tho, but that’s because we have to keep in mind all other great albums still coming.

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

2/5

FTL: Yeah… not my taste. But not horrible music, good voice.

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

3/5

Funky, cool

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

4/5

Absolutely class album. All over the place in terms of genres, influences and rhythm. But it works. Can see why someone would borrow from Spirit :)

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

1984

Van Halen

3/5

Love van Halen, mediocre album

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

The influence of this man is beyond comprehension. Amazing album, the live album even works for him. Starting to doubt the transitivity of my scores by now, but let’s make it a 4/5.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Amazing album

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

Very enjoyable but to me doesn’t resonate on a deeper level than that.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

4/5

One of my all time favourite artists. Minor issue with the album is consistency of energy. Some of the songs are just ever present in my playlist and are pure fuel. But the album just doesn’t make a perfect no skip, so four stars.

World Clique

Deee-Lite

1/5

FTL: I might just not understand this record. Would I die listening to this again… no. But wouldn’t do it voluntarily either.

NEU! 75

Neu!

3/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Hard to argue otherwise

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

3/5

Liked it very much. Interesting record.

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Old Whiny, Kermit voiced Neil Young. Love it, sucker for Neil young and this album is like being dropped on the plains, with a guitar and a bottle of whisky.

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

4/5

Yeas

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

The Kinks

5/5

I love this album. Amazingly crafted social critique from within.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

Always soothes me in the right way. Brothers in arms, the track, might be one of the most beautiful songs of Dire Straits. It punishes you at the end of the album for coming up wat a score less than 5. Made me almost change.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

5/5

What can I say… no possible alternatives than 5 stars for the clinically sane amongst us

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Supertramp is one of those bands, love their music, whack name, albums I find mwah. Some individual songs will capture me from start to end. And starting with Davies on that keyboard in the first song I think this is it! But then it doesn’t keep my attention entirely throughout the album. It’s a great album to have playing in the background when with friends.

2112

Rush

3/5

FTL: Were the first song the album. 5 stars

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

2/5

Just hasn’t aged well

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

3/5

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Biased maybe, but one of my top 5

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

1/5

FTL: Well… that was fucking boring. Took me an eternity to get through. Checks every box for music to focus to, so will definitely recycle it for that. But imo for pure listening purposes, ondraaglijk. Good album title however so 1 star for that.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

Foundational fatty domino, not a 5 to me but that’s really just taste

Feast of Wire

Calexico

3/5

Country, folklore, in een modern poppy jasje met best interessant, out of the box, instrument gebruik. Soms bijna soort filmmuziek. Leuk gedaan. Attack el robot attack is heel vet.

Scott 2

Scott Walker

4/5

Die vent heeft zo’n ille range. Echt geniaal, teksten, compositie, stem, alles klopt. Toch, noem me uncultured, ik kan dit niet ff onderweg in de metro luisteren. Hoop dat ik binnenkort die sereniteit vind, voor nu zijn probleem, 1 sterretje minder.

Black Metal

Venom

2/5

Dit heb ik altijd met Venom. Het mist gewoon muzikaliteit en vooral (muzikale) creativiteit. Echt niet te vergelijken met de rest van NWOBHM. Kortom, gebrek aan joie de vivre. Dit album is daar een pracht voorbeeld van, whack. Desondanks, wel echt veel invloed gehad op hardere metal stromingen dus dat moet ik ze meegeven. Bursting out 12” is goed.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Ja ja ja

Moby Grape

3/5

FTL: Prima lekker blues album, werkt doordat nummers kort zijn; houdt verder niet echt je aandacht vast. Achtergrond kroeg’ish. Indifference (mono) en sweet ride zijn wel dik. Net geen drie sterren.

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

2/5

Ja oke’ish, bietje saai