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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bone Machine Tom Waits	5	2.85	+2.15
Bossanova Pixies	5	3.37	+1.63
Punishing Kiss Ute Lemper	4	2.4	+1.6
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	5	3.4	+1.6
Aqualung Jethro Tull	5	3.43	+1.57
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	5	3.48	+1.52
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	5	3.57	+1.43
Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room Dwight Yoakam	4	2.6	+1.4
Fear and Whiskey Mekons	4	2.6	+1.4
Don't Stand Me Down Dexys Midnight Runners	4	2.61	+1.39

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Graceland Paul Simon	1	3.72	-2.72
Play Moby	1	3.45	-2.45
Achtung Baby U2	1	3.3	-2.3
Destroyer KISS	1	2.85	-1.85
Off The Wall Michael Jackson	2	3.8	-1.8
Bitte Orca Dirty Projectors	1	2.7	-1.7
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen	2	3.63	-1.63
Ill Communication Beastie Boys	2	3.63	-1.63
Oracular Spectacular MGMT	2	3.62	-1.62
Green R.E.M.	2	3.47	-1.47

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Artist	Albums	Average
Pink Floyd	2	5

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Paul Simon	1, 4

5-Star Albums (18)

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Picture Book

Simply Red · 1 likes

2/5

It was listenable I suppose

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper · 1 likes

4/5

Hell yeah Weimar cabaret

1-Star Albums (5)

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Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Would have been improved by surprise hip-hop collaborators

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

That was actually some pretty good country! Never tops the opening track though

Green

R.E.M.

2/5

Jangly guitars, reverb, and nasal singing are a combo that I don't particularly enjoy to be honest. I found myself enjoying the ballads a lot more just because the rest of the band calmed down a bit for them. I Remember California is an unexpected highlight, I love that kind of sinister shit. Orange Crush still a banger too. I think R.E.M are one of those bands where I'm happy to stick to the singles.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

It is the 90s and I am wearing flannel. People are arguing about what is ironic on dial up internet. The Simpsons is still good. It is a simpler time and I am happy. (In real life I am five years old at this point and the 90s also sucked shut up a girl can dream)

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

Somehow never got round to trying LCDS before. Not a huge fan of the dance rock style generally, but I can see they're good at it. Most of the songs should have been half as long to be honest, and the piano on All My Friends actively gave me a headache. North American Scum was my top track, I think. Overall a fine enough album, but I won't be putting it on again.

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

4/5

Harmonica goes brrrr

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

3/5

It is honestly wild to me that something this atonal and experimental was from '68

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

Perfectly pleasant jazz folk that I will never listen to again

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

What a fucking perfect album

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

3/5

Very good at what it does, but what it does isn't for me

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

3/5

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

3/5

Surprisingly varied and fun, but too long. Cut the weakest third and you'd have a real solid album.

Mask

Bauhaus

4/5

Now this is the good shit. Varied, weird, enjoyed every track. Can hear the influence on several artists I enjoy now. Weird cover though!

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

4/5

A one trick album, but damn it's a good trick

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

Never quite reaches the highs of Personal Jesus again, but a fun time nonetheless

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

4/5

Never heard of this band before, but some damn good punk!

Me Against The World

2Pac

3/5

I am so not the audience for this one but I can absolutely see the talent there. My main issue with this style of rap is that the backing tracks are rarely interesting. Will probably have another listen at some point.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Ol' two eyes himself!

Superunknown

Soundgarden

5/5

SPOOOOONMAAAAAAN

Picture Book

Simply Red

2/5

It was listenable I suppose

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

2/5

Oooooooooo

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Can't give Hendrix any less than a five

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

4/5

Not heard of this lot, but actually really fun listen!

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Need to give this another listen with more focus but yep, turns out Kendrick is good at this!

Dummy

Portishead

3/5

Better than I thought it would be, the vocals get grating after awhile for me though

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

2/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

4/5

Jazzzzzz

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

4/5

What a weird experience. Loved it, definitely gonna listen again.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

This is the album that got me into the White Stripes and it holds up!

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

3/5

Never actually listened to Pavement before, not bad, can see the influence on a bunch of stuff I like.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Genuinely surprised me just how much iconic Christmas music is crammed onto this!

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

1984

Van Halen

3/5

Would be 2 stars if not for Hot For Teacher

Play

Moby

1/5

Dean Pelton has really let himself go

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

First half is entirely bangers sorry!

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

4/5

Hell yeah Weimar cabaret

Wild Gift

3/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

4/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

2/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Dare!

The Human League

2/5

The 80s were a mistake.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

2/5

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

3/5

Perfectly pleasant, but nothing really stood out to me

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

4/5

Achtung Baby

1/5

To misquote Stewart Lee: An album so blandly anonymous that it sounds like the burial music for a king of an ancient civilization which valued above all bland anonymity.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

Bass goes dum da dum dum

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

4/5

Magick alone is worth a star

L.A. Woman

The Doors

5/5

God what a fuckin revelation this must have been in '71

The xx

3/5

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

4/5

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

Little meandering in the middle but really doesn't diminish this amazing album.

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

4/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

3/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

Listened to it three times in a row yesterday, it's just that good

I See You

The xx

3/5

Better than the debut at least!

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

3/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

5/5

Man if only he hadn't lost his mind after this one

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

I am not the target audience here but the beats were good and Snoop can definitely rap

Country Life

Roxy Music

2/5

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

4/5

Fever Ray

2/5

The Stone Roses

3/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

3/5

Pretty peak 80s cheese

Iron Maiden

2/5

I'm not really into Iron Maiden and this isn't even good Iron Maiden

Is This It

The Strokes

3/5

The United States Of America

3/5

This is actually a jam! Probably wouldn't put it on again but fun to listen to

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

3/5

I can hear the talent here but I am too trashy to fully appreciate it

Smash

The Offspring

2/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

2/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

Pretty standard 60s psychedelic pop with an absolute all timer of a final track

Street Signs

Ozomatli

4/5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

1/5

So Much For The City

The Thrills

2/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

2/5

1989

Taylor Swift

3/5

Destroyer

KISS

1/5

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

5/5

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

2/5

Manson is a piece of shit and this isn't even one of his better albums. One extra star because Beautiful People is still great

Rapture

Anita Baker

3/5

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Never properly listened to Prince before and I have clearly been missing out

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

So that's how you make a Hammond organ not shit!

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Black Monk Time

The Monks

4/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Oh damn, this is immediately entering the rotation

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

3/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

4/5

I was thinking 'this sounds like Dinosaur Jr' and then looked it up and WHAT DO YOU KNOW. Also you can tell Modest Mouse came up around this time too. Good thing I like both of those bands!

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

2/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

The Score

Fugees

3/5

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

3/5

Imagine

John Lennon

2/5

It's just not very good is it?

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

2/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

5/5

I fully acknowledge that Waits is a marmite artist but I love marmite!

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

Shadowland

k.d. lang

2/5

There is such a thing as too much slide guitar

Metallica

3/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

1/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

Eternally Yours

The Saints

3/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

3/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

4/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

No Other

Gene Clark

4/5

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

4/5

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Ctrl

SZA

2/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Soul Mining

The The

4/5

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

The Who Sell Out

The Who

3/5

I appreciate what they were going for but it just wasn't that fun to listen to

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

Harvest

Neil Young

3/5

Joan Baez

3/5

Low-Life

New Order

4/5

Different Class

Pulp

3/5

The Band

3/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

4/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

Illmatic

Nas

3/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

4/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

2/5

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

4/5

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

4/5

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

I enjoy arty atonal shit but an hour of very similar sounding arty atonal shit is a bit much

B-52's

The B-52's

4/5

Generally a three star album but Rock Lobster adds a star on its own

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

This slaps actually

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

2/5

Christina! The album's too long Christina!

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Isn't this where we came in?

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

Night Life

Ray Price

3/5

Perfectly pleasant, if bland, country!

Debut

Björk

4/5

From her rep I was expecting much weirder. Loved it!

Paul Simon

4/5

Bossanova

Pixies

5/5

Possibly my favourite Pixies album

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

2/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

2/5

1999

Prince

3/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

So this is why prog has the reputation it does

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

The contrarian in me wants to claim this is better than Nevermind. It's not, but it's still damn good.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

2/5

Apart from Sabotage this very much blended together for me

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

3/5

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

So good I listened to it four times in a row

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Some good ol' southern rock

School's Out

Alice Cooper

2/5

Garbage

3/5

Street Life

The Crusaders

3/5

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

3/5

Smile

Brian Wilson

3/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

2/5

Foo Fighters

3/5

Repeater

Fugazi

3/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

4/5

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

2/5