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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Honky Tonk Heroes Waylon Jennings	5	3.14	+1.86
Virgin Suicides Air	5	3.23	+1.77
Nilsson Schmilsson Harry Nilsson	5	3.43	+1.57
Disraeli Gears Cream	5	3.46	+1.54
Oracular Spectacular MGMT	5	3.62	+1.38
Out Of The Blue Electric Light Orchestra	5	3.63	+1.37
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	5	3.65	+1.35
Band On The Run Paul McCartney and Wings	5	3.67	+1.33
Metallica Metallica	5	3.77	+1.23
A Short Album About Love The Divine Comedy	4	2.77	+1.23

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Planet Rock: The Album Afrika Bambaataa	1	2.79	-1.79
Heaux Tales Jazmine Sullivan	1	2.67	-1.67
Sex Packets Digital Underground	1	2.66	-1.66
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar	2	3.64	-1.64
In A Silent Way Miles Davis	2	3.61	-1.61
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	2	3.36	-1.36
Pretenders Pretenders	2	3.35	-1.35
The World is a Ghetto War	2	3.35	-1.35
Blur Blur	2	3.33	-1.33
Pornography The Cure	2	3.32	-1.32

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Beatles	3	5

5-Star Albums (17)

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American Idiot

Green Day · 1 likes

5/5

Still don't love the nasally twang, but the album lived up to the memory. Excellent album.

Virgin Suicides

Air · 1 likes

5/5

I really liked this. Like late night Lo-Fi vibes.

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead · 1 likes

3/5

This is difficult to rate because there is clearly good music in here, but it's effectively like a sketch book. It's long and ambling and you could be forgiven for not noticing when one song ends and another begins. If this was background music in a bar or something, it would probably be great. It was a little grating to sit down to and listen because of its nature. I flipped a coin between 2 and 3 and it landed on a 3. So there you go.

1-Star Albums (3)

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Low-Life

New Order

3/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

5/5

Pretenders

2/5

Blur

2/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

3/5

The La's

3/5

Elvis Presley

4/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

2/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

1/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

1/5

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

3/5

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

3/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

3/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Black Metal

Venom

2/5

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

4/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5

The Slider

T. Rex

4/5

Ingenue

k.d. lang

3/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

2/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Third

Soft Machine

2/5

The Stone Roses

5/5

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

The Predator

Ice Cube

4/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

1/5

evermore

Taylor Swift

3/5

Pleasant sounding and a nice vibe, but I never found any song particularly interesting or catchy.

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

2/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

2/5

The Libertines

4/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

4/5

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

2/5

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

3/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

2/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

5/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

2/5

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

5/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

What an album.

Pornography

The Cure

2/5

It's not terrible, but none of the songs made much of an impression on me.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

I just as easily got into the less famous songs from this album!

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

My favourite Beatles album? No. But easily worth of 5 stars compared to most of the albums on the list.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

3/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

2/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

2/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Rapture

Anita Baker

2/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

2/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

3/5

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

3/5

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

4/5

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

3/5

More Specials

The Specials

3/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

3/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Caetano Veloso

3/5

Ray Of Light

Madonna

2/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

Easy enough listening. It would probably kick ass if I was in a giant leather chair several whiskies deep with a cigar in hand.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

Better than I remembered.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Never been overly enamoured by Bob Marley's music when coming across his most popular tunes, but I have to say this album won me over.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

5/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Achtung Baby

4/5

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

2/5

This might be a harsh rating, as it wasn't bad-bad, but it really didn't catch me at any time.

Live Through This

Hole

2/5

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

3/5

Refreshingly different from some of the other albums on the list. Varied at the expense of cohesiveness. Atmospheric but not necessarily melodic.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Couldn't decide on 3 or 4, so a harsh 3.

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

3/5

A harsh 3. If the album was cut down it could probably be a 4 for me.

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Splendid. The hour and a half flies by.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

5/5

An album of bangers!

Smile

Brian Wilson

4/5

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

2/5

Uninspiring and forgettable. Not a 1 because it wasn't offensive to listen to.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

3/5

Lots of brights spots on this album, but plenty of imperfections -- too long, lots of frustrating talking in between tracks, and lots of songs I'd probably skip in the future. One of those albums that I'd maybe change my tune on for the positive in the future though.

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

3/5

Metallica

5/5

Have never been particularly enthralled by Metallica in the past, but I really did enjoy this album. I flipped a coin between 4 and 5, and it got lucky.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

Tracy Chapman

3/5

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

I liked this, but there were no standout songs for me that would bring me back, so I really struggled on what to rate it. I flipped a coin on whether it would be a 3 or a 4, and it got lucky: 4.

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

4/5

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

Still don't love the nasally twang, but the album lived up to the memory. Excellent album.

Feast of Wire

Calexico

4/5

This is exactly the sort of album I was hoping to discover when I started doing this. Is it 5/5? I don't think so, but I am glad I did listen to it.

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

3/5

Van Halen

3/5

I feel like this was very hard to rate. I fluctuated between 2 and 4 as I was listening to it! Maybe it's an album I need to be in the mood for. Sometimes it feels like it's just a hollow demo of how technically proficient the music is without any of the effort in the actualy songwriting, and other times I am jamming along. I guess 3? One I would like to re-assess in the future.

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

4/5

Very enjoyable. I considered a 5.

Virgin Suicides

Air

5/5

I really liked this. Like late night Lo-Fi vibes.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

3/5

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

2/5

I have liked other Brian Eno work, but I guess I wasn't feeling this album?

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

3/5

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

3/5

Goo

Sonic Youth

3/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

This is just offensively long. I'm not saying the album is bad, but it is hard not have the length count against it when I'm not a pre-existing fan of this band.

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Good listening.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

2/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

3/5

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

3/5

Good listening. Didn't catch me enough for 4/5 though, but nearly.

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

4/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

3/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Thought I was going to be in for a rough ride when it started with a monologue, but it was actually great. Would be 5 if it had managed to maintain it for the whole album, but it dropped off a bit, at least for me.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

3/5

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Had never listened to this album before, but had really enjoyed other Velvet Underground albums. Unfortunately, I was disappointed!

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain