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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Konnichiwa Skepta	5	2.73	+2.27
Lost Souls Doves	5	3.16	+1.84
The Man Machine Kraftwerk	5	3.31	+1.69
Blur Blur	5	3.33	+1.67
More Songs About Buildings And Food Talking Heads	5	3.42	+1.58
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	5	3.43	+1.57
Stand! Sly & The Family Stone	5	3.43	+1.57
Dusty In Memphis Dusty Springfield	5	3.47	+1.53
Blackstar David Bowie	5	3.48	+1.52
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan	5	3.61	+1.39

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hysteria Def Leppard	1	3.2	-2.2
No Other Gene Clark	1	3.19	-2.19
16 Lovers Lane The Go-Betweens	1	2.95	-1.95
Yeezus Kanye West	1	2.75	-1.75
Honky Tonk Masquerade Joe Ely	1	2.68	-1.68
The Cars The Cars	2	3.65	-1.65
Marquee Moon Television	2	3.5	-1.5
Tusk Fleetwood Mac	2	3.47	-1.47
Hunting High And Low a-ha	2	3.12	-1.12
Throwing Muses Throwing Muses	2	3	-1

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Artist	Albums	Average
David Bowie	2	5
Talking Heads	2	5

5-Star Albums (22)

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

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The Cars

The Cars · 1 likes

2/5

Meh

1-Star Albums (5)

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

David Bowie

5/5

Haven't listened to it for ages, and still sounds great. Clasdic

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

Beautifully recorded and mixed with great harmonies, but ultimately didn't grab me.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

The stripped back music, just voice, guitar and harmonica force you to focus on the lyrics and they still resonate hard decades later. An amazing album

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

A live album, sounds like the band had a great time, me not so much.

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

5/5

Great album that till sounds fresh and relevant nearly 50 years on. You can hear echoes of the songs in modern music still.

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

Innovative, emotional and worth the entry for the title track alone.

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

Breathes new life and emotion into songs I have heard too many times before. Fragile, poised and beautiful. Moved me to tears.

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

The brass section were always a highlight of Dexys and they are at there best in some songs here. Some truly great numbers, trouble is it loses it's way towards meh in the second half only to be rescued by the "even though I have heard it too many times" come on Eileen, that stands out. Some great songs, just not enough.

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

2/5

Good singles, bad rest of album.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

Sublime pop with razor sharp lyrics. Great song follows great song. Deserved of its consideration as a classic.

No Other

Gene Clark

1/5

Oh dear, just not very good.

Black Metal

Venom

2/5

Given this was 1983, I can hear echoes of its influences in industrial, grunge and various forms of metal from the late 80s and beyond. Still not my thing though.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

2/5

Not sure why this was on the list

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

I so wanted to like this, and had great expectations. It just didn't hit the spot.

Throwing Muses

2/5

Ray Of Light

Madonna

3/5

Good singles, lots of filler.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Expected to hate this, but liked its idiosyncratic 60s folk pop rock.

John Prine

4/5

Surprisingly likeable for a country album

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

Beautiful

Lost Souls

Doves

5/5

Loved this when it was released and it has aged surprisingly well. There are some weaker songs on here, but that's only because they nestle amongst some great tracks.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

4/5

Didn't expect to like this, but is melodic, emotive and easy to like.

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

1/5

Just boring and dull.

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

Took a while to get into it on hearing it for the 1st time, but it was OK, not great. Lots of filler.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

5/5

That voice married to that collections of songs. Great album.

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Some very good, and some not so good. Not up to the standards set by the 1st album

Hysteria

Def Leppard

1/5

Utterly soulless.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

5/5

Voice like silk married to great big band jazz. Brilliant

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Listened to this sitting on the beach. A stonking album, great song follows great song.

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

3/5

Good but not great

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

Some of the lyrics sound a little vith form now, but some great tracks on here.

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

3/5

Ultra slick sophisti-pop some good songs, but not enough

Out of Step

Minor Threat

4/5

Short, sharp, loud and has something to say. Good.

Born To Be With You

Dion

4/5

Surprisingly good

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

Having bought this when it came out it has aged well, great singles, and the rest is not filler l.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

5/5

Some masterful songs on here and a good, good album

The Cars

2/5

Meh

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

3/5

Konnichiwa

Skepta

5/5

Razor sharp beats, huge bass and sharp flow. Great.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

2/5

Confused as to why this is on the list. There are a number of bands who have mastered better. Jesus and Mary chain, sonic youth, Spacemen 3 to name a few. This is mostly dull with only 1 or 2 good tracks.

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

4/5

Relentlessly energetic and some great songs, mainly when they switched things up a bit and moved away from the formula.

The Band

3/5

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

4/5

So much energy. Songs are short and sharp and feel on edge of becoming out of control at times.

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

3/5

Smooth, but too smooth for my likibg

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

2/5

Liked the lyrics, hate country.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Hugely influential, inventive, funky, brilliant

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

2/5

90s East Coast rap plagued with tropes. Victim mentality about gold diggas on Da Bitches, yet talks about how many honeys they attract. Please.

Scott 2

Scott Walker

3/5

Some very good songs, but too many pompous, turgid 6th forn profound lyrics.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

Depeche Mode started to stretch their wings here and develop, something which culminated in their masterpiece: Violator. My criticism of the album is the production leaves the songs sounding flat and sterile and I recommend listening to them on the live album 101. On 101 the songs become more muscular and organic. WIth Never let me down again really shining.

Yeezus

Kanye West

1/5

Wow, the ramblings of a narcissist that is like listening to a pub bore flow over well produced beats. Just shit

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

1/5

Butt clenchingly awful, but thankfully quite short

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

4/5

Turned 3pm on a sunny afternoon into 3 pm in a smoke filled jazz club. Amazing atmosphere and some good songs.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Blur

5/5

Blur built on the melancholic aspects of Parklife to great effect, and whilst this can be seen as a logical step towards the darker 13, it hits all the right notes. Song 2 and Death of a Party are worth thee try price alone. Outstanding.

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

4/5

Da Capo

Love

4/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

3/5

He is a very talented rapper and producer and that is demonstrated on this album, where his ego doesn't lord it as much as some of his others. Just not my thing.

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

3/5

Some genuinely gREAT stuff here, but like pains for the pure at heart and S.C.U.M. not enough to warrant inclusion on the best albums ever list

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Just brilliant

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

Kind Of Blue