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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
School's Out Alice Cooper	5	3.2	+1.8
Sea Change Beck	5	3.33	+1.67
Doggystyle Snoop Dogg	5	3.36	+1.64
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	5	3.4	+1.6
Nilsson Schmilsson Harry Nilsson	5	3.43	+1.57
A Grand Don't Come For Free The Streets	4	2.64	+1.36

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen	1	3.63	-2.63
Lost In The Dream The War On Drugs	1	3.38	-2.38
Daydream Nation Sonic Youth	1	3.29	-2.29
Thriller Michael Jackson	2	4.23	-2.23
Paranoid Black Sabbath	2	4.19	-2.19
Manassas Stephen Stills	1	3.06	-2.06
Post Orgasmic Chill Skunk Anansie	1	2.98	-1.98
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted Ice Cube	1	2.93	-1.93
Machine Head Deep Purple	2	3.58	-1.58
Now I Got Worry The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion	1	2.52	-1.52

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Dookie

Green Day

3/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

2/5

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Some real classics and overall like how this album switched up the sound quite a bit but kept the vibes high - big fan

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

2/5

Too heavy for me - a couple of fab intros that got me fired up (paranoid, iron man) - otherwise I found myself zoning out a lot with all the noise

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

3/5

Enjoyed a lot more than I thought I would… Second half was much better than the first with some fun songs. Overall songs were good but maybe a bit long and repetitive individually

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

2/5

Overall decent vibes - a bit boring at times. First song and last song were the best and fell a bit flat after that

Urban Hymns

The Verve

2/5

Cannot fault bittersweet symphony- absolutely timeless. Fell pretty flat after that for me

Harvest

Neil Young

3/5

enjoyed for the most part - a couple of standouts - some bits felt redundant/same-y but overall decent album for me

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

5/5

So much fun

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Just fab - great sound/songs/vocals - a real classic

Manassas

Stephen Stills

1/5

Did not like this at all - but enjoyed the use of cowbells. How far was a song I enjoyed but that was literally it out of the whole thing

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Decent and fun!

Thriller

Michael Jackson

2/5

Respect the art but Michael Jackson is not really for me. Do love Billie Jean though!

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

Some good songs some that felt a bit long and noisy

Django Django

4/5

Really enjoyed this one!

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

2/5

The main singer had a unique voice but I thought every song sounded the same - not my favourite Just a quick gripe that this album is included but not let go by avril lavigne????????? Not sure about that

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

A bit long and a bit heavy for me but I actually enjoyed this more than I thought I would

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

1/5

This was so painfully boring. Not for me at all

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

Shockingly I managed to listen to this full album and I really enjoyed it. No album should be this long though. I’d rate it higher if it was shorter to be honest.

Vulnicura

Björk

2/5

Interesting and different but not really my fave

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

Love OutKast and this album contributed to such a unique sound and trends in the 00s. Some fab songs but felt there could’ve been some fat trimmed from both discs to really elevate it

Blur

2/5

Started off okay but got a bit redundant so I didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I might at the beginning

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

5/5

Disregarding today’s Kanye this is one of the greatest albums of all time. No skips, all songs have a fresh sound. I would listen to this anytime

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

1/5

I just don’t really get it with Bruce Springsteen but go off I guess

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

3/5

Really liked this one. The first song will never not remind me of the movie robots. Thought the sound and instrumentals were nice and fresh - pleasantly surprised! Would rate it higher but there were a few too many filler songs

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

1/5

Found myself quite bored with this one

School's Out

Alice Cooper

5/5

I surprised myself by actually loving this album. I loved the through line and the elements of rock, pop and jazz. So much fun. I would say for me it’s more of a 4.5 but I enjoyed it more than most of my other 4 star albums so bumping it up. Really loved!!!

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

A lot more fun than I was anticipating! Even had my dog dancing in the kitchen

Machine Head

Deep Purple

2/5

Not offended by this album or anything but wouldn’t listen to it again

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

1/5

An interesting reflection on that period of time. I found it really fascinating how a deep message of the album was about the racism in America and police brutality and really took a firm stance towards equality yet in the same vein was so so deeply misogynistic- I guess again of that time but the level of misogyny meant I couldn’t enjoy this album at all or any of the songs really. Would never put this on or listen to it again. It was a really hard one to finish.

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

4/5

Lots of fun and very different - I imagine this album is nostalgic if you grew up in Britain in the noughties! Enjoyed the listen

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

2/5

Fine but a bit boring. Didn’t think this album was something very special.

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

5/5

This is for sure one of my faves of all time time. It’s definitely upheld by some of the bangers like Lodi dodi but I mostly enjoyed. For me the album is between a 4 and a 5 but closer to the ones I voted 5 previously so gets a push up!

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

2/5

Mehhh. Nostalgic of that noughties not sound but I find this sort of music a bit redundant and whiny.. it was just an okay listen for me

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

2/5

In theory I should love this album. I mean Xtina has one of the best voices of our generation and there’s some absolute classics in here but I’m clouded by the fact that this whole album feels quite inauthentic. P!nks album Mizundazstood (which I don’t think is on this list? BIG MISTAKE. HUGE.) literally ran so this album could walk. P!nk convinced Linda Perry from 4 non blondes to come out of writing retirement to help her write Mizundazstood as a fresh and more authentic sound than what a lot of the pop girlies were getting pitched at that time (think peak Britney Spears) and Mizundazstood was amazing and ground breaking - so much so Xtina asked Linda to write stripped for her to have the same perceived authenticity and relatability. Because I’m overwhelmingly a P!nk girly this loses major points because it’s hard not to see it as a less good replication

Sea Change

Beck

5/5

I absolutely love beck. So chill and his sound is quite unique as well. Fully aware my review is bias due to significant childhood nostalgia of my parent owning and playing this CD loads when I was young. Don’t care. Still obsessed.

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Enjoyed this a lot. Lots of different sounds, genres, instruments. Very pleasant listening

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Easy listening. Really enjoyed

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Fun! Beatles are just good vibes. I enjoyed this album but it’s not back to back bangers like some other ones.

Odelay

Beck

3/5

Not my favourite from beck but I like the uniqueness of this album and how it plays with sound and genres

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

1/5

I disliked this album so much I couldn’t wait for it to end. It was such a chaotic jumble of things but not in a fun creative way more in an unsettling disturbing way. I thought I finally enjoyed one song on the album before I realised it had just ended and Spotify had shuffled something else. Yikes. This will literally never cross my desk again.

Common

3/5

Enjoyed this album! Lyrically it was really strong and a couple of different sounds in there but also some of the beats and backings were one note

Fragile

Yes

4/5

I on lot listened to disc 1 because I didn’t have 4 hours but does one was fun and flirty!

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

A good blend of genres and sounds and tempos. Really enjoyed - great album to listen to on a sunny day

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Quite long and a bit one note. Was waiting for a couple songs to really pep it up but it just didn’t seem to come. Didn’t hate the creative sound just got a bit boring for me

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Better than their other album on this list. The Celtic influence and feel was fun. Not sure I agree they should have 2 albums on this list - more of a one hit wonder to me if I’m honest. That being said I didn’t hate listening to this album but won’t rush to do it again.

The Poet

Bobby Womack

2/5

I thought I’d like this more than I did. Fun sound in the beginning but got boring really fast

War

2/5

I actually really like u2 but this isn’t my favourite album. Only one really stand out song for me.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

3/5

Some great songs some just okay. Overall enjoyable enough

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

1/5

I didn’t really get this