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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Architecture And Morality Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark	5	3.06	+1.94
Meat Is Murder The Smiths	5	3.34	+1.66
Strangeways, Here We Come The Smiths	5	3.44	+1.56
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.53	+1.47
Beggars Banquet The Rolling Stones	5	3.61	+1.39
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen	5	3.63	+1.37
Disintegration The Cure	5	3.86	+1.14
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels Dexys Midnight Runners	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine	2	3.98	-1.98
Gold Ryan Adams	1	2.83	-1.83
Happy Trails Quicksilver Messenger Service	1	2.8	-1.8
Tarkus Emerson, Lake & Palmer	1	2.78	-1.78
Bummed Happy Mondays	1	2.65	-1.65
The Atomic Mr Basie Count Basie & His Orchestra	2	3.5	-1.5
Protection Massive Attack	2	3.24	-1.24
Songs In The Key Of Life Stevie Wonder	3	4.07	-1.07
Smile Brian Wilson	2	3.04	-1.04
Something/Anything? Todd Rundgren	2	3.03	-1.03

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Smiths	2	5

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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Thoroughly enjoyed. Gave me great teenage nostalgia. Track wise there were some skips, but all in all a solid effort.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

Deliciously synthy and industrial. Loved when Ian's voice went up an octave in certain songs. Was great to hear this in full as only really knew Disorder.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Now that's how you open an album. What a fantastic first track. Really enjoyed El Condor Pasa.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

Great heavy sound, but only really liked 3 or 4 tracks

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

4/5

Made me feel sad, somehow. I enjoyed the songs but the whole album had a melancholy feel.

Rage Against The Machine

2/5

Tom Morello brings the musicality up to a good level but I'm not a fan of Zack's vocals. Wake Up is great, but the songs seem to fall into the trap of all sounding the same.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

Some songs were bangers, skme felt childish and sulky. They didn't quite land. The funky samples made up for it.

Smile

Brian Wilson

2/5

This was chaotic, eclectic and jumped all over the place like a cricket on amphetamines... I liked snippets of the songs but overall it just felt clumsy.

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

3/5

Loved some parts, bored to tears at others.

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Great emotion and musicality. The whole album blends well together. Enjoyed thoroughly.

Destroyer

KISS

3/5

Wasn't massively enamoured.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

Phil Lynott's vocals were ace. Very guitar solo heavy and potentially too long.

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

3/5

An enjoyable mix of songs that flowed together nicely

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

Super fun pop offerings, with of course the absolute banger Time After Time

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

4/5

Lovely

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Adored this. A beautiful mix of grunge and blues.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

Opens with one of my favourite White Stripe tracks. Great mix of blues and rock

John Prine

3/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Every song is an emotional tour de force. Granted there's the big hitters, but every track can stand for itself. Opening with Thunder Road is a genius move.

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

5/5

Soft, driving beats and luscious melodies. Adored it.

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

2/5

Pleasant. Not necessarily my cup of tea but I didn't hate it. Okay as background music but not sure I'd listen to it out of choice again.

Bummed

Happy Mondays

1/5

Overly long, every song sounds identical, felt like distinct lack of creativity.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Fantastic bluesy, folks and all round wonderful tracks.

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

3/5

Very interesting and used while meditating. Some incredibly talented musicians.

Elastica

3/5

Pounding but mundane

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

5/5

That Joke... pushes this to 5 stars.

Moby Grape

3/5

Funky and fun.

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Flawless. Painfully beautiful and melodic, there's not been an album quite like it since.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

5/5

Fantastic. Stop Me... swum around in my head all day after listening. The change in pace that Johnny Marr influenced really shows; I dare say this is their best.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

I'm not sure i liked it as much as I did as a teen; it plays differently now. A bit clunky and disjointed in places.

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

1/5

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

Super ska fun, I love love love all the rolling Rs and the trills, and Geno is still one of my fave songs

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

A tour de force of 70s rock. Bass on Elevation was delightful

Gold

Ryan Adams

1/5

Dreadful. Just... no. If I could give 0 stars, I would.

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Great voice. Went on a bit.

Protection

Massive Attack

2/5

Apart from the title track I wasn't overly enamoured.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

3/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

4/5

I wanted to hate this, but I loved it. Really tight and clean, swooping harmonies and a considered album.

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

2/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

2/5

I'm really not a fan of swing or jazz, but this was alright. I can appreciate the musicality and the talent and that's why I've given it 2 stars, as we all know this isn't a "my favourite albums" list.

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

1/5

Absolute dross

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

Started off a bit meh, got to On Battleship Hill and thought "This is more like it" and then it stayed at a plateau until the end. I think I had more expectation from PJ Harvey, although I did like the overall 'minor key' feel of the album