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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators The 13th Floor Elevators	5	2.95	+2.05
Court And Spark Joni Mitchell	5	3.35	+1.65
Rust Never Sleeps Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.51	+1.49
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground	5	3.53	+1.47
Low David Bowie	5	3.55	+1.45
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	5	3.61	+1.39
Pearl Janis Joplin	5	3.72	+1.28
In Utero Nirvana	5	3.82	+1.18
Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin	5	3.9	+1.1
Felt Mountain Goldfrapp	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Thriller Michael Jackson	2	4.23	-2.23
Rain Dogs Tom Waits	1	3.19	-2.19
Apocalypse Dudes Turbonegro	1	2.9	-1.9
1984 Van Halen	2	3.49	-1.49
Surf's Up The Beach Boys	2	3.3	-1.3
Cross Justice	2	3.27	-1.27

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Velvet Underground	2	5

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The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

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The Velvet Underground

5/5

All the Velvet Underground albums are essential, and this is no exception. Superb.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

5/5

First time I'd heard it and loved it. Great final track!

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

First time listen, will do again. Great album.

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

It's okay, has its moments but not my favourite Pixies album

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

It ok I thought, another one that had the odd moment but. didn't really grab me. Might require a few more listens perhaps...

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

First time listen, very impressed. Will be listening again.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

Owned this for several years on vinyl, but first time I've listened to it all the way through! Glad I finally did, good album, opening track one of my favourite Elton efforts.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

2/5

I tried to like it, I really did. Track two makes it virtually impossible to carry on.

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

1/5

I cannot get my head around Tom Waits. Utterly dreadful.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

Good grief, did I really use to dance to these tunes back in the day? I must have been off my face. That's right, I was! Haven't heard it since then, so actually enjoyed hearing it again, though not an album I could listen to constantly.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

One of the hardest things in rock is to pull off the double album. A lot of decent material required. Led Zeppelin did it with this, outstanding.

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

4/5

A new one for me, in fact I must admit I'd never heard of the artist. But really enjoyed it, a very interesting listen and will definitely be doing so again.

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

2/5

It's okay.....

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

2/5

Started well then went rapidly downhill into generic slow R&B and therefore became a bit boring. Made it all the way through though, so couldn't have been terrible.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

Tricky to listen ro and judge with 2026 ears, it did of course sound very basic. Not without its decent bits, and was a quick and easy listen. Also feel there's better from this era and genre.

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

4/5

First time listen, and though it excellent. Only knew one Goldfrapp song before this (I bet you can't guess which one), so was pleased to hear their first LP. Will definitely listen again.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

As a mid-80s LP goes pretty decent, three hits with acceptable other tracks. Not quite all killer no filler but perfectly listenable.

Adele

3/5

A couple of great tunes but the power ballard fillers wore a bit thin.

Cross

Justice

2/5

Really, really not my cup of tea. Never heard of them before this, suffice to say I won't be making further inroads in to their back catalogue.

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

4/5

Pleasantly surprised how good this was. Will be listening again.

Street Signs

Ozomatli

3/5

Only one song from this album is currently available on Spotify, and did like it. But maybe not enough to invest the time in tracking down the rest of it. An average three is what I'll give, purely in order to move on to the next selection.

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

Not my favourite Bowie album, but still enough within to keep me engaged. Much preferred side two to one, and obviously the title track is timeless.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

Not bad, two absolute classic songs with standard 1970 rock/pop fillers to make up the album. Much better albums were released in this period I feel.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

I have listened to this album hundreds of times over my lifetime; suffice to say one of the greatest albums ever recorded and certainly one of the most influential. I can never get my head around it was recorded in 1966, so ahead of its time. One of only a handful of albums I'm guaranteed to listen to at least every few months. A comfy 5 star!

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

Utterly brilliant! Enough said.

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

5/5

Outstanding garage psych, another album that would have blown people's minds when released in 1966. Quite literally if you followed the advice on the sleeve's liner notes!

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

Some decent parts, and an interesting listen, but felt it got a bit samey and perhaps a bit long. Okay though.

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

3/5

Would have to be on the mood for this, and quite liked some of it. Not quite sure how often I would be in the mood though, but if I am I'll give it another go.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

2/5

I was looking forward to hearing this, but ultimately found it a bit dull. Could grow on me I suppose with a few more listens, but not sure if I'm that bothered to be honest.

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

2/5

A mixture of interesting tracks and unlistenable stuff. Not enough to make me listen again unfortunately.

Low

David Bowie

5/5

A top three Bowie album for me (along with Ziggy and Hunky Dory) for me, and therefore I think his best outside of the glam period. So an album I love and know very well, so an easy top mark.

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Better than I thought and could well be a grower. Will probably return to it at some point.

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

4/5

I wish, I just wish, I could have been at this gig.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Great band, good album. All of their albums are always worth a listen, this included.

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

3/5

Not as bad as I thought it was going to be, recall that there was a lot of hype when it came out back in 2007 which at the time put me off. Good to hear it again with fresh ears nearly 20 years later.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

One of those albums that you start to listen to and you know a load of the songs already. And they're all classics. But, but... it suffers from the the problem most double albums have: it's bloody long, with some several tracks. Take out the filler, leave the killer and you've got one of the greatest albums of all time. Still good though!

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

1/5

They got the name of the book wrong. It should really be "101 Albums to Hear Before You Die, 800 that are Very Good but not Essential and 100 Where We Ran Out of Anything Else Worth Listening To, So We Bunged in any Old Tosh". I bet you can't guess which category this one falls into.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Liked it, short and sweet. Kind of eminded me of What's Going On, but obviously no where near as good. Great last track though.

Sister

Sonic Youth

4/5

Excellent record. Didn't know this at all and only vaguely aware of later Sonic Youth music. Will listen again and I am now looking forward to hearing more from them.

1984

Van Halen

2/5

Bog standard 1980's poodle rock. The authors clearly needed filler to make it to the 1001, this is one of those.