1001 Albums Generator
User-Curated Lists
Lists built from the albums in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, newest first.
Right Artist - Wrong Album - Version #2
Inspired by someone else's idea. Bad album choices corrected with the more appropriate choice in the comments (in my humble opinion)
Albums for the Halloween Season
Some spooky, some autumny, in no particular order.
September Ranked
1001 ranked
September 2026 albums ranked
Every album I have ranked in September 2026 so far
Pleasant Discoveries
New artist finds
5 Stars
These albums are all good.
Newish to me, 8/10+
Low to no familiarity, at the album level; rated at least 8 on a 10 scale.
Suck
These records suck. 3/10 or less. Am I glad they suck? Of course not. Leonard Cohen sucks so bad that his sucky records push The Bee Gees out of the 4-album list thumbnail.
Best New Discoveries
Albums I hadn't listened to in full before this project, which I subsequently started listening to (either in full or just fixating on certain songs); albums whose placement on this list resulted in contributions to my own personal canon of favorite songs.
Awesome Album Covers
To buy
Albums on my purchase list
Right artist, wrong album
I would have picked a different album by this artist. If they have multiple list entries, I'd pick an unselected one over this one, or just exclude this one.
Favorite Discoveries from the Generator
albums I own on vinyl
Favourite albums I already know
Albums I Would Remove From the List if I Were Editing the New Edition
Exactly what it says on the tin.
(In progress)
Best Discoveries
Worst Album Art
Even when they’re not bad to listen to, they’re definitely not pleasant to look at.
Five Stars
Five Stars
Best of the 60s
Favorite 60s albums
Best of the 70s
Favorite 70s albums
Best of the 00s
Favorite 00s albums
Best of the 90s
Favorite 90s albums
All 5s
All of my 5s!
My New Discoveries
These albums came out of nowhere for me. I did not know the artist/album before experiencing it here.
Good Album Covers for Bad Albums
1 and 2 star albums with 4 or 5 star covers.
Best New Discoveries
The best albums from artists I had never heard of before.
Great Albums By Terrible Humans
Best of the 80s
Favorite 80s albums
My Favorite Discoveries
My top 101 albums from the Dimery list. They are not in order and I have 23 albums that Dimery does not have - that would make my top 101. Still a fun exercise.
Top Rated
Best Electronica
Best of the 90s
10 Albums You Actually Need to Hear Before You Die
The 10 albums from the list that made me the person I am, in the order they were generated for me. Plus, a bonus.
Awful Album Covers
The dog’s breakfast.
Best of each year (so far)
Best of Punk (template)
Best new discoveries (so far)
Artists or albums I didn’t really know before.
Merryanne's 5-star 1980s 1001 List
Albums that came out in the '80s designated 5 starts by me
Favorite 1st Time Listens
Pleasant Surprises
Albums that I really thought would suck
Metal on Da List
Because I'm annoyed how little metal is on the list, I want to see them all with each other (and taking out the albums that are labeled metal erroneously. Its not a value judgment on those albums, I loved Dirt, Opus Dei, and Back to Mystery City; but they just are not metal albums)
Best Discoveries SO Far
The good stuff I didnt know about, in no particular order
Best discoveries from the original 1089 list
The albums that I did not know before starting the project that I really liked and want to listen to more! Created 090926
Ultimate 80s
The best albums from ‘my’ decade.
Albums I Have on CD
These are all of the albums from the 1001 Albums list that I currently have on CD.
Oh, Canada
Every album from Canada's own, in order of release date.
Albums from the 1089 I have on vinyl
All the albums from this list my family owns physically
Read the damn title