1001 Albums Summary

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Rock Bottom Robert Wyatt	5	2.39	+2.61
Moss Side Story Barry Adamson	5	2.52	+2.48
Street Life The Crusaders	5	3.09	+1.91
Clube Da Esquina Milton Nascimento	5	3.13	+1.87
Le Tigre Le Tigre	5	3.14	+1.86
Tidal Fiona Apple	5	3.45	+1.55
Sticky Fingers The Rolling Stones	5	3.87	+1.13
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Iron Butterfly	4	2.94	+1.06
Joan Baez Joan Baez	4	2.96	+1.04

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Kid A Radiohead	1	3.71	-2.71
Odessa Bee Gees	1	2.72	-1.72
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	2	3.56	-1.56
Figure 8 Elliott Smith	2	3.33	-1.33
B-52's The B-52's	2	3.29	-1.29
Closer Joy Division	2	3.22	-1.22
The Visitors ABBA	2	3.21	-1.21
Crazysexycool TLC	2	3.07	-1.07
Skylarking XTC	2	3.03	-1.03

5-Star Albums (7)

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Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel · 12 likes

2/5

Fuck Simon and Garfunkel. A couple of low talent hacks. “Old people talking”!? Get the fuck out of here.

Street Life

The Crusaders · 11 likes

5/5

One of the best records I’ve ever heard. Jazz, funk, and lead guitar all working together. Smooth as hell and the title track is infectious.

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis · 3 likes

3/5

Early rock n roll woogy boogey

L.A. Woman

The Doors · 2 likes

4/5

Great bluesy, rock album. Uses the organ well.

Kid A

Radiohead · 1 likes

1/5

No good. And experiment gone bad.

1-Star Albums (2)

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Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

Solid good. Sounds like the Beatles.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

5/5

Was sad it over. Good to great 4.5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

2/5

Not great. I can see ita influence on 2000s music and the lineage through Oasis and the Beatles. However, overall not an easy listen and a little too overdone.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Solid. I now know where Cold play stole their first songs.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Is kiss and sabbath had a baby. Fun listen 3.5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

A little blues, a little country, and a little rocknroll. A great classic album by the stones.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

3/5

class is talking heads some good tracks, but most sound very similar.

Closer

Joy Division

2/5

White Ladder

David Gray

3/5

Good rainy day tunes.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

5/5

Loved it. The soul of the guitar was something special.

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

4/5

Sold 60s rock.

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

3/5

Aside from the great titular song this album was awesome. A little one note.

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

2/5

Dance mix

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

Fantastic. Timeless rap sprocket with some very 2000s rap.

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

5/5

Great instrumental concept album

Crazysexycool

TLC

2/5

A couple good tracks. Not my thing overall.

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

Early rock n roll woogy boogey

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

4/5

Sounded like a psychedelic Neal diamond. Great final track.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Classic dance music.

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

5/5

Like a folk David Bowie. Awesome

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

Fuck Simon and Garfunkel. A couple of low talent hacks. “Old people talking”!? Get the fuck out of here.

B-52's

The B-52's

2/5

Couple good song. Mostly not great.

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

Interesting to hear REM before the 90s. Much more accessible.

Skylarking

XTC

2/5

One standout song. The rest felt a little bland.

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

3/5

Started strong but mellowed

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

4/5

Very good.

Kid A

Radiohead

1/5

No good. And experiment gone bad.

Le Tigre

5/5

Great aggression and attitude.

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

Good 70s rock

The Last Broadcast

Doves

4/5

Very interesting. Some instrument, far our tracks and some a little more broad.

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

4/5

Solid 90s punk rock.

Street Life

The Crusaders

5/5

One of the best records I’ve ever heard. Jazz, funk, and lead guitar all working together. Smooth as hell and the title track is infectious.

Joan Baez

4/5

Great voice. Had memories of the Carpenters with more a country/folk twist.

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

3/5

Another solid 70s rock album.

The Visitors

ABBA

2/5

Didn’t get through it it was ok

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Solid zep album. Hard to rate an album that has songs I’ve heard 100 times.

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

Great bluesy, rock album. Uses the organ well.

Odessa

Bee Gees

1/5

Sounded like a cover band except all they played were song I never heard. Thank god they found their sound later because it was painful to listen to them trying to sound like other bands. Sad.

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

3/5

Mellow, long, calming music.

The Stone Roses

4/5

Some great funky jams

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

Dire Straits

4/5

Very unique dire straits sound. Solid album.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

3/5

I wanted to hate it. However, even though the music was far from accessible, I sfelt that there is a time and place where it would be a great listen.