My 1001 Albums Journey

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2.33

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1970s

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Hard-rock

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Sign 'O' The Times Prince	5	3.45	+1.55
Hotel California Eagles	5	3.6	+1.4
Hounds Of Love Kate Bush	5	3.61	+1.39
Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club	5	3.65	+1.35
Graceland Paul Simon	5	3.74	+1.26
Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel	5	3.96	+1.04

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The White Album Beatles	1	4.18	-3.18
Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen	1	3.7	-2.7
Remain In Light Talking Heads	1	3.67	-2.67
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	1	3.62	-2.62
Illmatic Nas	1	3.61	-2.61
Madman Across The Water Elton John	1	3.59	-2.59
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand	1	3.57	-2.57
Surrealistic Pillow Jefferson Airplane	1	3.52	-2.52
Blonde On Blonde Bob Dylan	1	3.5	-2.5
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.5	-2.5

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Artist	Albums	Average
Prince	2	5

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Wilco	2	1
Talking Heads	2	1.5
Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	1.5

5-Star Albums (7)

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Metallica

2/5

tedious and one dimensional. Remember hearing the album when it first came out, and not being overly enthralled then. As singles certain tracks stand up well, but the continuous one tempo power chords over the whole album just get boring after a while.

10 likes

The College Dropout

Kanye West

1/5

Nope. Found it tedious.

4 likes

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

Absolutely joyous.

1 likes

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Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Urgent, provocative, menacing, violent, confrontational, funky. Of its time, but just shows how good old time rap was. Sparse production, basically 808 drums, samples and voice, but beats and rhythms to die for.

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Not quite sure how, but this is the first time listening to this album from start to finish. I still struggle with Plant's voice, but the musicianship and the tunes are top notch.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Well that was an absolute joy from start to finish. Haven't listened to this album since schooldays and it hasn't aged or waned an iota. Stunningly beautiful.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Certainly not a band I have ever listened to and was quite pleasantly surprised by this offering. Elements of Jazz, Blues, Funk and Rock are scattered all over, mixed and merged, you can hear where later bands, Scissor Sisters for example, have taken inspiration especially with chord progressions, song structure and harmonies. The album is quite 'quirky' in a way, remeniscent of 10cc, with the mixing of genres and time signatures and with clever, idiosyncratic lyrics. I will probably have to go back and listen to it again, the initial listen seemed to just wash over me with no real discernable outstanding tracks ( possibly meaning they were all good ) but that could be down to them being unfamiliar to me

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Talking Heads

2/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

1/5

Nope. Found it tedious.

Metallica

2/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

2/5

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

If any album was need to show that the happy go lucky, love to all 60's were well and truly dead and buried it is this dark, funky, dirty, muddy album. Mixed to be almost unintelligible at times, this album ushers in the 70's predicting the tough times ahead. Brilliant.

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Formulaic. Some good moments.

Hotel California

Eagles

5/5

Absolute stone cold classic, nary a duff track on the whole album of classics.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

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