1001 Albums Summary

Listening statistics & highlights

134
Albums Rated
3.75
Average Rating
12%
Complete
955 albums remaining

Rating Distribution

Rating Timeline

Taste Profile

2010s
Favorite Decade
Hip-hop
Favorite Genre
US
Top Origin
Cheerleader
Rater Style ?
30
5-Star Albums
4
1-Star Albums

Breakdown

By Genre

By Decade

By Origin

Albums

You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
A Wizard, A True Star 5 2.83 +2.17
Before And After Science 5 3.09 +1.91
Double Nickels On The Dime 5 3.12 +1.88
Dear Science 5 3.16 +1.84
Close To The Edge 5 3.19 +1.81
Entertainment 5 3.25 +1.75
The Seldom Seen Kid 5 3.26 +1.74
The Predator 5 3.26 +1.74
Africa Brasil 5 3.36 +1.64
Ready To Die 5 3.37 +1.63

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Close To You 1 3.11 -2.11
Vulgar Display Of Power 1 2.97 -1.97
Scott 4 1 2.8 -1.8
Grace 2 3.71 -1.71
Time Out Of Mind 2 3.21 -1.21
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter 1 2.15 -1.15
Shaka Zulu 2 3.09 -1.09
Architecture And Morality 2 3.05 -1.05

Artists

Favorites

ArtistAlbumsAverage
Radiohead 2 5

5-Star Albums (30)

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Popular Reviews

This album is super important for what it is and also what it isn't. What it is is one of the most pure distillations of prog rock and rock's musical excesses (if not necessarily the chemical excesses). But its overwritten, ornate Baroqueness helped to inspire punk music as a reaction against this brand of complex-for-the-sake-of-complex tryhard bullshit. Prog and punk happen to be my two favorite subgenres, so this one is extra meaningful to me. Beloved for three perfect songs (out of a possible three, hah!), if not any semblance of brevity. One more thing before I hit submit: early on in the title track there is a happy, sweet guitar melody that could have been a lead on a Queen song. Much later the same motif returns as a more sinister and dissonant version with ugly-sounding harmonics from a ring modulator. It's fuckin sick and it demonstrates my favorite joke about prog rock. If you don't like what you're hearing, wait five minutes.
35 likes
Radiohead
5/5
The androids find life, love, and oblivion all at once.
5 likes
Carpenters
1/5
This album is where that "why do birds suddenly appear" song comes from. It's not a half-bad song if you're okay with cheesy over-commercial schlock. Yeah, she had a pleasant enough voice and it's very sad that her eating disorder ended up killing her, but this album genuinely sucks, right?
1 likes

1-Star Albums (4)

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Cheerleader

Average rating: 3.75 (0.44 above global average).