My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
69 Love Songs The Magnetic Fields	5	2.85	+2.15
Real Life Magazine	5	3.05	+1.95
Armed Forces Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	3.09	+1.91
Clube Da Esquina Milton Nascimento	5	3.12	+1.88
Being There Wilco	5	3.23	+1.77
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	5	3.32	+1.68
Different Class Pulp	5	3.42	+1.58
Funeral Arcade Fire	5	3.56	+1.44
Hounds Of Love Kate Bush	5	3.61	+1.39
Chelsea Girl Nico	4	2.63	+1.37

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd	1	4.3	-3.3
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	1	3.44	-2.44
Tuesday Night Music Club Sheryl Crow	1	3.05	-2.05
Suzanne Vega Suzanne Vega	1	3.01	-2.01
A Night At The Opera Queen	2	3.96	-1.96
16 Lovers Lane The Go-Betweens	1	2.94	-1.94
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret Soft Cell	1	2.87	-1.87
Scott 4 Scott Walker	1	2.8	-1.8
Space Ritual Hawkwind	1	2.68	-1.68
Timeless Goldie	1	2.53	-1.53

5-Star Albums (14)

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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Popular Reviews

Timeless

Goldie

1/5

Missing the "Not" at the beginning of this title. Hard pass.

32 likes

Funeral

Arcade Fire

5/5

I think my incredibly high rating for this probably says a lot about how old I am and where I spent my formative years.

25 likes

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

2/5

How revolutionary was Boy George as the leader of the biggest group in the world? Gender non-conformity is still mocked and misunderstood today...to think this was 40 years ago. Wish I had the same appreciation for this album but it's basically 2-3 good songs and a bunch of filler.

23 likes

Gris Gris

Dr. John

4/5

Parents in 1968 must have been freaked the fuck out when they heard this coming from their child's bedroom. It's crazy how music changed in ten years between 58 and 68. Ten years ago for us it was like, Bon Iver S/T and Arcade Fire The Suburbs.

16 likes

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

My favourite springsteen. It's a consistent mood you can wallow in for an hour.

12 likes

1-Star Albums (9)

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Pulp

5/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

1/5

Iron Maiden

2/5

Not their best.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

As much as I hate “skits” filling up half the album, it still stands up.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

Timeless. Brilliant.

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Rules

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

4/5

Wasn't familiar with this (so much wu tang catalogue), but loved it.

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

4/5

I'm sure Sinatra was just an insufferable asshole in real life, but you can't argue with the hits.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

A fitting companion piece to one of the best-selling t-shirts of all time.

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

1/5

I imagine this is some people's idea of an amazing, legendary album. I get that, but it's not mine.

Suzanne Vega

1/5

I didn't know any of her stuff beyond Luka and the doo doo do doo song, so was curious. Disappointed. Feels like middling 80s stuff. Julianna Hatfield without hooks?

Snivilisation

Orbital

2/5

Probably good for what it is? It was fine as background

Fever Ray

3/5

Was okay

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

4/5

Solid.

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

2/5

Ice Cream Summer sounds like Weezer. Rest of album is just okay but heard worse on this list.

The Rise & Fall

Madness

3/5

I mean, Madness are fine. I'm starting to wonder if me and the person who chose these 1001 albums have the same outlook on life. I have to hear THIS album before I die? What is with the brownface on cover and fake Indian accents in songs?

Real Life

Magazine

5/5

Now here's a fucking album. So ahead of its time.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Great record. I don't know if i ever got deep enough into this one before to notice Slayer's Angel of Death sampled in one of the songs

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

Cross

Justice

3/5

Good album for the genre.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

I enjoy this album.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

Amazing. His 'Blues & Roots' is my favourite jazz record of all time, but this is up there.

Timeless

Goldie

1/5

Missing the "Not" at the beginning of this title. Hard pass.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

2/5

Undeniably groundbreaking and brilliant, but that doesn't give the misogyny a pass. Just way too much to be able to give it a high rating.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

5/5

I think my incredibly high rating for this probably says a lot about how old I am and where I spent my formative years.

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

2/5

I imagine at one point this was the height of cool for some. He speaks/sings! In French! He smokes while talking about women! A shirtless woman on the cover! Interesting as a point of reference but not much else for me, and I love 70s soft rock.

Cut

The Slits

3/5

Good. Interesting.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

5/5

Had never heard this before but loved it! Sent me down a Brazilian music wormhole. Trem De Doido has an amazing guitar part.

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

Remember discovering this record when I was younger but kinda lost track of it. Pretty good, but gets kinda same-y by the end.

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

1/5

Is that Pedro Pascal in this band? Nah, nevermind he'd never do something so middling that your best song is a cover of a better song.

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

A near flawless record for me.

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Not my favourite Flaming Lips but still so great.

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

4/5

Listened to this album to death when I was younger. It's exactly what I want out of an electronic/dance album. Saw them live once and they actually play with a full band live which is pretty cool.

A Night At The Opera

Queen

2/5

I feel like I'll never really get Queen because I heard their music a million times at sporting events, in Waynes World etc. before I ever really cared about it, so it's all become this pop cultural cliche. That movie a couple years ago didnt help. I guess this is okay?

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Solid

Chelsea Girl

Nico

4/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Elliott Smith was murdered. Figure8 is probably my personal third favourite Elliott Smith record, but also probably his best work.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

This is the kinda stuff I was hoping to discover on this list. I knew a few of these songs, but the whole record was great.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Solid

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Loved this so much.

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

This album made me want to get high and watch The Wicker Man. That is a compliment.

Kenya

Machito

3/5

This was interesting and enjoyable

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

3/5

I always confuse Donovan with Donnie Osmond. Very different!

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

2/5

This was okay. She has an amazing voice but the songs didn't really connect with me.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

1/5

At least when Soft Cell were terrible they had the decency to be terrible in short 3-minute bursts. Bloated, self-involved, unlistenable hot garbage.

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

4/5

All time classic

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

5/5

Part 1 is absolutely flawless. Maybe a top 5 all time album for me. Would put this above probably any album we've heard so far.

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

Never really listened to Zappa. Not sure how much I will in the future, but this was more interesting than I thought it would be.

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

2/5

Kinda fun I guess. Didn't really stick with me.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

3/5

I enjoyed this. Very much of its time.

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

2/5

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

This such a solid album front to back.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

2/5

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

1/5

What if Crowded House wasn't good?

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

Classic.

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

3/5

Never been the biggest Damned fan...but enjoyed this more than most.

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

4/5

Wasn't as familiar with this as the albums that followed, but liked it a lot. That dude lived hard.

Elastica

3/5

I love the vibe, and the production. But there is undeniably a lot of filler. Would have been a great 10 track 25-minute album.

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

2/5

This was probably a very important album for its time, and electronic music, but didn't connect with me.

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

1/5

I had avoided this album my whole life, assuming it was garbage. The first track was so good and made me think maybe I had been wrong this whole time. But by the time I got to the song where she raps, I realized my suspicions had been correct.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Wow, this is a long record. But I mean that in a good way. The two 15-minute songs were amazing.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

Pre-MAGA Kanye was brilliant. With a little less misogyny and religion, this would be a 5.

NEU! 75

Neu!

4/5

Never heard this before but really liked! The two "sides" of this record are so different but both were good.

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

2/5

An interesting listen but admittedly not really my thing.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Absolute gem. Among best album openers of all time.

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

The Clash are my favourite band of all time. And while not my favourite album, this is definitely their most important one. Can i give 6 stars?

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

Sea Change is not just a record, it's a mood. Which makes it a great album to throw on and listen to in whole.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

2/5

This was fine 60s psych rock.

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

2/5

Better than I expected but not as good as it could have been.

White Light

Gene Clark

3/5

Solid 70s soft rock

Gris Gris

Dr. John

4/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

All time classic. This was a formative album of my childhood, when I thought I was the most woke revolutionary kid in my southwestern Ontario farming community.

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Throwback to twenty years ago when every coffee shop, hair salon and Club Monaco would just rotate between this album and St. Germain Tourist. Love this album though.

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

3/5

Had never heard this but really liked it. Got weird! I'll throw it on every once in a while.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

I'm guessing there are like 6 Bowie albums on this list. Which makes sense. Include Let's Dance you cowards!

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

My favourite springsteen. It's a consistent mood you can wallow in for an hour.