1001 Albums Summary

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196
Albums Rated
2.66
Average Rating
18%
Complete
893 albums remaining

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1950
Favorite Decade
Punk
Favorite Genre
US
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12
5-Star Albums
31
1-Star Albums

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Albums

You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Floodland
Sisters Of Mercy
5 3.06 +1.94
Here Are the Sonics
The Sonics
5 3.16 +1.84
School's Out
Alice Cooper
5 3.2 +1.8
Aftermath
The Rolling Stones
5 3.35 +1.65
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
5 3.36 +1.64
Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
5 3.38 +1.62
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes
5 3.49 +1.51
Boy In Da Corner
Dizzee Rascal
4 2.55 +1.45
Transformer
Lou Reed
5 3.66 +1.34
Scream, Dracula, Scream
Rocket From The Crypt
4 2.76 +1.24

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Band On The Run
Paul McCartney and Wings
1 3.67 -2.67
That's The Way Of The World
Earth, Wind & Fire
1 3.5 -2.5
Tusk
Fleetwood Mac
1 3.47 -2.47
Fragile
Yes
1 3.32 -2.32
The Man Machine
Kraftwerk
1 3.31 -2.31
The Soft Bulletin
The Flaming Lips
1 3.28 -2.28
Inspiration Information
Shuggie Otis
1 3.27 -2.27
Tigermilk
Belle & Sebastian
1 3.22 -2.22
Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago
1 3.2 -2.2
Loveless
My Bloody Valentine
1 3.19 -2.19

5-Star Albums (12)

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Dookie by Green Day

Godfathers of bringing punk mainstream. Best album. Could listen anytime

1-Star Albums (31)

All Ratings (196)

Rubber Soul by Beatles
May 07 2021

Meh. They have better albums

Who's Next by The Who
May 10 2021

Some classics. Some car commercials. Great in how they go mellow to rocking.

It's Blitz! by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
May 11 2021

Ok.not great. Very 2k wanting to be 80's. Listened 2x. A couple weren't too bad. My daughter liked a couple.

May 12 2021

Couldn't finish. Way to long and trying to hard to be the beetles

Hysteria by Def Leppard
May 14 2021

Legendary album. Kind of holds up. Lots of songs with three words.

Dookie by Green Day
May 15 2021

Godfathers of bringing punk mainstream. Best album. Could listen anytime

Cypress Hill by Cypress Hill
May 19 2021

Pretty good old days.

Harvest by Neil Young
May 21 2021

Old man and heart of gold is it. Tried Neil Young for years. Sad carpenter. Less words more harmonica

Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors
May 23 2021

Weird not great. Have heard stuff like it. Can't see that there's not 1001 albums better.

Celebrity Skin by Hole
May 25 2021

Not as good as the one Kurt wrote, but still pretty good

Giant Steps by The Boo Radleys
May 26 2021

Funky, psyedelic. Not great.

Let England Shake by PJ Harvey
May 28 2021

OK. Never listen to her before. Kind of bjork, but kind of not. No nick cave

Green Onions by Booker T. & The MG's
Jun 01 2021

Dug it. Have not listened before but really liked it.

Bug by Dinosaur Jr.
Jun 03 2021

Nice rocking little album. Not the dinosaur Jr i remember. Until the last song.

Fear Of Music by Talking Heads
Jun 04 2021

Kind of weird. Freaky deakey. Not one of their best. Hope there's more on the list

Armed Forces by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Jun 05 2021
School's Out by Alice Cooper
Jun 09 2021

One rocking album. Hadn't heard before. Loved it.

Aftermath by The Rolling Stones
Jun 11 2021
The Pleasure Principle by Gary Numan
Jun 14 2021

Never heard of him, but amazing album for 79. Grandfather of the 80s sounds.

Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
Jun 21 2021
Tusk by Fleetwood Mac
Jul 02 2021
Truth by Jeff Beck
Jul 03 2021
Bummed by Happy Mondays
Jul 05 2021
Time Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Jul 07 2021

Good jazz

Superfly by Curtis Mayfield
Jul 15 2021
1999 by Prince
Jul 28 2021
Dirt by Alice In Chains
Aug 04 2021
Tical by Method Man
Aug 07 2021
Shaft by Isaac Hayes
Nov 02 2021
Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Jan 18 2022
Odelay by Beck
Mar 05 2022

His best

Like A Prayer by Madonna
May 14 2022

Starts ok. Becomes a bit much

3 + 3 by The Isley Brothers
Jul 01 2022
Highway to Hell by AC/DC
Jul 17 2022

It's AC/DC so props for being them. Most songs sound kind of the same.

Boy In Da Corner by Dizzee Rascal
Apr 23 2023

Kind of grew on me. Some cool sounds.

Olympia 64 by Jacques Brel
Apr 24 2023

Sounds very epic and catchy. But in French

Fun House by The Stooges
Apr 25 2023

Love Iggy Pop but this is not great

Peggy Suicide by Julian Cope
Aug 03 2023

Wild ride. Wasn't sure at first but grew on you.

Elvis Presley by Elvis Presley
Aug 04 2023

The king. There's no energy like young Elvis. The best.

Eliminator by ZZ Top
Aug 05 2023

Zz Top is great. Good album has most of the hits

Shadowland by k.d. lang
Oct 20 2023

Like a country Billie Holliday. Very cool

Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth
Oct 21 2023

Meh. Didn't love it or hate it.

Paul's Boutique by Beastie Boys
Oct 22 2023

Like them but this one is not great. One good song. Other stuff is better.

Oedipus Schmoedipus by Barry Adamson
Oct 25 2023

Wild ride. Cool jazz, weird sounds, creepy spoken word...

Young Americans by David Bowie
Oct 28 2023

Boring, slow, uninteresting drivel. It's a shame.

Document by R.E.M.
Oct 29 2023

Great album. Lots of good tunes.

The Coral by The Coral
Apr 18 2024

Good. Very garage rocky.

Hypnotised by The Undertones
Apr 19 2024

There has to be 1001 better albums than this.

A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
Apr 20 2024

Great jazz. One of the best.

Stardust by Willie Nelson
Apr 21 2024

Nice little mellow album

The Doors by The Doors
Dec 10 2024

The best. Unbelievable for the time.

Pretenders by Pretenders
Dec 12 2024

Nice. Very 80's

The Madcap Laughs by Syd Barrett
Dec 13 2024

Terrible. All sounded the same. One extra star for Pink Floyd.

Let's Get It On by Marvin Gaye
Dec 14 2024

Source of 1000 commercials and 10000 babies.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly
Dec 15 2024

Very trippy. I must have liked it, and listened to it a bunch.

Freak Out! by The Mothers Of Invention
Jan 24 2025

Can see that it's revolutionary for its time. Tough listen all the way through though.

Come Away With Me by Norah Jones
Jan 25 2025

Nice album. Great voice, very mellow. Played a couple times so m just be good.

Ellington at Newport by Duke Ellington
Jan 26 2025

Lots of jazz. I am sure it's probably good. Very long but I did listen to both albumns.

Fire Of Love by The Gun Club
Jan 27 2025

Pretty good. Especially for 81

Jan 28 2025

Has two great songs, all the rest don't really have their normal vibe.

Manassas by Stephen Stills
Feb 28 2025

I'm sure somebody likes it. Just tired of this 70s whining.

Here Are the Sonics by The Sonics
Mar 02 2025

At first I thought, ugh another 60s album. But no! This was awesome!

Kind Of Blue by Miles Davis
Mar 04 2025

Nice jazz album. Looped a couple times

Killing Joke by Killing Joke
May 03 2025

Not great, but not the worst. Probably won't come back to it.

S.F. Sorrow by The Pretty Things
May 05 2025

Great if you like the Beetles. Might be ok if you like the Stones.

Critic

Average rating: 2.66 (0.59 below global average).

Other

Album origins are grouped into three buckets: US, UK, and everything else. “Other” means the artists you rate highest are from outside the US and UK.