My 1001 Albums Journey

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1089

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2.93

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Skylarking

XTC

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1950

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Latin

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Apple Venus Volume 1 XTC	5	2.83	+2.17
The Sun Rises In The East Jeru The Damaja	5	2.9	+2.1
Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective	5	2.91	+2.09
Tical Method Man	5	2.94	+2.06
Skylarking XTC	5	3.03	+1.97
La Revancha Del Tango Gotan Project	5	3.04	+1.96
Armed Forces Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	3.07	+1.93
Step In The Arena Gang Starr	5	3.17	+1.83
Selling England By The Pound Genesis	5	3.19	+1.81
The Renaissance Q-Tip	5	3.24	+1.76

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
In Utero Nirvana	1	3.82	-2.82
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan	1	3.75	-2.75
21 Adele	1	3.69	-2.69
Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan	1	3.66	-2.66
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan	1	3.61	-2.61
Blonde On Blonde Bob Dylan	1	3.48	-2.48
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	1	3.45	-2.45
Nevermind Nirvana	2	4.37	-2.37
25 Adele	1	3.37	-2.37
Urban Hymns The Verve	1	3.37	-2.37

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
XTC	2	5
A Tribe Called Quest	2	5
The Flaming Lips	2	5
R.E.M.	4	4.25
Stevie Wonder	4	4.25
Michael Jackson	3	4.33
Arcade Fire	3	4.33

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Bob Dylan	7	1.43
Madonna	3	1.33
Slipknot	2	1
Adele	2	1
Public Image Ltd.	2	1
The Verve	2	1
Leonard Cohen	5	1.8
Nirvana	3	1.67
Kings of Leon	3	1.67
Motörhead	2	1.5
Hole	2	1.5
Christina Aguilera	2	1.5
George Michael	2	1.5
Fiona Apple	2	1.5
M.I.A.	2	1.5
Sonic Youth	5	2.2
Tom Waits	5	2.2
Pet Shop Boys	3	2
U2	4	2.25

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Missy Elliott	1, 4
Tim Buckley	1, 4, 2
Miles Davis	4, 3, 4, 1

5-Star Albums (37)

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I was going to give it 2 stars, but then 'Devil Eyes' made me want to puke.

Thank fuck that's over.

"Why do I have to share my baby with a monkey?" Was George ever spotted at Neverland Ranch?

This is a classic, even though I personally prefer 'Wrath of the Math'. Jeru kicks esoteric knowledge and is a real rap legend. I went to see Jeru at Sub Tub in Umist in the '90s. After the show he went amongst the crowd to meet random people, even though it was mostly drunk students dancing to drum and bass. I vaguely remember seeing someone get punched in the face, but I suppose it was a rap show in the '90s.

1-Star Albums (70)

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

All Ratings (1089)

Thank fuck that's over.

Nearly gave this 5*, went back for a second listen. It gets muddled and shabby after the second overture but in general very enjoyable.

I preferred Ironman and Supreme Clientele.

Prog rock for the seasoned basketcase. 3/5 PS: I'm now pretty sure RZA sampled this and not Mussorgsky for the intro to the Method Man 'Tical' album, which was an unexpected moment of clarity and stark realisation, sending me back in time over two decades to unravel my timeline and lived experience of earth. All in all, a veritable headfuck and an impending midlife crisis. Thanks, Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

Hard to rate after just one listen. I imagine it would grow on me.

I was going to give it 2 stars, but then 'Devil Eyes' made me want to puke.

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Is This Music? is a great way to end an album.

Stockport represent!

Please, no more fucking Dylan.

I used to dig this when I was in high school, but now it just sounds bad.

Best hip-hop album of all time.

A bit puerile but still good.

I was going to give this 3 then heard the audacious sound of a fart on track 7. Bold. Brave. Inspiring.

Blue Jeans and Chemical World are good songs.

Encapsulated an era of mainstream hip-hop where it appeared to be going in an interesting and innovative direction, but sadly it didn't. The first half of this album slaps, but it gets silly towards the end - chipmunk soul aged horrendously.

So many great tracks - 'A Day at the Races' and 'High Fidelity' are classics. Their previous albums are even better. Some friends and I met Chali 2na at a festival at Hackney Marshes in 2001, he seemed embarrassed but grateful to receive our admiration - great guy. I have photographical evidence of this, but I may have been a couple of beers deep and halfway through a burger at the time, and there was no hiding either.

Keep it real, give a real shout-out

The soundtrack to my early teenage years..

Overrated.

Red Dirge Girl

Vampire Weekend owe a lot to this guy.

Couldn't make it past 14 mins.

All I know is that if I compared my woman to a KFC then serious questions would be asked..

Solid Air? .. more like Solid Fart.

About as bad as the human mind can imagine.

It was either kind of good or 'turn on, tune in, drop out' new age hippie bullshit. Somewhere in between maybe... some of it was listenable.

Maybe deserves a 5 just for Carpet Crawlers.

It's never really done it for me, I just prefer some of their other albums... Rubber Soul, Revolver, Mystery Tour to name a few.

This is the soundtrack to my older brother beating me up when I was a kid. His passion for Slayer was akin to his passion for making my life difficult. Although some of the musicianship seems decent, to me Slayer will always be enablers of shitty big brother behaviour.

How anyone chooses to listen to this is incomprehensible.

Vincebus? I'd rather listen to the Vengabus. More "turn on, tune in, drop out" shite.

Average music, bad vocals.

Some great tracks but also some stupid-ass fucking skits. The remaster is bollocks too.

Give Jah head a Wobble.

Silly beyond belief but still way better than a lot of the stuff on this list.

A few great DJ Premier tracks ruined here. Her vocals are unlistenable.

Okay, now I know 7L & Esoteric took the sample for 'The Soul Purpose' from 'Love Has Found a Way'. Nice.

The vocals, man. I just can't do it..

"Why do I have to share my baby with a monkey?" Was George ever spotted at Neverland Ranch?

The Divine Comedy, I see you.

This is the seventh Dylan album I've had to listen to and it's still a complete fucking mystery to me how anyone can listen to this guy and receive enjoyment.

Vocals are discordant. Unpleasant.

Why on earth would you try to sound like Dylan? Why?

Is this the soundtrack to complete insanity?

'Avant-garde' or 'Purposefully-shit'? You decide.

I Do Not Want To Listen To This Ever Again.

Music is indeed the victim.

More proctological than gynaecological. Drink every time he says "rectum".

An amazing album, one of the easiest 5s. The Soft Bulletin, this and At War with the Mystics are an incredible run of albums to have released back-to-back. Rest In Peace to Matt T. who introduced me to this album and a lot of other music.

Upbeat electronic beats with twee vocals and doom-laden lyrics. The combo of pop music mixed with morose themes has been done to shit by British bands. It's nothing new just because someone says they are 'witch house' or 'dream pop' or whatever shit this is. Purity Ring did something similar but at least made it sound new and artistic.

Okay, the album is really silly, but Timberland's production is masterful. Hip-Hop and R&B crossover is usually very bad, but this somehow works well.

Luv me Wu Luv me Mussorgsky Luv me Meth Simple as