My 1001 Albums Journey

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Sufjan Stevens

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178

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Tarkus Emerson, Lake & Palmer	5	2.78	+2.22
I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail Buck Owens	5	2.8	+2.2
Night Life Ray Price	5	2.81	+2.19
Live / Dead Grateful Dead	5	2.81	+2.19
Ananda Shankar Ananda Shankar	5	2.83	+2.17
Headquarters The Monkees	5	2.85	+2.15
The Sounds Of India Ravi Shankar	5	2.85	+2.15
Fred Neil Fred Neil	5	2.92	+2.08
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake Small Faces	5	2.93	+2.07
Moby Grape Moby Grape	5	2.95	+2.05

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
(What's The Story) Morning Glory Oasis	1	3.86	-2.86
Siamese Dream The Smashing Pumpkins	1	3.83	-2.83
In Utero Nirvana	1	3.82	-2.82
Metallica Metallica	1	3.77	-2.77
Doolittle Pixies	1	3.74	-2.74
Hot Fuss The Killers	1	3.73	-2.73
Violator Depeche Mode	1	3.7	-2.7
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins	1	3.68	-2.68
The Joshua Tree U2	1	3.66	-2.66
Superunknown Soundgarden	1	3.65	-2.65

Artists

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Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	5	5
Beatles	7	4.71
Steely Dan	4	5
Stevie Wonder	4	5
Bob Dylan	7	4.57
Pink Floyd	4	4.75
Miles Davis	4	4.75
R.E.M.	4	4.75
Beastie Boys	3	5
Jimi Hendrix	3	5
Yes	3	5
Bob Marley & The Wailers	3	5
Nick Drake	3	5
The Kinks	4	4.5
Black Sabbath	3	4.67
Creedence Clearwater Revival	3	4.67
The Beach Boys	3	4.67
The Doors	3	4.67
Marvin Gaye	3	4.67
Grateful Dead	2	5
Stan Getz	2	5
Rush	2	5
The Rolling Stones	6	4
Simon & Garfunkel	3	4.33
The Smiths	3	4.33
Johnny Cash	3	4.33
Public Enemy	3	4.33
Van Morrison	3	4.33
Paul Simon	3	4.33
Beck	3	4.33
The Byrds	5	4

Least Favorites

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Artist	Albums	Average
Sonic Youth	5	1
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	1
Pixies	3	1
Kate Bush	3	1
My Bloody Valentine	3	1
Kings of Leon	3	1
Tom Waits	5	1.6
U2	4	1.5
Björk	4	1.5
Kanye West	3	1.33
Madonna	3	1.33
The Fall	3	1.33
New Order	2	1
The Prodigy	2	1
Oasis	2	1
The Smashing Pumpkins	2	1
Depeche Mode	2	1
Siouxsie And The Banshees	2	1
Joy Division	2	1
Slipknot	2	1
Mudhoney	2	1
Orbital	2	1
LCD Soundsystem	2	1
Echo And The Bunnymen	3	1.67
Aerosmith	3	1.67
Kraftwerk	3	1.67
Leonard Cohen	5	2
Pulp	2	1.5
Suede	2	1.5
Manic Street Preachers	2	1.5
The xx	2	1.5
The The	2	1.5
Everything But The Girl	2	1.5
Christina Aguilera	2	1.5
Fatboy Slim	2	1.5
Hole	2	1.5
Roxy Music	3	2
Metallica	4	2.25

Controversial

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Artist	Ratings
Ryan Adams	1, 5
Fleetwood Mac	1, 4
The Pogues	4, 1
Metallica	4, 1, 1, 3
PJ Harvey	2, 1, 4, 4

5-Star Albums (157)

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Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

Popular Reviews

Read poetry over music. Meh.

Nothing "I need to hear" aside from the song I've heard 3000 times in my life.

Fantastic Americana from the best band in the world

Jerry. Pedal steel Excellent. All of the albums to come out of the PERRO recording sessions are pretty good to outstanding, and this is an outstanding one..

The best.

1-Star Albums (178)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

All Ratings (1089)

Excellent pop-folk album that talks about things that are going on at the time through personal experiences.

Fantastic piece of late 60's "pop" jazz.

The best.

Classic album. Generated a new genre for future middle school boys to headbang too. 5-star banger.

Excellent album of pop punk.

Synth-pop is wasn't into in the 80s, and still am not into it.

Not bad at all, especially compared with the mass of early 80s crap I've been getting "randomly generated" lately.

An excellent example of the early Bakersfield sound. Toe-tapping greatness.

Fantastic Americana from the best band in the world

Ah sophomore year.

Listen to Radiohead much? My lord.

Nothing "I need to hear" aside from the song I've heard 3000 times in my life.

Beautiful British acid folk.

An excellent album that I haven't listened to in far too long.

Surprisingly pleasant.

Boring ass alt-rock.

Excellent baroque pop.

Overplayed.

According to political writer Peter Dreier, the music's "pop-oriented" sound and the marketing of Springsteen as "a heavily muscled rocker with an album cover featuring a giant US flag, may have overshadowed the album's radical politics."

Yet another album that's basically one song that we've all heard 1000000 times and some similar tunes. Fusion muzak, though Jaco is the man.

blech.

Not bad

Classic.

Blech again. "Random?" Two overplayed U2 albums in 5 days?

Two Kayne albums in 5 days? No thanks "random" generator.

Pretty standard glam rock.

Yup, they suck. I tried but man this was horrible.

A classic piece of prog.

Jerry. Pedal steel Excellent. All of the albums to come out of the PERRO recording sessions are pretty good to outstanding, and this is an outstanding one..

blech

not something I need to listen to before I die.

Still sucks.

A classic. So instrumental in changing rock music through the magic of production. Amazing.

Another that contains one song that we've all heard a 1001 times. Rest of the album is variations on that theme, no need to hear this before I die.

Classic Album.

Still as fantastic as the first time I heard it!

Now that's music!

Crap.

meh. mediocre punk.

Hell no.

One of the GOATs!

Would have preferred maybe 29 songs, tops..

Bummed I had to hear this.

Meh. Jersey guy mumbles over slowed-down yakity sax music.

Not bad overall, but there are a couple of horrible, horrible tracks (Kizza Me for instance.)

Just mid-90s drech.

Shite in the 90s, shite now.

Classic.

Would be higher, but Kate Bush. Blech.

Can I give it negative stars?

I'd rate it lower than 1 if that was possible, nowhere near essential or anything that I ever need to hear. Just horrible repetitive "beats" with junior high-level lyrics.

One of the best voices ever.

Radiohead lite.

I"m a classic rock guy, but this is pretty one note. Pretty hard to not argue it's just one long song.

Shit. Always was, always will be. I doubt the parents of the band listen to this.

Read poetry over music. Meh.

It's ok background music, but boy some tracks need to be edited down. The same loop for 6+ minutes gets quite stale.

One of the greatest albums of the early 2000s

I'd give it less than one if I could.

Nice 70's folk rock

Meh. Late 80s pop R&B crap.

Great album by a huge piece of shite.

Fantastic big band sound from a master of the genre.

screeching.

Generic "indie rock." There are 1001 albums they could have picked rather than this dreck.

Thank goodness these crap songs are only a couple of minutes tops.

Classic rock at it's finest.

Meh Indie "rock"

Jazz rock / prog / Canterbury Scene of the highest order.

Best songs on this album are covers, and they aren't really that great of a cover band. I'd give it a half-star if possible.

People are into this shit? Like people are way into this?

Not a huge grunge fan and this is meh grunge at best.

More spoken word than rap in my mind. Good story, good beats, but nothing I need to listen to again. Really didn't need to listen to it in the first place.

Do people think this is good?

Good early Beatles proto-psych pop.

Sultans is one of the greatest songs ever.

So many bad reviews for this album, then check the trip-hop albums and folks tripping over themselves to praise. I'm not a trip-hop fan but this is the OG trip-hop and the things the did to achieve the sounds they did with 1977 tech that a 7th grader can now do with a 10$ program...well it set the stage. Goodness.

They are very very wrong with the assumptive title. Perhaps "Your New Favourite Band to Shite On as they are complete ass and only listened to chav wankers" would have been a smarter title.

Middling alt rock

The best U2 album bar none.

A classic of ALL genres.

Soundtrack of senior year of high school!

Quality metal.

Repetitive shite.

Could have cut out about half these songs and been a much better album for sure.

Ah the good 90s stuff.

I Knew of, but never really listened. What a homage to Phil Spector's thang. A life cut short way too soon, but thank you Amy for giving us what you could.

Pixies' like wanking alt \"credentials\" blech.

meh

Not the biggest The Who fan, but that was enjoyable.

Way more enjoyable then I thought when it came up.

A CLASSIC. Soundtrack of high school and of many other better times of life.

Bored of Canada. like most ambient, just repetitive beats from a machine. I guess I should have listened at a lower volume to truly make it ambient, maybe would have gotten a higher score.

Very Pavement/Cracker. A good listen, but nothing something I'm gaga about.

Classic album for sure, but I was never a Who guy.

Repetitive beats. Singer has a nice voice, but lord those "beats."

One of the seminal albums of my last two years of high school.

Really 3.5. Could do with out the skits.

Sad that I can't give lower than one star. Rip-off Depeche Mode and I hate Depeche Mode.

Ah, college.

Not a pop-punk guy by any means, but this was way better than than 90% of the albums that aren't really something I NEED to hear. Enjoyable.

Missing that Steely Dan something, but still a very good album.

If glam and AC/DC had a baby.

Repetitive electronica crap.

Fine, but nearly as good as the other Mitchell albums that are included on this list. A welcome respite from the over abundance of horrendous electronica on the list though.

What? Some jazz rather than ANOTHER UK electronica album that the artist's mother is the only other listener? WOW. That said, excellent Afro-jazz album.

O hellz ya. The good stuff.

Don't Bruce in general, but this was dull as F.

A classic from college.

Redneck crap that's not even worth a county fair.

Shitty Aussie Tom Waits with a worse backing band,

Would be better with even less Stevie Nicks.

Stellar when it was released, but I've probably heard this more than 1001 times.

Yet more Britpop. One of the trash genres from the 90s along with New Jack Swing.

NO MORE COHEN PLLLLEEEEEEEAAASSSSEE!!

Not sure I could dance to this, and certainly don't like listening to it. I appreciate its supposed influence, but top of the list of the 1001 I don't need to listen to.

Good music that I was into in the 80s, but horrible quality on the recording.

Less than elevator music-level dreck. She's got a nice voice though.

"If Tom Waits sang Leonard Cohen songs." So two of my least favourite on this project sung a third member of the there's too many albums by these shit artists on this list club.

Not something that I'd normally set out to listen to. Not something I need to spin again, but a good listen while I browse the world from my desk.

There are some low points for, but I give him some points for some Mike Oldfieldian moments.....Water Babies is 4 minute Mike Oldfield reminiscent track so gotta rate this high. I may have been drinking and not that into other tracks, but this and some weed...well I'm rating. May regret this later.

Just horrible

Well blueski is the #1 track because the actually did something other than tell a computer to manufacture a sad beat. That said, didn't really need to listen to this.

"Worst. band. EVER." -Comic Book Guy.

Repetitive drivel.

Love me some Canterbury Scene.

I've heard this 1001 times. No need for anymore.

Janis.

As I tell my kids, repeating something over and over doesn't make it right.

Rating this less than a 5? Hey man are you crazy or something? See what happened last time this started."

Meh. Musically ok, but the lyrics/singing brought it way down.

Ah that was a great Summer. Great album.,

Glad this period of garage rock revivalism didn't last. Blah.

Quintessential psychedelic rock.

1001? That's as many people that showed up to their live shows over the course of their career. Yeah! A band that was super influential to a shit genre of music. Whooopie! The people that need to listen to this already have and they have shite taste in music. I deserves less stars than I can give it.

There really should be negative reviews.

Classic. Ushered in an era.

Mediocre at best.

psychedelic country rock, I dig.

Perfectly lovely.

Wasn't a fan when this was the style, not a fan now.

I played the Madden this was featured on, it was shite too.

Psychedelic country rock of the first order.

Nina. Simple enough.

Absolutely the best. Read a lot of reviews about listening to jazz by the guys that invented the genre. Interestingly, I remember seeing a doc that talked about Brubeck creating music over a kid over the rhythm of water pumps on his parent's ranch as a kid. This was when he hadn't been exposed to jazz. Kid just had talent and went on to create some of the best music ever created.

I thought it was a couple of songs repeat.

One of the worst bands in the universe.

I wish I could give this repetitive bullshit less than one star. Supposedly a compilation of different artists....it sounded like one overly long and boring song.

Fantastic African-influenced Brazilian funk!

Frank Black / Pixies are the epitome of suck rock of the early 90s, and I mean that in a yes they are horrible way.

Better than I anticipated. I would have liked it better if it was about 30 minutes shorter.

Just as fresh and beautiful as the first time I heard it in 2001. What a great little piece of Americana.

warbling.

A more proper title would be This Is Noise.

From wiki: "released around the same time as other droll shit that sounds the same during a horrible time in popular music."

A classic.

Pop schlock of the lowest denominator. Not 90 UK indie crap so gets the 2nd star.

generic "rock." I wouldn't really enjoy shopping to this.

Just horrible. It should be on the 1001 albums I didn't need to listen to.

Smoooooooooooth.

Pretty much complete shite. Glad he had one album for his future, but I didn't need to contribute to his "success."

Nope.

Shit grunge that supposedly influenced the shit grunge that got popular.

I wish less than one was available. I don't understand the love for Nick Cave, then again, I've never had a brain injury.

God, I hate the Pixes.

Warbling of the lowest order

Seminal album.

Kinks are grossly underrated and one of the bands that should have the majority of their discography featured on this list.

Joy. MORE Nick Cave. AND IT'S AN HOUR LONG??? Unraptured joy! My god, Nick Cave sucks.

Props for being part of the cutting edge of country rock, but I do hate the f'ing Eagles.

Classic.

They are nothing like The Eagles, the Dan is full of talent unlike those hacks.

Smoothness.

4 but rated a five because of his Jefferson Airplane influence, Ballad of You, Me & Poohneil is an amazing track.

No more God Damn Nick Cave.

Classic.

Zappa. Nuff said. (plus Shuggie Otis on bass!)

Meh.

Proggy prog prog :)

Excellent hip-hop

More of a Up On The Sun guy, but a quality album of 'cowpunk.'

Loved Supremely. A pillar of American and world music by an icon.

The suck. I wish I could give -5.

NO MORE TOM WAITS PLEASE. The dude does not need 800 albums on this list.

not bad for classic punk

Excellent little piece of country-folk psych.

Love the Modern Lovers, the bands they influenced not so much. Maybe it's being from New England, maybe it's just that Jonathon knows how to write a tune.

meh.

Blech

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