1001 Albums Summary

Listening statistics & highlights

Albums Rated

3.32

Average Rating

Complete

1023 albums remaining

Rating Distribution

Rating Timeline

Taste Profile

1960s

Favorite Decade

Post-punk

Favorite Genre

Top Origin

Curator

Rater Style ?

5-Star Albums

1-Star Albums

Breakdown

By Genre

By Decade

By Origin

Albums

You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Vulgar Display Of Power Pantera	5	2.97	+2.03
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs Marty Robbins	5	3.33	+1.67
More Songs About Buildings And Food Talking Heads	5	3.42	+1.58
Marquee Moon Television	5	3.5	+1.5
New Forms Roni Size	4	2.53	+1.47
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm A Tribe Called Quest	5	3.61	+1.39
Casanova The Divine Comedy	4	2.67	+1.33
Strange Cargo III William Orbit	4	2.77	+1.23
Siamese Dream The Smashing Pumpkins	5	3.83	+1.17
Electric Ladyland Jimi Hendrix	5	3.95	+1.05

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1	3.32	-2.32
Before And After Science Brian Eno	1	3.09	-2.09
Ten Pearl Jam	2	3.92	-1.92
Pictures At An Exhibition Emerson, Lake & Palmer	1	2.65	-1.65
Timeless Goldie	1	2.53	-1.53
The Dark Side Of The Moon Pink Floyd	3	4.43	-1.43
Raw Power The Stooges	2	3.32	-1.32
Elastica Elastica	2	3.21	-1.21
Songs From A Room Leonard Cohen	2	3.16	-1.16
Hunky Dory David Bowie	3	4	-1

5-Star Albums (7)

View Album Wall

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

Popular Reviews

Timeless

Goldie

1/5

Self indulgent, overwrought, journeyman drivel

7 likes

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

5/5

Very good!

2 likes

1-Star Albums (4)

All Ratings

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

First album of the generator. Quite a famous Neil Young album, but not one I've listened to (Harvest being my most familiar album of his), though of course I know the track "My My, Hey Hey". Thought this album quite strange, in that it jumps around in style and genre. Latter half of the album gave me a sort of glam rock vibe!

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Not my favourite Steely Dan album, Aja is pretty hard to beat. Nevertheless, this is pretty good, the final two tracks in particular.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1/5

I have an irrational dislike of Nick Cave, don't know when it started, so the idea of an 80 minute double album does not appeal in the slightest. I lasted about 25 minutes.

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

4/5

Delightfully weird album. Enjoyed this a lot.

New Forms

Roni Size

4/5

Classic. Songs a little overlong at times though, with not quite enough progression and development. Worthy album on the 1,000 list just for ‘Brown Paper Bag’ alone.

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

2/5

Dry

PJ Harvey

3/5

Good, not great.

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

3/5

'Autopsy' was a song I had added to the 'Best of Discover Weekly' playlist I keep on Spotify. Never went on to listen to the album.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Interesting album. Really intrigued by 'Death of a Disco Dancer' — sounds like it could be an early Radiohead song!

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

Meh.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Peerless.

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

2/5

Couple good songs, but Pearl Jam have always felt never more than safe and middle of the road for me.

Killing Joke

4/5

Interesting. Enjoyed this. Sits well alongside Gang of Four's 'Entertainment'.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

Feeling good, feeling great, how are you?

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

1/5

Awful, insufferable.

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Typical Elvis Costello for me, bluesy and groovy, wry lyrics.

Kenya

Machito

3/5

Too busy for me. Like a fruit machine: too much stimulus it’s overwhelming!

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Some great singles, but doesn't half get repetitive after a while: 2 bar vocal loop, breakbeat, and repeat

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

4/5

Van Halen

4/5

Loved it. Ends very abrupltly though.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Always thought this album started amazingly well, but loses steam at “Neon Wilderness”, picks back up briefly with “Lucky Man” only to immediately peter out again. Some great songs, and singles, but not one of the great long players for me.

Raw Power

The Stooges

2/5

Couldn’t really get into it, mix and master sound really bad

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

Elastica

2/5

Definitely of its time

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Pink Flag

Wire

3/5

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

4/5

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

3/5

Contains maybe the most 80’s synths that have ever been synthesised

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

5/5

Fantastic, enjoyed this immensely

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

Pretty enjoyable album this one

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

5/5

Really great storytelling lyrics. And the production, mix and master are very good indeed: love the stereo panning, the BV stacks and the reverbs on the lead. Incredible for an album recorded in 1959.

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Bit tepid

Dare!

The Human League

3/5

Pretty good. Only really know them for ‘Don’t You Want Me’ so it was nice to hear other, darker, material.

Boston

4/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Great first half, wasn’t massively engaged as it continued

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

I love the Police, but always find this album incredibly strange. First half is pretty terrible, then all of a sudden Every Breath You Take enters and it gets good.

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

5/5

Very good!

Funeral

Arcade Fire

3/5

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

Document

R.E.M.