My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Microshift Hookworms	5	3.03	+1.97
C'est Chic CHIC	5	3.34	+1.66
Surfer Rosa Pixies	5	3.5	+1.5
90 808 State	4	2.69	+1.31
Millions Now Living Will Never Die Tortoise	4	2.88	+1.12
Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel	5	3.96	+1.04

Album	You	Global	Diff
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	1	3.46	-2.46
Hot Rats Frank Zappa	1	3.36	-2.36
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space Spiritualized	1	3.15	-2.15
Idlewild Everything But The Girl	1	2.58	-1.58
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs Derek & The Dominos	2	3.39	-1.39
Urban Hymns The Verve	2	3.36	-1.36
The College Dropout Kanye West	2	3.31	-1.31
Revolver Beatles	3	4.25	-1.25
Back To Black Amy Winehouse	3	4.02	-1.02

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Sad, dramatic, pretty

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

1/5

Rollicking, deafeningly monotonous.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

2/5

Rapping and production are decent. I still find Kanye unabearable.

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

4/5

Rollicking, British, and fun. Highly enjoyed it.

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Funky and fun.

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Fun but quiet and underwhelming.

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

Unobtrusive, quiet, and interesting.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

Weird, folksy, and fun.

90

808 State

4/5

Quirky, catchy, and solid beats, especially for the time.

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

4/5

Beautiful, timeless, and moody.

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

1/5

Contrived, sleepy, and purposeless.

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

1/5

First two tracks were unbearable, so I turned it off.

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

4/5

Laid back, technically complex, chill.

Microshift

Hookworms

5/5

Beautiful, complex, and fun

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

3/5

Vocals are big in the mix, second half of the album was much more artistically captivating. Found it hard to listen to at times but in general a positive experience.

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

3/5

Quiet, unassuming, pretty

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

1/5

Did not enjoy the first two tracks, so I stopped listening

Urban Hymns

The Verve

2/5

Soft, melodic, somewhat uninspired.

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

Nostalgic and artsy. Very enjoyable.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Spunky, fun, and heartfelt.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Soulful, catchy, and moving.

Dire Straits

3/5

Fine

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

Iconic, fun, a little boring.

Violent Femmes

3/5

Cheeky, pedantic, folksier than I expected.

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

4/5

Folksy, meditative, surprising

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

It was fine.

Foo Fighters

4/5

Classic, grungy, quality.

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

Fun, classic, a little uniform.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Beautiful

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

4/5

Super enjoyable and fun.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Fun, but less enjoyable than I expected.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

Classic and fun, a little bit misogynist.

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

Different than I expected, quality.

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Interesting elements, especially the instrumentation. I could take or leave the lyrics and vocals.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Funky, psychedelic, not really my style but fun

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Great album

Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

Enjoyable and fun, classic, wish I'd listened sooner.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

3/5

Fantastic

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Lovely

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

4/5

Enjoyable and smooth

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

It was fine

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

3/5

Catchy but unsatisfying

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Phrenology

The Roots

4/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

Not my fave

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

3/5

It was fine

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

4/5

Excellent and chill

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

3/5

It was fine

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

Super enjoyable, grungy and fresh.

C'est Chic

CHIC

5/5

Beautiful album.

Snivilisation

Orbital

3/5

Neat if a little inaccessible

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

2/5

Not interesting

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

Mask

Bauhaus

3/5

Fine

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

Close To You

Carpenters

4/5

Beautiful if a little contrived

Gorillaz

4/5

Deeply satisfying

The Visitors

ABBA

4/5

Excellent mostly

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Super good and relevant

Revolver

Beatles

3/5

Pretty good, last track is lit.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

Way better and more poetic than I expected

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

Classic

Trio

Dolly Parton

3/5

Good but not my style.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Fun!

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

As good as I remembered

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

Fun and interesting

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

3/5

Not my style but well produced

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