My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle Throbbing Gristle	5	1.89	+3.11
Rock Bottom Robert Wyatt	5	2.39	+2.61
Oar Alexander 'Skip' Spence	5	2.46	+2.54
Welcome to the Afterfuture Mike Ladd	5	2.56	+2.44
Darkdancer Les Rythmes Digitales	5	2.59	+2.41
Devotional Songs Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan	5	2.6	+2.4
The Madcap Laughs Syd Barrett	5	2.61	+2.39
The United States Of America The United States Of America	5	2.61	+2.39
Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche Koffi Olomide	5	2.62	+2.38
Duck Rock Malcolm McLaren	5	2.62	+2.38

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
In The Court Of The Crimson King King Crimson	1	3.6	-2.6
Diamond Life Sade	1	3.47	-2.47
...And Justice For All Metallica	1	3.41	-2.41
From Elvis In Memphis Elvis Presley	1	3.33	-2.33
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	1	3.29	-2.29
Achtung Baby U2	1	3.29	-2.29
System Of A Down System Of A Down	1	3.27	-2.27
Vivid Living Colour	1	3.21	-2.21
Loveless My Bloody Valentine	1	3.19	-2.19
Frampton Comes Alive Peter Frampton	1	3.19	-2.19

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Bob Dylan	7	4.86
Beatles	7	4.86
David Bowie	9	4.67
Miles Davis	4	5
Stevie Wonder	4	5
Pink Floyd	4	5
Leonard Cohen	5	4.8
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	4.8
Neil Young	4	4.75
Johnny Cash	3	5
Simon & Garfunkel	3	5
Jimi Hendrix	3	5
Radiohead	6	4.33
Led Zeppelin	5	4.4
Joni Mitchell	4	4.5
Talking Heads	4	4.5
R.E.M.	4	4.5
Paul Simon	3	4.67
Bob Marley & The Wailers	3	4.67
The Doors	3	4.67
Public Enemy	3	4.67
Arcade Fire	3	4.67
Kraftwerk	3	4.67
Peter Gabriel	3	4.67
Curtis Mayfield	2	5
Sly & The Family Stone	2	5
Fela Kuti	2	5
Stan Getz	2	5
Muddy Waters	2	5
Hole	2	5
Pulp	2	5
Aretha Franklin	2	5
Stephen Stills	2	5
Ali Farka Touré	2	5
Frank Sinatra	3	4.33
Nirvana	3	4.33
Beck	3	4.33
Deep Purple	3	4.33
Nick Drake	3	4.33
Michael Jackson	3	4.33
The Cure	3	4.33
Kate Bush	3	4.33
The Velvet Underground	3	4.33
Blur	3	4.33
The Smiths	3	4.33
Beastie Boys	3	4.33
Prince	3	4.33
The Fall	3	4.33
Kings of Leon	3	4.33
The Stooges	3	4.33
Kanye West	3	4.33

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
My Bloody Valentine	3	1
Slipknot	2	1
Pet Shop Boys	3	1.67
Elvis Presley	3	1.67
Def Leppard	2	1.5
Motörhead	2	1.5
Randy Newman	2	1.5
TV On The Radio	2	1.5
Scott Walker	2	1.5
Sepultura	2	1.5
Big Star	2	1.5

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Barry Adamson	1, 5
U2	1, 5, 2, 4
Happy Mondays	2, 5
Funkadelic	2, 5
Portishead	1, 4

5-Star Albums (276)

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Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

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

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

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

Popular Reviews

If this album is on this list then Cats should have won an Oscar and Vladimir Putin awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Everyone working their way through this project loves music. And everyone who loves music has an album that means more to them than the rest. And this one is mine. I got into Talk Talk when I heard their single 'Life's What you Make It', which reached Number 16 in the UK charts in November 1985. The two singles vying for the Number 1 spot at the time were the theme to Miami Vice by Jan Hammer and 'We Built this City' by Starship. No offence to Jan Hammer and Starship, but those fun tunes never left 1985. Thirty-eight years later Talk Talk's Colour of Spring still feels as fresh as, well, spring I suppose. When I first heard it I didn't fully understand it - and I still don't fully understand it. It feels different with each listen. A true work of art.

I'd like to publicly apologize to Courtney Love for just dismissing her as a tabloid time waster. I hadn't listen to any Hole music on principle until now. My loss. I'm sorry. This was really excellent.

Elvis has been one of the most surprising things I've learned from the list so far. Once you get past the hype and the stagecraft, his albums are truly dreadful. He slurs and lurches through this one, sounding just like the tuneless, aging barflies I've heard.imitate him a thousand times. No amount of hammy howling can give these songs any soul and his lyrics die the moment they leave his ludicrously curled lips. Music for annoying drunks.

Atrocious lyrics. Auto-tune vocals. Dull tunes. Worthy of a zero.

1-Star Albums (52)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

All Ratings (1089)

10/10

10/10. Prog Rock gold.

I liked the imaginary end credits best.

Atrocious lyrics. Auto-tune vocals. Dull tunes. Worthy of a zero.

This music makes little sense without drugs.

Metallicock

This album gave me diabetes.

They lost me at RRRRAAAAAAAAA!

If this album is on this list then Cats should have won an Oscar and Vladimir Putin awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

The beginning of Devil's Island would make a good ringtone. 2/5

Alf Garnett

Two Pet Shop Boys albums on this list is a surprise - and not in a good way.

Admiral Nelson will be turning in his grave.

Is there such a thing as a 4-star Bowie album? If there is, I haven't heard it.

Top marks for the haunting sample of the Lost Cosmonaut in Final Days. If it's true, it's one of the saddest things I've ever heard.

Well, that was fun!

Welcome to London GLHF

Music for angry incels.

Never realized 1984 was a Bowie track written in the 70s for a George Orwell-themed musical. I'm surprised to say I think it's the weakest track on an excellent album.

Second Baaba Maal album in a week. Enjoyable, but simply not good enough to keep Salif Keita or Cesaria Evora inexplicably off this list.

Stoner heaven.

It's not Stevie's greatest album, but it's still amazing. I was hovering over giving it a 4, but They Won't Go When I Go tips this into yet another masterpiece.

In time I will give this a 4, but for now it's a 3 because the early 90s aesthetic is so out of fashion - it hurts my eyes - and I'm that superficial - sorry.

Yeah, sip your Chardonnay, watch the sunset, order the salad, listen to this album and fuck off.

I vote Labour just to get Billy Bragg to shut up.

There's certainly a crock at the end of the rainbow, but it's not full of gold.

The perfect accompaniment to a laminated menu.

I've taken some time to rate this album. The more I think about Jamiroquai the lower the rating goes. I'm now at a 3. As the music receded, I'm left considering a silly little white guy singing black music, dressed as a native American and preaching environmental messages from behind the wheel of a gas-guzzling supercar. In a few hours I'll probably regret rating it so highly and I'll have to console myself with the memory of the time that photographer broke Jay Kay's nose with an epic headbutt.

Tea Deus and the Finite Patience

Enjoyable, but yer not getting more than 3 for an album of covers.

They should have taken themselves more seriously. I think their silly band name and their 'quirky' biggest hit (King of Rock n Roll - not on this album) ultimately made them seem like a gimmick and detracted from their talents. I'm pleasantly surprised by this album.

Pure genius.

Still the coolest look in pop, and a unique sound too.

Venom are still touring because Satan doesn't want them stinking up Hell with this terrible racket.

Sad. Beautiful. Majestic. Chaotic. The Van Gogh of music.

S.I.K

This album sounds like it was composed by ChatGPT.

Never heard of this album or this artist. Spectacular.

It would have been a 5, but minus 1 for the world album cover art in this entire list.

I don't think anything on this list has dated as badly as the Pet Shop Boys, but Scissor Sisters are getting there. Both were great fun at the time, but listening to them now feels like returning to the scene of an epic party the morning after.

I enjoyed this trip back to an 80s wine bar but I got a little bored towards the end and reckoned I could leave early and get back home the catch The Word on TV.

I remember going to one of the last Libertines gig in Camden in 2004. It was in a tent out the back of an art gallery. They were jeered by some of the crowd as they shambled through their set. "Once a Libertine, always a Libertine!" shouted one of their hangers-on. The band split up about a week later. As I walked home in the rain there was a junkie screaming for his mother in a phone box outside the tube station. The Libertines is like skipping the all-night bender and just going straight to waking up in a puddle of your own vomit.

Good, but this list doesn't need three Elvis Costello albums.

Each side of this six-sided monster is a stone cold 5.

This is the second album by these guys on this list. Never listened to them before. They're great!

Every song reminds me of the Friends theme tune.

I know I'm going to regret rating this so high in about 20 years, by which time this album will sound laughably dated. Oh well.

Rain of Shite

I've just given 3/5 to some insipid dullness from Goldfrapp and then am immediately confronted by this album. I'm wracked with guilt. I admit when I began listening to this I started off hostile but, six tracks in, I'm totally won over. This is a fantastic album.

I'm not giving Peter Gabriel a 3.

I think this album has been dropped from later versions of this list. It shouldn't have been.

Call the police! I'd like to report an album that's been criminally under-rated.

Who's the luckiest man in the music industry? I know. You're thinking Ringo, right? Wrong. The Beatles wouldn't have been the Beatles without him. The luckiest man in the music biz is Bernie Taupin. For some reason he has made a career out of setting laughably bad lyrics to Elton John tunes. Check out the nonsense of Yellow Brick Road. And then he produces this crap and it somehow makes this list. It's a bloody travesty.

When they finally release GTA 6 this will be the music I'll drive around town to.

Three decent albums fused together for no apparent reason so that listening to it is a real chore.

The airline food of music. It's perfectly fine and neatly packaged. The perfect accompaniment to gazing vacantly out of a little window as the distant world drifts by. But it doesn't stand up to a comparison with the real thing with your feet on the ground.

Only now - 38 years after I bought the somewhat disappointing Infected album - do I realise that I bought the wrong The The album.

The music is five stars, but I'm taking a star away for the corporate branding and whichever boardroom of suits signed off that abysmal album cover.

I think the choice of backing vocals from a bunch of screaming 14-year-old girls high on sugar were a miss-step by the great James Brown.

Like taking a warm, candle-lit bath in porridge.

When I was a teenager I would have given this a 5. It's not that the music has aged badly. It's that I have.

What people might not appreciate in 2024 is that ideas traveled much more slowly in 1983. It took people like Malcolm McLaren to go out and find new material and then encourge musicians to experiment with it. And what exciting ideas he discovered. This album shows the enthusiasm and consideration with which MM undertook the task - very different from the algorithmic fire hyrant of randomness and cat videos that replaced him.

I got bored after exactly 7 minutes and 4 seconds.

I said this about the Rolling Stones and I'm going to say it about Otis Redding too. Enjoyable, but you're not getting more than a 3 for an album full of covers.

Music for high school shooters

The only thing better than discovering a brilliant album is discovering a brilliant artist with a whole back catalogue.

It got a lot better, but the first track was terrible.

This album caught me in the right mood. I was all ready to join the pile on, but then I discovered it was a fascinating listen. I found myself groping for images to accompany each track in a way few, if any, albums on this list have made me do. I loved the garbled voices on Hometime and Valley of the Shadow of Death - so evocative of 1970s Britain - which may be lost on many listeners. It's not an album I'll return to frequently, but I'm amazed to say I'll be back. In a list of 1000 albums there should be at least one the goes down this path to explore the limits of the medium.

The Che Guevara of Beverly Hillls has a rebel anthem perfect for the next Apple commercial.

The miserable life of an under-age bride, set to jaunty music and described in lyrics that offer zero empowerment, redemption or hope. Truly disgusting.

Having listened to all their first solo albums, it's clear that George Harrison thrived after the Beatles. Lennon, by contrast, was a mess and that's reflected in his music here. Only the track Love has any appeal to me, and would fit better on his far superior second solo album. I feel sympathy for anyone who had to deal with Lennon at this time - except Yoko Ono of course.

This City Never Sleeps is an amazing track.

Fun, but I'm not sure if this counts as music, in the same way I'm not sure if MadDonalds qualifies as food.

I marked down an early Stones album because it was all covers. This is all their own work - and it still feels stolen. And this album was written when they were tax exiles - yet another example of them taking and not giving back.

The Gwyneth Paltrow of music.