My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Armed Forces Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	3.09	+1.91
Parklife Blur	5	3.38	+1.62
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	5	3.56	+1.44
Is This It The Strokes	5	3.81	+1.19
Like Water For Chocolate Common	4	2.95	+1.05
Signing Off UB40	4	2.97	+1.03

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bad Michael Jackson	1	3.8	-2.8
The Number Of The Beast Iron Maiden	1	3.59	-2.59
Ace of Spades Motörhead	1	3.29	-2.29
Siamese Dream The Smashing Pumpkins	2	3.83	-1.83
She's So Unusual Cyndi Lauper	2	3.48	-1.48
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Aphex Twin	2	3.21	-1.21
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight Richard Thompson	2	3.05	-1.05

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Raucous. Enjoyed it more than I thought.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

1/5

Not for me. Never was, never has been, and this repeated listen hasn’t changed my mind.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Some classics on here.

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

4/5

An absolute riot.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

I’ve never listened to anything like this before. It sounded much more polished than perhaps I was expecting, and Siouxie’s voice is unique. Interesting. Probably a grower.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Not usually a fan of live albums, and don’t usually feel like I’ve missed out on anything, but this sounded like a hell of a night. You can almost smell the cigarette smoke. His voice is absolutely unbelievable.

Play

Moby

4/5

A long-forgotten old favourite. Lovely to hear it again. I remembered it far better than I thought I would, having not heard it for 20 years.

Hysteria

Def Leppard

3/5

The last time I heard this, I was round at my friend Rhys’s house, playing ZX Spectrum games. He played this tape on constant rotation, because he loved it. I hated it. 30 or so years on, I didn’t hate it. It’s still not really my thing, but it’s a solid rock album, and it gets an extra star for transporting me back to happy, carefree times.

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

4/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

3/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

2/5