My 1001 Albums Journey

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Ghosteen Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	2.97	+2.03
Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters	5	3.24	+1.76
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	5	3.32	+1.68
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.32	+1.68
Surrealistic Pillow Jefferson Airplane	5	3.52	+1.48
Hard Again Muddy Waters	5	3.6	+1.4
Wild Is The Wind Nina Simone	5	3.64	+1.36
(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) Lynyrd Skynyrd	5	3.74	+1.26
Is This It The Strokes	5	3.81	+1.19
Leftism Leftfield	4	2.9	+1.1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Graceland Paul Simon	1	3.73	-2.73
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	1	3.31	-2.31
The Soft Bulletin The Flaming Lips	1	3.28	-2.28
Countdown To Ecstasy Steely Dan	1	3.28	-2.28
Thriller Michael Jackson	2	4.22	-2.22
The Wall Pink Floyd	2	4.13	-2.13
Kimono My House Sparks	1	3.06	-2.06
Spiderland Slint	1	2.97	-1.97
Connected Stereo MC's	1	2.95	-1.95
Among The Living Anthrax	1	2.85	-1.85

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Artist	Albums	Average
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	2	5

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L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

System Of A Down

3/5

Like A Prayer

Madonna

2/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

2/5

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

4/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

2/5

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Rocks

Aerosmith

2/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

5/5

New Forms

Roni Size

2/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

3/5

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

2/5

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

4/5

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

3/5

Scott 2

Scott Walker

2/5

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

2/5

Miriam Makeba

4/5

Teen Dream

Beach House

2/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

3/5

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

3/5

Surprisingly liked this a lot, despite it being very country

Le Tigre

2/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

2/5

A lot of fun and I bet it sounded amazing and fresh at the time but doesn't do much for me now.

Spiderland

Slint

1/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

4/5

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

2/5

1977

Ash

3/5

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

3/5

Cross

Justice

3/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

2/5

Look I listened to it. What more do you want? It's getting 2 instead of 1 because it's not actively offenseive, unless you have to listen to it all the way through like this

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Closer

Joy Division

4/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

2/5

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

2/5

Ctrl

SZA

2/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

Let It Be

The Replacements

2/5

John Prine

3/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

The La's

3/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

5/5

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

2/5

Sheet Music

10cc

2/5

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

2/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

2/5

Maxinquaye

Tricky

4/5

1999

Prince

3/5

Deadly opening tracks, Delirious is unreal. But could have done without all the female screaming and sex noises towards the end.

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

A mediocre Beatles album is still a pretty good album.

Adele

3/5

Not something I would normally listen to but actually an amazingly strong opening. Kind of tales off in mediocrity for me, probably wouldn't put on the full album again though I enjoyed it more than I thought.

Kimono My House

Sparks

1/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

2/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

2/5

Assume it made the list because it's proto-punk but otherwise feels mediocre

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

I didn't think this would be for me but it's a classic for a reason

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Mask

Bauhaus

2/5

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

2/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

2/5

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

3/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

5/5

100% amazing

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

So smooth, really nice chilling music

Van Halen

3/5

Fun but ultimately empty

Sea Change

Beck

2/5

Feels sad and forgettable

Back In Black

AC/DC

3/5

Gorillaz

2/5

I expected more, really disappointing

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Some mediocrity, some gems

Play

Moby

4/5

An almost perfect album but it's too long and there's a few duds near the end, plus unnecessary talking samples

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

1/5

Sorry no, can't get over the vocals

Vespertine

Björk

4/5

Basket of Light

Pentangle

2/5

Among The Living

Anthrax

1/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

2/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

2/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

Didn't realise there were so many stone cold classics on this. Great album

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

2/5

This is somebody's jam, but not mine. Bit of a snoozefest

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

2/5

When it's good, it's amazing. When it's bad, it's utter dregs. Sadly the bad outweights the good here.

The Clash

4/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

2/5

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

3/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

2/5

A work of genius I don't want to ever listen to again

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

2/5

Atomizer

Big Black

1/5

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

1/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

2/5

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

4/5

I don't know if I should like this as much as I do, it should be boring but the harmonies are completely lush

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

The GOAT

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

2/5

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Dull

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

3/5

I just don't know if I'll ever be a Joni Mitchell, even if I really want to?

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

We're all just here for Papa was a Rolling Stone

Scissor Sisters

5/5

An unashamed disco banger

Dire Straits

3/5

I liked this more than I thought I would, was funky in places. Though I'm not sure I would listen to it again unless I was driving or something - seems like good driving music.

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

Legendary

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

Thought it would be better tbh

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

4/5

Alright you got me, I enjoyed this more than I anticipated

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

2/5

I just don't like his voice

Paris 1919

John Cale

2/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

2/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

2/5

Quiet Life

Japan

2/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

2/5

Seminal but not for me. Couldn't believe it was the 17th studio album but it sounds like it

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Led Zeppelin

5/5

The Stone Roses

3/5

The United States Of America

2/5

This is what ADHD sounds like

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

2/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

1/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

2/5

Not for me but I love his voice

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

5/5

Leftism

Leftfield

4/5

One or two tracks detract from a potential 5 star rating but overall it's a banger

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Solid but not quite a 5

Peter Gabriel

2/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

2/5

Vibey for a certain 80's sound but pretty dull

Django Django

4/5

Blast from the past and a riot at that

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Classic pop punk. Biased slightly as they are one of the best and most consistent live acts about but it slaps

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

There's just something about the vocals that will never make it a 5 star for me personally, but it is a delight

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Not the best Nirvana album but that makes it still awesome

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

3/5

The highs are dizzying, the lows are mediocre

Connected

Stereo MC's

1/5

This is so naff. I know 1001 albums is a lot...but c'mon

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

3/5

I enjoyed it for sure but again, how did this make the cut? Recency bias when the list was out? Hurray that it was under 30 minutes though

Blackstar

David Bowie

3/5

This is probably a 4 as an album, but my own particular enjoyment of it was a 3. However might improve on deeper listens.

Pretenders

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

1/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

How can you not enjoy the shit out of this

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

Perfectly pleasant middle of the road listening

Violent Femmes

2/5

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Achingly sad, haunting and beautiful. A work of art.

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

4/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

3/5

I preferred The Bends but some of the individual songs are great

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

2/5

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

This slaps but suffers for being a bit too long

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

3/5

Nice vibes

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

2/5

Only middling, certainly too long and slow at the end. Also hard to come to this fresh and find everything about it distasteful. Oh well, don't be horrible to people if you want them to be unbiased.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

Perfectly pleasant in every way. Probably a 3.5. Could have benefitted from being tighter though.

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

2/5

Perfectly pleasant and inoffensive. Can listen while working. But proof 1000 albums is too many.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

A Beatles album is always a pleasure. Pity the album ends with Run for Your Life, leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

Graceland

Paul Simon

1/5

I skipped forward more songs on this album than I think any I've listened to so far. I really don't like Paul Simon's voice and nothing in any of these tracks makes up for that

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Pretty good, bland in places. Shocked that the In Crowd is one of the least played songs on the album, to me its probably the funkiest

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

David Bowie

5/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

Ok I'm not a Dylan fan, I don't really get the appeal of his voice but...this slaps. I am happy to be corrected!

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

4/5

Sometimes you come across something which is absolutely not your jam but is so clearly the top of its respective game you have to enjoy on its own merits and this is that album

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

Probably a 3.5. I think it deserves another listen