My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Boy In Da Corner	5	2.57	+2.43
Swordfishtrombones	5	2.95	+2.05
Dig Your Own Hole	5	3.12	+1.88
Trio	5	3.13	+1.87
Miriam Makeba	5	3.19	+1.81
Selected Ambient Works 85-92	5	3.21	+1.79
Hot Rats	5	3.36	+1.64
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)	5	3.39	+1.61
Parachutes	5	3.46	+1.54
Illinois	5	3.49	+1.51

Album	You	Global	Diff
Tracy Chapman	1	3.78	-2.78
The Downward Spiral	1	3.34	-2.34
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector	1	3.28	-2.28
Here Are the Sonics	1	3.16	-2.16
evermore	1	3.04	-2.04
Disintegration	2	3.85	-1.85
Highway 61 Revisited	2	3.77	-1.77
Slipknot	1	2.68	-1.68
Oracular Spectacular	2	3.61	-1.61
Now I Got Worry	1	2.52	-1.52

Artist	Albums	Avg	Score
David Bowie	4	4.5	3.86

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Very Niel Young. The only song which really caught my attention was the Llama one.

Depeche Mode

2/5

I think I'm not german enough to completely and immersively enjoy an album like this. I'm not sure where the german obsession with 80s music comes from, but it's a strikingly intergenerational phenomenon. Its prevalence on radio could be explained away by taking a look at the demographics of radio consumption, which I suspect would reveal a 40+ trend. Nostalgia is a strong driving force in enjoying and consuming music. None of this can explain why the youth also celebrate 80s music and 80s revivalism to the extent that they do. It feels like every second night at a studenty bar/club is an 80s/90s night. Living here I've come into contact with more music from the decade than I would ever willingly subject myself to. Suffice to say, it hasn't rubbed off on me. There must be plenty of qualities in this album that made it important at the time, but I struggle to identify them. The only song I really found myself invested in was Pimpf, but i'm unsure if this was because of the qualities of the song itself, or if it simply relief at the brief respite from the deluge of 80s synth sounds that is Music for the Masses.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

2/5

I drank too much this Weekend to remember enough of this album to write a propper review. My overconsumption of alcohol wasn't a deliberate attempt to forget, but maybe there is a subconcious causal relationship between the two.

2112

Rush

2/5

The title song/s is at least lyrically interesting. Beginning with a biblical quote, before going into some world-building, describing a dystopian society run by priests where guitars are ancient artefacts. For the fact that electric guitars are merely ancient artefacts, there's plenty of guitar noodling as you'd expect from 70s prog rock. The fact that the world presented in the first track of the album is inspired by Ayn Rand somehow ties the whole thing together for me. Tepid Canadian prog rock inspired by an author who's work would in the next decades develop the most intimate associations with conservative and neo-liberal dickheadery. This album gets 3/5 from me, merely because my last review was MGMT and in comparison I find this tolerable. (The Temple of Syrinx and Something for Nothing are alright)

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

Much more explicit than I remembered or expected...

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

2/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

Surprised me, a couple of excellent tracks, sorry tom.

Garbage

2/5

Extremely bland. This album was so middle of the road in terms of sound and lyricism that I'm going to cut my review short in before I bore myself more by remembering details about garbage.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

5/5

This was more of a rock album than many of Bowies other releases. So not as much up my alley than other albums. But, it's still Bowie before his 90s phase so it's still fantastic. I like the inclusion of a bunch of piano, particularly the solo on Aladin Sane. There are also some entertaining lyrics; "Time (falls) wanking to the floor" made me chuckle.

evermore

Taylor Swift

1/5

I'm struggling to decide between a 1 and a 2 rating. I hope that my decision to give it 1 star doesn't stem from an intrinsic snobbishness, but I think I can still ground this rating in at least a superficial logic. Namely, that while this album wasn't offensive or unlistenabley bad, it was extremely bland. This blandness is coupled with the fact that the album is less than a year old, and hasn't had to withstand the test of time yet. I can't find anything in it that I could imagine is particularly new or has "redefined the genre." Therefore, although i'd rather listen to this kind of mediocrity than another 80s synth pop album, it still only gets 1 from me.

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

2/5

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

5/5

Very funny, some real interesting Instrumentation

Tracy Chapman

1/5

Not my cup of tea

Hysteria

Def Leppard

2/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

2/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

1/5

I had to read some reviews to understand why this album might be included in a list of 1001 historically important albums. It seems that this is debatably a precursor to punk, a proposition that nonetheless seems to be disputed. Without this historical association I struggle to find any reason to elevate this album above the rest of the beatlesesque sounds of the mid 60s. If anything the shitty audio quality (which normally doesn't at all affect my judgement of an album) renders this album not only uninspiring, but almost unlistenable. 2/10

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

2/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

3/5

Reign In Blood

Slayer

3/5

Refreshing change from a run of mediocre albums

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane