My 1001 Albums Journey

451

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3.5

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41%

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2010

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Albums

You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Trout Mask Replica Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	5	2.3	+2.7
Third Soft Machine	5	2.45	+2.55
Snivilisation Orbital	5	2.7	+2.3
m b v My Bloody Valentine	5	2.73	+2.27
Yeezus Kanye West	5	2.74	+2.26
Tago Mago Can	5	2.81	+2.19
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Raekwon	5	2.84	+2.16
Slayed? Slade	5	2.87	+2.13
New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84) Simple Minds	5	2.97	+2.03
Duck Stab/Buster & Glen The Residents	4	2.04	+1.96

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Here's Little Richard Little Richard	1	3.54	-2.54
Deep Purple In Rock Deep Purple	1	3.31	-2.31
B-52's The B-52's	1	3.3	-2.3
The Colour Of Spring Talk Talk	1	3.08	-2.08
Tellin’ Stories The Charlatans	1	2.95	-1.95
Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel	2	3.95	-1.95
...Baby One More Time Britney Spears	1	2.7	-1.7
Transformer Lou Reed	2	3.66	-1.66
The United States Of America The United States Of America	1	2.61	-1.61
Brothers The Black Keys	2	3.53	-1.53

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Radiohead	4	4.75
Beck	3	4.67
Kanye West	2	5
Arcade Fire	2	5
My Bloody Valentine	2	5
The Prodigy	2	5
Led Zeppelin	2	5
David Bowie	6	4.17
Stevie Wonder	3	4.33
Public Enemy	3	4.33

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Deep Purple	4, 1
U2	2, 5
The Beach Boys	2, 5

5-Star Albums (69)

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A perfect album, the last truly high height from Beck’s discography. Good stuff is still to follow, but this one is stunning.

1-Star Albums (7)

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Definitely free on me the further in I got. Probably need to revisit a couple of her albums. The stream went straight from this into Son of a Preacher Man, reminding me of how much I have loved her musi before.

Probably more like a 3.5, but at the moment it feels closer to a 3 than a 4. I’ve heard this album a lot, and its pretty good, but its fairly far down the list of releases from the Roots that I’d choose when listening to them.

A perfect album, the last truly high height from Beck’s discography. Good stuff is still to follow, but this one is stunning.

It might be the sort of thing where it could grow into a 4/5 with repeated listens, but the first listen left me fairly lukewarm on the album.

This is a 4 when I’m in the right mood, but it feels like the sort of thing where i forget that I l enjoyed it as much as I did, and each time I hear it again, I’ll remember “that’s right, this is a 4 star experience!”

Man, it was so much easier to swallow Kanye when his rabid ego-mania seemed charming rather than disruptive and slightly terrifying. But this album is fantastic. The production really holds up. Its aggressive nature makes it feel outside of time and trend for me.

I think this is the first time I’m hearing her music. Probably heard it in the background before, as popular as she is, but this is the first time I’ve paid any attention. Well produced, and I can see the appeal, but not really up my alley.

So hard for me to get into psych rock from this era. It essentially has to wear me down a bit before I can get past the dated sound. White Rabbit is an all time classic, though.

This is an album which I’ve listened to probably a dozen times s year or more for every year since it was released. Easily one of my desert island discs. It’s as emotional and moving of an experience now as it was back in 97. Rare are the truly perfect albums, but this is one of them.

There are moments here and there on this album where I can understand why people hold this band in high regard, but every time I’ve listened to them, I largely feel bored by the music.

I am so underwhelmed by this album, but I can only recall how I felt about other albums which redefined music during that era, such as the Stooges or Velvet Underground. Today, this is a 2. After a couple more listens, I could see that improving.

This has never been one of my favorite Zappa albums. It’s probably the one I’ve listened to the least over the years, but this listen was a bit of a surprise for me. I’ve warmed to it a bit. It’s still hard for me to imagine this finding it’s way onto my stereo more than a couple more times before I die, but it’s more of a possibility today than it would have been before the latest listen.

Sure, I get it. 5 stars for that?!?! Am I saying that out of some sense that this is the “correct” answer? Is this a case of the emperor’s new clothes? Am I on drugs? Am I mentally well? A 5 for an album that I wouldn’t want to listen to more often than not? It just doesn’t make sense. I promise you, it is sincere. Many years ago I heard Frank Zappa for the first time and my musical world grew quickly. I found that I was drawn to things that stood in stark contrast to the kinds of music that was familiar. I wouldn’t always enjoy it, but I didn’t need to. My fascination with its uniqueness was enough. Of course, the less I enjoyed it, the less likely I was to return for another listen. Zappa’s album Hot Rats was my introduction to Captain Beefheart, and I loved his vocals on that album. When I found out that Trout Mask Replica existed, I immediately sought it out, and was truly fascinated by what I found. It was awful, and a strange musical mess, but damned interesting. I walked away thinking it was something I never needed to hear again, and thought I was done. A short time later, I tried to describe the experience of listening to the album to a friend, and decided to short cut things by just playing some of it for him. Some time later I repeated this with another friend. Over and over again, I’d find myself coming back to the album and playing it again, and before long the curiosity had been replaced by appreciation. More and more of it had started to click, until one day I realized that I actually enjoyed the thing. It’s still not an album that I can throw on any old time. It’s an experience that can only happen under the uncommon ideal circumstances, But when those elements come together, it’s electric.

This was the first I’ve heard of this artist, but there is definitely some overlap with some of the more experimental music that I find intriguing. It caught my ear in a way that has me curious to revisit it again in the near future. I’m going to give it the benefit of the doubt and bump up my rating a point to a 4. It fits the pattern of the kind of thing that will grow on me a good bit over time.

This album seems to nail the sound it’s aiming for. Unfortunately, that sound isn’t something that fits with my taste. Justin Hawkins is clearly a very talented singer, but the falsetto flourishes are too pervasive. This has always been an album that feels so close to a good fit and yet so far away.

This was a foundational album in my burgeoning interest in electronic music back in the mid 90s. Their Green album was a good start, but it almost sounded too dated when I first heard it way back then. This Brown album, however, is still as excellent as I remember finding it then. This is not their pinnacle. That would come a few years later with In/Sides and Middle of Nowhere. But this is still an album that I pull out every few months.

I don’t listen to Industrial music as much as I did in my younger days back in the 90s, but it’s still in the rotation. When this album came up, I was excited to finally check out Throbbing Gristle. Unfortunately, however influential and ground breaking this was in the 70s, I just couldn’t connect with it. Happy with the music that was birthed from it, but this is not for me.

I do not get the appeal.

This is a band that I discovered 23 years ago and felt immediately drawn to their unique approach and sound. But their sound is something that I’m interested in exploring, but I have to be in a specific mood to enjoy the sound (and even then its very particular albums or songs in their catalog). This is an album that I hadn’t visited in almost 20 years, and I was surprised how well I remembered it, and how much I enjoyed this listen. 4 stars might be a bit too high, but 3 doesn’t really capture my feelings or reaction to this relisten.

This score is overly harsh, but I have a strong aversion to this music.

This was never one of my albums. I was very much into hip hop, metal, and a mix of the two during the era when this was released, but it always felt a bit cheesy to me. Still, I owned a copy, and I thought I’d listened to the entire thing at least a few times, but the majority of this album is unfamiliar to me. I didn’t even remember there was an Eminem feature. This falls somewhere between 2 or 3 stars for me. There are moments where I can feel the appeal, but those moments are outweighed by how much I dislike the entire notion of Kid Rock himself. 2 stars.