1001 Albums Summary

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893
Albums Rated
3.52
Average Rating
82%
Complete
196 albums remaining

Rating Distribution

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1950
Favorite Decade
Funk
Favorite Genre
US
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323
5-Star Albums
97
1-Star Albums

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Albums

You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle
Throbbing Gristle
 5 1.89 +3.11
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
The Incredible String Band
 5 2.15 +2.85
Dub Housing
Pere Ubu
 5 2.36 +2.64
Locust Abortion Technician
Butthole Surfers
 5 2.39 +2.61
Suicide
Suicide
 5 2.46 +2.54
Oar
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
 5 2.46 +2.54
The Modern Dance
Pere Ubu
 5 2.48 +2.52
Timeless
Goldie
 5 2.51 +2.49
New Forms
Roni Size
 5 2.52 +2.48
Playing With Fire
Spacemen 3
 5 2.54 +2.46

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette
 1 3.72 -2.72
21
Adele
 1 3.69 -2.69
Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
 1 3.68 -2.68
good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar
 1 3.65 -2.65
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand
 1 3.57 -2.57
Moving Pictures
Rush
 1 3.56 -2.56
Jazz Samba
Stan Getz
 1 3.56 -2.56
Gorillaz
Gorillaz
 1 3.53 -2.53
Rio
Duran Duran
 1 3.5 -2.5
Tidal
Fiona Apple
 1 3.47 -2.47

Artists

Favorites

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ArtistAlbumsAverage
Radiohead 6 5
Beatles 5 5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 5 5
Led Zeppelin 5 5
Brian Eno 4 4.75
Creedence Clearwater Revival 3 5
Johnny Cash 3 5
Arcade Fire 3 5
Public Enemy 3 5
Jimi Hendrix 3 5
R.E.M. 3 5
The Beach Boys 3 5
Black Sabbath 3 5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions 3 5
Beastie Boys 3 5
David Bowie 7 4.29
Bob Dylan 5 4.4
The Doors 3 4.67
The Fall 3 4.67
King Crimson 2 5
The Smashing Pumpkins 2 5
Nick Drake 2 5
Lou Reed 2 5
Prince 2 5
Frank Sinatra 2 5
The Band 2 5
The Flaming Lips 2 5
Dexys Midnight Runners 2 5
Spiritualized 2 5
Elvis Costello 2 5
A Tribe Called Quest 2 5
Neil Young 2 5
Isaac Hayes 2 5
The Temptations 2 5
Sly & The Family Stone 2 5
Portishead 2 5
Fleetwood Mac 2 5
Air 2 5
TV On The Radio 2 5
The xx 2 5
Fairport Convention 2 5
Pere Ubu 2 5
Primal Scream 2 5
Massive Attack 2 5
Funkadelic 2 5
Elton John 2 5
Pixies 2 5
The Rolling Stones 6 4.17
The Stooges 3 4.33
Miles Davis 3 4.33
The Cure 3 4.33
U2 3 4.33
Kate Bush 3 4.33
Tim Buckley 3 4.33

Least Favorites

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ArtistAlbumsAverage
Morrissey 3 1
Coldplay 2 1
Adele 2 1
Eminem 2 1
Madonna 2 1
Ryan Adams 2 1
Emmylou Harris 2 1
Fiona Apple 2 1
George Michael 2 1.5
Kendrick Lamar 2 1.5
Amy Winehouse 2 1.5
Slipknot 2 1.5
Everything But The Girl 2 1.5
Def Leppard 2 1.5
Blur 3 2
Aerosmith 3 2

Controversial

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ArtistRatings
Grateful Dead 5, 1
Baaba Maal 1, 5
Metallica 5, 5, 4, 1
Kanye West 3, 5, 1
Iron Maiden 2, 5

5-Star Albums (323)

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In The Court Of The Crimson King The Modern Lovers Kid A Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Five Leaves Left The Velvet Underground The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bayou Country Untitled (Black Is) Raw Power Transformer Daydream Nation Let It Bleed 1999 Electric Music For The Mind And Body A Hard Day's Night At San Quentin Queen II Dr. Octagonecologyst The Bends The Suburbs Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim Tres Hombres Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Scott 4 Endtroducing..... If I Could Only Remember My Name In A Silent Way Fear Of A Black Planet Music From Big Pink I Am a Bird Now Forever Changes Sunday At The Village Vanguard Tubular Bells The Soft Bulletin Dusty In Memphis Dig Me Out Marquee Moon Songs Of Love And Hate Smokers Delight Too Rye Ay Winter In America Are You Experienced Murmur The Sun Rises In The East Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black Kick Out The Jams (Live) Automatic For The People Close To You Lazer Guided Melodies Architecture And Morality Funeral Brutal Youth Bringing It All Back Home Tigermilk With The Beatles Green River Seventeen Seconds Fred Neil The Köln Concert Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Exit Planet Dust The Village Green Preservation Society Metallica Dirt I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight Bookends People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm Snivilisation The Beach Boys Today! Harvest Amnesiac In Rainbows Red Headed Stranger Playing With Fire Black Sabbath The Hour Of Bewilderbeast Ramones Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Here's Little Richard Hot Buttered Soul Step In The Arena Fulfillingness' First Finale Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine Head Hunters Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Grace Music For The Jilted Generation Ghosteen Led Zeppelin III D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle Deserter's Songs My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted Bone Machine Lady Soul Shaft A Northern Soul Machine Head Boston Hearts And Bones The Slider Illinois Pet Sounds Tago Mago Paranoid The Joshua Tree Killing Joke Aftermath 3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of... Another Green World Crazysexycool 3 Feet High and Rising The Only Ones The Band Smile The Renaissance Nevermind Closer Suede Hounds Of Love Night Life Led Zeppelin Blue A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Buffalo Springfield Again Paul Simon Born In The U.S.A. Blood And Chocolate Murder Ballads All Directions Larks' Tongues In Aspic The Boatman's Call Our Aim Is To Satisfy Low-Life Odelay Selected Ambient Works 85-92 There's A Riot Goin' On Signing Off Cloud Nine Imagine This Is Fats Domino Dummy Superfuzz Bigmuff Morrison Hotel Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul All Things Must Pass Back In Black Tusk Spiderland Low Honky Tonk Heroes Electric Ladyland Stand! Arrival Axis: Bold As Love Dire Straits OK Computer B-52's Out Of The Blue Paul's Boutique Disraeli Gears Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle Veckatimest 3 + 3 Virgin Suicides Ellington at Newport My Aim Is True Underwater Moonlight Dear Science Lost In The Dream xx Maxinquaye McCartney Bubble And Scrape This Nation’s Saving Grace Ill Communication Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury Liege And Lief Surf's Up American IV: The Man Comes Around Chirping Crickets Vol. 4 Elvis Is Back Document At Mister Kelly's Faust IV Rid Of Me Live / Dead Cosmo's Factory Millions Now Living Will Never Die Sign 'O' The Times Dub Housing Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes Bryter Layter Siamese Dream The Dark Side Of The Moon Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Teenager Of The Year Before And After Science The Low End Theory Talk Talk Talk Phaedra Sister My Generation The Stooges The Man Machine Live At The Regal Hunky Dory Band On The Run Here Come The Warm Jets This Year's Model The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Done By The Forces Of Nature Lady In Satin Rumours Vulgar Display Of Power Second Toughest In The Infants Jack Takes the Floor Screamadelica Fever Ray The Modern Dance Horses Protection Timeless Another Music In A Different Kitchen The Doors A Date With The Everly Brothers Neon Bible Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space Berlin Wild Gift Third Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo Live At The Harlem Square Club Henry's Dream Bat Out Of Hell Imperial Bedroom New Forms I See You Speakerboxxx/The Love Below Mask The White Room Abbey Road One Nation Under A Groove James Brown Live At The Apollo Searching For The Young Soul Rebels Double Nickels On The Dime Sticky Fingers Groovin' No Other Chelsea Girl Revolver O.G. Original Gangster Yank Crime On The Beach Blonde On Blonde Off The Wall Rust Never Sleeps High Violet Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Heroes to Zeros Innervisions Bert Jansch The Atomic Mr Basie The La's Eagles Live At The Witch Trials You Want It Darker Djam Leelii Suicide Tapestry Locust Abortion Technician There's No Place Like America Today Straight Outta Compton Tragic Songs of Life Doolittle Brown Sugar Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs Entertainment Maggot Brain Rock 'N Soul Physical Graffiti Blue Lines Licensed To Ill Bluesbreakers Oar Bossanova Here Are the Sonics Homework Shalimar Ten Vanishing Point Led Zeppelin IV Hail To the Thief Master Of Puppets Leftism Madman Across The Water Only By The Night Hypnotised Moon Safari It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Kind Of Blue Sound of Silver Dare! The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Home Is Where The Music Is Music From The Penguin Cafe Songs For Swingin' Lovers! School's Out The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter Iron Maiden Happy Sad Goodbye And Hello At Folsom Prison Trans Europe Express Reign In Blood Unhalfbricking The New Tango Wild Is The Wind Led Zeppelin II

Popular Reviews

The Modern Lovers by The Modern Lovers

Amazing. Developing the velvets sound to another level. Peak indie before indie existed.

Five Leaves Left by Nick Drake

A true work of creative genius. This album will be held in awe centuries from now when all but a fee of these thousands of albums have been forgotten. Vital and important.

Celebrity Skin by Hole

It’s 50 minutes long. I could only hack 40. It sounds like kurt in drag but saccharine sweet and over produced. Maybe Kurt sounded like her though. It reminded me of when I used to think Latoya Jackson was Michael in drag.

Play by Moby

A disappointing start to my 1001 albums daily listening. Nostalgic middle of the road easy listening.

GREY Area by Little Simz

I’ll paraphrase her ‘she’s just a bad jayzee’

1-Star Albums (97)

First Band On The Moon Celebrity Skin A Rush Of Blood To The Head Dance Mania Slippery When Wet Your Arsenal John Prine good kid, m.A.A.d city Wild Wood Rio Oedipus Schmoedipus Parachutes One World Slipknot evermore Private Dancer Odessey And Oracle 21 Behaviour The Slim Shady LP Franz Ferdinand Ray Of Light If I Should Fall From Grace With God Californication Tarkus System Of A Down Vento De Maio 25 Gold Pyromania Hms Fable Moving Pictures Frank Modern Kosmology Heartbreaker Parklife Devil Without A Cause Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 Woodface Jazz Samba Pieces Of The Sky Medúlla Vauxhall And I Synchronicity São Paulo Confessions The Libertines Konnichiwa The Nightfly Red Dirt Girl Viva Hate Fetch The Bolt Cutters Idlewild LP1 Kollaps Yeezus Jagged Little Pill Gorillaz Tidal A Grand Don't Come For Free Kenza Kala Exile In Guyville Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite Me Against The World Lam Toro The Lexicon Of Love La Revancha Del Tango Opus Dei The Age Of The Understatement Guitar Town Call of the Valley Back to Basics The Notorious Byrd Brothers Sex Packets Pump Channel Orange Tuesday Night Music Club The Marshall Mathers LP Le Tigre Truth And Soul Rust In Peace Legalize It Justified Strange Cargo III Music The Bones Of What You Believe Golden Hour Cupid & Psyche 85 Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche Butterfly S&M Nick Of Time American Beauty Honky Tonk Masquerade Traffic Ctrl 16 Lovers Lane

All Ratings (893)

Play by Moby
Jan 09 2022

A disappointing start to my 1001 albums daily listening. Nostalgic middle of the road easy listening.

Faith by George Michael
Jan 10 2022

80’s tastic. Done better by others

The Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden
Jan 11 2022

Run to the hills is the highlight of an otherwise tinny and empty sounding album. needs more umpf.

First Band On The Moon by The Cardigans
Jan 12 2022

Twee beyond twee. Each song seems to include a break down ending over spaghetti mixed guitars, pretending punk chaos after frankophile bile. The teo highlights are the bizarre malicious cover of Black Sabaths Iron man and that the album mercifully is only 39 minutes long.

Celebrity Skin by Hole
Jan 13 2022

It’s 50 minutes long. I could only hack 40. It sounds like kurt in drag but saccharine sweet and over produced. Maybe Kurt sounded like her though. It reminded me of when I used to think Latoya Jackson was Michael in drag.

Pearl by Janis Joplin
Jan 16 2022

Amazing voice but it all sounds a bit samey to me.

GREY Area by Little Simz
Jan 17 2022

I’ll paraphrase her ‘she’s just a bad jayzee’

Dog Man Star by Suede
Jan 19 2022

A very worthwhile trip back to britpop. When it’s overdramatic it’s at its best.

The Modern Lovers by The Modern Lovers
Jan 20 2022

Amazing. Developing the velvets sound to another level. Peak indie before indie existed.

Kid A by Radiohead
Jan 21 2022
Dance Mania by Tito Puente
Jan 24 2022

Samba. Not arsed.

Your Arsenal by Morrissey
Jan 26 2022

Morrissey is a bad person.

Five Leaves Left by Nick Drake
Jan 27 2022

A true work of creative genius. This album will be held in awe centuries from now when all but a fee of these thousands of albums have been forgotten. Vital and important.

The Velvet Underground by The Velvet Underground
Jan 29 2022

Every indie alt rock song pretty much ever is seeded here.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan
Feb 01 2022

So much warm and breadth from a voice and a guitar. His words are an orchestra.

The Idiot by Iggy Pop
Feb 02 2022

I can smell the white powder dripping off this.

Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth
Feb 12 2022

Even the first song-Teenage Riot- deserves 10 stars.

You've Come a Long Way Baby by Fatboy Slim
Feb 13 2022

Only for the nostalgia. I was there in Brighton when this all kicked off. It was fun. Big fun. But it’s not a record that holds it’s quality. Disposable.

Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones
Feb 15 2022

Bookended by two giants of songs. Ginme shelter and you can’t always get what you want. The rest of it is not worth the bother.

1999 by Prince
Feb 16 2022
Scott 4 by Scott Walker
Mar 14 2022
Darklands by The Jesus And Mary Chain
Mar 23 2022
Rio by Duran Duran
Mar 24 2022
Odessa by Bee Gees
Apr 03 2022
Too Rye Ay by Dexys Midnight Runners
Apr 22 2022
Bug by Dinosaur Jr.
Apr 28 2022
Kenya by Machito
Apr 29 2022
Murmur by R.E.M.
May 01 2022
21 by Adele
May 03 2022
Live! by Fela Kuti
May 11 2022
Junkyard by The Birthday Party
May 12 2022
Dookie by Green Day
Jun 01 2022
Funeral by Arcade Fire
Jun 04 2022
90 by 808 State
Jun 10 2022
Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Jun 20 2022
Elephant by The White Stripes
Jul 11 2022
Manassas by Stephen Stills
Jul 13 2022
Dirt by Alice In Chains
Jul 27 2022
Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel
Jul 30 2022
Tarkus by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Aug 04 2022
Cut by The Slits
Aug 15 2022
Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen
Aug 18 2022
Harvest by Neil Young
Aug 20 2022
25 by Adele
Aug 24 2022
Be by Common
Sep 04 2022
Gold by Ryan Adams
Sep 18 2022
Grace by Jeff Buckley
Sep 19 2022
Ghosteen by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Sep 21 2022
GI by Germs
Sep 26 2022
Drunk by Thundercat
Oct 12 2022
Shaft by Isaac Hayes
Oct 15 2022
Boston by Boston
Oct 20 2022
Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
Oct 23 2022
Debut by Björk
Nov 01 2022
Aftermath by The Rolling Stones
Nov 05 2022
Frank by Amy Winehouse
Nov 09 2022
Bad by Michael Jackson
Nov 17 2022
Smile by Brian Wilson
Nov 24 2022
Fuzzy by Grant Lee Buffalo
Nov 30 2022
Closer by Joy Division
Dec 01 2022
Dust by Screaming Trees
Dec 03 2022
Suede by Suede
Dec 17 2022
Vivid by Living Colour
Dec 21 2022
Blue by Joni Mitchell
Dec 25 2022
2112 by Rush
Jan 09 2023
Damaged by Black Flag
Jan 11 2023
Imagine by John Lennon
Jan 31 2023
Rapture by Anita Baker
Feb 05 2023
Dummy by Portishead
Feb 09 2023
KIWANUKA by Michael Kiwanuka
Feb 23 2023
Tusk by Fleetwood Mac
Feb 26 2023
Low by David Bowie
Feb 28 2023
Stand! by Sly & The Family Stone
Mar 04 2023
B-52's by The B-52's
Mar 14 2023
Chris by Christine and the Queens
Mar 17 2023
Goo by Sonic Youth
Mar 25 2023
Scum by Napalm Death
Mar 31 2023
3 + 3 by The Isley Brothers
Apr 01 2023
Tical by Method Man
Apr 07 2023
Guero by Beck
Apr 12 2023
War by U2
Apr 19 2023
xx by The xx
May 06 2023
Dry by PJ Harvey
May 17 2023
Tommy by The Who
May 19 2023
Juju by Siouxsie And The Banshees
Jun 06 2023
Vol. 4 by Black Sabbath
Jun 17 2023
Very by Pet Shop Boys
Jun 19 2023
Movies by Holger Czukay
Jun 26 2023
Shaka Zulu by Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Jul 08 2023
Trio by Dolly Parton
Jul 09 2023
Savane by Ali Farka Touré
Jul 13 2023
Oxygène by Jean-Michel Jarre
Jul 17 2023
Survivor by Destiny's Child
Jul 29 2023
Phaedra by Tangerine Dream
Aug 10 2023
Sister by Sonic Youth
Aug 12 2023
The Scream by Siouxsie And The Banshees
Aug 15 2023
Time Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Aug 16 2023
Idlewild by Everything But The Girl
Aug 20 2023
LP1 by FKA twigs
Aug 21 2023
m b v by My Bloody Valentine
Aug 23 2023
Rocks by Aerosmith
Sep 12 2023
Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
Sep 14 2023
Kollaps by Einstürzende Neubauten
Sep 22 2023
Yeezus by Kanye West
Sep 29 2023
Horses by Patti Smith
Oct 01 2023
Tidal by Fiona Apple
Oct 05 2023
Roots by Sepultura
Oct 09 2023
Deja Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Oct 22 2023
Hejira by Joni Mitchell
Oct 25 2023
Kenza by Khaled
Oct 27 2023
Kala by M.I.A.
Oct 30 2023
Berlin by Lou Reed
Nov 06 2023
Blur by Blur
Nov 08 2023
Third by Portishead
Nov 14 2023
Zombie by Fela Kuti
Nov 26 2023
Mask by Bauhaus
Dec 08 2023
Groovin' by The Young Rascals
Dec 26 2023
Want One by Rufus Wainwright
Feb 06 2024
Cross by Justice
Feb 12 2024
1977 by Ash
Feb 21 2024
Truth by Jeff Beck
Feb 23 2024
Eagles by Eagles
Feb 26 2024
So by Peter Gabriel
Mar 31 2024
Mott by Mott The Hoople
Apr 01 2024
Oar by Alexander 'Skip' Spence
Apr 13 2024
D by White Denim
Apr 14 2024
Pump by Aerosmith
Apr 16 2024
Arise by Sepultura
Apr 26 2024
Shalimar by Rahul Dev Burman
Apr 27 2024
Ten by Pearl Jam
Apr 30 2024
Sulk by The Associates
May 12 2024
Superfly by Curtis Mayfield
May 16 2024
The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem
May 17 2024

Offensive misogynistic insel juvenile rape celebratory waste of sound vibrations. The worst of what is mistakenly called music. Should not be in this list.

Dare! by The Human League
Jul 04 2024
Nixon by Lambchop
Jul 08 2024
Ys by Joanna Newsom
Jul 18 2024
Music by Madonna
Jul 27 2024
Aja by Steely Dan
Aug 03 2024
Bummed by Happy Mondays
Aug 04 2024
S&M by Metallica
Sep 01 2024
Next by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Sep 03 2024
Want Two by Rufus Wainwright
Sep 16 2024
Brothers by The Black Keys
Sep 19 2024
Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Sep 23 2024
Ctrl by SZA
Sep 27 2024

Enthusiast

36% of albums received 5 stars.

Other

Album origins are grouped into three buckets: US, UK, and everything else. “Other” means the artists you rate highest are from outside the US and UK.