My 1001 Albums Journey

157

Albums Rated

2.22

Average Rating

14%

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1980

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Crazysexycool TLC	5	3.08	+1.92
Rattus Norvegicus The Stranglers	5	3.15	+1.85
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 George Michael	5	3.17	+1.83
The Seldom Seen Kid Elbow	5	3.23	+1.77
Closer Joy Division	5	3.23	+1.77
Risque CHIC	5	3.28	+1.72
Achtung Baby U2	5	3.29	+1.71
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	3.31	+1.69
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	5	3.38	+1.62
Diamond Life Sade	5	3.47	+1.53

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Abbey Road Beatles	1	4.45	-3.45
Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin	1	4.09	-3.09
Can't Buy A Thrill Steely Dan	1	3.73	-2.73
(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) Lynyrd Skynyrd	1	3.73	-2.73
Pearl Janis Joplin	1	3.71	-2.71
Station To Station David Bowie	1	3.69	-2.69
Remain In Light Talking Heads	1	3.68	-2.68
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	1	3.64	-2.64
Aladdin Sane David Bowie	1	3.6	-2.6
Morrison Hotel The Doors	1	3.57	-2.57

5-Star Albums (17)

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Truly appalling. I own 1001 albums that are better than this and not on the list.

One stand out track. Poor album. Not worthy of the list.

The attention to detail on this album is incredible. From the quirky intro of Starlings to the outro of The Bones of You. Add in the beautiful lyrics. Put that all to one side. Guy Garvey has a unique and wonderful voice. This album is perfect and rightfully won the Mercury award when it came out.

Originally a punk band with songs that were hard on the ears by the time they recorded their first album they had found a unique bleak industrial synth sound and the songs were much improved. The inspiration behind the songs is well publicised which makes them even more haunting now. A brilliant album and for me the stand out tracks are Isolation, Means to an End and Decades.

Good start but quickly petered out into presumably drug fuelled nonsense.

1-Star Albums (68)

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

All Ratings (157)

Oh dear. Utter tosh.

V chilled.

Groovy man. 3/5

Done good tracks. Rest patchy.

A classic. Of course.

Not my cup of tea. What a voice though. Smooth as silk.

Who knew King Louis sounded so good

Very chilled.

Absolute corker

Pants

1001 best albums. Seriously???? This was truly dreadful. Everything that was wrong with 70s music.

Beautiful album.

More 70s crap.

Truly appalling. I own 1001 albums that are better than this and not on the list.

One of the seminal post punk albums and one of two (the other as Comsat Angels first album) albums that heavily influenced my late teens. I discovered this in 1980 listening to John Peel.

A classic. Put MJ on the map but not quite his best. We have to wait for Billy Jean for that.

One stand out track. Poor album. Not worthy of the list.

A smooth operator. Beautiful album.

You are shitting me. Exceptionally dull backing music and head up his arse poet talking over the top. Dreadful.

Well at least this was a bit different and nice to hear some synths.

No Carol King standards

Dreary start but got bettet

Very chillaxed. Lovely.

Ye-hah. No

Got a headache by track 3.

Weird

An absolute classic. SW at his peak.

Good start but quickly petered out into presumably drug fuelled nonsense.

Not another Bjork

One of my all time fave albums. Awesome.

Aarrrrrgh no

Absolute classic

Great beardey rock

Good album, Morriseys voice is fantastic. Interesting funky undertones too.

Every song is perfect.

Totes classic

??????

Worth five stars just for the guitar. Classic album.

Not their best

Brilliant. This is exactly the type of album that should be in the book. Pioneering and fantastic album.