My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Scott 4 Scott Walker	5	2.8	+2.2
Emperor Tomato Ketchup Stereolab	5	3.03	+1.97
It's A Shame About Ray The Lemonheads	5	3.13	+1.87
american dream LCD Soundsystem	5	3.17	+1.83
High Violet The National	5	3.24	+1.76
Since I Left You The Avalanches	5	3.28	+1.72
Fever To Tell Yeah Yeah Yeahs	5	3.29	+1.71
Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem	5	3.42	+1.58
3 Feet High and Rising De La Soul	5	3.45	+1.55
Sheer Heart Attack Queen	5	3.65	+1.35

Album	You	Global	Diff
Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman	1	3.79	-2.79
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Ray Charles	1	3.49	-2.49
Crime Of The Century Supertramp	1	3.41	-2.41
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	1	3.39	-2.39
Music From Big Pink The Band	1	3.36	-2.36
Eagles Eagles	1	3.3	-2.3
American Pie Don McLean	1	3.28	-2.28
John Barleycorn Must Die Traffic	1	3.17	-2.17
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 George Michael	1	3.16	-2.16
Honky Tonk Heroes Waylon Jennings	1	3.14	-2.14

Artist	Albums	Average
LCD Soundsystem	2	5

Artist	Albums	Average
Emerson, Lake & Palmer	2	1
The Band	2	1.5

Artist	Ratings
Björk	1, 3, 4

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

2/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

2/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

2/5

Really silky voice, gorgeous instrumentation, at one point during the title track I saw the moon, big and gold, on my walk, and had a bit of a moment. Speaking of Glastonbury, I imagined lying in the sun early on a Sunday afternoon, as these sweet sounds floated over me from the Pyramid Stage, and it was pleasant. But, yeah, pleasant, sweet, silky, but nothing that really hit me for six. As the album went on I started thinking more about my potential scoring system than the music, which wasn't a good sign. I then started thinking the album was mostly parts that sound like music from The Sims, with parts that would fit the background to a middle class garden party. If I was planning to hand out 3s like social media references to Big Jet TV, then I would to this, but instead it gets a...

Quiet Life

Japan

1/5

Insipid. Dynamically flat, everything sounds so lifeless. Sylvian's voice rubs me the wrong way. The songwriting has no charm. The beginning of Despair and the end of The Other Side Of Life could have had a bit of widescreen, big vista, movie soundtrack cool, if the production wasn't flickery black-and-white TV quality. Piss-weak album.

The Grand Tour

George Jones

1/5

This is not for me. I do love lap steel though.

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

2/5

I'd heard good things so I was expecting something a bit more than middling fun country pop

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

As godfathers of the alternative rock sound, I've been meaning to delve beyond the singles forever. And while there aren't really absolute bangers beyond the well known ones here, there's enough going on in each song that meant I was into this all the way through. I wasn't about all the clamour over listening to thematic songs when the pandemic started, but listening to It's The End Of The World... at this point, with all we've been through, and still are, was a bit of a moment. With it being the pre-CD age, it has a typical structure of a particularly strong first half, and I think I'll return to that regularly, with The One I Love added on for good measure. Shout out to the sound of the drums, majorly satisfying to my ears. Every member of the band's sound is iconic actually.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

3/5

It still sounds so good, despite its age! And great to hear how much its influence can still be heard in so much rock n roll. That chug, in particular, is timeless. A bit basic by today's standards, but that doesn't completely hurt it. Having praised it, I still don't really love it, personally. tempted to '4' it, for historical significance and deference to still being good despite 50+ years old, but...

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

Wow, he really did come from outer space didn't he? Had a lot of fun listening to this, the sound manages to feel "vintage" rather than "dated", and while the songs stick to a formula, it's a great formula! 5/5 contextually, but still a 4 now

The Clash

4/5

So good! Got to be one of the most perfectly formed bands ever, nobody can talk shit about The Clash. There's something that appeals to me about it being mostly punk rock, that laser focus bands can only have on their first album. But then they signal the sort of future branching our with that awesome Police & Thieves cover later on. That said, it isn't all killer no filler like London Calling, some of the songs just aren't as good, albeit still THE CLASH, so

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

There's been a bit of a reevaluation of Steely Dan, once maligned for being incredibly uncool, now have younger music fans into them. And I can see why, this is a really good listen. Really slick sounding, listenable pop sensibility, gorgeous vocals, not really any songs I wasn't too keen on. Sunglasses emoji as a band. :cool:

Mothership Connection

Parliament

3/5

Gave me a good boost 6 miles into my walk, and as a lover of Toejam & Earl, I was on the wavelength to enjoy this. Some of it meandered a bit without keeping my attention, but enjoyable and kept me smiling. Appreciate them curing my arthritis, rheumatism and migraines through the sheer power of P-funk, as promised.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

2/5

While country still isn't for me, there's much more charm to Cash's stuff, and the iconic nature of the show was fun. Don't want to list things I personally don't like about such a legendary figure, so I'll leave it there.

Dry

PJ Harvey

3/5

I thought it might be a bit of a difficult 2 star listen at first, but it quickly got into its stride. Then I just got more and more into it, with that 90s rock sound that I think holds up well, and Polly's voice really hitting the mark with me. If it had a couple more real bangers I'd be tempted to give this 4, but overall it's just a pretty good album that has me keen to listen to more Peej.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

Pink Flag

Wire

2/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Os Mutantes

3/5

This has one of those great songs that I've heard before, but never knew the name of, and that was very satisfying. And while a lot of this is lacking enough structure to make it a really enjoyable listen, there's some stuff here that I really dug, and it being so ahead of it's time jumps it to a 7/10 for me, which in my system translates to 3 stars

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

2/5

Tracy Chapman

1/5

Clearly not 'bad'... but the music didn't do it for me

2112

Rush

3/5

I love a bit of wiggy nonsense, so this was good fun. The song 2112 itself is not too interminable as it goes through different parts, but perhaps lacks a bit of cohesion, and doesn't absolutely soar for me like prog can. There were a couple on side two that I really liked, and overall I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't say there is anything on here that shows how good Rush can really be like Tom Sawyer and The Spirit of Radio.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

2/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Yeah, this grooves along and flows really well, especially for a 50-year-old double album

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

The Doors

3/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

2/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Nowhere

Ride

2/5

The Slider

T. Rex

3/5

Kenya

Machito

2/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

Sheet Music

10cc

2/5

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

4/5

Woodface

Crowded House

3/5

Pleasant melodies by a band known for them, without being terribly exciting. Raised from a 2 to a 3 by the presence of some absolute dream tracks.

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

2/5

This started off great, classic style hip hop with strong beats and driving flow, but soon showed its age, with middling at best songs with poor lyrics.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

I love an album that carries its energy all the way through, this is what separates a great album from a great collection of songs. And while it's far from uplifting, the peak songs on this come at moments which make them feel sublime.

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

Not Bowie's best. Side 1 has some interminable neo-soul meanderings alongside the title track, which is a right jam. Then side 2 takes the storytelling folk style of what Bowie did near the start of his career, and applies this modern, for the mid-70s, sheen to it, before finishing with another jam in Fame.

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

3/5

There's a fine line between an album carrying in its energy from start to finish, and becoming a bit one-note. If it wasn't for songs like Can't Stop, with a different pace tot them this would be the latter for me. Psych-scuzzy nonsense, this should be right up my alley, but it didn't grip me, maybe it needed a couple of out and out bangers, maybe I'll like it better if I hear it on my normal set of headphones. Plenty of fun though.

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

4/5

Hell yeah.

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

2/5

Great example of an album that is very good music of a style I'm not interested in. Having said that, there were a couple I'd love to hear on a bar's roof terrace on a sunny day, not a care in the world, specifically August Day Song and Samba E Amor. Pleasant.

Rocks

Aerosmith

1/5

Didn't feel like prime Aerosmith. Apart from Last Child, I found it a bit tedious tbh. Like they just slapped together an album in a few weeks, decided, "Yeah, that's good enough," and got back on the partying. A lot of this some of rock also hasn't aged well imo. Feels almost like a parody.

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

4/5

I think this one has aged well. Classic hip hop beats will never really go out of fashion, and the overall style falls just the right side of being too cheesy, although I'm sure for some hip-hop heads this style just the wrong side, Good variety, doesn't feel samey all the way through, and good range of features for that matter. Overall, while lacking in straight bangers, this is enjoyable all the way through, and fits nicely into my love of feel-good hip hop

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

1/5

While the first song or two were very nice, it soon descended into schmaltzy, Eurovision-y boringness for me.

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

3/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

3/5

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

1/5

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

3/5

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

4/5

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

1/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

Really good! Never felt like it had too many dips, I quite liked the feeling of nation-hopping, and it made me want to listen to more Pgues.

Roots

Sepultura

3/5

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

2/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

1/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

Dust

Screaming Trees

3/5

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

2/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

2/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

1/5

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

2/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

2/5

2/5

3/5

2/5

The Boo Radleys

2/5

Make Yourself

Incubus

2/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Protection

Massive Attack

3/5

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

2/5

Fever Ray

2/5

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

4/5

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

3/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Risque

CHIC

3/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

4/5

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

1/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

5/5

Phrenology

The Roots

3/5

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

2/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

3/5

Cross

Justice

4/5

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

Medúlla

Björk

1/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

1/5

The Specials

3/5

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

3/5

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

2/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

2/5

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

4/5

Mott

Mott The Hoople

2/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

2/5

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

3/5

Fleet Foxes

3/5

Crazysexycool

TLC

2/5

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

3/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Sound Affects

The Jam

2/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

4/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

GI

Germs

2/5

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

4/5

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

3/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Vespertine

Björk

3/5

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

4/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

1/5

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

2/5

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

4/5

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

5/5

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

2/5

GREY Area

Little Simz

4/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

1/5

Metallica

4/5

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

1/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

2/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

2/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

2/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Scott 4

Scott Walker

5/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

4/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

5/5

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

2/5

Low-Life

New Order

3/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

1/5

One World

John Martyn

2/5

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

1/5

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

3/5

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

2/5

Mask

Bauhaus

2/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

No Other

Gene Clark

2/5

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

2/5

Debut

Björk

4/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

1/5

Being There

Wilco

2/5

Infected

The The

1/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

2/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Imagine

John Lennon

2/5

Drunk

Thundercat

3/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

2/5

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

2/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

1/5

Closer

Joy Division

2/5

Eagles

1/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

Kala

M.I.A.

4/5

Like A Prayer

Madonna

2/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

Virgin Suicides

Air

3/5

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

3/5

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

5/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

2/5

Leftism

Leftfield

3/5

Fred Neil

2/5

The Cars

4/5

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

4/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

2/5

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

2/5

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

2/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

2/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

4/5

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

1/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

1/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

2/5

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

1/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

1989

Taylor Swift

2/5

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

2/5

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

1/5

American Pie

Don McLean

1/5

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

3/5

B-52's

The B-52's

3/5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

2/5

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

4/5

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

Spiderland

Slint

1/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

2/5

Real Life

Magazine

2/5

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

2/5

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

2/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

Liquid Swords

GZA

3/5

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

2/5

OK

Talvin Singh

1/5

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

3/5

Berlin

Lou Reed

3/5

High Violet

The National

5/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

Kimono My House

Sparks

4/5

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

1/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

4/5

Slayed?

Slade

1/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

Paul Simon

2/5

Tom Tom Club

4/5

The Predator

Ice Cube

3/5

Rapture

Anita Baker

1/5

New Forms

Roni Size

3/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

2/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

4/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

2/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

3/5

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

3/5

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

3/5

Justified

Justin Timberlake

2/5

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

3/5

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

1/5

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

2/5

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

1/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

1/5

#1 Record

Big Star

2/5

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

4/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

2/5

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

1/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

4/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

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

David Bowie

5/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

5/5

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

1/5

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

4/5

Dirty

Sonic Youth

4/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

2/5

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