My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle Throbbing Gristle	5	1.88	+3.12
A Walk Across The Rooftops The Blue Nile	5	2.86	+2.14
Dig Me Out Sleater-Kinney	5	3.08	+1.92
Closer Joy Division	5	3.21	+1.79
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	5	3.32	+1.68
Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow	5	3.35	+1.65
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	5	3.47	+1.53
Moon Safari Air	5	3.58	+1.42
Duck Rock Malcolm McLaren	4	2.65	+1.35
Beyond Skin Nitin Sawhney	4	2.77	+1.23

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Dookie Green Day	1	3.79	-2.79
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge Mudhoney	1	2.84	-1.84
Atomizer Big Black	1	2.72	-1.72
Yank Crime Drive Like Jehu	1	2.7	-1.7
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	2	3.66	-1.66
GI Germs	1	2.54	-1.54
The Gershwin Songbook Ella Fitzgerald	2	3.53	-1.53
Marquee Moon Television	2	3.5	-1.5
She's So Unusual Cyndi Lauper	2	3.48	-1.48
Fear Of Music Talking Heads	2	3.47	-1.47

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Artist	Albums	Average
Joy Division	2	5

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Artist	Ratings
Green Day	4, 1

5-Star Albums (9)

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

Throbbing Gristle

5/5

Wow. My first thought was thank god it wasn't more punk. My second was noisy! Really grew on me though as it poured its sinister sampling sound down my ears. Dark and sombre. I've never heard of Throbbing Gristle but will check out their other stuff now for sure. Amazing such a challenging sound got released. Definitely not dinner party music! Best tracks - Hamburger Lady, AB/7A, E-Coli. I need to listen to this again.

10 likes

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

5/5

Great album, really liked it. V 90s, intense, quite grungy. Excellent.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (5)

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Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

3/5

Nice sweet sound. Slightly jazzy at times but overall very much of the 60s.

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

5/5

Great album, really liked it. V 90s, intense, quite grungy. Excellent.

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

3/5

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

Devo

2/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Ingenue

k.d. lang

3/5

Beautiful sound but perhaps just a bit too cloying for me now. Still I can really understand why it is a 1001 album and I recall loving it at the time.

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

2/5

This is irritating me profoundly. One or two tracks fine; but a whole album of wishy washy flute tunes is abysmal to experience. Spa music.

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

What a big album. I'd forgotten how many hits it had. Hardly any filler and v enjoyable trip back to the noughties. Will be listening again.

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

4/5

V enjoyable! Would be a great album to pop on at a party. Just fun and unexpected.

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

2/5

Didn't love it. Ok.

Moon Safari

Air

5/5

Love this. Always have. Always will.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

This is just so quintessentially 80s for me I cannot listen to it with an unbiased ear. Great to see an old album getting attention from a younger audience with Stranger Things. I really did enjoy Big Sky which was a tune I was not aware of. Good enough but probably won't listen again!

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

4/5

Third

Portishead

4/5

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

3/5

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

Cross

Justice

2/5

I've never liked this album even though it's a genre I generally love. it's all just a bit too harsh in sound. A very dirty Daft Punk.

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

2/5

Punk and hilbilly??? Hmm. Not into it.

Closer

Joy Division

5/5

Such a good album. One where it really pays to use the earphones. Just brilliant. Dark, thrilling, mesmerizing, grungy; even more so when you know the background. There's a great documentary of the same name, well worth watching. Overall one of my favourite albums, even though I only discovered Joy Division v late!

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

2/5

Ok, didn't love it.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Well of course, for God's sake, this is just one of the best albums ever. Never gets old.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

2/5

Quite nice, bit overly long for me, I was quite tired of it by the end. Airy, melodic feel to it.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

2/5

Why do people like The Smiths so much. I just find their music so inexorably dull. Awful stuff.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

3/5

Marquee Moon

Television

2/5

It's quite accomplished if you like punky style rock.

Germs

1/5

This project has made me realise I have a very low tolerance of punk and there's far too much of it on the list. This was awful.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

So good, how have I not come across this album before now? I like jazz but don't listen to it regularly, electro wins out generally for me. Still have listened to Mingus before. Never heard Mingus like this though. Gorgeous. One for the repeat list, makes me wish I had it on vinyl (and a vinyl player, AND room for one!).

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

Throbbing Gristle

5/5

Le Tigre

3/5

Punky vibe. But also a 90s vibe. It was ok, didn’t hate it, didn’t love it. Best track was slideshow.

En-Tact

The Shamen

3/5

Overall I liked it. Suffers from being one of the first, so sounds a bit generic now. However some enjoyable tracks - Evil is Even Hear Me Not really interesting enough to listen to again though.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Well, it was a lot better than The Queen is Dead. I actually really like Death of a Disco Dancer and Unhappy Birthday. However apart from those 2 tracks they all kinda sound the same to me. If you don't listen quite carefully your attention just drifts away. Still I'll give it a 3 'cause I found 2 songs I liked on it which was way more than I was expecting, normally i am just allergic to The Smiths!

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

4/5

Yeah, nice album, particularly liked This Woman's Work. Her voice is very atmospheric and enjoyable. I prefer it to The Hounds of Love definitely.

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

2/5

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

1/5

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

3/5

Not bad. Got better as it went along. I did think it was a bit uneven though.

Spiderland

Slint

4/5

This was vg. Reminds me a little of the pixies. Bit overly rocky for me at times but really enjoyed the brooding ominous soundscape. Much more than American rock going on here. One for the re-listen pile for sure

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2/5

I just don't like their particular brand of punky rock that much. Why is their so much punky rock on my list? I'm not into it.

Real Life

Magazine

2/5

It was fine. Felt a bit pedestrian to me. Would not bother listening again.

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

2/5

Atomizer

Big Black

1/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

2/5

Ella is of course gorgeous. However I'm not interested really in 3h of Gershwin songs! No matter who is singing them. Is this really an "album" that should be on the list? Ella has more interesting albums and surely something more curated would be better for Gershwin. I mean it's like someone decided they needed Ella to sing all the Gershwin songs just for the record. So. A bit dull to be honest. Definitely overkill.

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

2/5

Boring. V v boring.

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

2/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

4/5

Roxy Music

3/5

Play

Moby

4/5

Connected

Stereo MC's

2/5

I mean it was fine. Not setting my world on fire or anything. V American sound to me.

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

3/5

A bit mad, but I enjoyed it.

Dookie

Green Day

1/5

God this is the pits. Generic, dreary, it all sounds the same rock. Awful.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

2/5

Some good tunes here but I just don't personally love this v punk poppy sound all that much.

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

2/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

I liked it, easy listening.

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

4/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

Nice album. Enjoyed it more than I expected.

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

4/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

Nice album. Not really a stand out for me. I think Nina and Ella have firmly claimed this space in the canon. I do like a live album though. Nice energy.

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

3/5

Nice album but not a stand out. Very smooth. Not as edgy as the cover. Dinner party music.

Quiet Life

Japan

3/5

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

5/5

Really enjoyable album, just mellow and moody, Stay was my favourite track.

Dare!

The Human League

2/5

Considering how iconic the hit is I was expecting a lot from this album and it really doesn't deliver. Disappointing.

Low-Life

New Order

4/5

It lacks the emotional depth of Joy Division but still a vg album. Gritty, dark yet dancy. V enjoyable! Particularly liked Sunrise and Elegia.

Maxinquaye

Tricky

3/5

Bit of a weird album. doesn't sound quite finished, but some tracks compelling. Black Steel excellent, Hell is Round the Corner vg but then other tracks just don't really come together iyam - Suffocated Love for example. So mixed impressions overall, but an interesting listen.

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

3/5

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Just quite dull. Can't really believe they made a whole album of these songs and who thinks it merits listening to before I die?

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney