My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Tarkus Emerson, Lake & Palmer	5	2.78	+2.22
Djam Leelii Baaba Maal	5	2.78	+2.22
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts Brian Eno	5	2.79	+2.21
Bone Machine Tom Waits	5	2.84	+2.16
Want One Rufus Wainwright	5	2.91	+2.09
Heavy Weather Weather Report	5	2.98	+2.02
The Nightfly Donald Fagen	5	3.02	+1.98
Smile Brian Wilson	5	3.04	+1.96
Heartattack And Vine Tom Waits	5	3.07	+1.93
Vespertine Björk	5	3.18	+1.82

Album	You	Global	Diff
American Idiot Green Day	1	3.77	-2.77
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	1	3.66	-2.66
Hotel California Eagles	1	3.59	-2.59
Gorillaz Gorillaz	1	3.53	-2.53
Different Class Pulp	1	3.42	-2.42
Beauty And The Beat The Go-Go's	1	3.39	-2.39
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	1	3.39	-2.39
Africa Brasil Jorge Ben Jor	1	3.37	-2.37
Neon Bible Arcade Fire	1	3.34	-2.34
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	1	3.31	-2.31

Artist	Albums	Average
Tom Waits	4	4.75
Michael Jackson	3	5
David Bowie	6	4.33
Beatles	5	4.4
Steely Dan	3	4.67
Radiohead	3	4.67
Pink Floyd	3	4.67
Stevie Wonder	2	5
Leonard Cohen	3	4.33
Bob Marley & The Wailers	3	4.33
Talking Heads	3	4.33
Yes	3	4.33

Artist	Albums	Average
The Fall	3	1
Echo And The Bunnymen	2	1
My Bloody Valentine	2	1
Green Day	2	1.5
The Byrds	2	1.5
Belle & Sebastian	2	1.5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	3	2

Gorillaz

1/5

Understandably dated, to my ear. I remember it being influential and important when released originally, but I found it mostly boring. A few catchy tunes. My opinion has been biased by overplays. This is gas station music at this point.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

Really enjoyed the amazing line-up of personnel on this album. I had no idea so many great players were on here...and in 1969!

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Heard it a lot. Heard it again.

Diamond Life

Sade

5/5

Always fantastic. simple and groovy.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Solid foundational electronica. Some of the vocals are atrocious. Early Tricky.

Cut

The Slits

1/5

Not my style.

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

3/5

Made it about halfway through, but I've heard it a few times in the past. Some surprisingly groovy parts, albeit extremely straight and very aggressive. Reminds me of growing up in rural New England.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

Fantastic.

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

2/5

Better than I expected. Very similar to The Rolling Stones. Recording quality is awful, but that might be somewhat intentional.

American Idiot

Green Day

1/5

no thank you

Boston

4/5

classic

The Real Thing

Faith No More

5/5

This is a seminal album from an influential band.

Aja

Steely Dan

5/5

I have heard this many many times. It is phenomenal.

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

somewhat dated to a modern ear. groundbreaking at the time of release.

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

2/5

A few bright points in a mediocre effort.

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

Absolute classic.

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Interesting treatment.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

brilliant.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

Transcendent.

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

2/5

Too country for my taste.

1999

Prince

5/5

Iconic, required listening

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

1/5

This is some truly terrible singing within some extremely mediocre music. I got about 2 songs through before I had to quit. Really - this has no place in the list.

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

3/5

The title track melody is very similar to Keane's 2004 release "Somewhere Only We Know." Numerous passages are lifted from Beatles songs throughout - it could be passed off as homage. It could also be that all notes and all combinations have already been recorded.

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

5/5

Really excellent. Great bass tone. Some iffy singing.

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Ahead of their time. A lot of good grooves on this album.

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

4/5

Delightfully weird.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

I enjoyed this. Well-produced bluesy fusion of geographical styles.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Heavier than I anticipated, but pleasing and heartfelt.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

Excellent, relaxed, sometimes somber, sometimes funky.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

5/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

A must-listen, often replayed.

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

4/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

1/5

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

2/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

1/5

awful.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

A classic of an era. A bit whiney in modern context.

Picture Book

Simply Red

4/5

I had not listened to this group before. The work has that classic British one-two hop-groove that can be quite funky at times. Lyrics surprisingly heartfelt and relatable - very authentically delivered.

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

4/5

This is cool glimpse into early Bjork - you can really hear some of the same themes that she returns to for Human Behavior many years later.

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

2/5

meh.

Dookie

Green Day

2/5

Heard this a million times.

Harvest

Neil Young

3/5

It's Neil. Listen to it if you haven't, then after that it's optional.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

1/5

Objectively imprecise, subjectively gimmicky, occasionally catchy.

The Modern Lovers

1/5

This was not good.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

1/5

Abuser. Whiner. Did not listen.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

5/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

4/5

This is a fantastic, historical album.

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

This album was influential, and holds up well.

Hotel California

Eagles

1/5

Seminal fluid. ubiquitous claptrap. catchy like syphilis.

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

This is very, very good.

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

1/5

Get stuffed. RIP Chester.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

This album changed my life.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

Quality performance from a master in his prime.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

5/5

Extremely solid rock'n'roll. David doing some of his finest work.

The Man Who

Travis

1/5

I could only make it two songs into this shoegaze drudgery.

Pink Flag

Wire

3/5

Pop punk before it was cool. Echoes of Bowie, without the inspiration or musicianship. Mostly boring.

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

Throbbing Gristle

2/5

It's throbbing gristle - one can only take so much at a time.

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

4/5

Understated yet grandiose. Melancholy and drenched in nostalgia. Consistent.

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

3/5

Some interesting tracks but mostly just a lot of British yelling.

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

1/5

Spare me.

Virgin Suicides

Air

4/5

It's Air - it's good.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

It's high quality.

New Wave

The Auteurs

2/5

started as a strong background album, then shifted to lower-quality and improperly tuned whining.

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

1/5

no thanks.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Listened many times to this classic.

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

2/5

Some sour notes, but mostly enjoyable. Last song is the catchiest.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Masterful.

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

she's amazing.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Required listening. Always rewarding.

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

2/5

My wife loves this album.

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

1/5

Did not make it through the whole album. Mediocre, occasionally grating, decent drumming.

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

3/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

2/5

I was previously unfamiliar with Hawley. It's a certain kind of mood for a certain kind of day. A certain kind of person would really get into it. I liked the progressions, but it all felt like shadow puppetry.

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

This album is very good. The album art is even better.

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

1/5

This was not good.

Beautiful Freak

Eels

2/5

This was nostalgic at first, and rapidly became confining.

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

Some classics.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

This has been one of my favorite albums of all time, for a long time. It was a pleasure to listen to it straight through again.

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

4/5

Good music to listen while traveling

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

1/5

literally terrible. I do not know why anyone would ever willingly listen to this collection of noises.

Clandestino

Manu Chao

2/5

Relatively standard, but enjoyable.

Rocks

Aerosmith

2/5

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

required listening.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Very, very good.

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

A classic album full of classic sounds. I had forgotten the zany pleasure of "Mother"

Nowhere

Ride

2/5

meh.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

3/5

relaxing, good in the background

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

2/5

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

4/5

In It For The Money

Supergrass

3/5

Better than I expected. At times reminded me of Smashing Pumpkins, other times I heard some distinct Black Sabbath influences....

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

excellent.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

sad, but cleansing.

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

2/5

I did not like this music.

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

David Bowie

4/5

always fantastic

Fever Ray

2/5

This was just ok.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

Very good, funky album with quality rhymes.

Chris

Christine and the Queens

2/5

mediocre Bjork derivative with quasi-Daft Punk sensibilities. eminently missable.

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

3/5

Eclectic and folky, sometimes slightly off-kilter. Interesting stuff.

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

2/5

This album was "what if David Bowie was not as good?"

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

old school, aggressive, quite good.

Connected

Stereo MC's

3/5

Groovy, blends into the background. Nostalgic for those of us the right age.

Joan Armatrading

4/5

This was mellow and good.

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

2/5

very cockney. enjoyable.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

mellow, moving, contemplative. As you might expect from Nick.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

relatively tired at this point, but still quality.

Peter Gabriel

4/5

fantastic.

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

2/5

I found this to be mostly unremarkable, but passable as background music. A few of the more vulgar tracks grabbed my attention, but not in a bad way.

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

4/5

classic hip hop.

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

The Kinks

3/5

I enjoyed this. I did not remember how much like The Beatles they sounded.

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

2/5

jangly and not very musical.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

2/5

I really tried to listen, but only made it through 3 songs. I respect Cyndi, but this album did a bit too much cocaine.

S&M

Metallica

1/5

Yawn.

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

2/5

There is some truly awful singing on this album.

Dry

PJ Harvey

2/5

meh.

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Always classic.

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Os Mutantes

3/5

I enjoyed this. Murky and atmospheric, but also groovy.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

Classic.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Very good. He's such a legend.

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

blah blah, classic blah

Dare!

The Human League

3/5

very good, although some also very bad singing....it's the genre.

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

1/5

This was not good music.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

It is unsurprisingly very good. Jimi is not as good a singer as everyone thinks; I agree with Jimi on this.

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

2/5

this was a mediocre shoegaze that i've already forgotten

Miriam Makeba

4/5

very good, beautiful singing and harmonies.

Night Life

Ray Price

3/5

A bit too country for my taste, but good guitar work.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

Always gold.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

too country for my taste, but much respect.

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

3/5

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

2/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

5/5

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

3/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

5/5

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

4/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

5/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

1/5

could not make it more than three seconds into track 1. way too country for me.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

More Specials

The Specials

4/5

Tago Mago

Can

2/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

4/5

Da Capo

Love

1/5

they wish they were The Rolling Stones. (They were not)

Traffic

3/5

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

2/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Bert Jansch

4/5

Good, mellow folk style introspective music.

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

3/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

2/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

5/5

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

5/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

5/5

Pivotal and relevant. RIP Chris.

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

3/5

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

3/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

2/5

None for me, merci.

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

4/5

Truth

Jeff Beck

4/5

The Band

4/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

2/5

Risque

CHIC

4/5

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

4/5

This album was influential to me as a young person, and I had not listened to it in perhaps 20 or 25 years -- and, it holds up pretty well. The samples are somewhat dated, but that tracks with the age of the work.

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

2/5

whinier than i recall.

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

1/5

Fragile

Yes

5/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

2/5

pretty raw, lots of yelling, almost no dynamic.

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

1/5

squeezed cat vocals forced me to abandon within a few seconds of the first track.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

5/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

not as bad as i remember.

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

4/5

Very good; an album I had not heard which made me want to delve further into the Costello discography

Odessa

Bee Gees

2/5

more warble than groove on this one.

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

2/5

While I can recognize the importance of the work in the Sphere of All Musical Endeavor.... I really just do not enjoy hearing these noises. I've even seen John Zorn in concert, and it's just as unbearable.

McCartney

Paul McCartney

4/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

2/5

I kept hoping for it to get better; it does not. Bargain basement Joni Mitchell.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

3/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

2/5

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

2/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

2/5

Passionately unremarkable music that somehow manages to leave the impression of crying in one's sleep.

Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

Dire Straits

4/5

Blood, Sweat & Tears

2/5

Debut

Björk

4/5

Feast of Wire

Calexico

2/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

4/5

Sound Affects

The Jam

2/5

The Slider

T. Rex

3/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

4/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

2/5

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

3/5

Out of Step

Minor Threat

1/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

Leftism

Leftfield

2/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

2/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Among The Living

Anthrax

3/5

The Stone Roses

2/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

Sulk

The Associates

3/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

2/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

White Light

Gene Clark

1/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

4/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

4/5

Drunk

Thundercat

3/5

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

2/5

Odelay

Beck

3/5

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

5/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

2/5

Basket of Light

Pentangle

1/5

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

4/5

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

1/5

B-52's

The B-52's

4/5

Pretenders

2/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

1/5

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

2/5

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

1/5

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

1/5

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

1/5

Goo

Sonic Youth

2/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

High Violet

The National

1/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

Different Class

Pulp

1/5

i couldn't make it through the first song of this whiney, jangly mess.

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

2/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

Nixon

Lambchop

2/5

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

4/5

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

4/5

Iron Maiden

4/5

All Mod Cons

The Jam

2/5

The Cars

4/5

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

1/5

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

3/5

Killing Joke

2/5

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

1/5

Third

Soft Machine

1/5

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

5/5

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

1/5

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

3/5

Winter In America

Gil Scott-Heron

3/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Femi Kuti

4/5

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

3/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Infected

The The

2/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

2/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

3/5

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

Devo

2/5

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

1/5

Street Life

The Crusaders

4/5

Palo Congo

Sabu

2/5

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

3/5

The Velvet Underground

2/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

4/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

2/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Street Signs

Ozomatli

3/5

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

4/5

The Libertines

1/5

boring, self-serving, jangly, forgettable

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

3/5

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

4/5

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

3/5

Quiet Life

Japan

4/5

Phrenology

The Roots

3/5

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

1/5

exceedingly forgettable - half the time I thought I was listening to The Pretenders by accident.

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

1/5

when they included melodies from The Lord's Prayer in their song, they lost me.

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

4/5

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

1/5

this is boring and garbled

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

4/5

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

5/5

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

5/5

powerful. transportive. emotional. beautiful.

Closer

Joy Division

1/5

This made me sad because so many of my friends love this band and I thought it sounded like a bag of cats in the rain.

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

1/5

This was really bad. Like: "Is the tape broken?" kind of bad. Why does everyone talk about this band as if they are iconic or important? I could squeeze my cat in a reverb tank and get a better sound.

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

2/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

James Jamerson's bass work on this album makes it worth listening to.

Rapture

Anita Baker

3/5

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

3/5

Throwing Muses

2/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

3/5

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

1/5

I do not know what the hype about Wilco is all about. Super depressing, uncomfortable vibe; tuneless meanderings through maudlin manchild minutiae.

Paul Simon

4/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

2/5

middling at best. Tired in places. Repetitive in all ways.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

1/5

this was not good.

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Lost Souls

Doves

2/5

I had to look it up; Steven Wilson is NOT in this band.... They do have a few good moments on here, but mostly I found this album to be resoundingly mediocre.

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

3/5

This one brought back some memories.... Not their best album, but consistent.

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

1/5

I couldn't get through the first track of this absolute garbage.

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

1/5

unlistenable garbage - this is what happens when everyone thinks they have what it takes to create experimental music (spoiler: they do not have what it takes).

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

2/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

It's just very good, very fast, very intense hair/horror metal from the 1970/80s.

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

3/5

This is a little too much Beefheart and not enough Zappa. The whole band was a little to zonked on acid for this one.

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

3/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

5/5

It's gorgeous.

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

5/5

This really is a seminal and influential work - and it's also very good. One can hear how this album has influenced so much music produced since it was released.

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

1/5

This was not good - often there were too many layers, with atonal or discordant components, but not in a good way (like Tom Waits might do) -- in a scattered cacophony of navel-gazing moronity.

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

2/5

This is a spastic amalgamation of styles without any real throughline.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

One World

John Martyn

3/5

This was interesting - I didn't know much about John Martyn before listening to this. Tom Waits does ELO.

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

2/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

4/5

This is just very, very good. Smooth, funky, tasteful, masterful.

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

2/5

I will revisit this whenever I want to imagine a David Lynch movie that was never created.

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

1/5

I remember when their single was a hit everywhere. I didn't really understand why back then, and listening to this garbage again has only reinforced my assessment: this is absolute garbage. This verges on offensive stereotyping of authentic speech patterns in disenfranchised communities. This why guy trying to sound black is super cringe.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

4/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

1/5

I really wanted to like this, because so many people reference this band so frequently. ...Alas; this is not good music. It's got emotion, and if that's all you are needing, then maybe this is right for you - but the musicianship and songwriting are dull.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

4/5

This is good music. It's a vibe, certainly - you have to be in the mood for it... but, if you are: it's good.

American Gothic

David Ackles

2/5

overly religious, somewhat overwrought. A real "it insists upon itself" vibe with this one. Not great.

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

1/5

This is good - if you like growly, out-of-tune French vocals over mediocre punk.

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Fred Neil

2/5

This was an odd album. It made fine background music, being unremarkable...weird song titles.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

3/5

better than I had expected, given the tenor of their more popular work.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

2/5

a bit too dirty for me. Sonic Youth always has been, despite many of my friends really loving them.

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

3/5

This guy puts on a great live show, and gets a great band together, and this album is a great example of that. Whatever your opinions, if you're in the mood for this, then Van Morrison is the one to serve it.

Let It Be

The Replacements

2/5

jangly. underwhelming. I still don't get what people see in these guys.

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

2/5

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

1/5

This music might be good if you're shitfaced, blackout hammered drunk and you don't care about melody, rhythm, feeling, or sound quality. Why would we harken back to a time before good music existed?

Close To You

Carpenters

4/5

Damn near perfect. RIP Karen.

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

4/5

This really is a fantastic album. Almost entirely instrumental, including some really groovy odd time stuff. Orchestral layering of modern instruments, repeating motifs - it's very good.

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

2/5

This is not music for me. This might be music for someone, but for me it was just noise (and not in a good way).

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

3/5

This album and band are "important" but also "not super easy to hear." Everyone should spend some time understanding the messages, but wow: the delivery is hard to take. Jello Biafra's spoken word stuff is a bit easier to stomach.

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

1/5

If Aerosmith grew up listening to Oasis and weren't as dedicated to their craft, this might be the junk they recorded. I swear a few of the songs were literally the same song.

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

3/5

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

3/5

This album is a vibe. Very "early 2000s" in the ethereal folk/rock realm, but perhaps a more tasteful offering amongst the reams of drek.

Berlin

Lou Reed

3/5

This beat my expectations - I had previously only heard Lou Reed's more popular works, and this surprised me by having good musicianship and arrangement.

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

4/5

This is a reminder that George Michael was one of the great talents of the previous century.

New Forms

Roni Size

4/5

Good, classic DnB

The Clash

3/5

#1 Record

Big Star

3/5

Power pop, indeed. Big Star was not on my radar but I have heard some of these songs.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

I enjoyed this album.

Horses

Patti Smith

2/5

I don't like her vocal delivery, but I can't argue with anyone who is a fan. She is a rock god. I prefer her work with The Pretenders.

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

1/5

Not my bag. Exceedingly middling Clash rip-offs.

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

2/5

This had more electronic elements to it than I expected (the description says "rock band" but they do use a lot of samples and familiar drum patterns).

Movies

Holger Czukay

3/5

I was skeptical, but this album surprised me. It was ahead of its time, and covers a lot of territory - at times coming off like a Zappa song making fun of pop music of the moment, and other times a very Eno/Byrne sound collage with intrinsic value.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Le Tigre

1/5

i wanted to like this, but i did not. too screechy for me.

Mask

Bauhaus

2/5

I can see why this is an Important Artist for music history, but it's not super enjoyable for listening.

The Last Broadcast

Doves

3/5

I was pleasantly surprised by this album. At times they did a U2 vibe, other times they hit a nice progressive note (their reimagining of King Crimson's "Moonchild" was a particularly nice moment).

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

3/5

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

5/5

everyone should hear this album.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

3/5

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

1/5

Rock bottom, indeed. Skip this one if you don't like meandering, maudlin, quasi-orchestral humdrum.

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

3/5

I heard some iconic samples in this album (Buffalo Girls Go Round The Outside).... an interesting blend of afrobeat and hip-hop.

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

Faces

3/5

Despite including Rod Stewart, I enjoyed this music.

Moby Grape

1/5

boring.

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

4/5

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

2/5

I never really clocked how many of these songs sound exactly the same as each other.

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

4/5

Only one track was available on YouTube Music, but this led to a whole day of listening to Ladysmith and other similar artists. Perhaps too overtly religious for me in some cases, and of course I don't know the language... But, this music is absolutely gorgeous.

Smile

Brian Wilson

5/5

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

3/5

I liked this quite a bit - it seems like it was ahead of its time (or firmly within its own time...) I could hear their influence on many of the artists of today.

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

4/5

it's very weird, kind of sloppy in some places -- but also very good.

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

2/5

This contained more electronic / sampled / programmed stuff than I had initially expected. It was a palatable but bland melange.

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

5/5

This is a fantastic album that everyone should hear.

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

2/5

if you step on a cat it might sound better.

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

1/5

This was some of the most disappointing Dancehall/reggae/dub I've had the displeasure of hearing in a long while.

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

1/5

do yourself a favor and skip it. Not sure what all the hype is.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

1977

Ash

2/5

i was bored by this music

Electric

The Cult

2/5

I've heard a lot about this band. They have been overhyped. This was passable hair rock, but the singing is strained and the instrumentation somewhat boring.

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

1/5

This was quite bad. I did not enjoy this.

Calenture

The Triffids

1/5

I couldn't even get 3 tracks into this maudlin, reverb-drenched navel-gazing drivel.

Hypnotised

The Undertones

1/5

80s British power-pop is boring. Fight me.

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

2/5

If I wanted to hear oversaturated and rambling nonsense, this would be my jam.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Third

Portishead

3/5

it's good. it's not "Portishead in the 90s" good, but it's good.

Faith

George Michael

4/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

5/5

Absolutely fantastic - exemplary Latin dance tunes by masters of the craft.

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

1/5

This is some low quality entertainment.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

It really isn't all hype; dude had a special talent. Tragic, emotional, raw, beautiful. If you're in the right mood, this is the right music.

Cypress Hill

3/5

Woodface

Crowded House

2/5

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Born To Be With You

Dion

2/5

Some enjoyable music, but largely ignorable.

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

3/5

OK

Talvin Singh

3/5

I enjoyed this - a cool mix of influences and styles.

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

4/5

This is some early-days electronic music, and I liked it.

Chelsea Girl

Nico

3/5

This is a stylistic and melancholy album, with some really nice vibes. It's a toes-in-the-water, sweater-by-the-fire, read-a-book-in-a-forest kind of vibe.

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

This will send you down a journey through African blues, and your horizons will expand.

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

It's really a whole mood. It's twilight on a quiet front porch or by the campfire, in the country... It's sitting alone in a deserted stairwell in an apartment building....

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

5/5

This experimental, groundbreaking work completely expanded my understanding of "music." Every moment of this album is resonant, even if you don't get it at first -- it will reveal itself on the third, twelfth, or 200th listen.

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

4/5

Listen to it. Dismiss it, but secretly crave more. Listen to it again. Have a good cry; get drunk; scream at the wind; stare at a goat. Listen to it again.

En-Tact

The Shamen

2/5

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

3/5

Relatively middling late 80s BritPop. A few standout moments in the bass, some fun vocal melodies, the usual combination of bubblegum and pathos without veering into DarkWave. I enjoyed.

John Prine

3/5

I'm not a huge fan of the style (folk country with a side of country folk), but I can recognize the songwriting talent and skill. I do like other peoples' covers of his songs better than his own versions, though.

World Clique

Deee-Lite

3/5

It's funky, and one track even has Bootsy

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Signing Off

UB40

1/5

Cocaine is a helluva drug.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

2/5

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

One of the greatest collections of music.

Black Sabbath

4/5

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

1/5

if I wrapped my head in a sheet soaked with maple syrup, and locked myself in the trunk of a car, that might approximate the experience of listening to this drivel. These chodes are so far up their own asses it's exhausting.

Copper Blue

Sugar

2/5

this is not a very good album.

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

1/5

this person is not very good at rapping.

Dog Man Star

Suede

2/5

You could listen to this album....or, you could drink too much cough syrup and go sit on a park bench in a rainy city. Same vibe.

Bummed

Happy Mondays

2/5

There were certainly a few bops here... but, also a few flops.

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

Solid Western soundtrack stuff, here.

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

3/5

relatively classic psychedelia in the vein of late-70s to mid-80s.

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

Very cool - spotted a few tracks used as samples (Dilla, etc).

Homework

Daft Punk

3/5

It's good. Very much the textbook for electronic music which followed.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

This is very good music.

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

1/5

I could not even make it 30 seconds into the first track of this drivel.

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

Simple Minds

3/5

solid Scottish New Wave with some really great bass lines.

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

1/5

I am almost never in the mood for badly-sung punk.

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

This is a very good album.

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

3/5

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

4/5

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

4/5

Gotan always does a really good consistent MOOD, and this is no exception.

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

3/5

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

4/5

Greg Lake was on fire on this particular day.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

2/5

Black Monk Time

The Monks

3/5

Tical

Method Man

3/5

Vivid

Living Colour

4/5

They do a great live show, and their sound harkens back to a very specific time, combining the late 80s vocal style with early 90s hardcore beginnings....

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

It's just very, very good.

Sail Away

Randy Newman

3/5

Soul Mining

The The

2/5

This might have its place in the history of music, perhaps as inspiration or breaking ground for a more artful expression to come....this early version of the sound is a bit sloppy and somewhat grating.

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

4/5

so hard to believe this was made in 1966; it still sounds fresh today.

Vespertine

Björk

5/5

It really is amazing music. Passionate, effervescent, richly textured...

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

4/5

This was far better than it had any right to be.

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

2/5

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

1/5

I could not even get through the first track of this nonsense. Cocaine is a helluva drug; how did anyone involved with this think it was any good?!

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

2/5

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Timeless

Goldie

4/5

An absolute textbook for classic Drum n Bass / Jungle.

So Much For The City

The Thrills

2/5

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

3/5

glossy modern afrobeat - a bit canned, but good.

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

1/5

i tried to listen to this, but it appears to be an album of stock / advertising music? not good.

The Yes Album

Yes

5/5

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

1/5

not my jam.

D

White Denim

4/5

I was surprised by this. The name made me expect some basic Americana garbage, and what I got was actually some decent indie music with some really good drumming.... Some might think it "jangly" and I would understand, but it hit a Bill Dolan / Heroic Doses kind of vibe and I'm here for it.

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

One of the better synthwave offerings, with at least a decent singer. Self-derivative though.

90

808 State

4/5

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

2/5

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

2/5

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

This dude so obviously wants to be Tom Waits in the absolute worst way.

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

1/5

I couldn't even make it through one song - what a depressing mess.

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

2/5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

2/5

However groundbreaking it may have been at the time, to modern ears it's all a bit mid.

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

3/5

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

3/5

I was surprised to learn that some songs I know are covers of Merle Haggard songs (although I shouldn't have been). This is an album of classic sounds.

The Specials

4/5

NEU! 75

Neu!

2/5

Meh.

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

1/5

this was bad even before they started in with that Christian bullshit

Tapestry

Carole King

3/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

1/5

i couldn't even get through 30 seconds of the first song. There is a reason we've improved the technology, and this is an excellent argument for spending at least a little time learning how to actively listen, and for crafting music that is pleasing in *any* way. .... These assholes couldn't bother to do any of that.

Wild Gift

X

2/5

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

1/5

Yawn.

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

2/5

Scott 4

Scott Walker