1001 Albums Summary

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1089
Albums Rated
3.05
Average Rating
100%
Complete
Favorite Album
Who's Next
Who's Next
The Who
Submitted Album
St. Louis To Liverpool
St. Louis To Liverpool
Chuck Berry

Rating Distribution

Rating Timeline

Taste Profile

1950
Favorite Decade
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Favorite Genre
US
Top Origin
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67
5-Star Albums
34
1-Star Albums

Breakdown

By Genre

Top Styles

By Decade

By Origin

Albums

You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Shadowland
k.d. lang
 5 2.88 +2.12
The Rising
Bruce Springsteen
 5 3.05 +1.95
I'm Your Man
Leonard Cohen
 5 3.1 +1.9
New York Dolls
New York Dolls
 5 3.12 +1.88
Pieces Of The Sky
Emmylou Harris
 5 3.12 +1.88
Trio
Dolly Parton
 5 3.13 +1.87
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)
Bob Dylan
 5 3.14 +1.86
John Prine
John Prine
 5 3.22 +1.78
American Beauty
Grateful Dead
 5 3.24 +1.76
Chirping Crickets
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
 5 3.29 +1.71

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Kid A
Radiohead
 1 3.71 -2.71
Beautiful Freak
Eels
 1 3.27 -2.27
Vespertine
Björk
 1 3.18 -2.18
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Spiritualized
 1 3.15 -2.15
Spiderland
Slint
 1 2.97 -1.97
When I Was Born For The 7th Time
Cornershop
 1 2.91 -1.91
This Nation’s Saving Grace
The Fall
 1 2.89 -1.89
White Light / White Heat
The Velvet Underground
 1 2.89 -1.89
The Contino Sessions
Death In Vegas
 1 2.89 -1.89
Giant Steps
The Boo Radleys
 1 2.88 -1.88

Artists

Favorites

ArtistAlbumsAverage
Bruce Springsteen 5 5
Beatles 7 4.57
Johnny Cash 3 4.67
Bob Dylan 7 4.14
Elton John 2 5
Dire Straits 2 5
The Rolling Stones 6 4.17
Steely Dan 4 4.25
Creedence Clearwater Revival 3 4.33
The Doors 3 4.33
Elvis Presley 3 4.33
Led Zeppelin 5 4
Leonard Cohen 5 4
The Who 5 4

Least Favorites

ArtistAlbumsAverage
Björk 4 1.5
Pere Ubu 2 1
The Fall 3 1.67
Sonic Youth 5 2
Sepultura 2 1.5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band 2 1.5
Spiritualized 2 1.5
Public Image Ltd. 2 1.5
Radiohead 6 2.17
The Velvet Underground 3 2
Tim Buckley 3 2
My Bloody Valentine 3 2
PJ Harvey 4 2.25

Controversial

ArtistRatings
Prince 2, 5, 4
Kanye West 4, 3, 1
Pink Floyd 5, 2, 4, 5

5-Star Albums (67)

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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road You Want It Darker 3 + 3 Jagged Little Pill James Brown Live At The Apollo Innervisions Chirping Crickets The Wall Born In The U.S.A. Deja Vu Trio Speakerboxxx/The Love Below Live At The Harlem Square Club A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul At Newport 1960 (Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) Morrison Hotel Dire Straits The Doors John Prine The Rising Can't Buy A Thrill Madman Across The Water Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Blue Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers The Stranger Stardust Cosmo's Factory Darkness on the Edge of Town Graceland Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Rio Are You Experienced Boston New York Dolls Hotel California Brothers In Arms Purple Rain Revolver From Elvis In Memphis I'm Your Man Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs American Beauty Abbey Road Led Zeppelin IV Nebraska Let It Bleed Tapestry Bringing It All Back Home Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) 21 Pieces Of The Sky The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars A Hard Day's Night At Folsom Prison Moondance Who's Next Tea for the Tillerman Shadowland The Joshua Tree At San Quentin Dookie Rumours Born To Run The Dark Side Of The Moon

Popular Reviews

Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors

Awful. Not even music.

Punishing Kiss by Ute Lemper

Voice is fine but can't for the life of me understand why this album made this list. If this was a list of "1001 albums to listen to sitting outside a French bistro while smoking a cigarette" then yes.

4-Star Albums (268)

Dance Mania Too Rye Ay American Idiot Led Zeppelin III Jazz Samba Parallel Lines Wild Is The Wind The Gershwin Songbook At Budokan Bridge Over Troubled Water Appetite For Destruction Golden Hour The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Every Picture Tells A Story Green River Blonde On Blonde Rust Never Sleeps Armed Forces Survivor Mr. Tambourine Man Heartattack And Vine Cloud Nine The Marshall Mathers LP The Nightfly Back In Black Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim Thriller Bad Company Beggars Banquet Talking Book More Specials Rock 'N Soul Ten Transformer 461 Ocean Boulevard evermore Run-D.M.C. Nevermind Live At The Regal My Aim Is True Remain In Light Come Away With Me Kenya Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) Under Construction The Last Of The True Believers Aftermath Paranoid Rage Against The Machine Live At Leeds Tanto Tempo This Year's Model Sail Away Darkdancer Red Headed Stranger Music for the Masses The Wildest! The Rolling Stones Here's Little Richard Abraxas In It For The Money The Idiot The Score That's The Way Of The World Countdown To Ecstasy 25 If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears Gold Beauty And The Beat Back To Black The Cars Mama Said Knock You Out Lust For Life Let's Stay Together MTV Unplugged In New York Good Old Boys Sticky Fingers Fifth Dimension Doggystyle Ctrl The Specials If I Should Fall From Grace With God Lady Soul Blood Sugar Sex Magik Machine Head Ramones Metallica With The Beatles Catch A Fire The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan I’m a Lonesome Fugitive Elvis Presley Pearl Pretenders Sweetheart Of The Rodeo A Date With The Everly Brothers Out Of The Blue Automatic For The People Californication Harvest The Genius Of Ray Charles Exodus Ready To Die The College Dropout Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs The Lexicon Of Love Picture Book Live And Dangerous Exile On Main Street War Blood On The Tracks The White Album Permission to Land Scissor Sisters Hms Fable Shake Your Money Maker Miriam Makeba Pet Sounds Connected Moon Safari Actually Talking Heads 77 Mott Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde Honky Tonk Heroes What's That Noise? 1984 Time Out Mothership Connection Supa Dupa Fly Is This It American IV: The Man Comes Around Van Halen Parklife Reggatta De Blanc Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts Leftism Dusty In Memphis Songs Of Leonard Cohen Elephant Signing Off Face to Face Achtung Baby Melodrama Crosby, Stills & Nash Pretzel Logic Grievous Angel The Renaissance Hard Again Only By The Night Bat Out Of Hell Synchronicity Raising Hell Document Off The Wall Arc Of A Diver Moving Pictures Music in Exile Eagles Murmur After The Gold Rush London Calling A Girl Called Dusty Songs In The Key Of Life Get Rich Or Die Tryin' Guitar Town Court And Spark Arrival Phrenology The Gilded Palace Of Sin The Rise & Fall The White Room I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You The Band Surrealistic Pillow Violent Femmes 1999 At Fillmore East Bluesbreakers Red Dirt Girl You've Come a Long Way Baby Sound Affects More Songs About Buildings And Food Wish You Were Here What's Going On Foo Fighters Fear Of A Black Planet Come Find Yourself Music From Big Pink Sweet Baby James So Rubber Soul Live! The Number Of The Beast Imagine Crime Of The Century Young Americans Band On The Run A Rush Of Blood To The Head It's Too Late to Stop Now Will The Circle Be Unbroken Power In Numbers Nick Of Time Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail Nilsson Schmilsson Ragged Glory Street Signs Aladdin Sane Hejira Disintegration Paul's Boutique A Night At The Opera Drunk Coles Corner Led Zeppelin II Eliminator American Pie Aja Better Living Through Chemistry People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm Private Dancer Hounds Of Love Led Zeppelin The Stone Roses Frampton Comes Alive 1989 Tracy Chapman Elvis Is Back Electric Ladyland Rum Sodomy & The Lash Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme Electric Strangeways, Here We Come Bayou Country Younger Than Yesterday Cheap Thrills The Grand Tour Smash Licensed To Ill Kind Of Blue The Coral Pink Moon Violator My Generation Faith Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo Next Post Orgasmic Chill Let's Get It On Talking With the Taxman About Poetry Tommy Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Roger the Engineer Highway 61 Revisited Rapture Ellington at Newport The Low End Theory Bookends Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor So Much For The City Destroyer Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room Hot Fuss Honky Tonk Masquerade Another Music In A Different Kitchen Live At The Star Club, Hamburg Night Life

1-Star Albums (34)

This Nation’s Saving Grace Atomizer Giant Steps Bitte Orca Roots Slipknot Beautiful Freak Dub Housing Vespertine Kid A Kollaps Playing With Fire White Light / White Heat When I Was Born For The 7th Time The Contino Sessions D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle Wonderful Rainbow The Modern Dance Medúlla Duck Stab/Buster & Glen Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space Peggy Suicide Heaux Tales Konnichiwa Yeezus L'Eau Rouge They Were Wrong, So We Drowned Junkyard Spiderland Trout Mask Replica Public Image: First Issue Devil Without A Cause Locust Abortion Technician Scum

All Ratings

Balanced

Average rating is within 0.15 points of global average.