1001 Albums Summary

Listening statistics & highlights

555
Albums Rated
3.38
Average Rating
51%
Complete
534 albums remaining

Rating Distribution

Rating Timeline

Taste Profile

1950
Favorite Decade
Blues
Favorite Genre
US
Top Origin
Generous
Rater Style ?
79
5-Star Albums
16
1-Star Albums

Breakdown

By Genre

Top Styles

By Decade

By Origin

Albums

You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
 5 3.15 +1.85
The Soft Bulletin
The Flaming Lips
 5 3.28 +1.72
Tommy
The Who
 5 3.3 +1.7
Neon Bible
Arcade Fire
 5 3.33 +1.67
The Band
The Band
 5 3.34 +1.66
Aftermath
The Rolling Stones
 5 3.35 +1.65
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
 5 3.36 +1.64
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
 5 3.36 +1.64
At Mister Kelly's
Sarah Vaughan
 5 3.37 +1.63
Come Away With Me
Norah Jones
 5 3.38 +1.62

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Let England Shake
PJ Harvey
 1 3.15 -2.15
Lazer Guided Melodies
Spiritualized
 1 2.92 -1.92
Vanishing Point
Primal Scream
 1 2.82 -1.82
One World
John Martyn
 1 2.81 -1.81
Faust IV
Faust
 1 2.78 -1.78
Atomizer
Big Black
 1 2.75 -1.75
Group Sex
Circle Jerks
 1 2.75 -1.75
Heaux Tales
Jazmine Sullivan
 1 2.66 -1.66
A Grand Don't Come For Free
The Streets
 1 2.63 -1.63
New Forms
Roni Size
 1 2.52 -1.52

Artists

Favorites

ArtistAlbumsAverage
Beatles 5 5
Led Zeppelin 3 5
Michael Jackson 3 5
Radiohead 5 4.4
Nick Drake 3 4.67
Jimi Hendrix 3 4.67
Bob Dylan 3 4.67
The Doors 3 4.67
Prince 2 5
Ray Charles 2 5
Stevie Wonder 2 5
The Rolling Stones 3 4.33
Bob Marley & The Wailers 3 4.33
Johnny Cash 3 4.33
U2 3 4.33
The Who 3 4.33
Peter Gabriel 3 4.33

Least Favorites

ArtistAlbumsAverage
Spiritualized 2 1.5
PJ Harvey 3 2

5-Star Albums (79)

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1999 Aftermath A Love Supreme Dummy Exodus Physical Graffiti Band On The Run Lady Soul Are You Experienced Amnesiac Bringing It All Back Home Imagine Off The Wall L.A. Woman Ramones It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Bluesbreakers The White Album Axis: Bold As Love Tapestry Come Away With Me The Doors Kid A Straight Outta Compton Bad Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Neon Bible Thriller The Joshua Tree Abbey Road Revolver The Band Highway 61 Revisited Elvis Presley Led Zeppelin IV At Folsom Prison The Genius Of Ray Charles Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul Disintegration Brothers Pink Moon Tommy At Mister Kelly's Rage Against The Machine Ellington at Newport (What's The Story) Morning Glory War Violator Surrealistic Pillow Coat Of Many Colors Van Halen Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Nevermind 3 Feet High and Rising Led Zeppelin II Let It Bleed Bookends The Village Green Preservation Society So Cosmo's Factory Live At The Harlem Square Club Talking Book Graceland Songs In The Key Of Life Birth Of The Cool Five Leaves Left To Pimp A Butterfly Siamese Dream Get Behind Me Satan The Soft Bulletin Pet Sounds Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Tusk Sign 'O' The Times Let's Stay Together Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music What's Going On A Hard Day's Night

1-Star Albums (16)

Heaux Tales Atomizer One World New Forms Faust IV Vanishing Point The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter Let England Shake Haunted Dancehall Duck Stab/Buster & Glen They Were Wrong, So We Drowned Public Image: First Issue A Grand Don't Come For Free Lazer Guided Melodies Dub Housing Group Sex

All Ratings (555)

1999 by Prince
Jul 26 2022
B-52's by The B-52's
Jul 27 2022
At Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers Band
Jul 28 2022

Whipping Post is still the stand-out hit. And it's not hard to see why!

Aftermath by The Rolling Stones
Jul 29 2022
Butterfly by Mariah Carey
Aug 01 2022

An excellent album if not out of step with most of everything on this list.

Dummy by Portishead
Aug 02 2022
Heaux Tales by Jazmine Sullivan
Aug 05 2022

The entire enterprise justs comes off shallow...

Exodus by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Aug 14 2022
Remedy by Basement Jaxx
Aug 28 2022
Dust by Screaming Trees
Aug 30 2022
Cross by Justice
Aug 31 2022
Juju by Siouxsie And The Banshees
Sep 13 2022
Kenya by Machito
Sep 14 2022
Imagine by John Lennon
Sep 21 2022
Shaft by Isaac Hayes
Oct 01 2022
3 + 3 by The Isley Brothers
Oct 05 2022
Smash by The Offspring
Oct 11 2022
New Forms by Roni Size
Oct 19 2022

Just... no.

The Message by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Oct 28 2022
Ctrl by SZA
Nov 14 2022
Debut by Björk
Nov 26 2022
Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Nov 30 2022
Harvest by Neil Young
Dec 04 2022
Tidal by Fiona Apple
Dec 08 2022
Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen
Dec 09 2022
Dirt by Alice In Chains
Dec 12 2022
Oar by Alexander 'Skip' Spence
Dec 28 2022
Dry by PJ Harvey
Dec 31 2022
Kid A by Radiohead
Jan 14 2023
Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
Jan 16 2023
Bad by Michael Jackson
Jan 21 2023
Sister by Sonic Youth
Jan 23 2023
Thriller by Michael Jackson
Feb 11 2023
Hejira by Joni Mitchell
Feb 26 2023
Blur by Blur
Mar 11 2023
Haunted Dancehall by The Sabres Of Paradise
Apr 19 2023

Again... why was this EVER added to this list. This is not inspired (if not equally unlistenable) as something by Schoenberg.

Vol. 4 by Black Sabbath
Apr 20 2023
Third by Portishead
Apr 29 2023
Vivid by Living Colour
May 02 2023
Brothers by The Black Keys
Jun 06 2023
Fuzzy by Grant Lee Buffalo
Jun 09 2023
Tommy by The Who
Jun 12 2023
Live! by Fela Kuti
Jun 13 2023
Play by Moby
Jun 27 2023
War by U2
Jul 01 2023
1989 by Taylor Swift
Jul 12 2023
69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields
Aug 10 2023

Anything good about this album is buried under hubris and volume.

A Little Deeper by Ms. Dynamite
Sep 01 2023

This was not a bad album. But it simply doesn't belong on this list.

xx by The xx
Sep 08 2023
Oxygène by Jean-Michel Jarre
Sep 10 2023
Ys by Joanna Newsom
Sep 11 2023
m b v by My Bloody Valentine
Sep 14 2023
Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel
Oct 05 2023
So by Peter Gabriel
Oct 21 2023
OK by Talvin Singh
Oct 22 2023
Zombie by Fela Kuti
Nov 05 2023
1984 by Van Halen
Nov 10 2023
Rapture by Anita Baker
Nov 16 2023
Stand! by Sly & The Family Stone
Dec 18 2023
Groovin' by The Young Rascals
Jan 17 2024
Frank by Amy Winehouse
Jan 20 2024
Phaedra by Tangerine Dream
Jan 21 2024
1977 by Ash
Feb 19 2024
Pump by Aerosmith
Mar 02 2024
Third by Soft Machine
Mar 11 2024
Mott by Mott The Hoople
Apr 05 2024
Berlin by Lou Reed
Apr 10 2024
Want One by Rufus Wainwright
Apr 21 2024
25 by Adele
May 05 2024
Tusk by Fleetwood Mac
Jun 11 2024
Eagles by Eagles
Jun 25 2024
Drunk by Thundercat
Jun 26 2024
Porcupine by Echo And The Bunnymen
Jul 03 2024
Goo by Sonic Youth
Jul 10 2024
KIWANUKA by Michael Kiwanuka
Jul 11 2024
Tical by Method Man
Jul 16 2024
90 by 808 State
Jul 25 2024
Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Jul 26 2024
Survivor by Destiny's Child
Aug 07 2024
Low by David Bowie
Aug 15 2024
Suede by Suede
Aug 17 2024
21 by Adele
Nov 09 2024

Generous

Average rating is 0.15 points above global average.

Other

Album origins are grouped into three buckets: US, UK, and everything else. “Other” means the artists you rate highest are from outside the US and UK.