My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Fuzzy Grant Lee Buffalo	5	3.02	+1.98
Entertainment Gang Of Four	5	3.26	+1.74
Horses Patti Smith	5	3.31	+1.69
The Suburbs Arcade Fire	5	3.49	+1.51
Natty Dread Bob Marley & The Wailers	5	3.56	+1.44
Djam Leelii Baaba Maal	4	2.79	+1.21

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Reign In Blood Slayer	1	2.97	-1.97
Slipknot Slipknot	1	2.68	-1.68
Beggars Banquet The Rolling Stones	2	3.61	-1.61
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	2	3.43	-1.43

5-Star Albums (5)

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Entertainment

Gang Of Four · 1 likes

5/5

This is great, and I'd never heard of them!

1-Star Albums (2)

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Fleet Foxes

2/5

I guess they are their generation's Turin Brakes? But more English: they sound uncanny and unsettling to me, they make me think of The Wicker Man even though I've never seen that film.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

I feel like I'm in a very cool bay area brunch joint. Or possibly a Quentin Tarantino film. Great, but great for specific contexts is what I'm saying: not an everyday listen. (Except why not? Because it doesn't feel like "my life"?)

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

3/5

Lesser britpop. Or possibly core britpop and my tastes have changed? Feels like Supergrass but with less compelling tunes.

Country Life

Roxy Music

3/5

Absolutely all over the place. Some of it ("Out of the Blue") I really like, some of it is just chaos.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

A slightly more uptempo Morcheeba -- what an uncool comparison -- but I think I might come back to this one later and investigate further.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

I do indeed feel funked up, as promised. It will be interesting figuring out where the lines between soul and funk (which I apparently like) and hip hop, R&B and rap (which I'm not sure I do like) lie over time.

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

4/5

Already owned, so obviously I quite like it; although it's not in regular rotation and evokes memories of 15-20 years ago. The title track stands out.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

Folk rock, all over the place, shaggy and rambling, and I am mostly here for it. Flute/chanting bit took me by surprise though.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

The first time I have listened to a Smith's album start to finish. Sounds rather samey, really.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Ah, a radio Darwin classic

Gorillaz

3/5

A great singles band, terrible albums band. (Based on only having listened to a couple of their albums in full. But certainly this one has plenty of filler.)

Atomizer

Big Black

3/5

Not really my thing, but I can see how it leads to the things that are my thing.

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

4/5

It's 7 Seconds guy! Good vibes, not something I'd listen to every day.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Well, that was an excellent way to start off a Friday. Would probably also work for a Sunday. Or, really, most days.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Surprised to read this is her most successful album: for me the jazz elements take away from her strengths.

Reign In Blood

Slayer

1/5

Well that happened.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

Never listened to much Prince. Loved the opening track! The rest just drifted by.

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

3/5

Oh how the definition of "garage band" has changed over the years. About half of this I rather liked, about half of it is ... twee? That feels like a ridiculous thing to say but it was the first adjective that came to mind.

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

Probably the best Chemical Bros album

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

5/5

This is great, and I'd never heard of them!

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

4/5

Striking combination of retro cadences and modern (at least for 1996) electronic sounds; like a funkier Air? Worth another listen at some point.

Slipknot

1/5

No.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

This cannot be coincidental 😆 Like it more than Strangeways, bit more energy.

Parklife

Blur

3/5

Disappointed not to find much in this beyond the singles. But they are great singles.

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

5/5

Good enough to buy after one listen.

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

4/5

I really don't know how to listen to world music in a non-exoticising way: to hear this as just, normal. But it is good, sometimes mellow, sometimes soulful.

GREY Area

Little Simz

3/5

Weirdly, I enjoy the beats, the samples, the vocals, and yet for the most part this doesn't come together for me.

Play

Moby

3/5

This hasn't really lasted, has it? Porcelain and Natural Blues have recovered slightly from over-saturation, it's true, but there's far too much filler on this.

Ingenue

k.d. lang

3/5

This is not what I thought kd lang sounded like, for some reason! I had more ani difranco vibes in my head, this has sheen and mellowness that I wasn't expecting. Nice enough but didn't make a huge impact.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

A classic

Dirty

Sonic Youth

4/5

The grunge/shoegaze bits I like; the screamy/emo bits not so much.

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

4/5

Having this here makes me curious about the inclusion criteria for the book. Should QOTSA be represented? Absolutely. Is this an interesting album? It is. (The phrase "math-grunge" popped into my head for one of the tracks.) Should QOTSA be in the list more than once? Probably not, in my view. And is this better than Rated R or Songs for the Deaf? I'd find that a hard argument.

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My Bloody Valentine

3/5

Atmospheric in the first half, comes to life in the second half. Not sure it's essential though.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Ah, so this is the missing link between Elliott Smith and Big Thief.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

5/5

Big sprawling and maximalist, just what the doctor ordered.