1001 Albums Summary

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2.83

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1970

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Live At Leeds The Who	5	3.32	+1.68
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	5	3.44	+1.56
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	5	3.66	+1.34
Disintegration The Cure	5	3.85	+1.15

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	1	3.47	-2.47
Cloud Nine The Temptations	1	3.41	-2.41
Nevermind Nirvana	2	4.37	-2.37
Blur Blur	1	3.33	-2.33
Daydream Nation Sonic Youth	1	3.29	-2.29
Pink Flag Wire	1	3.21	-2.21
Mermaid Avenue Billy Bragg	1	3.17	-2.17
Pieces Of The Sky Emmylou Harris	1	3.11	-2.11
Spiderland Slint	1	2.98	-1.98
The Suburbs Arcade Fire	2	3.5	-1.5

5-Star Albums (5)

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Cloud Nine

The Temptations · 1 likes

1/5

Meh. I liked the first song. Hated their grapevine cover.

Nevermind

Nirvana · 1 likes

2/5

Still think this is subpar. Lithium and come as you are are good. Screw the rest.

1-Star Albums (9)

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Odelay

Beck

2/5

I get it. For its time it is sonically unique. I prefer the singles. Pollution and where it’s at are the strongest tracks.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

M and In your House and At night still slap. Excellent start of their dark decent to Pornography.

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Jaco! Amelia and coyote are fantastic

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Cry and Bobby macgee and Mercedes Benz I mean, there is a reason this is classic. Not my preferred music, but superb artistry.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Mannish boy. I want to be loved. If it’s blues, like rock n roll blues, it came from this sound.

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

Slick classic jazz.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

F**k. I actually liked this album. What has become of me? Actually, this was very solid. Do it again, reeling, quite a lot of crafted pop.

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

4/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

5/5

I can’t believe this was recorded live. Simply incredible rock music. Recordings like this help explain the why The Who are legends.

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

1/5

This fucking sucks. Hard pass. At least it makes you appreciate how great other artists are? On the other hand, I hate the velvet underground and Lou reed too, so… Sounds like Hawkwind or Motörhead without uniqueness.

Black Monk Time

The Monks

2/5

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

4/5

Precursor to the cranberries and other angular female voices. I had forgotten how much I liked this one. Black boys on mopeds and three babies

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Born on the baaaaaaaajou! Proud Mary. Really solid swamp rock blues. Not the biggest number of hits.

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

1/5

Meh. Country.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

2/5

Other bands did it better

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

1/5

Meh. Country.

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

3/5

Yeah. Peter frampton is like The Bee Gees an example of 70s excess. But damn it, they are wonderful. So well crafted. Stand outs are of course show me the way, baby I love your way, and do you feel like we do.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

Enjoyable from start to finish.

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

Well played. Queen Elizabeth II just died. I listened to this album minutes after it was announced. Lo and behold this album came up the very next day. Every single track is wonderful, but particularly the title, cemetery gates, and the boy with the thorn in his side.

Black Metal

Venom

1/5

No thanks

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

2/5

Pink Flag

Wire

1/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

1/5

Meh. I liked the first song. Hated their grapevine cover.

Tical

Method Man

2/5

The Stooges

3/5

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Spiderland

Slint

1/5

My Generation

The Who

2/5

Classic tracks the kids are alright and my generation. Entwistle is awesome.

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

Pump

Aerosmith

3/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

2/5

Still think this is subpar. Lithium and come as you are are good. Screw the rest.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

4/5

Classic.

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

3/5

I understand its popularity but I think there are other bands who more fully committed to either shoe gaze or electronica.

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

Smooth. Very well done.

Blur

1/5

No thanks. I don’t understand this album being one of the 1001 albums.

S&M

Metallica

2/5

Definitely a fantastic metal band. But how is this one of the 1001 albums?

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

1/5

I do not like Joy Division. I know they are foundational, but so, so many other bands who were influenced by them I have more affinity for. They just sound the same every song, like one big drone.