My 1001 Albums Journey

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Finisher # to complete the list

812

Albums Rated

3.38

Average Rating

75%

Complete

Rating Distribution

Rating Timeline

Taste Profile

1980

Favorite Decade

Punk

Favorite Genre

Top Origin

Balanced

Rater Style ?

131

5-Star Albums

1-Star Albums

Breakdown

By Genre

Top Styles

By Decade

By Origin

Albums

You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Suicide Suicide	5	2.46	+2.54
Bitte Orca Dirty Projectors	5	2.69	+2.31
Cut The Slits	5	2.71	+2.29
Da Capo Love	5	2.8	+2.2
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret Soft Cell	5	2.86	+2.14
Damaged Black Flag	5	2.86	+2.14
Fromohio fIREHOSE	5	2.88	+2.12
This Nation’s Saving Grace The Fall	5	2.89	+2.11
E.V.O.L. Sonic Youth	5	2.9	+2.1
Supa Dupa Fly Missy Elliott	5	2.92	+2.08

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Can't Buy A Thrill Steely Dan	1	3.73	-2.73
Moondance Van Morrison	1	3.68	-2.68
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	1	3.59	-2.59
Definitely Maybe Oasis	1	3.54	-2.54
Aja Steely Dan	1	3.48	-2.48
Diamond Life Sade	1	3.47	-2.47
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.47	-2.47
Aqualung Jethro Tull	1	3.43	-2.43
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	1	3.39	-2.39
Pretzel Logic Steely Dan	1	3.39	-2.39

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Sonic Youth	5	5
David Bowie	9	4.44
Beatles	7	4.43
Led Zeppelin	5	4.6
Beastie Boys	3	5
Black Sabbath	3	5
Miles Davis	4	4.5
The Kinks	4	4.5
Prince	3	4.67
Marvin Gaye	3	4.67
Bob Marley & The Wailers	3	4.67
Nirvana	3	4.67
Public Enemy	3	4.67
Echo And The Bunnymen	3	4.67
Run-D.M.C.	2	5
Van Halen	2	5
The Clash	2	5
New Order	2	5
Pavement	2	5
Missy Elliott	2	5
Iron Maiden	2	5
Dinosaur Jr.	2	5
Rush	2	5
Radiohead	6	4.17
The Stooges	3	4.33
The Doors	3	4.33
The Cure	3	4.33
Johnny Cash	3	4.33
Neil Young & Crazy Horse	3	4.33
Creedence Clearwater Revival	3	4.33
Jimi Hendrix	3	4.33
Peter Gabriel	3	4.33
Bruce Springsteen	5	4

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Steely Dan	4	1
Morrissey	4	1
Kings of Leon	3	1
Kanye West	3	1.67
Ryan Adams	2	1.5
Slipknot	2	1.5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	2	1.5
Van Morrison	2	1.5
Grateful Dead	2	1.5
Blur	2	1.5
Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	1.5
Aerosmith	3	2

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Dolly Parton	5, 2

5-Star Albums (131)

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Popular Reviews

Am I the only one who finds Paul Simon insufferable? "Hearts and Bones"? Nope, "Farts and Drones."

What a bloated, heaping pile of gravel-filled horse excrement. The anti-fascist/fascist b.s. only masks the pointlessness of this soulless gurgle of acid. This may be the absolute worst album I've ever listened to... and I DID listen to it! The whole wretched thing! I earnestly wanted to discover why it was on this list. I mean, for the sake of it, the metalhead in me wanted to relate to the tone, the ambiance, the themes... but there's no way into this self-serving chamber echoing farts. Negative zero -- and that's being kind.

Not reflective of my taste... at all; so, of course, my rating is low... but I can also appreciate the artist and the importance of having Chris' voice in world music. Still, taste is taste... and this ain't mine.

Holy Hell, this is my nightmare soundtrack. I think there's a circle of hell devoted to music like Les Rythmes Digitales'.

"Post punk," "new wave," whatever genre you want to fit the Furs into, the music defies. Strange, hypnotic, droning, aggressive, grating, melancholic,... better to attach adjectives than categories. A work of art.

1-Star Albums (64)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

All Ratings (812)

Bon, long gone. "Highway to Hell," holding up well.

I guess this is a case of separating the art from the artist... and both kinda stink.

Holy Hell, this is my nightmare soundtrack. I think there's a circle of hell devoted to music like Les Rythmes Digitales'.

Meh. Leonard Cohen without the Leonard Cohen.

Beach Boys in Bubble Gum mode.

Douche. Bag.

This is, without a doubt, one of the more realized, original, and expressively uninhibited debuts in rock history.

Fuck this guy.

Listen, it's a fine album and if I were rating this 10 or so years ago, I would've given it three, maybe four stars. But hindsight's a bitch and his recent antics and rhetoric and faux-gospel antics make listening to his weak linguistics (but jammi' beats) akin to someone directly vomiting in my ear. He's a dick (and a tiny one at that).

You know that longing, earnest saxophone that opens behind the chatty greetings of “What’s Going On?” You're hearing it in your mind now and your head is starting to nod like you’re saying “No!” to everything other than the riff, the song, and its ideas. Right? Eli Fontaine, a session sax player, was just warming his chops in the studio over the track when Gaye told him to go home. Gaye said, “We’ve already got what we need.” Somewhat incredulous and probably taking it as a dismissal, Fontaine insisted that he was only “goofing around.” Gaye responded with, “Well, you goof exquisitely.” Simply put, one of the greatest albums ever, ever made. 'Nuff said.

A post-punk pop revolution in an album.

This is really the kind of self-absorbed garbage that makes me question the validity of 1001.

Wait, wait, wait! This exists! Rhythmically sonic and playful -- a fun, unexpected moment in time. I praise this album because it's both unexpected (how did I miss this?) and a joy to listen to repeatedly.

Not my bag.

Marr + Rourke + Joyce + songs + wit = 5 Whiny, self-centered, little Bee-yatch Morrissey = -0

Which do you prefer: Pet Sounds or Sgt. Pepper's? Which band: Beatles or Stones? Your answers are representative of your tastes. Some of us shrug and defer to the Kinks or... the Zombies. Yup, the Zombies. It's hard to imagine that a band in the Rock and Roll HOF (albeit, decades after eligibility) are relatively unheralded... but Atkinson, Argent, and Grundy produced some of the more strange, beautiful, and sonically experimental songs of the 60s. Odessey [sic] and Oracle defines those of us with other kinds of taste. Brilliant.

Meh.

Yo, this is a piece of excrement.

It's aight. I mean, it is what it is -- the birth of the death of classic rock radio.

GZA may be devoted to the sub-genre he helped to create, to the music, to the fans... and to many of us, he's "faith."

From the era of Corvettes and cold sores -- fad music for a fatuous time.

Like a lesser Stone Temple Pilots... which is like saying, "Worse than sucks."

Old school French hip hop. I'm down. Native Tongues across the Atlantic -- De La is in the beats and TCQ is in some of the grooves... but the delivery is all Solaar. Good stuff.

"Selected Ambient Works 85-92" is the worst album I've rated (so far) on this list... but, after over 300 reviews, it's the second worst album. A nightmare of baby powder, fluffy clouds, used diapers, and wretched hot boxing.

Aiight. Like, really aiight. But just aiight.

Am I the only one who finds Paul Simon insufferable? "Hearts and Bones"? Nope, "Farts and Drones."

Pillow music.

Pointless, pointless sythy, windy, oceany whispers -- the kind of music that would make heaven hell.

Oh, for fuck's sake, really?

80s music for suburban moms with bad perms.

There isn't another album out there to replace this one on this list?

I I were forced to listen to this again, I would be grateful if I were dead.

According to every critical source, Steely Dan is that band than you're supposed to appreciate... and "Pretzel Logic" is 5/5, 10/10, A+, among the best albums ever recorded. But, alas, I really, really dislike their music. "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" just makes me want to forget everything, EVERYTHING about the early/mid-70s. A kind of creepy vibe moves through me as soon as I hear their melodies and strained vocals. Ugh. Ick. Yuck.

This is a joke, right?

One of the most important albums... EVER! "The Message" is the amalgamation of everything, EVERYTHING that came before it -- the music, the meanings, the emotions, and the ideals. "The Message" is the turning -- when discovery became a science, and the science became the purpose, and the purpose fueled generations.

I've had to defend my dislike of Steely Dan since the 80s. I just don't get their sound, their vibe, their mellow muck. It might as well be elevator music to me.

Damn near perfect album.

Hell no.

Fine, fun, playful tracks that are sorely missing a rad MC.

Six words: Laser light show, Hayden Planetarium, baked.

I might be the only person ever to compare Steely Dan to RHCP, but here goes: They're two of my least favorite bands. Each reminds me of moments in music that feel slimy, dated, elevator-y, and... empty. This is not a knock on either band's supposed virtuosity. In re to RHCP, I can hear Flea's thumping explorations, Frusciante's playful experiments, and Smith's banging earnestness... but they become disparate parts of a discharged sum... and the sum intends to evoke fun but lands flat, farty, and, holistically, meaningless. "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" just sounds silly. Thankfully, based on some of these other reviews, I'm not the only one whose skin crawls when Kiedis opens his babbling maw to atonally scream his greasy, trite lyrics.

Torturous elevator to hell music. Just why?

Everything works on this album.

I can appreciate the artistry and vibe... but not my thang.

Why?

Duh.

Meh. Not my thing.

I just can't.

Great band... maybe one of the greatest ever. Worst lead singer... maybe one of the worst ever.