My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Devotional Songs Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan	5	2.58	+2.42
Ananda Shankar Ananda Shankar	5	2.83	+2.17
White Light / White Heat The Velvet Underground	5	2.88	+2.12
Sail Away Randy Newman	5	2.97	+2.03
Nowhere Ride	5	3.01	+1.99
White Ladder David Gray	5	3.07	+1.93
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) Bob Dylan	5	3.15	+1.85
Dust Screaming Trees	5	3.16	+1.84
The Stooges The Stooges	5	3.26	+1.74
Chirping Crickets Buddy Holly & The Crickets	5	3.29	+1.71

Album	You	Global	Diff
The College Dropout Kanye West	1	3.31	-2.31
Here Are the Sonics The Sonics	1	3.16	-2.16
Heavy Weather Weather Report	1	2.99	-1.99
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret Soft Cell	1	2.87	-1.87
Beyond Skin Nitin Sawhney	1	2.77	-1.77
Led Zeppelin IV Led Zeppelin	3	4.36	-1.36
Achtung Baby U2	2	3.31	-1.31
B-52's The B-52's	2	3.29	-1.29
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	2	3.29	-1.29
Wild Wood Paul Weller	2	3.09	-1.09

Artist	Albums	Average
Beastie Boys	2	5
Radiohead	2	5
David Bowie	3	4.33

David Bowie

5/5

I've always thought that he sounds the most like Paul McCartney with his voice on this one, but where the pop gives way to more artistic experimentation is where that small similarity ends. This is an album that is between sounds and normally those fall short for me as they're albums from musicians searching for an identity. That's not the case on this masterpiece in which each track could have made an album that was otherwise filler. This one has no filler. It has a maturity and confidence in it's dabbling with a more pop sound while refusing to just pump out another record that sounds like everything else. It's a bridge from the pop of the 60s to the brown acid hangovers of the 70s. Every song seems to have left it's mark on something that has come since. I adore the forward vocals on the album, and the separation and clarity of the instruments in the mix. I could listen to this on repeat all day and be happy.

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

3/5

A couple decent songs, but overall I'm at a stage in my life where this doesn't do it for me.

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

3/5

Violent Femmes

5/5

B-52's

The B-52's

2/5

Metallica

3/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

3/5

Why so many echo effects on the vocals? Some great songs here, but too many ruined by production. Better live than studio because live it let George's voice shine and it's too manipulated on the album.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

5/5

Achtung Baby

U2

2/5

Ugh.

Sail Away

Randy Newman

5/5

The simplicity of the song structures and the narrative lyrics/singing style comes together on this one so well. Opting for the piano, but not moving in the pop/soft rock direction, makes Randy stand out among his peers. His voice is unique, almost goofy at times, giving it a light-heartedness that is the polar opposite of what someone like Dylan does with his serious gravel, for example. Newman is also the master of the everyday. There's nothing epic or world historical in his lyrics, but they still transport the listener.

The Stooges

5/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

4/5

1999

Prince

5/5

Chelsea Girl

Nico

3/5

The Cars