My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Duck Rock Malcolm McLaren	5	2.65	+2.35
Rejoicing In The Hands Devendra Banhart	5	2.82	+2.18
Mask Bauhaus	5	2.85	+2.15
Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy	5	2.88	+2.12
Apocalypse Dudes Turbonegro	5	2.9	+2.1
Fred Neil Fred Neil	5	2.92	+2.08
Spiderland Slint	5	2.98	+2.02
Welcome To The Pleasuredome Frankie Goes To Hollywood	5	3.11	+1.89
No Other Gene Clark	5	3.19	+1.81
Clandestino Manu Chao	5	3.22	+1.78

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Doggystyle Snoop Dogg	1	3.37	-2.37
Vol. 4 Black Sabbath	2	3.75	-1.75
Birth Of The Cool Miles Davis	2	3.65	-1.65
Fulfillingness' First Finale Stevie Wonder	2	3.56	-1.56
Antichrist Superstar Marilyn Manson	1	2.48	-1.48
Butterfly Mariah Carey	1	2.48	-1.48
Nilsson Schmilsson Harry Nilsson	2	3.44	-1.44
Strangeways, Here We Come The Smiths	2	3.44	-1.44
Stardust Willie Nelson	2	3.4	-1.4
Rock Bottom Robert Wyatt	1	2.39	-1.39

5-Star Albums (36)

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Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

Popular Reviews

No Other

Gene Clark

5/5

Exactly the reason I wanted to do the 1001 Project.

4 likes

Debut

Björk

5/5

I thought I hated Björk. Nope. I loved this and want to listen to more.

1 likes

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

1/5

I am unable to separate the art from the artist.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (6)

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The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

Nostalgia for me having grown up listening to Glenn Miller. What a trip to remember how influential Charles was!

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

4/5

Still songs to get high to. Or sit by a fire to. Or gaze wistfully from widow’s walk for our loved one to return to. Or to get murdered to on a dark street in a 1980s slasher.

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

4/5

I don’t know what to think of this album. It’s not made for me, but some of the tracks are so good and take risks. Heavy Balloon was my favorite.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

2/5

Maybe I’ve never been a 70s hard rock fan. Or a live album fan. I’m doing this project to try to explore more. But I was glad when this album was over. Every song just felt almost indistinguishable from the next and from any other hard rock band of the time.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

So many bangers for wistfully looking out a window on an autumn road trip.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

5/5

Have always liked Bitter Sweet Symphony but never thought to get the rest of the album a shot. It was splendid!

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

2/5

Lord of bits that have been sampled in future songs and undoubtedly influential. But wow we’ve come a long way in lyrics…

1989

Taylor Swift

3/5

Sad girl music for sad girls. Several earworms and certainly 5 stars for the people it’s intended for.

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

3/5

Probably the only time I've sat down to listen to a Reggae album. Liked some of the political tones.

C'est Chic

CHIC

5/5

This album has so many bangers that it’s a shame everyone only puts Le Freak on repeat.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

Nobody told me the Pogues were awesome

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Arcade Fire is one of the bands that makes me wish it was still 2004.

Parklife

Blur

3/5

Fun, but mostly forgettable. Love Girls and Boys though. Also the song I guess too.

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

5/5

Their cover of Ferry Across the Mersey is the hidden gem.

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

I enjoy Blues, but I’m not sure what I’m supposed to get from this album that’s substantially different.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

I see why folks adore this album. Lovely dark bits make for some bright points. So different from anything else at the time.

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

It’s good fuckin’ music. It’s good fucking music. Gaye is iconic, but it’s not an album I’d return to.

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

So longggggg. But definitely some bright points and influential in scope.

Spiderland

Slint

5/5

Just...wow. I accidentally had found the last track ages ago and I loved. I can't believe this came out in '91.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Wonderful soul and I think the first time I spent listening to an entire album. It's bang up work and shows what is possible in music

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

This can’t be the same band that did My Girl!

Technique

New Order

3/5

Neat and likable, but ultimately forgettable

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

3/5

I left this album understanding better why people loved Cohen.

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

3/5

There are 1001 albums on this list. All of them are noteworthy. Some of them I won’t be able to say anything about. They’re not bad. They’re just them. This is one of them.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

If classical and jazz had a baby and that baby went up to college and got a really good job and then always came home for the holidays and bought you a nice house and, when you retired, it put you in one of those nice communities with palm trees and where the water is clean and they came over on Sunday to watch Looney Tunes.

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

3/5

Loved this album growing up. Lyrics in the genre have improved over 20 years, but it's without a doubt that Eminem has strongly influenced the genre. I'm still partial rather to the Marshall Mathers LP.

Black Sabbath

3/5

An album where my initial reaction is "Why weren't more people making better music in 1970?" But also an album that just...draaaags along.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

There's something special about 90s hip hop, but most of the time they seem a little static when it comes to their cadences.

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

4/5

A treasure of psychobilly.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

Fun, folksy, and Cat Stevens voice is incomparable.

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

3/5

Good music to watch trains to.

Fragile

Yes

4/5

Fun and punchy. I like to groove to it.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

2/5

I wanted more. Even the boogie tracks are too gentle.

Eagles

4/5

Very likable, like a familiar neighbor who always helps out.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Good music. It’s unfortunate Morrissey is a shit person.

American Pie

Don McLean

3/5

I won’t turn Don McLean off, but I am never thinking “oh, I need some Don McLean.”

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

3/5

Most original rap from this time period, but obviously some of the most original work musically ever.

Debut

Björk

5/5

I thought I hated Björk. Nope. I loved this and want to listen to more.

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

4/5

Tom is the carnival I always want in the background and this album is no different.

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

4/5

I like their energy.

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

3/5

The drawback is the number of covers. The upshot is knowing how garage rock compares to those covers.

Common

4/5

This is a bop.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Bruce is a wonderful person, but this album is mostly background music.

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

4/5

What music can be.

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

4/5

Why are all The Beach Boys so good?

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

I feel like a bunch of these legends sound awfully the same.

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

4/5

This album gets better as it goes on.

Blur

2/5

I am pretty critical of bands with multiple albums on the list. Not sure if I get anything out of this I don't get from Parklife. Probably could have died without listening to it.

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

4/5

Funky, groovy, and generally a pleasure even if I have no idea what we're singing about.

Rocks

Aerosmith

2/5

Meh. It's Aerosmith. It's fun, but I have to agree with the album's contemporary critics--it's just Aerosmith reheated. Obviously inspiring to a number of guitarist who ended up picking up the instrument *because* it's fun, but the dearth of decadent music and a bunch of people's nostalgia is not enough for me to be impressed by this on its own.

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Poppy, catchy, lyrically lovely. Something where my chief criticism is that You Can Cal Me Al lives rent-free in my head.

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

3/5

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

4/5

The Undertones

4/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

5/5

Starts strong with wonderful anchors. But the real treasure is in the last three tracks, elevating this from popular ear candy to something ethereal and wonderful.

The Clash

3/5

No Other

Gene Clark

5/5

Exactly the reason I wanted to do the 1001 Project.

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

4/5

Nixon

Lambchop

3/5

This is so close to good, but sometimes I can’t let my ears wrap around some things, like vocal choices, that distract me from perhaps fully enjoying it.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

I am pretty critical of artists with multiple albums on the list. Not sure if I get anything out of this I don't get from Nebraska, and multiple albums means other noteworthy ones are lost. Probably could have died without listening to it, but the title track is strong enough to keep this rating up a little.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

3/5

Cypress Hill

2/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

3/5

Black Monk Time

The Monks

3/5

Metallica

5/5

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

2/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

4/5

Mask

Bauhaus

5/5

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

2/5

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

En-Tact

The Shamen

3/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

5/5

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

2/5

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

3/5

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

4/5

American Gothic

David Ackles

3/5

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

3/5

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

3/5

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

1/5

I am unable to separate the art from the artist.

Adele

3/5

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

4/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

5/5

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

4/5

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

3/5

Queens of the Stone Age

3/5

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

4/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

5/5

Hms Fable

Shack

3/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

2/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

5/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

3/5

Movies

Holger Czukay

3/5

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

3/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

5/5

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

5/5

Snivilisation

Orbital

4/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

3/5

The Predator

Ice Cube

3/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

5/5

Future Days

Can

3/5

Soul Mining

The The

4/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

1/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

2/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

2/5

Dare!

The Human League

3/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

3/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Clandestino

Manu Chao

5/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

5/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

5/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

3/5

Another Green World

Brian Eno

3/5

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

3/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

3/5

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

3/5

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

3/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

2/5

This is my third Miles Davis album. Even though this is as good as the others, I give a vote towards the spirit of “before you die.” In my opinion, we could find 1-2 different albums and someone on their death bed doesn’t need to waste their time after Kind of Blue or Bitches Brew.

The Rolling Stones

3/5

High Violet

The National

4/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

3/5

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Queen Of Denmark