1001 Albums Summary

Listening statistics & highlights

Albums Rated

3.38

Average Rating

Complete

1036 albums remaining

Rating Distribution

Rating Timeline

Taste Profile

1970

Favorite Decade

Pop

Favorite Genre

other

Top Origin

Curator

Rater Style ?

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
I See You The xx	5	2.99	+2.01
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	5	3.38	+1.62
En-Tact The Shamen	4	2.43	+1.57
Arrival ABBA	5	3.52	+1.48
Freak Out! The Mothers Of Invention	4	2.82	+1.18
O.G. Original Gangster Ice T	4	2.98	+1.02
Throwing Muses Throwing Muses	4	2.99	+1.01

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Permission to Land The Darkness	1	3.14	-2.14
Face to Face The Kinks	2	3.28	-1.28
Sound Affects The Jam	2	3.26	-1.26
Back To Black Amy Winehouse	3	4.02	-1.02

5-Star Albums (3)

View Album Wall

1-Star Albums (1)

All Ratings

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

Excellent bluesy jazz. Loved Flamenco Sketches!

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

Did not finish all the way through. Several hits, very solid. classic rock style album stripped down without too many frills. Incredible energy at the live show, too.

Close To You

Carpenters

3/5

Mid. Not in a bad way, just didn’t hit for me, but it was melodic and enjoyable!

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

4/5

3.5 stars, really, I don’t love her vocals myself but I’ll admit, they’re absolutely magical!

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

4/5

Great album, Opera Pop as Tim referred to it, it’s snazzy and catchy and atmospheric all at once.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

This album - and the titular song - is really great, very groundbreaking, and worth it just for Amy Winehouse’s voice, but isn't exactly my style overall. It was good!

British Steel

Judas Priest

4/5

Great, clean, consistent, cohesive. United and Life After Midnight and The Rage are really good!

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

2/5

Not excellent, very weird.

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

4/5

Weird as hell. This is very advanced for its era. Let’s maybe consider Help Me I’m a Rock to be a great song, and the rest to be harbingers of an incoming age.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

Not great. His voice is, and the album IS haunting, but it's not at all my style.

The Modern Lovers

4/5

Real great. Will be returning to this one!

Play

Moby

4/5

Good stuff. Great background or driving music!

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Forgot to listen to most of it, but really enjoyed what I did hear! They're from Mali, by the way, for quick reference.

Sincere

Mj Cole

3/5

Definitely influential, the beats and creativity are apparent, but not worth repeating.

The Only Ones

3/5

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

3/5

Great electric guitar and fuzzy amp sound. Not great overall.

Arrival

ABBA

5/5

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Quality. Almost like an audio letter to love itself.

Orbital 2

Orbital

2/5

Definitely influential and definitely not worth listening to. Way too slow.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

Not great and not bad, classic for a reason!

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

3/5

Not really good, not really bad. Not worth it, though.

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

Good sound, but it was just noise.

Dummy

Portishead

3/5

Really influential. I can literally hear the Glitch Mob samples and inspiration from this one, but it’s not the greatest sound.

Technique

New Order

3/5

Nothing too special.

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

4/5

En-Tact

The Shamen

4/5

Not bad! Worth coming back to at some point. Overall, it’s probably close to a 3.5, but I’ll go with 4.

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

Pretty retro-sounding. Not bad, definitely not my style, though. I wonder if I don't like David Bowie?

Kimono My House

Sparks

4/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

3/5

This is a wild mess of an album. It’s pretty good, honestly, but it’s impossible to know which ones are great and which ones will just be instrumental messes of sound.

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

According to other reviews, the South African influence is transformative in this album. I’d argue that, if present, the South African influence had been mainstreamed into classic folk rock shortly before or not long after, and I couldn’t separate it from the stories being told.

Sound Affects

The Jam

2/5

It’s kind of just noise.

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

3/5

Influential but not exactly my style.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Classic, a little bit slow, but probably perfect for the bayou.

Face to Face

The Kinks

2/5

Dire Straits

4/5

Come back to this. This is surprisingly excellent.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Weirdly good. Goodly weird? You Can’t Always Get What You Want is pretty good, as is Monkey Man.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

Not so great that I want to come back to it, sadly.

I See You

The xx

5/5

Great stuff. Was a big fan, still am.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Pretty good sound, typical CCR

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

2/5

Not great, didn’t make it through. Not bad, either.

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Very interesting, not great all the way through in my opinion, but parts of it were truly excellent. Bends genres for sure, expands my own appreciation for and awareness of music.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

5/5

This is incredible. I’m really fond of it and I’m really surprised.

Permission to Land

The Darkness

1/5

No, just no. The vocals are way too much.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

2/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

This is fire and I’m not taking a separate day to listen to it. Great album. Hugely influential.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

4/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Not absolutely excellent—some of it is good, some of it is mediocre by my standards.

Throwing Muses

4/5

This one is like a soft 4, like there are elements that are incredible and jam-worthy; on the other hand, there are things I don’t want or need to hear again.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5