My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
The New Tango Astor Piazzolla	5	2.88	+2.12
Songs From A Room Leonard Cohen	5	3.16	+1.84
Bitches Brew Miles Davis	5	3.3	+1.7
Horses Patti Smith	5	3.31	+1.69
Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk	5	3.33	+1.67
Figure 8 Elliott Smith	5	3.33	+1.67
The Gershwin Songbook Ella Fitzgerald	5	3.53	+1.47
Morrison Hotel The Doors	5	3.59	+1.41
Palo Congo Sabu	4	2.69	+1.31
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	5	3.83	+1.17

Album	You	Global	Diff
Is This It The Strokes	1	3.81	-2.81
The College Dropout Kanye West	1	3.31	-2.31
Teen Dream Beach House	1	3.27	-2.27
Hysteria Def Leppard	1	3.22	-2.22
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space Spiritualized	1	3.16	-2.16
Your New Favourite Band The Hives	1	3.12	-2.12
In Our Heads Hot Chip	1	3.11	-2.11
Armed Forces Elvis Costello & The Attractions	1	3.09	-2.09
Dare! The Human League	1	3.06	-2.06
Copper Blue Sugar	1	2.97	-1.97

Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	2	5

Artist	Albums	Average
Kanye West	2	1
Elvis Costello & The Attractions	3	2

Artist	Ratings
David Bowie	5, 2, 4

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Rest in peace sensitive soul

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

American Pie

Don McLean

2/5

Is This It

The Strokes

1/5

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

3/5

The Clash

2/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

1/5

Atrocious

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

Much better than expected

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

1/5

Unremarkable, stressful, and it gave me a big headache.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

Both volumes are pretty quirky though the first volume is just too silly for my taste. Volume 2 is a lot better and I think the first volume is better left ignored.

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

3/5

Great ambient tunes for the mad (like myself)

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

1/5

I'm not sure if this is supposed to pass for music, as to me this sounded more like a terrible audiobook or radio drama. That is, if one can understand what they are saying at least because I couldn't understand more than half of it. I would rather I heard this after I was dead.

All That You Can't Leave Behind

U2

2/5

Listening to this made me question whether I felt more sorry for Bono or my ears, as both felt like they were in pain.

Aja

Steely Dan

3/5

Not bad but boring

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

2/5

Everything must go yes, like this album. Please stay away from me with all your hundreds of guitars.

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Really good

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

5/5

These are the legends.

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

5/5

Sounds like a work of genius. This is the first album in the two weeks or so I've been rating albums here I had to listen to more than once as it was so good. What a fantastically enjoyable wild ride!

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

2/5

Kids having fun. Not terribly boring but also not terribly exciting. I'm not a fan of rap to begin with but at least the piano was good.

Tommy

The Who

3/5

It's alright.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

5/5

Really beautiful

Copper Blue

Sugar

1/5

Shallow shite

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

A voice somewhere between that of a punk and a crooner which just doesn't really work for anything but Chelsea, at least on this album. I respect the guy since he wrote Chet Baker's Almost Blue which requires some talent but this is just slightly embarrassing.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

David Bowie showing off his skills as one of the most versatile artists who ever lived. I needed to check if I was still listening to the same album a couple of times as the songs are often so different in style and substance. "I'm closer to the Golden Dawn Immersed in Crowley's uniform" This album is a fantastic treat for fans and non-fans alike.

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

For the most part this album just consists of some standard typical African music, although there are moments when some brilliance comes shining through, especially in the guitar parts. There are 2 beautiful songs, Savane which the album is named after, and then there's Banga which sounds really hypnotic. The rest of the album is okay but not great.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

Combine two of the greatest and most talented American jazz artists who ever lived, Ella Fitzgerald and George Gershwin, and you get this masterpiece of an album. I used to listen to Ella all the time but hadn't enjoyed her sparkling voice on these new cans yet so thanks for that!

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

3/5

It's really good poetry, and enjoyable to listen to with a glass of wine. But strictly musically speaking one would need another Jeff Buckley to turn these songs into 5 star songs.

Tapestry

Carole King

3/5

Bad Company

2/5

Just some classic rock from the 70's. Pretty uninteresting compared to a lot of other music which was created around that time.

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

5/5

I was sceptical at first but this one is really beautiful

Suede

4/5

Pretty good.

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

The Beatles here in full force. I'm not sure if this is my favorite Beatles album but it's certainly up there.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Dull!

Low

David Bowie

2/5

Definitely not Bowie's best and the album is a bit of a mess. I was listening to the remastered edition, and I'm not sure if the mastering of the original was any better but here it was utter crap. Putting the bad mastering aside however (which is difficult to do), this still sounds like an experiment gone horribly wrong. While we expect nothing less than wild experiments from Bowie, this one just misses the magic of a lot of Bowie's other works.

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

It's hard to rate this album objectively because I absolutely love John Lennon, and this album also. And Imagine is a beautiful song which will no doubt stay relevant for the remainder of our time on this planet. Setting my emotions aside however, none of The Beatles produced a lot of great music after they disbanded, and this album taken as a whole is unfortunately no exception.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

This is, quite something. We've strayed pretty far from my own musical tastes here and I would be lying if I said I liked it. Sure, there were parts which I liked, beginning with the overture which was pretty impressive and well done. But as a whole it was just all way too manic for my tastes. At the same time I would be remiss if I gave this anything less than 4 stars. It's incredibly creative and original in the way it blends various genres. And while various different influences are often strongly and unmistakably present (like Michael Jackson to name just one), it still manages to come across as authentic.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

2/5

If the people who invented and created recording equipment knew it was going to be (mis)used this way they would have never gone through with it. I hope they called it funeral to celebrate the end of their musical career because they realized they should have never even begun to try and make any music.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

2/5

God Put a Smile upon Your Face is the only good track here. If the next album is going to be a 2 hour recording of crying cats in heat, then I'm certain to enjoy it more than all the other tracks on this album.

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

3/5

For myself it's a bit plain, but my grandad would have loved this so I wanted to give it 3 stars. But then I noticed that they stole a song from Nirvana, which cost them 0.5 star. 2.5 stars gets rounded up to 3 stars.

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

3/5

Nice

Hysteria

Def Leppard

1/5

As I'm writing this I'm praying to Chronos, the God of Time, to make it so the 80's never happened, so that neither would this album, or any albums like this one. Unfortunately that would also mean I'd never have been born, but as much as I love my life such is the sacrifice I'd be willing to make to spare people's ears from these horrible kakophonias.

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

1/5

This is what you listen to if there's not enough stress in your life.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Not exactly revolutionary but it's ok

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

2/5

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Really good

Boston

3/5

I'm giving this 3 stars because I'm feeling generous. But honestly, it's not as bad as I initially thought it was going to be.

World Clique

Deee-Lite

2/5

I wish they would scrap all the one hit wonders from this 1001 albums list and I wonder how many albums would be left. This one is just like listening to the same boring song over and over again, except for Groove is in the Heart which is actually good. But do I really need to have heard this before I die? Even with the one okay song on the album, I very much don't think so.

I Should Coco

Supergrass

2/5

Not spectacular

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Yeezus

Kanye West

1/5

I'm sure if you got no soul you'll love this, as I've never heard anything more lifeless.

21

Adele

3/5

Pretty good

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

3/5

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

4/5

I liked this.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

3/5

I don't like it when they growl, and while the growling isn't the worst I ever heard here it can still get a bit much sometimes. Otherwise I would have given it 4 stars.

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

2/5

It's not terrible but it quickly becomes very boring. I just can't give this 3 stars as it's too boring and unoriginal to take seriously.

Queen II

Queen

4/5

Horses

Patti Smith

5/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

Even for punk this is kinda shit

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

I was surprised how much ahead of their time they were.

Permission to Land

The Darkness

2/5

I just couldn't wait for it to end.

Paul Simon

2/5

If this list was called 1001 of the most average albums you've ever heard in your life, I would have given it three stars. But it's not so I can't give this more than 2 stars. Absolutely nobody misses out on anything if they don't hear this album before they die. I don't know who makes these lists but they have an objectively bad taste. It reminds me of the Indians who out of national pride vote 10 out of 10 stars on every shitty Bollywood movie they can find on IMDB. Who wants to hear some guy blabber on about some basketball town? There's a million different albums I can think of which would actually be worth listening to before you die, which would never appear on a list like this. Loads of classical, current day jazz, yes even a lot of lesser known shoegaze albums are better than this crap. Go listen to some Saint-Saens violin concertos and avoid this album.

Dire Straits

3/5

It's alright

Vivid

Living Colour

2/5

Waiter I found a hair in my music.

The Modern Lovers

4/5

Surprisingly good!

Dare!

The Human League