My 1001 Albums Journey

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Punk

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
All Hope Is Gone Slipknot	5	2.7	+2.3
Arise Sepultura	5	2.73	+2.27
Roots Sepultura	5	2.78	+2.22
Kings Of The Wild Frontier Adam & The Ants	5	2.84	+2.16
Among The Living Anthrax	5	2.86	+2.14
When I Was Born For The 7th Time Cornershop	5	2.91	+2.09
Superfuzz Bigmuff Mudhoney	5	2.93	+2.07
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake Small Faces	5	2.93	+2.07
I Against I Bad Brains	5	2.93	+2.07
The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators The 13th Floor Elevators	5	2.94	+2.06

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Grace Jeff Buckley	1	3.75	-2.75
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar	1	3.65	-2.65
Diamond Life Sade	1	3.47	-2.47
Tusk Fleetwood Mac	1	3.47	-2.47
The Dark Side Of The Moon Pink Floyd	2	4.43	-2.43
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	1	3.36	-2.36
Aftermath The Rolling Stones	1	3.35	-2.35
Channel Orange Frank Ocean	1	3.34	-2.34
Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow	1	3.34	-2.34
The Chronic Dr. Dre	1	3.3	-2.3

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
R.E.M.	4	5
David Bowie	9	4.33
Pixies	3	5
The White Stripes	3	5
The Cure	3	5
Nirvana	3	5
Queen	3	4.67
Belle & Sebastian	2	5
Alice Cooper	2	5
Suede	2	5
OutKast	2	5
The Undertones	2	5
Sepultura	2	5
Radiohead	6	4.17
Metallica	4	4.25
PJ Harvey	4	4.25
Beck	3	4.33

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Van Morrison	3	1.33
Tim Buckley	3	1.33
Motörhead	2	1
Can	2	1
Bob Dylan	7	2
The Rolling Stones	6	2
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	2
Taylor Swift	2	1.5
Gene Clark	2	1.5
Ryan Adams	2	1.5
Orbital	2	1.5
Common	2	1.5
Kendrick Lamar	2	1.5
The xx	2	1.5
Ice Cube	2	1.5
Scott Walker	2	1.5
Steely Dan	4	2
Morrissey	4	2
The Byrds	5	2.2
Kanye West	3	2
Elvis Presley	3	2
My Bloody Valentine	3	2
Talking Heads	4	2.25
Neil Young	4	2.25

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Slipknot	1, 5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs	5, 2
Mudhoney	5, 2
Fiona Apple	2, 5
Dusty Springfield	2, 5

5-Star Albums (100)

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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

Popular Reviews

A Punishing Listen

Listening to this, I got the feeling he could have made a better album but chose not to

Compilation albums on here giving Alan Partridge vibes. "What's your favourite Beatles album then?" "Tough one. I think I'd have to say... The Best of The Beatles"

From the other reviews on here, I was expecting some sort of hellishly unlistenable soundscape, but that wasn't too bad. At least it was trying something. It would have scored higher but one of my least favourite things in music is a horny Jarvis Cocker

I don't drive, but I might put this on next time I'm playing Euro Truck Sim 2, see if it enhances the experience

1-Star Albums (99)

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

All Ratings (1089)

Sounds like half a dozen budgies in a tumble dryer

The trouble with drum & bass albums is you listen to them for an hour but the Powerpuff Girls episode never starts.

I got Oasis before this, so that's the pound shop Beatles followed by cut price Donovan

It's fine.

When an album is an hour long, has only 5 tracks, and one of those tracks is literally called "drum solo," you know you're in for a treat.

I was feeling good so I was going to give this a charitable 3, then that harmonica came in on Ambulance Blues like a stoned K K Slider giving it MEEEE MEEEE OHHHH MEEEE and it soured the whole thing

So these are the lads who did "I've got ham but I'm not a hamster"?

I often get the chili peppers mixed up with rocky horror - you know, RHCP/RHPS - which is daft, cos one is a load of silly, over-sexualised nonsense with good tunes and a faint undertone of cringe, while the other... Also, I don't care what anyone says, I still enjoy this album. NING NANG NING NONG NING NANG NING NONG NING NANG

More like 1,001 wrong'uns you must hear before you die. Like you, I'd never heard of this band before, but if you'd like to make your own Hookworms song, it's easy enough to program: if (vocalsound == vowel) { pitch.change; }

This sounds like the kind of music the women in Friends would listen to

This is the first time I've rated one of these albums midway through the first track but fuck me, that's dire. What did we do to the author of 1001 albums to make him hurt us like this?

I was just listening to this album this morning and wondering when it might show up on the list! Not a huge coincidence as I listen to this one a lot. If everyone was told they could only have one album, this would be my pick. It's not the best-written album in the world ("in the eyes of the jackal I say kaboom"?) but it is my favourite. I first heard it when I was in my early 20s, reading through the early Anne Rice vampire novels - an excellent pairing, by the way - so it'll always take me back to those days. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so I decided to go to Morganville which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So, I tied an onion to my belt which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel. And in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em...

I really enjoyed that, even though it was a bit bipolar, with the first few tracks being all floaty, ambient tunes, almost hypnotically peaceful, followed by - surprise! - we're a punk band now

How did a band with maybe two good songs end up with about seven albums on here?

It's not the worst album on here, but it's hardly essential. I forgot it was on a couple of times

I'm sure it's very good, but I just can't stand his *heyeeeaaahdiot wind* voice

Is it safe?

Cowboy cosplay music. When you think about it, this is kind of like a band nowadays writing songs about the second world war.

Man put me off my morning bowl of PussyOs, fam

Situated firmly on the border between Blandly Inoffensive and Offensively Bland.

I like hearing a band experiment musically, but none of the resulting songs really did anything for me, good or bad

I thought that was okay. I thought that was okay. I thought that was okay okay okay okay okay kay kay kay kay kay kay kay k k k k k k k kkkkkkkkkkk

I gave more than one star to a country album. The world's gone topsy-turvy

What is it with all the cowboy cosplay?

Guy sounds like Tina Turner. Tempted to give it an extra star for this line: "she had the body of Venus with arms"

This album gave me anaemia

I liked that. Gentle, Wicker Man vibe

I blame the Dude

One for the "I don't usually like [insert genre] but I liked this" pile.

Two AF albums in a row! I'm in danger of becoming bored AF

I might have liked this if I'd heard it when I was younger, but now it just made me say "stop shouting at me, ya wee prick" as I turned down the volume. Old age, man. At least the album was short. Under 22 minutes. If I were a fan I'd feel short-changed.

One Stephen Stills album in a week is tolerable; two feels like malice.

Considered a protest vote based on Mozza's ugly politics, but I can't betray the soundtrack to my soft and mopey teenage years

Air's music seems perfectly pitched to trigger no emotions at all. It's like lounge music for cybermen.

Wholly unnecessary album

I'm nearly 50 and this is too middle-aged-man rock for me. I guess I could give it an extra star for making me feel younger, relatively speaking.

This reminds me of that time my little brother got an electric piano for his birthday, which had a setting that made each key sound like a different shitty drum sample, and that's all he did the whole day

The band for people who feel that the Smiths were "a bit rowdy"

Damn. I saw that album cover and for a moment I thought Tom Baker had made a record. But no, it's Dylan again, the man with the most irritating voice in music. That long, piercing harmonica on Pledging My Time all but guaranteed a one-star review before I'd even heard the rest. Having said that, I'd like this album a lot more if you could cut out Dylan's vocals and that flipping mouth organ of his. Let's pretend any of this matters at all and add an extra star to the review, for the band.

You know, that irritated me a little less than I thought it was going to. I could just leave it on in the background and pretend I was on hold to the motivational poster factory.

Nothing to scream about.

ACAB includes this lot

I used to really like this album, and there are some great tunes on it, but it sounds so dated now, its electronic drums plastic and hollow. Some albums I wish could get a remake, like they do with video games these days

I didn't expect to like this album. I thought it would be twee and corny but it has depth. I mean, wade through a few 80s/90s electronica records and you'll give extra points to any album just for using actual instruments, but I wasn't expecting to shed a little tear on the bus to work

Another day, another selection from the 990 Albums You Can Happily Go To Your Grave Having Never Heard.

I can imagine the guy from Belle and Sebastian listening to this album and thinking, "aw yeah, I'm having that" to almost every song

One of those albums that contains almost everything I usually dislike in music and yet I love it

I thought I'd enjoy that. Did not expect it to be a 5-star though

I'll say this for all the old hair metal bands that come up on this list, at least their lead singers gave it some. This guy's voice goes up to a seven on a good day. That's not to say it can't be good, like on You Would Know, where the dialled-back guitar works with the vocal rather than against. Some of the guitar noodling and electronic bleepery seems almost wilfully irritating at times, but there's still some stuff to enjoy here.

"Time fell wanking to the floor"? What does that mean? It's a quotation. A quotation? What from? It isn't Milton and I'm pretty sure it can't be Wordsworth. It's Bowie. Oh. And is this David Bowie too: "My body disgusts, damp grease wafts sweat balls from sweat balls and thigh fungus"?

At times it was like listening to Tori Amos having an asthma attack but I didn't hate it like I thought I was going to. Could have done with fewer 'downside of fame' moans though.

The thing that surprised me was how weak a singer he was

Was nearly a generous 3, then he started banging on about birds

Some albums would benefit from an instrumental version

I fully support opportunities for women in the traditionally male-dominated space of being an unsettling little weirdo in the name of art

Jazz is okay, but I prefer music. Top Tip: if listening with ear buds, take the left one out to enjoy the piano and drums without the bass rattling away at random like a fly trying to find a path through a pane of glass.

Listening to this, I got the feeling he could have made a better album but chose not to

3 + 3 = 3 (stars)

Not my kind of metal - bit too synthy in places - but I'll give it an extra star because I've just binge watched the first ten seasons of Supernatural which had raised my tolerance for all things classic rock

Hey Motorhead, play that one that goes *hums the riff to Ace of Spades* Motorhead: yeah, you're gonna have to narrow it down

She's very good at singing a style of music I really don't enjoy

I don't drive, but I might put this on next time I'm playing Euro Truck Sim 2, see if it enhances the experience

I'm with the Dude on this one

I don't like Bob Dylan, why would I like someone doing Dylan karaoke?

I knew nothing about this band. Reading the album name and track listing, I thought it would be, I don't know... smarter?

This was the Marvel Avengers team-up of its day

I usually hate Dylan, but that wasn't terrible. He kept his warbling to a minimum at least

This reminds me of the hamster I had for a week when I was a kid, in that I did not care for it

It feels mean to mark a band down because the lead singer can't carry a tune, when I'm such a fan of Belle and Sebastian, but here we are

Considering it mostly sounded like a stoner playing bongos over a ZX Spectrum loading noise, I didn't entirely hate that

Reminds me of the time a skinhead walked into my shop - full gear, bovver boots and bomber jacket, and I thought uh-oh, then I saw a badge at his lapel saying, skinheads against racism. That made me relax, but imagine picking a look that needed a disclaimer. It's like a southern rock parody of System of a Down. Rock for a bit, then read out screeds of political history. The South will rise again! But, but, not in a racist way, you understand. Anyway, this next song is about a racist politician - which we're against, by the way, just to be clear. Yeehaw. In conclusion, Skynyrd, Alabama, and Skynyrd again. Thanks for coming to our TED talk y'all

A good album to put on while reading a book, as it's too barely-there to ever be an intrusion on your concentration. Not unpleasant background sound

Not my kind of music at all, but I'll give it an extra star for "the devil made me do it the first time - the second time I done it on my own"

Was not expecting to rate a country album this high, but good lyrics are good lyrics

How many Talking Heads albums are on this list?? So far, at least four too many

Fun tunes, good sense of humour in the lyrics, this did keep veering into 2 star territory at times, sounding like Carter USM produced by Stock, Aitken, and Waterman, but my previous album was Simply Red so this one gets an extra point just for not being that.

Would have been one hour long without all the tedious chat between the tunes. Some of these albums really test my decision to listen to every record on the list. I mean, how do you even make a miserable version of Keep on the Sunny Side?

Fun fact: Wainwright's Agnus Dei is just Bridge Over Troubled Water played backwards

I liked what they were trying to achieve, but can't say I liked listening to it.

Got through this one by singing Simultaneous by Chef over the first eight and half minutes of By the Time I Get to Phoenix

"My name's Nicholas Nada and I just want to say, Christina, that track you made with all those clips of your fans kissing your ass made me cringe so hard it gave me osteoporosis."

In the time it takes for him to say You Don't Love Me Anymore, she's moved out, met someone else, married, and had a kid.

At first, I wondered why he hadn't practiced the songs before the recording rather than during, then I read about how it was made after he'd had a stay in a mental hospital, was intended as a demo but released as an album, and it all feels grubby and exploitative

I once sang American Pie at karaoke and got three rounds of applause. Not because I was any good, but because they kept thinking I was finished. That song really knows how to outstay its welcome. In the end, I just handed back the mic and shuffled awkwardly offstage. Bye bye, miss American Pie

I only knew this band from a reference in a Courtney Barnett song ("and in the taxi home, I'll sing you a Triffids song"). Having heard them now, I think I'll wait and take the next cab instead.

Like a wind turbine, I'm a huge metal fan, but I didn't enjoy this at all

I've somehow never heard any Pantera before (I didn't even know any of the Thundercats had solo careers) but I quite enjoyed that.

Music Bland & Vague

Jazz is one of those things where fans get so into it that I'm left feeling I'm missing something. It must be me, right, if people can be so obsessed they could reel off every band member for each recording of every song while I'm sat there going, meh? I did wonder how I knew the tune for Bemsha Swing, then I remembered it was used for F.U. by the chili peppers - so that's an embarrassing admission of my own cultural touchstones, I suppose

I'd say a live album wasn't the best intro to a band, but that's the debut they put out.

Not my kind of music, but I'll give it an extra point for the lyrics being a stealthy bit of social commentary dressed up as good-old-boy patriotism. "This next song is called, 'I am an American! (and it's a bit shit, to be honest)"

A Punishing Listen

I enjoyed the music but there was too much talking. You didn't enjoy the talking bits? They just didn't add anything to the songs. You felt they were only talking for the sake of talking? Yeah, like it was all a bit of a gimmick - you know what I mean?

This band gets an extra point for having the best licensed game on the ZX Spectrum.

Logical Progression: 1) press play 2) roll eyes 3) press stop

Welcome to my Controversial Artists list, Slipknot! One star for their self-titled album and now this. Maybe it's because the previous album from this site was hours of generic drum & bass that sounded like a space dolphin giving a drum machine diarrhoea that's making me more predisposed towards any actual humans playing actual instruments.

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I had to skip Fairytale of New York. I used to really like it until one Christmas it got stuck in my head so badly I wasn't rid of it until - I kid you not - March the next year. I would wake up with it playing in my brain; it was absolute torture.

Started off sounding fun but got old really quickly

Beats me how this guy seems to occupy half the list in some form or another

Garage Rock as heard from three garages away. So rough, it's jarring when one of the tracks ends on something as studio-based as a fadeout. Each song should only end when the drummer drops a stick again or when their mom tells them to pack it in because she needs to phone her sister

Just do a cover of Wicked Game, you cowards

Has a cosy, Sunday afternoon TV theme kind of vibe. "Next on ITV7, it's another dangerous case for Detective Milonga in It Takes Two... To Murder"

Would have got my two-star "not my kind of thing but I see why others might like it" rating, but no one needs two full hours of this

It's fun, too long, witty, unevenly sung, heartfelt, and too damn long. It's the weirdest thing, a three-star five-star album

Compilation albums on here giving Alan Partridge vibes. "What's your favourite Beatles album then?" "Tough one. I think I'd have to say... The Best of The Beatles"

One to listen to with headphones if you want to hear it at all, but worth the effort

Ffs, this guy again?

Some of the albums on here make me a little sad as I think I would have loved them if I'd heard them when I was 15. Now this just sounds like yer basic rock & roll with a Halloween accent :(

Another album which would have scored higher if it was an instrumental

This is a terrible/brilliant album and I'm really glad I listened to it. I'd love to hear it sung by someone who can hit and hold the right notes though

Even in a set of over a thousand albums, there's no excuse for more than one with "honky tonk" in the title, so I went into this with low expectations and even those were dashed.

Veered dangerously close to Pan Pipe Moods territory at times but I do enjoy a sitar

Some interesting ideas for songs. Looking forward to hearing when it's finished

Almost aggressively trippy in places, but I dig it, man.

Before listening: I only knew this one as "the album I kept seeing while looking for They Might be Giants records in the 90s" so it's quite fun to actually get to listen to it. After: I might have really liked this if I'd heard it when it was out, as it reminds me of the early, more-political Beautiful South songs I used to enjoy back then. Music hasn't aged well, though, and never managed to escape the 80s' gravitational pull. Two and a half stars, rounded up because I'm in a good mood.

I'm such a hypocrite. I'm always complaining about country albums being like cowboy cosplay and yet I still have a soft spot for this sort of twiddly-diddly ren faire bullshit

They're not getting a second date, that's for sure

Concrete and borbdwarr

Functional rock. The musical equivalent of a midlife crisis where you buy a magazine about motorbikes, spend a Sunday afternoon comparing the gas mileage of each model, then sigh, shake your head, and place the magazine into the appropriate recycling bin

Feels like I've been on hold so long I've forgotten why I was phoning

How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel (When it's All I've Been Banging On About Since 1982)?

Whose idea was it to take the voice of one of the most famous pop stars of all time and put it through the Electrogargle 2000?

This album made me feel like I was being groomed

Yeah, it's shallow and cheesy, but if I'd had a skinful in the Solid and walked into the Cathouse while they were playing something off this I'd be well into it. Five star party music, but I'm listening on my way to work so it gets three. Tough break, DL, bad timing

Feels like I've just nipped out of the student union for a cigarette

FRED: its time to find out who this so-called "muse" really is! (Everyone gasped as the mask is removed, to reveal...) SHAGGY: U2?!

I feel like this is a treasured family heirloom someone has brought into a pawn shop, and I'm the surly guy behind the counter, shrugging and saying, "three stars, that's as high as I can go."

An easy five star. I bought this one when it came out, then the remix album, then tracked down all the weird chiptune mixes and b-sides

Two hours?! Why are D&B albums always so flipping long? It's not some operatic concept album, it's a drum machine having a frantic wank

Surprisingly maudlin

Points off for excessive soloing

Even guest vocals from the Tasmanian Devil couldn't save this one

Of all the midnight runners on this list, Dexy's is one of them. I enjoyed this album, but it loses a star for that one song that begins with a load of squelchy mouth-sound whispering, like ASMR employed as an emetic.

If I wanted to get a headache while listening to incessant beeping, I wouldn't keep replacing the batteries in my carbon monoxide detector

Feels like listening to tracks from three separate albums on shuffle

That band name was writing some big cheques that the music had no intention of cashing

It's unusual for me to listen past the core tracks of the original release on an extended special edition, but I loved every minute of that. Gave me proto-TMBG vibes in several places which is an additional point from me every time

I don't know why - because it feels like it should be My Kind of Music - but Sonic Youth has always left me cold. Nothing about it grabs me.

Just to add insult to injury, the chorus to Freedom '90 contains the world's first recorded rickroll