My 1001 Albums Journey

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1089

Albums Rated

3.28

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Favorite Album

Franz Ferdinand

Rating Distribution

Rating Timeline

Taste Profile

1950

Favorite Decade

Soul

Favorite Genre

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1-Star Albums

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Albums

You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The New Tango Astor Piazzolla	5	2.88	+2.12
I See A Darkness Bonnie "Prince" Billy	5	2.98	+2.02
Heartbreaker Ryan Adams	5	3.01	+1.99
Chemtrails Over The Country Club Lana Del Rey	5	3.04	+1.96
Machine Gun Etiquette The Damned	5	3.16	+1.84
Blood, Sweat & Tears Blood, Sweat & Tears	5	3.17	+1.83
Rain Dogs Tom Waits	5	3.19	+1.81
Chicago Transit Authority Chicago	5	3.2	+1.8
The Age Of The Understatement The Last Shadow Puppets	5	3.25	+1.75
S&M Metallica	5	3.26	+1.74

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
NEU! 75 Neu!	1	3.1	-2.1
The Modern Lovers The Modern Lovers	1	3.05	-2.05
Spiderland Slint	1	2.97	-1.97
69 Love Songs The Magnetic Fields	1	2.85	-1.85
Tago Mago Can	1	2.81	-1.81
Ys Joanna Newsom	1	2.79	-1.79
Histoire De Melody Nelson Serge Gainsbourg	1	2.71	-1.71
Remain In Light Talking Heads	2	3.68	-1.68
A Grand Don't Come For Free The Streets	1	2.63	-1.63
Playing With Fire Spacemen 3	1	2.55	-1.55

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	7	4.86
Led Zeppelin	5	5
Metallica	4	4.75
The White Stripes	3	5
Bruce Springsteen	5	4.4
Pink Floyd	4	4.5
Nirvana	3	4.67
The Doors	3	4.67
Green Day	2	5
The Smashing Pumpkins	2	5
Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	5
Amy Winehouse	2	5
Bob Dylan	7	4
Beck	3	4.33
Creedence Clearwater Revival	3	4.33
Nick Drake	3	4.33
Arcade Fire	3	4.33
Michael Jackson	3	4.33
Simon & Garfunkel	3	4.33
Jimi Hendrix	3	4.33
Tom Waits	5	4

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Pere Ubu	2	1.5
Can	2	1.5
Robert Wyatt	2	1.5
Brian Eno	5	2.2
Kraftwerk	3	2

5-Star Albums (98)

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Popular Reviews

I’m mad I had to listen to this

I would like to send a bag of gummy dicks packed in glitter to the person who wrote this list for making me listen to such nonsense.

The sonic equivalent of sleepy time tea

The reviews made me a little nervous, it’s definitely weird, but I kinda dug it

A product of the times, hasn’t aged well. He’s a rich kid from Michigan cosplaying as working class redneck trailer trash. That last track is some real red pill, incel MGTOW garbage. Though not on this album, it has forever annoyed me that he rhymes “things” with “things” on All Summer Long. He sucks.

1-Star Albums (17)

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

All Ratings (1089)

I’ve always felt like I should like Elvis Costello more than I do. His music is almost there for me, but just doesn’t quite hit. Like a show or movie that can’t get the rights to the song they want so they make a faux sounding dupe. I liked Alison, and a few songs towards the end of the album, but none enough to make me want to listen again. I do appreciate a 13 song album coming in at a tight 36 minutes though.

Fun pop-punk sound. Sounds more modern than 1979, can see the influence on later bands like The Hives, Strokes, Arctic Monkeys etc. I’d give 3.5, so rounding up to 4.

Loved it. This is exactly what I am here for with this project.

There was some interesting sounds and beats going on in the background and I didn’t dislike listening to it, but ultimately it’s just not for me and not an album I’ll feel compelled to revisit

I love the atmosphere of joy that runs through this album

That….was not pleasant to listen to.

A jam album with a fun groove. Would be way more enjoyable as a live experience but good background music

I don’t know that I needed two hours of this. Good for: attending raves, getting your chakras balanced at a new age spa, or playing Need for Speed at an arcade.

Um..wut? Wow this is bad. I’m not entirely sure I’m not being punked by some sort of awkward cringe comedy bit by Sacha Baron Cohen…or maybe this was a group project by some middle schoolers?

A fun half hour that made me feel like I was at the enchantment under the sea dance

Sounds like the score of an opening credits bustling cityscape montage in a generic 80s movie

Weird at times but I kinda dug it.

Prefer some of his other stuff. The man is a fantastic guitar player. It’s a shame he’s also a massive twat.

No.

A tight 22 minutes of cardio endurance. Another solid musician who is also a terrible person

Super fun. Melted my face.

This is all over the place. There were hints of sounds I enjoyed but overall it’s not for me.

Solid. Always down to listen to some Radiohead

Super fun, loved the voice on Keely Smith. *insert gif of George McFly boppin’ at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance*

AM gold yacht dad rock

Several of these songs made me feel like I was playing a beach-themed Mario Kart course

Oof. Those lyrics were laughably terrible.

The first has of that album had me wondering if I was listening to an generic White Noises To Fall Asleep To album

Enjoyed this more than I was expecting

At times sonically interesting and enjoyable but oof has not aged well

This was fun….in small doses.

Love the sound, Clapton is a giant twat

The reviews made me a little nervous, it’s definitely weird, but I kinda dug it

It could be repetitive at times and there was plenty of bootsandcatsandbootsandcatsand…but i didn’t hate it? Some of it had a musicality that was surprising and pleasant and not just beep boop robot music.

Sad cowboy music

An extra star purely for weirdness

It had its moments of potential but they were too few and too buried amongst just noise that annoyed me.

None of these songs were bad per se…just twice as long as they needed to be.

I’m mad I had to listen to this

Beep boop robot music

I went on a journey with this. Was kinda into the first couple songs which then transitioned to “this is cheesy but has a weird charm to it”. But by the time I got to Horsin’ Around, I was once again wondering exactly why I must hear this album?

What a weird album.

That was a weird one. I mean I didn’t hate parts of it, but also it gave me a headache by the end. My boyfriend warned me, “despite his influence, he may sound like a 8 piece band falling down a long flight of stairs” and well….yeah.

I will give 3 stars to an album that is pleasant enough to listen to but do not care to own or add tracks to a playlist. And 2 stars to an album that is kind of unpleasant to listen to. This falls in the void between. I didn’t dislike it, but it’s so mid and beige that I immediately forgot about it as soon as it ended. In this case, I suppose I’ll round down.

This album is cuckoo bananas.

Some days I feel like this list is pranking me. Today is one of those days. I suppose it’s impressive that it’s both extremely uninteresting and also extremely irritating at the same time. Could be useful to scare pests out of your garden?

Not really my thing, but I’ve listened to way worse albums on this list.

2.5 Rounding down bc it annoyed me more than it didn’t.

Four stars because Tiny Dancer and Levon….otherwise it’s kinda mid

Did not do anything for me

I really did not need 20ish minutes of We Are Family but otherwise it’s fine.

Music for bougie day spas

I would like to send a bag of gummy dicks packed in glitter to the person who wrote this list for making me listen to such nonsense.

This was great music to lightly doze to

Was not expecting David Crosby trying to pressure me into a throuple but here we are

+1 for Paint it Black. (And the musical line of Under My Thumb. Lyrics, not so much)

+1 star for the song with the Dr. Sbaitso voice

The music is not my thing, but the cover art is a masterpiece.

Half of this album made me feel like I was playing Toejam & Earl, the other half melted my face off

We Will Fall annoyed me down to two stars

4 stars for the sound 2 stars for the length No song should be >30 minutes

What, and I can’t emphasize this enough, the actual fuck.

Music for robots

I am a 42 year old geriatric millennial who grew up on grunge and emo, and maybe they’re cheesy or cringe, or maybe it’s the nostalgia of what my parents listened to, but I fucking love Chicago. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is is a perfect song. 10/10, no notes.

Was this album 38 minutes or 380 minutes? I don’t know, I fell into a prog hole.

Wasn’t expecting to hear calliope music today?

Wasn’t expecting to hear

Would not expect I’d give 5 stars to an accordion and some vibraphone but this fucking slapped.

Devo’s kind of annoying.

These albums are hard to rate. He’s talented, the sound is solid, but he sucks as a person and the lyrics are not for me

So delightfully bizzarre

The best song on this album was the one that was 3 seconds long. And it was still a terrible 3 seconds.

-1 for the creepy gynecologist song.

When I was a kid I had one of those white noise cds. It was 60 minutes of rainforest sounds. And it was 10x more sonically interesting than whatever this was.

The sonic equivalent of sleepy time tea

This is so odd I don’t even know what to do with it.

Sounded like when you press your finger down on the forward button to skip to a different part of a song. Or like someone was trying to record the sound of a bong but there was feedback from the microphone.

A couple songs were kinda catchy but this was all over the place

Whyyyyy is this 2 hours? This album is the sonic equivalent of “this meeting could have been an email”

What, and I cannot emphasize this enough, the fuck, did I just listen to

Sounds like the preprogrammed beats on my childhood Casio keyboard

Yikes

Sleepy Time Tea music

Jane’s Addiction has always annoyed me in that bitch eating crackers kinda way

Every time I see a Bob Dylan album pop up on this list I’m like “ugh again” and then I listen to it and am like “fuck you Bob Dylan why is this so good”

I was kinda into it until the 16 minutes of haunted house noises. Didn’t get better from there.

Multiple hits and under 40 minutes? Queen behavior.

Idk is this any different than the 10 other Neil Young albums on this list?