My 1001 Albums Journey

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1960

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Albums

You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Trout Mask Replica Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	5	2.29	+2.71
The Sounds Of India Ravi Shankar	5	2.85	+2.15
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted Ice Cube	5	2.93	+2.07
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake Small Faces	5	2.94	+2.06
Sister Sonic Youth	5	3.02	+1.98
Skylarking XTC	5	3.03	+1.97
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight Richard Thompson	5	3.05	+1.95
Armed Forces Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	3.09	+1.91
Autobahn Kraftwerk	5	3.09	+1.91
Dirty Sonic Youth	5	3.11	+1.89

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Wild Wood Paul Weller	1	3.09	-2.09
White Ladder David Gray	1	3.06	-2.06
Something/Anything? Todd Rundgren	1	3.03	-2.03
Larks' Tongues In Aspic King Crimson	1	2.99	-1.99
Picture Book Simply Red	1	2.88	-1.88
Gold Ryan Adams	1	2.83	-1.83
Chris Christine and the Queens	1	2.82	-1.82
Hms Fable Shack	1	2.76	-1.76
Back to Mystery City Hanoi Rocks	1	2.68	-1.68
Band On The Run Paul McCartney and Wings	2	3.66	-1.66

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	5	4.8
David Bowie	5	4.6
Radiohead	3	5
Miles Davis	3	5
Sonic Youth	3	5
Kraftwerk	3	4.67
R.E.M.	3	4.67
Prince	3	4.67
Bob Dylan	3	4.67
PJ Harvey	2	5
Michael Jackson	2	5
The Kinks	2	5
John Lennon	2	5
The Clash	2	5
Stan Getz	2	5

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Deep Purple	2, 5

5-Star Albums (102)

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Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

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

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

Popular Reviews

Ace of Spades

Motörhead · 17 likes

4/5

Sometimes I need a record that isn’t going to challenge me emotionally, intellectually, or musically. Sometime I just want to caveman out. For these moments, there is Ace of Spades.

Gold

Ryan Adams · 1 likes

1/5

Milquetoast

1-Star Albums (11)

All Ratings

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

Best songs: Station to Station, TVC15, Golden Years

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

4/5

The amount of synths on this one always bothered me but, man, there are some classics here.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

5/5

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

3/5

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

1/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Metallica

4/5

Spiderland

Slint

4/5

The Stooges

5/5

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

3/5

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

2/5

I'll never forgive Rod Stewart for the '80s and '90s.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Movies

Holger Czukay

2/5

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

Stand outs: Lilac Wine, Four Women, Wild is the Wind

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

3/5

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

Arrested Development

3/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

5/5

All Mod Cons

The Jam

4/5

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

Key songs: Brighton Rock, Killer Queen, Stone Cold Crazy

Shadowland

k.d. lang

4/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

5/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Key songs: Brighton Rock, Killer Queen, Stone Cold Crazy

Low-Life

New Order

5/5

Key tracks: Love Vigilantes, Perfect Kiss, Elegia

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

5/5

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

4/5

Sometimes I need a record that isn’t going to challenge me emotionally, intellectually, or musically. Sometime I just want to caveman out. For these moments, there is Ace of Spades.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

2/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

1/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

5/5

Dry

PJ Harvey

5/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Blur

4/5

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

2/5

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

4/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

2/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

5/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

3/5

Chris

Christine and the Queens

1/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

Green

R.E.M.

5/5

Medúlla

Björk

4/5

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

5/5

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

1/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

1/5

If this were playing at a medieval faire, I would not leave.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

4/5

I rediscovered The Fall with this album. Good mix of classic Fall and some new experiments. Mark E Smith is the black jelly bean of post-punk front men, and I love black jelly beans. Stand outs: Lost in Music I’m Going to Spain Light/Fireworks

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

2/5

15 minutes of chaos, which is the right length. Gets more interesting from Back Against Wall on.

Back In Black

AC/DC

5/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

5/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Pink Floyd vs Coldplay cage match

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

5/5

Beautiful Freak

Eels

3/5

I really enjoy this album, but it’s a time and place for me. I like much more than some of the albums on this list, but I’m surprised it’s included.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

5/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

5/5

Rapture

Anita Baker

2/5

It’s hard to hate on such an inoffensive album, it’s just not something that moves me in any particular way. I can imagine this being used at hifi stores to show off a system, but that’s pretty much it.

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

The Stone Roses

4/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

5/5

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

3/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Gorillaz

3/5

I like this album, but its inclusion on this list is a bit of a mystery to me. It’s not even the second best Gorillaz album.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

Tibetan Freedom Beasties. This one loses a star because it falls off at the end after a perfect two-thirds. It gets the star back for all the memories I have attached to this album.

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

I haven’t listened to this one in a long time and I remember enjoying it more then than I do now. There are many places where the sonic affects add color and depth to shifts in mood. Other times it feels like they’re filling lulls in songs that don’t have the stamina to speak for themselves. All that said, I think there are a lot of great songs here, Jesus, Etc and Ashes of American Flags among them.

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

3/5

Nothings dates like dance music!

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

3/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

4/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

5/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

The Joshua Tree

5/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

5/5

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

4/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

4/5

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

3/5

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

5/5

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

3/5

1999

Prince

5/5

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

4/5

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Kala

M.I.A.

4/5

Ramones

5/5

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

3/5

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

2/5

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

5/5

#1 Record

Big Star

2/5

This album influenced many bands that I love, REM, Guided By Voices, Wilco, etc, but it’s just never clicked with me. The songs are too spare, too mid-tempo — all just a bit short of hitting critical mass. Radio City is much stronger to these ears.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

5/5

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Drunk

Thundercat

2/5

Is this what happens when an artist has lots of skill, a little bit of talent, but no taste?

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

The A side here is top notch Bowie, but the B side is pretty spotty. I could really do without “Fill Your Heart”, “Andy Warhol”, and “Song for Bob Dylan”. “Queen Bitch” and “Bewlay Brothers” make it all worthwhile though.

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

I like this American Dream but it’s not even the second best LCD Soundsystem record. I’m surprised it’s on the list.

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Great album, though not his best. This probably would be a five if it weren’t for Ray Warleigh’s flute and sax solos. They feel really out of place here.

Closer

Joy Division

4/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Highly Evolved

The Vines

3/5

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

3/5

A Northern Soul

The Verve

2/5

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

5/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

1/5

Halfway through “Come to My Aid” and I don’t know if I have the strength to go on. I soldiered on to “Holding Back the Years”, which is passable if only because the band seems to have worn themselves out overplaying the previous 8 songs. The singer has a great voice, but this album is something I’d put on to get people to go home.

Imagine

John Lennon

5/5

Skylarking

XTC

5/5

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

3/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

Little known fact about Rush: The band was initially the brainchild of a consortium of Canadian music retailers strategizing to increase demand for music lessons and to sell more gear, particularly an overstock of kick drums and 5-string bass guitars. The rest is history. True story.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

Hms Fable

Shack

1/5

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

All That You Can't Leave Behind

4/5

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

3/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

It’s fine. Maybe it’s the result of my own ignorance, but it seems like there was a very crowded field of female singer/songwriters in this vein, at this time. I’ve haven’t connected with any of them, and they tend to blend together for me.

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

2/5

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

3/5

I like this better than I did in the day, but it falls off after “Criminal”.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

I like this better than I did in the day, but it falls off after “Criminal”.

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

4/5

Guero

Beck

4/5

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

2/5

Key tracks: Birthday Motorcrash Delicious Demon

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

2/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

I never understood the appeal of this album. Sounds like a bunch of acoustic hippie bullshit with some electric guitars on top. “Jeepster” and “Bang a Gong (Get it on)” are the notable exceptions.

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

5/5

Highlights: The Cavalry Cross I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight Withered and Died

The Band

5/5

Highlights: Up on Cripple Creek Across the Great Divide The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

American Pie

Don McLean

3/5

Feast of Wire

Calexico

4/5

This album would be a solid 4/5, with just a little bit of editing. Pull out “Not even Stevie Nicks” and “Attack El Robot! Attack!” and it flows so much better. That said, I really enjoy this album and Calexico’s musical formula. Definitely a must hear artist, and this album is almost as good as any from this period. Alright, I’m rounding up.

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

2/5

I can appreciate how groundbreaking this might have been when it was released, but I don’t think it has aged well.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

2/5

The raw materials are here: the voice (most of the time), the lyrical subject matter, etc, but it hasn’t come together into a cohesive whole just yet. This one is a bit all over the place musically, though always “jazzy.”

Destroyer

KISS

3/5

I think there’s a limited window in one’s life where they can be introduced to Kiss and have it click. I am well outside that window, but I can appreciate that this wasn’t made for me. These songs sound really basic, dated and dumb to me, but I’m sure that misses the point.

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

1/5

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

4/5

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

5/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

2/5

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

5/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

4/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

2/5

One World

John Martyn

3/5

I’ve heard John Martyn covers before but this is the first time I’ve listened to one of his albums. It’s much more psych rock and jazz-oriented than I expected. The album as a whole has an interesting vibe, but I think the only song I’d come back for is “Couldn’t Live You More.”

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

4/5

For the genre, this album mostly holds up.

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

2/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

4/5

I still dig this album. It was such a nice break from all the pop-metal on the radio at the time, and I played the crap out of it. The first two Lenny Kravitz albums offered similar relief. The second Black Crowes album is much better, but this one served me well.

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

4/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

4/5

The Clash

5/5

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

2/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

5/5

Dirty

Sonic Youth

5/5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

4/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

3/5

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

3/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Bad Company

3/5

This one is like a good pair of old boots: Nothing fancy, the brand no longer exists and they won’t impress anybody, but they do what they’re supposed to do very well.

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

Throbbing Gristle

3/5

It’s hard to listen to this one and not wax nostalgic. My son was conceived to “United”.

Yeezus

Kanye West

4/5

The last Kanye album I listened to more than a handful of times. Key tracks: New Slaves, Black Skinhead, Blood on the Leaves

Gold

Ryan Adams

1/5

Milquetoast