1001 Albums Summary

Listening statistics & highlights

851
Albums Rated
3.43
Average Rating
78%
Complete
238 albums remaining

Rating Distribution

Rating Timeline

Taste Profile

1970s
Favorite Decade
Rock-and-roll
Favorite Genre
UK
Top Origin
Generous
Rater Style ?
188
5-Star Albums
26
1-Star Albums

Breakdown

By Genre

By Decade

By Origin

Albums

You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Don't Stand Me Down 5 2.61 +2.39
Yeezus 5 2.77 +2.23
Good Old Boys 5 2.86 +2.14
Kala 5 2.91 +2.09
Mott 5 2.95 +2.05
For Your Pleasure 5 2.98 +2.02
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels 5 3 +2
The Rising 5 3.05 +1.95
Eternally Yours 5 3.06 +1.94
Smile 5 3.06 +1.94

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables 1 3.27 -2.27
Tanto Tempo 1 3.07 -2.07
The Nightfly 1 3.01 -2.01
Beach Samba 1 2.92 -1.92
Smokers Delight 1 2.91 -1.91
Destroy Rock & Roll 1 2.89 -1.89
Nick Of Time 1 2.83 -1.83
Whatever 1 2.82 -1.82
One World 1 2.82 -1.82
Let's Get It On 2 3.78 -1.78

Artists

Favorites

ArtistAlbumsAverage
Bob Dylan 7 4.86
Beatles 7 4.86
David Bowie 9 4.56
Led Zeppelin 4 5
Bruce Springsteen 4 5
The Rolling Stones 6 4.5
The Who 4 4.75
Talking Heads 4 4.75
The Kinks 4 4.75
Van Morrison 3 5
Jimi Hendrix 3 5
Aerosmith 3 5
Simon & Garfunkel 3 5
Roxy Music 3 5
R.E.M. 4 4.5
Stevie Wonder 3 4.67
Michael Jackson 3 4.67
Nirvana 3 4.67
Creedence Clearwater Revival 3 4.67
Neil Young 3 4.67
Dexys Midnight Runners 3 4.67
Beastie Boys 3 4.67
Peter Gabriel 3 4.67
The Police 2 5
The Beach Boys 2 5
Elton John 2 5
AC/DC 2 5
Oasis 2 5
Kanye West 2 5
The Clash 2 5
George Michael 2 5
Dire Straits 2 5
The Smashing Pumpkins 2 5
ABBA 2 5
T. Rex 2 5
The Doors 3 4.33
Blur 3 4.33
Queen 3 4.33
Kate Bush 3 4.33
U2 3 4.33
Paul Simon 3 4.33
Metallica 3 4.33

Least Favorites

ArtistAlbumsAverage
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band 2 1.5

Controversial

ArtistRatings
Gene Clark 2, 5
M.I.A. 5, 2
Miles Davis 3, 5, 2
Madonna 3, 2, 5

5-Star Albums (188)

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Talking Book Astral Weeks Sticky Fingers MTV Unplugged In New York Led Zeppelin Bringing It All Back Home Ready To Die Synchronicity Led Zeppelin II Born To Run Automatic For The People Bad B-52's Electric Ladyland Elvis Presley At Fillmore East Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs Harvest Tapestry Pet Sounds Superunknown Thriller Are You Experienced Let It Bleed Live And Dangerous Born In The U.S.A. Blood On The Tracks Trans Europe Express Led Zeppelin III Rust Never Sleeps Appetite For Destruction Moondance War The Village Green Preservation Society Beggars Banquet Toys In The Attic Don't Stand Me Down Here's Little Richard Straight Outta Compton Paul Simon Sign 'O' The Times Who's Next Young Americans Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Searching For The Young Soul Rebels Smash Five Leaves Left The Holy Bible A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Remain In Light Axis: Bold As Love Sweet Baby James After The Gold Rush The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Kind Of Blue Led Zeppelin IV So Document Highway to Hell (Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) Marquee Moon Moving Pictures A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse Raising Hell Hounds Of Love Horses The Stranger The Downward Spiral Band On The Run Definitely Maybe Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) Music From Big Pink Surrealistic Pillow Bookends A Night At The Opera Fear Of Music Cosmo's Factory Bat Out Of Hell Dookie Parallel Lines Tea for the Tillerman The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Back To Black Van Halen Live At The Regal It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Paranoid Pretenders Exile On Main Street Violator Mr. Tambourine Man Yeezus The Clash Peter Gabriel 3 Metallica Every Picture Tells A Story Songs In The Key Of Life Green River Faith Madman Across The Water Abbey Road This Is Fats Domino If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears Dire Straits Talking Heads 77 Rocks Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Rubber Soul Rumours (What's The Story) Morning Glory Kala Highway 61 Revisited The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway James Brown Live At The Apollo If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Visitors Darkness on the Edge of Town I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You Hunky Dory The Doors Rage Against The Machine Eternally Yours Parklife Live At Leeds Imagine The College Dropout Back In Black Pump Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme Made In Japan London Calling The Slider Hysteria Nevermind Roxy Music Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Licensed To Ill Boston Different Class Mott Mothership Connection A Rush Of Blood To The Head Electric Warrior Bridge Over Troubled Water Reggatta De Blanc Play Smile Country Life The Beach Boys Today! Revolver The Cars Paul's Boutique Woodface Chirping Crickets Like A Prayer The Köln Concert No Other The White Album Something Else By The Kinks Pearl Aladdin Sane Out Of The Blue Live At The Star Club, Hamburg Brothers In Arms The Real Thing The Wall Station To Station All Things Must Pass The Joshua Tree Hotel California Arrival Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) 3 Feet High and Rising Good Old Boys Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols It's Too Late to Stop Now Low A Hard Day's Night For Your Pleasure Live At The Harlem Square Club The Rising Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul Graceland Tommy Blonde On Blonde Disraeli Gears Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 Siamese Dream

Popular Reviews

E.V.O.L.
Sonic Youth
2/5
Someone should create a list of 1001 albums you don’t need to hear before you die and put this on it.
14 likes
Don't Stand Me Down
Dexys Midnight Runners
5/5
Like finding a Rembrandt in your Grandmother’s garage
7 likes
Aja
Steely Dan
2/5
I could drink a litre of boxed wine and smoke a pack of cigarettes every day and it wouldn’t come close to ageing me like 40 minutes spent listening to Steely Dan
3 likes
1/5
Is Dwight ok?
1 likes
Trout Mask Replica
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
1/5
There’s Chinese water torture and then there’s Captain Beefheart…
1 likes

1-Star Albums (26)

Palo Congo Nick Of Time Trout Mask Replica Shalimar Sex Packets Destroy Rock & Roll Whatever Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Beach Samba Raw Like Sushi Maverick A Strike Boy In Da Corner Duck Stab/Buster & Glen Tanto Tempo One World The Nightfly Basket of Light G. Love And Special Sauce Heaux Tales Smokers Delight Penthouse And Pavement Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room Duck Rock They Were Wrong, So We Drowned Idlewild Kollaps

All Ratings

Generous

Average rating is 0.20 points above global average.