My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Leftism	5	2.9	+2.1
Lazer Guided Melodies	5	2.92	+2.08
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake	5	2.95	+2.05
Pelican West	5	2.96	+2.04
Spiderland	5	2.97	+2.03
Will The Circle Be Unbroken	5	2.98	+2.02
Nowhere	5	3.01	+1.99
Underwater Moonlight	5	3.05	+1.95
Eternally Yours	5	3.06	+1.94
Scum	4	2.07	+1.93

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bad Company	1	3.26	-2.26
Vivid	1	3.2	-2.2
Electric	1	3.02	-2.02
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite	1	2.9	-1.9
Harvest	2	3.83	-1.83
Brothers In Arms	2	3.74	-1.74
Appetite For Destruction	2	3.74	-1.74
Tea for the Tillerman	2	3.69	-1.69
Band On The Run	2	3.67	-1.67
Young Americans	2	3.62	-1.62

Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	3	4.67
Van Morrison	2	5
The Smashing Pumpkins	2	5
Spiritualized	2	5
The Who	4	4.25
Frank Sinatra	3	4.33
Black Sabbath	3	4.33
The Doors	3	4.33
Queen	3	4.33

Artist	Albums	Average
Dexys Midnight Runners	2	1.5

Artist	Ratings
Wilco	2, 5
Dire Straits	2, 5

The Cars

3/5

Almost every song was a hit and I was surprised that I knew almost every one of them. It was really well done and I can appreciate the craftsmanship and how impactful it is, it’s just not the flavor of music i could see myself listening to regularly.

Pink Flag

Wire

5/5

Love me some post punk. I could listen to this every day.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

It was fine. Just wasn’t my cup of tea really. I know this album was impactful and extremely well done, it’s just that the genre wasn’t my thing.

Miriam Makeba

4/5

The opening track was fantastic! What an interesting genre I wouldn’t listen to normally. And I loved the song Mbube. The arrangements on everything really show the skill of everyone involved creating this.

Debut

Björk

4/5

What an incredible voice! The songs were jarring and I really enjoyed them.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

I had a Sinatra phase but I don’t think I ever listened to any of his albums all the way through, except for “Best Of”s. There were some gems here, but each song really felt kinda same-y.

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

Love it. But I don’t think it’s their best album

The Blueprint

JAY Z

2/5

Not a huge fan of gangster rap, but I can appreciate some of the singles on this album.

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

2/5

It was fine, but I don’t think I’d listen to it again.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

4/5

I love VU and Lou Reed and have listened to this album many times over the years. That said, I don’t think it’s their strongest work and I’m not as big of a fan of Nico. Need more Lou!

Bad Company

1/5

This album was forgettable and seemed pretty uninspired. Really did not care for the lyrics or sound and it just felt like a cookie cutter of other much more talented bands of the same era.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

4/5

It’s clear that this is a groundbreaking album. Miles Davis is extremely skilled and this is an engaging album. I can appreciate all of that but it doesn’t get 5 stars from me because I don’t think I could listen to this every day.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

This is up there for me in terms of albums I’ve listened to repeatedly over the years. The music video for Smack my Bitch Up still stands the test of time as one of the most shocking imo. Love Kool Keith on Diesel Power. They put on a great live show too!

Homework

Daft Punk

5/5

This album is the progenitor to so many electronic acts and I’m pretty sure helped launch Daft Punk’s career. It’s another one I’ve listened to many times over the years and it holds up really well!

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

What a powerful album. Dillon was the voice of the 60s in a lot of ways. This actually was my first time listening to the album all the way through and not just to individual songs. I could see myself listening to it again in the right mood, but it’s not one I’d have on repeat like some others.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

I love this album and have listened to it several times since discovering it 4-5 years ago. The baseline to Simple Song is one of my favorites out there. It’s also an important album and has influenced so many other acts. That said, many of the songs just don’t grab me, and I’m not as huge a fan of Everyday People.

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

4/5

What an interesting album. So beautiful and touching and after reading about it the lyrics are a lot less shocking. That said, would I listen to this album repeatedly? I’m not sure about that.

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

Every song on here is a hit! They are the progenitors of hard rock and their skill shows here.

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

2/5

This was a pretty unremarkable album to me. I only give it an extra star because it sounds like the artists were trying something new.

Parklife

Blur

5/5

What a surprising album for me. I wasn’t as familiar with Blur as I thought I was, though I’ve always liked them because I love Gorillaz. This album put Blur on the map and it shows. I love how multi genre it is.

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

4/5

It’s clear this album is the inspiration for so many electronic music acts. It’s heavily experimental and psychedelic, while also being a bit more structured. I’m giving this 4 stars because while I don’t think I could personally listen to this album every day, it’s definitely an important album.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

This was just fine. Maybe I don’t have as much appreciation for this genre or my mood wasn’t as into it because I know Springsteen is such an influential artist.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

5/5

This was one of the first albums I ever got and to me it holds up really well! It also got me introduced to Spike Jones who I think directed the music video for Praise You. This album is one of my all time favorites!

Live Through This

Hole

3/5

This was pretty good but just didn’t click for me. I definitely enjoy the screamy hard rock vibe though.

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

3/5

I’m mixed on this one. On the one hand, the beats are actually really good, and in some ways it’s not cookie cutter gangster rap. But on the other hand, it is. I wish we could give half star ratings!

School's Out

Alice Cooper

5/5

This was an unexpected one for me. I always thought Alice Cooper was a cookie cutter hard rocker from the 70s and didn’t really dive too deep into his works, but this album showed a lot of range and soul. The last two tracks of the album sealed it for me.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

5/5

The opening track was such a jam! This is something I could definitely listen to repeatedly.

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

While I’m not a huge fan of gangster rap this album has great beats and features Qtip who I’ve always liked. I’m not sure that other albums by Nas live up to this one.

25

Adele

5/5

This was my first Adele album and wow was it powerful. Maybe it’s just where I’m at in life right now but it was hard emotionally to get through some of the tracks. This one I could definitely see myself listen to again, but only if I wanted to sob.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

This album was fine. I didn’t think it was bad or good, just kinda not memorable. I wasn’t huge into this genre when I was younger and I don’t remember their songs.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

So many hits on this album, and they are such classics. That said, it’s not an album I could see myself listening to over and over, something about it just doesn’t grab me as much as similar artists. It’s still an incredible album however.

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

This is largely considered one of the best albums of all time and it shows. So many hits on here and very re-listenable!

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

I can really appreciate this album and I love the songs (mostly) but it really felt repetitive to me after a while of repeating the same riffs and lyrics for 5-7 minutes. That said this album had so many hits and was really influential so I’m giving it a 4 instead of 3.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

This one is a solid 4 for me. You can’t help but appreciate the musicianship of Prince and the rest of the band. But I gauge these albums with the question, would I listen to this album again/multiple times? And I would have to say no - Prince never really was my cup of tea growing up, but I definitely do appreciate this album.

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

3/5

This was kinda an unremarkable album to me.

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

2/5

Not really my type of album.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

This album was so unexpected for me in a good way! I don’t recognize any of their songs on this album even though Fleetwood Mac dominated the radios for so long, and I really like that. Such range on this album. Definitely will be listening to this multiple times.

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

4/5

It’s clear this album influenced so many acts. Like on the first track I heard a ton of LCD Soundsystrm, even though I never really got into Eurythmics. Sweet Dreams still holds up and a lot of these songs are really catchy!

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

4/5

I have to bump this up due to Dan the Automator producing it. And the first two songs on here are infinitely replayable. It didn’t bump to a 5 for me though because I didn’t always enjoy the instrumental tracks and wanted more of the first two.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

This album bumped up one star for the singles that are on it which pull at your heartstrings. That said, all of the songs sounded the same to me.

Virgin Suicides

Air

2/5

I love Talkie Walkie by Air. But this album just didn’t grab me.

The Grand Tour

George Jones

3/5

This wasn’t bad! I’d give this 3.5. Not my genre of music really but there were some good songs on here

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

This is a really unique album. The question I was asking myself throughout was: has it aged well? I’m mixed on the answer. On the one hand, I really appreciate the African sounds. But on the other, if I wanted to listen to that, why not listen to an album by those artists?

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

I was never a big Nirvana fan but this was pretty good.

The Joshua Tree

U2

4/5

Reading about this album, it’s consistently rated as one of the best ever made. I can definitely see how good it is but the singles on here have been used in so many commercials it’s staggering.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

4/5

Really cool album!

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

5/5

I guess I thought I knew Sinatra before listening to this album, and went into it expecting more of that. What I got instead was a wonderfully melancholy, introspective and emotional album. Reading about this album it is considered one of the first concept albums, and I concur with that. I would love to hear this album performed in its entirety.

So

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Gave an extra star due to the Sledgehammer song. This album just wasn’t for me.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

I just love Elvis Costello’s voice and style.

Trio

Dolly Parton

3/5

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

2/5

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

3/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

Odessa

Bee Gees

4/5

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

There’s nothing I can say about this album that hasn’t been said already.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

2/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

2/5

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

3/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Another Beatles album, another 5 stars.

Odelay

Beck

4/5

Black Sabbath

4/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

She was taken too soon from us. To me, Cry Baby is the stand out on this album.

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

3/5

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

4/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

5/5

This album just doesn’t stop! One of the best live albums ever.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

2/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

5/5

This was a really unique album. A lot of different genres on it and almost every song was really catchy.

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

5/5

Wow! Never heard of this band before but I can hear future bands in their songs that I love that they certainly influenced. Standout on this album for me is Sailors Life.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Quiet Life

Japan

2/5

Paul Simon

4/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

Blood, Sweat & Tears

4/5

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

Street Life

The Crusaders

2/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

2/5

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

2/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

So many great songs on this album. Could you even call this Punk?

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

5/5

Concept album + dynamic genres across the album and some really good themes and composition means 5 stars from me!

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

2/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

3/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

2/5

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

4/5

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

3/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

2/5

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

2/5

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

One of my first albums. I really attribute it to getting me into classic rock. Love it!

2112

Rush

3/5

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

This album makes me want to learn Spanish.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

What a fun album. It’s clear this band is extremely tight.

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

3/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

3/5

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

2/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

2/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

5/5

This album doesn’t stop!

Metallica

4/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

2/5

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

4/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

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

Faces

5/5

I really enjoyed how jam-y these songs were, like Stay With Me and Memphis, Tennessee. And Rod’s voice just fits so perfectly. I almost couldn’t believe these guys were British.

Nowhere

Ride

5/5

OG Shoegaze. This is a mood.

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

2/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

4/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

2/5

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

3/5

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

2/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

5/5

I had never really heard these guys before listening to this album. I love how this seems like one cohesive piece.

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

5/5

This is a top 10, maybe even top 5, album for me. The level of compositional skill displayed is really unmatched. There’s no bad song on here for me and I could listen to this album daily and not get tired of it.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

This is so far my favorite Stones album I’ve gotten. It’s a lot less polished and I quite like that.

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

2/5

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

3/5

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

2/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

American Gothic

David Ackles

3/5

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

2/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

Close To The Edge

Yes

4/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

2/5

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

2/5

I Against I

Bad Brains

4/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

2/5

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

2/5

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

3/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

4/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

4/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

2/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

3/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

5/5

This album is timeless. The guitar riffs, the energy!

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Electric

The Cult

1/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

3/5

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

3/5

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

4/5

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

4/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

5/5

The song The Message is a classic. But I had no idea about the range on the rest of this album. It has classic hip hop club songs and also some soulful piano tracks too!

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

2/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

5/5

This was such an interesting album. I actually had never listened to a Doors album all the way through before this one. What a range of styles. It definitely deserves multiple listens.

Pelican West

Haircut 100

5/5

Another unexpected album! I’ve never heard of this band before but wow did I really enjoy the tunes on this album. Very jazz-fusion-y and the bass is absolutely killer.

Clandestino

Manu Chao

4/5

Joan Baez

3/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

3/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

#1 Record

Big Star

2/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

2/5

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

2/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

2/5

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

2/5

Scum

Napalm Death

4/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

2/5

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

3/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

Third

Portishead

4/5

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

4/5

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Bummed

Happy Mondays

2/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

What a sprawling album. You have to give it 5/5 for the effort that went into it, the impact and how diverse the music is and genres played.

McCartney

Paul McCartney

5/5

Loved the more avant-garde nature of some of the tracks.

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

5/5

Classic

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

5/5

Another classic

The College Dropout

Kanye West

3/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

2/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

3/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

4/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

5/5

Hadn’t heard this album before, but I found there’s really no bad songs on here. What a blast!

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

Rapture

Anita Baker

3/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

5/5

One of the greatest live albums ever.

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

2/5

Boston

3/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

3/5

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

3/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

Leftism

Leftfield

5/5

This is a top 25, maybe top 10 album for me. It’s so ahead of its time!

Damaged

Black Flag

4/5

Woodface

Crowded House

2/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Technique

New Order

3/5

Vulnicura

Björk

3/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

4/5

Suede

2/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Ramones

4/5

Night Life

Ray Price

2/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

5/5

What an interesting album. I especially liked the writing and the voice of the singer

Van Halen

3/5

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

3/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

3/5

Yeezus

Kanye West

3/5

Elvis Presley

4/5

Like A Prayer

Madonna

3/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

Tommy

The Who

4/5

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

4/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

2/5

Sincere

Mj Cole

3/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

4/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

This was excellent! I really liked the grooves.

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

5/5

Loved the bass on this one

Rocks

Aerosmith

3/5

xx

The xx

3/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

2/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

So many classics on this album

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

2/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Eternally Yours

The Saints

5/5

This album has non stop energy from start to finish

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

5/5

This 1001 album journey is the first time I’ve really listened to Van Morrison and I have to say, his stuff from this era is some of my favorite music of all time.

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

The Libertines

4/5

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

2/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

5/5

Apparently the first dream pop album recorded. It honestly sounds like it could have been produced in 2024. Love it!

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

3/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

4/5

New Wave

The Auteurs

3/5

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

4/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

2/5

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

4/5

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

2/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

2/5

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

3/5

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

One of my favorites. Someday makes me tear up.

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

2/5

Suzanne Vega

2/5

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

2/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

An immortal album. I love bossa nova.

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

4/5

Berlin

Lou Reed

5/5

This is the album that made me stumble upon the 1001 album book! What a powerful album.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

5/5

I see a live jazz album from the 50s, I rate 5 stars.

New York Dolls

3/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Celebrity Skin

Hole

3/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

5/5

You can hear so many modern bands that have been influenced by this album.

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

2/5

Liquid Swords

GZA

4/5

The Clash

4/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

Out of Step

Minor Threat

4/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

4/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

2/5

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

Joan Armatrading

2/5

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

I can hear so many of the weird rock bands that I like in this album.

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

3/5

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

2/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

3/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

3/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

Roots

Sepultura

4/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

2/5

Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

2/5

Femi Kuti

4/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

Pyromania

Def Leppard

3/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

Survivor

Destiny's Child

2/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

4/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

3/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

2/5

Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

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

The Kinks

4/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

The music itself is really fascinating, but after reading that he died 2 days after release, and was recorded knowing that Bowie has cancer…wow. Not many pieces of art could say to have that sort of significance.

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

4/5

Ananda Shankar

4/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

2/5

Take Me Apart

Kelela

2/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

3/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

2/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

I’m not sure if it’s my favorite Radiohead album, but it’s up there

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

2/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

4/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

Protection

Massive Attack

3/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

The Visitors

ABBA

2/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

4/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

3/5

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

3/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

3/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

I am more of a fan of 90s and early 2000s hip hop, but this one was surprisingly good. This album is cohesive and extremely well produced.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

2/5

American Pie

Don McLean

5/5

It would be a 5 for just the eponymous song. But the rest of the album I think also stands the test of time.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

2/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

5/5

I listened to the entire 2.5 hour remaster of this album, never having heard anything by them before except I Wanna Destroy You. I could hear so many artists that were inspired by them in this album and it was such a treat. Love the bass lines.

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

4/5

Risque

CHIC

3/5

Queen II

Queen

5/5

This is definitely not the Queen I know from their massive hits. And I like that.

The Rolling Stones

2/5

All I could hear when listening to this album were how many artists were ripped off in creating it.

LP1

FKA twigs

3/5

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

2/5

Gorillaz

5/5

This is one of my desert island albums.

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

3/5

Pretenders

4/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

5/5

I can see why this album is in the Library of Congress.

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

2/5

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

4/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Traffic

4/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

The Predator

Ice Cube

3/5

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

2/5

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

The Doors

5/5

Often imitated but never duplicated.

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

4/5

Blur

3/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

5/5

They don’t make music like this anymore.

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

1999

Prince

3/5

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

The Man Who

Travis

2/5

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

2/5

System Of A Down

3/5

The Score

Fugees

5/5

This is a one of a kind album. I’m not really into gangster rap, and this is one of those “anti-gangster rap” rap albums that I love.

Close To You

Carpenters

4/5

Bert Jansch

2/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

2/5

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

4/5

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

3/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

The song As Bold as Love is just one of the best.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

2/5

Headquarters

The Monkees

3/5

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

3/5

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

4/5

Violent Femmes

5/5

What a debut album. I hadn’t really given this album a listen before and was so surprised, in a good way.

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

3/5

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

4/5

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

3/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Wild Gift

X

3/5

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

3/5

Cut

The Slits

3/5

Tago Mago

Can

3/5

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

2/5

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

2/5

Truth

Jeff Beck

4/5

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

2/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

3/5

Opus Dei

Laibach

3/5

White Ladder

David Gray

2/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

3/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

4/5

Achtung Baby

U2

3/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

1/5

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

4/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

The La's

2/5

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

Arrested Development

3/5

Elastica

4/5

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

2/5

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

2/5

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

5/5

Where has this been all my life! What an enjoyable experience, especially the latter half. Atmospheric, emotional, catchy.

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

4/5

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

2/5

1977

Ash

3/5

Iron Maiden

4/5

Permission to Land

The Darkness

4/5

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

2/5

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

3/5

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

3/5

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

3/5

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

3/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

3/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

5/5

Another easy 5 for me. This album itself is cohesive and touches on so many different topics.

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

2/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

4/5

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

3/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

So many classics. Love Credence.

Face to Face

The Kinks

2/5

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

5/5

I see Brazilian jazz, I rate 5 stars.

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

3/5

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

3/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

Repeater

Fugazi

3/5

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

New Forms

Roni Size

3/5

Harvest

Neil Young

2/5

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

3/5

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

An all time classic. Her cover of the Sam Cooke song was the best way to end this album.

Whatever

Aimee Mann

3/5

The Last Broadcast

Doves

2/5

Diet Coldplay, and I don’t even like Coldplay.

The Undertones

4/5

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

4/5

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

4/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

Nixon

Lambchop

2/5

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

4/5

The Who Sell Out

The Who

3/5

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

2/5

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

3/5

The Coral

3/5

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

4/5

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

2/5

Scott 4

Scott Walker

4/5

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

3/5

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

3/5

Soul Mining

The The

5/5

I can hear so many influenced artists in this album. Love the post punk and electronic expression.

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

2/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

3/5

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

4/5

Os Mutantes

4/5

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

4/5

Dog Man Star

Suede

2/5

Kenya

Machito

5/5

I just love jazz that has Latin influences.

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

3/5

Tical

Method Man

3/5

Faust IV

Faust

2/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

2/5

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

2/5

Movies

Holger Czukay

3/5

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

3/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

4/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

4/5

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

3/5

Roxy Music

3/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Being There

Wilco

5/5

Wow. How have I missed this album all my life. It’s soulful, angry, bitter and full of love and care. This is now on my list of desert island albums.

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

2/5

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

4/5

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

2/5

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

4/5

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

3/5

Let It Be

The Replacements

4/5

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

4/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

3/5

World Clique

Deee-Lite

3/5

Konnichiwa

Skepta

2/5

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

4/5

Ray Of Light

Madonna

2/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

5/5

The 90s were a fantastic time.

Faith

George Michael

2/5

Black Metal

Venom

3/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

2/5

Dirty

Sonic Youth

4/5

Chris

Christine and the Queens

2/5

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

3/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

5/5

What a fun one. It’s clear they were influenced by many different genres. And I love me a big band.

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

The Stone Roses

3/5

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

3/5

Garbage

2/5

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

2/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

Bring it on home makes this a 5/5, the rest is just gravy. Love the energy of this album.

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

2/5

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

2/5

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

3/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

I think the best Sabbath album, and it couldn’t come at a more fitting time. RIP

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

3/5

Dire Straits

5/5

Before listening to this album, all I knew from it was sultans of swing. It’s such a well crafted album, and a stand out to me is water of love.

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

3/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

4/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

3/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

3/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

5 stars purely for the duo of Someone Great and All My Friends, but North American Scum and New York I Love You have probably been some of my most played songs since this album came out.

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

3/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

3/5

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

1/5

Apple Music says this is post punk??

Spiderland

Slint

5/5

This album is a force. The closing track especially.

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

2/5

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

4/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

2/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

3/5

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

1/5

I normally finish albums on this list. This one I just couldn’t. I’ve only had a handful of late 60/early 70s folk albums from this list and I fall asleep through the best of them.

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

5/5

This album blew me away. No wonder it’s inducted into the library of congress. And when you learn more about what went into the creation of this album you appreciate it more. If someone can listen to this and not let out a Woo or Yee Haw after some of these songs, I don’t want to be friends with them.

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

2/5

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

1/5

After listening to the first track I thought this would be good. It wasn’t.

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

3/5

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

4/5

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

David Bowie

4/5

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

4/5

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

Gold

Ryan Adams

2/5

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

4/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

What a fantastic composition. I don’t think I liked smashing pumpkins when I was younger as much, but I really feel this album has aged well.

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

4/5

Ys

Joanna Newsom

3/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

3/5

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

5/5

Green eyes pushed this one to a 5 for me.

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

3/5

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

3/5

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

4/5

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

4/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

4/5

Viva Hate

Morrissey

3/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

Vivid

Living Colour

1/5

This album starts off with Cult of Personality, which sucks, and then just continues to suck.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

3/5

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

2/5

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

3/5

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

2/5

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

3/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

2/5

Other than take me on, this album is pretty forgettable.

Low

David Bowie

3/5

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

2/5

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

2/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Dust

Screaming Trees

5/5

This album hits many of the notes I really enjoy in albums: multiple genres, occasionally in the same song, vocal harmonies, psychedelic guitar solos, thoughtful lyrics. Maybe I haven’t been exposed to much Grunge music but if this is how a lot of those albums sound I wouldn’t be complaining.

En-Tact

The Shamen

2/5

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5