My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Phaedra Tangerine Dream	5	2.74	+2.26
Oedipus Schmoedipus Barry Adamson	4	2.79	+1.21

Album	You	Global	Diff
Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.	1	3.51	-2.51
Frank Amy Winehouse	1	3.45	-2.45
A Love Supreme John Coltrane	2	3.63	-1.63
Third Soft Machine	1	2.44	-1.44
Beautiful Freak Eels	2	3.27	-1.27
S&M Metallica	2	3.26	-1.26
Femi Kuti Femi Kuti	2	3.25	-1.25
Clandestino Manu Chao	2	3.22	-1.22
Make Yourself Incubus	2	3.08	-1.08

Arcade Fire

3/5

The production for this project is beautifully dense and clean. The musicianship is also well-presented. The songwriting is great but needs more idiosyncratic moments at times. The cohesiveness of this project is a double-edged sword because it produces a body of work rather than a collection of tracks, but sadly they end up blending into one another too much overall. Score: 72/100

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Dire Straits

4/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

3/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

3/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

5/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

3/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Femi Kuti

2/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

4/5

Clandestino

Manu Chao

2/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

4/5

Sound Affects

The Jam

3/5

Beautiful Freak

Eels

2/5

Enjoyable but relatively innocuous overall. There are a couple of cuts with replay value here, but it's not worth the time of a complete listen in the near future. Only a little sells itself, so I struggle to understand its inclusion on this list. Score: 52/100

S&M

Metallica

2/5

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

2/5

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Make Yourself

Incubus

2/5

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

3/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

1/5

A laborious record overall. The production is clean, dense and has just about all the qualities needed to make an \"easy listening\" album. However, the core problem is that it is difficult to get through because of the whingy, cursive, and nasal vocal performances. The project length also does not help matters because there is not enough lyrical variety to warrant an hour's runtime. The songs end up blurring into one monotonous moan. Score: 29/100

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

1/5

Hated it. 11/100

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

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

Enjoyable. Repetitive in places. Alex Turner's vocals are grating at times. Overall, it was a fine slice of fun! 69/100

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

2/5

On the one hand, I can appreciate the musicianship, but on the other hand, there is so much going on musically that it is difficult to find a thread to grip you. Like many pure jazz records, it's too technical for its own good. It's just a series of experiments thrown together. That's all good if that floats one's boat, but unfortunately, it doesn't float mine.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

Brilliant LP.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Third

Soft Machine