My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Feast of Wire Calexico	5	3.29	+1.71
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs Marty Robbins	5	3.33	+1.67
The Band The Band	5	3.36	+1.64
Rock 'N Soul Solomon Burke	5	3.37	+1.63
Doggystyle Snoop Dogg	5	3.37	+1.63
2112 Rush	5	3.39	+1.61
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	5	3.39	+1.61
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	5	3.41	+1.59
Crime Of The Century Supertramp	5	3.41	+1.59
Aqualung Jethro Tull	5	3.44	+1.56

Album	You	Global	Diff
21 Adele	1	3.69	-2.69
Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan	1	3.68	-2.68
Moon Safari Air	1	3.58	-2.58
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	1	3.38	-2.38
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	1	3.34	-2.34
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	1	3.32	-2.32
Little Earthquakes Tori Amos	1	3.23	-2.23
The Boatman's Call Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1	3.2	-2.2
Screamadelica Primal Scream	1	3.17	-2.17
White Ladder David Gray	1	3.07	-2.07

Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	7	4.71
Black Sabbath	3	4.67
The Clash	2	5
Van Halen	2	5
Pink Floyd	2	5
Johnny Cash	2	5
Michael Jackson	2	5
Jimi Hendrix	2	5
The Doors	3	4.33

Artist	Albums	Average
Tom Waits	2	1
Primal Scream	2	1
Leonard Cohen	2	1
Tim Buckley	2	1
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	3	1.67
Bruce Springsteen	3	1.67
Brian Eno	2	1.5
Bob Dylan	3	2

Artist	Ratings
Air	4, 1
The Velvet Underground	1, 4, 3
Radiohead	2, 5, 3
Metallica	5, 2, 4

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

The Doors

4/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

2/5

I can appreciate it for musicianship, but it's just not my thing

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

Honestly, not White Stripes best work. A lot of filler and songs with the same chord progressions.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

I can hear the inspiration for a lot of rock and roll, but my god the harmonica guy needs to relax.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

1/5

Just can't stand his vocals.

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

4/5

I love The Stranglers, like mix between Frank Zappa, Deep Purple and The Misfits

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

Banger after banger.

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

2/5

Meh

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

1/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

4/5

Wrote this one off as a teenage punk rocker. The drums were always a bit pedestrian, but the song writing is undeniably great.

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

4/5

Instant classic hardcore punk rock

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

2/5

Interesting that you can hear the cultural "roots" of Carribean music in this one, but it's not for me

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

2/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

I don't care if "yacht rock" gets a bad wrap. This is awesome.

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

New York Dolls

3/5

One of the better 'proto-punk' albums out there

21

Adele

1/5

Good vocals, song writing is ok, but also super whinny. It's just so boring

Tago Mago

Can

2/5

Some bangers, but also a lot of psychedelic noise jamming.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

As jazz goes, it's one of the better ones.

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

3/5

It's ok. Bit of a confused sound. Like they don't know if they want to be Brit-pop or psychedelic rock.

The Stone Roses

3/5

Achtung Baby

U2

2/5

I think U2 popularity is due to them being very 'unabrassive' or different. Kind of a lowest common denominator thing. Sounds like something a white middle-class Dad would listen to to make himself feel 'hip' and 'with it'.

Permission to Land

The Darkness

3/5

This album rocks way more than I remember.

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

3/5

You can definitely hear the Arctic Monkeys, but also Alex Turner coming off a bit pompous as always.

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

3/5

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

1/5

I don't give many ones but good Lord....

The Cars

5/5

Banger after banger. Pretty much every song is a hit. Instant classic.

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

4/5

I mean, this is one of those albums that got me into punk and hugely influenced by political pov growing up in the post 9/11, "War on Terrorism" era. For a 15 song punk rock album, the songs show a pretty incredible variety.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Yeeeeeaa boiii. Classic

Let It Be

The Replacements

3/5

Surprised I've never heard of these guys. Pleasantly surprised with the post-punk sound.

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

I love The Beatles, but this definitely isn't their best work. A ton of bangers, but then a lot of songs that would have been better left on the cutting floor or in some 'extended cuts' album after they broke up.

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

1/5

Snoozefest 2023

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

3/5

It's definitely a unique blend of rockabilly, punk, blues and surf rock, but it does get a bit tiring after a while.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

Homework

Daft Punk

3/5

The album itself is pretty mediocre, but through all these samples and riffs, you can see the embryo of something great.

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

3/5

Pretty solid psychedelic rock

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Very, very, very good. Zeppelin 2 is kind of where they came into their own and away from a blues rock cover band. This just further refining that sound.

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

4/5

I think this kid is gonna go places. His schtick is a little too silly, but the darkness in his lyrics may go places. Perhaps if his next album was a bit more raw, dark and from the heart and had less of the silly rhymes and sound effects, he might find himself a true Rap God.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

2/5

Pretty good jammy, blues/jazz. It just always loses me eventually. This one failed around Messy Bessie.

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

2/5

Prog-rock that's a little too prog

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

5/5

Walk This Way is such a huge song for HipHop and Rock. Run DMC just has such a polished sound and as much as they rely heavily on turntables and drum machines, they also leverage a lot of traditional drums and guitar throughout the record. Legendary status.

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

Still not in my favourite punk albums, but there's no denying this is a ground breaking sound. We went from I Can See For Miles and Strawberry Fields to this in ten years which is absolutely WILD!

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

2/5

Kind of like an album of B sides. Nothing really spectacular, but also nothing absolutely terrible.

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

This album was one that changed my musical projection in life. First thing that made me realize that Punk-Rock doesn't just have to be 4 chords, 1-2 beat and yelling.

Repeater

Fugazi

3/5

What a hidden gem, though I'm surprised 1001 didn't opt for one of their more commercially successful albums.

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

1/5

Not sure how this is labelled as "ground breaking post punk". Sounds like Johnny Rotten to do a Yoko Ono cover band.

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

3/5

But of a confused sound, kind of all over the place. But still a fun listen!

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

3/5

I mean, wow. I thought I was gonna hate this album after the first 30 seconds, but it is so chill. Great cooking music.

School's Out

Alice Cooper

3/5

Some bangers, but overall nothing too mind blowing

Pyromania

Def Leppard

4/5

Did I just become a fan of Def Leppard!? "Is anybody out therrrre!! Anybody therrrre!!"

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

Pleasantly surprised. Never thought I would be very into a "pop/soul" album, but the song writing is top notch.

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

2/5

Growing up, I had heard of Grime, but never really listened to it. This style is definitely out there, heavy and "grimy", but I don't think I could listen to more than 30 minutes of it.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

Pretty cool. Noticed that there was a brief melody in "Stem" (used elsewhere in the album) that was sample by Canadian rap group "Swollen Members on their track Fuel Injected.

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

2/5

I don't really hear anything super ground breaking. It just sounds like a run of the mill 90's hip-hop/R&B album. Nothing really jumped out as really good, but also nothing terrible either.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Nothing spectacular, but nothing horrible. I do love me some yacht rock though. Rikki Don't Lose That Number is such a good mix of rock and smooth jazz.

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

1/5

Movin on Up and Loaded both simultaneously sound like Freedom '90 by Micheal Bolton. Bolton came out a year before this, so not saying stolen, but come on. If that's the "best" or what people listen to this album for, it doesn't bode well for the remainder which in my opinion blows.

Future Days

Can

2/5

I like psychedelic rock, but this is too psychedelic. Just kind of sounds like the band members playing different tunes, as if in sound check before a show while the drum attempts to keep a rhythm in all the chaos. Not for me.

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Great album, but my one gripe with TWS (and this is probably just Jack's writing) is that they will take the same chord progression and re-use it on 3 or 4 tracks. A little bit of creativity to write different songs with the same music, but ultimately they aren't different enough. Better than Get Behind Me Satan, but still no White Blood Cells.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5

Don't even need to listen to it because I listen to this masterpiece every week or so. An instant classic, legendary style and flow, Bobby Digital with some grimy innovative production. Something that had never been seen before.

Joan Baez

1/5

I just can't stand the over vibrato in her voice

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

the vocals are great, the instrumentation is pretty solid as well, if not a little pedestrian. Can't help just feel this air of coffee house slam poetry which I hate.

Rocks

Aerosmith

3/5

Aerosmith's last great album before falling into relative obscurity until Run DMC pulled them out of the ashes in '86.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

5/5

While not Ye's best work, it is up there. Definitely a classic for the Millenials.

Fleet Foxes

3/5

Would be a good album to put on for an early morning walk through a trail on the river's edge.

Born To Be With You

Dion

1/5

Hate to say it, but Dion should have just stuck with his doo-op, greaser rock songs. This is like a worse version of Van Morrison.

Odessa

Bee Gees

2/5

I gotta be honest, I had no idea Bee Gees did anything non-disco and let's just say thank god they found disco. This is like a bad mix of The Who and The Beatles.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

2/5

I love the Allman Brothers, but boy do I hate rambling jam bands. And I get it, even their studio albums get a little "jammy", but god damn I need some structure through 60 minutes of music.

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

3/5

I love it, but 47 minutes of this is a bit much. The mandolin in country is such an interesting sound. Mixing that classic Irish Gaelic sound with American country for reason sounds perfectly Appalachian.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

3/5

I don't get the hype

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

Not trying to take anything away from Courtney's musician ability, but there's no denying Kurt's influence on Courtney's song writing. This and Celebrity Skin are SOO much better than Pretty on the Inside.

Dust

Screaming Trees

2/5

King of bland. Not overwhelming or underwhelming, just whelmed. Definitely sounds like they are were trying to be in that 90's PNW grunge sound with a little Janes Addiction in there. But ultimately it feels like it's lacking a soul or something to make it special.

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

2/5

Just boring. Nothing of any substance other a few tracks I could see being sample by rappers. More like Elevator Classics than Club Classics.

2112

Rush

5/5

It's a masterpiece that is not for everyone. People often complain about the "tuning" at the 7 minute mark, but I see that more as a little sound break by a literal stream after being punched in the face with "Overature" and "Temples of Syrinx". The "tuning" then turns into a calming meditative song that builds until we are taken on another rollercoaster of rock. One of the first vinyl records I bought and it's still one of my favourites.

Close To The Edge

Yes

4/5

I'm always blown away by the keyboards and bass of YES.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

I was always a Bon Scott man. Brian Johnson era AC/DC is great, but they lost a bit of that heavy, almost thrash metal, grit after Bon Scott. This is up there as AC/DC's best, short of High Voltage and Dirty Deeds.

Gold

Ryan Adams

2/5

Yawn. Boring middle of the road folk-rock.

Street Signs

Ozomatli

3/5

Pleasantly surprised. Love the latin rock and in your face salsa vibes. Reminds me of Cat Empire here and there.

Whatever

Aimee Mann

1/5

Every once in a while I come across an album on here where it feels like it's just a personal favourite of the author. This is some very boring, middle of the road, white bread music. Something nonabrasive my mother would have listened to.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

5/5

As much as this is firmly Psychedelic Rock, you can hear the foundations for the whole Metal genre with songs like Sunshine of Your Love and World of Pain. An instant classic and hugely influential in the Rock world.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

First time I've listened to T Rex past Bang a Gong and 20th Century Boy. Pleasantly surprised at how easy this album is to listen to. A mix of chill, psachadelic tunes with the occasional fusion of funk. Almost like a more striped down David Bowie.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

3/5

I never fully appreciated Sonic Youth, but they definitely left an impression. They sound like the bridge from post-punk/new wave of the 80's to the Grunge era of Alt Rock.

Arise

Sepultura

4/5

I'm not a Metal connoisseur, but I do appreciate it every once in a while. While I've never heard of Sepultura, I do have a new favourite metal band. Their lyrics are a little cheesy and uninspired, but I'm going to chalk that up to a band whose first language isn't English writing lyrics in English.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

5/5

Really isn't much bad to say about this album. It's hard, it's raw, the production is top notch. I hope someone still has the FBI warning letter they got.

Dire Straits

4/5

So groovy, but super chill at the same time

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

I'll be honest, I kind of wrote this album off as I saw it as a sell out record of such. All of a sudden the band I loved because they had such a raw stripped down sound, was the overproduced pop band. No longer did they stick to one guitar, one drum set like they did in past records, but used session musicians to offer a fuller sound!? Gross. Now revisiting it, I don't know why I had such a negative view of this album (and El Camino). The music is still fantastic, even though it has a *gasp* bass guitar. They were definitely at the forefront of this stoner rock, blues, psychedelic revival we see these days.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

I'll be honest, I'm not a huge fan of this one. There are some fantastic songs (Shadowplay, Disorder, Interzone), but there is a lot of dud/fillers.

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

3/5

Pick a lane guys. It's not bad, but not great either. And a 1 hour album to boot. What is with the author of this book just randomly adding these obscure 90s rock-ish waffles of albums to the 1001 book?

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

3/5

it's ok. Definitely not Iggy's best work. Weird how Bowie took inspiration from Iggy, but then this album is very obviously inspired by Bowie.

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

3/5

it's ok. Good for a chill rainy day. I personally love the cover of Ironman.

Tommy

The Who

3/5

World Clique

Deee-Lite

2/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Queens of the Stone Age

4/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

3/5

Trio

Dolly Parton

4/5

Stephen Stills

3/5

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Scum

Napalm Death

2/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

2/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

The Only Ones

3/5

Sister

Sonic Youth

3/5

Lost Souls

Doves

4/5

1999

Prince

2/5

The Stooges

4/5

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

2/5

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

2/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

5/5

I'm more of a Bon Scott AC/DC guy, but this album still rules. Banger after banger.

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

2/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

The Band

5/5

System Of A Down

3/5

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

I get why it's a big deal and the music is cool and complex, but it also all sounds sooo similar and just not my thing.

Van Halen

5/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

3/5

Tracy Chapman

3/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

5/5

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

2/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

4/5

Timeless

Goldie

2/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Would be a 3 ⭐️, but it gets an "influential" bump. Lyrics are lazy and get tiring after an hour of listening.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

5/5

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

3/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Le Tigre

2/5

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

3/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

2/5

Ananda Shankar

2/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

1/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

5/5

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

1/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

4/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

3/5

Risque

CHIC

4/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

2/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

2/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

1/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

2/5

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

4/5

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

2/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

4/5

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

1/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

3/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

5/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

3/5

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

2/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

3/5

GREY Area

Little Simz

4/5

Black Sabbath

5/5

LP1

FKA twigs

3/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

3/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

No Other

Gene Clark

2/5

Feast of Wire

Calexico

5/5

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

2/5

The Clash

5/5

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

4/5

Tapestry

Carole King

2/5

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

4/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

5/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

2/5

4 guys got on stage and just played their own shit for half an hour. If anxiety had a musical sound, it would be this. I'll give it a 1 star bump because of the technical musicianship of the band members and the undeniable influence he had.

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

1/5

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

Gris Gris

Dr. John

4/5

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

5/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

3/5

Dummy

Portishead

3/5

Violent Femmes

5/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Close To You

Carpenters

2/5

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

1/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

3/5

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

4/5

Mask

Bauhaus

2/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

2/5

Celebrity Skin

Hole

4/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Slayed?

Slade

3/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

2/5

Debut

Björk

2/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

4/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

5/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

2/5

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

4/5

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

1/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

Kala

M.I.A.

3/5

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

3/5

War

U2

3/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

1/5

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

4/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Some really iconic writing, but then 2/3s feels like B side filler.

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

2/5

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

2/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

5/5

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

1/5

I made it a whopping 5:02 into this album before I pulled the plug

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

2/5

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Chris

Christine and the Queens

1/5

Opus Dei

Laibach

2/5

"Honey, we have Rammstein at home".... Rammstein at home:

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

Beautiful Freak

Eels

4/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

2/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

3/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

3/5

Virgin Suicides

Air

4/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

2/5

Slight "influential bump" to 2 stars, but my god do I not get Bob Dylan.

Low-Life

New Order

4/5

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

3/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

4/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

5/5

Eternally Yours

The Saints

3/5

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

2/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

3/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Infected

The The

3/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

5/5

Moon Safari

Air

1/5

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

4/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

3/5

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

4/5

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

1/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

1/5

Bruce is a 2 star at the best of times. I just don't get the formulaic, Americana of it all. It's like Taylor Swift for 40+ white men. But now make it ONLY acoustic. Yea, nah. America can keep it.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

Fred Neil

3/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

1/5

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

3/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

4/5

Da Capo

Love

3/5

I was ready to shit on this, calling it like a parody of the likes of The Zombies...then I realized it was released in 1966. In the timeline of Psychedelic Rock, that's pretty early. Also "Seven and Seven Is" had some MC5 vibes long before they had made their mark.

xx

The xx

4/5

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Shout out to their cover of "Werewolves in London"....oh wait, it appears to be their own song with the lyric "they all sounded the same". Oh, the irony.

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

4/5

1984

Van Halen

5/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

2/5

So Much For The City

The Thrills

2/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Sulk

The Associates

1/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

3/5

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

2/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

5/5

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

1/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

3/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Smile

Brian Wilson

3/5

Viva Hate

Morrissey

4/5

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

3/5

Queen II

Queen

4/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

2/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

2/5

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

3/5

One World

John Martyn

1/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

1/5

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

2/5

American Pie

Don McLean

3/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

The Poet

Bobby Womack

4/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

3/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

2/5

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

Paul Simon

3/5

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

4/5

Cypress Hill

4/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Make Yourself

Incubus

4/5

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

4/5

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

3/5

S&M

Metallica

2/5

I was really excited to hear a side of Metallica I never have. My god, what a confusing mess. This might prove that it is possible to have too much instrumentation in music.

Blur

3/5

White Ladder

David Gray

1/5

Truth

Jeff Beck

4/5

The Who Sell Out

The Who

4/5

Dig Me Out