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Album	You	Global	Diff
Queen Of Denmark John Grant	5	3.14	+1.86
Rum Sodomy & The Lash The Pogues	5	3.25	+1.75
British Steel Judas Priest	5	3.3	+1.7
Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk	5	3.33	+1.67
She's So Unusual Cyndi Lauper	5	3.48	+1.52
The Clash The Clash	5	3.54	+1.46
Here's Little Richard Little Richard	5	3.57	+1.43
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	5	3.58	+1.42
Illmatic Nas	5	3.61	+1.39
Aladdin Sane David Bowie	5	3.61	+1.39

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Ten Pearl Jam	1	3.92	-2.92
Crosby, Stills & Nash Crosby, Stills & Nash	1	3.49	-2.49
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	1	3.47	-2.47
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden	1	3.41	-2.41
The Notorious Byrd Brothers The Byrds	1	3.04	-2.04
The Doors The Doors	2	3.95	-1.95
Histoire De Melody Nelson Serge Gainsbourg	1	2.75	-1.75
Pearl Janis Joplin	2	3.73	-1.73
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young & Crazy Horse	2	3.55	-1.55
So Peter Gabriel	2	3.55	-1.55

5-Star Albums (14)

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Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

1/5

Fuck this ode to pedophilia.

12 likes

Being There

Wilco

2/5

Way too long, way too boring.

11 likes

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

I started this project focused on listening every single album, even the ones I really despise. But I had no idea there was this specific kind of disgusting shit on this list. Fuck Limp Bizkit, Fred Durst and everything related to this unholy piece of crap, I'm not wasting one hour of my life on this. This one should be top 3 on 1001 Albums You Shouldn't Hear Before You Die. Fuck it. I wish I could rate it -5, or at least 0.

3 likes

So Much For The City

The Thrills

2/5

Why is this album even here? Generic indie pop with zero impact on anything, ffs. I guess they thought "hey, 1001 is a cool number", chose the few hundred that are really worth and then started to randomly fill the gaps. It is the only explanation I can think of that justifies this kind of music being present here.

1 likes

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

2/5

I was on a streak of boring, medíocre albums, and this one made me miss them.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (8)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

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Illmatic

Nas

5/5

The Doors

2/5

Never cared about The Doors. Almots 40 years old and it was probably my first time sitting throught this whole album. Still couldn't care less about The Doors.

Bossanova

Pixies

2/5

Three albums in, two "I really don't care about this band" albums in a row. This one started with a couple of solid songs, but halfway in I was fully reminded of why I don't listen to The Pixies.

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

2/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

4/5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

1/5

Nothing personal, but I can't stand this kind of flaccid 60s rock. Every single one of these albums to come, and I know there's a lot, will be a drag :(

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

3/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

5/5

Now this is an album you MUST hear before you die. Every single song is fantastic, but 'Time After Time' is one of the best of the entire decade.

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

3/5

I really like this album, grew up listening to The Adverts, but it makes zero sense that this is on a "must hear" list. Maybe a '70s UK punk albums you must hear before you die' would be OK, but still debatable. A good punk record and that's it (but it's still way better rhan the generic 60s stuff)

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

4/5

British Steel

Judas Priest

5/5

I'm not that into metal in general, and talking specifically about this kind of classic heavy metal, Judas Priest is probably the only band I would rather listen to a full record instead of going to the dentist. But man, this one is SO GOOD.

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Being There

Wilco

2/5

Way too long, way too boring.

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

3/5

Never heard of this guys and it was actually pretty boring, but the second half of thr album became really nice. 'Death of an Heir of Sorrows' hit too close to home.

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

1/5

I wanna rate it 0. Fuck this piece of crap of a band.

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

3/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

5/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

The Clash

5/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

The xx

4/5

Play

Moby

3/5

A few records can last more than 1 hour and still feel fresh at the end. This was not one of them. Could've been great if like 1/3 of generic stuff was cut.

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

3/5

It's the same song over and over. At least it's a fun song.

Killing Joke

3/5

It's okay, but I would rather read the graphic novel.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

4/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

2/5

The Cars

3/5

Ingenue

k.d. lang

4/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

3/5

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

2/5

A rather boring kind of background music

Ten

Pearl Jam

1/5

Grunge was a mistake

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

Fragile

Yes

4/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

2/5

Dust

Screaming Trees

3/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

5/5

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

4/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

2/5

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

2/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Not as good as Folsom but still damn good.

Pretenders

4/5

Peter Gabriel

3/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

2/5

The only reason I won't rate it 1 is because I used to like it in my teens. Technically it's still impressive, but goddamn these lyrics are embarassing.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

4/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

4/5

Feast of Wire

Calexico

3/5

Out of Step

Minor Threat

2/5

There's probably a handful of really good, non-derivative US hardcore bands and Minor Threat is not one of them

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

Some 20 years ago, I went to a festival headlined by NIN. I couldn't care less about NIN, went there to see The Stooges. The show started quite late, no more trains or any other way to get home, I was drunk and tired, so I just layed down and slept through NIN entire set. Well, almost the entire set, I remember waking up and things were noisy and there were lasers and shit going on, so I just got up and left. Fast forward to today, I see this is my next album and think "well, it's gonna be boring". And it wasn't. Young me was utterly stupid and should've watched that damn show when he had the chance.

Faith

George Michael

4/5

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

2/5

I can see why this album is on the list, and I'm glad that it is since it looks like Asian music is almost nonexistent here. Unfortunately it's also really, really boring. I could listen to Mr. Shankar lessons about Indian music all day, they're actually interesting even if I don't actually understand it, but I could live the rest of my years without listening to another 50-minute sitar solo.

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

3/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Another user wrote that this album sounds like a Fifa soundtrack and to me that was the perfect description. Perfectly fine as background music, some songs were even enjoyable, but everything is soulless.

So Much For The City

The Thrills

2/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

4/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

Adele

2/5

She's clearly talented, but damn that was bland.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Leftism

Leftfield

2/5

There's some interesting bits here and there, a few dub infused tracks that I kinda like bit everything is waaaay toooo loooong and in the end it's just generic. I could definitely make through life without ever knowing that this existed.

Live!

Fela Kuti

2/5

I do like some of Fela's work, but this one is so not my thing. I was going to give it 3 stars because everything and everyone on this record is actually good, I just don't don't care about it, but the 15+ minutes drum solo at the end, for fuck sake.

Iron Maiden

1/5

I was expecting to be bored and that was exactly what I got. What a piece of crap

Debut

Björk

2/5

Björk to me is like Donnie Darko. When I first found it as a teen I thought it was the coolest thing ever, and then each time I listened/watched it again through the years I realized it just seemed so incredible at first because I was 16 and I didn't know better.

Fleet Foxes

2/5

I stopped paying attention after, I don't know, 3 songs? At least it wasn't as long as some other dull shit this project threw at me this week.

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

3/5

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

2/5

It was mediocre, but I'm bitter because I'm on a stretch of mediocre albums and I don't like bands that write their names with characters I don't even know how to type.

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

3/5

Mixed feelings about this one. I was invested enough in the stories Mr. Tom Waits was telling me, not so much on the music. An okay record I'll probably never listen to again but at least it was better than my current dull streak.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

2/5

There was absolutely no need to hear this before I die

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

2/5

I was on a streak of boring, medíocre albums, and this one made me miss them.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

2/5

It seems like every song was a little longer than the one that came before, culminating in someone playing something that sounds like a cat being tortured.

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

2/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

3/5

I was never really into heavy metal or its endless subgenres, but always liked Motörhead. It's been a few years since I last listened to this album, and maybe I don't like it so much anymore... Or maybe I should just keep listening to the music without paying attention to the lyrics, which was clearly a mistake I made during this listening.

Garbage

4/5

2 or 3 songs shorter and it would be a no-brainer 5 to me. Amazing album, but it drags a bit on the second half.

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

4/5

The Slider

T. Rex

3/5

Mystical dad rock

Aja

Steely Dan

3/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Low

David Bowie

3/5

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

4/5

What a nice surprise to find Mr. Roky Erickson on this list.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Lost Souls

Doves

2/5

I was thankful for having a couple of days without having to endure some britpop bullshit on this list, and then came these guys.

The Poet

Bobby Womack

4/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Definitely not my favorite era of the Stones. It's solid, but overstays its welcome.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

4/5

This is a weird one to rate. I love The Who but never really got into this album, it sounds out of place compared to any other of their recordings, and still I found it really fun this time. Maybe I listened to it in a good mood? Well, I guess this is one I'll be revisiting soon to check, but it's just fair to keep on rating the albums based on the most recent listening, as I've been doing with every single other. You get a pass for now, Sell Out.

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

1/5

Fuck this ode to pedophilia.

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

1/5

It might be the worst record I've ever listened to. Hated every second.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Let It Be

The Replacements

3/5

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

I think you absolutely need to have a bit of nostalgia to enjoy this record. As important and groundbreaking as it is, hip hop music came a long way since then.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

This era of hip hop is so damn good

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Objectively, I don't think I consider this one a 5. Maybe somewhere between a 4 and a 4.5? But then 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' rolls in and I hear the choir and, boy, it's a 5.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

5/5

Every single time I listen to a Monk album I get the feeling that "this is my favorite Monk album". Right now, this is my favorite Monk album.

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

5/5

Man, I just love The Pogues

Peter Gabriel

2/5

Born To Be With You

Dion

2/5

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

5/5

I've never heard of this guy before and this album blew my mind. I feel like I'm gonna be listening to Mr. Grant for a while from now on. But I have to say that this album ends with 'Queen of Denmark'. The last four songs on the Spotify version are from a limited edition and they are actually good, but they ABSOLUTELY don't belong here, whereas the aforementioned 'Queen of Denmark' is the perfect ending for the record.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

Well, I remember this one being a big deal at the time. The thing is, young ones, back then our options to listening to a record were a bit scarce. You could buy it or borrow it from someone. I listened to the ones that were on the radio and, although they didn't bother me, I was also not really thrilled to go after the album and see why there was such a hype around it. And now, almost 30 years later, here I am, listening to the whole thing for the first time ever. And boy, it's dated as fuck. But it's also quite good! Her voice is powerful, most of the lyrics are great and it reeks as mid-90s, which is a basilar part of it being dated, but also checks my nostalgia boxes perfectly. I'm glad I finally got to hear it. =)

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

3/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

2/5

Hms Fable

Shack

2/5

I finished listening to this a couple minutes ago and already can't remember shit of this generic piece of crap.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

1/5