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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
We're Only In It For The Money The Mothers Of Invention	5	2.47	+2.53
Live At The Witch Trials The Fall	5	2.64	+2.36
Shalimar Rahul Dev Burman	5	2.65	+2.35
The Infotainment Scan The Fall	5	2.72	+2.28
Among The Living Anthrax	5	2.85	+2.15
Damaged Black Flag	5	2.87	+2.13
The Only Ones The Only Ones	5	2.92	+2.08
Bug Dinosaur Jr.	5	2.92	+2.08
I Against I Bad Brains	5	2.93	+2.07
The Last Of The True Believers Nanci Griffith	5	2.96	+2.04

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	1	3.39	-2.39
Eliminator ZZ Top	1	3.38	-2.38
Protection Massive Attack	1	3.25	-2.25
Dig Your Own Hole The Chemical Brothers	1	3.11	-2.11
Electric The Cult	1	3.02	-2.02
Picture Book Simply Red	1	2.88	-1.88
Life Thru A Lens Robbie Williams	1	2.73	-1.73
Slipknot Slipknot	1	2.67	-1.67
Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche Koffi Olomide	1	2.61	-1.61
Hotel California Eagles	2	3.6	-1.6

Artists

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Artist	Albums	Average
Bob Dylan	4	5
David Bowie	5	4.4
Beatles	3	4.67
Led Zeppelin	3	4.67
The Smiths	2	5
R.E.M.	2	5
PJ Harvey	2	5
Neil Young	2	5
The Fall	2	5
Dinosaur Jr.	2	5
Funkadelic	2	5
The Clash	2	5
The Who	4	4.25
Jimi Hendrix	3	4.33
Leonard Cohen	3	4.33

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Metallica	2, 5, 4, 3

5-Star Albums (97)

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Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

2/5

Pixies obviously ripped off the third track on this (Lucretia My Reflection AKA a Pretentious Erection) for their Doolittle track Tame. I could picture the singer singing these songs in his bedroom wearing a cape while mashing the drum machine buttons. Turning around and hissing when he hears his parents calling him down for dinner. Baby, when I tell you I hated this one ya gotta believe me.

8 likes

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

5/5

As a member of the league of bald headed men I can’t give this any lower than a 5.

3 likes

Future Days

Can

5/5

Moonshake is the kind of song that, if you’re listening on headphones and aren’t careful, you will find yourself dancing without abandon to in public. It will be hard to find an album with more invigorating drumming on this list.

2 likes

The Only Ones

5/5

One of the charms of this endeavor is to have never heard of an artist or record and to find something new to love. More often than not, out of 1001 albums, the discoveries tend to be of new things to hate. This is not one of those days.

2 likes

S&M

Metallica

2/5

They say that if you hit play at the right moment, this album syncs up perfectly with watching dog piss dry on cold cement. I am 10 albums behind because it took me seven days to listen to these two hours.

2 likes

1-Star Albums (11)

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Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

4/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

2/5

No/Thanks

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

2/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

5/5

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

3/5

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

2/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

5/5

One of the most important albums in my life. The Whistling Song is my song until the day I die.

All Mod Cons

The Jam

4/5

1984

Van Halen

3/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Throwing Muses

3/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Low

David Bowie

4/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

5/5

This will either be my favorite album by list’s completion or my second favorite album. Either, or, it’s a good one.

The Man Who

Travis

3/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

Tommy

The Who

5/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Among The Living

Anthrax

5/5

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

5/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

2/5

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

3/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Van Halen

3/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

5/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

Oh Yoko! may be the best song written by any Beatle but Lennon should have been brought up on charges for the lyrics to Jealous Guy.

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

5/5

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Third

Soft Machine

2/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

3/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

4/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

4/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

5/5

My biggest thrill in the 1001 albums list so far is finding these fantastic Brazilian albums.

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

4/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Quiet Life

Japan

3/5

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

3/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

4/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

2/5

In It For The Money

Supergrass

5/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

5/5

Lost Souls

Doves

3/5

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Pretenders

3/5

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

4/5

I Against I

Bad Brains

5/5

Future Days

Can

5/5

Joan Armatrading

4/5

War

3/5

1999

Prince

4/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

5/5

Sulk

The Associates

3/5

2112

Rush

4/5

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

3/5

Beautiful Freak

Eels

4/5

Highly Evolved

The Vines

3/5

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

5/5

Hey Barbara Broccoli, make BaBopByeYa the next James Bond theme song.

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

3/5

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

4/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

Rage Against The Machine

3/5

Unexpectedly overstays its welcome. This album has no business having almost every single song be over 5 minutes long.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

An album I saw was generated and immediately thought would be forgettable. A band I had written off because of my sincere lack of interest in the indie groups they were associated with in the early 2000s. I loved this album and was immediately reminded of Au Revoir Simone and a happy version of Beach House. This I will revisit.

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

1/5

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

3/5

Duck for the Oyster songs like a Ween song. That was really my only takeaway from listening to this.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

This was beautiful and made me feel very comfortable and relaxed. I especially loved I Couldn’t Believe it Was True and the closing instrumental Bandera. This gets a strong 4 stars from me. With a few more listens this would easily be 5 stars for me but alas we aren’t able to edit scores later on. So fuck it, you get 5 stars, Willie.

S&M

Metallica

2/5

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

4/5

I don’t always listen to albums multiple times when I get one generated that I’ve never heard. This one had my interest piqued enough to listen to it three times. It ends up overstaying its welcome a little bit and loses steam towards the end but I really loved the first side.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

This album is not only exquisitely recorded; the circumstances are bound to give any listener chills for the entire duration. Interspersed with announcements for prisoners to report to other areas of the prison(I have to imagine some of those inmates ignored their message until the concert was over), the subject matter of the songs makes it shocking that this was allowed at a maximum security prison. As my dad said when I was a kid, “I would love to know that guy’s story” when someone howls in jubilation after the line “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die”; you can’t help but wonder about some of these guy’s stories. Give My Love to Rose must have been a devastating song for some of these men to hear. Hearing songs about spitting in the warden’s face before being executed must have been exhilarating. And has anyone in the history of mankind had a bigger surprise than Glen Sherley? I don’t know if it resulted in unwanted attention from other prisoners but that must have been a truly unbelievable moment for him. I don’t know that the setting, content and quality of this album could ever be exceeded. But it’s certainly the best live album on this list and that I’ve ever heard.

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

4/5

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Gris Gris

Dr. John

2/5

God bless Dr. John for giving this album a 33 minute runtime. I love his set in the Last Waltz and I enjoyed him on Treme but unless I want to scare my wife I will never listen to this again.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

Ask me if I’ve heard this album in a week and I will have no recollection if I have or haven’t.

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

5/5

I used to live in Oakland. I would go to the Berkeley Public Library once a week, on their third floor they have nothing but records, CDs, sheet music, tapes. It’s lovely. I don’t know why I took this album out from the library but I did and I loved it and I forget about it until now, 11 years later. Still love it. Go check out the Berkeley Public Library if you’re ever in the area. And check out that third floor.

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

5/5

I understand that Richey Edwards looms large over this record, in fact that’s all I knew about this band or album. And since I find almost every lyric unintelligible, my ignorant ears would never have been aware of the songs’ subject matter if I hadn’t read how dark the themes were. Without the accompanying knowledge of the lyrics, the music was anything but despondent and upsetting. “Yes” is an all time album opener and it took me 5 tries to get past the first 4 tracks on the album because of how much I wanted to relisten to them. “She is Suffering” sounded so much like a Brett Anderson/Bernard Butler song that I looked up if Suede and the Manics had any affiliation and what do you know-they’re touring the UK in 2024 together.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

A 29 minute harmless album.

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

This is a perfect album and by the time I’m done with this list this album will assuredly be in my top 30. I do a corny thing when I drive through states or cross country, I listen to certain records that I associate with that state or city. This album and Big L’s Lifestylez are my New York soundtracks.

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

4/5

The final track, Faith/Void, is the same name as a split LP that Dischord records released in the 80s. I can’t find any information online regarding the reference but I appreciated it and I enjoyed the song. Good dog walking music. I felt introspective while listening and that can be a gift.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

4/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

The Stooges

3/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

1/5

Interminable.

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

Garbage

4/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

1/5

I haven’t heard this in twenty years since I was in high school. My last memory of it was a school anti drug seminar video that displayed anti drug slogans intermingled with snowboarding clips soundtracked by Crawling. This is dangerous music because it has the power to make you never want to listen to again. Music is a beautiful thing that holds an unlimited amount of power. You can feel the power of this music-and the power to make one never listen to music again is a very dangerous power indeed. Putrid, execrable, grotty, vile, repugnant, displeasing music. If I ever hear someone listening to this near me again I’m gonna run away gonna run away.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

1/5

What the fuck is with the backing goblin vocals on some of these songs? I was bored out of my gullet listening to this and all of a sudden 30 minutes into the record there’s an Uruk-Hai snarling in my ear over the most dreadful music imaginable.

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

2/5

All I can tell you to prove that I’ve listened to it this is it’s the album that features Take On Me and one of the guys is flexing his tricep on the cover.

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

2/5

The lead singer of Jamiroquai was involved in a fight at a screening of Episode II-Attack of the Clones. One can only imagine he was wearing his ridiculous Native American headdress at the time. “Hey down in front! Take off that giant hat-I’m trying to watch Dexter Jettster talk to Kit Fisto.”

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

Haven’t listened to this in 20 years and still could finger drum the entire album. Every fill is firmly ingrained in my brain.

Scum

Napalm Death

4/5

Protection

Massive Attack

1/5

Of course this ends with a Doors cover.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Not much for me to say about this one that others haven’t said. So I’ll just say So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright sounds like an Elliott Smith and I absolutely love it. Has those haunting major to minor chord changes

Odelay

Beck

3/5

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

1/5

Fucking awful. Nearly had a heart attack when I saw the last track was 14 minutes.

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

2/5

Will never listen to or think about this again but musically impressive, I suppose. Incredibly forgettable.

GREY Area

Little Simz

4/5

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

3/5

Pink Flag

Wire

5/5

When you’re a kid and find out Minor Threat’s 1 2 X U is a cover and first discover this album. That’s a good part of the developmental process.

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

Sail Away

Randy Newman

5/5

One of the most interesting musicians of the past 60 years who will now forever be most known for the least interesting part of his artistic output. You just can’t sing along to a lot of his songs depending on who the particular narrator is.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Paul Simon

4/5

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

1/5

Weekend at Bernie’s dancing the congo line music.

Dry

PJ Harvey

5/5

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

3/5

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

3/5

Calvary rips. Best album cover on the list so far.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

2/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Is there anything more terrifying than the last 20 seconds of this album?

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

The Rolling Stones

2/5

So unbelievably boring and insignificant. I’m assuming The Rolling Stones have at least 4 albums on this list so it’s mind boggling that this was thought to be included.

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Way too horny.

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

4/5

Quite possibly the worst album cover of all time.

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

2/5

It is very funny that I keep getting these awful New Wave albums and every time I breathe a sigh of relief that I’ve reached the final song only to see that it’s upwards of 8 minutes.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Mott

Mott The Hoople

4/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

The Only Ones

5/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

3/5

First four songs would make a perfect EP but boy did I check out after that. If you want to clear a bar quick after karaoke night, have someone close the night out with one of the songs on this album’s back half.

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

2/5

Too much horseplay.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

Viva Hate

Morrissey

2/5

Immediately forgettable.

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

2/5

Proof that a large portion of this list is albums included because of one noteworthy song. This album is on this list because of No More Mr. Nice Guy. “Raped and Freezin” certainly didn’t make the case for its inclusion.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

2/5

Only thing noteworthy about this to me is that it was released in the 70s. Boring version of Toejam and Earl sounding music.

Mask

Bauhaus

4/5

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

Guess you had to be there for this one.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

5/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

So Much For The City

The Thrills

4/5

You can tell this was influenced by Elliott Smith, specifically Figure 8. The standout track to me, Don’t Steal Our Sun, would be right at home on that album.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Kate Capshaw performed Anything Goes better.

Headquarters

The Monkees

3/5

This album gave us the sample for Del tha Funky Homosapien’s Mistadobalina which is a huge contribution.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Phife Dawg had the smoothest voice in the history of human speech.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

Perfect album albeit with the head scratching closing choice of I Shall Be Free. “I jumped the fallout shelter. I jumped the string bean. I jumped the tv dinner. I jumped the shotgun”. It is good that Dylan stopped writing Wesley Willis caliber “funny songs” soon after this album.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

This is an album that really shows me my age. I think you absolutely had to be there for this one and I wasn’t so it does nothing for me. A lot of the reviews for this album seem to rely heavily on nostalgia. Very much not in my wheelhouse and this album made me feel old for it being so lauded and yet so lost on me. But now I’m seeing that Frank Ocean is older than me. I don’t know, man. Maybe I’m just padding this review out to avoid the Steven Stills album I see is up next waiting for me.

The Poet

Bobby Womack

3/5

Stand Up was a great song otherwise not my thing.

Stephen Stills

2/5

If this was the first album you ever listened to you’d be forgiven for thinking that the idea of listening to music was somewhat overrated.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

5/5

As a member of the league of bald headed men I can’t give this any lower than a 5.

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

2/5

As bored as I’ve been listening to any album on this list so far.

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

3/5

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

4/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

5/5

I am an idiot. I’ve spent the last 20 years of my life thinking Depeche Mode was Cheap Trick.

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

4/5

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

5/5

Hell yes.

Technique

New Order

4/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

5/5

Slipknot

1/5

All I could think about while listening to this was how mortified I would be if ghosts exist and my ancestors are watching me and don’t realize that I’m listening to this as an assignment and not for pleasure. This is my desert island disc. I would rather starve to death on a desert island than ever listen to this again. This may end up being the lowest point of this entire endeavor for me.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

4/5

McCartney

Paul McCartney

4/5

Dirty

Sonic Youth

5/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

1/5

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

4/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

2/5

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Fever Ray

2/5

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

2/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

Green

R.E.M.

5/5

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

5/5

A Nashville album with pedal steel guitar like this is going to get a 5 star every single time from me. Put this in an enema and shoot it straight into my ass. Perfect music.

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

3/5

If I’m going to listen to misogynistic rap from the 90s it’s going to be Big L. Ready to Die did not age well and in fact has exceeded ready to die status and is firmly Ready to be Forgotten. Gimme the Loot is still great.

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

5/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

The Gallagher brothers obsess over the Beatles, shamelessly rip the Beatles off, make a perfect album. Sometimes it really is that simple.

808 State

3/5

Would not be out of place in a Metroid game.

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

5/5

About as big of a surprise as I’ve had on the list yet. From the album artwork to every song, 5 stars and completely up my alley. Ennio Morricone for romantics.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

2/5

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

2/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Snivilisation

Orbital

3/5

Quality Seconds rips and makes me wish the entire album sounded just like that. Then the next song is an unforgivable 16 minutes long.

More Specials

The Specials

3/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

My least favorite band name of all time. Just puts a rotten taste in my mouth.

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

2/5

Think Hoobastank mixed with Evanescence. That is not a good thing.

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

Beck very much influenced by Nick Drake on this one.

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

5/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

5/5

Some of Zappa’s most palatable work for the masses. Peaches En Regalia is surely the theme song that plays in a lot of peoples’ heads as one of the main scores of their life; I know it does for me.

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

This album has been with me my entire life. It’s intimately familiar and comfortable. I’m Not Down is in my top ten songs of all time. This album is in my top 5 on the 1001 list. Nothing new to add here. Perfection.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

I am a much bigger Johnny Marr fan than I am of Morrissey but Morrissey has some of my favorite moments of his on this record. The hooks they wrote on this album are incredible and this is a constant listen for me.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Since I’ve Been Loving You leading into Out On the Tiles is one of the all time one-two punches in recorded music history.

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

3/5

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

5/5

Fleet Foxes

3/5

Not really for me and not a fan of the bands that later blew up in the 2010s who were influenced by this album. Pleasant enough to listen to but a little too precious. Probably my least favorite Sub Pop release.

Winter In America

Gil Scott-Heron

4/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

Kid A

Radiohead

3/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

5/5

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

3/5

Woodface

Crowded House

3/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Adele

4/5

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

5/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

I can’t imagine any album on this list is going to be longer than this one. Would be a good record to listen to if you were making pasta from scratch or something but ultimately it was just background noise to me.

Miriam Makeba

4/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

5/5

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

I try to live my life in a way that Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream would be an emotionally appropriate credits song for when I die.

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

2/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

Electric

The Cult

1/5

Awful. Sounds like a fake band that would be playing in a bar scene in a new Wayne’s World movie made for Netflix.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Phrenology

The Roots

3/5

The Band

5/5

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

5/5

Eagles

3/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

4/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

4/5

Play

Moby

4/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

5/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

5/5

Roxy Music

5/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

3/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

2/5

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

3/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

4/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

5/5

Blur

5/5

Look Inside America is one of the top songs to have play during the credits at the end of your life.

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Elvis Presley

4/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

5/5

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

4/5

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

The Grand Tour

George Jones

4/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

5/5

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

5/5

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

4/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

The Blueprint

JAY Z

4/5

Ends up overstaying its welcome by 3 or 4 songs but Heart of the City is a top 100 song on the 1001 album list.

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

3/5

Peter Gabriel

2/5

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

5/5

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

2/5

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

Damaged

Black Flag

5/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

Leftism

Leftfield

2/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

5/5

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

1/5

Joanna Newsom

3/5

Le Tigre

4/5

I want to start a band just to cover The the Empty. Shades of 100 gecs on that one.

The Cars

4/5

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

5/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

3/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Tical

Method Man

4/5

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

2/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

3/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

3/5

Suede

5/5

“Let’s chase the dragon, ahhhh” while Bernard Butler lays down one of the most earth shuddering riffs of all time. And then when the piano starts tinkling in during the big build up finish? Come the hell on, best song on any of these 1001 albums.

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

2/5

Jesus Christ.

Sister

Sonic Youth