1001 Albums Summary

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500
Albums Rated
2.53
Average Rating
46%
Complete
589 albums remaining

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1990
Favorite Decade
Punk
Favorite Genre
UK
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28
5-Star Albums
102
1-Star Albums

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Albums

You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Imperial Bedroom
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
5 2.99 +2.01
White Ladder
David Gray
5 3.05 +1.95
Tuesday Night Music Club
Sheryl Crow
5 3.06 +1.94
In It For The Money
Supergrass
5 3.23 +1.77
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Dead Kennedys
5 3.27 +1.73
Beautiful Freak
Eels
5 3.27 +1.73
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5 3.32 +1.68
Meat Is Murder
The Smiths
5 3.34 +1.66
I Should Coco
Supergrass
5 3.35 +1.65
Reggatta De Blanc
The Police
5 3.45 +1.55

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Thriller
Michael Jackson
1 4.22 -3.22
Paranoid
Black Sabbath
1 4.19 -3.19
The Doors
The Doors
1 3.94 -2.94
Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys
1 3.92 -2.92
The Stranger
Billy Joel
1 3.86 -2.86
Off The Wall
Michael Jackson
1 3.8 -2.8
Abraxas
Santana
1 3.72 -2.72
Master Of Puppets
Metallica
1 3.71 -2.71
The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest
1 3.7 -2.7
The Score
Fugees
1 3.69 -2.69

Artists

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ArtistAlbumsAverage
Beatles 5 4.6
Nick Drake 3 4.67
Nirvana 2 5
The Smiths 2 5
Pixies 2 5
Supergrass 2 5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 3 4.33
Elvis Costello & The Attractions 3 4.33

Least Favorites

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ArtistAlbumsAverage
The Doors 3 1
Michael Jackson 3 1.33
The Beach Boys 3 1.33
Joni Mitchell 3 1.33
Thelonious Monk 2 1
Van Halen 2 1
Metallica 2 1
New Order 2 1
Frank Sinatra 2 1
The Chemical Brothers 2 1
Black Sabbath 3 1.67
Kraftwerk 2 1.5
Eagles 2 1.5
Slipknot 2 1.5
Todd Rundgren 2 1.5
Madonna 2 1.5
Björk 2 1.5
Iron Maiden 2 1.5
Depeche Mode 2 1.5
My Bloody Valentine 3 2

Controversial

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ArtistRatings
Pink Floyd 5, 1
Brian Eno 4, 1
Van Morrison 4, 1
Leonard Cohen 4, 4, 1

5-Star Albums (28)

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Popular Reviews

Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes

The best album by my favourite band. I wish I could give it more than 5 stars. I remember exactly where I was when I heard this album for the first time, at a party at my friend's house. It absolutely blew me away. It changed me. I borrowed the record that night. That was 41 years ago. I should probably give it back.

Bad by Michael Jackson

This album - hee hee! - has become - dah! - a parody of itself - whoo! - and about three quarters of it - dah! - is rubbish - hee hee! - filler, like Speed Demon. Whoo!

Dig Your Own Hole by The Chemical Brothers

"Hey, Tom, I've written this - well, let's call it a song - but I can't decide what drum loop to put on it." "That's no problem Ed, why not just use the exact same drum loop that we've used on every single fucking song we've ever recorded?" I once saw a thing about the drug Ecstasy that said it basically just makes the brain crave endless mind-numbing repetition. That's the only reason I can think of that someone would want to listen to this album. Listen to It Doesn't Matter and tell me that isn't actually annoying to listen to. It's 6 minutes long for fuck's sake. Also, while we're on the subject, this is the 2nd Chemical Brothers album I've had to sit through on this list. Why are there multiple albums included for bands where you can listen to one song and then have basically heard their entire discography? This album gets 1 star because apparently I can't just give it the finger.

Yeezus by Kanye West

Mainly consists of an angry man shouting about how rich he is while in the background a confused IT technician tries to make a laptop beep randomly. Just truly awful in every respect.

4-Star Albums (86)

1-Star Albums (102)

All Ratings (500)

Murmur by R.E.M.
Aug 23 2023
Harvest by Neil Young
Aug 31 2023
Yeezus by Kanye West
Sep 01 2023

Mainly consists of an angry man shouting about how rich he is while in the background a confused IT technician tries to make a laptop beep randomly. Just truly awful in every respect.

Exodus by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Sep 07 2023
Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Sep 22 2023
2112 by Rush
Sep 26 2023
Aftermath by The Rolling Stones
Sep 27 2023
So by Peter Gabriel
Oct 03 2023
90 by 808 State
Oct 05 2023
1984 by Van Halen
Oct 25 2023
Triangle by The Beau Brummels
Nov 10 2023
Vol. 4 by Black Sabbath
Nov 24 2023
Goo by Sonic Youth
Nov 26 2023
3 + 3 by The Isley Brothers
Nov 29 2023
...And Justice For All by Metallica
Dec 05 2023

The album a group of 14 year olds would record if you asked them to remake Spinal Tap.

Cross by Justice
Dec 16 2023
1999 by Prince
Jan 14 2024
Thriller by Michael Jackson
Jan 31 2024
Dirt by Alice In Chains
Feb 03 2024
Savane by Ali Farka Touré
Feb 04 2024
Survivor by Destiny's Child
May 31 2024
Stand! by Sly & The Family Stone
Aug 11 2024
War by U2
Oct 01 2024
Berlin by Lou Reed
Dec 01 2024
Pearl by Janis Joplin
Dec 12 2024
Music by Madonna
Dec 13 2024
A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
Dec 15 2024

How to recreate this album: 1. Get a pianist, saxophonist and double bass player very very drunk. 2. Put them all in different soundproof rooms and ask them to play random notes for a specific length of time, ensuring that the specific length of time is exactly twice as long as it needs to be. 3. Instruct the musicians that time signatures and keys are entirely at their own discretion. 4. While they play, repeatedly throw a drumkit down the stairs. 5. Design a cool black & white cover. 6. Await the muso plaudits.

Frank by Amy Winehouse
Dec 18 2024
Bummed by Happy Mondays
Dec 20 2024
Smash by The Offspring
Jan 15 2025
Tommy by The Who
Jan 28 2025
Opus Dei by Laibach
Jan 29 2025

One of the funniest albums I've heard for a long time. I mean, it gets old after about a song and a half, but the cover version of Queen's One Vision is laugh out loud funny. Reminded me of stand up comedian Bill Bailey doing the Hokey Cokey as Kraftwerk. Check it out on Youtube.

Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes
Feb 15 2025

The best album by my favourite band. I wish I could give it more than 5 stars. I remember exactly where I was when I heard this album for the first time, at a party at my friend's house. It absolutely blew me away. It changed me. I borrowed the record that night. That was 41 years ago. I should probably give it back.

L.A. Woman by The Doors
Feb 18 2025

Possibly the most overrated band ever. This album is almost entirely just formulaic 12-bar blues with self-indulgent lyrics taken from a teenager's poetry book.

The Message by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Feb 19 2025
Play by Moby
Feb 20 2025
Sister by Sonic Youth
Feb 21 2025
Brothers by The Black Keys
Feb 22 2025
Blue by Joni Mitchell
Feb 24 2025
Revolver by Beatles
Feb 25 2025

Taste in music is by definition a subjective viewpoint. What one person will regard as genius, another will regard as dross, and the beauty of musical appreciation is that they are both right. That said, if you don't give this album 5 stars you are objectively wrong and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Scum by Napalm Death
Feb 27 2025
Horses by Patti Smith
Mar 09 2025
Closer by Joy Division
Mar 16 2025
Third by Soft Machine
Mar 21 2025
Tusk by Fleetwood Mac
Mar 22 2025
21 by Adele
Mar 26 2025
Oxygène by Jean-Michel Jarre
Apr 10 2025
xx by The xx
May 01 2025
Rio by Duran Duran
May 03 2025
25 by Adele
May 10 2025
Siembra by Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
May 16 2025
KIWANUKA by Michael Kiwanuka
May 17 2025
Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park
May 18 2025

Save yourself some time and just listen to the first song. Every other song on the album is identical.

Live! by Fela Kuti
Jun 04 2025

Not bad, but there's just no excuse for a 16 minute drum solo.

Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
Jun 17 2025
Murmur by R.E.M.
Jun 18 2025
The Nightfly by Donald Fagen
Jun 20 2025

There is never any excuse for dinner jazz. Never. The musical equivalent of beige. Pale beige, I mean. Not any of that vivid mid-beige stuff. Instantly forgettable. So desperately inoffensive that it offended me. Like Richard Cheese lost his sense of humour.

Green by R.E.M.
Jun 24 2025
Dirty by Sonic Youth
Jun 27 2025
Suicide by Suicide
Jul 17 2025

Everything on this album - the songs, the production, the instrumentation, the shitty synth drums, the lyrics, and most of all the vocals - makes me want to take the considerable time and expense of flying to America, finding whoever was responsible for it and punching them in the back of the head. If I was given the option of either listening to this cavalcade of shit again or repeatedly slamming my balls in the front door I don't know which one I'd choose.

Bad by Michael Jackson
Jul 19 2025

This album - hee hee! - has become - dah! - a parody of itself - whoo! - and about three quarters of it - dah! - is rubbish - hee hee! - filler, like Speed Demon. Whoo!

Exit Planet Dust by The Chemical Brothers
Jul 24 2025

"Hey, Tom, listen. I've made my laptop make this 4 second loop of a drum beat." "Brilliant, Ed, let's just repeat that exact same thing for 3 and a half minutes and call it a song."

Moondance by Van Morrison
Jul 26 2025

This is probably the most difficult case of separating the artist from the art that I've had to deal with on this 1001 albums journey so far. All I can say is he might be a desperately misguided anti-vaxx Covid-denying dick, but he can write a tune.

Parachutes by Coldplay
Jul 27 2025

I don't know why Coldplay get all the hate. Yeah, they're a bit watery but this is a good album.

Iron Maiden by Iron Maiden
Jul 28 2025

I always used to think I hated Iron Maiden. Turns out I was right. This album gets an extra star for not having Bruce Dickinson on it.

Chris by Christine and the Queens
Jul 30 2025
Smile by Brian Wilson
Jul 31 2025
m b v by My Bloody Valentine
Aug 04 2025
Dookie by Green Day
Aug 05 2025
Doolittle by Pixies
Aug 06 2025

This may be one of the best albums ever made. It had such an impact on me that I can still picture the exact scene from when I first heard it back in 1989, sitting on a bed in Mark's dingy student digs at university. There were four or five of use there and we all just shut up and listened. I don't think any of us had heard anything like it before.

Astral Weeks by Van Morrison
Aug 10 2025

This was awful. It was like he was just making up a melody as he went along, and not in a good way. Meandering songs that don't go anywhere. Stick a chorus in there occasionally, Van, it might make it listenable.

Aug 13 2025

Pleasant enough muzak but I couldn't really tell one song from another. There's 'the fast one' and 'the slow one', but apart from that it's just generic.

D by White Denim
Aug 17 2025
Casanova by The Divine Comedy
Aug 22 2025
Behaviour by Pet Shop Boys
Aug 23 2025

I can't bear 80s synth pop. Get some proper drums.

Zombie by Fela Kuti
Aug 28 2025
White Ladder by David Gray
Sep 01 2025

Genius. Beautiful. One of the best albums of the 90s.

Juju by Siouxsie And The Banshees
Sep 05 2025
Heroes by David Bowie
Sep 20 2025
Moon Safari by Air
Sep 22 2025

This isn't my kind of music at all but I really like this album.

Armed Forces by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Oct 01 2025
Be by Common
Oct 03 2025
Oct 07 2025

I enjoy Tainted Love just for the nostalgia of crap teenage discos. The rest of this album is instantly forgettable 80s synth pop, except for the songs that are actively annoying, like Frustration and Entertain Me. Say Hello, Wave Goodbye would be worth a listen if David Gray's version wasn't so much better.

Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen
Oct 12 2025

One of the bleakest, sparsest, most depressing albums I've ever had the misfortune to sit through. It's also very boring.

Third by Portishead
Oct 19 2025
Pacific Ocean Blue by Dennis Wilson
Oct 25 2025

Better than anything the Beach Boys ever did but still very dull. It kind of just happens in the background.

Dig Your Own Hole by The Chemical Brothers
Oct 27 2025

"Hey, Tom, I've written this - well, let's call it a song - but I can't decide what drum loop to put on it." "That's no problem Ed, why not just use the exact same drum loop that we've used on every single fucking song we've ever recorded?" I once saw a thing about the drug Ecstasy that said it basically just makes the brain crave endless mind-numbing repetition. That's the only reason I can think of that someone would want to listen to this album. Listen to It Doesn't Matter and tell me that isn't actually annoying to listen to. It's 6 minutes long for fuck's sake. Also, while we're on the subject, this is the 2nd Chemical Brothers album I've had to sit through on this list. Why are there multiple albums included for bands where you can listen to one song and then have basically heard their entire discography? This album gets 1 star because apparently I can't just give it the finger.

The La's by The La's
Oct 28 2025

Nothing earth shattering but pleasant enough in places.

1977 by Ash
Oct 30 2025
Hejira by Joni Mitchell
Nov 01 2025
Eagles by Eagles
Nov 03 2025

If The Eagles were a colour they'd be a pale grey.

Vivid by Living Colour
Nov 12 2025
Ten by Pearl Jam
Nov 15 2025

Teenage angst has paid off well, now I'm bored and old.

GI by Germs
Nov 20 2025
What's Going On by Marvin Gaye
Nov 21 2025

Save the Children might be one of the worst songs I've ever heard. It was unintentionally hilarious, though, I'll give it that. Album gets an extra star because of his voice, but minus several million for the actual music and especially the lyrics.

Nov 22 2025

I quite liked that other album he did. I can't remember what it was called, but you know the one. This one was just a bit meh though. Bit dull really.

Blur by Blur
Nov 27 2025

I like an effects pedal as much as the next man unless the next man is Graham Coxon. An occasional good tune on here, but a lot of it is just spoiled by an over-reliance on weird noises.

B-52's by The B-52's
Nov 29 2025
Isn't Anything by My Bloody Valentine
Jan 11 2026

Life's too short to be having to sit through this. Gets 1 star for having an accurate title.

The Low End Theory by A Tribe Called Quest
Jan 12 2026

Every song is identical. If there weren't gaps between them I wouldn't be able to tell where one ended and the next began.

Duck Rock by Malcolm McLaren
Jan 25 2026

Like the Art of Noise but somehow worse.

Arular by M.I.A.
Jan 26 2026

I'm beginning to come to the conclusion that I'm just not cut out for this album a day thing. I thought it was going to be an adventure. I thought I was going to find gem after hidden gem that I'd never heard before and be adding songs to my playlist left, right and centre. Instead, it turns out that I'm just being exposed to unlistenable shite like this. I mean, listen to songs like 10 Dollar or URAQT and tell me it isn't actively annoying to listen to. It's just in irritating repetitive noise. This is album 491 and it's another one - and yes, I sound like my grandad - where I'm not entirely sure it strictly classifies as music. God help me, the last few albums have been hip hop, country & western, shoegaze, whatever Malcolm McLaren is classed as, hip hop (again, so much hip hop) and Captain Fucking Beefheart. I might be about to throw the towel in. I get that this isn't supposed to be the best 1000 albums ever made, but I at least thought they'd be interesting.

Tarkus by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Jan 29 2026
The Grand Tour by George Jones
Jan 30 2026

Clicked on the link on the 1001 website and it opened in Spotify. Saw the cover. Thought this might be country and western so I skipped it just in case.

Remedy by Basement Jaxx
Feb 09 2026
Mar 11 2026

Got to the start of song 4 before I gave up. Previously I'd endured "There's Always Room on the Broom" which is basically 3 minutes of the noises a dial-up modem used to make. If anyone in the world says they enjoy listening to "Steam Rose From the Lifeless Cloak" they're a liar. Or a Liar.

Critic

Average rating: 2.53 (0.71 below global average).

Other

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