My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Imperial Bedroom Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	2.99	+2.01
Tuesday Night Music Club Sheryl Crow	5	3.06	+1.94
White Ladder David Gray	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	3.44	+1.56

Album	You	Global	Diff
Thriller Michael Jackson	1	4.23	-3.23
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	3.72	-2.72
The Low End Theory A Tribe Called Quest	1	3.7	-2.7
The Score Fugees	1	3.69	-2.69

Artist	Albums	Average
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

Artist	Albums	Average
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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Honestly, I'm embarrassed for them.

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.

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.

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.

HAHAHAHA. They said 'chocolate starfish'! HAHAHAHA that's rude. The perfect album for a 13 year old boy who hates his parents and is excited by swearing.

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

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

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.

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.

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!

"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."

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Muzak.

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

Shit actor makes record. Results predictable.

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.

A contender for the greatest album ever made, and it wasn't even the Beatles' best album.

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

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

"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.

Nothing earth shattering but pleasant enough in places.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I'm sorry, I'll listen to pretty much anything on this list but I draw the line at country and western. Just an endless self-pitying whine.

Like the Art of Noise but somehow worse.

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.

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.

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.

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