My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Ingenue k.d. lang	5	2.94	+2.06
The Blueprint JAY Z	5	3.2	+1.8
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.3	+1.7
Horses Patti Smith	5	3.31	+1.69
At Fillmore East The Allman Brothers Band	5	3.37	+1.63
Either Or Elliott Smith	5	3.39	+1.61
Green R.E.M.	5	3.47	+1.53
Tragic Songs of Life The Louvin Brothers	4	2.58	+1.42
Exile On Main Street The Rolling Stones	5	3.6	+1.4
Van Halen Van Halen	5	3.62	+1.38

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Pearl Janis Joplin	1	3.72	-2.72
Dire Straits Dire Straits	2	3.73	-1.73
Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow	2	3.35	-1.35
Purple Rain Prince	3	4.02	-1.02

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	3	4.67
Radiohead	3	4.33

5-Star Albums (20)

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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

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Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Rock 'n' Roll's history has some good examples of famous bands that ascended along an arc of commercial success, and then gave us a clear inflection point in their artistic expression after which nothing would ever be the same. This list will likely point to quite a few of them, but this record arguably changed everything.

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Over. Rated

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

3/5

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

Ctrl

SZA

3/5

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

It might have been the greatest record of all time if it had been a single LP.

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

5/5

Hugely personal record for me.

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

3/5

Some great songs, but not sure it holds up over time.

A Seat at the Table

Solange

4/5

If your album has a song like "Cranes In the Sky" on it, it probably doesn't matter what the rest of it sounds like.

Pelican West

Haircut 100

2/5

A truly terrible band who just were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

Sure, it's just a pop record from a certain time and place, but these people knew what they were doing

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

She wasn't just ahead of her time, she invented her time.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

The mothership has landed.

The Blueprint

JAY Z

5/5

They don't call him The Greatest Rapper alive for nothing.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

It's easy to take for granted how good this band was, and for how long. It's not my favorite Cure record, but A Forest might be my favorite Cure song.

Purple Rain

Prince

3/5

Loved it then. Not so much now.

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

Nearly perfect and captures it's time so well.

The Stooges

4/5

Saying that they were ahead of their time doesn't even make half the point.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

1/5

I can't stand her.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

YES

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Take Me Apart

Kelela

3/5

Iron Maiden

3/5

Green

R.E.M.

5/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Ingenue

k.d. lang

5/5

Throwing Muses

3/5

Does it hold up? Kinda yeah!

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

5/5

It's not really my thing, but there's no denying that it's a classic.

Highly Evolved

The Vines

4/5

I sure did love this time in music with bands like The Vines, The Strokes, The Hives playing smart catchy riff-rock.

Paul Simon

4/5

He's not just another singer-songwriter, he's Paul freaking Simon.

Elephant

The White Stripes

3/5

The Joshua Tree

5/5

Dire Straits

2/5

Meh.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

A classic, top to bottom.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

4/5

They say he's a genius. They are correct.

Copper Blue

Sugar

4/5

Such a great 90's record. Bob is a hero. I've tried to get every band I was ever in to cover "Helpless".

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

2/5

The Last Broadcast

Doves

3/5

I've gotta say Lost Souls is a better Doves record.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

3/5

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

3/5

Great record from a time when people were doing stuff for the first time.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

Meh. Just meh.

2112

Rush

4/5

When it's good, it's amazing.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

I see a lot of the middling reviews for this record, but I think it goes to whether or not you get the Stones. This one is all about Keith and Nicky, and if that's not your thing, you'll likely want to pass on it. Despite being overly long, it's a distillation of their thing; a record to go to if you wanted to sum up what they're about.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

4/5

I was a kid the first time I heard Jailbreak, and it was off this record. Phil was really something special, but the whole band is so tight on these tracks. They're like a funkier, bluesier version of AC/DC here.

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Still very sublimely great.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

3/5

Tragically, he's one of those artists that you wonder what they might have had in store for us in his future.

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

One of the best of their best. Perhaps it's an answer to the question of what's The One Radiohead album to listen to, if you could only pick one to explain this band.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

3/5

I've never listened to this record before but wow the guitars sound great. The band is just as tight as some of their later records are.

A Northern Soul

The Verve

3/5

Bossanova

Pixies