My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche Koffi Olomide	5	2.6	+2.4
Live / Dead Grateful Dead	5	2.82	+2.18
The Visitors ABBA	5	3.21	+1.79
A Girl Called Dusty Dusty Springfield	5	3.33	+1.67
Dusty In Memphis Dusty Springfield	5	3.47	+1.53
New Forms Roni Size	4	2.52	+1.48
Jazz Samba Stan Getz	5	3.56	+1.44
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	5	3.61	+1.39
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	5	3.64	+1.36
Shalimar Rahul Dev Burman	4	2.64	+1.36

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Exile On Main Street The Rolling Stones	1	3.6	-2.6
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young & Crazy Horse	1	3.54	-2.54
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars David Bowie	2	4.26	-2.26
Tonight's The Night Neil Young	1	3.23	-2.23
Your Arsenal Morrissey	1	3.05	-2.05
A Seat at the Table Solange	1	3.01	-2.01
Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits	1	2.95	-1.95
Is This It The Strokes	2	3.81	-1.81
Doolittle Pixies	2	3.74	-1.74
Kid A Radiohead	2	3.71	-1.71

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	4	4.75
Dusty Springfield	2	5
Led Zeppelin	2	5

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Morrissey	2	1.5
Pixies	3	2

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Radiohead	5, 2, 2

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D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

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Violator

Depeche Mode

2/5

This album has been failing to arouse the slightest emotion in me for 30 years now. Spectacularly dull.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Good one. Some cracking tracks in there. Unfortunately, most of the songs on the album were blocked on Spotify but what was there was enjoyable.

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

3/5

The epitome of 'if it ain't broke don't fix it'. Enjoy the same formula 11 times. Saving grace was the instrumental one. Loved that one

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

One of those albums that you'll always remember hearing for the first time. There's a standout song each time depending on your mood. Sometimes 'She's leaving home' hits hard or you're carried away by 'Within you without you'. Other times they leave you cold and the more lightweight tracks do the trick. Impeccable.

Is This It

The Strokes

2/5

Quit before the end. It felt like being hammered over the head with the same song on repeat, and while there's sometimes something to tap your foot to (I was on a treadmill), there's a huge void at the center of the album where a better vocalist should be. Just embarrassing. Straining so hard to sound like Lou Reed, but no amount of distortion or effects could fix it. Always liked the album cover, though.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Sublime, although I prefer the live versions of Wish You Were Here and Shine on you Crazy Diamond. Not really sure why they mixed it like they did, but I guess they know what they were doing.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

3/5

Mot quite my tempo

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

2/5

Nope. Felt weird listening to that at my age

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

1/5

Nope. I'm not listening to this trash.

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Sublime

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

Never heard this one before. It's solid and efficient, but you find yourself waiting for a signature track that never comes. Odd that an album that performed so poorly commercially makes the 1001 list.

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Overwhelming in places. Thoroughly Queened by the end.

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

3/5

Not really my cup of tea but the first time I've listened to all the lyrics on an album all the way through.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

5/5

Beautiful. Instantly puts a smile on your face.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

3/5

In Utero

Nirvana

3/5

Just sounds like a lot of Nirvana in quick succession

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

Background music for your next #vanlife video on YouTube.

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

2/5

Oof. Not for me, Clive. Rotten rubbish. The point of no return was when I heard the phrase 'Four and twenty'. That would be 24. It might be 1969 but if you can put a man on the moon (allegedly), you should be able to get to grips with basic modern numeral conventions.

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

5/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Loved it.

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

1/5

Just bad. Really can't stand his voice..

Bossanova

Pixies

2/5

It's efficient, but so is Athletic Greens. I guess the idea was that if you hit a snare drum at the same tempo for long enough, an album will come out. Add on some weak out of tune vocals and you're in the top 1001 apparently.

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Here for the dynamic rather than the clunking lyrics.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Had never heard of them but liked it. However, none of the tracks really rose above solid.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

It's probably blasphemy but I was bored

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

2/5

Like listening to paint dry

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

Take a stick and smash it repeatedly on a metal garbage can. You've just nailed the recurring sound of Bad. It's bad. The songs are just weird and the producer appears to have just unboxed a new synthesiser. Every track, any moment of breathing space, is filled with a wacky sound effect or slice of novelty nonsense. I actually bought this in 1987 and thought I'd arrived as a serious cultural thought leader. Today, I'd like to apologise to that young man, 30 years too late.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

5/5

Banger. Got plenty of time for this. Did not know she was British.

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

2/5

The Joshua Tree

5/5

Not a bad track on there. At their pomp.

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

3/5

I feel like the arrival of Wikipedia really stole this band's thunder. Tried to listen to this one on a run but felt like I should be taking notes. I learnt a lot, but I came to rock.

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Enjoyed the drumming and guitar but it didn't hook me.

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

2/5

Oof! Terrible. So out of tune that I couldn't be arsed to listen to the lyrics.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

3/5

Dust

Screaming Trees

3/5

Pedestrian

Gold

Ryan Adams

3/5

Bland. I'm assuming it's more popular with the flag snagging community (American or Confederate).

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

An album I associate with people showing off their new CD player in the 80s. To be fair, the sound is great, but I remember this album being huge and now it just seems OK.

Os Mutantes

3/5

Nice surprise. In some places it's bursting with energy and personality. In others it's a kindergarten jam session with a mess of glockenspiel, whistles, triangles and maracas all at full volume.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Phenomenal. So good together as a band and great vocals. A point off for some duff tracks in the middle.

Let It Be

The Replacements

2/5

Nah. Lots of noise. No hits.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Those drums...

Born To Be With You

Dion

2/5

Nyquil for the ears.

Kid A

Radiohead

2/5

Set this one up before a 30 minute treadmill dash, and once I hit Start there's no stopping. That's the rule. Reader, even David Goggins would have quit after 2 minutes here. Putting rocks in my shoes would have delivered a more pleasant experience. We get it. Radiohead despise the fans who loved Creep. This album is their self-indulgent two fingers to them. From the shitty drum machine to the banal lyrics, it's deliberately impossible to enjoy. I think you're supposed to admire it. I hated it.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

3/5

Meh.

Country Life

Roxy Music

3/5

Hell yeah. Sound great as a band. Loved the drums and guitar. Songwriting not so strong, slipping into novelty on some tracks.

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2/5

Quit halfway through track 2. Excruciating screeching. I defy anyone to finish this album without developing tinnitus.

Foo Fighters

3/5

Likable, but Foo Fighters have always felt like the free 30 day trial before signing up for full time rock music.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

4/5

Massive. Quality from start to end yet still underrated as a band.

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

3/5

An essential component of the 'My first boyfriend' starter pack, along with said gentleman's high school hoodie, strawberry Juul, and tongue piercing. Surprisingly listenable though, if blindingly white and whimsy in places.

The Last Broadcast

Doves

3/5

Like a warm, deep bath. But I wanted a cold shower. The band that Coldplay could have been.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

2/5

Self-absorbed, tedious anti-music. Would rather listen to my washing machine, which squeaks. Loved Pyramid Song

Blunderbuss

Jack White

3/5

Mostly fun. The influences really come through. The originality not so much.

I See You

The xx

2/5

I don't understand why they bothered to make this album. A bland band. Bad.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

Look I'm not going to have a pop at Buddy Holly, but this doesn't really do anything for me.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

Hit after hit after hit. ...

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

2/5

No thanks, I'll take the lobotomy instead.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

Bursting with charisma and talent.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Woof. Another masterpiece. That's 3 five-star albums in a row, 1001 Albums Generator. Keep 'em coming.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Essential listening

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

5/5

Good vibes

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

1/5

Jesus. That's 30 seconds of my life I won't get back. Just sounds like some old drunk guy. Utter shite.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

2/5

Not my temple.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

Liked some of it. Really didn't like a lot of it.

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

It's ok

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

Surprisingly good. Great songwriting in places and really elevated by the production. Good, Lorde.

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Dull. Could do with more Bad Seeds and less pretentious pub crooner.

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

2/5

I've never been embarrassed for an album before. Hackneyed, trite and as forgettable as The Smiths were quotable.

Sound Affects

The Jam

4/5

Cracking stuff. Makes me want to start a school band. But I'm over 50 so best not.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

Efficient, but it's stuck on the chords they can play and notes they can reach. So when it needs to go up a gear, it just gets louder and longer.

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

Songs to strum around the campfire. And their best one is a cover.

The Stone Roses

5/5

30+ years on I can still picture the first time I heard this magical album. Love at first listen.

Fleet Foxes

3/5

Pretty good. Atmospheric. Another one for listening to in your van conversion overlooking a canyon.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

5/5

Gold. I thought I was heterosexual when I started this journey, but two Dusty Springfield albums and an Elton John later and the algorithm appears to have spoken. Another five star listen.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

2/5

Neanderthal here. No idea why this album, or Bowie for that matter, is treated with such reverence. The music isn't that great and the voice is strained and sometimes all over the place.

#1 Record

Big Star

3/5

Ok. Solid craft.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

Surprised how many of these I recognised. Good overall but limited vocals start to grate towards the end.

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

4/5

Good vibes

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

Nope. Just can't get along with those vocals. Bad karaoke.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

1/5

Immediate skip. Hate their music. Loathe everything they stand for.

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

4/5

How did I miss this? It's a great listen.

Pretenders

3/5

It's OK. Not their best

Solid Air

John Martyn

3/5

Quire good. Sounds much more modern than 1973

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

Somewhat niche.

System Of A Down

2/5

Nope

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

4/5

Pretty groovy, baby. Bit like The Doors

The Predator

Ice Cube

4/5

Really good. Love his style, even if it's the same on every track.

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

3/5

Surprising number of good tracks beyond the one everyone knows

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

1/5

Vile nonce pop

Suzanne Vega

3/5

Like the voice but these are musical doodles. There's better stuff from her.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

3/5

I feel nothing

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Love their sound

Slayed?

Slade

3/5

Better than I expected. Always assumed they were a novelty group.

Beautiful Freak

Eels

4/5

Good. Started well but I couldn't finish. Got a bit whiny.

A Seat at the Table

Solange

1/5

Wow. Astonishingly bland. But I guess little sis would not be ignored.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

It's OK. Hard not to feel like you're waiting outside a Phuket jetski rental.

Music

Madonna

4/5

Classic Madge

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

Respect is due.

Boston

3/5

Sure. Fine

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

Some good ones

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Well done but I'd settle for never listening to any of these ever again.

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

1/5

Just loathe Morrissey

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

2/5

Trying way too hard to be zany and avant garde

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

Don't know what people like about such a dull band with such poor vocals. And Rick Rubin seems to produce an awful amount of shite for a so-called genius.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

Not bad. Bit bonkers

No Other

Gene Clark

4/5

How have I never heard this? Loved it

The Slider

T. Rex

2/5

Just not a fan of the overcooked vocals and incessant aaaaaaaaaaah backing vocals.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

4/5

Good

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

2/5

Find it very lightweight

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

2/5

Stop trying to make depeche modè happen.

Joan Armatrading

2/5

It's like someone singing in the shower with a guitar

Kala

M.I.A.

2/5

It's just noise. Not good noise.

Odelay

Beck

3/5

Pedestrian

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

2/5

Oh. It's another Pixies recommendation. Yep. It's still like listening to construction work.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

Fine. It's just so hard to tell if you like jazz or not.

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

2/5

Sounds like a high school band but worse.

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

2/5

"Sorry. All our agents are busy. Please stay on the line and..."

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

3/5

Passable but derivative

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

2/5

Not really my thang

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

2/5

Gave it a minute before quitting. I'm sure it got better, but not 100%

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

Groovy

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Wish I was alive when this came out just to see the look on people's faces.

Skylarking

XTC

3/5

Mundane

New Forms

Roni Size

4/5

Korrupt FM bangers

Doolittle

Pixies

2/5

3rd album from The Pixies on this list, so another chance to savour that godawful singing and groundbreaking blandness. Can't wait to skip the next one.

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

3/5

Ok but strong whiff of hipster

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

Not my jam. Too much going on

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Surprisingly bad

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

2/5

Best bit was a few bars of Jay Z

Shadowland

k.d. lang

2/5

Didn't sound good to this man's ears

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2/5

I really don't like the sound they make

Bummed

Happy Mondays

2/5

The Spice Boys at their finest. Like listening to the cider swiggers outside the bus station.

Me Against The World

2Pac

3/5

Good lyrics but delivered identically in every track

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

1/5

Not available on Spotify

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

4/5

Nothing great but all of it good

The Visitors

ABBA

5/5

They sure can pump out the hits

White Ladder

David Gray

3/5

The sound of every early 2000s London coffee shop. Inoffensive. Wonder where he is now. I'm assuming he makes kimchi or something.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

2/5

I want to like this, having heard for so long about his genius. But I can't understand what he's saying apart from something about balls and dick. When Dr Dre pops up it's a huge relief. Without any memorable beats or samples, it ends up feeling like spoken word. My biggest problem is that to me Gen X English ears, he just sounds like Frank Spencer.

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

4/5

Woof. I was expecting noise and I got a phenomenal band. Don't like the singing but no other vocals would work.

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

I've just never really got David Bowie. It all seems so contrived.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

2/5

Leaves me cold

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Solid. Makes me want to grow a big moustache

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

1/5

Neil Young doesn't want anyone listening to his music and I'm happy yet again to oblige

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

2/5

Second album recommended from Mudhoney who are still garbage.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Simon and Garfunkel in sleeping pills

Whatever

Aimee Mann

4/5

Good

Germs

2/5

Bad

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

No great singles but one great album.

Live Through This

Hole

3/5

Surprisingly good

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

3/5

Not really a fan but appreciate the ambition

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

2/5

This is a band that clearly finds itself fascinating but it bored me.

Green

R.E.M.

4/5

Grew on me. Weird how no one talks about REM any more

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

4/5

A bizarre mix of styles but a lot of fun.

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

2/5

Painful to listen to and not interesting at any point.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

3/5

The Rolling Stones are like the British Museum. A national treasure, but everything is stolen. I despise the ultra establishment figure Jagger has become, and the fact he sings like a goat. Richards is famous for not being dead. But who doesn't love Charlie Watts?

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

2/5

This guy must have won a competition to make the 1001 list. I thought it was comedy.

Among The Living

Anthrax

3/5

My life is a mess right now so this couldn't have come at a better time. Noise to drown out my screams.

Wild Gift

2/5

Annoyed me from the first bar.

Songs In The Key Of Life