1001 Albums Summary

Listening statistics & highlights

195
Albums Rated
3.26
Average Rating
18%
Complete
894 albums remaining

Rating Distribution

Rating Timeline

Taste Profile

1960
Favorite Decade
Electronica
Favorite Genre
UK
Top Origin
Balanced
Rater Style ?
30
5-Star Albums
4
1-Star Albums

Breakdown

By Genre

Top Styles

By Decade

By Origin

Albums

You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Orbital 2
Orbital
 5 2.69 +2.31
I’m a Lonesome Fugitive
Merle Haggard
 5 2.86 +2.14
Kala
M.I.A.
 5 2.91 +2.09
Ambient 1/Music For Airports
Brian Eno
 5 3.07 +1.93
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Devo
 5 3.14 +1.86
Tigermilk
Belle & Sebastian
 5 3.22 +1.78
B-52's
The B-52's
 5 3.3 +1.7
Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen
 5 3.31 +1.69
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
 5 3.36 +1.64
Court And Spark
Joni Mitchell
 5 3.36 +1.64

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Melodrama
Lorde
 1 3.32 -2.32
Heartattack And Vine
Tom Waits
 1 3.07 -2.07
Picture Book
Simply Red
 1 2.88 -1.88
Talking Book
Stevie Wonder
 2 3.71 -1.71
Superunknown
Soundgarden
 2 3.65 -1.65
Van Halen
Van Halen
 2 3.63 -1.63
Young Americans
David Bowie
 2 3.62 -1.62
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan
 2 3.61 -1.61
Hard Again
Muddy Waters
 2 3.61 -1.61
Don't Stand Me Down
Dexys Midnight Runners
 1 2.61 -1.61

Artists

Favorites

ArtistAlbumsAverage
Bruce Springsteen 4 4.5
Beatles 6 4.17
Brian Eno 3 4.33

Controversial

ArtistRatings
Tom Waits 1, 4
David Bowie 2, 5
Public Enemy 5, 2
Miles Davis 5, 2, 4

5-Star Albums (30)

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Paul's Boutique It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Kind Of Blue Tigermilk Arrival Orbital 2 Jagged Little Pill Hounds Of Love I’m a Lonesome Fugitive The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Wish You Were Here Nebraska Court And Spark Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Beauty And The Beat Live At The Harlem Square Club Kala Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band American IV: The Man Comes Around B-52's Tapestry Born In The U.S.A. Ambient 1/Music For Airports Kid A Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo She's So Unusual xx Violent Femmes Jazz Samba

Popular Reviews

Melodrama
Lorde · 2 likes
1/5
Man, I really wanted to like this album when it came out. Being such a big fan of Pure Heroine (a 5/5 album imo), I listened to Melodrama over and over with the hope that it would start sounding good or even just tolerable. Reader, it never did. And 6 years later, I still can't convince myself that there's anything here worth listening to. I'm not very good at articulating why the actual sound of the music doesn't click, but the best I can say is that in every song, Lorde's singing doesn't match the instrumentals which is just super annoying. (I think this is a melody problem?) And on top of that, where in her first album Lorde's low singing voice sounds authoratative and smooth, here it sounds strained and grating. And on top of THAT, the lyrics are uninspired. Like I said, I've always wanted to like this album. But nothing worked for me then or works for me now, and I don't think it ever will.

4-Star Albums (49)

Red Headed Stranger Rubber Soul Guitar Town Out of Step Born To Run Abbey Road You've Come a Long Way Baby Rain Dogs Smash Back To Black Mothership Connection Central Reservation Sweet Baby James Throwing Muses With The Beatles The Beach Boys Today! Fever Ray Alien Lanes A Hard Day's Night Five Leaves Left In Our Heads A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Lady Soul The Köln Concert Cross On The Beach 3 + 3 Birth Of The Cool Wild Gift Illmatic Whatever Darkness on the Edge of Town Another Green World Shalimar There's No Place Like America Today The Wall Blue Lines The Specials Bluesbreakers The White Album Dookie Liquid Swords Astral Weeks The Cars Actually Paul Simon (What's The Story) Morning Glory Close To You Here Come The Warm Jets

1-Star Albums (4)

Heartattack And Vine Melodrama Picture Book Don't Stand Me Down

All Ratings

Balanced

Average rating is within 0.15 points of global average.