My 1001 Albums Journey

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3.27

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94%

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67 albums remaining

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2020

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Antichrist Superstar Marilyn Manson	5	2.45	+2.55
Yeezus Kanye West	5	2.74	+2.26
Ctrl SZA	5	2.93	+2.07
Ingenue k.d. lang	5	2.95	+2.05
Fuzzy Grant Lee Buffalo	5	3.01	+1.99
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road Lucinda Williams	5	3.01	+1.99
Groovin' The Young Rascals	5	3.03	+1.97
Get Rich Or Die Tryin' 50 Cent	5	3.07	+1.93
Crazysexycool TLC	5	3.08	+1.92
Permission to Land The Darkness	5	3.13	+1.87

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	1	3.65	-2.65
Highway to Hell AC/DC	1	3.63	-2.63
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	1	3.39	-2.39
The Stooges The Stooges	1	3.26	-2.26
Pump Aerosmith	1	3.1	-2.1
A Night At The Opera Queen	2	3.95	-1.95
When I Was Born For The 7th Time Cornershop	1	2.91	-1.91
Gris Gris Dr. John	1	2.89	-1.89
Back In Black AC/DC	2	3.83	-1.83
Songs From The Big Chair Tears For Fears	2	3.75	-1.75

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Metallica	4	4.75
Kanye West	3	5
Miles Davis	4	4.5
Jimi Hendrix	3	4.67
Kendrick Lamar	2	5
OutKast	2	5
Led Zeppelin	4	4.25
Beatles	7	4
Arcade Fire	3	4.33
Michael Jackson	3	4.33
Marvin Gaye	3	4.33

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Robert Wyatt	2	1
AC/DC	2	1.5
Beastie Boys	3	2
Aerosmith	3	2

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Pink Floyd	5, 5, 2
The Stooges	4, 3, 1
Kraftwerk	2, 4, 5

5-Star Albums (61)

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Damn now I wish Spotify had that unplugged version uploaded.

I don’t get it

Some soulful ass white dudes lol

Not even Jay z at the peak of his powers could get me listen to these losers and I’ve been proud of that fact for all this time up until today. As bad as I assumed.

You’re telling me a monkey sung these songs?!?

1-Star Albums (18)

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

All Ratings (1022)

Solid dad rock but I’ve heard more dynamic stuff from both the genre and artist that appeals to me more.

Solid enough but nu metal/rap-rock will never be my main bag.

Classic

Decent enough work from an artist I’ve never found particularly riveting, and that didn’t change here.

Really good. Will probably join the regular rotation.

Possibly higher than a 4 but I didn’t get to pay full attention. Will definitely run it back.

Only one song I really liked (Cherish) and a few I actively wanted to skip make this a 2 for me.

Good stuff but needed a couple of outright banners to make my upper echelon.

Not usually a southern rock guy but really enjoyed this. A couple of undeniable groovers on here for sure.

The music is good but a 2-1/2 hour album doesn’t feel like it fits the nature of this project.

I’d give this a 3.5 if I had the option.

The kind of random, weird album this exercise is ideal for.

Do old head Metallica fans still hate this or are they over that?

The music was good but a bit too droning and aimless for my taste.

Not my favorite collection of songs but I’ll definitely check out their other work.

An all timer. Probably still Kendrick’s best album in that I think it’s the best combination of both artistry and accessibility.

Vibes

Some decent instrumentals, but I’m just never gonna be a rap/rock guy.

Paul Rudd as Kunu voice: “you sound like you’re from London!”

Really good songs but an albums can’t be longer than goodfellas.

I don’t get it

Dope

Every great artist should do one of these.

I was always more into the G-Funk sound as a kid but this is undeniable. Will stay in the rotation forever.

Really good

Really good. Almost made me think of if Max Richter had a band.

Dope

I recognize the historical significance but the mid 80s up tempo early hip hop has never been my favorite sound.

Classic. To Zion is my shit.

Portishead is dope.

Classic. Crown of Love into Wake Up remains one of my favorite back to back couplings of songs on any album.

Only one song is on Spotify.

Really enjoyed this. Great songwriting. Need half stars so I can give this a 4.5

Great of course but I’m more of an I and V guy than an II and III.

Started off slow but grew on me.

Kinda weird

As a big burna boy fan, this hit great. 4.5

4.5

Darlene Love is the best. 4.5

You could make another 5 star album just outta songs that sample the songs on here.

4.5

Sounded like a bunch of AC/DC songs in a row.

Sounded like an average hip hop album from 1991 but in French.

Cool vibe and well done in the rock meets Broadway kind of thing they’re going for but realistically I’m not throwing this on very often.

I had always heard the “all AC/DC” songs sound the same thing but after two of their albums in one week, it’s even worse than I thought.

Impeccable production and the most I like common at any point in his career. 4.5

I’m a simple man. If every song on an album is great, it gets a 5.

I’m so horny, the crack of dawn isn’t safe around me.

I’m just not a beasties guy.

ACAB

Jimmy fuckin Mcnulty

4.5

Kinda slow

I like the music but the vocals weren’t doing it for me.

4.5

Led balloon

Not even Jay z at the peak of his powers could get me listen to these losers and I’ve been proud of that fact for all this time up until today. As bad as I assumed.

4.5

Giving this a 2 for Bohemian Rhapsody and general musical competency, but this really didn’t do it for me. I like Queen more when they’re just straight rocking out and less being “quirky” or “fun” and this felt like more of the latter. Most of these songs bored me and a few outright annoyed me.

Genuinely love this whole endeavor but sometimes I wish someone other than a biritish baby boomer made this list.

This album reminded me of that sopranos episode where Adriana is trying to executive produce a record for the band “Defiler” (lol) and the exasperated studio engineer guy is like “CHORUSES?!? WHERE ARE THE FUCKING CHORUSES?!?”

She’s good at it but an album made up exclusively of some folksy singing and guitar strumming will never be my main bag.

Mad Men theme worthy

When they found Carbone in the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff it took them three days to thaw him out for the autopsy.

An important and seminal record that sounds just a bit too dated compared to what Dre would be producing 2-3 short years later.

Another one of these ones that would only be on this British dudes list

Always found beck to be pretty fucking corny. Like hip hop for rich white liberals who vote blue but lock their doors when driving through the hood.

You’re fucking with me right?

Like a one hit wonder band from the 90’s only without anything that sounded like a hit.

Tom Waits, original mumble rapper?

Damn now I wish Spotify had that unplugged version uploaded.

Groovy at times but there’s absolutely no reason for these songs to be 8 minutes and the rapping is terrible.

I’ve almost viscerally disliked the Beasties for my entire 40 years breathing, but I decided that an endeavor like this 1001 album thing is my (possibly final) chance to see if I can’t come around on them. And while I respect their place in hip hop history, and enjoy some of the production, I just can’t do it. The rap-rock-frat boy-white guy delivery will always be like nails on a chalkboard to me and I blame them for every white rap-rock I’ve hated in the decades that follow. Not for me. Just give me the actual rappers.

Couldn’t really classify what that was but it was pretty cool.

[Ordering drinks in a Havana cafe] Fredo Corleone: Uno... por favor... [to Michael] Fredo Corleone: How do you say "banana daiquiri"? Michael Corleone: "Banana daiquiri."

I’ve long debated how to rate this compared to the classic debut rap records of the time, as it’s much less a personal, artistic statement 50 had been waiting his entire life to make and more of an almost cynical collection of focused grouped singles covering all the necessary bases of the time period (NY gangsta records? Check? R&B tinged song for the ladies? Check. California record, Atlanta record, weed smoking song from a guy who doesn’t even smoke? Check, check, check. Etc). But the reality is those focused grouped singles are phenomenal, backed by immaculate production and 50 spitting his ass off in way he never would again. So while it’s not illmatic or ready to die, it deserves its place among them.

Songs about trees and feet? lol

Some soulful ass white dudes lol

4.5

A little downbeat for my tastes

I liked a lot of this but that rap song in the middle was an abomination.

Was gonna write this off as too British for me but then I got to “There’s Power In a Union” and I have to give it up to the man purely out of respect and solidarity. ✊

Trippy but groovy. Will check out the rest of their discography for sure.

A seminal record but one that’s a bit dated sounding.

What an OG she is. Triple OG

I’m not a huge punk guy but I got into this.

Liked this better than I thought I would but I stopped it after the original first disc, didn’t do the bonus stuff.

Another one of those ones where I wish someone would tell the dude who made this list that every obscure, weirdo British rock band he liked when he was 14 isn’t worthy of sharing with the world.

You can make a better album out of songs that sampled these songs.

Had the wife and I reconsidering our decision not to make babies. 4.5

4.5

Not sure why this needed to be two, completely different albums in one but both were pretty good.

Fuck this pussy ass loser

You’re telling me a monkey sung these songs?!?

Good but a little understated for my tastes.

Cornell, what a fucking beast he was.

This was pretty dope

The opening scene of Belly is so fucking good

Kinda weird in a good way but then the songs just drone on and on aimlessly.

Safe to say at this point that I’m just not a punk guy. Though I feel like I would like a lot of these punk songs if they just did them in half time lol.

A fair mix of slappers and clunkers.

The College Dropout and Good Kid, Madd City are being removed from the next iteration of this list but I assume the policy of including literally every random ass British rock band that had a minor hit song in the 70s or 80s will continue in perpetuity.

Jim is like the “I’m 14 and this is deep” king but I fucking love him. He was put on this earth to sing Roadhouse Blues.

More varied then some of the examples I’m thinking of but I still maintain the only weak part of this whole endeavor is the authors insistence on including seemingly any British band he has ever heard of.

Going 40 years as a white male resident of Long Island I was in danger of having my citizenship revoked for having never listened to an entire Billy Joel album so this came up just in time. Been hearing these songs my entire life to the point that I hate some of them but the good ones are good.

A seminal, timeless classic that sounds just as good today as it did in 2004. A debut record that was a legit turning point in hip hop history, which makes it a turning point in all of music history. That the author of this thing is taking this album off the next iteration of this list is a travesty.

Limp Bizkit’s greatest contribution to pop culture is My Way being used in the promo video before Rock vs Austin at WM 17.

Taylor has some good stuff, I just think the Swifties do her a disservice by grossly overstating her place in music history. No Body, No Crime is probably my favorite swift song ever.

I imagine this is exactly what Kentucky sounded like in 1956 and while some of it is ok, I can’t do 47 minutes of banjos and southern warbling.

As far as I can tell there’s literally only two albums on earth that sound the way The Chronic and Doggystyle do, and Doggystyle might be more consistent song to song. Classic shit.

This was dope. 4.5

Pretty badass. Love seeing the sentiment of “fuck the police” crossing genres, cultural and even linguistic boundaries.

I really wasn’t sure what was going at first but at some point I had to accept that whatever it was, I was enjoying it.

There’s no way the author of this thing genuinely thinks all these random British bands from his hometown are making albums “we need to hear before we die”.

Really wish we could give half grades with this. 5 different ratings isn’t enough differentiation for my taste.

This is the most I’ve liked a punk album so far.

They’re great musicians but I need more structure.

🤷‍♂️

My second favorite white reggae band after 311.

As a lifelong hip hop head I respect the elders but the pre-rakim style of rapping and the pre-the chronic style of beats have always sounded dated to me in a way I never got past. Rock box slaps though.

As a kid during this time period I much preferred the bombastic beats and more aggressive lyrics coming from the west coast artists as compared to the more relaxed, jazzy sound coming from the NY mainstays and 30 years later…that’s still the case lol

I respect the creativity and musicality but none of the actual songs did much for me.

Take me out on the Madden 04 soundtrack is classic shit.

I tend to prefer the stones when they are being funkier/groovier but even more so than that, seeing the movie sinners the other day really affected my enjoyment of this. Listening to the literal white colonizers attempt to sing the blues without any of the actual pain behind the music really fell flat for me.

Shout out to Amityville.

I’m not a swift hater or anything but this all sounded super dated to the mid 2010s. Like a compilation album of songs that played in commercials for the gap.

“Hey, I believe in God, man. I’ve seen him, I’ve felt his power. He plays drums for Led Zeppelin and his name is John Bonham, baby!”

The music is decent enough but the neo-liberal flag hugging has always come off so corny to me that I can’t get into the boss. If America’s political spectrum wasn’t a complete abomination *this* would be the music of the conservatives.

What a slapper. I remember bringing this to Amanda Sullivan’s 13th birthday pool party in 1997 and everyone loved it but Amanda’s dad was like what the fuck are you guys listening to lol

A colossal, towering achievement. The Godfather Part II of albums.

This 1001 endeavor is funny because one day you’re listening to To Pimp a Butterfly and the next day you’re listening to some random, nondescript British band where I can only assume some of the band members are relatives of the original list author.

Pablo is awesome but this was Kanye’s peak. Also, I love all the sanctimonious Pearl clutching from listeners who give Kanye albums a 1 and then turn around and throw 5 stars to all the classic rock rapists and pedophiles lol.

That was fun.

I wasn’t a huge punk guy proof to this endeavor (and though I liked a few of the punk albums given to me, including this one, it probably will be my never one genre) but one thing I absolutely fucking love and respect about this genre is how economical the albums are. Every punk album I get recommended is like Total Number of Tracks: 17. Total Runtime: 21 minutes. lol I love it.

As someone whose life was changed when The Chronic came out, I owe quite a debt to Parliament and this album in particular.

I’ve hated the title track of this album my entire life so I imagine my surprise when I really liked the rest of it (minus that terrible American pie cover).

Easily the greatest French concept album about the seduction, statutory rape, and subsequent murder of a teenage girl that I’ve ever heard. Honestly I can’t even think of another contender to the crown.

Take 5 coming on during the monopoly game in Sopranos Home Movies is just 🤌🤌🤌

That version of Fever was anemic lol

Rumor has it The Blueprint classic Couldn’t even be stopped by Bin Laden…

The best analogy I can come up with for cream is that cream is to Led Zeppelin what the movie The Town is to Heat.

You’re fucking with me right??? Lmao

Eminem fully falls off after those first three solo albums and the 8 Mile soundtrack but this remains his opus.