My 1001 Albums Journey

Albums Rated

3.43

Average Rating

Complete

1002 albums remaining

Rating Distribution

Rating Timeline

Taste Profile

1960

Favorite Decade

Soul

Favorite Genre

Top Origin

Curator

Rater Style ?

5-Star Albums

1-Star Albums

Breakdown

By Genre

Top Styles

By Decade

By Origin

Albums

You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
John Barleycorn Must Die Traffic	5	3.17	+1.83
Goo Sonic Youth	5	3.24	+1.76
The College Dropout Kanye West	5	3.31	+1.69
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	5	3.34	+1.66
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	5	3.4	+1.6
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground	5	3.53	+1.47
Mothership Connection Parliament	5	3.61	+1.39
Wild Is The Wind Nina Simone	5	3.64	+1.36
Sheer Heart Attack Queen	5	3.64	+1.36
Tea for the Tillerman Cat Stevens	5	3.67	+1.33

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
...And Justice For All Metallica	1	3.42	-2.42
Spiderland Slint	1	2.97	-1.97
Walking Wounded Everything But The Girl	1	2.97	-1.97
KEAH** (Psalm 69) Ministry	1	2.69	-1.69
Guero Beck	2	3.45	-1.45
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	2	3.43	-1.43
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	2	3.39	-1.39
Elvis Presley Elvis Presley	2	3.37	-1.37
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	2	3.31	-1.31
High Violet The National	2	3.24	-1.24

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Kanye West	2	5

5-Star Albums (16)

View Album Wall

1-Star Albums (4)

All Ratings

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Pale blue eyes favourite song, good pacing, no skips

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Solid album no skips

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

2/5

Only good song is in the end

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Consistently great

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Slow start, great after first 3/4 songs

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

3/5

Interesting very experimental tough to get into

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Beautiful

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

Perfect album, no skips

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

3/5

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Pretty good improved as it went on

High Violet

The National

2/5

Boring

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

3/5

Strong start followed by pretty good album

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

2/5

Disingenuous

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

Ethereal and moving

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

Solid album with no skips and some great songs

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

5/5

Incredible album, John barleycorn is a transcendental song

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

Incredibly powerful emotional album

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Pretty decent album. Live versions of the songs are better.

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

Great pre-shoegaze album

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Beautiful short folk album

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Non-stop infectious pop-rock

2112

Rush

3/5

Very good prog rock but nothing transcendental

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Too High is a weak opener but then it is back to back bangers.

The Libertines

3/5

Decent jangly English pop rock

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

No skips, great Supertramp prog pop

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

No skips solid Smiths album with a more varied sound than their other albums but a weaker second half. High point is Death of a Disco Dancer.

Suzanne Vega

3/5

Joni Mitchellesque pop folk ballads with no skips and some real highlights such as Marlene on the wall, Small blue thing, and Undertow.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

5/5

One of the greatest albums ever made no filler at all. Almost cut my hair is one of the best songs ever and one of my favourite solos.

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

3/5

Great Afro-fusion album with great solos

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Non stop power rock no skips hot for teacher is the highlight

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

Incredible live jazz album no skips and truly live can hear audience throughout

1999

Prince

4/5

Incredible opening followed by great album with non stop beat and no real skips

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

Decent album preview of what was to come

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

3/5

Solid punk album with no skips and some highlights in buy her candy, Jenny, and turn it on

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Great early rock and soul album no skips

The Coral

3/5

Solid garage rock album no skips

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Kitschy album with some ok songs

Guero

Beck

2/5

Patchy album with some interesting songs. Highlights are broken drum and farewell ride.

Leftism

Leftfield

3/5

Pretty interesting techno album but not my favourite genre so didn’t finish the album.

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Solid crazy horse post punk album highlight is love to burn

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

3/5

Talking heads esque solid album no skips highlight is gravity never failed and souvenir

Metallica

3/5

Great highlights and overall solid album

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Elevated blaxploitation soundtrack

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Title track is maybe greatest guitar solo ever and rest of the album is solid funk album

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Solid reggae album no weak points

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

Solid early rock/blues album

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Mostly vapid pop rock. Never been a fan of Elvis Costello.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

No skips seminal rap album with incredible beats.

The Cars

4/5

Incredible pop album with infectious hooks

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

5/5

No skips incredible rap album kanye’s magnum opus

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

3/5

Solid pop album with some bangers

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Incredible soul album, one woman is the highlight

Elvis Presley

2/5

Mix of solid ballads and bad covers of great songs by black artists

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

1/5

Not a fan of metal

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

Solid album but third best of their’s. Fairytale of New York is the best Christmas song,

...And Justice For All

Metallica

1/5

Not a fan of metal

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Solid album heavily influenced by Radiohead

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

3/5

Solid pop album

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Great alternative album no skips, all my friends, sound of silver, and New York, I love you but you’re bringing me down are highlights

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Classic live album great songs and very funny

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

3/5

Solid early alternative album no skips

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

3/5

Fun album not what I normally listen too

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

Funky Zappa album solid

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

Seminal hip hop album with funny skits and no skips incredible highlights are Spaceship, Jesus Walks, Never Let Me Down, Through The Wire, Family Business

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

2/5

Interesting electronic album but not very compelling

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

This version of Hurt is one of my favourite songs of all time, When the Man Comes Around is the best Johnny Cash original in my opinion and the rest of the covers are great and contribute to the overall retrospective theme of the album

Spiderland

Slint

1/5

Falls into a genre I typically like but didn’t move me at all

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

Solid pop album, highlights are homemade dynamite and liability

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

1/5

Uninspiring