My 1001 Albums Journey

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Albums Rated

3.15

Average Rating

94%

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1980

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Metal

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Perfectionist

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Albums

You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby Girls Against Boys	5	2.66	+2.34
Atomizer Big Black	5	2.75	+2.25
Among The Living Anthrax	5	2.86	+2.14
Gentlemen The Afghan Whigs	5	2.89	+2.11
Truth And Soul Fishbone	5	2.96	+2.04
Spiderland Slint	5	2.97	+2.03
Copper Blue Sugar	5	2.98	+2.02
Dig Me Out Sleater-Kinney	5	3.07	+1.93
At Budokan Cheap Trick	5	3.1	+1.9
Pyromania Def Leppard	5	3.13	+1.87

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Aja Steely Dan	1	3.48	-2.48
Ambient 1/Music For Airports Brian Eno	1	3.07	-2.07
Coles Corner Richard Hawley	1	3.03	-2.03
The Nightfly Donald Fagen	1	3.02	-2.02
The Sounds Of India Ravi Shankar	1	2.85	-1.85
Live / Dead Grateful Dead	1	2.81	-1.81
Deja Vu Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	2	3.7	-1.7
A Grand Don't Come For Free The Streets	1	2.63	-1.63
In A Silent Way Miles Davis	2	3.61	-1.61
Aladdin Sane David Bowie	2	3.6	-1.6

Artists

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Artist	Albums	Average
Nirvana	3	5
AC/DC	2	5
Led Zeppelin	5	4.2
Prince	3	4.33
Johnny Cash	3	4.33
Beastie Boys	3	4.33

Controversial

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Artist	Ratings
Metallica	5, 3, 2, 5
Neil Young	5, 3, 2, 4

5-Star Albums (51)

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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Popular Reviews

One of my favorite bands.

1-Star Albums (11)

All Ratings (1027)

Classic, great first choice for me to start this experiment.

Superb. I probably wouldn’t have appreciated it in 1981, but regret not listening to this sooner.

Not for me I guess. Reminded me of CCR and Tom Petty but not as good.

Excellent

Didn’t age that well. Comes off kinda corny in 2023. This most surprising thing was that it was an R&B record with a few rap songs too. Can’t deny the cultural significance of the record though

Not bad. About what I expected, a folkier version of Band of Horses, who are my favorite of the Neil Young rehashes of that timeframe popularized by My Morning Jacket

Very good. Still a voice I am not a fan of, but the songwriting is undeniable

One of my favorite bands.

Very good, kicking myself for not listening to it before.

Really good punk record. Not really what I expected.

Pretty good, some unexpected experimental sounds.

Another classic

Very good

One of my all time favorite albums

Had some moments, but seemed kind of bland

Pretty good

Very good early new wave is how I would describe them

Keyboard heavy Van Halen but still a classic

Good record

Good record, can definitely hear the beginnings of industrial metal

It was pretty good, nothing ground breaking, but definitely a solid record.

Juana’s Addiction

Classic

Solid record

Solid record for later day Bowie

Pretty good

I liked it. It was someone I’d never heard of.

Meh

I can see how this would be influential, but not something I’m gonna ever listen to again

Very good

Good but dated

Still holds up and the amount of n words is still shocking.

About what I expected, not bad but not my cup of tea

Full of classics

Not a fan of 80s synth heavy prog rock.

All this time I thought I hated Steely Dan. Turns out they’re very good

Super weird and super catchy.

Quite good

God bless the Bomb Squad. Better than I remember, but no “Nation of Millions”

I know Biggie is supposed to be one of the greatest, but he’s too misogynistic and derivative to me. Didn’t compare well with Public Enemy either who preceded this choice.

Not as strong overall as I remembered.

Enjoyed it a lot

Never even heard of these guys and US Spotify is missing a lot of the original album tracks but did have most of the bonus tracks. Pretty heavy for 1967.

Pretty good but nothing special to my ears

Hadn’t heard of this band despite them being pretty modern.

Solid record

Not my favorite Depeche Mode record, but still quite good

Not bad. Jazz just doesn’t do it for me I guess

Never got into Air and never saw the movie, but I bet this was the perfect soundtrack. Makes me want to watch the movie.

Meh

I always wanted to like Massive Attack more than I actually do.

Strong record, great for rainy days like yesterday was for me

Didn’t like it

Didn’t like it.

Foundational record for sure

One of my favorites

A little too “challenging” for me to get into with only 1 or 2 listens

I never really “Brass in my pocket”, but this was pretty darn good

Really good

Classic collection of Christmas staples, pity about Phil Spector’s name being attached though

Would be higher rated if Dave’s voice didn’t bug me so much

Nothing special to my ears, but not my cup of tea

Most of the tracks on the album aren’t available on US Spotify

I knew I didn’t like Steely Dan…

So many songs