1001 Albums Summary

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943
Albums Rated
3.1
Average Rating
87%
Complete
146 albums remaining

Rating Distribution

Rating Timeline

Taste Profile

1950
Favorite Decade
Soul
Favorite Genre
US
Top Origin
Balanced
Rater Style ?
102
5-Star Albums
52
1-Star Albums

Breakdown

By Genre

Top Styles

By Decade

By Origin

Albums

You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Fear and Whiskey
Mekons
 5 2.6 +2.4
Third/Sister Lovers
Big Star
 5 2.8 +2.2
One World
John Martyn
 5 2.81 +2.19
Gold
Ryan Adams
 5 2.83 +2.17
The Gilded Palace Of Sin
The Flying Burrito Brothers
 5 2.91 +2.09
Coles Corner
Richard Hawley
 5 3.03 +1.97
White Ladder
David Gray
 5 3.05 +1.95
Mermaid Avenue
Billy Bragg
 5 3.16 +1.84
Step In The Arena
Gang Starr
 5 3.17 +1.83
The Blueprint
JAY Z
 5 3.18 +1.82

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
The Fat Of The Land
The Prodigy
 1 3.4 -2.4
Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park
 1 3.39 -2.39
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
 1 3.32 -2.32
You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
 1 3.32 -2.32
Peter Gabriel 3
Peter Gabriel
 1 3.29 -2.29
Cross
Justice
 1 3.27 -2.27
In The Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra
 1 3.27 -2.27
The Real Thing
Faith No More
 1 3.21 -2.21
Songs Of Love And Hate
Leonard Cohen
 1 3.2 -2.2
Songs From A Room
Leonard Cohen
 1 3.16 -2.16

Artists

Favorites

ArtistAlbumsAverage
Neil Young 4 4.75
Led Zeppelin 4 4.5
Stevie Wonder 4 4.5
Nirvana 3 4.67
R.E.M. 3 4.67
Van Morrison 3 4.67
The Smashing Pumpkins 2 5
Aretha Franklin 2 5
Stan Getz 2 5
Bruce Springsteen 5 4.2
Marvin Gaye 3 4.33
Bob Marley & The Wailers 3 4.33
The Smiths 3 4.33
The Rolling Stones 5 4

Least Favorites

ArtistAlbumsAverage
Leonard Cohen 5 1.2
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 5 1.4
Robert Wyatt 2 1
Tom Waits 4 1.75
Emerson, Lake & Palmer 2 1.5
Public Image Ltd. 2 1.5
The Prodigy 2 1.5
Sepultura 2 1.5
Slipknot 2 1.5
Aerosmith 3 2
Tim Buckley 3 2
Björk 4 2.25
Brian Eno 4 2.25

Controversial

ArtistRatings
Pink Floyd 4, 1, 5, 4
Peter Gabriel 1, 4
Lou Reed 5, 2
David Bowie 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 3, 5
Bruce Springsteen 5, 4, 5, 2, 5

5-Star Albums (102)

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Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Teen Dream One World Dusty In Memphis KIWANUKA The Score Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Exile On Main Street Ellington at Newport Fever To Tell Third/Sister Lovers Deja Vu A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse Let's Get It On The Low End Theory MTV Unplugged In New York The Joshua Tree Maggot Brain I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You Darkness on the Edge of Town Rumours Siamese Dream Odessey And Oracle Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Getz/Gilberto Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul London Calling Back At The Chicken Shack Pink Moon Lady Soul The Bends Automatic For The People Innervisions Is This It The Queen Is Dead The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Cheap Thrills Ten The World is a Ghetto Superunknown The Köln Concert Pearl Superfly Sound of Silver Mermaid Avenue What's Going On Harvest Pet Sounds The Stone Roses Hot Buttered Soul Grace Nebraska The Genius Of Ray Charles Moondance The Gilded Palace Of Sin Jazz Samba Step In The Arena Tonight's The Night On The Beach Paranoid Let's Stay Together The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill If You're Feeling Sinister Fear Of A Black Planet The Cars Home Is Where The Music Is OK Computer Live! Coles Corner Wish You Were Here Transformer Back To Black Led Zeppelin IV Fear and Whiskey Astral Weeks Catch A Fire Time Out Led Zeppelin II Come Away With Me Nevermind American Idiot White Ladder Aladdin Sane Songs In The Key Of Life Tidal Gold Talking Book The Blueprint (What's The Story) Morning Glory Darklands I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Crooked Rain Crooked Rain Fleet Foxes Hot Fuss Dummy Kind Of Blue The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Electric Warrior Strangeways, Here We Come Live At The Harlem Square Club Green Born To Run

Popular Reviews

Moondance by Van Morrison

Maybe the best A side on any album ever.

Figure 8 by Elliott Smith

Low end of the 4 range.

Kenza by Khaled

Wasn't sure how I felt. Deserves more listens. Will revisit

1-Star Albums (52)

Germfree Adolescents Cross Beyond Skin The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter Swordfishtrombones The Madcap Laughs Logical Progression Kollaps Songs Of Love And Hate Ogden's Nut Gone Flake Darkdancer Reign In Blood Sulk Tarkus Real Life The Real Thing En-Tact Go Girl Crazy Peter Gabriel 3 The White Room Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water Shleep Public Image: First Issue Vulgar Display Of Power You Want It Darker Junkyard Now I Got Worry Songs From A Room The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn The Fat Of The Land Arise Scum New Boots And Panties Rock Bottom Next Punishing Kiss In The Wee Small Hours Hybrid Theory D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle Oar Tank Battles Devil Without A Cause Calenture Duck Stab/Buster & Glen Henry's Dream Murder Ballads Slipknot Opus Dei I'm Your Man KE*A*H** (Psalm 69) Cupid & Psyche 85

All Ratings (943)

Vol. 4 by Black Sabbath
Jan 01 2024
Rapture by Anita Baker
Jan 08 2024
Odessa by Bee Gees
Jan 11 2024
KIWANUKA by Michael Kiwanuka
Jan 23 2024
Porcupine by Echo And The Bunnymen
Jan 26 2024
Shalimar by Rahul Dev Burman
Jan 31 2024
Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Feb 03 2024
Ghosteen by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Feb 07 2024
Safe As Milk by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Feb 11 2024
Horses by Patti Smith
Feb 14 2024
Aja by Steely Dan
Feb 28 2024
Oxygène by Jean-Michel Jarre
Mar 04 2024
Rocks by Aerosmith
Mar 08 2024
Deja Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Mar 12 2024
Bad by Michael Jackson
Mar 20 2024
Remedy by Basement Jaxx
Mar 22 2024
25 by Adele
Mar 23 2024
Cross by Justice
Mar 28 2024
Boston by Boston
Apr 02 2024
xx by The xx
Apr 09 2024
Scott 2 by Scott Walker
Apr 17 2024
Faith by George Michael
Apr 26 2024
Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
May 13 2024
Casanova by The Divine Comedy
May 17 2024
Tommy by The Who
Jun 06 2024
Third by Soft Machine
Jun 09 2024
Exodus by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Jun 17 2024
Juju by Siouxsie And The Banshees
Jun 19 2024
Kollaps by Einstürzende Neubauten
Jun 23 2024
3 + 3 by The Isley Brothers
Jun 25 2024
Dare! by The Human League
Jun 26 2024
Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
Jul 10 2024
S&M by Metallica
Jul 16 2024
Low by David Bowie
Aug 06 2024
Siembra by Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
Aug 18 2024
Murmur by R.E.M.
Aug 19 2024
Blur by Blur
Aug 21 2024
Sulk by The Associates
Aug 28 2024
Tarkus by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Sep 08 2024
2112 by Rush
Sep 18 2024
Guero by Beck
Sep 20 2024
Smash by The Offspring
Oct 06 2024
Ten by Pearl Jam
Oct 12 2024
En-Tact by The Shamen
Oct 20 2024
Tusk by Fleetwood Mac
Oct 28 2024
Pearl by Janis Joplin
Nov 01 2024
1984 by Van Halen
Nov 02 2024
Superfly by Curtis Mayfield
Nov 05 2024
Dust by Screaming Trees
Nov 06 2024

I enjoyed this album. Not a 5 but better then a 4

1989 by Taylor Swift
Nov 30 2024
Harvest by Neil Young
Dec 06 2024
Funeral by Arcade Fire
Dec 21 2024
Want Two by Rufus Wainwright
Dec 29 2024
Eagles by Eagles
Dec 30 2024
Debut by Björk
Jan 05 2025
Shleep by Robert Wyatt
Jan 13 2025
Grace by Jeff Buckley
Jan 14 2025
Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen
Jan 15 2025
Moondance by Van Morrison
Jan 24 2025

Maybe the best A side on any album ever.

Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel
Jan 31 2025
Shaka Zulu by Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Feb 03 2025
Suede by Suede
Feb 08 2025
Elephant by The White Stripes
Feb 15 2025

3.5

m b v by My Bloody Valentine
Feb 20 2025
Junkyard by The Birthday Party
Feb 23 2025
Too Rye Ay by Dexys Midnight Runners
Mar 02 2025
Kenya by Machito
Mar 07 2025
Yeezus by Kanye West
Mar 13 2025
1999 by Prince
Mar 20 2025
Music by Madonna
Mar 23 2025
Arular by M.I.A.
Mar 24 2025
Want One by Rufus Wainwright
Mar 29 2025
Ys by Joanna Newsom
Apr 09 2025
Scott 4 by Scott Walker
Apr 14 2025
Thriller by Michael Jackson
Apr 28 2025
Nixon by Lambchop
Apr 29 2025
Arise by Sepultura
May 03 2025
Survivor by Destiny's Child
May 05 2025
Scum by Napalm Death
May 10 2025
Frank by Amy Winehouse
Jun 05 2025
D by White Denim
Jun 10 2025
Very by Pet Shop Boys
Jun 11 2025
Manassas by Stephen Stills
Jun 12 2025
Smile by Brian Wilson
Jun 13 2025
Next by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Jun 16 2025
Brothers by The Black Keys
Jun 19 2025
Figure 8 by Elliott Smith
Jun 27 2025

Low end of the 4 range.

Live! by Fela Kuti
Jun 28 2025
Mask by Bauhaus
Jul 21 2025
Goo by Sonic Youth
Jul 23 2025
Deserter's Songs by Mercury Rev
Jul 26 2025

3.5. would be a 3 but Hole increases the score

Lost Souls by Doves
Jul 27 2025

Maybe need to revisit this one

Apocalypse Dudes by Turbonegro
Aug 03 2025

I listened to it and am now moving on.

McCartney by Paul McCartney
Aug 08 2025

This is a 2 but +1 for maybe I'm amazed

Oar by Alexander 'Skip' Spence
Aug 11 2025
Dry by PJ Harvey
Aug 14 2025
LP1 by FKA twigs
Aug 26 2025
New Forms by Roni Size
Aug 29 2025

This was ok. I want to revisit at some point

Kenza by Khaled
Aug 30 2025

Wasn't sure how I felt. Deserves more listens. Will revisit

Dookie by Green Day
Sep 14 2025
Idlewild by Everything But The Girl
Sep 18 2025
Dirty by Sonic Youth
Sep 21 2025
1977 by Ash
Sep 22 2025
Damaged by Black Flag
Oct 10 2025
Freak Out! by The Mothers Of Invention
Oct 20 2025
Bug by Dinosaur Jr.
Oct 21 2025
Time Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Nov 07 2025
90 by 808 State
Nov 26 2025
Sister by Sonic Youth
Dec 17 2025
Kid A by Radiohead
Dec 22 2025
Femi Kuti by Femi Kuti
Jan 03 2026

A solid 3.5 i would gladly listen to this again but wouldn't go buy it.

New York Dolls by New York Dolls
Jan 04 2026

I enjoy bands that built upon this work more than the work itself. Solid middle the road for me.

Imagine by John Lennon
Jan 10 2026
Tidal by Fiona Apple
Jan 12 2026
Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Jan 15 2026
Gold by Ryan Adams
Jan 16 2026
Tom Tom Club by Tom Tom Club
Jan 18 2026

Im giving this a 3. But its better than that, but nit a 4 for me.

Tical by Method Man
Jan 19 2026
Vivid by Living Colour
Jan 21 2026
Dirt by Alice In Chains
Feb 20 2026
The Message by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Feb 24 2026
Darklands by The Jesus And Mary Chain
Mar 07 2026
Triangle by The Beau Brummels
Mar 10 2026
Berlin by Lou Reed
Mar 12 2026
Be by Common
Mar 24 2026
Stripped by Christina Aguilera
Mar 28 2026
Groovin' by The Young Rascals
Mar 29 2026
Phaedra by Tangerine Dream
Mar 30 2026
Drunk by Thundercat
Apr 03 2026
GI by Germs
Apr 07 2026
Pump by Aerosmith
Apr 09 2026
Hejira by Joni Mitchell
Apr 14 2026
Dummy by Portishead
Apr 22 2026
Play by Moby
Apr 27 2026
Heroes by David Bowie
May 30 2026
The Scream by Siouxsie And The Banshees
Jun 01 2026
Truth by Jeff Beck
Jun 14 2026
Armed Forces by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Jun 19 2026
Third by Portishead
Jun 29 2026
Cut by The Slits
Jul 11 2026
B-52's by The B-52's
Jul 13 2026
Roots by Sepultura
Jul 16 2026
Ctrl by SZA
Jul 20 2026
Green by R.E.M.
Jul 21 2026

Balanced

Average rating is within 0.15 points of global average.

Other

Album origins are grouped into three buckets: US, UK, and everything else. “Other” means the artists you rate highest are from outside the US and UK.