My 1001 Albums Journey

475

Albums Rated

2.77

Average Rating

44%

Complete

614 albums remaining

Rating Distribution

Rating Timeline

Taste Profile

2010

Favorite Decade

Metal

Favorite Genre

Other

Top Origin ?

Perfectionist

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1-Star Albums

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Albums

You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Wild Wood Paul Weller	5	3.09	+1.91
Rid Of Me PJ Harvey	5	3.12	+1.88
Dear Science TV On The Radio	5	3.16	+1.84
Hysteria Def Leppard	5	3.2	+1.8
1989 Taylor Swift	5	3.26	+1.74
Achtung Baby U2	5	3.3	+1.7
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	5	3.32	+1.68
Figure 8 Elliott Smith	5	3.33	+1.67
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below OutKast	5	3.45	+1.55
The ArchAndroid Janelle Monáe	5	3.45	+1.55

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	1	3.62	-2.62
Lost In The Dream The War On Drugs	1	3.38	-2.38
Fun House The Stooges	1	3.27	-2.27
Teen Dream Beach House	1	3.26	-2.26
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg Jerry Lee Lewis	1	3.26	-2.26
Emergency On Planet Earth Jamiroquai	1	3.26	-2.26
The Idiot Iggy Pop	1	3.22	-2.22
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Aphex Twin	1	3.21	-2.21
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo Devo	1	3.15	-2.15
Bluesbreakers John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers	1	3.15	-2.15

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	2	5
Beatles	4	4.25
Nirvana	3	4.33

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
David Bowie	6	2
Pet Shop Boys	2	1.5
The Stooges	2	1.5
The Velvet Underground	2	1.5

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Pink Floyd	2, 5
The Mothers Of Invention	4, 1
Kings of Leon	4, 1, 2
The Rolling Stones	4, 2, 5

5-Star Albums (23)

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1-Star Albums (39)

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

All Ratings (475)

8/10 really fun

8/10 versatile and interesting

Some great songs and some filler. 4/5

Over and Over not exactly a ripper of an opener. The Ledge picks things up but not exactly something I’d want to listen to again. It’s at least musically interesting. Think About Me is kind of just there. Not offensive, not great. Save Me A Place tries to be ambitious. Kind of see this sound later with REM. More interesting than actually good to listen to. Sara sounds like a more traditional Fleetwood Mac song, very pretty. What Makes You Think You’re The One is a rowdy Buckingham number. Not bad. Storms is pretty, another song that actually sounds like a FM track. That’s All for Everyone is fun, kind of wacky. Sounds like it was more fun to make than listen to. Not That Funny is not that good either. Abrasive. Sisters of the Moon is atmospheric, good beat. Angel has me convinced I’m Team Stevie not Team Lindsey That’s Enough For Me is a rollicking Lindsey song. A little frantic and fun. Brown Eyes is a pretty Christine song. Bit meandering. Never Make Me Cry is another pretty Christine song. Not really memorable. I Know I’m Not Wrong is another LB jam, a little more reserved and the better for it. Honey Hi is another Christine song, pretty but slight Beautiful Child is a longer Stevie song, not bad Walk A Thin Line is pretty good, layered and solid. Maybe my favorite song on this weird album. Tusk follows almost like a blend and it’s boisterous and fun Album closer Never Forget has some nice playing on it. Pleasant enough way to end the sprawling album. Was this a double LP when it was released? It has 20 songs on it. 6/10

10/10 goes from strength to strength

Well crafted but not my thing. 7/10

Rough with every song sounding identical. 1/4

Never listened to Bob Dylan before. Really captivating. 4/5

Not something I’d go back to again and again but it was pleasant enough

First ever listen to Taylor. Loved it! Such pretty singing and instrumentation

Cheery and lush

Absolutely fantastic

Expected to like this a lot more than I did

Like elevator music

Completely unlistenable

Certainly a variety

Diverse and often beautiful

Much better than I expected

Not bad but not memorable either

Second David Bowie album I’ve heard this week, he’s just not my cuppa

I know this is supposed to be a masterpiece and I really tried but it just sounds so cloying and awful. If this site had 1/2 stars I’d go even lower.

Thought this would be unlistenable, and the vocals are, but the guitar playing is intricate and interesting.

Aside from the hit singles a bit of a chore to get through

Not nearly as bad as some of the 1 star reviews will have you believe.

Steve Hogarth’s hero is mine too now. Wow.

Music was 3 stars but negative 4 stars for the “singing”

As I’m listening it goes from a 3 to a 4. Just endlessly inventive and fun

Like other listeners have noted, the singing is pretty poor

Remember this being a lot better in 1987

All the haters saying Depeche Droned or whatever corny pun can pound sand this shit slaps.

Jesus enough fucking Bowie

Almost offensively bland

Not on Spotify can’t be too important, sorry nerds

Kind of dreary affair all around

So abrasive I can’t even

What a delightful surprise

I get that it’s an important record but I found it unlistenable except for the title track. Don’t mind that it’s manufactured by music scientists it just doesn’t sound good at all.

Much better than I expected

Such pretty singing. No one sings like them anymore.

Remember when this came out, loved it then and love it now. Madonna has turned into something different these days but this is really bright and fun.

First side is really mediocre. No hooks. Side two is marked improvement but not really enough to save the whole endeavor. I’d like to round up to three stars out of respect for Prince but the album really doesn’t deserve it. Prince is an interesting artist in that he has SO MANY crazy-great songs but man alive so much more middling crap.

It’s interesting rather than actually good

Oh for the love 2 stars barely

Two great songs and a lot of filler but those two songs are super great

Has its strengths but the songs sound the same after a while

Really dull

2 star cavalcade continues

That voice, that’s why his supposedly marvelous songs aren’t on the radio. It’s like a dog whistle.

The voice being the star-subtractor here

Like Beck, minus the hooks or sense of humor

The singles slap but the other songs are pretty pedestrian

Mostly boring but just quirky enough to be fun. Amazed at their popularity

All you unoriginal reviewers squawking about how BC sound like The Rolling Stones pick up your Obviously But button on the way to the next Nick Cave record

Complete nonsense

Not their best (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath) but great nonetheless.

Barely a two. Not surprised I’ve never heard of this

Taken individually the songs are more or less ok but a whole album of that is really repetitive.

The cultural appropriation posts about this were almost comical enough to make this album something but nope. Cute singer though

Had high expectations based on how much other artists that I like revere the Furs but it was kind of awful. The vocals I mean

The vocals took a full star away