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BjörkWarning/Spoiler Alert: There are 2 more Bjork albums in the list of 1001.
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Jan 05 2024
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin4
Jan 08 2024
Boston
Boston5
Jan 09 2024
Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits4
Jan 10 2024
Doggystyle
Snoop Dogg1
Jan 11 2024
Pink Moon
Nick DrakeOne great song, one good one and the rest just sort of blended together.
2
Jan 12 2024
Fromohio
fIREHOSE3
Jan 15 2024
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West1
Jan 16 2024
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
The Mamas & The PapasHard to rate something this old and pre-rock with today’s ears. 2 really good songs, and another above-average one, great harmonies. Would probably lean to 2.5 if it was an option.
3
Jan 17 2024
Kollaps
Einstürzende NeubautenA couple of these were almost listenable.
1
Jan 18 2024
Tuesday Night Music Club
Sheryl CrowDefinitely not a 5 but a solid core of songs, almost dragged down to a 3 by the na-na song.
4
Jan 19 2024
Ten
Pearl Jam5
Jan 22 2024
Red Headed Stranger
Willie Nelson5
Jan 23 2024
xx
The xx5
Jan 24 2024
MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana4
Jan 25 2024
The Band
The BandThe textures in the music really make it a rich sounding album for something so folksy. The stories and harmonies add depth and make it pretty unique.
5
Jan 26 2024
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public EnemyChuck D’s voice is unstoppable.
5
Jan 29 2024
At Folsom Prison
Johnny CashThis is definitely not a generic “live” album. The performances are great and the inmates makes themselves heard at all the right (wrong) lines.
5
Jan 31 2024
Second Toughest In The Infants
Underworld3
Feb 01 2024
Junkyard
The Birthday Party1
Feb 02 2024
Goo
Sonic Youth2
Feb 05 2024
Bayou Country
Creedence Clearwater Revival2
Feb 06 2024
Station To Station
David Bowie4
Feb 07 2024
Smile
Brian Wilson4
Feb 08 2024
Ghosteen
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds5
Feb 09 2024
Ellington at Newport
Duke Ellington5
Feb 12 2024
Hot Rats
Frank ZappaI think this is the first time I have knowingly listened to any music by Zappa. Whatever I expected this wasn’t it. Enjoyed the musicianship and the mix of carefully arranged and improvised parts.
5
Feb 13 2024
Sea Change
BeckLoved the sounds, could’ve used some more variation.
4
Feb 14 2024
Aladdin Sane
David Bowie2
Feb 15 2024
Imperial Bedroom
Elvis Costello & The Attractions3
Feb 16 2024
Lust For Life
Iggy Pop2
Feb 19 2024
Black Holes and Revelations
MuseThere is a lot going on here.
3
Feb 20 2024
We Are Family
Sister Sledge3
Feb 21 2024
Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading2
Feb 22 2024
Among The Living
Anthrax1
Feb 23 2024
There's No Place Like America Today
Curtis Mayfield4
Feb 26 2024
Dusty In Memphis
Dusty Springfield3
Feb 27 2024
The Stranger
Billy JoelSomehow I didn’t know these were all on one release.
5
Feb 28 2024
Groovin'
The Young Rascals3
Feb 29 2024
Want One
Rufus Wainwright2
Mar 01 2024
The Modern Lovers
The Modern Lovers4
Mar 04 2024
Amnesiac
Radiohead3
Mar 05 2024
Imagine
John Lennon4
Mar 06 2024
Band On The Run
Paul McCartney and Wings4
Mar 07 2024
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
The Incredible String Band1
Mar 08 2024
Olympia 64
Jacques Brel1
Mar 11 2024
Machine Head
Deep Purple4
Mar 13 2024
Zombie
Fela Kuti4
Mar 14 2024
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes5
Mar 15 2024
The Cars
The Cars5
Mar 18 2024
Time Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet5
Mar 19 2024
Urban Hymns
The Verve5
Mar 20 2024
This Year's Model
Elvis Costello & The AttractionsI was on the fence about 4 stars or 5 until I got to Radio Radio.
5
Mar 21 2024
Talk Talk Talk
The Psychedelic Furs3
Mar 22 2024
More Specials
The Specials3
Mar 25 2024
The Gershwin Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald5
Mar 26 2024
Nevermind
Nirvana5
Mar 27 2024
La Revancha Del Tango
Gotan Project5
Mar 28 2024
Fever Ray
Fever Ray3
Mar 29 2024
Dig Your Own Hole
The Chemical Brothers4
Apr 01 2024
Aja
Steely DanThe sound is amazingly clear.
3
Apr 02 2024
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand3
Apr 03 2024
Cloud Nine
The Temptations3
Apr 04 2024
Destroy Rock & Roll
Mylo4
Apr 05 2024
Electric Prunes
The Electric Prunes2
Apr 08 2024
Neon Bible
Arcade Fire3
Apr 09 2024
Harvest
Neil Young4
Apr 10 2024
Myths Of The Near Future
Klaxons1
Apr 11 2024
Graceland
Paul Simon5
Apr 12 2024
The Grand Tour
George Jones5
Apr 15 2024
Meat Is Murder
The Smiths3
Apr 16 2024
On The Beach
Neil Young4
Apr 17 2024
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Bill Callahan2
Apr 18 2024
1999
Prince5
Apr 19 2024
Maverick A Strike
Finley Quaye3
Apr 22 2024
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic MonkeysThe lyrics are pretty clever, and it took me a second listen to appreciate the music. I feel like I want to start speaking with a British accent or at least go watch a Ted Lasso episode.
4
Apr 23 2024
Moving Pictures
RushI have never turned the volume down on Limelight. I still skip the weirder ones, but I like the rest of it too much go below 5.
5
Apr 24 2024
Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury
The Disposable Heroes Of HiphoprisyThe book compares this favorably to PE, and I hear the similarities - but not nearly as good musically, lyrically or in delivery.
2
Apr 25 2024
Vespertine
BjörkWarning/Spoiler Alert: There are 2 more Bjork albums in the list of 1001.
1
Apr 29 2024
Rock 'N Soul
Solomon Burke4
Apr 30 2024
James Brown Live At The Apollo
James BrownThe beginning of Night Train made me think of the Eddie Murphy impersonation from Raw.
3
May 01 2024
New Forms
Roni Size2
May 02 2024
Machine Gun Etiquette
The Damned4
May 03 2024
Born To Be With You
Dion3
May 06 2024
Parallel Lines
Blondie4
May 07 2024
Debut
Björk2
May 08 2024
Be
Common4
May 09 2024
All Hope Is Gone
Slipknot3
May 10 2024
Better Living Through Chemistry
Fatboy Slim3
May 13 2024
Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin4
May 14 2024
A Love Supreme
John Coltranetest notes?
5
May 15 2024
Very
Pet Shop Boys3
May 16 2024
Hot Fuss
The Killers3
May 17 2024
Planet Rock: The Album
Afrika Bambaataa3
May 20 2024
Sound of Silver
LCD Soundsystem3
May 21 2024
Deja Vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young5
May 22 2024
Next
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band1
May 24 2024
It's A Shame About Ray
The Lemonheads5
May 27 2024
Blur
Blur3
May 28 2024
Axis: Bold As Love
Jimi Hendrix4
May 29 2024
The Boatman's Call
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds5
May 31 2024
Survivor
Destiny's ChildI wonder if this is the album that started the trend of the overdone vocal flourishes in pop music?
2
Jun 03 2024
Stand!
Sly & The Family Stone4
Jun 04 2024
You've Come a Long Way Baby
Fatboy Slim4
Jun 05 2024
Dirt
Alice In Chains3
Jun 06 2024
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Small FacesI wish I could watch a video of my face while listening to the entirety of the last song on this album.
2
Jun 07 2024
Snivilisation
Orbital2
Jun 10 2024
Hard Again
Muddy Waters5
Jun 13 2024
Queen II
Queen2
Jun 17 2024
Music From Big Pink
The Band4
Jun 18 2024
Stankonia
OutKast2
Jun 19 2024
A Grand Don't Come For Free
The Streets2
Jun 20 2024
At Budokan
Cheap Trick5
Jun 21 2024
Two Dancers
Wild BeastsIf this was remade as an instrumental album I would give it another star.
3
Jun 24 2024
Lost In The Dream
The War On Drugs2
Jun 25 2024
Fear Of A Black Planet
Public Enemy5
Jun 27 2024
A Short Album About Love
The Divine Comedy1
Jul 01 2024
Ill Communication
Beastie Boys5
Jul 02 2024
Frank
Amy Winehouse2
Jul 04 2024
Kings Of The Wild Frontier
Adam & The Ants1
Jul 05 2024
American Beauty
Grateful Dead4
Jul 08 2024
Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk5
Jul 09 2024
Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin5
Jul 10 2024
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective2
Jul 11 2024
Underwater Moonlight
The Soft Boys3
Jul 15 2024
Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette3
Jul 16 2024
At Fillmore East
The Allman Brothers Band3
Jul 17 2024
Fun House
The Stooges2
Jul 29 2024
Live!
Fela Kuti2
Jul 30 2024
Blunderbuss
Jack White4
Aug 01 2024
D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle
Throbbing GristleThere is no reason I needed to hear that album before I die.
1
Aug 05 2024
London Calling
The Clash5
Aug 06 2024
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan5
Aug 07 2024
Beach Samba
Astrud Gilberto3
Aug 08 2024
Electric Warrior
T. Rex2
Aug 09 2024
I See You
The xx3
Aug 12 2024
Birth Of The Cool
Miles Davis3
Aug 13 2024
My Aim Is True
Elvis Costello5
Aug 14 2024
Solid Air
John Martyn3
Aug 15 2024
Timeless
Goldie2
Aug 16 2024
Now I Got Worry
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion1
Aug 19 2024
C'est Chic
CHIC3
Aug 20 2024
Dummy
Portishead3
Aug 21 2024
Rio
Duran Duran3
Aug 23 2024
Buffalo Springfield Again
Buffalo Springfield3
Aug 26 2024
Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club5
Aug 27 2024
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds3
Aug 28 2024
Pink Flag
Wire3
Aug 29 2024
Joan Baez
Joan Baez2
Aug 30 2024
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs
Marty Robbins3
Sep 03 2024
Dookie
Green Day4
Sep 04 2024
#1 Record
Big Star5
Sep 05 2024
Maxinquaye
Tricky3
Sep 06 2024
Too Rye Ay
Dexys Midnight Runners3
Sep 09 2024
Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones5
Sep 12 2024
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
The Byrds4
Sep 13 2024
Life's Too Good
The Sugarcubes2
Sep 16 2024
The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden2
Sep 17 2024
Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
Otis Redding5
Sep 19 2024
Strangeways, Here We Come
The Smiths4
Sep 20 2024
Live At The Harlem Square Club
Sam Cooke4
Sep 23 2024
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, Stills & Nash5
Sep 24 2024
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Neil Young & Crazy Horse3
Sep 25 2024
Arular
M.I.A.3
Sep 26 2024
Night Life
Ray Price4
Sep 30 2024
Come Away With Me
Norah Jones5
Oct 01 2024
Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones5
Oct 02 2024
Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts
The Adverts2
Oct 03 2024
The Nightfly
Donald Fagen2
Oct 04 2024
Jazz Samba
Stan Getz4
Oct 07 2024
Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division4
Oct 14 2024
Coat Of Many Colors
Dolly Parton5
Oct 15 2024
Green
R.E.M.4
Oct 16 2024
British Steel
Judas Priest2
Oct 17 2024
The Rising
Bruce Springsteen4
Oct 21 2024
Madman Across The Water
Elton John3
Oct 22 2024
Surfer Rosa
Pixies3
Oct 25 2024
Bandwagonesque
Teenage Fanclub3
Oct 28 2024
Fear Of Music
Talking Heads2
Oct 29 2024
Mothership Connection
Parliament4
Oct 30 2024
Ctrl
SZA2
Oct 31 2024
The Joshua Tree
U25
Nov 01 2024
Protection
Massive Attack3
Nov 04 2024
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest4
Nov 05 2024
Aftermath
The Rolling Stones3
Nov 06 2024
Being There
Wilco5
Nov 07 2024
Heartbreaker
Ryan Adams5
Nov 08 2024
Electric Music For The Mind And Body
Country Joe & The Fish2
Nov 11 2024
Wild Is The Wind
Nina Simone2
Nov 12 2024
Back In Black
AC/DC5
Nov 13 2024
Double Nickels On The Dime
Minutemen3
Nov 14 2024
Ananda Shankar
Ananda Shankar2
Nov 15 2024
Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple1
Nov 18 2024
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel4
Nov 20 2024
Sulk
The Associates1
Nov 21 2024
OK
Talvin Singh2
Nov 22 2024
Vauxhall And I
Morrissey3
Nov 25 2024
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus4
Nov 26 2024
Blonde On Blonde
Bob Dylan3
Nov 27 2024
Melody A.M.
Röyksopp3
Dec 02 2024
Purple Rain
Prince5
Dec 04 2024
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers2
Dec 05 2024
Play
Moby4
Dec 06 2024
Green Onions
Booker T. & The MG's4
Dec 09 2024
Guero
Beck2
Dec 11 2024
Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses5
Dec 16 2024
In A Silent Way
Miles Davis3
Dec 18 2024
Vivid
Living Colour3
Dec 19 2024
Superunknown
Soundgarden4
Dec 23 2024
21
Adele3
Dec 24 2024
Songs In The Key Of Life
Stevie Wonder4
Dec 31 2024
Superfly
Curtis Mayfield3
Jan 01 2025
Technique
New Order2
Jan 02 2025
Gasoline Alley
Rod Stewart2
Jan 06 2025
Fulfillingness' First Finale
Stevie Wonder3
Jan 07 2025
Endtroducing.....
DJ Shadow4
Jan 08 2025
In Our Heads
Hot Chip2
Jan 09 2025
Sound Affects
The Jam4
Jan 10 2025
Marquee Moon
Television4
Jan 13 2025
Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis5
Jan 14 2025
Born In The U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen4
Jan 15 2025
Devil Without A Cause
Kid Rock1
Jan 16 2025
We're Only In It For The Money
The Mothers Of Invention1
Jan 17 2025
Central Reservation
Beth Orton3
Jan 20 2025
Music in Exile
Songhoy Blues3
Jan 21 2025
Rubber Soul
Beatles5
Jan 22 2025
Synchronicity
The Police4
Jan 24 2025
The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
Badly Drawn Boy3
Jan 28 2025
At San Quentin
Johnny Cash4
Jan 29 2025
The Only Ones
The Only Ones3
Jan 31 2025
Ramones
Ramones5
Feb 03 2025
Cosmo's Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival5
Feb 04 2025
Different Class
Pulp2
Feb 05 2025
Illmatic
Nas3
Feb 06 2025
3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul4
Feb 07 2025
A Walk Across The Rooftops
The Blue Nile2
Feb 10 2025
Licensed To Ill
Beastie Boys4
Feb 11 2025
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley4
Feb 12 2025
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg
Jerry Lee Lewis4
Feb 13 2025
Doolittle
Pixies5
Feb 14 2025
3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...
Arrested Development5
Feb 17 2025
The World is a Ghetto
War3
Feb 18 2025
The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths5
Feb 19 2025
Tanto Tempo
Bebel Gilberto3
Feb 20 2025
Honky Tonk Masquerade
Joe Ely3
Feb 21 2025
Third
Soft Machine1
Feb 24 2025
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers5
Feb 25 2025
Highway to Hell
AC/DC3
Feb 26 2025
Catch A Fire
Bob Marley & The Wailers4
Feb 27 2025
Duck Rock
Malcolm McLaren2
Feb 28 2025
A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse
Faces3
Mar 03 2025
The Bends
Radiohead5
Mar 04 2025
Deep Purple In Rock
Deep Purple2
Mar 05 2025
Natty Dread
Bob Marley & The Wailers4
Mar 06 2025
Rip It Up
Orange Juice1
Mar 07 2025
Pump
Aerosmith2
Mar 10 2025
Chirping Crickets
Buddy Holly & The Crickets4
Mar 11 2025
Get Behind Me Satan
The White Stripes2
Mar 12 2025
Crime Of The Century
Supertramp2
Mar 13 2025
Coles Corner
Richard Hawley3
Mar 14 2025
Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen5
Mar 17 2025
Rumours
Fleetwood Mac5
Mar 18 2025
Africa Brasil
Jorge Ben Jor4
Mar 19 2025
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols5
Mar 20 2025
Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan3
Mar 21 2025
Meat Puppets II
Meat Puppets2
Mar 24 2025
Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones4
Mar 25 2025
Innervisions
Stevie Wonder4
Mar 28 2025
Fear and Whiskey
Mekons2
Mar 31 2025
Surrealistic Pillow
Jefferson Airplane2
Apr 01 2025
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Red Hot Chili Peppers4
Apr 02 2025
Calenture
The Triffids2
Apr 03 2025
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Sinead O'Connor2
Apr 04 2025
First Band On The Moon
The Cardigans2
Apr 07 2025
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Santana4
Apr 08 2025
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Beatles4
Apr 09 2025
Phaedra
Tangerine Dream2
Apr 10 2025
Scott 2
Scott Walker1
Apr 11 2025
Scott 4
Scott Walker1
Apr 14 2025
Blue Lines
Massive Attack4
Apr 15 2025
Bossanova
Pixies4
Apr 16 2025
Revolver
Beatles5
Apr 17 2025
Bubble And Scrape
Sebadoh2
Apr 21 2025
Funeral
Arcade Fire3
Apr 22 2025
Morrison Hotel
The Doors3
Apr 23 2025
Haunted Dancehall
The Sabres Of Paradise2
Apr 24 2025
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
PJ Harvey4
Apr 25 2025
The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
The 13th Floor Elevators2
Apr 28 2025
The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe2
Apr 29 2025
2112
Rush4
Apr 30 2025
Kilimanjaro
The Teardrop Explodes2
May 01 2025
Lost Souls
Doves4
May 02 2025
No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)
Motörhead4
May 05 2025
At Newport 1960
Muddy Waters4
May 06 2025
Green River
Creedence Clearwater Revival4
May 07 2025
Fishscale
Ghostface Killah1
May 08 2025
Live At The Witch Trials
The Fall1
May 09 2025
Rejoicing In The Hands
Devendra Banhart3
May 12 2025
Illinois
Sufjan Stevens3
May 13 2025
Stardust
Willie Nelson4
May 14 2025
Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park2
May 15 2025
Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth2
May 19 2025
Odessey And Oracle
The Zombies2
May 28 2025
Shake Your Money Maker
The Black Crowes5
May 29 2025
Ys
Joanna NewsomAs the Apple Music summary says, “there is no easy entry point”. Thankfully, it was pretty easy to find my exit.
1
May 30 2025
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Brian EnoAlbums that seem to be made to reflect skill with cutting edge technology age about as well as a smart phone.
2
Jun 02 2025
In Rainbows
Radiohead4
Jun 03 2025
The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest4
Jun 05 2025
Copper Blue
Sugar4
Jun 06 2025
Red Dirt Girl
Emmylou Harris2
Jun 10 2025
Who's Next
The Who5
Jun 11 2025
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Frank Sinatra2
Jun 12 2025
Grievous Angel
Gram Parsons4
Jun 17 2025
Beauty And The Beat
The Go-Go's4
Jun 18 2025
Woodface
Crowded House3
Jun 20 2025
Bert Jansch
Bert Jansch2
Jun 23 2025
KIWANUKA
Michael Kiwanuka5
Jun 24 2025
The Köln Concert
Keith Jarrett4
Jun 25 2025
Oedipus Schmoedipus
Barry Adamson2
Jun 26 2025
One World
John Martyn2
Jun 30 2025
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles5
Jul 02 2025
Since I Left You
The Avalanches4
Jul 08 2025
Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins3
Jul 09 2025
Clandestino
Manu Chao4
Jul 11 2025
A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Coldplay5
Jul 14 2025
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden4
Jul 15 2025
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin5
Jul 18 2025
Hot Shots II
The Beta Band4
Jul 21 2025
Teen Dream
Beach House3
Jul 22 2025
Homework
Daft Punk3
Jul 23 2025
Heaven Or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins3