My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Albums you rated higher than global average

Album	You	Global	Diff
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water	5	2.47	+2.53
Pump	5	3.11	+1.89
Peter Gabriel	5	3.22	+1.78
Fragile	5	3.32	+1.68
Brilliant Corners	5	3.33	+1.67
Tommy	5	3.35	+1.65
Eliminator	5	3.38	+1.62
At Fillmore East	5	3.39	+1.61
Cheap Thrills	5	3.43	+1.57
...And Justice For All	5	3.43	+1.57

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Albums you rated lower than global average

Album	You	Global	Diff
Neon Bible	1	3.35	-2.35
Fear Of A Black Planet	1	3.34	-2.34
Good Old Boys	1	2.86	-1.86
Colour By Numbers	1	2.84	-1.84
Nixon	1	2.76	-1.76
California	1	2.68	-1.68
All Directions	2	3.46	-1.46
The ArchAndroid	2	3.46	-1.46
Suicide	1	2.46	-1.46
There's No Place Like America Today	2	3.37	-1.37

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Favorite Artists

Artists with 2+ albums and high weighted score

Artist	Albums	Avg	Score
Queen	3	4.67	3.83
Metallica	2	5	3.8

5-Star Albums (32)

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Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Limp Bizkit

5/5

Nostalgia bias for me. Listened to this hundreds of times when I was younger.

2 likes

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

1/5

If I could give it 0 stars I would.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (8)

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Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

Singer needs to sound less… distressed? Some songs sounded like they influenced Modest Mouse but were slow and repetitive. Kinda boring and same-y sounding through the album. I can see why some people would like it but not for me. Prayers For Rain sounds cool.

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Audio production and mixing was great. I kept thinking throughout the album that if this wasn’t Cash, but sounded exactly the same, it wouldn’t have been popular. Hurt is obviously one exception. Still, I’m a fan of Cash, a fan of acoustic focused music, so I enjoyed the playthrough.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

I really like innovative and creative music and the Rockefeller Skank has more creativity in it than most other bands entire albums. That song and Praise are ubiquitous at this point. Even if you haven’t listened to them you’ve heard them. Listening through the whole album, it got a bit repeated and same-y though dropping it down a point. Vocal sample repeated and stuttered over top of big drums. When I read it was just a guy recording everything in his basement on an Atari with floppies it bumped it back up for me. I really wish I could give this a 4.5 or 4.75 stars, so close to a perfect album.

All Directions

The Temptations

2/5

Meh. At least it wasn’t long. I ain’t got nothin’ was kinda a fun song.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

Not bad. Pretty clever. Very different for its time with good variety. It didn’t feel like a slog through the album.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

5/5

People playing instruments. It’s good.

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

2/5

Taken out of context, some songs are pretty good. But as an ALBUM, what the hell... This has to be satire. Literally every song, every single one, even the one he “slowed down”, was a 1-4-5 blues/boogie woogie progression with almost no variation. Good energy, but I can’t rate this album higher than a 2 due to the lack of creativity.

Joan Armatrading

4/5

First artist on this list I had no idea who they are. Had some pretty cool songs, good guitar work, and good singing. The recording and mixing is really well done too.

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

2/5

Not for me

Pump

Aerosmith

5/5

Heard it a bunch of times on the radio and so I’m basically sick of these songs, but that doesn’t mean it’s not good. Glad to have listened to the whole album.

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

3/5

I would go see this band live. Sounds super fun. Almost like if the pixies hired Iron Maiden’s guitarist and the sax player from Billy Joel. The singer is exhausting though. The only words I could pick out through the album were “MY MIND IS A PLaStIC BaG” and her tone is… exhausting. That knocks it down a full point from like a 4.5 to a 3.5.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

3/5

There are some really good songs on this but I’m not a fan of the old, weirdly intervaled harmonies. Like the endings of (at least) the last 5 songs on the album. It’s a 3 star album with some 5 star songs.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

Solid album with creative writing. Don’t usually like the 80s super compressed drums with a ton of reverb, but this one was okay.

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Catchy 80’s trash. It’s fine.

System Of A Down

4/5

I don’t think this is their best album, but it’s still System of a Down. Lead vocalist is very unique and unmistakable. Songs are super dynamic and energetic.

Peter Gabriel

5/5

I actually really liked this one. Had a lot of variety.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

4/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

5/5

Spoonman was one of my favorite songs in my youth. So many of these still get (probably way too much) air time on the radio. This album almost sounds generic but it’s just because we’ve heard it so many times.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

It’s okay. Not really rememberable.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

1/5

I don’t really listen to lyrics when I’m listening to music so there could be a decent message in this album, but the rappers had no flow, there were no catchy choruses or hooks, the beats were exhausting with annoying sounds and never changing. Old rap doesn’t age too well. Not for me. I’m glad I heard the reno911 theme song in full.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Guitar in this one was great.

1984

Van Halen

5/5

Nothing quite like them before, and nothing quite like them since. Eddie completely changed the game with what is possible with guitar and inspired so many after him. The band kind of feels like they are always on the edge of disaster with their off/odd timing sections but always pull it back together. Great choruses, creative songs, fantastic guitar.

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

Huge fan of the white stripes. Listened to them sooo much when I was in high school. Distilled down blues rock power duo with innovative song writing and instrumentation. Nice variety. Some people may claim it’s “simple” but that’s the best part.

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

2/5

It’s okay.

Eternally Yours

The Saints

4/5

It was pretty good. Didn’t have to hear the album twice though. The singer could be better but the music was fun.

Stankonia

OutKast

3/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

4/5

There was some good stuff on this album. 4.5/5

Suede

4/5

No Other

Gene Clark

4/5

The Band

4/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

If you don’t rate this one a 5 stars you’re wrong. It’s one of the best selling albums of all time for a reason.

Close To You

Carpenters

4/5

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

1/5

According to Merriam Webster, music is “vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony”. This album had mechanical sounds, a little bit of rhythm on some songs, and that’s about it. This was an album of art more than it was an album of music. I like music. I can usually appreciate the innovation of someone trying some new or different, but this just sounded like someone playing around in garage band doing random stuff for the sake of being random.

Aja

Steely Dan

5/5

Josie is a great song

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

5/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Street Life

The Crusaders

4/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

Not their best album.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

5/5

Fragile

Yes

5/5

Favorite album so far. Not my favorite yes album, but it’s up there. Heart of the sunrise is great.

Lost Souls

Doves

3/5

This is sleepy music

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

4/5

The xx

3/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

5/5

Garbage

4/5

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

5 star songs ruined by the sounds of the 80’s… 80s drums sound so unnatural it’s annoying to listen to. There’s a reason that drum tone stayed in the 80s.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

5/5

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

This album would be a 1 star but there were occasional glimpses of things that were fun to listen to. Everything else was annoying. I think this album was the only one so far that I was mad I had to listen to it.

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

5/5

Nostalgia bias for me. Listened to this hundreds of times when I was younger.

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

4/5

I really liked this one! It’s pop with real instruments instead of weird synth soundscape stuff and drum machines. Underappreciated is under appreciated, that’s a good song.

Metallica

5/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

The Grand Tour

George Jones

3/5

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

3/5

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

3/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

5/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

1/5

Horrible and uninteresting.

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

A little repetitive but the riffs/grooves were good.

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

4/5

I never heard of these guys but I actually really liked the album. Drummer was great and unique guitar almost like a mix between black keys, cake, and cage the elephant plus toned down rap/talking vocals.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

2/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

Medúlla

Björk

2/5

If you listen to the whole thing, there are glimpses of catchy, good music, but it’s more artsy than music for me.

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

3/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Sulk

The Associates

2/5

Goo

Sonic Youth

3/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

The Specials

2/5

Would have got three stars but it’s too long with a lot of the same stuff.

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

3/5

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

Suicide

1/5

Pretty boring. No drums. Uses gore and shock as its source of interest which is pretty cheap and easy. I suppose no one else really sounded like that at the time, but that doesn’t mean it’s good.

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

2/5

California

American Music Club

1/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

3/5

War

4/5

Good songs but there was just something… off about the recordings. Maybe too much compression making it sound more like pop instead of rock songs?