1001 Albums Summary

Listening statistics & highlights

Albums Rated

3.25

Average Rating

Complete

1045 albums remaining

Rating Distribution

Rating Timeline

Taste Profile

1960

Favorite Decade

Rock

Favorite Genre

Top Origin

Curator

Rater Style ?

5-Star Albums

1-Star Albums

Breakdown

By Genre

Top Styles

By Decade

By Origin

Albums

You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
1989 Taylor Swift	5	3.26	+1.74
From Elvis In Memphis Elvis Presley	5	3.34	+1.66
Tres Hombres ZZ Top	5	3.41	+1.59
One Nation Under A Groove Funkadelic	5	3.43	+1.57
Aqualung Jethro Tull	5	3.43	+1.57
Mothership Connection Parliament	5	3.61	+1.39
Hounds Of Love Kate Bush	5	3.62	+1.38
The Low End Theory A Tribe Called Quest	5	3.7	+1.3
Sticky Fingers The Rolling Stones	5	3.86	+1.14
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine	5	3.98	+1.02

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Arrival ABBA	1	3.53	-2.53
The La's The La's	1	3.14	-2.14
Talk Talk Talk The Psychedelic Furs	1	3.03	-2.03
Smokers Delight Nightmares On Wax	1	2.91	-1.91
Destroyer KISS	1	2.85	-1.85
Back In Black AC/DC	2	3.84	-1.84
The Madcap Laughs Syd Barrett	1	2.62	-1.62
Butterfly Mariah Carey	1	2.48	-1.48
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	2	3.41	-1.41
Daydream Nation Sonic Youth	2	3.29	-1.29

5-Star Albums (10)

View Album Wall

1-Star Albums (7)

All Ratings

Back In Black

AC/DC

2/5

Either rock masterfully distilled to its bare essence or humerously remedial bullshit. Did your grandpa own a van? This is what he was playing when he got your grandma pregnant. In the van.

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

As Dennis told me, it’s not music, it’s propaganda. Should be required listening for every high schooler in the US. Whoever doesn’t like it must be deported.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

asks the question: What if Led Zeppelin was even more gay? Answers the question: It would be fucking fabulous!

British Steel

Judas Priest

4/5

This album makes KISS completely unnecessary. One of the best album covers ever.

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

2/5

Sexless art school vomit. 3-0-1

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

5/5

R&B fulfilling its promise as some outer-space, face-melting sheeeet. 5-2-4

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

5/5

This ren faire fucks. 5-2-3

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

Eat your vegetables 3-4-4

Arrival

ABBA

1/5

Making disco safe for straight, white people.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Maybe a reasonable case for cultural appropriation. 3-4-3

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

4/5

Americans doing Brits doing Americans doing rock n roll. 2-2-6

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

4/5

The darkness is creeping. 2-7-1

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

The aliens have already landed, and they’re funkier than us. 6-1-3

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

Girl nerd beats pretentious British prog rockers at their own game.

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

2/5

The hipster soundtrack to the powerful and quickly faded BLM moment.

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Honest hope for a nicer world. 1-7-0

1989

Taylor Swift

5/5

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

3-5-6

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

1/5

Shit floating. Still better than Whitney. 0-1-0

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

Serge Gainsbourg and Bruce Springsteen stumble through a night in the 90s London club scene.

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Best country album of 2002. 3-5-1

Destroyer

KISS

1/5

A difficult listen. 1-1-1

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

3/5

It’s not as important as the critics think it is, but it’s still a good time. 4-2-2

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

3/5

Good jazz is good. 5-4-2

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

“Low End Theory” makes “Empire State of Mind” sound like it’s about Schenectady. 6-3-4

The Blueprint

JAY Z

2/5

The Dale Carnegie of hip-hop.

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Variations on a musical theme. 3-3-3

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

3/5

Let me take my cute pixelated car for a jaunt at a reasonable speed STRAIGHT INTO DRACULA’S DUNGEON.

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

2/5

The four freshmen grow up a little.

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

A major leap forward for stiff-ass German computer nerd jamzzz.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Mopey folkie embraces his inner Beatles.

Me Against The World

2Pac

4/5

One of the last, great gasps of the boom-bap era.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

Not as good as the real Elvis, but Brits can only do so much.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

5/5

Elvis had to die so this glorious music could live on.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

2/5

It’s fine

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Drugs are bad but maybe also great?

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

1/5

Was this supposed to be a Talk Talk album instead?

The Bends

Radiohead

3/5

Not weird enough yet.

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

1/5

Sad. Mostly in a bad way. This list is too British.

The La's

1/5

Proof there are not 1001 albums you must listen to.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

5/5

Fucking beautiful

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

1/5

My god

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Stones + muscle shoals = masterpiece.

...And Justice For All

Metallica

3/5

Some great songs, and maybe my favorite Metallica, but the production is garbage