My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Fifth Dimension The Byrds	5	3.07	+1.93
Music For The Jilted Generation The Prodigy	5	3.07	+1.93
Immigrés Youssou N'Dour	5	3.08	+1.92
Street Life The Crusaders	5	3.09	+1.91
School's Out Alice Cooper	5	3.2	+1.8
Bad Company Bad Company	5	3.26	+1.74
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg Jerry Lee Lewis	5	3.28	+1.72
Live And Dangerous Thin Lizzy	5	3.32	+1.68
Fear Of A Black Planet Public Enemy	5	3.34	+1.66
Elvis Presley Elvis Presley	5	3.38	+1.62

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground	1	3.53	-2.53
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes	1	3.5	-2.5
Pornography The Cure	1	3.31	-2.31
Daydream Nation Sonic Youth	1	3.3	-2.3
Me Against The World 2Pac	1	3.25	-2.25
Rust In Peace Megadeth	1	3.24	-2.24
The Bends Radiohead	2	4.01	-2.01
Tical Method Man	1	2.94	-1.94
Elephant The White Stripes	2	3.86	-1.86
Rejoicing In The Hands Devendra Banhart	1	2.82	-1.82

Artist	Albums	Average
R.E.M.	3	4.33

Artist	Ratings
The Prodigy	2, 5

The Police

3/5

Reggatta De Blanc, The Police Message in a Bottle -- great song, well remembered Reggatta de Blanc -- title cut, another great one Bring on the Night -- good tune, beat, lyric Deathwish -- great intro, good beat Walking on the Moon -- famous tune Any Other Day -- upbeat amusing lyric The Bed's Too Big Without You -- Contact -- Does Everyone Stare -- cool inventive lyric, nice beat No Time This Time --

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

5/5

ArchAndroid, Janelle Monáe (2010) Suite II Overture - fraught, ethereal Dance or Die -- a bit of Santana's beat, electric cool, dense rap lyric (need to read lyric) Faster - pop beat dance tune, nice lyric & melody Locked Inside - intro beat reminds me of Michael Jackson (Thriller album) Sir Greendown -- melody tempo like 60s teen lover songs, ~ dreamer Cold War - bold Ka-BOOM dense lyric ballad, This is a cold war Do you know what your're fighting for? (need to read lyric), fast tempo (disco) Thugga Massina -- blues-y male rap, down-beat tempo, electric synth melody -- didn't work for me Tightrope - pop rap upbeat tempo contrasts with lyric, dance tempo, brass! in interlude (horns -- sweet!) Neon Gumbo -- electric entro, lyric in tongues? perfect track title Oh, Maker -- (laugh) show tune intro, oom-pah-pah beat, musical Come Alive -- another show tune style (electric turbo Streisand, Stoney End) Mushrooms & Roses -- stoned effect (vocals thru special equip) slow elec amusing lyric, her name is ...uh... Suite III Overture -- Broadway expressive opening & chorus (like Moon River in full Wonderland livery -- Judy Garland, Rogers & Hammerstein Neon Valley Street -- sweet love song, slow dance rhythm, rap interlude Make the Bus -- neon sound & lyric, pop dance tune "won' t make the bus" -- bit of Queen (rhapsody) Wonderland -- another etherial track, amusing, reminds my of Knopfler's way of writing offbeat humor into serious criticism 57821 -- lovely, multi-voice (echo) lead, sweet & tough with great melody Say You'll Go -- soft melody & voice contrast with gritty lyric BaBopByeYa -- broadway show tune intro (with horns!) -- show tune style lyric -- orchestral, with a tenor clarinet, harp, great piano, violin -- and rap! Glad I did not die without hearing this album.

Liquid Swords

GZA

3/5

Liquid Swords, Genius/GZA Liquid Swords - rap with musical beat, catch few words of lyric Duel of the Iron Mic - inventive story intro, otherwise ditto Living in the World Today - ditto - melody is short loop repeated ~ Gold - ditto Cold World - ditto Labels - ditto 4th chamber - ditto Shadowboxin' - ditto Hell's Wind Staff - mixed conversations over segue to melody + rap lyric Investigative Reports -- rap over background conv. intro, ditto style Swordsman -- ditto I Gotcha Back - ditto - sick throat-slit ending B.I.B.L.E. - ditto

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Sufjan Stevens, Illinoise (2005) Concerning the UFO Sighting - wow, piano, male vocal need to read lyric The Black Hawk War - martial instrumental Come on! Feel the Illinoise! - vocal, upbeat, lyric hard to follow John Wayne Gacy, Jr - soft vocal, sweet melody finger-picking guitar Jacksonville - piano & violin intro jazzy blues-y upbeat, vocal, need lyric Decatur - banjo, upbeat instrumental, soft vocal, need lyric Chicago - another upbeat instrumental intro, soft lyric Casimir Pulaski Day - another toe-tapping finger-picking guitar intro, soft lyric -- cancer? bittersweet lyric. Banjo interlude over guitar, horn (trumpet) interlude, The Man of Metropolis - instrumental intro, head-banger + musical, vocal follows, head-banger interlude Prairie Fire -- synth, keyboard, space-y intro with voice over in echo effect A Conjunction of Drones -- 20 second synth The Predatory Wasp -- whispery music & lyric (need to see to understand) They Are Night Zombies - great piano elec guitar intro, swing tempo In This Temple -- fantasy synth sustain echo The Seer's Tower -- piano intro w synth background, soft vocal The Tallest Man -- piano intro, hands clapping, swing beat, horns Out of Egypt - another synth fantasy intro, story-like techno instrumental

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

5/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

5/5

Brilliant! Eric Clapton epic.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

2/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin