1001 Albums Summary

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Larks' Tongues In Aspic King Crimson	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Highway to Hell AC/DC	1	3.66	-2.66
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand	1	3.57	-2.57
Electric Music For The Mind And Body Country Joe & The Fish	1	2.85	-1.85
Dire Straits Dire Straits	2	3.72	-1.72
The Score Fugees	2	3.69	-1.69
...Baby One More Time Britney Spears	1	2.67	-1.67
At Newport 1960 Muddy Waters	2	3.55	-1.55
Marquee Moon Television	2	3.5	-1.5
Tres Hombres ZZ Top	2	3.42	-1.42
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears The Mamas & The Papas	2	3.42	-1.42

Popular Reviews

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

1/5

It would be cool to find some modern defense of this, but it's just way too artificial to find any interest in. Spears has a good voice and the hits are catchy (but in an annoying way). The worst era of pop?

1 likes

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Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

3/5

Surprised it was David Byrne's singing that held me back from loving this. Really loved the odd delivery and exaggerated emotion on some songs but it veered into silly too often. Love the groovy music and steel drums and chimes.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

Just great vibes that set a chill mood but tons there to appreciate with more intentional listening.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

3/5

Confirms my very odd preference for the two Beastie Boys instrumental albums. I just don't find their rapping/singing that fun to listen to, but the music is such a cool mix of funk and rock and hiphop.

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

How do you get voices and instruments to sound this clean and shimmering in the 70s? Just the coolest vibes.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

2/5

Just didn't grab me like I hoped. I Shall Be Released is still one of my favorite songs ever, though.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

He's pretty cool, really love the guitar and harmonica combo. He's a little too cute for me to ever love the way I love Leonard Cohen.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Immigrant Song is so cool but nothing else on this album is to me. I think it's mostly Robert Plant's vocal.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

2/5

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

1/5

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

4/5

Holy shit, this was cooking. I think I had a very wrong idea of what this album would be.

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

2/5

Cheeky, kinda funky and kinda funny, not my vibe

Cross

Justice

4/5

Stress is like the platonic ideal of a dance party vibe to me.

The Score

Fugees

2/5

Feels lame to not like this but this era of hip-hop doesn't grab me.

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

2/5

Good voice, dorky production/ instrumentation

Sincere

Mj Cole

1/5

The British electronic scene of the late 90s/early 00s had the highest highs but also the lowest lows.

Franz Ferdinand

1/5

British Strokes... yuck

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

I really expected to hate this, but it was pretty tight. The organ is just a totally uncool instrument though.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

She's pretty cool, could use a little more variety

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Impossible voice

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

1/5

Not abrasively bad but left my brain two seconds after I listened to it

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Love this, they're great

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

I liked it so much more than Freewheelin'. Great sound, playful but not silly, catchy, funny.

Boston

4/5

Dorky as hell, cool as hell

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

1/5

Dorky as hell, not cool at all

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

2/5

Sounds just like Steely Dan but somehow isn't Steely Dan... except for that one song about the radio station.

New York Dolls

2/5

Rocks hard but didn't grab me

Dire Straits

2/5

I wish the whole album was as good as Sultans of Swing

Marquee Moon

Television

2/5

I dunno, didn't leave any impression

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

2/5

This book/list is too British

Among The Living

Anthrax

3/5

Great sounding guitars, but the vocals were weirdly mixed. Never had this critique before.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

2/5

Cute, kind of catchy, didn't grab me

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Kinda catchy, doesn't do it for me like The Beatles

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

Neat, a mixed bag like most Queen albums

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

2/5

Perfectly fine, just not for me

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

2/5

Good blues, I just don't like blues that much

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Good, sad, a little simple, I like his following albums more

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

2/5

Cute, doesn't grab me

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

2/5

The extremely rare feeling that technological improvement has made a piece of music redundant.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

It's got two of my favorite singles from the Stones ever but the rest didn't grab me that hard.

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

2/5

Silly to rate it like this because it clearly has ambitious, talent, and intelligence, but it felt like listening to a Monty Python/ Terry Gilliam skit for 40 minutes.

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

3/5

Vibed with this, fun album

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

Very cool but something about White's songwriting/ lyrics doesn't win me over fully

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

Quirked up Beatles