My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Olympia 64	5	2.77	+2.23
Scott 4	5	2.8	+2.2
Want Two	5	2.84	+2.16
Freak Out!	5	2.84	+2.16
I Am a Bird Now	5	2.84	+2.16
Millions Now Living Will Never Die	5	2.88	+2.12
Ingenue	5	2.94	+2.06
The Last Of The True Believers	5	2.95	+2.05
No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)	5	3.06	+1.94
Oxygène	5	3.08	+1.92

Album	You	Global	Diff
All Hope Is Gone	1	2.7	-1.7
Californication	2	3.7	-1.7
Slipknot	1	2.67	-1.67
A Grand Don't Come For Free	1	2.67	-1.67
Timeless	1	2.53	-1.53
Imagine	2	3.45	-1.45
Hybrid Theory	2	3.39	-1.39
Shake Your Money Maker	2	3.29	-1.29
Slippery When Wet	2	3.29	-1.29
Bluesbreakers	2	3.16	-1.16

Artist	Albums	Average
Talking Heads	3	5
Beatles	4	4.5
The White Stripes	3	4.67
Public Enemy	2	5
The Cure	2	5
Fela Kuti	2	5
David Bowie	5	4.2
The Velvet Underground	3	4.33

Artist	Albums	Average
Slipknot	2	1

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

So much funnn

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

Damn, I was so enjoying being snooty and saying how boring I found her. Great! Fun! I didn't realise how many songs I already knew through osmosis.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Ah man I was really hoping to get more into this. Great but not super exciting, not pulling me in. I'm going to revisit and maybe rerate but not in a hurry, sorry chef

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Great American music! The only standout tracks were the ones I already knew but I guess that's how brains work? I will definitely listen to this more on Audrey's jukebox.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Huge start! Five stars! Then dot dot dot big finish! I can't tell you what happened in the middle there.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

Hell yes. Never a chance to get bored.

Whatever

Aimee Mann

3/5

Not bad, but not much that was particularly memorable on the first listen.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

4/5

Wild I'm stuck between giving this three and four stars and my favourite part of the record is the "three, four!" Really makes you think.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

I was so excited for this to come up then I was so excited the whole time i was listening to it.

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

Hell yeah

Ingenue

k.d. lang

5/5

I didn't know much about my dad as a person but I knew he was a k.d. Lang fan and he loved Santana. He hated Wayne Newton and the songs 'Born in the USA' by Bruce Springsteen and 'Captain Anarchy' by Anti-Flag. This is a beautiful album and it gave me little glimmers of nostalgia.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Oasis was forbidden music when I was growing up. My older brother had a sticker on his guitar that said "Oasis are shit", so this is what I believed. Definitely Maybe is the energy of my feelings about this album. It's fine. Not shit. I know I'll like the other one.

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

This was wildly assigned to me the day after I saw a CCR tribute band. I think it helped the appreciation of the album having just seen a bunch of middle aged men try their best to impersonate something 50 years after it had been invented here (not the style of music, god no, just these specific songs).

More Specials

The Specials

3/5

Fun but I don't know how often I'll revisit it. Hanging out for third wave representation on the list

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

I have a small brain and so I'm a sucker for big songs, and so here I am bringing shame on my family (specifically my older brother). This is how I found out Liam is short for William but I'm not going let that affect my rating. Liam's voice loses it a star, nostalgia gives it a star.

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

3/5

First artist I've been assigned that I have no experience with! Liked not loved! I might revisit one day but nothing particularly grabbed me, and some actively pushed me away.

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

One day I'll figure out what's preventing me from REALLY getting into Radiohead. I don't not like them! It's fine! They're good! It just hasn't clicked yet. Will this be the countdown that clicks me?? Not yet! I'll keep at it!

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

3/5

This feels like the hottest take of the summer but this was mostly just fine.

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Five big stars! Good for relaxing, good for happy, good for sad, good for cool.

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Going by the reviews it looks like I have a lot of Elvis Costello albums to go, so I'm going to try to hang on to this one as a benchmark. I guess I haven't heard much of him outside of his hits, so I wasn't sure what the expect. I dug the good mix of ballad, jazzy, dense, lush, womp womp, all spaced so there weren't any points I felt it sagging. Happily I bought into his voice early on so didn't have the awful grating experience a lot of others seem to have had. If Wheatus ever pops up on this list there's going to be trouble.

90

808 State

4/5

Never heard of this! At all! Really dug it! Love the little tastes of the Hustle and Do You Know the Way to San Jose. Good boss battle music.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Good god, I could listen to this every day. I went to see what the 1 star reviews could possibly be saying but couldn't find any.

Infected

The The

3/5

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

2/5

The only thing I know about this guy is that he's not Bryan Adams, he covered 1989 and I think he's since been cancelled? I don't know. Let's find out together. Hmm the album was mostly boring, a couple of fun points but then I deducted a star for him being trash. Sorry my countdown my rules!

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

4/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Not my favourite, not my least, hanging around in the middle and I might never listen to it in full again

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

5/5

The only album you'll ever need.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

5/5

Not one of my 90s bands and this is why I'm not as cool now as I could've been.

Gorillaz

3/5

Ah man, I was bored so much more than I was expecting to be.

Truth

Jeff Beck

3/5

This is fine. I'm realising that if the album doesn't like up with my current mood then it's not gonna work out well for it. But you know what, it's the album's job to wow me and win me over. I will give this another shot when I'm feeling more mellow though.

Atomizer

Big Black

4/5

Never heard of Big Black! That was pretty rad though. Big big sound

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

I would like to alter my brain so this is playing in there all day.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

I think this was the first time I listened to this all the way through, and even then I put it off for a couple of days because who has the time. BUT I love it. Hit me just right. Excited to be a peaceful long-haired Hare Krishna.

Lost Souls

Doves

4/5

Sea Change

Beck

5/5

My favourite sad and beautiful album to go to.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

5/5

Of course

System Of A Down

5/5

Prettyyyy sick. Glad I only know four adjectives, it makes reviewing things so fun and sick.

Drunk

Thundercat

5/5

Didn't give me a chance to get bored and was so fun and silly and dorky and teetered on the edge of not working for me a few times but ultimately yes absolutely worked for me.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

Yikes

2112

Rush

5/5

I immediately put this on again as soon as it had finished, then went on to more Rush. Good thing lyrics bounce off my brain because that philosophy sure isn't mine.

Hysteria

Def Leppard

4/5

I zoned out towards the end but goddamn I had more fun than I expected. More than once my brain expected what I was listening to to break into what I then realised is an Aerosmith song. I guess I don't know the difference, sorry boys. It would have been fun but gross to be in this band.

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Okay! Probably won't revisit anytime soon but the boys sounded like they were having fun.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Medium!

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

3/5

There's a time and a place

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

3/5

Stuck in my brain zero percent!

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

New go-to album to RELAX but ~concentrate~. Beautiful.

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

Not necessarily one I'm going to reach for again anytime soon.

21

Adele

5/5

I missed this the first time around so now I get fresh ears and no sense of it being overplayed! Nice! Huge! Powerful! Adele.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

3/5

Ahh maybe I'm not a huge Wilco fan? I think if words didn't just bounce off my brain then it would've been more than just background music for me, but they did and so there it was.

Slipknot

1/5

Wow yeah, not my jam at all. I think this needed the hook of nostalgia, because I struggled through it and I'm just so so glad it's over now.

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

4/5

I'd never heard this man before but I dig! I don't know what it is that I like about this that wasn't there for me in Wilco. Just a vibration thing I guess.

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

2/5

Not *bad*, but didn't really do anything for me

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

I don't know how to review this objectively.

Pretenders

4/5

This was greattt. I haven't listened to more than a handful of Pretenders songs, but I'm keen to put this on more so I can once and for all learn that this is Chrissie Hynde not Amphlett, and the band is the Pretenders and not the Proclaimers.

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

4/5

Delightful

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

I think if I were more of a Stones historian this would've done more for me but there were just so many points where I forgot I was listening to anything at all.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

5/5

Goddamn

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

4/5

Punchy!

Timeless

Goldie

1/5

First one I've tapped out of. Life is short. Didn't even have the decency to fade into the background.

Metallica

5/5

Almost tears of joy when this popped up after that last one. It had almost made me give up on music forever. Huge.

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

4/5

I avoided this for almost a full year because I didn't think I'd ever be in the mood to listen to skits, but turns out I didn't even notice them. Nice! Lesson learned!

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

4/5

I want to sound and look like this record.

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

5/5

Maxinquaye

Tricky

2/5

Damn this just got harder to listen to as it went on, losing stars all along the way. I swear I was so into this in the beginning but by the end I was waiting for it or me to die. STRUGGLIN INDEED.

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

4/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

2/5

I'm happy that it makes people happy but I'm 24 years late for this train.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Extremely cool.

Black Metal

Venom

3/5

Grew on me as I got more into it. Very silly. A bunch of silly billies singing songs.

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

3/5

Another one I started off thinking would bore me but grew on me as I went along. Solid but I think not enough high points to bring me back.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

I'm sure I'll finally get (like REALLY get) Radiohead one day, and I'm sure it'll be with the help of this list, but it's definitely not with the help of this album. Maybe better headphones? A dark room? The right assistant?

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

HOO BOY WHAT A COMPLICATED ONE. Going objective and stripping away nostalgia and also monstrousness, some good songs some bad had to listen in a private session for shame and guilt reasons okay bye.

Pornography

The Cure

5/5

I'm so excited for my goth phase. I'm going to be so good at it. I'm thinking I'll have it when I'm in my 60s so I'll really know my stuff.

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Oh my god you're killing me. One upside of this list leading me through these albums again is that I'm able to say cool, there's actually a lot of garbage here and my life is just as rich without these. Scandal noted.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Abraxas

Santana

5/5

Smoking a joint with my dad and listening to Santana is what I would've wanted the most but unfortunately the least likely thing to ever have happened ever.

A Night At The Opera

Queen

5/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

3/5

I don't know what activity and mood fits this album. I know it's out there and on that day it'll get an extra star but this was not Meditation, Focus, Study, Calm 10 Hours like I think I needed.

Chelsea Girl

Nico

2/5

Yikes I didn't realise she was such a huge piece of trash (as a person). I'm going to stop trying so hard to like her then.

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

Room temperature water.

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

5/5

Loved! I always think I should listen to more Rufus and look at me! I'm doing it! Everything is big and grand and beautiful.

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

2/5

I'm going to go with 'mostly annoying' on this one.

The Joshua Tree

U2

4/5

I've listened to so much U2 and supporting media and I think this is the most they're ever going to get from me. Don't dislike. Appreciate. Just very rarely reach for.

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

5/5

This is the voice I most closely associate with my mum. Except probably her own voice, and her mum's and okay excluding people from our immediate lives.

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

4/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

I would like to play loud messy music now please.

Fleet Foxes

5/5

Ahh that was really nice! Yeah I see why people like them! I was going to go four stars but only because it wasn't immediately familiar I think? (What even is my rating system?) But I want it to be, so I'm going five and I'm excited to get to know it more.

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

2/5

It was fine then it just wouldn't end. I want to not listen to Elvis Costello any more but now I'm trapped.

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Still cool and well 'ard, etc., but sags in the middle more than I remember.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

5/5

I was a little late to this when it came out and I wish my brain had latched onto it in the way that makes you lock yourself in your room with a guitar an amp and headphones but I guess I went the Sims and IMDb path instead.

The Doors

5/5

That Guttermouth song about The Doors auditioning new singers is how I learnt to do the Fred Schneider voice.

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

4/5

I want to get into country to the point where I know what the Bakersfield sound is. Doot doot dooo

Foo Fighters

3/5

Slightly carbonated water.

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

4/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

5/5

I wish it hadn't taken until Fetch the Bolt Cutters for me to listen to Fiona Apple but now I'm just so glad to be on the inside. I hadn't listened to this one yet but LOVED IT. She's always been this good?? Wild!

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

Maybe I OD'd on this genre back in the day but this didn't really excite me today.

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

4/5

Ahhh I absolutely was not expecting to enjoy this as much as I did. So silly and High School Boy but so fun and I would've felt so damn Cool if I was still in high school, but instead I'm just going to be the grown man saying "you know who are underrated? The Fun Lovin' Criminals".

Dirt

Alice In Chains

4/5

Different Class

Pulp

5/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Well really

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

5/5

Probably the most Work Of Art album I've been assigned so far. Absolutely incredible, never boring, fuckin' cool.

Paris 1919

John Cale

4/5

Real pleasant but not awe-inspiring. Is that really so much to ask for

Kenza

Khaled

4/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

5/5

This can go on every day! Background, foreground, wherever you like

The Band

3/5

I've always suspected I'm not super into The Band and now here we are. Fine. Medium. 2.5

Justified

Justin Timberlake

3/5

Hmm nah! If it was all as good as Cry Me A River then sure but this was mostly falling way below.

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

2/5

Yikes that was ahhh not a good time. Sshhhh shh shh shhh

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

I think I'm missing out because I haven't tried to make a song and because I've missed most of the context by hearing everything that came after this. Huge influence on all Songs To Study And Relax To playlists. Still, we're getting there!

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

4/5

That was real nice! I didn't think it was my mood and it'd be a write-off but it eventually brought me in.

Close To The Edge

Yes

5/5

Hell yes. This has set the mood for the whole day and I'm so excited for it. Prog for focus and relaxation and profit.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

Truly a land of contrasts

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

4/5

I started this yesterday, got halfway through, picked it back up today thinking "hm I don't even remember what this sounded like, but I don't remember it being bad so it's probably going to be a three star affair?" but immediately got into the groove! Fun! +Ky! Listening back it was the ballady business that lost me a bit but excited to get to know this more.

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

3/5

Oh you boys

The Stooges

4/5

Not wall to wall but high highs

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

Deeelight. For this one the dad wish is cocktails at a beach bar.

Virgin Suicides

Air

3/5

I think I'm missing a lot having never seen the movie. My bad!

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

This one is it

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Okay yes they are all the same song but it's nice.

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

4/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

5/5

I started my day listening to this and somebody at work who is named Paddy messaged me and opened with 'top of the morning'. I wish I could attach screenshots to these reviews, this is the kind of stuff that makes god fall back into grace with me.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

This isn't one that I can't imagine my dad enjoying in my fantasy listening to these albums with my dad scenario

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

5/5

I love this and always will and I understand how much of it is extremely annoying so I will never recommend it to anybody.

Pink Flag

Wire

5/5

Great. Pow.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

5/5

I've liked this before but never loved it this much. I think my brain needed this kind of peace today.

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

5/5

Five stars for the power this recording of Amsterdam has over me alone.

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

5/5

Mmm

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

This is specifically what I didn't like or understand about electronic music when I was growing up and taking cues from my older brother about what I was allowed to like and listen to.

Iron Maiden

3/5

Ahh still not really, thanks though!

Moon Safari

Air

5/5

I'd like to do a new thing where I take comments from negative reviews and agree with them but it's because I guess the person and I don't feel the same way about all things. Yes this absolutely sounds like a coma patient waking up, I love it so much. Imagine feeling that kind of peace and falling in love with the world at first sight.

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

3/5

Fun but probably not my favourite album of all time sorry.

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

5/5

I'm glad my mindset is always that I haven't listened to enough Pavement.

1984

Van Halen

5/5

When I started listening to this I got the same feeling I get when I start watching the Karate Kid. Goddamn I am just so excited about what's ahead of me. Same brain space.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

Ahh okay, I thought I detested Dire Straits but that might've been absorbed from somebody else. If I expect mellow then I have a fine time.

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

3/5

I loved a couple of parts but mostly forgot I was listening to this.

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

I wish I'd leaned into the Cure so much more when I was in high school. I always feel like my goth phase is still to come.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

5/5

Riiight into the regular rotation. Also a reminder to always read the Wikipedia. Interesting that he had 21 kids and then one of his grandkids went on to write music for the soundtrack of the movie 21. Well not interesting, but two things.

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

I'm going through this list with an open mind and open heart and this was pretty flavourless for me but not bad. It sure did happen.

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

2/5

Ah boyyy, look I had high hopes and it was close to a 3 but too much of it gave me too much second hand embarrassment. I guess that's my problem but these are my stars to give.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Did everyone just have to spend all their money on records in the '60s? Was it exhausting trying to keep up with everything that was coming out? Cinnamon Girl was one of the first songs I loved and advocated for that I found on my own and wasn't approved by my older brother or punk friends (though it turned out they did also love it).

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

2/5

That was some blues rock music

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

5/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

5/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

3/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Suede

3/5

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Fine but also I didn't care enough to finish it. New strategy with this list! Who cares!

Violent Femmes

5/5

My kids are going to think I'm so cool

Fever Ray

4/5

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

3/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

2/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

5/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Low

David Bowie

4/5

Aja

Steely Dan

5/5

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

3/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

Gris Gris

Dr. John

3/5

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

Imagine

John Lennon

2/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

3/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

The Coral

4/5

Scott 4

Scott Walker

5/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

5/5

I didn't think I was in the mood and then wouldn't you know it, it created the mood.

Out of Step

Minor Threat

4/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

4/5

Eternally Yours

The Saints

4/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

5/5

>:(

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

3/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

3/5

Peter Gabriel

4/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Spotify has made this album's release year and duration yellow.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

3/5

Pump

Aerosmith

2/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

5/5

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

5/5

Tommy

The Who

3/5

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

4/5

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

3/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

The formula for this rating is all over the place. Nostalgia+genuine appreciation-RHCP This is a special one because I remember it coming out and being everywhere, then the day I heard Under the Bridge on Gold 104 was the day I realised I was old and stopped listening to Gold 104 quite as much.

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

3/5

Truly: Phine

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

1/5

Nope! No thank you

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

_Whiplash_