1001 Albums Summary

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59
Albums Rated
3.66
Average Rating
5%
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1030 albums remaining

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1970
Favorite Decade
Funk
Favorite Genre
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7
5-Star Albums
0
1-Star Albums

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Albums

You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5 3.32 +1.68
The Band
The Band
5 3.34 +1.66
Bossanova
Pixies
5 3.37 +1.63
Born To Be With You
Dion
4 2.62 +1.38
Moondance
Van Morrison
5 3.68 +1.32
The Infotainment Scan
The Fall
4 2.71 +1.29
At San Quentin
Johnny Cash
5 3.78 +1.22
Scott 4
Scott Walker
4 2.8 +1.2
Rapture
Anita Baker
4 2.94 +1.06
Black Monk Time
The Monks
4 2.94 +1.06

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones
2 3.6 -1.6
Hail To the Thief
Radiohead
2 3.45 -1.45
Veckatimest
Grizzly Bear
2 3.04 -1.04

5-Star Albums (7)

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All Ratings (59)

Tusk by Fleetwood Mac
Jan 10 2024

Good album, lots of variety on it, definitely worth a deep dive

Hunky Dory by David Bowie
Jan 11 2024

I like some of Bowie’s music but mostly I like the idea and persona more than the music.

Bossanova by Pixies
Jan 12 2024

Great album, should add it to the regular rotation

Beggars Banquet by The Rolling Stones
Jan 16 2024

I know this is not a 2 star album, I just don’t really like The Rolling Stones. So I can appreciate what they did and how people love them but they just never did it for me.

Made In Japan by Deep Purple
Jan 17 2024

I know this is not a 2 star album, I just don’t really like The Rolling Stones. So I can appreciate what they did and how people love them but they just never did it for me.

Swordfishtrombones by Tom Waits
Jan 18 2024

Listening to this in 2023, were one inclined to feel uncharitable, I would say this sounds kinda like Jack Black making a Tom Waits album. I like Tom Waits as a person more than as a singer unfortunately.

Wonderful Rainbow by Lightning Bolt
Jan 19 2024

Pretty good for noise rock/electronica. Was unfamiliar with them before. Not sure what the right mood is to listen to this but I’ll probably revisit it again.

Fever To Tell by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Jan 22 2024

One of the top albums of the 2000’s garage rock revival. Really good stuff

Purple Rain by Prince
Jan 23 2024

One of the top albums of the 2000’s garage rock revival. Really good stuff

Smash by The Offspring
Feb 05 2024

I was 12 years old when this album came out, which is absolutely the peak time to hear it. I still have fond feelings for early Offspring records before they got a little cringey.

Dookie by Green Day
Feb 07 2024

I don’t even know how to rate this album in 2023. I probably listens to this more than any other album from 94 to 96. I think it still holds up as a prime 90’s pop-punk album, and is more enjoyable to listen to than most anything else from that era. There’s a reason Green Day is still more relevant than NOFX or Offpsring or any of the others.

Lady Soul by Aretha Franklin
Feb 09 2024

Just a classic album

The Band by The Band
Feb 13 2024

I love The Band and I love this album, classic Americana by a group of Canadians and one American. Justice for Levon Helm, I love Robbie Robertson too, but Helm was the soul of the band

Moondance by Van Morrison
Feb 19 2024

What a great album, great for throwing on and drinking whisky, or staring off a porch into a dusky sunset.

Rapture by Anita Baker
Feb 21 2024
Natty Dread by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Feb 23 2024

Reggae just really isn’t my jam, I can appreciate this for what it is and how important Bob Marley is, but it’s not something I’ll throw on with any regularity.

Murmur by R.E.M.
Mar 12 2024

I don’t care for R.E.M.

Shleep by Robert Wyatt
Mar 13 2024

Well that was a weird one

Scott 4 by Scott Walker
Mar 14 2024

What a weird and delightful album

Hms Fable by Shack
Mar 15 2024

It’s fine, it’s late 90’s Brit-pop. There it on the background and no one will complain. Will I ever revisit it? Probably not

S&M by Metallica
Mar 19 2024
Mar 20 2024

Well this was a surprise. Gonna add this into the list of artists worth a deeper dive into.

Ctrl by SZA
Mar 22 2024
Five Leaves Left by Nick Drake
Mar 25 2024

The kind of album you need to sit and just listen to, it’s not background music. You have to listen to the lyrics and let the gentle sadness and emotions wash over you.

Pretenders by Pretenders
Mar 26 2024

I unfairly always thought of the Pretenders as not a serious band but I was wrong, this rips.

Tigermilk by Belle & Sebastian
Mar 28 2024

I can appreciate the craft and the skill but this is not particularly for me.

Apr 05 2024

I listened to the hell out this album in the mid 2010’s. Still holds up as a great electro-pop album.

All Things Must Pass by George Harrison
Apr 08 2024

It’s certainly a long and beautiful album that’s unfortunately not for me.

Black Monk Time by The Monks
Apr 11 2024

How can you make a post-punk album before punk is even invented? I don’t know but The Monks did it. What we you want to call it, proto-punk etc… this is a weird fun album that I’m sure sounded like nothing else in 1966

Surf's Up by The Beach Boys
Jun 13 2025

Everyone under 50 who loves music must have their “I’m sorry, I wasn’t familiar with your game” moment and this one is mine. I listens to Pet Sounds years and years ago and could appreciate it, but still didn't get it. Now I do.

Can't Buy A Thrill by Steely Dan
Jun 16 2025

Not Steely Dan’s best album or my favorite of theirs but still a stone cold classic. Wild how fully formed they are here, their sound would certainly deepen and evolve over the years but the perfectly crafted melodies, jazz influenced pop rock, weird lyrics, it’s all here.

Bright Flight by Silver Jews
Jun 19 2025

It’s fine if it’s what you like

Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
Jun 27 2025

Too twee and ephemeral, just whispery fluttery vocals and tinkle pianos. Pass

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