My 1001 Albums Journey

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1970s

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Short Album About Love The Divine Comedy	5	2.77	+2.23
Guitar Town Steve Earle	5	2.81	+2.19
The Dreaming Kate Bush	5	2.96	+2.04
Sail Away Randy Newman	5	2.97	+2.03
Skylarking XTC	5	3.04	+1.96
Tubular Bells Mike Oldfield	5	3.1	+1.9
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo Devo	5	3.13	+1.87
Clube Da Esquina Milton Nascimento	5	3.13	+1.87
Mr. Tambourine Man The Byrds	5	3.22	+1.78
In The Wee Small Hours Frank Sinatra	5	3.28	+1.72

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	1	3.64	-2.64
Lost In The Dream The War On Drugs	1	3.38	-2.38
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	1	3.35	-2.35
Homework Daft Punk	1	3.29	-2.29
Deloused in the Comatorium The Mars Volta	1	3.2	-2.2
Tom Tom Club Tom Tom Club	1	3.03	-2.03
Call of the Valley Shivkumar Sharma	1	2.95	-1.95
Brown Sugar D'Angelo	1	2.92	-1.92
You Are The Quarry Morrissey	1	2.86	-1.86
Roots Sepultura	1	2.78	-1.78

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	2	5

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Morrissey	2	1.5

5-Star Albums (30)

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1-Star Albums (13)

All Ratings

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

5/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Nice, exotic work, but too often using many repetitions of brief, albeit interesting, phrases.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Interesting introduction to the band, but a lot of sameness to the arrangements (so many Ai, ai, ai, ai, ais and chucka-a-lucka guitar chunks).

Pump

Aerosmith

4/5

In their prime.

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

1/5

Endless repetition, but some interesting soloing. Couldn't get past the 4th track.

Future Days

Can

4/5

Interesting sample of a trippy time.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

5/5

Perfect introduction.

Suede

2/5

What was the buzz about? Bad singing and BORing.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

Unequivocably one of the GOATs!

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

5/5

Fantastic.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

I don't get it. Sounds like mindless, drug-aided noodling, although it's very pleasant.

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

2/5

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

5/5

A masterpiece.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Classic.

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

Interesting songs. Can't get past her whiney voice.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Yeah, okay.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

4/5

Pretty uneven quality. It's like they couldn't decide who they were, pop, psychedelic, or hard rock.

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

5/5

Didn't know this album or any of the tracks. Pleasant surprise. Great songs.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

Impressive, but not my cup of tea.

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

2/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

5/5

One of his best.

Roots

Sepultura

1/5

Ack. Unlistenable. If I NEED to listen to this before I die, I will die unfulfilled.

Repeater

Fugazi

4/5

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

More fun than you should be allowed to have.

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

5/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

5/5

Perfect Doors.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

5/5

Pretty genius.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

2/5

It’s Wilco! <sigh>

Abraxas

Santana

5/5

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

3/5

It's The Dead! Mindless drugged-out noodling. ZZZZZzzzzzz…

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

4/5

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

3/5

Very uneven. Definitely interesting. I definitely enjoyed it, but…

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

Just so tedious. Inventive, but a big bore overall. Hey, it's Radiohead.

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Zzzzzzz…

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

5/5

Didn't know them. Love it.

Peter Gabriel

5/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

1/5

No accounting for taste (even of reviewers…or especially). Drone.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

Fragile

Yes

5/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

5/5

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

5/5

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

4/5

The Who Sell Out

The Who

4/5

Not their best, but still plenty Whoalicious.

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

5/5

Dire Straits

4/5

High Violet

The National

2/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

3/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

3/5

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

1/5

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

2/5

Ingenue

k.d. lang

3/5

1999

Prince

5/5

The Libertines

2/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Closer

Joy Division

2/5

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

1/5

My opinion hasn't changed in all this time. Still boring, self-indulgent, synth noise.

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

3/5

808 State

2/5

Meh

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

1/5

Kid A

Radiohead

2/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

2/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

3/5

Fun and well-performed, but the material is mostly lackluster.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

1/5

Noise, for the most part.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

5/5

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

2/5

Some cool arrangements, but mostly mediocre material.

Very

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

3/5

Sail Away

Randy Newman

5/5

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

4/5

Surprisingly inventive. Minimalist arrangements that do a lot. Lots of chords.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Slow to catch on. Most of the songs could be 1/2 as long. Some intriguing keyboard work.

Tom Tom Club

1/5

A single idea repeated endlessly. PU

Electric

The Cult

2/5

Not for me.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

2/5

Meh

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

1/5

Um. Ah. Ahem…

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

2/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

1/5

This is a joke, right? AI concocted effemera?

Skylarking

XTC

5/5

The Stone Roses

1/5

Is this a joke?

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

2/5

Some inventiveness, but too many ostinati.

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

2/5

Not for me.

More Specials

The Specials

2/5

Party ska, but not for me.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

Iron Maiden

3/5

Pink Flag

Wire

2/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Palo Congo

Sabu

3/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Some tunes are unfamiliar to me, but it's Steely Dan.

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

1/5

Don't need to be lectured to…

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

5/5

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

5/5

And Nelson Riddle…

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

4/5

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Somehow his awful voice made me overlook what a genius he is.

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

3/5

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

David Bowie

5/5

Homework

Daft Punk

1/5

Daft JUNK.