My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bummed Happy Mondays	5	2.64	+2.36
Southern Rock Opera Drive-By Truckers	5	2.82	+2.18
Joan Baez Joan Baez	5	2.96	+2.04
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry Billy Bragg	5	2.97	+2.03
Billion Dollar Babies Alice Cooper	5	3.11	+1.89
Your New Favourite Band The Hives	5	3.13	+1.87
Melodrama Lorde	5	3.31	+1.69
The Chronic Dr. Dre	5	3.33	+1.67
Bossanova Pixies	5	3.37	+1.63
There's No Place Like America Today Curtis Mayfield	5	3.37	+1.63

Artist	Albums	Average
Curtis Mayfield	2	5

Run-D.M.C.

5/5

The 90s sounded like this album.

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Definite departure from their prior, more rock-forward albums. Gallows Pole is one of my all time favorites, though I do get a little bit tired by the end of the folk acousticness

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

Impressed with the experimentation throughout the album. Sometimes it creates amazing songs (Once in a Lifetime), other times less so, but either way I applaud the creativity.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

5/5

Foo Fighters

4/5

This is a solid album of 90s rock even without featuring any of the Foo Fighters’ most iconic songs. Very listenable, good first record, not really any bad songs in the set

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

3/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

5/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

5/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Shadowland

k.d. lang

3/5

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

4/5

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

3/5

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

3/5

Interesting choice to have seemingly talented musicians intentionally play out of tune

Bossanova

Pixies

5/5

Django Django

4/5

Joan Baez

5/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

5/5

The Blueprint

JAY Z

4/5

Bummed

Happy Mondays

5/5

This really scratched an itch for new wave-influenced music with a funk bent. I think I’m also partial to slightly out of tune British rock singers

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

5/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

5/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

It feels like this entire album has no bass sound - everything from the voices to guitar to the drums is in a narrow high frequency band, it makes the songs not sound very ‘full’

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

4/5

John Prine

4/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

5/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

It’s impressive how, for as long as this album is, that it can maintain such a high level of quality across the range of rock from hard (Jellybelly, Bullet With Butterfly Wing), through pop (1979) to the softer side (Stumbleine). I was already listening to the hits off it all the time, but I’m very happy to have been introduced to the rest of it

Timeless

Goldie

4/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

3/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

It will always amaze me that what was retrospectively a record made just so Walter Becker and Donald Fagen could fund the music they actually wanted to make, is in fact one of the greatest rock albums of all time. This basically launched yacht rock, and I’ll always be grateful to Elliott Randall for playing maybe the greatest guitar solo of all time on Reelin’ In The Years.

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

4/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

The Joshua Tree

U2

5/5

Opens with three megahits that still hold up, and the rest is an interesting mix of different songs. Particularly like Bullet the Blue Sky and Exit

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai