1001 Albums Summary

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517
Albums Rated
3.49
Average Rating
47%
Complete
572 albums remaining

Rating Distribution

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1950
Favorite Decade
Metal
Favorite Genre
US
Top Origin
Generous
Rater Style ?
85
5-Star Albums
6
1-Star Albums

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Albums

You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Ingenue
k.d. lang
 5 2.95 +2.05
Connected
Stereo MC's
 5 2.95 +2.05
The Last Of The True Believers
Nanci Griffith
 5 2.96 +2.04
Larks' Tongues In Aspic
King Crimson
 5 2.99 +2.01
Sweet Baby James
James Taylor
 5 3.23 +1.77
Sunday At The Village Vanguard
Bill Evans Trio
 5 3.3 +1.7
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus
 5 3.33 +1.67
My Aim Is True
Elvis Costello
 5 3.33 +1.67
The Band
The Band
 5 3.34 +1.66
Aftermath
The Rolling Stones
 5 3.35 +1.65

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Os Mutantes
Os Mutantes
 1 2.98 -1.98
KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)
Ministry
 1 2.7 -1.7
New Boots And Panties
Ian Dury
 1 2.68 -1.68
To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
 2 3.64 -1.64
Illmatic
Nas
 2 3.61 -1.61
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips
 2 3.56 -1.56
Bryter Layter
Nick Drake
 2 3.52 -1.52
Shleep
Robert Wyatt
 1 2.51 -1.51
Blackstar
David Bowie
 2 3.48 -1.48
The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe
 2 3.45 -1.45

Artists

Favorites

ArtistAlbumsAverage
Beatles 6 5
Led Zeppelin 4 5
Bob Dylan 6 4.5
Pink Floyd 3 5
The Rolling Stones 3 4.67
Metallica 3 4.67
David Bowie 8 4.13
Van Halen 2 5
Miles Davis 2 5
Iron Maiden 2 5
U2 2 5
King Crimson 2 5
Nirvana 3 4.33

Least Favorites

ArtistAlbumsAverage
Robert Wyatt 2 1.5

5-Star Albums (85)

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KIWANUKA 1984 Is This It The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Birth Of The Cool Paul's Boutique Tracy Chapman Marquee Moon Abbey Road Ellington at Newport Ingenue White Blood Cells Lady Soul Iron Maiden Sticky Fingers With The Beatles Blue Lines In A Silent Way War Bat Out Of Hell Wish You Were Here The Last Of The True Believers Highway 61 Revisited Time Out The White Album Rust Never Sleeps The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Aqualung Back At The Chicken Shack Rubber Soul Dirt The Doors Purple Rain Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Band On The Run Bringing It All Back Home Led Zeppelin II The Number Of The Beast Violent Femmes Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady In The Court Of The Crimson King Moondance Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Aftermath Born In The U.S.A. London Calling The Joshua Tree Led Zeppelin IV Boston Natty Dread Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul Bad Master Of Puppets Ramones Led Zeppelin Aladdin Sane Superunknown The Wall Connected Moving Pictures Heroes Bayou Country Back In Black The Band Led Zeppelin III My Aim Is True Van Halen Sweet Baby James The Dark Side Of The Moon The Cars Pearl The Low End Theory Larks' Tongues In Aspic Nevermind Tres Hombres At Fillmore East Sunday At The Village Vanguard ...And Justice For All Vol. 4 A Love Supreme Hotel California A Hard Day's Night Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Rumours

4-Star Albums (173)

Different Class Let Love Rule Hot Rats Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs Smash Reggatta De Blanc Deep Purple In Rock Chemtrails Over The Country Club Songs In The Key Of Life Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Peter Gabriel Seventeen Seconds Here's Little Richard Bossanova Tea for the Tillerman That's The Way Of The World Djam Leelii The Next Day Nothing's Shocking AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted Duck Rock Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Rust In Peace Raw Power Highly Evolved Unknown Pleasures The Velvet Underground & Nico Shaka Zulu Lazer Guided Melodies Electric Ladyland Machine Gun Etiquette Head Hunters Black Holes and Revelations Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea This Nation’s Saving Grace Jack Takes the Floor Surfer Rosa Abraxas Maxinquaye Low Soul Mining Behaviour Electric Illinois American Beauty Pet Sounds Sweetheart Of The Rodeo Fear Of A Black Planet Stand! Rocks Sea Change Green So Eli And The Thirteenth Confession Definitely Maybe I’m a Lonesome Fugitive The Queen Is Dead Rage Against The Machine Frank Gold Cosmo's Factory Sound Affects Out Of The Blue Blood On The Tracks Another Music In A Different Kitchen After The Gold Rush The Libertines Are You Experienced Neon Bible Hybrid Theory You Want It Darker Here, My Dear More Songs About Buildings And Food Mask Rhythm Nation 1814 Pink Moon Buena Vista Social Club Aja Elephant Toys In The Attic Young Americans A Night At The Opera Machine Head Appetite For Destruction John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band Here Are the Sonics The Atomic Mr Basie What's Going On Endtroducing..... This Year's Model MTV Unplugged In New York Coles Corner Licensed To Ill Arc Of A Diver The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Fuzzy Eagles Highway to Hell 1989 Odelay Paul Simon Rock 'N Soul Untitled (Black Is) 16 Lovers Lane Paranoid Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84) A Girl Called Dusty Peace Sells...But Who's Buying Teenager Of The Year Coat Of Many Colors Signing Off 3 + 3 Home Is Where The Music Is Fleet Foxes Odessa Crosby, Stills & Nash In Utero Transformer Guero Maggot Brain Axis: Bold As Love Murmur 2112 Superfuzz Bigmuff On The Beach Songs From A Room Like A Prayer Beggars Banquet The Gershwin Songbook Straight Outta Compton A Northern Soul The Genius Of Ray Charles Parallel Lines The Colour Of Spring Time Out Of Mind She's So Unusual Innervisions Golden Hour Hunky Dory Tanto Tempo It's Too Late to Stop Now American IV: The Man Comes Around Marcus Garvey Fun House Brutal Youth Madman Across The Water Figure 8 Pink Flag Faith Destroyer Bluesbreakers Nebraska Frampton Comes Alive Blonde On Blonde Feast of Wire At Budokan The Stranger Electric Warrior The Slider Hounds Of Love Apple Venus Volume 1 S&M Pretenders Lost In The Dream Tidal Eternally Yours Your New Favourite Band Playing With Fire The Köln Concert Shadowland Exodus

1-Star Albums (6)

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman New Boots And Panties KE*A*H** (Psalm 69) Duck Stab/Buster & Glen Os Mutantes Shleep

All Ratings (517)

KIWANUKA by Michael Kiwanuka
Jan 17 2024
1984 by Van Halen
Jan 18 2024
Too Rye Ay by Dexys Midnight Runners
Jan 21 2024

Everybody loves Come On Eileen and I was pleasantly surprised by their cover of Jackie Wilson Sang, but overall, not my taste.

Let Love Rule by Lenny Kravitz
Jan 24 2024

Excellent debut album.

Hot Rats by Frank Zappa
Jan 25 2024

What a surprise! I really enjoyed this album. I've heard some of Frank's other music and didn't really enjoy it, but this album was great!

Kenza by Khaled
Jan 26 2024

Good music, but not my taste. Also, almost impossible to stream. I tried spotify, amazon, YouTube Music and Apple. I finally had to listen to it on youtube.

Smash by The Offspring
Jan 28 2024
Paul's Boutique by Beastie Boys
Feb 01 2024

Wow! I can't believe I had never listened to that all the way through before.

Tracy Chapman by Tracy Chapman
Feb 03 2024

Phenomenal debut album for a phenomenal artist!!

Abbey Road by Beatles
Feb 10 2024

Maybe the best they ever did.

Ellington at Newport by Duke Ellington
Feb 15 2024

PHENOMENAL! DUKE AND HIS ORCHESTRA AT THEIR BEST!

Ingenue by k.d. lang
Feb 18 2024

Absolutely spectacular.

Lady Soul by Aretha Franklin
Feb 20 2024

One of the best!

War by U2
Mar 05 2024
Time Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Mar 17 2024

Phenomenal!

Scott 4 by Scott Walker
Mar 28 2024
Shaka Zulu by Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Apr 03 2024
1977 by Ash
Apr 25 2024
Low by David Bowie
Apr 27 2024
Be by Common
May 04 2024
Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
May 07 2024
Grace by Jeff Buckley
May 14 2024
Stand! by Sly & The Family Stone
May 22 2024
Dirt by Alice In Chains
May 23 2024
Rocks by Aerosmith
May 31 2024
Green by R.E.M.
Jun 08 2024
So by Peter Gabriel
Jun 16 2024
Scum by Napalm Death
Jul 04 2024
Savane by Ali Farka Touré
Jul 18 2024
Frank by Amy Winehouse
Aug 02 2024
Gold by Ryan Adams
Aug 04 2024
Moondance by Van Morrison
Aug 10 2024

One of the best albums EVER!

Aftermath by The Rolling Stones
Aug 13 2024
Junkyard by The Birthday Party
Aug 23 2024
Play by Moby
Aug 30 2024
Horses by Patti Smith
Sep 12 2024
Dust by Screaming Trees
Sep 23 2024
Dummy by Portishead
Sep 24 2024
Ten by Pearl Jam
Sep 29 2024
Mask by Bauhaus
Oct 02 2024
Boston by Boston
Oct 09 2024
Aja by Steely Dan
Oct 12 2024
Kollaps by Einstürzende Neubauten
Oct 13 2024
Elephant by The White Stripes
Oct 15 2024
Drunk by Thundercat
Nov 01 2024
Kala by M.I.A.
Nov 13 2024
Bad by Michael Jackson
Nov 22 2024
Brothers by The Black Keys
Jan 04 2025
Want One by Rufus Wainwright
Jan 10 2025
Dirty by Sonic Youth
Jan 15 2025
Fuzzy by Grant Lee Buffalo
Jan 29 2025
Eagles by Eagles
Feb 01 2025
En-Tact by The Shamen
Feb 03 2025
Heroes by David Bowie
Feb 08 2025
1989 by Taylor Swift
Feb 09 2025
Back In Black by AC/DC
Feb 19 2025

I mean, it's pretty much flawless.

Phaedra by Tangerine Dream
Feb 26 2025
Goo by Sonic Youth
Mar 14 2025
Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Apr 07 2025
Pearl by Janis Joplin
Apr 11 2025
3 + 3 by The Isley Brothers
Apr 12 2025
Odessa by Bee Gees
Apr 16 2025
Tusk by Fleetwood Mac
May 04 2025
Guero by Beck
May 06 2025
Murmur by R.E.M.
May 10 2025
2112 by Rush
May 17 2025
Remedy by Basement Jaxx
May 18 2025
Siembra by Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
May 28 2025
At Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers Band
Jun 10 2025

Maybe the Best live album ever.

Smile by Brian Wilson
Jun 13 2025
Shleep by Robert Wyatt
Jun 15 2025
Blur by Blur
Jun 24 2025
Cross by Justice
Jul 04 2025
Damaged by Black Flag
Jul 07 2025
Debut by Björk
Jul 11 2025
90 by 808 State
Jul 19 2025
Vol. 4 by Black Sabbath
Jul 24 2025
Faith by George Michael
Nov 09 2025
Cut by The Slits
Jan 08 2026
Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen
Jan 09 2026
Manassas by Stephen Stills
Feb 24 2026
S&M by Metallica
Jun 04 2026
Tidal by Fiona Apple
Jun 14 2026
Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
Jul 07 2026
Berlin by Lou Reed
Jul 08 2026
Exodus by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Jul 25 2026

Generous

Average rating is 0.23 points above global average.

Other

Album origins are grouped into three buckets: US, UK, and everything else. “Other” means the artists you rate highest are from outside the US and UK.