My 1001 Albums Journey

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The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

The period where musicians started talking about sex openly is just nauseating. An entire decade of manchildren caterwauling about how much they love pussy. Really embarrassing.

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Junkyard The Birthday Party	5	2.15	+2.85
Moss Side Story Barry Adamson	5	2.52	+2.48
Logical Progression LTJ Bukem	5	2.53	+2.47
Dr. Octagonecologyst Dr. Octagon	5	2.69	+2.31
90 808 State	5	2.69	+2.31
Orbital 2 Orbital	5	2.7	+2.3
KEAH** (Psalm 69) Ministry	5	2.7	+2.3
Lam Toro Baaba Maal	5	2.73	+2.27
m b v My Bloody Valentine	5	2.73	+2.27
What's That Noise? Coldcut	5	2.77	+2.23

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan	1	3.75	-2.75
Pink Moon Nick Drake	1	3.65	-2.65
Bringing It All Back Home Bob Dylan	1	3.63	-2.63
Highway to Hell AC/DC	1	3.63	-2.63
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan	1	3.61	-2.61
Talking Heads 77 Talking Heads	1	3.56	-2.56
So Peter Gabriel	1	3.53	-2.53
Bryter Layter Nick Drake	1	3.52	-2.52
James Brown Live At The Apollo James Brown	1	3.44	-2.44
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs Derek & The Dominos	1	3.38	-2.38

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Radiohead	5	5
David Bowie	8	4.5
Beatles	7	4.43
Miles Davis	4	4.75
Jimi Hendrix	3	5
Michael Jackson	3	5
Queen	3	5
Yes	3	5
Pink Floyd	3	4.67
Van Morrison	3	4.67
The Cure	2	5
Siouxsie And The Banshees	2	5
Missy Elliott	2	5
Run-D.M.C.	2	5
The Smashing Pumpkins	2	5
Nirvana	2	5
Blur	2	5
A Tribe Called Quest	2	5
Beastie Boys	2	5
Kendrick Lamar	2	5
Mudhoney	2	5
My Bloody Valentine	2	5
Green Day	2	5
OutKast	2	5
Leonard Cohen	3	4.33
Johnny Cash	3	4.33
Metallica	3	4.33
Bob Marley & The Wailers	3	4.33
The Stooges	3	4.33
Prince	3	4.33
Black Sabbath	3	4.33
Deep Purple	3	4.33

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Tom Waits	5	1.4
The Fall	3	1.33
Peter Gabriel	2	1
Randy Newman	2	1
The The	2	1
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	4	1.75
Nick Drake	3	1.67
AC/DC	2	1.5
Def Leppard	2	1.5
The Divine Comedy	2	1.5
Scott Walker	2	1.5
Aerosmith	3	2

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Bob Dylan	1, 1, 1, 4, 5, 4
U2	4, 1
Dexys Midnight Runners	1, 4
Paul Simon	2, 5
Traffic	2, 5

5-Star Albums (199)

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Popular Reviews

The most important rock album of my generation.

Randy Newman is Bob Dylan for squares

Kid Rock is a fake ass poser who makes music for dumbasses.

Brazilian-Serbian trip hop? Yes please.

If you've heard one Sinatra song, you've heard them all. The man had vocal talent beyond words, but a great album this is not.

1-Star Albums (73)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

All Ratings (877)

All the best parts of 90s electronic rolled into one big fat burrito. I don't know why I hadn't listened to this one sooner, it's a clear inspiration for Hideki Naganuma who's one of my faves. 4.5*

Pretty good album with some clunker songs, I don't really feel much about it. Obviously "Every Breath You Take" is the highlight here but it just doesn't do much for me.

Album for lame dads and truck commercials

This one is much, MUCH more my speed. I don't even know what to write, this album just makes me feel good. 5*

Well it's no surprise that Garbage is great, but going back to their debut album really makes me see how innovative they really were. So much of the early and mid 00s rock was taking inspiration from what Garbage was doing here. It's otherworldly. The ambient atmosphere of each song, the killer drum line, and if course Shirley Manson's incredibly unique vocal style. Everything just sounds awesome and deliberate and exactly how it should.

Atmospheric and cool, don't know why I've never heard any of The Cure's music before now. 4.75*

Incredible, the fact that he pjt this out so close to death and it still sound fresh as hell is insane.

Blew me away

Meh

Really cool synth album, given this came out in 1981 I'm willing to guess it's pretty foundational to what has become an iconic soundscape of the 80s.

Kinda crummy grandpa rock

U2 sucks!

Kind of interesting but overall didn't hit

She's an incredible talent but the songs have been so overplayed at this point and do nothing for me. Sorry, I know this makes me uncultured

Pink Floyd's best.

Why?

Why did this get removed from the list? I'll never forgive the British.

Common Bob Dylan L

Iconic 🔥🔥🔥

Wannabe 2000s Beatles, meh

Mid. Inoffensive but unseasoned

Fuck you Ryan Adams

o.k. meh

Nick Cave & His Bad Music

Ruined by the screeches of girls in the audience, as many 60s live recordings are. James Brown is talented but I don't need to hear the horny shrieks of women who are now in their late 70s at minimum

Beautiful

Fr*nch-language rapping over canned 90s beats. Yawn

One of the greats, but it's still a live album. Does the screeching of girls add to YOUR listening experience?

Made me a fan instantly

Very funny, guys!

Kinda interesting ambient music. Not quite lofi, but we were getting there in 2010

Yes!

okay alt country-emo album I guess. This lady sure is fucking sad.

Randy Newman is Bob Dylan for squares

Good but a little repetitive

Clapton

Can't believe the number of depressing, boring musicians whose music apparently only made this list because the musician tragically killed themselves. 3 albums from this guy? Come on.

One of the worst albums on the entire list. Nick Cave, The Divine Comedy, Tom Waits, all in collaboration with a lounge-singer reject? It's like someone had a premonition in 2005 and put this album in to bother me, personally. Negative infinity stars.

I understand the historical significance of Afrika Bambaataa, but a hip. hop. a hip hip hop. a hibby to the hop and ya just don't stop. My name is Lance Taylor and I'm here to say that it's time to rap in an old school way! 🤓 And I never stop being embarrassed.

Good but they're better with Nico.

The definition of 'fine enough'

*loud slurp*

Somehow I enjoyed the loud Brazilian slurping of Os Mutantes more than this. Will wonders never cease?

Paul Simon is the musician Randy Newman wishes he was.

Fine

If this is a joke, I don't get it.

Yeah man, plenty of artists put out something worth listening to 16 years into their careers. I just don't think Madonna is one of them.

Secular Christmas songs produced well. It is a wall of sound though perhaps not fury produced by an idiot, signifying nothing. Surely a beloved classic of white baby boomers settling down for their seventh child's first Christmas, in their third house which they bought for $2000 at age 24. Merry Christmas!

Pretty good! 3.5/5

Brazilian-Serbian trip hop? Yes please.

Another boring British band of lads. Yawn

New Wave has to be top 5 most oversaturated genres. The Brits just COULDN'T get enough. I'd yawn, but I fear opening my mouth would be enough of a prompt to barf after this.

It was okay, sounds very 1999 if that makes sense. Sorry Travis.

A lot of these other reviews stink, like unwashed ass. What kind of moron thinks every single album on the list has to be equal to Abbey Road or DSOTM (WYWH is superior anyway)? You think all 1090 albums are going to be the exact same flawless masterpiece? This album is a great listen with fun if simple production. Maybe some of yall should take a step out of your dad's garage.

Another Siouxsie banger

More relavant than ever.

The period where musicians started talking about sex openly is just nauseating. An entire decade of manchildren caterwauling about how much they love pussy. Really embarrassing.

You can't be talking like that, white baby

Tom Waits. 1*

The most important rock album of my generation.

Pavement ❤️

Sick beats and unhinged rhymes. Kool Keith was wayyyyy ahead of his time, and you can still feel his influence on modern rap. Great pick for the list.

What's your take on repetitive garbage? What's your take on repetitive garbage? What's your take on repetitive garbage? What's your take on repetitive garbage? Hollow! Childish! Hollow! Childish! Hollow! Childish! Hollow! Childish! Wrote three lines and made an album! Wrote three lines and made an album! Wrote three lines and made an album! Wrote three lines and made an album!

Okay Tom Waits, maybe there's something to your music after all. But I still despise your vocal performance. You sound like a kid who signed up for Choir to get an easy A and who scoffs at the mere idea of singing with effort.

Historically interesting and very beautiful

Grateful Dead wannabes

Mildly interesting but every track felt like it could've been 90 seconds shorter. Which is saying a lot for a 7-track 30 minute album.

Not one of Lou's best.

Godlike R&B record. D'Angelo was a legend. RIP.

I saw someone else's review include the line "It's like if The Postal Service made an acid pop record." as a positive. I share the same sentiment, but as a negative.

no more singer/songwriter albums please

I love The Boss but why is this album here? See also: Music by Madonna. There's just no need for these late-career albums from known greats.

Not as good as Stories From...

New Wave 🤮

Elton John is the goat

Oh, I get it now. Fugazi kicks ass.

Wow. This is a movie soundtrack?

Lauren Mayberry, my beloved. The voice of an angel.

There sure are a lot of performative 5* ratings here. We get it. Sickened to learn that New Wave came to America and produced such dreck.

Cool! Never heard any Zappa before this.

The Boss's best.

Some of the other reviews, man. Yall sound like clowns. Anyone who could enjoy the Cha Cha Cha song is just an idiot entertained by novelty. You would clap your hands and gape in wide-mouthed astonishment if I jingled some keys in your face, provided I told you the keys were all made by rural Estonians.

New Wave makes me want to fucking die! No more no more no more!!!

Wow, just beautiful. Not overhyped even a little. I'm floored

I understand the historical significance of this record, but it mostlysounds like stock standard 50s jazz, 30 years too late.

Joni Mitchell, all the lyrical talent of Dylan, but with a voice that doesn't sound like a Simpsons character

We don't need any "thirteenth studio album by..." in this household, thank you very much

I didn't like this album, in fact I found it rather dumb with terrible lyricism, but I just wanna address the other reviews I read here. What exactly is with GenX and hating any male vocalist who can sing higher than a Low C and doesn't sound like Eddie Vedder? You sound like the worst kind of 60-year-old manchild who still acts like they're on the playground. Castratti? Got their balls stuck in a car door? I'm sure those lines would've KILLED on the playground in 1977. 2 stars to spite the spiteful.

Kevin Rowland's vocal style was iconic, oft-imitated nowadays. But the instrumentation is the star of the show for me, really cool, falls somewhere between ska and jazz I guess? I'm no music critic, I've only listened to a thousand albums by now. Maybe I could be.

Why is this even on the list? Which dope smoking music critic from 2009 thought this was a true essential?

Enough with the New Wave!

I still do not understand Nick Cave

Kid Rock is a fake ass poser who makes music for dumbasses.

Probably the best Stones album on the list. Really cool sound.

If you've heard one Sinatra song, you've heard them all. The man had vocal talent beyond words, but a great album this is not.

Pretty cool! Fatboy Slim meets Portishead? Moby is in the news right now for saying some shit, probably to stir up interest for a tour or smth.

I still don't get it. Their 2000 debut was forgettable and so is this.

As a debut album it's good, but not quite as good as their other stuff has been, like *Who's Next* or *Tommy*

Rap has come a long way. That's all I can say.

Another Costello banger

UK critics overestimating the importance of New Wave again. The only thing I want to rip up is this page in the book. Please stop serving me new wave albums.

Good production and samples. But damn, Jay Z loves to say "gay" with a capital F. Shut the fuck up dude.

The Black Keys used to be THE band, man. How did they fall off so hard after El Camino?

I can feel the influence radiating off every track on this album. Intense.

There's a kind of guy who likes rock music because it's "bad ass" and "bitchin" but if you ever asked him to articulate beyond these masculine 80s buzzwords, he would probably get flustered and call you gay. That guy loves shit like Def Leppard and KISS.

Maybe it's just benefitting from comparison to my previous album from Def Leppard. But this album kicks ass.

The artists that Fred Neil influenced are all way better than Fred Neil. This album is a creeping yawn that never satisfies.

Can you play the one that goes "bee boo boo bop, boo boo bop boo bop"?

Saw another reviewer who said "Without the New York Dolls, there is no punk and new wave." Seems like an exaggeration. Punk would be a loss, but new wave would not. Neither would this album if it were cut from the 1001, but we all know the book editor would rather cut off an arm before he cut an album older than the late 90s.

Surprisingly fresh for being 43 tracks

Fantastic! Really groundbreaking electronic work for its time

what the fuck was that? starts awful and slowly gets "better" but still ends in "this album sucks" territory

I have to imagine this was squarely in the bargain bin by 1981. The 1001 is really testing my patience again.

KISS sucks

More "music" from the height of the cock rock era when every other rocker decided to court the screeching girlie audiences with track after track of "let's fuck a fuck a fuck, I wanna fuck you and I want you to fuck me baybehhhhhhh" The only thing I want to hear about is Buckley fucking off.

Testing My Patience Music Club

Compilation album?

Mid grunge

Nick Cave and the Bad Music

I don't get the cultural adoration for Stevie Wonder. I do have to wonder (sorry) if I'm missing something. Do people really think this is one of the greatest albums ever? Sure Stevie was talented but it's all just so... bland?

How did this guy get 6 albums on the list? CanCon popularity?

Cool band with pretty terrible singer

As others have said, this is music best enjoyed in a smoky bar after a pint or three, especially if you're a violent prick

Fine, just wondering why it's on the list.

Sublime. Doesn't have any of Queen's mega-hits but it's still incredible to listen to.

Just fine. I get why Tina was so popular but everything other than her voice is not very good here.

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There are so many New Wave albums on the list. Fucking insane. Only 3 of them are good, and this isn't one of them.

There Are Better Things to Do than listen to this album.

I listened to the Beta Band and every song was about you.

This album certainly sent me to hell, in a "I am being eternally punished" way.

Last good Coldplay album

Back to blaccent

Another album included because the GenX music critics are overly obsessed with 80s New Wave. At this point (874 albums done) the sound of 80s synthesizers gives me nausea.

Yet another album nobody has ever heard of which, in my estimation, was placed on the list because one music critic liked it when they were young. Utterly unremarkable.

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