1001 Albums Summary

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3.21
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72%
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You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
We're Only In It For The Money
The Mothers Of Invention
5 2.46 +2.54
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
The Byrds
5 2.83 +2.17
Fly Or Die
N.E.R.D
5 2.87 +2.13
Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Tortoise
5 2.89 +2.11
The Gilded Palace Of Sin
The Flying Burrito Brothers
5 2.91 +2.09
New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)
Simple Minds
5 2.97 +2.03
Imperial Bedroom
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
5 2.99 +2.01
Devil Without A Cause
Kid Rock
4 2 +2
Wild Gift
X
5 3 +2
Heartbreaker
Ryan Adams
5 3.01 +1.99

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West
1 3.4 -2.4
The College Dropout
Kanye West
1 3.3 -2.3
System Of A Down
System Of A Down
1 3.27 -2.27
Me Against The World
2Pac
1 3.25 -2.25
GREY Area
Little Simz
1 3.23 -2.23
The Blueprint
JAY Z
1 3.18 -2.18
3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...
Arrested Development
1 3.14 -2.14
Crazysexycool
TLC
1 3.08 -2.08
Tanto Tempo
Bebel Gilberto
1 3.07 -2.07
Maxinquaye
Tricky
1 3.05 -2.05

Artists

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ArtistAlbumsAverage
Beatles 7 4.57
Queen 3 4.67
The Police 2 5
Wilco 2 5
The Smiths 2 5
Pink Floyd 4 4.25
Beastie Boys 3 4.33
Prince 3 4.33
Johnny Cash 3 4.33
The Byrds 3 4.33
Nirvana 3 4.33
The Beach Boys 3 4.33
Elvis Costello & The Attractions 3 4.33
R.E.M. 3 4.33

Least Favorites

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ArtistAlbumsAverage
Kanye West 3 1.33
Everything But The Girl 2 1.5
Björk 3 2

Controversial

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The xx 1, 4
Bruce Springsteen 2, 5, 4, 3

5-Star Albums (50)

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Popular Reviews

On The Beach by Neil Young

I suppose these “classic rock” albums had a new and exciting sound in the late 60’s/early 70’s, but after over 50 years of truly innovative music, they just don’t hold up. Not a bad album per se, but definitely not a great or even really good one either. Meh.

I See You by The xx

This is not a very good album.

Autobahn by Kraftwerk

Classic krautrock/electronic album

1-Star Albums (30)

All Ratings (789)

Licensed To Ill by Beastie Boys
Feb 02 2024

Awesome, irreverent, and sassy. However, while pretty good, it’s not nearly as good as Paul’s Boutique, which is a classic

Music From Big Pink by The Band
Feb 04 2024

folksy, bluesy, americana, rock. A great example of "classic rock," or to quote the famous commercial, "Is that Freedom Rock? Well, turn it up man!"

Melody A.M. by Röyksopp
Feb 04 2024

It’s dance music. Not exactly an unpleasant listen, but not something I’ll be giving a repeat listen.

Tanto Tempo by Bebel Gilberto
Feb 07 2024

She has a nice enough voice, but this is one of the most uninteresting pieces of music I’ve ever heard. Music is supposed to make you feel something, and all this album made me feel was bored.

Hot Rats by Frank Zappa
Feb 08 2024

This is a fantastic album that really highlights Zappa’s composing and guitar playing genius.

Fisherman's Blues by The Waterboys
Feb 11 2024

Fantastic album. Classic Irish-Folk-alternative from the 80’s

Sound Affects by The Jam
Feb 12 2024

This is a great punk pop album. Awesome bass lines

Pretenders by Pretenders
Feb 14 2024

Pretty good album. Classic punk pop sound.

Odessa by Bee Gees
Feb 16 2024

An album where they sing very high in their vocal ranges without popping into their disco era falsettos. Not great, but pretty interesting.

Queen II by Queen
Feb 17 2024

Awesome album. Queen was such a talented and entertaining band and they show it off on this album. One of their best!

I See You by The xx
Feb 18 2024

This is not a very good album.

Station To Station by David Bowie
Feb 19 2024

While this is far from Bowie’s best, it’s still a pretty good album.

Junkyard by The Birthday Party
Feb 21 2024

Oh look, another terrible Sex Pistols wanna be band.

Dust by Screaming Trees
Feb 22 2024

not even the bands best album.

Debut by Björk
Feb 24 2024
Isn't Anything by My Bloody Valentine
Feb 25 2024

Parts of this album reminded me of Harry Parch. This is not a good thing.

The Doors by The Doors
Feb 27 2024

No great, not terrible. I think that the keyboards as lead instrument is more interesting than Jim Morrison.

The Rising by Bruce Springsteen
Feb 28 2024

On this album “The Boss” sounds more like “The ineffective middle-manager.” Creative entropy hits some artists extremely hard.

Fever Ray by Fever Ray
Mar 01 2024

You go to that trendy and expensive new hair boutique only to realize - too late! - that the stylists aren’t talented enough for Great Clips. This album is the Surströmming-infused water the place provides.

We're Only In It For The Money by The Mothers Of Invention
Mar 03 2024

The first real conceptual rock album? Biting satire and social commentary? Making fun of hippies (bums - bad karma thing to do)? This album has it all and is an absolute masterpiece. Zappa was a genius

So by Peter Gabriel
Mar 04 2024

One of the classics from the 80’s.

Arc Of A Diver by Steve Winwood
Mar 07 2024

Not his best. Not terrible though

Dub Housing by Pere Ubu
Mar 08 2024

Good, not great album for supposed big influence on indie/alternative rock scene. Meh.

Imagine by John Lennon
Mar 09 2024

Lenin’s solo work suggests that either Paul was the true creative force behind the Beatles or Yoko (Oh No!) is a creativity vampire who drained Lennon completely

Odessey And Oracle by The Zombies
Mar 10 2024

I was not expecting this to be such a great album. Fantastic and interesting musically. Fun harmonies.

The Stooges by The Stooges
Mar 11 2024

Pretty good first album for seminal punk band.

Time Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Mar 12 2024
Abraxas by Santana
Mar 14 2024

Great guitar player

Here, My Dear by Marvin Gaye
Mar 15 2024

MusicLly most of the songs sound very similar. It’s good music. This is a classic because of the emotion of the album, written and performed right after a divorce. Pain, longing, anger, despair, and melancholy, all on display.

Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits
Mar 19 2024

This album is much more than the song with the hit video from MTV. Pretty good album overall. I especially liked the final, title track, Brothers in Arms

In It For The Money by Supergrass
Mar 20 2024

Good, not great album. A good example of late Brit-pop

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive by Merle Haggard
Mar 21 2024

I really enjoyed the first song. Then I enjoyed the very similar sounding second song. Then I listened to the entire album and realized it was basically one song, done 12 different ways. I imagine this was the ‘country pop’ of the 60’s. Not bad, but definitely not great.

Kenza by Khaled
Mar 22 2024
Either Or by Elliott Smith
Mar 23 2024

This has been a favorite for many years

System Of A Down by System Of A Down
Mar 24 2024

I was excited to hear the intelligent, insightful, and incisive lyrics everyone assured me Serj Tankian delivered. I’m still waiting.

Live At Leeds by The Who
Mar 26 2024

Great album from a great band

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
Mar 27 2024
1999 by Prince
Mar 30 2024
Fly Or Die by N.E.R.D
Apr 03 2024

I wasn’t expecting to enjoy this album as much as I did. Great album.

Kenya by Machito
Apr 04 2024
Darklands by The Jesus And Mary Chain
Apr 07 2024

As a kid who grew up and discovered alternative music in the 80’s this is one of the albums that’s like musical comfort food.

Autobahn by Kraftwerk
Apr 11 2024

Classic krautrock/electronic album

Low by David Bowie
Apr 15 2024

Intersting and satisfying album.

Back To Black by Amy Winehouse
Apr 16 2024

She’s got an amazing voice. I can’t lie though, it’s a little unnerving how catchy the song Rehab is, considering how her life ended.

Stand! by Sly & The Family Stone
Apr 19 2024

Pretty good album. There is one song with a rather problematic title.

Tellin’ Stories by The Charlatans
Apr 21 2024

Not a bad album. I liked it better when Oasis did it though

Nick Of Time by Bonnie Raitt
Apr 24 2024

I remember this album from the late 80’s mostly because my mother bought it. It’s not bad, but for me it’ll always feel and sound like mom music.

At San Quentin by Johnny Cash
Apr 27 2024

Fun live album. The banter really displays Cash’s personality and ability to connect with his audience

The Message by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Apr 28 2024

Awesome 80’s funk/rap

Urban Hymns by The Verve
May 09 2024

Good, not great album

Damaged by Black Flag
May 10 2024

Fun, classic punk. Not as interesting as some other bands, but still pretty good. Black Flag’s most interesting work is Rollins’ spoken word material

The Slim Shady LP by Eminem
May 11 2024

Interesting only insofar are this is considered a great album. Proving once again that people were desperate to claim products of the 90’s/00’s matched the excellence of those from the 80’s, even when they clearly did not

25 by Adele
May 12 2024

No denying she has a great voice, but the songs don’t compare to other great singers. It’s not a bad album, it’s just also not particularly an interesting album. Meh.

Cheap Thrills by Big Brother & The Holding Company
May 13 2024

Joplin's backing band. Not a Joplin fan and the guitars have that sloppy sound that permeates so much hippie music. The bass is on point though.

May 14 2024

Every song on this album is great. There are some classics and some under appreciated bangers also.

Histoire De Melody Nelson by Serge Gainsbourg
May 16 2024

Pretty good album. I know or Gainsbourg from his Bonnie and Clyde song that Luna covered.

Dirt by Alice In Chains
May 17 2024

This album reminds me of college, and that while 90’s music was okay, it was nowhere as good as the music produced in the 80’s

Elephant by The White Stripes
May 19 2024

I’ve never been sold on the greatness of the White Stripes others seem to see. This album starts off with an insanely famous song. Some other songs are pretty good, some are okay.

Shleep by Robert Wyatt
May 24 2024
The Sounds Of India by Ravi Shankar
May 26 2024

I don’t specially like the explanation of Indian musical tradition to begin the album

May 29 2024

Maybe the blues influenced rock of the late sixties was new and innovative at the time, but after 40 years of hearing it, it just sounds old, and the guitar playing is sloppy.

Jun 02 2024

This is an all time great. The start of country rock. This album is always a great listen.

Technique by New Order
Jun 03 2024

Great album. Not a bad song and a few great ones.

1989 by Taylor Swift
Jun 04 2024
Gris Gris by Dr. John
Jun 07 2024

I know there are some good albums in this genre, and he even made some good music. However, none of it is on this album of what sounds like stoner-cajun-faux voodoo garbage

Parallel Lines by Blondie
Jun 08 2024

A surprising number of song I knew. It’s a solid album throughout, and doesn’t include Rapture, mercifully.

Play by Moby
Jun 15 2024
B-52's by The B-52's
Jun 20 2024

Classic 80’s Athens, GA alternative rock

Pearl by Janis Joplin
Jun 24 2024
Brothers by The Black Keys
Jun 25 2024
Van Halen by Van Halen
Jun 28 2024

Pretty awesome rock album

Survivor by Destiny's Child
Jul 10 2024
Space Ritual by Hawkwind
Jul 15 2024

Proto-metal/punk. I believe Lemmy from Motörhead was in the band for a time.

A Girl Called Dusty by Dusty Springfield
Jul 18 2024

Available through YouTube but not Apple Music. Good, not great, early pop

Live! by Fela Kuti
Jul 24 2024
Cut by The Slits
Jul 26 2024
xx by The xx
Jul 27 2024
On The Beach by Neil Young
Jul 31 2024

I suppose these “classic rock” albums had a new and exciting sound in the late 60’s/early 70’s, but after over 50 years of truly innovative music, they just don’t hold up. Not a bad album per se, but definitely not a great or even really good one either. Meh.

Tusk by Fleetwood Mac
Aug 02 2024
21 by Adele
Aug 03 2024
Revolver by Beatles
Aug 04 2024

Great album from beginning to end.

Aftermath by The Rolling Stones
Aug 06 2024
C'est Chic by CHIC
Aug 09 2024

I freaked out when I listened to this disco album. I reminded me of all the crazy music used in 70’s dramas.

Brown Sugar by D'Angelo
Aug 15 2024

There are probably some very good 90’s R&B albums. This is not one of them.

Vol. 4 by Black Sabbath
Aug 17 2024
GI by Germs
Aug 21 2024
The Gershwin Songbook by Ella Fitzgerald
Aug 24 2024

LONG album with lots of songs, which is not surprising as the Gershwins has lots of great songs. Great singer with a great voice doing the songs justice.

3 + 3 by The Isley Brothers
Aug 27 2024
Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth
Aug 29 2024

Classic album. I was transported back to my high school year.

Faith by George Michael
Aug 30 2024
Shaka Zulu by Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Sep 02 2024
I Am a Bird Now by Antony and the Johnsons
Sep 09 2024

This is one of the worst album to which I have listened. Terrible music, unappealing voice, trite lyrics that want so badly to be edgy. This will not replace Harry Parch are the album to play at the end of the night to get people to leave.

Smile by Brian Wilson
Sep 11 2024
Idlewild by Everything But The Girl
Sep 16 2024
Tommy by The Who
Sep 25 2024
Smash by The Offspring
Oct 13 2024
Eagles by Eagles
Oct 14 2024
Arular by M.I.A.
Nov 04 2024
Blur by Blur
Nov 16 2024
Triangle by The Beau Brummels
Nov 18 2024
Kid A by Radiohead
Nov 19 2024
Porcupine by Echo And The Bunnymen
Nov 25 2024
Ten by Pearl Jam
Nov 29 2024
Dookie by Green Day
Dec 03 2024
Dirty by Sonic Youth
Dec 06 2024
Superfly by Curtis Mayfield
Dec 07 2024
Funeral by Arcade Fire
Dec 09 2024
1984 by Van Halen
Dec 11 2024
Horses by Patti Smith
Dec 18 2024
Elephant Mountain by The Youngbloods
Dec 20 2024

I really enjoyed the music on this album but the mixing and added effects on the vocals of the various singers was rather off-putting on many of the songs.

Cross by Justice
Jan 08 2025
Oxygène by Jean-Michel Jarre
Mar 06 2025
Tidal by Fiona Apple
Mar 15 2025
Dummy by Portishead
Mar 18 2025
Third by Soft Machine
Mar 19 2025
Juju by Siouxsie And The Banshees
Apr 03 2025
Vivid by Living Colour
Apr 06 2025
Kollaps by Einstürzende Neubauten
Apr 23 2025
Frank by Amy Winehouse
May 06 2025
Nixon by Lambchop
May 07 2025
Savane by Ali Farka Touré
May 17 2025
Tical by Method Man
May 19 2025
Ctrl by SZA
May 30 2025
LP1 by FKA twigs
May 31 2025
Hejira by Joni Mitchell
Jun 14 2025
Want Two by Rufus Wainwright
Jun 17 2025
2112 by Rush
Jul 03 2025
Fuzzy by Grant Lee Buffalo
Jul 06 2025
D by White Denim
Jul 10 2025
Scott 4 by Scott Walker
Jul 18 2025
Next by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Jul 31 2025
Music by Madonna
Aug 14 2025
Aja by Steely Dan
Aug 29 2025
Zombie by Fela Kuti
Sep 02 2025
Grace by Jeff Buckley
Sep 16 2025
Ys by Joanna Newsom
Sep 23 2025
Tarkus by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Sep 25 2025
Stripped by Christina Aguilera
Sep 29 2025
Suede by Suede
Oct 03 2025
Blue by Joni Mitchell
Oct 25 2025
Remedy by Basement Jaxx
Oct 27 2025
Arise by Sepultura
Oct 28 2025
Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Nov 04 2025
The Scream by Siouxsie And The Banshees
Nov 07 2025
Manassas by Stephen Stills
Nov 10 2025
Groovin' by The Young Rascals
Nov 22 2025
Safe As Milk by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Nov 27 2025
Bug by Dinosaur Jr.
Dec 01 2025
Rio by Duran Duran
Dec 17 2025
Drunk by Thundercat
Dec 28 2025
War by U2
Jan 07 2026
Mask by Bauhaus
Jan 12 2026
Exodus by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Jan 24 2026
S&M by Metallica
Feb 03 2026
Green by R.E.M.
Feb 04 2026
Closer by Joy Division
Feb 06 2026
OK by Talvin Singh
Feb 11 2026
Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
Feb 23 2026
Ghosteen by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Mar 06 2026
Bongo Rock by Incredible Bongo Band
Mar 12 2026

I know there were some really good albums produced in the 1970’s. This is not one of them.

KIWANUKA by Michael Kiwanuka
Apr 05 2026
Sulk by The Associates
May 09 2026
Pump by Aerosmith
May 28 2026
Bummed by Happy Mondays
May 31 2026
90 by 808 State
Jun 02 2026
Bad by Michael Jackson
Jun 04 2026
Roots by Sepultura
Jun 06 2026
Yeezus by Kanye West
Jul 08 2026
Mott by Mott The Hoople
Jul 09 2026
Shalimar by Rahul Dev Burman
Aug 09 2026
Dare! by The Human League
Aug 16 2026

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