My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
For Your Pleasure Roxy Music	5	2.98	+2.02
Central Reservation Beth Orton	5	3.05	+1.95
Here Come The Warm Jets Brian Eno	5	3.07	+1.93
Modern Life Is Rubbish Blur	5	3.13	+1.87
The Sensual World Kate Bush	5	3.17	+1.83
Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman John Zorn	4	2.22	+1.78
The Slider T. Rex	5	3.28	+1.72
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.28	+1.72
Private Dancer Tina Turner	5	3.29	+1.71
First Band On The Moon The Cardigans	5	3.29	+1.71

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Led Zeppelin IV Led Zeppelin	1	4.36	-3.36
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Beatles	1	4.26	-3.26
A Night At The Opera Queen	1	3.96	-2.96
The Doors The Doors	1	3.95	-2.95
(What's The Story) Morning Glory Oasis	1	3.84	-2.84
Let It Bleed The Rolling Stones	1	3.83	-2.83
American Idiot Green Day	1	3.76	-2.76
Hotel California Eagles	1	3.6	-2.6
Moving Pictures Rush	1	3.59	-2.59
Rust Never Sleeps Neil Young & Crazy Horse	1	3.53	-2.53

Artists

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Artist	Albums	Average
Johnny Cash	2	5
Kate Bush	2	5
Peter Gabriel	2	5

5-Star Albums (35)

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Popular Reviews

A Night At The Opera

Queen

1/5

Queen's problem is that their good songs are overplayed and their deep cuts are an embarrassment to music.

10 likes

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

1/5

Justice for Taylor <3

1 likes

1-Star Albums (24)

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Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Absolutely incredible vibes for checking your email first thing in the morning... I feel cured.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Not my favourite of theirs, but still better than most

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

This is a great example of how one can recognize important, ground-breaking, and/or impressive art but not actually enjoy it as consumer of art.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

5/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

1/5

Christ Almighty you can't be serious. This album should only be considered important because it's a lesson in why you don't want to make art without limits. One star for the one good song ("Tusks").

Phrenology

The Roots

2/5

Not for me.

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

It's funky, it's groovy.

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

Arrival

ABBA

1/5

There should be an exception to the "no greatest hits complications" rule in album rankings for ABBA. Not than any of their good songs were on this one...

Blur

3/5

There's certainly good stuff here but a lot of it sounds like a demo. Doesn't hit the same highs as PARKLIFE.

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

2/5

Panera: Vulgar Display of Flour

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

2/5

C'mon now.

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

1/5

No.

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

3/5

What I imagine chronic anxiety feels like.

Skylarking

XTC

2/5

XTC is the subject of the only Trash Theory video I came out of with LESS of an appreciation for a band. Absolutely no surprise that their only good song was written by the bass player and not the nonce who started this whole pointless endeavor.

A Northern Soul

The Verve

1/5

Please be serious. One of the most dated albums I've heard in a very long time.

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

3/5

Great voice. Definitely look up all the original songs, though.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Low-Life

New Order

4/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

2/5

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

The Joshua Tree

3/5

This one's really front-loaded, eh?

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

5/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

1/5

shut up.

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

4/5

Hey man, maybe don't call children "delicious".

Roxy Music

3/5

I thought there'd be, y'know, more than this.

New York Dolls

4/5

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

1/5

Further proof that hippies are bad people.

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

3/5

Odelay

Beck

5/5

One day in high school we were running track. I had stopped for a rest and an acquaintance begged for my DiscMan so she could had something to take her mind off the boredom of laps. I had the Odelay CD inside and warned it might not be to her taste; she said she didn't care, she just needed "anything". Anyway after one lap she practically threw the DiscMan back at me lol.

A Night At The Opera

Queen

1/5

Queen's problem is that their good songs are overplayed and their deep cuts are an embarrassment to music.

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

2/5

Not as bad as feared, but still mystifying why it's on this list. It doesn't even have "Fuck You"!

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

2/5

\"Straight Shooter\" is a bop but the rest of this album blends into one big cheery samesong.

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

I prefer the soulful, singer-songwriter Laura Nyro to the "funky", Mamas and the Papa's style tracks that make up too much of this album. Diminishes the timeless effect her voice can have.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

Listening to this album is the closest I can get to meeting my husband as a teenager.

Document

R.E.M.

2/5

I really struggle to hear past Stipe's voice.

A Seat at the Table

Solange

3/5

Doesn't come close to the heights of "Losing You".

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

1/5

Hotel California

Eagles

1/5

American Idiot

Green Day

1/5

Wildly dated clown show

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

1/5

"If sex was an Olympic sport / We'd have won the gold" is where I noped out.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

5/5

(Gordon Ramsey voice) finally some good fucking food "Criminal" is the only song to which I have the lyrics memorized. Not through effort, but through the osmosis of how iconic it is.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

1/5

Can't even imagine how people thought these clowns were ever a match for Blur.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

I remember finding Monae's sound fresh when this album came out, but have struggled with her failure to evolve in the decade+ since. Some of her worst instincts on this record - that make it less consistent and way less fun than it should be - are now most of her output. Ideas are everywhere all at once, underdeveloped and pounded into hooklessness by overstuffed and cringey production. Imagine if everyone song on this album was as tight as "Cold War"?

The Stone Roses

4/5

Imagine what these guys could have done on a second record.

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

4/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

3/5

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

2/5