Listening statistics & highlights
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
|
The Modern Lovers
The Modern Lovers
|
5 | 3.05 | +1.95 |
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Heartattack And Vine
Tom Waits
|
5 | 3.07 | +1.93 |
|
I'm Your Man
Leonard Cohen
|
5 | 3.1 | +1.9 |
|
Rain Dogs
Tom Waits
|
5 | 3.19 | +1.81 |
|
Rust In Peace
Megadeth
|
5 | 3.24 | +1.76 |
|
Music From Big Pink
The Band
|
5 | 3.34 | +1.66 |
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The Band
The Band
|
5 | 3.34 | +1.66 |
|
Doggystyle
Snoop Dogg
|
5 | 3.35 | +1.65 |
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Bossanova
Pixies
|
5 | 3.38 | +1.62 |
|
Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
|
5 | 3.38 | +1.62 |
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago
|
1 | 3.2 | -2.2 |
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3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...
Arrested Development
|
1 | 3.14 | -2.14 |
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Stand!
Sly & The Family Stone
|
2 | 3.43 | -1.43 |
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Amnesiac
Radiohead
|
2 | 3.42 | -1.42 |
|
Odessey And Oracle
The Zombies
|
2 | 3.41 | -1.41 |
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Rock Bottom
Robert Wyatt
|
1 | 2.39 | -1.39 |
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Bitches Brew
Miles Davis
|
2 | 3.3 | -1.3 |
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The Message
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
|
2 | 3.28 | -1.28 |
|
Homework
Daft Punk
|
2 | 3.28 | -1.28 |
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Fun House
The Stooges
|
2 | 3.27 | -1.27 |
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Bob Dylan | 5 | 4.6 |
| Bruce Springsteen | 4 | 4.75 |
| Pixies | 3 | 5 |
| Tom Waits | 4 | 4.5 |
| The Velvet Underground | 3 | 4.67 |
| Nirvana | 3 | 4.67 |
| Simon & Garfunkel | 3 | 4.67 |
| The Clash | 2 | 5 |
| The Band | 2 | 5 |
| The Rolling Stones | 6 | 4.17 |
| Leonard Cohen | 5 | 4.2 |
| Beatles | 4 | 4.25 |
| Jimi Hendrix | 3 | 4.33 |
| Led Zeppelin | 5 | 4 |
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Wyatt | 2 | 1.5 |
| Kings of Leon | 3 | 2 |
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| The Who | 2, 3, 4, 5 |
Had I known before I started this project that there would be THREE Kings of Leon albums, I probably wouldn't have bothered. Such an obviously invalidating curation. Alas, I'm 800+ deep, no turning back now.
How often are we going to allow influence to carry the day? This album is embarrassing to listen to most of the time, the lyrics are the same level of the first year teacher who wants to teach his 8th grade students Algebra through the magic of hip-hop. If this album is indeed a foundational text in the genre, then what a shaky foundation it is. P.S. the group is called Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five but the album has seven guys on the cover? The f$%&?
Most of this album sounds like the soundtrack for a 90s JRPG with a beat underneath. Nothing wrong with it, but not very interesting unless i'm min/maxing my emo loner teen protagonist at the same time.
An album that's well on its way to 3 star forgettability and then boom, Killing Moon forces the adjustment.
This is what people who don't like new wave think new wave sounds like. Repetitive, unadventurous, and uninteresting.
I sure do wish contemporary country stars would ask themselves, "are you sure Dolly done it this way"?
This is your God?!?
No songs here that I would describe as unimpeachable bangers, but still, a double album that avoids anything resembling an obvious skip is worthy of some admiration.
There's 1001 albums here, right? So there's a limited amount of space. Did we really need to carve out a place for the Kid A outtakes?
Probably the only double album i've ever heard that I wish was longer. Just outrageously good.
I've heard this album categorized as alternative hip-hop several times. No chance, it's positively retro. And pining for an era much better left in the 80s.
This album really does slap, but let's just not tell Gen Z I said so
I'm sure "talk about ROCK BOTTOM" jokes have been made so thoroughly that I'm ashamed to mention them, but sometimes cliches are razor apt.
This is the stuff that raised me. Hard to disentangle critical appreciation from sentimentality but I don't even care to try. Banger
If I was on molly, walking the streets of Ibiza past midnight, this would probably slap.
"You're just too stupid to get it, it's supposed to sound awful, that's what makes it good." Yeah...pass
This is an absolutely absurd inclusion. There's nothing wrong with this album, in fact it is pretty decent, but by no means do you have to hear it "before you die". The White Stripes is the only thing from White's career that merits inclusion in this list. Don't put more recent stuff on the list just for the sake of its recency.
Supertramp is the English equivalent of the Steve Miller Band. Forgettable, paint by numbers, 70s rock. Yet another bizarre inclusion on this list.
Not a huge fan of RHCP, but this record is solid as a rock, if a little long.
Gen X British music critics are going to be flabbergasted when they find out that nobody but them cares anything about English house and jungle. Have fun in that perpetual Ibiza of the mind though, must be nice.
A good example of music that I don't particularly enjoy, but merits an inclusion on a list like this because you can't tell the history of Western popular music without mentioning them.
One of the indispensable rock albums. If you were to remove this record from history of popular music than nothing that came after it would have been the same.
Surprised by how much I was enjoying this until the last three songs. It's like they padded out the album with dreck because they just had to be near 40 minutes. Last track is actually called "another song"... Example #3847 of solid curation being the most important element to making a quality record.
The compilers of 1001 albums have real issues with hip hop, clearly. There are actually a lot of good hip hop albums out there, but to follow along with this book you would think it's all heinously unfunny alternative hip-hop(The Pharcyde, Dr. Octagon, etc...) or chicken soup pablum for wannabe radicals like this one
This album sounds like a teacher trying to teach his 7th grade students about politics through the magic of hip hop.
Took me a while to get on this one's vibe, but I got there eventually, and found myself engaged and relaxed at the same time. Ultimately, not my thing and a little overlong but I have never heard anything quite like it, and it's inclusion here feels justified.
Like if you gave AI a prompt for forgettable, generic 80s pop rock
Starts about as well as any rock album from the 2000s, but is unable to maintain that level, how could it? Nonetheless, the album does lose steam in the back half and the experience is a little uneven. Still, the bangers absolutely bang.
I'm going to give this album 2 stars instead of its deserved 1 because I admire Idlewild's, almost tyrannical, commitment to being as boring as humanly possible.
Steeped in old-timey material!
Obligatory 3 star for a live album that I refuse to listen too. Live albums and studio albums should always be treated as wholly separate things.
An album that is dragged down by its duds as much as it is uplifted by its hits. Smooth Criminal is an elite pop song, undone by Liberian Girl, Speed Demon, etc...
Can you imagine how bad the groupies for this band smelled? 3 stars
One of the defining albums of the 80s, the peak of jangle pop, and one of the great pairings between singer/lyricist and guitarist/songwriter that we've ever seen. Obviously a 5 star record, and I appreciate that most of the negative reviews on here are acknowledging that their that their ratings have everything to do with Morrissey as a person and very little to do with the music represented here. Honest, at least.
The apex of G-Funk. Revisiting this one was an experience of saying, 'oh yeah, this song rules!', 6-7 times. The five track run from the intro through to Murder Was The Case is about as good as any hip hop album has ever done. Also, nice to see mainstream hip hop getting some shine on this list. So far, i've gotten nothing but alternative silly hop like Octagon and the Pharcyde, or even worse, political hip hop which somehow manages to disgrace hip hop and politics at the same time. More of this in future iterations of this list, I hope.
The generator is on a heater at the moment. Three elite albums in a week! With this release, the Band make their case for the best debut and sophomore album combination of all time. One of the more bizarre things about this group is that the guy who sings lead on most of their songs, Richard Manuel, isn't as often discussed as Robertson, Danko, or Helm. I've wondered if getting relatively little screen time in the Last Waltz is to blame for that. Anyway, he has one of the great voices, and this record is his masterpiece.
Not sure why this album isn't as respected as the first two Pixies records. A parade of bangers, Velouria and Dig for Fire maybe top 5 Pixies tracks ever for me.
The only Who record that is aggressively bad
This is why we music
Baffling inclusion. Run of the mill brit-pop is very much something that people can die without encountering.
This sounds like a parody of late 60s music. If it's not, then it's the greatest argument for a renewed criminalization of drugs.
obligatory 3 star rating for all live albums
It is not The Who's fault that We Won't Get Fooled Again was used in the cold opening of CSI:Miami, or their fault that "meet the new boss..." has become a pop cultural cliche and a vulgar political phrase for morons to overuse. It's not The Who's fault that Baba O'Riley is used at seemingly every sporting event. It's not The Who's fault that Limp Bizkit thought it was a good idea to cover Behind Blue Eyes. But a lot of people seem to hold it against this album that it has had such a far reaching presence in our pop culture. Nonsense. It's a testament to the outstanding quality of these songs. We all just have to live with some of the unfortunate bycatch.
The insane over-representation of Gen X British music strikes again!
5 star album, or top 5 album ever?
Does improve a bit in the back half. But of all the 00s indie rock that could have been included on the list, this choice is pretty uninspired.
Obligatory 3 star rating for live albums, which of course, shouldn't be included on this list.
No songs that I would consider certified bangers. But the album holds a solid quality for an hour+. That's something to be commended, even if I won't be carrying any of these songs through life with me.
Probably a hot take to say this is better than any Billy Bragg or Wilco album, but F it, we cookin
Look, I'm already pot committed to completing this project, but goodness, some of the curation is absolutely baffling.
Strong correlation between shitty album covers, and the quality of the music therein.
Bowie is probably over represented on this list, but one can have no complaints about Hunky Dory's inclusion. This album is Bowie's best and, conveniently for recommendation purposes, his most accessible. And is probably the single greatest piano rock album of all time. I wish the chameleon had spent a little more time operating in this shade.
Dylan on the cutting edge
Judging an album by its cover remains undefeated.
Obligatory 3 star rating for live albums which, of course, have no business being on this list.
More useless dross from they youth of the British Gen Xers who compiled this list.
When was it that Indie Rock died? After this, surely. 2009, maybe?
As good a one and done as the album era ever produced
If The Clash had wanted to, they could have stayed in this lane, and gone down comfortably as the greatest punk rock band of all time. They ultimately branched out, of course, and became one of the greatest ever bands. Nonetheless, this particular pit stop on the way to London Calling is about as good as punk ever got.
I cling to this record like Linus does to his blanket. Waits keeps you warm.
Put on your red pajamas and find out…
A masterpiece of American songwriting
That sweet anticipation when you open up the generator to see what new album you've got today, and the bitter disappointment when you realize it's something from the "world music" bin.
What the British gen x music critics who curated this list see in 90s UK house, I'm sure I don't know.
Had I known before I started this project that there would be THREE Kings of Leon albums, I probably wouldn't have bothered. Such an obviously invalidating curation. Alas, I'm 800+ deep, no turning back now.
Just some happening hepcats and it blows so hard
Only 5% of albums received 5 stars. Average rating: 3.29.
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.