My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Trout Mask Replica Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	5	2.28	+2.72
The Dreaming Kate Bush	5	2.96	+2.04
Tom Tom Club Tom Tom Club	5	3.03	+1.97
The Sensual World Kate Bush	5	3.17	+1.83
Rain Dogs Tom Waits	5	3.2	+1.8
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Sinead O'Connor	5	3.25	+1.75
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.32	+1.68
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	5	3.32	+1.68
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs Marty Robbins	5	3.33	+1.67
Dub Housing Pere Ubu	4	2.35	+1.65

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Moondance Van Morrison	2	3.71	-1.71
Highway to Hell AC/DC	2	3.66	-1.66
Follow The Leader Korn	1	2.65	-1.65
The Suburbs Arcade Fire	2	3.5	-1.5
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters	2	3.5	-1.5
Imagine John Lennon	2	3.45	-1.45
Tres Hombres ZZ Top	2	3.43	-1.43
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	2	3.43	-1.43
Sincere Mj Cole	1	2.38	-1.38
Music From Big Pink The Band	2	3.36	-1.36

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Stevie Wonder	3	4.67
Kate Bush	2	5
Talking Heads	2	5
Johnny Cash	2	5
David Bowie	3	4.33

5-Star Albums (39)

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1-Star Albums (2)

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Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

It’s okay. I get why it would be crazy popular and wild when it came out, but to me all the songs sound nearly the same. Very sick, vicious guitars and the lyrics are definitely compelling especially Anarchy in the UK and God Save the Queen, but it all sounds so repetitive musically. I guess I like the spirit and ideology but wish there was more differentiation between tracks. 3/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

Great lyrics

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

2/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

The Rockafeller Skank, Right Here, Right Now and Praise You… some of the best 90s tracks all on one album. And the ones I’m less familiar with are really fun too. Go watch Spike Jonze’s Praise You music video if you haven’t, absolute treat.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

The Stooges

3/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

I Against I

Bad Brains

3/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

4/5

Yeezus

Kanye West

4/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

What a voice. Just wow.

Sincere

Mj Cole

1/5

Listen, I like repetition. I think a lot of electronic albums on the list get a bad rap because of their use of repetition, like Flatboy Slim or Daft Punk. What makes them good is the underlying understanding of how to keep a catchy, exciting hook fresh and their use of complex layers of instruments and sounds. Just take Around the World or Praise You as master classes of this; they’re “basically” the same song the whole time but there’s so much going on that keeps them progressing musically and keeps your attention. This album, however, totally makes me understand why people hate repetitive techno. Just generic, so many of the songs sound the same, and most importantly, most of the hooks are dull. My favorite was the Introduction, the piano melody is very cool. But yeah even as a lover of deadmau5 and Daft Punk and other house music along these lines, this really is a poor representation in my opinion. Not offensively bad by any means but cmon what’s it doing here? I wouldn’t be annoyed if one of these tracks came on during a house mix but back to back the lack of creativity and versatility is apparent.

The Coral

3/5

I think the first half of this album is much better than the second. Pretty good tho but nothing really exceptional.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

2/5

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

3/5

Would be a great soundtrack to a 90’s movie or video game. Not transformative or super impressive but definitely leagues above other electronica on this list.

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

3/5

Dire Straits

4/5

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

3/5

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

2/5

No Other

Gene Clark

3/5

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

2/5

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

2/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

5/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

Wow I knew the big hits but didn’t think I would fall in love with this so hard.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

5/5

The Joshua Tree

3/5

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

3/5

Wild Gift

3/5

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

2/5

Germs

2/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

Follow The Leader

Korn

1/5

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

2/5

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

4/5

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

4/5

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

5/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Synchronicity

The Police

5/5

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

3/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

2/5

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

4/5

The Score

Fugees

5/5

American Pie

Don McLean

4/5

Tom Tom Club

5/5

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

5/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

2/5

First pass: I appreciate experimental, but I truly cannot find anything redeeming or interesting here. Every song is a cacophonous, confrontational din. I like confrontation in music, but this seems utterly pointless. Second pass: okay there some interesting stuff here. The latter half for sure, the wall of sound is certainly something. I appreciate that it’s different and inspired even if it’s very much not for me

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

4/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

The music isn’t super inspired, but I really loved some of the lyrics in this album, a lot of really earnest songs and feelings. Just want to be a bit part in someone’s life… drug buddy, it’s fun stuff. I especially loved Frank Mills because I just love the idea of the hope to run into a long-unseen acquaintance that made such an impression of you. I think we all have a lot of Frank Mills in our life. The extra b-side song Shakes Ground is also a really nice nuanced song about the love between friends vs SOs. So yeah, really enjoyable lyrics here even if the music is a bit meh and sounds the same.

Third

Soft Machine

2/5

>Looks at track listing >Four songs >Looks at total album time >1hr15min Hahha okay man. Sure. Why not.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

2/5

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

3/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

3/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

3/5

Sorta meh but actually pretty fantastic as background music to a Cyberpunk Red (TTRPG) game I’m running. So it’s got that going for it at least.

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

I wasn’t expecting to love this so much. I loved Perfect Day but wow what a fun, wonderful album. Just great lyrics, such a pleasant listen, and so much variety between the songs. Excellent. Exactly why I started this whole list.

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

2/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

3/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

2/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

3/5

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

4/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

3/5

Roxy Music

4/5

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

3/5

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

2/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

3/5

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

1977

Ash

3/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

2/5

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

2/5

Foo Fighters

2/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

The White Room

The KLF

3/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

2/5

Imagine

John Lennon

2/5

The Blueprint

JAY Z

2/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

Achtung Baby

3/5

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

5/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

Smile

Brian Wilson

4/5

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

2/5

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

4/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

4/5

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

3/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

Signing Off

UB40

3/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

5/5

This is what I’m doing this project for. Absolutely completely different, utterly unique, rich, dirty, a whole visual world you can picture created through music and sound. Reminds me of Nick Cave. Absolutely fantastic.

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

3/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

2/5

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

3/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Rio

Duran Duran

5/5

Close To The Edge

Yes

3/5

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

3/5

The Clash

4/5

Basket of Light

Pentangle

4/5

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

4/5

Konnichiwa

Skepta

2/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

2/5

Every single song sounds the exact same. Sorry to the fans of this if I’m missing some secret nuance here but wow what a boring record. Absolutely perfunctory rock.

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

2/5

Common

4/5

This is wildly better than the other Common album on this record. Maybe I was just in the right mood for it, but this is just awesome.

Chris

Christine and the Queens

3/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

3/5

Another Green World

Brian Eno

4/5

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

3/5

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

3/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

5/5

Iron Maiden

3/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

2/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

3/5

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

2/5

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

4/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

5/5

Arise

Sepultura

2/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

2/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

3/5

Fun House

The Stooges

3/5

Pretenders

4/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

5/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

Paul Simon

4/5

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

4/5

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

2/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

4/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

4/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

3/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

4/5

Music for a movie that doesn’t exist is such a sick concept for an album. No clue how this is getting 1s at all except from the close minded. It’s clearly so well produced and performed, and creates an absolutely unique, spooky, fascinating vibe. Perfect background/ambient music to a game of Delta Green or Call of Cthulhu. The shifts of style and emotion come subtly or sometimes abruptly as the unnamed protagonist of the movie finds the dead body, uncovers the clue, or gets knocked out by the mystery assailant. Great stuff. Reminds me partially of some of Tom Waits stuff.

Fragile

Yes

4/5

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

2/5

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Mask

Bauhaus

3/5

Headquarters

The Monkees

2/5

Empty saccharine pop

Copper Blue

Sugar

2/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

2/5

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Gorillaz

4/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

3/5

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

2/5

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

Fleet Foxes

2/5

I was going to give this a 4 at first. Then I kept listening and it was definite 3. But my god by the end it has to be a 2. I don’t know why this style of indie folk feels so phony, grating and saccharine to me but damn. By the end I couldn’t wait for it to be done. I geese it’s because all the songs sound the same? Anyway, not at all BAD by any means but as one of the top comments said, feels like plastic.

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

2/5

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

4/5

Surprised how much I enjoyed this. Thought it was going to be another mostly skippable bit of 60s rock but there’s some great song writing, fun energy, and nice range in genres in here. Fun time!

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

5/5

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

Killing Joke

2/5

En-Tact

The Shamen

2/5

Van Halen

5/5

Was going to give this a 4, for the obvious unreal guitar skills, fun vocals and lyrics. It’s cool to have a rock band with amazing guitarists and a vocalist who can TRULY sing. But then the “doo-woo shoo be do wop” part came on in I’m the One and I was like holy shit these guys would have been stars even in the 40s/50s. Unreal.

All That You Can't Leave Behind

2/5

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

2/5

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

3/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

The United States Of America