1001 Albums Summary

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Let's Get Killed David Holmes	5	2.67	+2.33
Pacific Ocean Blue Dennis Wilson	5	3.07	+1.93
Sunday At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio	5	3.31	+1.69
Neon Bible Arcade Fire	5	3.34	+1.66
Different Class Pulp	5	3.42	+1.58
Nilsson Schmilsson Harry Nilsson	5	3.43	+1.57
Aqualung Jethro Tull	5	3.44	+1.56
Talking Heads 77 Talking Heads	5	3.56	+1.44
Hounds Of Love Kate Bush	5	3.62	+1.38
Bad Michael Jackson	5	3.81	+1.19

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine	1	3.99	-2.99
The Chronic Dr. Dre	1	3.32	-2.32
Truth Jeff Beck	1	3.16	-2.16
Le Tigre Le Tigre	1	3.14	-2.14
In Rainbows Radiohead	2	3.85	-1.85
Imagine John Lennon	2	3.45	-1.45
Either Or Elliott Smith	2	3.39	-1.39
Channel Orange Frank Ocean	2	3.33	-1.33
The Undertones The Undertones	2	3.25	-1.25

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War

4/5

Thematically cohesive. A time capsule. Beautiful.

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

The range is amazing for the limited number of sounds available. You could spend months putting this together … or maybe just hours. It’s impossible to tell. And that is the genius of it.

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

Would never have found or listened to it on its own. Production is great for the time period. El Paso is timeless.

Different Class

Pulp

5/5

Genuine class. A really great album, definitely belongs in the top echelon of this already select group.

Imagine

John Lennon

2/5

It’s not great. Phil Specter’s contributions do make it at least palatable, but mostly melodramatic and boring. Time and place, I suppose.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

1/5

Does not age well. Catchy, but I can definitely see the point of all the reviewers who say this album killed hip hop.

#1 Record

Big Star

3/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

5/5

Great! 3 bangers. The rest is fairly bad 70s (correction, normal 70s). Worth keeping around.

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

2/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

Great album. Enjoyed it from beginning to end.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Several classics on one album, but the bonus for me was hearing new tracks I’d never heard before. With a lot of these albums, I always think “time and place”. If I bought this on vinyl in 1978, I would have definitely listened to it for a week straight. It’s an album that should be consumed as album. Sometimes we’re reminded the 80s shift to singles wasn’t all positive for music. I should have known more of these already.

Iron Maiden

4/5

Wanted to hate it, but it’s not bad. Vocals are lacking, but guitar makes up for it. I actually like some of the pop-iness of it, but what do I know, I’m no metalhead.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Interspersed with some truly dreadful emo electronica albums, what a relief to have this one pop up. 29 minutes of classic rock background noise. I may listen to again instead of the next few “duds” sure to be my album of the day.

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

4/5

Short and sweet. Another time and place album, but even 50 years later it’s enjoyable.

GREY Area

Little Simz

4/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

5/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Not my favorite, but it definitely holds up. The Tolkien references are cool. My favorite track is “The Battle of Evermore” with Sandy Denny guest vocals.

Le Tigre

1/5

Probably great live show, but as an album it’s mostly noise. Their later album “This Island” is better.

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

5/5

The Undertones

2/5

Bubblegum punk. Who knew?

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

5/5

Great and way ahead of its time. Found the original version (not the remastered), still sounded fresh almost 50 years later.

Truth

Jeff Beck

1/5

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

4/5

Great. Definitely would listen to the whole thing again anytime. Reminds me of the days of driving around with 1 cd in the car stereo just repeating over and over again.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

2/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

Would love to hear the original on vinyl in the time and place. Of course, it would have likely been banned from entering my house (shrug).

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

These are my notes as I was listening: Her voice drives me crazy and the whole album sounds like experimental student work. But … I don’t hate it. 🤷‍♂️ Honestly, if four guys made this album it would be called Led Zeppelin IV. I actually immediately listened to another Kate Bush album when I finished. Lesson: Stick with it, it grows on you.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

5/5

Studio production for a live album from 1960 is exceptional. Even if jazz isn’t your thing, you really can’t deny it’s a great record.

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

4/5

Great. Holds up well.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

The reason you do this project is to hear songs like “Planet Caravan”! The only “down side” to this album is knowing how much more impact these songs all have as performance pieces.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

Was new to me and I was pleasantly surprised (I made it through the entire album). Really enjoyed “Thin Line” with Nelly Furtado vocals.

...And Justice For All

Metallica

3/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

5/5

Can’t believe I missed this in the late ‘90s. EDM jazz.

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

I’m not the biggest fan of her voice, but she never seemed to take issue with others singing her brilliant songs for her. Another example of “time and place,” these songs seem simple in Swiftie-World, but Carole King was doing all of this 50 years ago!

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

5/5

Owned this album 30 years ago. Still great.

Rage Against The Machine

1/5

If you can’t say anything nice …

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

Great!

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

3/5