My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Specials The Specials	5	3.3	+1.7
Meat Is Murder The Smiths	5	3.32	+1.68
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) The Kinks	5	3.39	+1.61
The Village Green Preservation Society The Kinks	5	3.4	+1.6
Different Class Pulp	5	3.42	+1.58
Oracular Spectacular MGMT	5	3.61	+1.39
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	5	3.63	+1.37
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys	5	3.73	+1.27
Is This It The Strokes	5	3.82	+1.18
(What's The Story) Morning Glory Oasis	5	3.84	+1.16

Album	You	Global	Diff
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	1	3.56	-2.56
Parachutes Coldplay	1	3.46	-2.46
Deloused in the Comatorium The Mars Volta	1	3.2	-2.2
Exit Planet Dust The Chemical Brothers	1	3.16	-2.16
Survivor Destiny's Child	1	2.86	-1.86
Time Out The Dave Brubeck Quartet	2	3.84	-1.84
Yeezus Kanye West	1	2.77	-1.77
Station To Station David Bowie	2	3.7	-1.7
The Genius Of Ray Charles Ray Charles	2	3.63	-1.63
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme Simon & Garfunkel	2	3.62	-1.62

Artist	Albums	Average
The Kinks	2	5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

1/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

I vaguely remember my mom immediately changing stations every time Stan came on the radio. But here I am, twenty-something years later, being an absolute stan of the song.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

Trio

Dolly Parton

2/5

It must be very tough to deal with Southern US men! There is little doubt about the legendary status of Parton, and it's nice to learn about Ronstadt and Harris too. Twelve years after Trio, they released Trio II, would be interested to check that one out as well. Trio is a pleasant summertime listen, as the album fits perfectly the mood of a slow June workday – I'm just not enthusiastic about country music. So, please note that two stars isn't a bad rating by any means, I just don't see myself purposefully listening to this album again – not easy to reflect that on a five-star scale.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

3/5

OMG I just LOVE Greta Van Fleet! I saw them live once, Josh is SO CUTE, he was handing out white roses in the crowd <3 <3 What a long ass album though!

Truth

Jeff Beck

3/5

Had no idea Jeff Beck has built such a supergroup, but the other way around. Songs that stood out for me: Shapes of Things (think I've heard it as a Yardbirds song already) & Morning Dew

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

2/5

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

4/5

A defining record of my high school years. Raw British post-punk with a leftist critique of society. Songs that I love: Ether Natural’s Not in It Damaged Goods Glass

Leftism

Leftfield

2/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

I think every human being should once experience the joy of walking on the street to Bittersweet Symphony.

The Score

Fugees

3/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Yeezus

Kanye West

1/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

2/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

2/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

2/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

2/5

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

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808 State

3/5

Survivor

Destiny's Child

1/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

1/5

I thought Coldplay gets way more stick than what they actually deserve, so I tried to approach this with an open mind. Was not familiar with their debut as X&Y (2005) was their first record I gotten into - and particularly liked as a teen. In theory, Parachutes (2000) should be working really well: as Britpop was clearly losing momentum by the end of the 20th century, Coldplay was trying to find a new way of building upon this legacy - the massive commercial success of this album clearly indicates they succeeded in doing so. But for God’s sake, this is such a boring album, with most of the songs sounding frustratingly stale - watered down guitars and generic piano bits everywhere. In a way, I think Parachutes may be responsible for pioneering this new era of white-middle-class-men making risk-averse music under the pretence of being a rock band: while they fill arenas and sell out stadiums, they just don’t have much to say about the world. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think popular music should always be clever or meaningful in particular, but if the music itself lacks some excitement in the first place, at least try making up for it by saying something relatable about the era you’re living in. Or women. Maybe, this is just how the early 2000s was. To be fair, I also remember myself being quite bored at the time.

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

3/5

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

1/5

I wasn’t sure until the middle if it’s an album or just one 50-minute track? To be fair, it gets a bit better after Chemical Beats, the last track, Alive Alone is quite okay actually. I can imagine this debut sounding like something really cool in 1995, but no, this doesn’t really match my taste at all.

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

1/5

Gave me a headache :(

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

2/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Love this album. Was so devastated when she passed away, I already had the tickets to see her at a festival

Marquee Moon

Television

2/5

Main takeaway for me: I thought they were British

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

4/5

Missed out on Goldfrapp entirely when every second NME article was about them. But I quite like this album! A song which stands out for me: Little Bird

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

2/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

3/5

Drake for pseudo-intellectuals? I quite liked this one, especially Super Rich Kids (and the PSX theme at the intro)

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

What a debut! He also kinda debuted popular music, too. I have a core memory of going absolute nuts as a 5-year-old when hearing Tutti Frutti for the first time at my aunt's. It might have been the song which started it all for me. The songs on the album sound a bit too similar and repetitive, though - it feels like Little Richard absolutely milked the format once he realized that it works so well.

New York Dolls

2/5

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

2/5

I really enjoyed the quirkiness of 69 Love Songs in the beginning, quite liked the first album, especially Come Back From San Francisco. Some of the songs reminded me of The Shins. Going deeper with the album(s), I wasn't sure what to make of this – it doesn't really feel like a coherent concept despite the title, and there is great variety when it comes to the quality of the songs, too: I think the highlights are nice, but its lowlights are downright annoying. I don't think there's enough quality to justify the 2 hour 52 minute length of the album(s) as there's plenty of fillers between the better songs and it's tend to lose it's edge towards the third album. On another note, I think the algorithm should always assign these longer albums to a Friday – it took me 4 days to finish these 3 albums and it would be easier to get these done on a weekend.

British Steel

Judas Priest

2/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

5/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

2/5

The Grand Tour

George Jones

2/5

Scissor Sisters

2/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

The Doors

3/5

I think much of The Doors’ appeal has to do with Morrison’s charisma and early death. Obvious highlights are the famous ones

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

Refreshing to see some African music in a predominantly UK / US centric canon. Reminds me of Gnawa music a lot. Awesome album, gets a bit repetetive though.

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Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Black Sabbath

3/5

I had no idea that between this and the release of Paranoid there has only been like 7 months. That’s insanely prolific even by today’s standards. Solid album. Not sure how, but I feel like I never heard NIB before

Low-Life

New Order

2/5

Celebrity Skin

Hole

2/5

The first two songs are awesome. The rest is not so remarkable – on a positive note, it was nice to find out that Courtney Love had an actual musical career

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5