My 1001 Albums Journey

110

Albums Rated

4.01

Average Rating

10%

Complete

979 albums remaining

Rating Distribution

Rating Timeline

Taste Profile

1970

Favorite Decade

Jazz

Favorite Genre

Top Origin

Cheerleader

Rater Style ?

5-Star Albums

1-Star Albums

Breakdown

By Genre

Top Styles

By Decade

By Origin

Albums

You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Scum Napalm Death	5	2.08	+2.92
Shleep Robert Wyatt	5	2.5	+2.5
Beach Samba Astrud Gilberto	5	2.92	+2.08
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake Small Faces	5	2.93	+2.07
Psychocandy The Jesus And Mary Chain	5	2.95	+2.05
Rings Around The World Super Furry Animals	5	2.97	+2.03
Steve McQueen Prefab Sprout	5	3	+2
Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor Lupe Fiasco	5	3.13	+1.87
Selling England By The Pound Genesis	5	3.19	+1.81
The Renaissance Q-Tip	5	3.24	+1.76

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	1	3.27	-2.27
Youth And Young Manhood Kings of Leon	1	3.09	-2.09
The Suburbs Arcade Fire	2	3.49	-1.49
Play Moby	2	3.45	-1.45

5-Star Albums (31)

View Album Wall

1-Star Albums (2)

All Ratings (110)

unexpectedly punk for a rootsy rock and roll throwback group. entirely likable for what it is.

It is my personal belief that sad british dudes in the 90s understood 60s music better than anyone in the 60s did (and probably anyone ever has since), and I think their version of 60s music is usually better than most actual 60s music. It's the whisper subtle integration of punk, prog, electronica, all influences too quiet to really even notice, but they color the inbetweens that fill out this sound so much. The implied Trip Hop of Bittersweet Symphony clears so far beyond anything Jagger-Richards could ever put to pen (even if legally they Did put it to pen [fuck copyright law part 205776]). The youthful hazed out ruminations on oblivion and hopelessness are made all the more emotionally destructive by the fact that Richard Ashcroft kinda, tries to rap sometimes? And he really doesn't know how to rap, so he just ends up spewing all his thoughts out breathlessly, and it's honestly gutwrenching at times. The Verve have a much better grasp of psychedelia than Oasis do also, that's for sure. There's a much needed looseness and spaciness to their playing, appropriately cosmic. I suppose you could argue they're a tad too indebted to their influences as a throwback group to really be considered visionaries (I counted references to at least three 60s rock bands, Stones, Aphrodite's Child, Velvet Underground), but like, they mostly out do and one up their influences anyway, so who cares.