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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Boatman's Call Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.2	+1.8
Songs Of Love And Hate Leonard Cohen	5	3.21	+1.79
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Dead Kennedys	5	3.27	+1.73
The Man Machine Kraftwerk	5	3.32	+1.68
If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Pogues	5	3.34	+1.66
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	5	3.34	+1.66
Odessey And Oracle The Zombies	5	3.42	+1.58
Blonde On Blonde Bob Dylan	5	3.5	+1.5
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan	5	3.61	+1.39
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	5	3.62	+1.38

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Joshua Tree U2	1	3.67	-2.67
Van Halen Van Halen	1	3.63	-2.63
Aja Steely Dan	1	3.46	-2.46
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	1	3.38	-2.38
Achtung Baby U2	1	3.3	-2.3
461 Ocean Boulevard Eric Clapton	1	3.12	-2.12
The Lexicon Of Love ABC	1	3.08	-2.08
Vauxhall And I Morrissey	1	2.96	-1.96
Can't Buy A Thrill Steely Dan	2	3.72	-1.72
Darkdancer Les Rythmes Digitales	1	2.59	-1.59

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	3	4.67
Bob Dylan	2	5
Leonard Cohen	2	5
Black Sabbath	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
U2	2	1
Steely Dan	2	1.5

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Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

All Ratings

The Rise & Fall

Madness

3/5

Unapologetically British, albeit sometimes painfully so. Fun shit. Madness is def one of the stranger groups in that late 70s/early 80s aka scene. Pretty playful and weird in a fun way. Feels like it would score an 80s comedy starring a Brit version of judge reinhold where he ends up randomly going in and out of an un-explained cartoon universe Fav tracks: Rise and fall and Primrose hill

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

4/5

So there was only one thing that I could do Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

Can’t say much more than hasn’t already been said about little Richard, the consensus top guest appearance on full house (suck it, Mike love). Rock music wouldn’t be the same without this man, and the songs on this album in particular (even if many were released years prior), so this gets a 4/5 just from that perspective. I’ll bump it .5 for the amount of hair lost and blood pressure boosted from angry white dads that couldn’t deal. If I had to make any complaint it’s that this is still generally a singles-heavy era, even if it’s in those waning years. This is largely a collection of those as opposed to a cohesive album. And while “Here’s…” made the cut, many other blues, swing jazz and spiritual/gospel artists that inspired him aren’t going to make this list because their compilations weren’t put together until years later by yazoo, arhoolie etc. in the 60s and 70s. Not so much a dig on this album as a drag and borderline disservice that we prob won’t get many albums before this time for the rest of this 1001 albums project. Fav tracks: rip it up and oh why?

Boston

5/5

California

American Music Club

2/5

Shit was pretty boring. Will not revisit. Best track was Jenny, and that just sounded like a Elliot smith b-side from disc two of a deluxe package reissue

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

I’m mostly here to see what direction Layde goes with his impending (hopefully) hot blue-eyed soul takes. As far as my take - I think Dusty has an amazing, sultry voice, and while …in Memphis has a great set of songs with lush arrangements it’s still just a good album. All those pieces, while great on their own, just don’t completely come together often enough. The blend of pop and soul is too balanced, never creating its own identity. Her rendition of Windmills of Your Mind is probably the song that puts those three aforementioend elements together the best, but it’s also the furthest away from the style of the rest of the album. Breakfast in Bed is similar, but to a lesser degree. That all said, tracks like Son of a Preacher Man, Just One Smile, No Easy Way Down and Don’t Forget About Me are such great fuckin songs that this album is worth repeated spins. But I’d feel that way regardless of who’s singing. 3.5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

2/5

Meh. I really don’t understand how this album is on this list. The “best” track and definitely the reason it’s on anyone’s radar (or this list, tbh) is because of a song that is popular because it bit the instrumental from the orchestra version of “the Last Time.” There are plenty of Britpop and neo-psych out there that’s much more enjoyable. From just a contemporaries standpoint: - blur, oasis, manic street preachers, stone roses, shit - even supergrass is a better option - same shit with neo-psych. There’s too many better options of that era to even mention here. I’m being kind of harsh, but it’s only because of the presumed accolades of being on this list. It’s not a horrible album, but it’s not essential. The Verve will go down in the books as a one hit wonder and a case study on plagiarism

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Fuckin all American classic. The four covers were unnecessary, but this just proves how great of a songwriter Fogerty was. Extra kudos to Lookin out my back door being immortalized in one of the best film scene and song combos in motion picture history. Also - Swamp rock is a goofy subgenre, so it’s fun to reference.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

Not the best stripes album but a stripes album nonetheless. Satan bless jack and Meg.

I Against I

Bad Brains

3/5

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

1/5

A spray fart in album form.

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

4/5

Amazing pivot from the early garage sound from just a handful of years earlier to this charming blend of folk, music hall and pop all the while talking mad shit in that oh so wry British way. Sonically, it kind of picks up where Village Green left off and since that’s my fav Kinks album all-time, that bodes well for the rating. 4.5/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Beautiful, gloomy and lush as fuck. Hits in the feels every time.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

1/5

Not my bag. Can’t really deal with Robert Smith’s voice. Pretty whiney. Like the Smiths for goth kids. I wish the album title was apt to the length of the record. Would prefer to never listen to this again.

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Not my fav. It’s fine. Probably won’t revisit this album.

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

4/5

What a great debut from a great band. Bunch of fuckin nerds that figured out a cool way to talk shit about the knuckle draggers amongst us. Just a unique take on new wave and post punk with 70s electronic influences (can, cluster, prob kraftwerk etc) that is so much fun. The stones cover is honestly my least favorite part. It was kind of interesting, but that could have just been left for live shows. Fav track: mongoloid

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

4/5

Great album that gets stronger as it progresses. The latter half is filled with absolute bangers (Live Hurts, Lucille, Donna Donna and Cathy’s Clown as the highlights). The amount of under the poodle skirt hand action this soundtracked must have been mind blowing. Good shit. I’ll have another.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Love it, but Folsom is still the superior prison live album

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Top notch

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

2/5

This ain’t it. Gonna give it a 2 out of respect

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

2/5

The objective was accomplished. Gonna chalk most of this up to Germans being a weird lot

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

3/5

Absolute tits combo of hair metal and arena rock. Catchy as all hell. Great hooks. Gang vocals galore. Fun shit. Def soundtracked a lot of STDs being spread in the late 80s. 3.5/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Tracy Chapman

3/5

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

4/5

Ryan Adams is most definitely a twat, but this album is great even if he bites Dylan excessively. Shoutout Dave Rawlings for (co)writing the best track on the album. Fuck you, Ryan Adams. Take your 4/5 and pound sand.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

This one was real fun. My fav part is listening to these jams and trying to pick out parts that have been sampled by hip hop artists. De la soul, will smith, pac, Kanye etc have all sampled joints off of this album. Good shit. Not something I’m going to go back to much, but the impact this has had on music and culture alone gets this a 3

Aja

Steely Dan

1/5

This might be my least favorite type of music. This shit is for folks who constantly talk about their one black friend and wear fedoras with bulky white tennis shoes. This music is for dudes who tuck their t shirt into their jeans. This is grocery store background noise at best. Fuckin lameass smooth jazz with cheesy funk bass lines. Kind of impressive to take a bunch of genres, boil them down to their worst elements and then throw it in a blender. Listening to this album was a net negative on my life, and if I could give it a negative score then I would. Fuck steely Dan (If you enjoy this - please ignore and keep enjoying … and may god have mercy on your soul)

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

New Wave

The Auteurs

3/5

Solid Brit pop that rolls on the darker side (which seems like it should be the norm, not the exception). I’ll revisit. 3.5/5

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

3/5

Is it really post punk any longer? Idfk. Prob depends on your definition of punk. Regardless, this shit was an apocalyptically weird experimental mind fuck. Pretty cool, but not something I’m going to revisit much.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

Legend

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Can’t say more than has already been said. Hail Lou!

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

Depressing. Destructive. Delightfully so

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

3/5

3.5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

2/5

Wack but not as wack as aja

Wild Gift

3/5

3.5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

5/5

An all-timer. This should be the blueprint of how to successfully reinterpret the blues (as well as evolving off the 50s folk revival). Mayall and the rest of the Brit blues-rock faction should have taken notice

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

This is the vibe. 5/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

Fourth Metallica album and their fourth best. Has some absolute classic tracks, great riffs and cool themes. Production was not ideal. Should have let this shit breathe a bit. And obviously the bass is pretty much inaudible and that was certainly a choice. Still a strong cap to the decade that solidified Metallica’s place as metal royalty

LP1

FKA twigs

2/5

Interesting and seems well down, but it’s not for me. 2.5/5

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

4/5

Long live Bob!

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

5/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

Intervention showcases arcade fire at its best. Big emotional builders that hit ya in the feels. Great stuff. 3.5/5

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

1/5

No thanks. 1.5/5

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

3/5

Runs the gamut of Distorted, contemplative, Spacey, meditative, hypnotic, psychedelic and fuzzed the fuck out, often at the same time. 3.5/5

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Grunge classic. Love the added orchestration on tracks like dumb

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

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

I don’t care if it’s more of a collection of songs as opposed to a cohesive album. Shit is great

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

Legend. Never gonna prob sit and crack thru this entire thing, but many many classics

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

3/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

3/5

Not as good as 20 year old me thought. Still fun for nostalgia.

Faust IV

Faust

4/5

An appropriate amount of weird.

Yeezus

Kanye West

2/5

Meh. This was the beginning of the end.

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

1/5

Nixon

Lambchop

3/5

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

2/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

The Bends

Radiohead

3/5

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Gorillaz

3/5

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

The Joshua Tree

1/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

2/5

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

5/5

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

4/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

Black Metal

Venom

2/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

The Band

3/5

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

3/5

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

3/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Van Halen

1/5

Third

Soft Machine

1/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

2/5

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

2/5

Follow The Leader

Korn

3/5

As a whole, this is not as fun as i remember. That said, there’s still a few absolute bangers that hold up for me

With The Beatles

Beatles

5/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

2/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

3/5

It’s fine

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Hail Iommi

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

3/5

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Arular

M.I.A.

2/5

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

1/5

But stealing pile of gentrified wack

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

4/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

2/5

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

5/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

3/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

5/5

My Generation

The Who

2/5

Forever Changes

Love

4/5

Drunk

Thundercat

3/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

Infected

The The

3/5

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

2/5

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

3/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Foo Fighters

2/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

The Slider

T. Rex

4/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

3/5

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

A Seat at the Table

Solange

2/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

5/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

2/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

4/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

2/5

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

3/5

Achtung Baby

1/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

4/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

Black Sabbath

5/5

Debut

Björk

3/5

Sound Affects

The Jam

3/5

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

2/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

3/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

5/5

The Stone Roses

5/5

Live Through This

Hole

3/5