1001 Albums Summary

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480
Albums Rated
3.25
Average Rating
44%
Complete
609 albums remaining

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2000
Favorite Decade
Jazz
Favorite Genre
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32
5-Star Albums
6
1-Star Albums

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Albums

You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Chelsea Girl
Nico
5 2.63 +2.37
A Short Album About Love
The Divine Comedy
5 2.76 +2.24
Destroy Rock & Roll
Mylo
5 2.88 +2.12
Very
Pet Shop Boys
5 2.94 +2.06
Vauxhall And I
Morrissey
5 2.96 +2.04
Rhythm Nation 1814
Janet Jackson
5 3.01 +1.99
The Last Broadcast
Doves
5 3.03 +1.97
Tubular Bells
Mike Oldfield
5 3.1 +1.9
Pyromania
Def Leppard
5 3.13 +1.87
Fisherman's Blues
The Waterboys
5 3.2 +1.8

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones
1 3.59 -2.59
Blunderbuss
Jack White
1 3.38 -2.38
Astral Weeks
Van Morrison
1 3.25 -2.25
MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana
2 4.2 -2.2
White Light / White Heat
The Velvet Underground
1 2.89 -1.89
Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
2 3.86 -1.86
Planet Rock: The Album
Afrika Bambaataa
1 2.79 -1.79
Green River
Creedence Clearwater Revival
2 3.76 -1.76
The Score
Fugees
2 3.69 -1.69
Blood On The Tracks
Bob Dylan
2 3.66 -1.66

Artists

Favorites

ArtistAlbumsAverage
Eminem 2 5
Joni Mitchell 3 4.33

Least Favorites

ArtistAlbumsAverage
The Rolling Stones 2 1.5

Controversial

ArtistRatings
Ice Cube 2, 5

5-Star Albums (32)

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Popular Reviews

Devotional Songs by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Really liked this one, I was on a real boring streak lately with these albums where I only got trashy metal and emo rock so this was a nice change of pace! Oriental music isn't praised enough in the mainstream scene so this was a nice surprise!

1-Star Albums (6)

All Ratings (480)

Madman Across The Water by Elton John
Aug 07 2024

Maybe I've been a bit spoiled by Candle In The Wind since it was my frist album from Elton. It's not bad, but it didn't really strike me as anything that amazing

Dookie by Green Day
Aug 08 2024

Yeah, I can relate a lot the the lyrics, still.

Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane
Aug 09 2024

Good, wasn't expecting much due to the age but Somebody To Love and Comin' Back To Me were really standout tracks

Very passionate lyrics and vocals, a must listen if you're a fan of indie rock or if you've ever felt aimless in your heart, though I do feel like it's a bit too long and samey for my liking, it definitely peaks in the early tracks.

Licensed To Ill by Beastie Boys
Aug 13 2024

First dude out of this book, loud, annoying, super basic instrumentals coupled with super basic lyrics, any other rapper after beastie boys does it better

Bright Flight by Silver Jews
Aug 14 2024

I remember me is a great track, but aside from that I don't think anything else stuck out. Maybe I'm not a big fan of country? I was in a sappy mood and even then I couldn't relate that much to it.

Bad by Michael Jackson
Aug 15 2024

Iconic as fuck, What even else is there to say about it? It's Bad by Michael Fucking Jackson. You should know the best hits even if you weren't doing this album marathon.

Groovin' by The Young Rascals
Aug 16 2024

It's alright, I guess. Not that much to it.

Rio by Duran Duran
Aug 18 2024
A Short Album About Love by The Divine Comedy
Aug 22 2024

Don't listen to any of these retards spouting nonsense about this album being bad, this is for the lovers only. So far the highlight of this whole thing along with L.A Woman (day 16)

Let's Get Killed by David Holmes
Aug 26 2024

Different, doesn't have anything I would call a banger, but it's a vibe if you want something more moody and atmospheric

Scott 2 by Scott Walker
Sep 04 2024
Too Rye Ay by Dexys Midnight Runners
Sep 08 2024
Joan Armatrading by Joan Armatrading
Sep 09 2024

Very passionate lyrics and progression, yet a bit basic for most of it's singles

Elvis Presley by Elvis Presley
Sep 10 2024

Rockabilly is kinda fun, actually. Had only heard about Elvis from his name alone, but now that I sat down to listen to some of his hits, he really is all that. Tutti Frutti, Blue Suede Shoes and maybe I'll Never Let You Go being the highlights.

Apocalypse Dudes by Turbonegro
Sep 11 2024

Doesn't really stand out in anything in particular and thusly wears out it's welcome pretty fast, just your run of the mill 90's buttrock album.

Movies by Holger Czukay
Sep 16 2024
Cheap Thrills by Big Brother & The Holding Company
Sep 21 2024

Getting real tired of listening to rock only albums on this 1001 albums experience, and I'm on day 45.

Tank Battles by Dagmar Krause
Sep 22 2024

Just admit you're a lazyass if you're giving it a low rating over it not being on spotify. Very stylish and classy.

Ten by Pearl Jam
Sep 24 2024
G. Love And Special Sauce by G. Love & Special Sauce
Sep 25 2024

Not a single song I felt like going back to and it's staying that way

Brothers by The Black Keys
Sep 26 2024
So by Peter Gabriel
Sep 29 2024
So Much For The City by The Thrills
Oct 04 2024

I get why people start to lower scores after a while, plenty of them start to get very unremarkable after a while lol

Bug by Dinosaur Jr.
Oct 20 2024
Stardust by Willie Nelson
Nov 06 2024

Such a comforting and relaxing album, very short but full ouf soul and emotions

Funeral by Arcade Fire
Nov 07 2024
1989 by Taylor Swift
Nov 08 2024

One of the few albums I've heard fully before reading this book. It's as mid as I remember, surprised to see it here, honestly. Then again it's Taylor Swift so as mid as she is it's hard to deny the influence and broad appeal

Kenza by Khaled
Nov 11 2024

Tried going into it with an open mind and I even liked the start but man this shit is too long for me

OK by Talvin Singh
Nov 15 2024

So sweet, so chill, so melodic! Really good on a relaxing day!

The Scream by Siouxsie And The Banshees
Nov 18 2024
Meat Is Murder by The Smiths
Nov 26 2024

Not bad at all, but being exposed to The Queen Is Dead feels like I was spoiled the best hits of the band, really. Hope that album finds me here eventually.

Kid A by Radiohead
Dec 03 2024
Black Metal by Venom
Dec 04 2024

As stale and generic as a name like Black Metal can be, definitely trying too hard

Guero by Beck
Dec 14 2024
Group Sex by Circle Jerks
Dec 15 2024

I mean it's alright, but really? 15 minutes? I can barely form my thoughts on the songs when they're already over in a minute

Devotional Songs by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Jan 08 2025

Really liked this one, I was on a real boring streak lately with these albums where I only got trashy metal and emo rock so this was a nice change of pace! Oriental music isn't praised enough in the mainstream scene so this was a nice surprise!

Dirt by Alice In Chains
Jan 11 2025
Junkyard by The Birthday Party
Jan 12 2025
Vol. 4 by Black Sabbath
Jan 14 2025
Nilsson Schmilsson by Harry Nilsson
Jan 21 2025

I didn't know the line in the coconut came from here! Awesome!

Debut by Björk
Jan 22 2025
KIWANUKA by Michael Kiwanuka
Jan 23 2025
Hejira by Joni Mitchell
Jan 31 2025
Time Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Feb 22 2025
Shaka Zulu by Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Feb 23 2025

Something about African music is really soothing, you can really feel the passion coming out of all the chants and vocals they put on all these songs

This Is Fats Domino by Fats Domino
Mar 02 2025

Half the album is unavailable on spotify so I had to make do with just listening to another album lmao

GI by Germs
Mar 03 2025
Pump by Aerosmith
Mar 27 2025
Grace by Jeff Buckley
Mar 29 2025
...Baby One More Time by Britney Spears
Apr 03 2025

Baby One More Time and You Drive Me Crazy are absolute timeless bangers, shame nothing else sticks out for the remainder of the album. Very hard carry from these two songs

Murmur by R.E.M.
Apr 13 2025
Apr 14 2025

Not only is it mid but this guy is a contender for one of the ugliest album covers on Spotify, shit's hilariously awful

Red Dirt Girl by Emmylou Harris
Apr 23 2025

Really don't get the hate for country music if they can be as good as this.

Autobahn by Kraftwerk
Apr 24 2025

Very quirky, stonehead music. The type of thing you'd hear in a whacko dreamcast rhythm game, and that's a compliment!

Arular by M.I.A.
Apr 25 2025
Boy In Da Corner by Dizzee Rascal
May 02 2025

You cant sound like a gangsta rapper and have a british posh accent at the same time, sorry.

Darklands by The Jesus And Mary Chain
May 09 2025
With The Beatles by Beatles
May 28 2025

I'm pretty sure they have the entire Beatles discography on this considering this is the 3rd album I get from them on day 224, and no matter how many times they get shoved on me and hear all about how important they were for music, I still think they're boring as fuck, please stop trying to convince me otherwise, I'm not falling for the psyop

May 29 2025

First track is good and the title track is an all time banger but that's about it for remarkable moments on this.

Bone Machine by Tom Waits
Jun 19 2025

Keywords: Raw, Shit Yeah that seems about right.

Stand! by Sly & The Family Stone
Jun 21 2025
LP1 by FKA twigs
Jul 07 2025
Exodus by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Jul 08 2025
Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield
Jul 11 2025

I can't give anything other than 5 stars for making the Exorcist theme by being a one man band. Good on ya, Mike.

War by U2
Jul 18 2025
Life Thru A Lens by Robbie Williams
Jul 20 2025

I've heard the name Robbie Williams a few times in tabloids during my life and I always thought he was one of those corny celebrities known by shallow people who never really had that much talent to show to the world but had enough money to back it up. After listening to one of his albums it's good to know that I was mostly correct

Blunderbuss by Jack White
Jul 23 2025

Oh wow! Another uninspired rock album on this list? Color me impressed!

Paranoid by Black Sabbath
Jul 24 2025

Can't believe I got this recommendation right after Ozzy passed away. Timing couldn't be better. R.I.P to the prince of Darkness </3

The Gershwin Songbook by Ella Fitzgerald
Jul 26 2025

Whatever charm listening to Ella Fitzgerald could have is robbed by having to listen to a 3h15 min album.

Jul 29 2025

It's all shit you've heard before in all the other Nirvana albums, but on MTV, great pick for 1001 albuns!

Play by Moby
Aug 06 2025
Felt Mountain by Goldfrapp
Aug 13 2025

Reminder not to trust the overall ratings on this site

Thriller by Michael Jackson
Aug 16 2025
Aug 19 2025

Fantano was lowkey right on his scoring. This album's quality drops off a cliff after All Of The Light and it doesnt really bounce back despite trying on some tracks. Given how Ye's obssession with porn and delusions of grandeurs have gotten worse, it almos feels like he was foreshadowing his own current demise, but if anything, it doesn't make the album any better, moreso it servers as merely the cutting off point from his peak to his fall from grace. Important record, but nevertheless inconsistent.

Will The Circle Be Unbroken by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Aug 20 2025

Yeah there are some good tracks on this but 2 hours of banjo twangs? I could live without

Sep 11 2025

Killer Queen is an obligatory listen for a Jojo fan but that's about it

Cross by Justice
Sep 19 2025
Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Sep 29 2025
The Score by Fugees
Sep 30 2025

If you wanna sound gangsta when you're rapping, make sure your swear words aren't censored, or else you'll just look like a pussy. Very telling that the only good tracks here are the ones with Lauryn Hill

Run-D.M.C. by Run-D.M.C.
Oct 13 2025

Every song here sounds like the DK Rap

Zombie by Fela Kuti
Oct 17 2025
Eagles by Eagles
Oct 19 2025
Dummy by Portishead
Oct 20 2025
Gold by Ryan Adams
Oct 27 2025
Deja Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Nov 04 2025
Very by Pet Shop Boys
Nov 05 2025
Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
Nov 22 2025
Mask by Bauhaus
Nov 23 2025
1977 by Ash
Nov 26 2025
Oar by Alexander 'Skip' Spence
Dec 05 2025
Superfly by Curtis Mayfield
Dec 06 2025
Tommy by The Who
Dec 08 2025

Pretty sure they have The Who's entire discography here with how many albums they recommended it to me, stop doing that, I still think their sound is ass and listening to more of it won't make me think otherwise

Frank by Amy Winehouse
Jan 07 2026

Very underrated! I heard Back To Black before started this project and I wasnt really impressed with it, so color me surprised in seeing how much range Amy's had, from Scat Singing to Jazz to regular Pop! It's a shame she went out so ugly, she barely hit her prime...

Cut by The Slits
Jan 15 2026
Casanova by The Divine Comedy
Mar 06 2026
evermore by Taylor Swift
Mar 11 2026

The best Taylor Swift has to offer. Still think Taylor Swift is painfully mediocre.

Kenya by Machito
Mar 23 2026
Antichrist Superstar by Marilyn Manson
Apr 18 2026

Edgeslop. Whatever accurate social commentary Manson has here is lost on how awful he sounds and how crude and immature his lyrics are. The Beautiful People goes kinda hard tho.

Want Two by Rufus Wainwright
Apr 19 2026
Headquarters by The Monkees
Apr 21 2026

My biggest criticism of this book is that despite how many recommendations in over 60 years of recorded music history, very little is international, instead opting for a lot of boring, unremarkable, formulaic period pieces from an euro-american POV, and this nothinburger of an album is the best example that comes to mind in how I will forget it exists by the time I finish this listening in how exhaustingly played out it is

Celebrity Skin by Hole
Apr 22 2026

Maybe the real reason Kurt Cobain shot himself was because he knew his girlfriend was the real talent

Traffic by Traffic
May 04 2026

If I have to hear another beatles wannabe 60s groupie band with a bob hairdo I will call this project a sham to everyone I know. I mean come the fuck on, this is album 413 I'm in!

Dry by PJ Harvey
May 05 2026
Sail Away by Randy Newman
May 06 2026

Funny how I went from. 'This guy sings like Donald Trump speaks', to 'Hey wait, this voice is familiar...' to 'It's the Toy Story guy!' His voice might be grating to some but I really dig his solo work now, respect.

Vivid by Living Colour
May 12 2026
May 20 2026

One of my first introductions to Rap music all the way back in the 2000s, I still have a soft spot for 50, as the first 6 tracks still go insanely hard to this day, but this album is too damn bloated for it's own good. It's no wonder 50 fell off so fast, he was in the sweet spot in the timeline where Eminem was on the way out from his drug abuse and Kanye still hadn't started making music yet, so he had exactly 3 years to make the most out of the vacuum from the rap game. He did, he went hard, but after Eminem and Dr. Dre hard carried his first album, it wasn't hard to see that 50 had no longetivity in his career.

Smile by Brian Wilson
May 21 2026
m b v by My Bloody Valentine
May 22 2026
Blur by Blur
May 26 2026
May 31 2026

One of the best of all time, really made my teenage years a lot more tolerable, love it to death <3

Logical Progression by LTJ Bukem
Jun 04 2026

It might be long and not on Spotify, but the beats on this are insane, feels like early vaporwave with the samples and chopped and screws

Shalimar by Rahul Dev Burman
Jun 11 2026
Fragile by Yes
Jun 14 2026

Yare Yare Daze... Roundabout is an all time classic immortalized by JJBA, to the point where everything else feels extra and not up to par.

Tusk by Fleetwood Mac
Jun 16 2026
Savane by Ali Farka Touré
Jun 20 2026
Sex Packets by Digital Underground
Jun 21 2026

Probably the worst bars I've heard in my life, the beats are ok but jesus...

S&M by Metallica
Jun 22 2026
Truth by Jeff Beck
Jun 28 2026
Kollaps by Einstürzende Neubauten
Jul 03 2026

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