My 1001 Albums Journey

545

Albums Rated

3.62

Average Rating

50%

Complete

544 albums remaining

Rating Distribution

Rating Timeline

Taste Profile

1950

Favorite Decade

Funk

Favorite Genre

Other

Top Origin ?

Enthusiast

Rater Style ?

216

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
Metal Box Public Image Ltd.	5	2.41	+2.59
New Forms Roni Size	5	2.53	+2.47
Playing With Fire Spacemen 3	5	2.54	+2.46
Penthouse And Pavement Heaven 17	5	2.61	+2.39
Chelsea Girl Nico	5	2.63	+2.37
Movies Holger Czukay	5	2.71	+2.29
Phaedra Tangerine Dream	5	2.73	+2.27
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts Brian Eno	5	2.79	+2.21
Vulnicura Björk	5	2.79	+2.21
Apple Venus Volume 1 XTC	5	2.83	+2.17

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Boston Boston	1	3.7	-2.7
Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen	1	3.69	-2.69
Tusk Fleetwood Mac	1	3.47	-2.47
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	1	3.39	-2.39
Pretzel Logic Steely Dan	1	3.38	-2.38
Figure 8 Elliott Smith	1	3.33	-2.33
Melodrama Lorde	1	3.32	-2.32
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	1	3.32	-2.32
The College Dropout Kanye West	1	3.3	-2.3
First Band On The Moon The Cardigans	1	3.29	-2.29

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	6	5
Led Zeppelin	5	5
David Bowie	6	4.83
Nirvana	3	5
Brian Eno	3	5
Arcade Fire	3	5
The Who	4	4.5
CHIC	2	5
Aretha Franklin	2	5
Iggy Pop	2	5
Public Enemy	2	5
Jimi Hendrix	2	5
The Clash	2	5
Joy Division	2	5
Pixies	2	5
The Smashing Pumpkins	2	5
Björk	2	5
XTC	2	5
The Stooges	2	5
Deep Purple	2	5
Miles Davis	2	5
The Beach Boys	2	5
The Temptations	2	5
Kendrick Lamar	2	5
Black Sabbath	2	5
Simon & Garfunkel	2	5
Neil Young	2	5
Green Day	2	5
Hole	2	5
Kate Bush	2	5
Paul Simon	2	5
The White Stripes	2	5
k.d. lang	2	5
Joni Mitchell	4	4.25
Radiohead	4	4.25
R.E.M.	3	4.33
The Cure	3	4.33
Yes	3	4.33
Bob Marley & The Wailers	3	4.33

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	3	1.67
Tom Waits	3	1.67
Kings of Leon	2	1.5
Everything But The Girl	2	1.5

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Leonard Cohen	1, 5
Belle & Sebastian	4, 1
The Chemical Brothers	5, 2

5-Star Albums (216)

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Popular Reviews

This is more joy than it seems appropriate to enjoy right now

Still sounds awesome today

Meh

One last masterpiece by Bowie

The only band that matters

1-Star Albums (65)

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All Ratings (545)

Meh

You can really start to see the band members start to explore their own creative leanings.

So funky!

You can hear the influence this album has had on other artists.

He created a whole new world with this album

They were the original girl power band.

Lyrics are flippant and amazing

You can hear the influence they had on bands like Black Flag

Very catchy! I think they were the start of a bunch of German bands that became popular in the west in the 80s. Funnily enough you do not see many anymore.

Explodes like a bomb

We need the funk now more than ever!

Nice and trippy!

Meh

Very good but better than the Beatles? Nope. Also so overplayed I do not feel the need to listen to it again for quite a while.

I can’t believe this was from 1979. So inventive.

Full of clever lyrics but none that spoke to me.

Fabulous wall of feedback

Reminds me of The Replacements

Queen of soul!

Meh

Too angry for me

Lots of feeling and excellent lyrics

Spectacular showmanship!

Blew everything away when it came.

Felt very rollicking

An explosion of sound!

This doesn’t talk to me but it does talk to younger generations and they love it.

Has a Sly and the family stone vibe

I feel this this morning

She feels it.

Shame it wasn’t as popular as their other albums

It certainly was

Smooooth

Sublime

Interesting that he was also a denizen of Max’s Kansas City. The whole album deserved more praise.

Love Hung King garden

Loved it

I know it was revolutionary but not something I will choose to listen to

So many hits but doesn’t talk to me

Meh

Ahead of its time

Still relevant

Not my favourite by them

Excellent guitar

Bombastic

Meh

Synth pan flute magic

Pretty rockin

The original!

Very catchy

Very mellow

Enjoyable but didn’t stand out

Beautiful voice

Had every music style in a kind of kaleidoscope of sound

Excellent

Meh

The best harmonies ever

Raw excitement

Splendid

Not my cup of tea

Rockin’

A bit too rockin’

Not my cup of tea

Meh

Word

A bit too rockin’

Too much drama

Only love can break your heart

A classic

One last masterpiece by Bowie

Didn’t speak to me

Meh

A classic

Seems like a tribute band

Not my cup of tea but deemed a classic by many

Ground breaking at the time

Innovative and excellent

Funnily I’m not your steppingstone seems more of a hit

Superb

Well it’s better than Lana Clarkson got.

So ahead of its time

Dolly is the best!

She’s got an amazing voice but there’s a coolness factor that is missing.

The only band that matters

Solid

Not my cup of tea

Not their best album but a ground breaking sound nonetheless

Proof that you needn’t let anything hold you back from what you want to achieve.

Seemed a bit regurgitated

Shame BIG’s legacy is so tied to the rapist P Diddy.

You can feel everything in his voice

Are you taking the piss?

Country is not my cup of tea but these ladies are perfection.

Not his best

A great combination of funk and civic duty

Smooooth

I like how positive this one is. /s

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

I get the feeling it is on the list only for its origin piece for many musicians. It sounds very pub drinking songs.

This was back when they really sounded like Spinal Tap

So amazing that this was a live recording. Second only to Frampton Comes Alive.

The most classic of lines “Sitting on a park bench…”

This is more joy than it seems appropriate to enjoy right now

The great white washing of rock and roll.

Wunderbar!

Exceptionally raw emotion

Amazing but not as catchy as their other albums

C’mon, it’s Led Zeppelin. How could it be anything but 5 star

This album lets you bask in a mood. 5 stars just for being Canadian and making it.

The soundtrack of my Genx youth

Fun personified

Nice and chill

Nicely chill

This could have been written today. The only band that matters!

Indeed it was.

Good but really didn’t stand out

A bit too rockin’

Hits you like a ton of bricks

Some of the most played songs on radio show once it came out.

One of her better albums

I only ever hear the one song off of the album but the whole thing is a great album.

Good but not quite there to great

You may find yourself listening to this album.

Didn’t really stick out as something special.

Superb

Solid beats

That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball!

This is the album I didn’t know I needed.

I have happy memories sitting around with my older siblings listening to this while reading.

A solid album

Solid

Such a beautiful album! Such a shame it was not more popular.

Timeless

A classic

Not really ground breaking but nice to listen to.

Emotion all on display

Spectacular

Good solid album

Catchy yet real emotions

Rockin’

A new sonic wall.

Still very catchy and was very ground breaking at the time

So pretty

Copy of the Beatles or their own invention?

You can hear all the people they inspired

This was the first commercially popular album that allowed a women to express rage.

So many good songs

Raw emotion and catchy lyrics

I had never heard of this album before surprising as their later work is popular in North America. It shows you how insular the music industry can be. Excellent album and I’ve added it to my library.

I hope some day you will join us.

Listening to this album I thought it not out of the ordinary but then I looked at the release date and they were ahead of the times.

This totally reminded me of the Leonard Nimoy album I had as a kid. It is in the proud tradition of people who can’t really sing but you can’t stop listening to like Leonard Cohen.

Can listen to this over and over again.

This has to be one of the best live albums out there after Frampton Comes Alive.

I’ve always thought of them as a bit of a one hit wonder.

Timeless

Didn’t grab me but I remember it being popular amongst the ‘trees’ crowd.

This is epically self indulgent. Choir ✅Orchestra ✅2 Hours Long ✅ You could have substituted this Spinal Tap song track and I would not have found it unreasonable.

Fabulously chill

Meh

Not my cup of tea

Stellar

All hail the Queen!

I had heard some of their more commercial hits but not this album. I’m wondering why it was not more popular at the time as it is a decent album.

I mean it’s Bowie. How could it not be perfect?

Wow

Couldn’t really get into it

Meh

Amazing harmonies

At the time it came out I liked it but now when I listen I think what a whiner.

Real problems and real emotions

They deserved more love back in the day.

A Detroit station used to play Stairway to Heaven every night at midnight and thy is pretty much the perfect time to listen to it.

Sublime

Not their best album

Really tried to listen to this and her voice is nice but country music is just too formulaic for me

Excellent but not exceptional.

His voice is so intimate.

I feel like there are better Buzzccks albums that could be on the list.

This helped me get out my anger issues.

Points for Starlight which is an exception song.

I remember when it first came out thinking it was so cool. Now it is so overplayed on FM radio I can’t stand to hear it.

Kid Rock is a total douche canoe.

Nobody can compete with the way she delivered a lyric.

Taking hip hop to a different direction

Didn’t really stand out for me

Who snuck in elevator music?

Not sure why she was never really popular in North America. The album is solid enough.

Interesting lyrics

Doesn’t really stand out

I still hear these songs regularly on the radio so I would definitely say it should be in the list.

This is alright but I feel there are original rappers who deserve to be on the list more.

Cool concept album

Sweeping harmony

I would live to be sitting in a bar in Brazil drinking caparenhas listening to this.

There’s some really awesome Aussie bands that could be on the list and this is not one of them.

Not her best

Just a perfect album.

Rock on

Solid pop album

Still sounds awesome today

Seemed like a copy of the southern rock style

Totally belongs on the list. I wonder how many versions there are on the Bridge song.

Doesn’t really stick out and can’t recall ever hearing it.

Meh

Perfect Sunday album

Meh

Amazing lyrics and virtues

This felt a bit like torture but I guess some people like that.

A couple of catchy songs

Perfect blend of white soul and social commentary

Brilliant lyrics

Such a fun pop sound for totally inappropriate lyrics now. Probably then too but don’t remember being shocked at the time.

Spawned a music style and a drink — maybe even a lifestyle.

This influenced so many artists

I think this might be the zenith of indulgent rock. After this it became all too much.

Meh

So much heartache behind that singing. No wonder she did not live long.

Perfect punk

Didn’t really grab me

Amazing complex harmonies

Saw them in concert many years later and although no jumps from Dave their entertainment value was still there.

Surreal perfection

This guy has been through some stuff

You’ve heard of wall of sound. This is wall of words.

This is the kind of Canadian and US collaboration we need

Sublime

The videos to the music are wonderful too

So this is where all the massage music emanated from.

Her voice is lovely but I find all the hype around her off putting and not warranted.

Topical

It still hits hard after all these years. This is rock in its purest form.

I hope he gets the help he needs but until then, fascists get a zero if I could.

Fight the power!

They were the first to capture modern life in a digital world.

When this came out it was like a bomb across the pop hinterland. Quite possibly the last time true emotion hit the top 40.

Amazing voice

It brought home all the South African struggles and contributed to the positive change there.

Sounds very modern oddly enough

Looking at the titles alone, there were clear signs that Chris Cornell was looking for help.

Great, now I want to go to Brazil

Somehow they saw the future of music.

It was Queen Elizabeth approved.

I feel like this is best enjoyed while under the spell of something medicinal.

Is this what they were called before Spinal tap?