1001 Albums Summary

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492
Albums Rated
3.95
Average Rating
45%
Complete
597 albums remaining

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1970
Favorite Decade
Jazz
Favorite Genre
US
Top Origin
Cheerleader
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142
5-Star Albums
3
1-Star Albums

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Albums

You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Beyond Skin
Nitin Sawhney
5 2.76 +2.24
Oedipus Schmoedipus
Barry Adamson
5 2.78 +2.22
Good Old Boys
Randy Newman
5 2.85 +2.15
Grievous Angel
Gram Parsons
5 2.87 +2.13
The New Tango
Astor Piazzolla
5 2.88 +2.12
Swordfishtrombones
Tom Waits
5 2.94 +2.06
Ghosteen
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5 2.95 +2.05
Nighthawks At The Diner
Tom Waits
5 2.99 +2.01
Street Life
The Crusaders
5 3.09 +1.91
At Budokan
Cheap Trick
5 3.1 +1.9

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
A Grand Don't Come For Free
The Streets
1 2.63 -1.63
Live At The Witch Trials
The Fall
1 2.63 -1.63
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand
2 3.57 -1.57
The Idiot
Iggy Pop
2 3.22 -1.22
Unhalfbricking
Fairport Convention
2 3.15 -1.15
Kimono My House
Sparks
2 3.06 -1.06

Artists

Favorites

ArtistAlbumsAverage
The Rolling Stones 5 4.8
Bob Dylan 6 4.67
David Bowie 7 4.57
Radiohead 6 4.5
Beatles 5 4.6
Neil Young 4 4.75
Led Zeppelin 4 4.75
Tom Waits 4 4.75
The White Stripes 3 5
Bruce Springsteen 3 5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 4 4.5
The Cure 3 4.67
Michael Jackson 3 4.67
Miles Davis 3 4.67
Prince 3 4.67
A Tribe Called Quest 2 5
Steely Dan 2 5
The Doors 2 5
Nirvana 2 5
Green Day 2 5
Marvin Gaye 2 5
Talking Heads 2 5
Van Halen 2 5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse 2 5
Pixies 2 5
Sonic Youth 4 4.25
R.E.M. 3 4.33
Elvis Costello & The Attractions 3 4.33
Jimi Hendrix 3 4.33
Simon & Garfunkel 3 4.33
Metallica 3 4.33
Black Sabbath 3 4.33
Deep Purple 3 4.33
The Beach Boys 3 4.33

5-Star Albums (142)

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The title gave me the impression that this was going to be some dark shit. Some Emperor like band the were going to flex in my face. What I got were two noisy songs that sounded like it was recorded on a karaoke machine in 1977. I'm good.

Paul's Boutique by Beastie Boys

Just a couple years from the best two albums of the 90s and this is still a 5 star albbum

Ghosteen by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Oh my f God was this a great album. This is the second NCatBS album I've listened to since I started and I'm all on board. I will probably buy this one and it will be in my official at work rotation. I need to listen to it again. I was cleaning while listening and going through so many emotions. Like I said in my other review Nick Cave is someone I've known of for years but had mixed up for some reason with several other different artist none of whom sound anything like this band. I hope I have another 40 years of life left to get to enjoy and celebrate their catalogue and this album in particular. Just as solid as his 80s and 90s.

1-Star Albums (3)

All Ratings (492)

Revolver by Beatles
Nov 05 2024

Come on...it's Revolver

Shaka Zulu by Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Nov 06 2024

This is a cool album but I don't know that I was in the right mood for this genre of music. This is an album I'll have to come back to later.

Too Rye Ay by Dexys Midnight Runners
Nov 07 2024

I was expecting this to be a cool album. It seemed like one song building toward something and already having heard that one song, Come on Eileen. It wasn't really building toward that song though was it. Whatever it was it was cool. Like it was written in hidden alleyways.

Aja by Steely Dan
Nov 08 2024

One of my all time favorite albums

E.V.O.L. by Sonic Youth
Nov 10 2024

This is surprisingly commercial, for Sonic Youth, in their pre Dirt days. Solid album.

GI by Germs
Nov 11 2024

A solid punk album. One that I've been meaning to listen to for 30 years and bow I have.

Morrison Hotel by The Doors
Nov 12 2024

One of my all time favorite albums

Paul's Boutique by Beastie Boys
Nov 14 2024

Just a couple years from the best two albums of the 90s and this is still a 5 star albbum

Sea Change by Beck
Nov 15 2024

This is the first time I've listened to this album since it came out 22 years ago. I thought it was awful when I first heard it. This wasn't the Beck I grew up with! 22 years later I really liked it. I didn't understand the maturity that an artist wants to go through. A different way of telling their stories and sharing their art. This is an album I would buy on vinyl if I saw it out in the wild and one of the first from the 1001 that I don't already own that I wish I did.

Hotel California by Eagles
Nov 17 2024

I don't like the Eagles but this album is flawless. It's as if they put together their greatest hits and decided that a whole album should sound that good.

Meat Puppets II by Meat Puppets
Nov 18 2024

This is a solid album by a great band. Just a year away. From becoming the most underrated band of the 80s

The Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett
Nov 19 2024

This is a solid album. I like Classical music but it's something I only listen to during panic attacks and always something that I only keep digitally. This piece really moved me. I don't know enough to breakdown what makes any type of music good. I just know it's okay, good, really good or worth 5 stars. A 5 star album is an album that every song is solid. This is a 5 star album.

Young Americans by David Bowie
Nov 20 2024

The Duke had arrived. Which artists today could go from an album like Diamond Dogs only to one year later make a totally different album like Young Americans. Two incredible but two very different albums. Young Americans is an incredibly solid album and one I've listened many times. Come on generator you've been suggesting great albums but all too familiar softballs. Challenge me.

Nov 21 2024

The last solid George Michael album. I can appreciate that it's solid and has its audience but that audience is not me. I'm glad I got to listen to it most likely for the last time.

Ghosteen by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Nov 22 2024

Oh my f God was this a great album. This is the second NCatBS album I've listened to since I started and I'm all on board. I will probably buy this one and it will be in my official at work rotation. I need to listen to it again. I was cleaning while listening and going through so many emotions. Like I said in my other review Nick Cave is someone I've known of for years but had mixed up for some reason with several other different artist none of whom sound anything like this band. I hope I have another 40 years of life left to get to enjoy and celebrate their catalogue and this album in particular. Just as solid as his 80s and 90s.

The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths
Nov 23 2024

Genius lyrics Genius guitar and bass and drums and production. I always wondered how The Smiths weren't more famous than they are after this album.

Picture Book by Simply Red
Nov 24 2024

I just didn't dig it. It wasn't bad but it wasn't me. Still I'm a little older after having listened

I Against I by Bad Brains
Nov 27 2024

I'm a hard-core fanatic and love Bad Brains though this album isn't their best maybe to some but it was cool to listen to for the first time in decades. Which is why I'm here.

Headquarters by The Monkees
Nov 28 2024

Well it didn't save my original notes from when I saw this album pop up for the first time. It wasn't positive. This is a strange album in that it's not awful. It just sounds like so many things. Like somehow a more British version of Rubber Soul and Revolver. Which wild since those albums were written and played by an all British band while the Monkees are 3/4 American. Then you have the songs that sound like the ones they used for the chase scenes in Scooby-Doo Where are you. It's not awful but it's hard to take serious.

In Utero by Nirvana
Nov 29 2024

A great album that I've always thought was not meant to be great.

Out Of The Blue by Electric Light Orchestra
Nov 30 2024

If you couldn't give this 5 stars you may have an ear infection

Calenture by The Triffids
Dec 01 2024

So it immediately starts off with the 80's ist of 80's songs. Almost 5 years out of vogue even for the 80s. But as the album goes on the vocals become familiar to me. The themes become familiar. Loneliness and all that. It starts to sound better. It starts to have more variety. It's Scott Walker. If you're European you probably know. If You're in your 70s you probably remember. Or if you were a hipster in the 2000s you got it. This was all very Paul Walker lite. The themes, the music the whole shebang. It's OK. Another one in the ba k.

Live And Dangerous by Thin Lizzy
Dec 03 2024

One of if not THE best live albums of all time. I was so excited that this album popped up (honestly this account of the generator is dropping one great album after the other. I probably have more 5 star ratings then my old main account) If you haven't listened to this album then you should really give it a try. It's a great introduction to the Thin Lizzy catalog. If only I were alive or rather old enough to have been able to see them live but since I wasn't I have this and it's pretty damn good.

If You're Feeling Sinister by Belle & Sebastian
Dec 04 2024

This was a lot better than I imaged. It sounded like Eric Burden singing Morrissey lyrics while Frente plays in the background.

Abbey Road by Beatles
Dec 05 2024

It's Abbey Road. I mean...come on.

Ocean Rain by Echo And The Bunnymen
Dec 06 2024

Super awesome album. Ordered it on vinyl just as the last note was being played

Blue by Joni Mitchell
Dec 07 2024

Fine album. I've not liked it as much as time has but what do I know.

Darkdancer by Les Rythmes Digitales
Dec 08 2024

Eh

A Seat at the Table by Solange
Dec 09 2024

This was a sad one and fit the mood of the day. I probably gave it a hole star for that...that's not true. It deserves them all

Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes
Dec 10 2024

When I first heard this album in the early 90s I could not believe that this album came out in the early 80s. It's a popular album but I don't know that it truly get the accolades it deserves for what it brought to the table for music. I'm sure you could name any number of albums that came out in the 80s and say that was a better album than the Violent Femmes debut but that said better album sounds like the time it came out. This eponymous album is mfing timeless.

Dec 13 2024

The title gave me the impression that this was going to be some dark shit. Some Emperor like band the were going to flex in my face. What I got were two noisy songs that sounded like it was recorded on a karaoke machine in 1977. I'm good.

Harvest by Neil Young
Dec 14 2024

Young doesn't really make bad albums. There's a few that are better than others and this one of the better thans.

Imperial Bedroom by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Dec 15 2024

Average. His first two albums is his peak but this album is aight

The Gershwin Songbook by Ella Fitzgerald
Dec 16 2024

Honestly I didn't listen to the whole album. It's 4 hours long. But what I did listen to, well, it's Ella's at her height doing Gershwin. Top notch. Too long but solid music.

Dec 17 2024

Another album I wouldn't give a time a day. My co worker has been trying to get me to listen to this forever. They're influenced by Pavement he says. I say are we not men? Men don't listen to this estrogen rock. But alas it was me the fool and it took a generator to figure me in. F RFKJR BTW

Funeral by Arcade Fire
Dec 18 2024

Eh. I was told this album would put me in a mood. Take me to a dark place but I was already there. It may have been wrong place wrong time wrong people around me situat. I had a migraine and I was at work and it just came off as noisy. I'll come back to it.

Born In The U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen
Dec 19 2024

No comment needed. It's Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA. Either you get it or you dont.

Bad by Michael Jackson
Dec 21 2024

It's bad.

Are You Experienced by Jimi Hendrix
Dec 22 2024

Another what can i say that hasn't been said album. It's place in history is set. And it's been on my rotation list heavily for awhile

Crosby, Stills & Nash by Crosby, Stills & Nash
Dec 23 2024

Solid album from a solid band. Another album that's been on heavy rotation in my vinyl collection.

KIWANUKA by Michael Kiwanuka
Dec 24 2024

Zero expectations going in. Never heard of the dude. I'm a fan. One of those albums that's the whole reason I started this account. To hear something new.

Grace by Jeff Buckley
Dec 25 2024

It's okay.

Beautiful Freak by Eels
Dec 29 2024

This was a lovely album either a funny story behind it. I also gave a great speech at work on why we should listen to it at work even I'd never heard it before. Though if you're wondering what it sounds like we'll it sounds like all of 120 Minutes. Those who know know.

Station To Station by David Bowie
Dec 30 2024

The critics love this album. A lot of people pretend to like this album. David Bowie doesn't remember making this album.

In It For The Money by Supergrass
Jan 01 2025

Ehrlich and all of this week's homework for you when you're done I'm sure you have the advantage to get the best birthday gift from your friends made by writer artist deserves their attention to government

Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel
Jan 02 2025

It'd be a 5 star album if it weren't for those weird haircuts on the cover

1989 by Taylor Swift
Jan 04 2025

This is the first time I've knowingly listened to Taylor Swift and as far as pop albums go yeah it's a good pop album but it's just not music written for me. But i can'tdeny that its good.

Pyromania by Def Leppard
Jan 08 2025

Are you getting it. I'm a getting it.

Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Jan 10 2025

Always a good time

Unhalfbricking by Fairport Convention
Jan 12 2025

Please no more. This is twice I've been tortured with these notes

Jan 14 2025

Not a U2 fan but this is a great pop album

Hot Rats by Frank Zappa
Jan 21 2025

Zappa has soooo many albums but this is the one to own. This is Zappa coming into his own

Synchronicity by The Police
Jan 22 2025

Brilliant. Perfect album

Dookie by Green Day
Jan 23 2025

One of the all time greats. Perfect album. Better than most greatest hits

Zombie by Fela Kuti
Jan 26 2025

Not my favorite but I feel I've grown for having listened to this album

The Next Day by David Bowie
Jan 27 2025

This was almost David Bowie last album and if it was this would be the wish of a circle. GreAt album.

Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen
Feb 02 2025

Bruuuuuuce

Bummed by Happy Mondays
Feb 03 2025

Eh. They sound like a bad version of Pavement if Pavement played slightly ore poppy but play through a tube

Fuzzy by Grant Lee Buffalo
Feb 09 2025

Another musician I get mixed up with Nick Cave, Nick Low and Jeff Buckley. It was alright. Pretty much what I expected

Stand! by Sly & The Family Stone
Feb 18 2025
Hearts And Bones by Paul Simon
Feb 20 2025

This record sat in my store for 3 years. Even when we were low on good stuff no one touched it, so imagine my surprise to it on the 1001 list and it totally soft rocked.

1999 by Prince
Feb 21 2025
Deja Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Feb 22 2025
Timeless by Goldie
Feb 24 2025

I thought I was really far into the album and when I went to see what tra k I was on it was still the first track.

Tical by Method Man
Feb 28 2025
Sulk by The Associates
Mar 14 2025
Red Dirt Girl by Emmylou Harris
Mar 24 2025

It's fine. After awhile I got into it enough to want to finish the album but this is my second emmylou harris album and she's just not my bag

Kollaps by Einstürzende Neubauten
Apr 03 2025

Wtf...I can get down with avante garde but this sounded like a burger stumbling through trash cans in 1981. Idk maybe it got better I didn't get past track 2

Siembra by Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
Apr 06 2025
Dirty by Sonic Youth
Apr 10 2025
B-52's by The B-52's
Apr 18 2025
Guero by Beck
May 03 2025
D by White Denim
May 11 2025
Truth by Jeff Beck
Jun 26 2025
Stripped by Christina Aguilera
Jun 29 2025
xx by The xx
Jul 01 2025
25 by Adele
Jul 02 2025
Pearl by Janis Joplin
Jul 04 2025
Tusk by Fleetwood Mac
Jul 05 2025
Vivid by Living Colour
Jul 14 2025
Vol. 4 by Black Sabbath
Jul 24 2025
Scum by Napalm Death
Jul 28 2025
Arise by Sepultura
Jul 31 2025
Pump by Aerosmith
Aug 01 2025
Elephant by The White Stripes
Aug 07 2025
21 by Adele
Aug 24 2025
1984 by Van Halen
Aug 26 2025
Oxygène by Jean-Michel Jarre
Sep 05 2025
Low by David Bowie
Sep 13 2025
Smash by The Offspring
Sep 16 2025
Chris by Christine and the Queens
Sep 18 2025
Heroes by David Bowie
Sep 27 2025
Eagles by Eagles
Oct 05 2025
Murmur by R.E.M.
Oct 18 2025
Shaft by Isaac Hayes
Oct 19 2025
Drunk by Thundercat
Dec 02 2025
Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
Dec 05 2025
Juju by Siouxsie And The Banshees
Dec 08 2025
Manassas by Stephen Stills
Dec 11 2025
Oar by Alexander 'Skip' Spence
Dec 22 2025
Kid A by Radiohead
Dec 26 2025
Armed Forces by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Jan 19 2026
Hejira by Joni Mitchell
Feb 25 2026
Safe As Milk by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Mar 02 2026
Freak Out! by The Mothers Of Invention
Mar 03 2026
Thriller by Michael Jackson
Mar 06 2026
Frank by Amy Winehouse
Mar 09 2026
Goo by Sonic Youth
Apr 03 2026
Odessa by Bee Gees
Apr 17 2026
Rio by Duran Duran
May 01 2026
Ten by Pearl Jam
Jun 11 2026
Live! by Fela Kuti
Jun 23 2026
Aftermath by The Rolling Stones
Jun 24 2026
Bug by Dinosaur Jr.
Jul 01 2026
Dummy by Portishead
Jul 16 2026
2112 by Rush
Jul 21 2026

Cheerleader

Average rating: 3.95 (0.64 above global average).

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Album origins are grouped into three buckets: US, UK, and everything else. “Other” means the artists you rate highest are from outside the US and UK.