My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Healer John Lee Hooker	5	3.19	+1.81
The Band The Band	5	3.36	+1.64
Surfer Rosa Pixies	5	3.5	+1.5
Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Frank Sinatra	5	3.52	+1.48
The Joshua Tree U2	5	3.67	+1.33
Deja Vu Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	5	3.7	+1.3
Metallica Metallica	5	3.79	+1.21
Automatic For The People R.E.M.	5	3.82	+1.18
Stripped Christina Aguilera	4	2.87	+1.13
Slayed? Slade	4	2.89	+1.11

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
(What's The Story) Morning Glory Oasis	1	3.84	-2.84
Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.	1	3.51	-2.51
Eliminator ZZ Top	1	3.38	-2.38
Off The Wall Michael Jackson	2	3.78	-1.78
Chelsea Girl Nico	1	2.63	-1.63
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm A Tribe Called Quest	2	3.61	-1.61
Funeral Arcade Fire	2	3.56	-1.56
Gorillaz Gorillaz	2	3.53	-1.53
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Ray Charles	2	3.49	-1.49
3 Feet High and Rising De La Soul	2	3.45	-1.45

5-Star Albums (9)

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Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Side 2 takes it from a 3 to a 4 star rating

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Folk rock pop? Creative production for this kind of music. Beautiful lyrics.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

2/5

Over-arranged treacle - not my taste

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

1/5

Mediocre alt-pop rock. Would die happily without hearing this.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

First listen. Not a fan of hip-hop. Better than expected. Sounds like they were having fun. Doubt I would listen to it again.

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Classic Roots Reggae

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Swinging jazz. At its best when the band lets rip with the stomping up-tempo parts. Have heard it before and will listen to it again. Almost 5 - brilliantly delivered, fun tunes but too 'safe' for full marks.

The Joshua Tree

5/5

Easy 5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

Good backing band and particularly like the (new to me) song: I'm Movin' On

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

Impressively varied, with some chunky riffs on places (for Queen)

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Great 'lose' sounding garage rock, but they sure ain't playing in Joe's garage.

Eagles

3/5

Similar but not as good CSN&Y

Os Mutantes

3/5

Influencial and important in context (and I happen to like it) but I'm not sure it is an essential album to hear, in 2024. 2.5 stars if it was available.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

5/5

Another easy 5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

2/5

Was not listening to the lyrics much, which I suspect is important for this artist. Other than 2/3 songs, most of the tracks sounded uninteresting and like typical 90's alt-pop (maybe even early emo)

Black Monk Time

The Monks

3/5

Interesting in context but not a 'have to hear'

McCartney

Paul McCartney

2/5

Some OK tunes or rather, parts of tunes, but mainly, meh

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Very good album. Only one, maybe two tracks less strong than other but overall 4/5 - going with a 5

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

4/5

Well written and played country songs, 3/4 but going with a 4

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

Some good synth pop songs. Not my taste really. 2/3 but will give it a generous 3.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

4/5 but I will go with a 5 in this instance.

Clandestino

Manu Chao

4/5

What most artists want - a unique sound. 3/4 making it 4 for interesting international pop

Metallica

5/5

Definitely a 'have to hear'. Even if you don't like all the songs, deserves a 5 for production/sound.

The xx

4/5

Very good for modern minimalist electronica 3/4, delivery and song writing tips it to 4.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

Easy 5

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

5/5

Old timer doing his thing but with modern recording, production and collaborators - great! Easy 5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

Interesting and influential within context but listening more than 30 years later, it is still 'solid' but not necessarily 'have to hear'

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

2/5

Not a 'have to hear'

Arular

M.I.A.

3/5

Interesting - 3/4 but probably a 3 for me

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

3/5

Seems like an album that will reward repeated listens, but a 3 after one listen

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

2/5

Modern/80s soul by great vocalist but only 2 or 3 great tunes

Blunderbuss

Jack White

3/5

Ok, but not a 'have to hear'

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Interesting and fun

Machine Head

Deep Purple

4/5

Classic hard/blues rock 4/5

Low-Life

New Order

2/5

Interesting lyrics (the parts where I focused on listening) but the overall sound is not to my taste 2/3, probably 2

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Better than expected

White Light

Gene Clark

2/5

Dylanesque country/folk

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

2/5

Focalist reminds of Black Francis - nice lyrics

Funeral

Arcade Fire

2/5

Melodic alt-rock

Is This It

The Strokes

3/5

Modern punk roxk

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

4/5

Early French rap - interesting: 3/4 leaning to 4.

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

3/5

Interesting electro-alt-rock (not my favourite album from them)

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Not quite Innervisions but typically 70s Stevie Wonder

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

2/5

Acoustic folk/jazz(?) cabaret - interesting. Mood music

Chelsea Girl

Nico

1/5

Trying too hard to be 'creative'

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

Creative Industrial

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

4/5

Christina Aguilera's R&B pop sound is generally not my cup of tea but this album pleasantly surprised me - interesting song topics and lyrics, and other genre influences - pretty good actually.

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

3/5

The DJ parts have not aged well but the South African tunes are great

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

Short, sharp, good energy

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

At times quite funky

Slayed?

Slade

4/5

More than just a very good pub rock band - can hear various influences in some songs, Led Zeppelin, CSN&Y and they probably influenced Kiss (but they sou d way better than Kiss, to me). Above average lyrics for this genre too.

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Epitome of a singer-songwriter

All That You Can't Leave Behind

2/5

Overproduced rock with OTT lyrics - trying so (too?) hard to be soulful that it ends up being soulless and.

The Band

5/5

An easy 5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Accurate album description. Some great tunes arrangements and playing) and others less so

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

3/5

Not the best by Zappa or the Mothers era

Eliminator

ZZ Top

1/5

Soulless blues boogie rock

Gorillaz

2/5

Fuzz pop/rock - meh

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

5/5

Too smooth for my taste but a very good example of this lyrical big band swing jazz genre

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

Nice piano blues

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

4/5

Great 'basic' blues rock

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

1/5

Has not aged well (in 2025) at all. I 'get' the commentry on the police racism but many of the tracks are seriously misogynistic and immature (bravado or insecurity?). MC Ren seems like the only rapper with flow.

The Visitors

ABBA

3/5

At times thought I heard 'new wave' and a potential influence for Yazoo. Merely OK (3)

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

2/5

More meaningful than NWA but not really something you have to hear before you die

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

3/5

Aware of the the influence but in 2025 - 3