My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Pieces Of The Sky Emmylou Harris	5	3.11	+1.89
Your New Favourite Band The Hives	5	3.12	+1.88
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	5	3.32	+1.68
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen	5	3.64	+1.36
All Hope Is Gone Slipknot	4	2.7	+1.3
Master Of Puppets Metallica	5	3.73	+1.27
American Idiot Green Day	5	3.76	+1.24
Dookie Green Day	5	3.79	+1.21
BEYONCÉ Beyoncé	4	2.86	+1.14
Red Dirt Girl Emmylou Harris	4	2.86	+1.14

Album	You	Global	Diff
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Beatles	1	4.26	-3.26
Can't Buy A Thrill Steely Dan	1	3.72	-2.72
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	1	3.66	-2.66
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand	1	3.57	-2.57
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes	1	3.5	-2.5
Reggatta De Blanc The Police	1	3.45	-2.45
Strangeways, Here We Come The Smiths	1	3.44	-2.44
Hot Rats Frank Zappa	1	3.36	-2.36
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs Marty Robbins	1	3.33	-2.33
Music in Exile Songhoy Blues	1	3.33	-2.33

Artist	Albums	Average
Bruce Springsteen	2	5
Green Day	2	5
David Bowie	5	4

Artist	Albums	Average
The Smiths	3	1
Steely Dan	3	1.33
Rod Stewart	2	1
John Lennon	2	1.5
Dexys Midnight Runners	2	1.5
Led Zeppelin	3	2
The Stooges	3	2

The White Stripes

3/5

Always been a fan of the White Stripes but mostly through their singles and never really delved deeper in albums. I found myself drifting in and out of this album with the more popular tracks being the songs that pulled me back in. Lyrically interesting and always been a fan of the efficient, driving drums and the spitty, bluesy guitar work and this album is a great example of how those two elements make The White Stripes unique and (sometimes) attention grabbing.

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

Lyrics great Sonically really great. Rich and interesting Really like 'Let Down' & 'Electioneering', 'No Surprises' Didn't think I'd like it as much as I did with limited Radiohead exposure/familiarity. 4/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Amazing voice and some great versions of classic songs. 5/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

1/5

Never liked The Smiths and this album does nothing to change that. Some nice guitar sounds and Johnny Marr is great but it’s all ruined by Morrissey. Dull vocal delivery as always, accompanied by the smarmy, pseudo-intellectual moaning. He maybe has 3 lines of remotely interesting lyric or melody on the whole album. Here’s hoping I avoid any more of this dross.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

3/5

Highlights are 'Drive My Car' and 'In My Life' but I'm always more struck by the middle road-ness of the other songs. Nice harmonies and occasionally interesting guitar parts (I'm looking through you). Inoffensive, nice but just alright. My issue with listening to The Beatles is that having a modern reference point removes the original context that made them so groundbreaking. So now, I just hear twee pop songs. That said, the attitude that everything they produced was an instant classic is hyperbole at best. Even The Beatles had filler tracks and Rubber Soul is no exception. It's a nice listen (apart from Run For Your Life, WTF?) but nothing more, to me.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

A guitar legend and some great songs on here. A finish of 'All Along the Watchtower' and 'Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)' is pretty damn strong. However, the album itself doesn't half drag on a bit. Could be half the length but you might as well jam for a few extra minutes per song when you play like that...

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Probably the best live album of all time. Impossibly cool and made even cooler by having the prisoner announcements included through the album and by playing a song written by a Folsom inmate to close out the album.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Completely uneducated when it comes to hip-hop but not completely ignorant. A fan of Beastie Boys and A Tribe called Quest so I enjoyed this. it definitely grows into itself and it also helps if you can tune Flava Flav out. There's only so many "YEAH BOOOOOOOOOOIIIII"s you can take. The guy was stealing a living. Highlights are She Watch Channel Zero?! & Prophets of Rage.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

Money for Nothing gets this an automatic 3 stars but beyond that, it's a bit boring. Knopfler's guitar work is obviously great but the songs themselves aren't that interesting on the whole. It's all a bit limp.

Rapture

Anita Baker

3/5

What a voice. It's great to listen to Anita Baker's runs and there's some pretty tasty bass playing too. It's a shame there's also quite a bit of filler on the album. Anita's voice is great but the songs themselves are just too samey. Standout track 'No One In The World'.

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

I like Abba. The singles from this album are fantastic pop songs. The album tracks are a bit forgettable so I did find myself waiting for the singles to come around but it's a pleasant enough listen. It's just 70's pop, not sure why people get so upset about it either way.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

2/5

I honestly thought I liked Led Zeppelin. At least casually. Having listened to Led Zeppelin II, I now know that I'm not a fan. I've never had time drag like when listening to this album. 41 minute run time felt like 82. 'Whole Lotta Love' whilst being a classic riff, is also mostly made of Robert Plant wailing and screeching. As is the rest of the album. For every great riff, bass or drum part, there's equal parts nails on a chalk board vocals. You can even tell when Robert Plant has ran out of lyric ideas because he'll just start shouting "BABY, BABY, BABY, BABY". Rated this based on the other 3 in the band having some great, albeit few and far between, moments.

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Found this pretty boring to be honest. Like being on hold at the doctors.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

These are the kind of albums I was hoping to find when listening through the 1001 generator. Something different and new (at least to me). Honestly, never intentionally/actively listened to jazz or big band but really enjoyed listening to this. Amazing playing and really dynamic. Loved 'Midnight Blue' and 'The Kid from Red Bank'. Drum fills in 'Fantail' and overall musicianship is great.

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

1/5

It's awful but that's ok because it's "avant garde" and it's not meant to be listenable or have structure or be bearable and...and you just don't get it, ok?! Impressively boring. Remember, things could always be worse, you could be listening to PIL.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

2/5

This was ok. there were moments I found myself get into it and then others where it blended into the background. Higher Ground, Living for the City are highlights but wouldn't go out of my way to listen again. Would give 2.5 stars if I could.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Enjoyed this. Highlights, aside from the hits, are Dead Flowers & Moonlight Mile.

System Of A Down

3/5

Always quite liked SOAD's rhythms and lyrical phrasing. Their first album shows first signs of how quirky and creative they'll go onto be on future releases. However, there are only flashes of this and it does get a bit samey as you listen through. Highlights for me are Sugar, Soil & War.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

2/5

You think that everything you've done's fantastic Your music's shite it puts me to sleep There. Fixed it. Kind of boring. The most interesting part is a T-Rex riff. Lyrically dull and essentially just nursery rhymes over a pub band who liked The Beatles a bit too much. I don't understand how this was considered exciting or new but Oasis have always been their own biggest fans so hype and tabloid headlines help with the promo. The mix is also pretty bad: muddy and no space. I'm sure Oasis will crop up again and I expect that later albums are better than this. At least I hope so.

evermore

Taylor Swift

3/5

This is a nice listen. I was a fan of folklore and evermore is in a similar vein. Cosy, soft acoustic based songs. It does feel a little like a b-sides compilation from folklore as not all the songs are particularly memorable. Highlights are Coney island, Ivy & Cowboy Like Me. A decent album but not one of Taylor's best.

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Enjoyed this darker funk album. Some great parts of songs but no one song that will get stuck in your head. Highlights are Brave & Strong, africa Talks to You ("The Asphalt Jungle") & (You Caught Me) Smilin' - the bass on this track is so good, but then again, the whole album is covered in great bass parts. Assuming there are other Sly albums on this list so will look forward to them coming up.

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

2/5

Like listening to paint dry. So full. 80s Soft jazz rock? I’m alright thanks. 2/5 as it’s inoffensive to listen to but so, so boring.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

Great voice and a very listenable album. Jazz is still not totally my thing so hard to get too excited about this but I did enjoy.

I See You

The xx

2/5

I remember seeing The XX a while ago supporting Foo Fighters on a tour and thought they were quite boring then. I still think that. Vocally and lyrically, it's an interesting but the music itself is so monotonous. There's barely a change in tempo/energy for the whole record. Opening track 'Dangerous', like many of the tracks, just feels like it needs to go somewhere but doesn't. It's an overall pleasant enough album but just melds into one, long mid-tempo indie pop track.

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

3/5

Quite liked this. A few filler tracks towards the end and it's long. Highlights are Not If you Were The Last Junkie On Earth, Every Day Should be a Holiday and Hard on for Jesus.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

This was nice to have on in the background. Which is partly why it only got 3 stars. I can appreciate the musicianship but some of it just seemed to disappear into the background. I think partly, this just isn’t really my genre so it’s difficult to get blown away at any point or hear anything that grabs my attention. Like I said, it’s a nice listen, but nothing life changing.

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

5/5

What a beautiful voice. I'm not a die-hard country fan but this is what I think of when I think of 'real' country music, great storytelling. Highlights are Before Believing, Sleepless Nights & Bluebird Wine.

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

2/5

As a live album, it’s pretty good. It’s well mixed and the performances are solid but the songs themselves are just ok. I wouldn’t find myself going back to this or any other Frampton record to be honest.

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

3/5

Heard of Teenage Fan Club but never listened to them so didn’t know what to expect. The album opens with high gain guitars and feedback and the launches into a mid tempo pop rock song which is a little underwhelming. The rest of the album sits at that middle of the road level with the occasional increase in urgency/grit. It’s not bad but it’s not great either.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

2/5

Very middle of the road. There are odd bits that are interesting but ultimately, it’s bland soft jazz rock. Wouldn’t choose to listen again.

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

2/5

Yeah, it’s all a bit derivative. All artists borrow but this feels more like theft. Lyrics are socially conscious but not remotely subtle or clever in how they talk about the issues, it’s all very preachy. The music itself is pretty good. The band are tight with some great bass lines but it’s just let down by the vocal and lyrical content. In Jamiroquai’s defence, Virtual Insanity & Deeper Underground are great songs. They’re just not on this album.

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

3/5

Had never heard of Grant Lee Buffalo before and ended up quite enjoying this. Unique vocal style and a few really solid songs that made me want to listen on. Shades of Neil Young but also can hear similarities with contemporaries like R.E.M and Smashing Pumpkins. Some of the vocal delivery also reminded me of Lana Del Ray strangely enough. Maybe it's the tone/intonation, who knows?! Highlights are The Hook, America Snoring and You Just Have To Be Crazy.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

This was ok. I didn't think this album was so poppy and at some points has Iggy Pop doing some kind of punk Frank Sinatra impersonation which is weird and doesn't really work. Lust For Life & The Passenger are the obvious stand outs.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

2/5

CeeLo Green...Is The Soul Machine. Then why no soul CeeLo? There's the occasional soul beat or hint of soul but nothing that could be classed as out and out soul. I think maybe All Day Love Affair comes the closest? It's kinda fun in parts but the only other song I really liked was Childz Play and that's 'cause I like Ludacris. This is like so many R&B rap albums of the time but not one of the better ones. There's no doubt he has a a voice for soul but he just doesn't use it for that genre on this album and he's not really a rapper either. Also, how and why is this album 1hr 5 mins long?!

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

2/5

It’s slightly better written hold music. Totally fine on in the background but nothing particularly interesting.

Imagine

John Lennon

2/5

Not a Beatles fan but at least when they started they were doing something new and exciting. By the time we get to 1971, the Beatles are over and this album proves that there's no I in team. The title track is insipid, just some rich bloke being out of touch. Peace and love unless you step out line, eh John? Although I do like the main piano line. As for the rest of it, he really should have just left the white man blues to the Rolling Stones. At least they were good at it. The whole album feels insincere and self-absorbed. The production's good and ultimately, it's not unlistenable.

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

3/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

2/5

Tainted Love is a banger but the rest of the album isn't really. Find the vocal style a bit annoying too.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Enjoyed the lyrics and band performances of this but I'm not a massive fan of Costello's vocals. So much so that I don't think I'd listen to him regularly. Highlights are Pump It Up, Little Triggers & Lipstick Vogue.

Phrenology

The Roots

4/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Pretty solid collection of classic Christmas songs!

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

After the first track, I was instantly into this. Raw, wild and great vocals.

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Solid album that at the time, felt like a new era in British rock. Lyrics and delivery are interesting and guitar parts are angular and catchy

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

2/5

I bet at the time this was great but hasn’t aged that well. Especially compared with similar releases from the same time period.

Dust

Screaming Trees

2/5

It’s ok 90’s grunge/rock. Not sure why I’d need to listen to it before dying though.

Achtung Baby

U2

3/5

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

Just think. There are people in this world who consider Kid Rock to be the peak of musical excellence. I'd imagine he has fans worldwide. Anyway, register to vote.

Sister

Sonic Youth

3/5

1984

Van Halen

3/5

Jump, Panama and Hot for Teacher are classic hair metal tracks but the rest of the tracks aren’t quite up to the same standard even with EVH’s guitar playing pulling them along.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

2/5

Scott 2

Scott Walker

2/5

Not my cup of tea at all but Scotty’s got a pleasant enough voice

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

2/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Reign In Blood

Slayer

2/5

Raining blood should be the opener for this album. Bizarre decision to put it mid album! It’s all very much one tempo but that is thrash metal, or it was at the start. Other bands did it better but maybe not as fast. This album is too monotonous for me despite being a metal fan.

Opus Dei

Laibach

3/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

4/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

2/5

The music is ok but the vocals are so annoying

Bossanova

Pixies

2/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

2/5

Garbage

2/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

1/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

3/5

Never fully listened to a Dylan album but enjoyed this. Yes, he can’t really sing but he’s part of a long list of people who made a career in music despite their vocals. At least his lyrics are interesting and so is the delivery. Bit same as you listen through but there’s enough there to keep you interested

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

3/5

Never fully listened to a Dylan album but enjoyed this. Yes, he can’t really sing but he’s part of a long list of people who made a career in music despite their vocals. At least his lyrics are interesting and so is the delivery. Bit same as you listen through but there’s enough there to keep you interested

London Calling

The Clash

3/5

Combines genres and introduces new sounds and rhythms to punk but does get a little repetitious as the album progresses. Highlights are The Right Profile, Rudie Can’t Fail & London Calling.

Copper Blue

Sugar

2/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

2/5

Kind of anaemic indie pop that never quite goes anywhere. Lead single ‘Wake Up’ probably does the best job of having some backbone but the rest is just a bit dull

Stephen Stills

1/5

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

2/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

1/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

2/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

A nice listen and something a bit different to my recent run on 1001.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

1/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

I Against I

Bad Brains

2/5

Repeater

Fugazi

3/5

Iron Maiden

3/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

LP1

FKA twigs

2/5

Tommy

The Who

2/5

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

3/5

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

2/5

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

3/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

1/5

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

2/5

Palo Congo

Sabu

3/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

4/5

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

3/5

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

2/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

Metallica

4/5

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

1/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

2/5

Violent Femmes

1/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

2/5

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

3/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

2/5

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

2/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

3/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

4/5

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

2/5

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

2/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Ctrl

SZA

2/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

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The xx

2/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

2/5

Follow The Leader

Korn

3/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

3/5

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

2/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

Dire Straits

2/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

GI

Germs

2/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

2/5

Clandestino

Manu Chao

3/5

Born To Be With You

Dion

1/5

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

2/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

3/5

Sea Change

Beck

2/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

2/5

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

2/5

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

2/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

2/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

2/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

The Real Thing

Faith No More

2/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

3/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

2/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

Black Monk Time

The Monks

2/5

Tom Tom Club

2/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

3/5

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Third

Portishead

2/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

2/5

Franz Ferdinand

1/5

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

2/5

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2/5

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

2/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

2/5

Ray Of Light

Madonna

3/5

Fleet Foxes

2/5

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

2/5

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

2/5

The Only Ones

3/5

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

1/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

2/5

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

New Forms

Roni Size

2/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

Celebrity Skin

Hole

3/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

2/5

So

Peter Gabriel

3/5

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

4/5

Cut

The Slits

2/5

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

3/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

2/5

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

2/5

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

2/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

3/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

2/5

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

1/5

The White Album

Beatles

3/5

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

1/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

2/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

2/5

Sheet Music

10cc

1/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

2/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

3/5

Timeless

Goldie

1/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

4/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

2/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

2/5

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

1/5

Doolittle

Pixies

3/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

2/5

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

2/5

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

2/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

2/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

2/5

Street Signs

Ozomatli

2/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

3/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

2/5

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

2/5

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

3/5

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

2/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

2/5

Smile

Brian Wilson

2/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

1/5

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

3/5

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

2/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

4/5

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

3/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

3/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

2/5

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

4/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

Traffic

3/5

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

2/5

Nowhere

Ride

2/5

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

2/5

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

2/5

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

2/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

1/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

1/5

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

3/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

The Stooges

2/5

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

2/5

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

3/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

2/5

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

2/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

2/5

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

3/5

Lost Souls

Doves

2/5

Run-D.M.C.

2/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

2/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

1/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Bert Jansch

2/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

2/5

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

3/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

The Cars

3/5

Scum

Napalm Death

1/5

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

3/5

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

2/5

Kenza

Khaled

1/5

Is This It

The Strokes

2/5

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

3/5

Kenya

Machito

2/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

2/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

4/5

Signing Off

UB40

2/5

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

2/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

3/5

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

5/5

Another Green World

Brian Eno

3/5

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

1/5

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

1/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

2/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

1/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

3/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

3/5

Harvest

Neil Young

3/5

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

2/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

1/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

2/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

School's Out

Alice Cooper

3/5

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

2/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

2/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

3/5

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

1/5

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

2/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

2/5

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

3/5

Woodface

Crowded House

2/5

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

2/5

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

2/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Closer

Joy Division

3/5

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

4/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

1/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

1/5

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

3/5

All That You Can't Leave Behind

U2

3/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

2/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

2/5

Hms Fable

Shack

1/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

1/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

3/5

The La's

2/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

2/5

Goo

Sonic Youth

3/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

2/5

Fred Neil

2/5

Gris Gris

Dr. John

3/5

The Bends

Radiohead

3/5

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

1/5

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

3/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

1/5

More Steely Dan?! How? Why? I could’ve gone my whole life without listening to a single song and now I’ve listened to three albums of this boring drivel. There are very few artists who have produced enough great music to feature multiple times on a list like this and Steely fucking Dan certainly ain’t one of them.

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

1/5

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

4/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

1/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

3/5

Different Class

Pulp

2/5

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

2/5

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

2/5

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

3/5

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Sincere

Mj Cole

2/5

Odessa

Bee Gees

3/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Ananda Shankar

1/5

Queens of the Stone Age

3/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

3/5

Low

David Bowie

3/5

21

Adele

4/5

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

2/5

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

2/5

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Gorillaz

3/5

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

1/5

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

3/5

The Velvet Underground

2/5

John Prine

3/5

Me Against The World

2Pac

3/5

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

2/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

1/5

Suede

2/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

1/5

Fun House

The Stooges

2/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

1/5

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

3/5

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

1/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

2/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

The Visitors

ABBA

3/5

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

1/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

1/5

Dull music for people who think they’re interesting.

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

2/5

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

1/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

Kimono My House

Sparks

2/5

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

3/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

2/5

The LED just aren’t for me. Immigrant Song is great as are a few other tracks but can’t listen to Plant’s voice for that long. Nails on a chalkboard spring to mind.

Teen Dream

Beach House

1/5

Wouldn’t even be on 100000000001 albums to listen to before you die

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

3/5

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

3/5