My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Tragic Songs of Life The Louvin Brothers	5	2.58	+2.42
Bright Flight Silver Jews	5	2.68	+2.32
Third/Sister Lovers Big Star	5	2.8	+2.2
Bone Machine Tom Waits	5	2.84	+2.16
I Against I Bad Brains	5	2.93	+2.07
Moby Grape Moby Grape	5	2.95	+2.05
Spiderland Slint	5	2.97	+2.03
For Your Pleasure Roxy Music	5	2.98	+2.02
Savane Ali Farka Touré	5	3.03	+1.97
Time (The Revelator) Gillian Welch	5	3.05	+1.95

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	1	3.39	-2.39
Smash The Offspring	1	3.36	-2.36
Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi	1	3.29	-2.29
Make Yourself Incubus	1	3.08	-2.08
Slipknot Slipknot	1	2.67	-1.67
Brothers The Black Keys	2	3.55	-1.55
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	2	3.42	-1.42
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	2	3.33	-1.33

Artist	Albums	Average
Bob Dylan	4	5
Led Zeppelin	3	5
Neil Young	3	5
The Rolling Stones	3	4.67
Tom Waits	2	5
Beastie Boys	2	5
Pixies	2	5
Bruce Springsteen	2	5
A Tribe Called Quest	2	5
Beatles	2	5
Dire Straits	2	5
The Clash	2	5
Steely Dan	2	5
Black Sabbath	2	5
Johnny Cash	3	4.33

Blondie

3/5

The Black Keys

2/5

The blues is there for the taking and I'm all for reusing it's tropes—frankly it's hard NOT to—but there's one too many lazy lyrical cliches here for me. The Cramps and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion do it better than this. Not to mention RL Burnside. Jack and Meg probably do it with more conviction too. I've only ever heard songs from this record in snippets and on truck commercials but I do like it more than I thought I would. Also, Black Sabbath, Black Flag, Black Crowes, Black Star, and Black Lips are all better.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

Nations were founded on less. If you don't like this then you don't like livin'.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

2/5

The point for me of listening to and reviewing these 1001 albums is multitudinous: It makes me think about music in a thoughtful way that I can write about, it exposes me to things I haven't heard, and it reminds me of things I've heard but have forgotten about. Having said that, some genres of music and specifically, some albums, just remind a person of things that are so deeply ingrained that it's impossible to hear them in a fair or clear context. I was at the height of my indie record store employee snobbery when this came out and I hated everything about it and I dismissed it as techno garbage. I've since learned how the songs were assembled via vinyl samples on floppy disks fed through an old Atari computer and I think that's pretty cool but it's still too repetitive and amphetamine spazz out for me though. More than anything though it's just boring. And in keeping with my aforementioned snobbery: DJ Shadow does it better. Way better.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

A "desert island" album for me and at times in my life, my favorite album bar none. There are at least a half dozen movements in music that were directly influenced by these songs and probably way more than that. There's also that Peter Buck quote about only a few hundred people buying Velvet Underground records but that all of them started incredible bands. You can just mainline this one straight into my vein. Also, I'm just now realizing that I have much more to say about the records I don't like. Probably because if I think it's good then the music will sell itself.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

This record is a poppier Dark Side of the Moon or a less speedy Can't Buy a Thrill. It's fine but I prefer those records if I'm being honest.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

2/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

Iron Maiden

3/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

Gris Gris

Dr. John

4/5

Liquid Swords

GZA

4/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

Smash

The Offspring

1/5

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

4/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

3/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

5/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

1/5

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

3/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

3/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

3/5

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

4/5

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

5/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

Dry

PJ Harvey

3/5

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

5/5

Close To The Edge

Yes

4/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

2/5

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

3/5

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

2/5

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

4/5

Calenture

The Triffids

2/5

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Being There

Wilco

5/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

2/5

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

5/5

2112

Rush

5/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

Among The Living

Anthrax

4/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

3/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

5/5

Guero

Beck

3/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

3/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Synchronicity

The Police

5/5

The Poet

Bobby Womack

4/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

2/5

Ramones

5/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

Dookie

Green Day

3/5

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

4/5

Not their best but pretty damn great.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

5/5

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

5/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

5/5

Solid Air

John Martyn

5/5

The Clash

5/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Spiderland

Slint

5/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

1/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

Moby Grape

5/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

5/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

5/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

5/5

The Cars

5/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

5/5

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Slipknot

1/5

I Against I

Bad Brains

5/5

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

Paul Simon

5/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

5/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

Elvis Presley

4/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

3/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

The Band

5/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

4/5

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Make Yourself

Incubus

1/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Stankonia

OutKast

5/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

5/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Dire Straits

5/5

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

3/5

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

5/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

Debut

Björk

5/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

5/5

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

5/5

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

3/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

4/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

5/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

5/5

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

4/5

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

5/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

5/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

1999

Prince

5/5

Foo Fighters

5/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

5/5

One of my favorite albums of all time.

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