My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Vespertine Björk	5	3.16	+1.84
The Sensual World Kate Bush	5	3.17	+1.83
The Man Machine Kraftwerk	5	3.31	+1.69
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	3.32	+1.68
C'est Chic CHIC	5	3.34	+1.66
Debut Björk	5	3.37	+1.63
Ágætis Byrjun Sigur Rós	5	3.37	+1.63
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	5	3.38	+1.62
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	5	3.38	+1.62
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	5	3.39	+1.61

Album	You	Global	Diff
All Hope Is Gone Slipknot	1	2.7	-1.7
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	2	3.59	-1.59
Dirt Alice In Chains	2	3.47	-1.47
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	2	3.44	-1.44
...And Justice For All Metallica	2	3.43	-1.43
At Fillmore East The Allman Brothers Band	2	3.38	-1.38
Eliminator ZZ Top	2	3.37	-1.37
Live At Leeds The Who	2	3.32	-1.32
Screamadelica Primal Scream	2	3.17	-1.17
This Is Hardcore Pulp	2	3.14	-1.14

Artist	Albums	Average
Radiohead	3	5
Björk	2	5
Beatles	2	5
Miles Davis	2	5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Talking Book is just one of those albums that feels timeless. Songs like “Superstition” and “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” are iconic. It’s emotional, innovative and romantic. Put on this record while you cook dinner for your partner. Or your friend. Or, put it on for yourself. Have a nice evening, you deserve it.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

I don't have a great deal to add to the conversation that hasn't already been said about this album. We all know the impact Bob Dylan's voice had on music in the 60s. He was 22 when this album came out.

Hot Fuss

The Killers

3/5

This album came out a year into my undergrad experience at UNLV. I had seen The Killers perform in a tiny practice shed with a friend of the band a few months before the album dropped and we all kinda knew they'd be big. It dropped like a bomb and it was inescapable at the time and eventually got overplayed on the radio, but the record does have some undeniable classics that are still resonating with younger generations today. I tip my cap to this era of rock music and what this album brought to the conversation.

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

“The Bends” is a defining album of the ’90s, and for someone born in 1985, it hits a nostalgic sweet spot. Yes, I was 9 when it came out but found Radiohead in my teens, and with each new album fell in love with the band again and again for how new and innovative their sound was. Thom Yorke’s vocals on tracks like “Fake Plastic Trees” and “High and Dry” are spectacular and the rawness of “Just” has one slapping the ever-rock-fucking hell out of their steering wheel. Bend me, Mr. Yorke.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

This Year’s Model is a standout album and remains a pivotal work in Costello’s career. The influence its had on pop and rock music cannot be understated, so feel free to recommend it to just about anyone with two working ears. Except my two-year-old daughter. She didn’t want anything to do with it and much preferred “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” on the car ride home.

Debut

Björk

5/5

Björk is a singular voice and her music has always reached me on an emotional level. Her live shows are truly something to behold and I believe her music will stand the test of time as one of the boldest and most innovative of her (and my) generation. She's an alien. An Icelandic angel. Debut might be the most accessible record for any Björk newcomers, but that doesn't make it any less distinct or imaginative. It's a daring first effort that will only become more refined and sonically cohesive with each progressive release. Standouts, "Human Behaviour", "Venus as a Boy", "Big Time Sensuality" and "Come to Me" each highlight a different facet of Björk's diverse collection of styles and influences on this album. It's fantastic debut to what would become a legendary career. Fun fact: Björk was the first woman to headline Coachella and the only woman to headline it twice.

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

5/5

"It was a stone groove, my man" Standouts: The 15min-long "Chameleon" and "Watermelon Man"

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

My relationship with Cat Stevens' music has mostly been through film and TV. The soundtrack to Hal Ashby's 1971 classic, Harold and Maude. A cameo on The Simpsons. The theme to Extras. Tea for the Tillerman is a gentle album. It evokes a late afternoon. It's a very pleasant listen.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

The Bridge Over Troubled Water album is special because it represents Simon & Garfunkel at the peak of their creative powers while also marking the duo’s final studio album together, making it both a creative high point and a bittersweet farewell. I've had this record on vinyl since I started collecting records way back in my freshman year of college. I remember loving it then and I still do today. No mystery why, as the themes of love, friendship, and perseverance feel timeless. Standouts for me are “Cecilia” and the very nostalgic classic, “The Only Living Boy in New York.”

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

The Stone Roses

4/5

Damn, I forgot how good The Stone Roses are. This album in particular should/needs to be in my collection. The self-titled debut still feels fresh today and perfectly blends psychedelic rock and 80s dance. What a perfect intro on "I Wanna Be Adored". And the nearly 10-min jam sessions on "I Am the Resurrection" and "Fools Gold" both feel anthemic and groooooovy. One can really tell how endlessly influential this record was. 4.5 stars!

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

2/5

There's a lot of undiscovered Britpop out there for Americans in their late 30s to stumble upon and this was an example of one such discovery. By me. There's a funky fusion of sounds in here that I didn't like or d̶i̶s̶l̶i̶k̶e̶. *Edit Upon a second listen I mostly DISLIKE this album. It feels derivative and lacks cohesion. The funky fusion of sounds I mentioned on my first listen feel messy the second go around and I found myself skipping tracks more frequently. I revise my rating to 2 stars!

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

There's something about bossa nova that makes you want to sit back and relax. Lounge about, make a cocktail for a friend (or lover) and do a silly little hip sway on your walk back over to hand them their drink. Gilberto Mendes knew what he was doing. One could call this the quintessential bossa nova album. I just might call it that. I might do a lot of things.

The Band

3/5

These Canadians sure do love America! But does this American love these Canadians? Kinda. There's a jaunty, ragtime gitbox way about this humble slice of Americana. That's cool, and I totally understand the importance of this album when it came out. Is it a first choice pick when I'm looking for some rock and roll music from this era? Not personally! Not a bad album for me, just not one I vibe with all that much. It's ranked #57 on the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time and has a perfect 10 rating on Pitchfork, so this jugtime hullabaloo certainly resonates with a lot of people!

Very

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

None of the big hits on this record, but that doesn't matter. I can still dance to this.

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

4/5

I hope Ramblin' Jack Elliott took care of his bedbug problem.

Repeater

Fugazi

4/5

This is my shit.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

Surprising. Won't listen to again any time soon, but stoked these Mali boys escaped the Mali civil war and wrote a blues/rock album.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

5/5

Prince records should get an automatic 5. This is one of his best albums. Strong 5.

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

5/5

Much like one can play seven degrees of separation with Kevin Bacon, the iconic guitar riffs of Nile Rodgers will always be seven degrees of separation from your favorite sample. Disco for the ages.

Vespertine

Björk

5/5

I love this album. It's one of Bjork's most intimate. It's etherial, delicate and dreamlike. Mostly produced out of her home in Iceland, Björk set out to create a “quiet” album with sounds that felt like they were being whispered into your ear. Employing “microbeats” she finds unconventional sounds to add texture and percussion. If you're a fan of Burial, you'll recognize how this technique can employ layers of sound and atmosphere. She would also work closely with Matmos, an experimental electronic duo, who contributed detailed textures using unconventional samples, such as recordings of insects walking on leaves. Real headphone listening. I'd also like to add that hearing "Pagan Poetry" live (perhaps whilst of some form of mind altering substance) is quite transcendent.

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

Oh heeeeeeyyyyyyy ooooooooo thisalbumwasinescapableintheninties ahhhy Ohhhhh heeeeeyyyyyyy yyyaaaaaaaa oneoftheposterchildsofaltrockyouberstbelieveit ahhhyya eventhooooo I don't seek out this type of music, I still think it was important counter programing in a post hair metal era of rock and roll music.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

3/5

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

4/5

Along with Slint, Talk Talk is often cited as one of the pioneers of post-rock; a genre I was obsessed with in my 20s. Specifically their album, Spirit Of Eden--which is a masterpiece--and Laughing Stock, their final album. Both would cement their contributions to the foundations of the genre. The Colour of Spring sits firmly to the right of their 80s, hit making jazz and art pop era, and just before their more experimental, minimal post-rock era. They were still being compared to Duran Duran when this record came out and I can see why. I decided to listen to this record then jump immediately into Spirit Of Eden and really enjoyed stepping back and looking at the progression of the band's sound. I don't love everything on this record but still think it's a solid listen. "April 5th" and "Give Up" are highlights for me.

Third

Soft Machine

2/5

My CalArts friends love prog rock and experimental jazz. And I heard a lot of it when I spent my early LA years visiting them. So this is not uncharted territory for me. I can get into it at times and hate it others, but for me the vocals kill this record. I would've much preferred a purely instrumental effort from Soft Machine as Robert Wyatt voice sounds flat as a pancake most of the time.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

The Queen of Soul! Always a pleasure listening to Aretha. This was a groundbreaking record. Passionate, soulful and raw. Easily in the top 10 albums of the 1960s.

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

The Kinks

4/5

Not my favorite Kinks, but still a great record.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

2/5

This album is bleak. It's about addiction. It's about heroin. Really some of the gloomiest grunge music to come out of Seattle. This album offers a glimpse into Layne Staley's personal struggles, which he would sadly never overcome. He would die of an overdose at his Seattle apartment in 2002, succumbing to the darkness of addiction.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

Kenza

Khaled

2/5

In It For The Money

Supergrass

3/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

5/5

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

3/5

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

3/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

21

Adele

4/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

4/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

4/5

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

3/5

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

4/5

Tommy

The Who

3/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

Elastica

3/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

The Undertones

4/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

Electric

The Cult

2/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

5/5

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

2/5

Permission to Land

The Darkness

3/5

High Violet

The National

4/5

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

The Rise & Fall

Madness

2/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

4/5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

4/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

5/5

Metallica

3/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

5/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

1984

Van Halen

3/5

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

4/5

Sheet Music

10cc

4/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

3/5

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

Blur

3/5

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

2/5

The Poet

Bobby Womack

3/5

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

4/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

5/5

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

3/5

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Low

David Bowie

4/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

3/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

4/5

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

4/5

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

4/5

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

5/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

4/5

Solid Air

John Martyn

4/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

3/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

4/5

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

3/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

Close To You

Carpenters

3/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

4/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

3/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

2/5

Hysteria

Def Leppard

3/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

2/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Reign In Blood

Slayer

4/5

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

3/5

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

5/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

3/5

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

2/5

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

Femi Kuti

3/5

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

3/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

The Modern Lovers

4/5

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

3/5

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

2/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

2/5

Slayed?

Slade

2/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

Fleet Foxes

4/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

Microshift

Hookworms

3/5

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

So stoked I got to see them perform live this year.

White Ladder

David Gray

3/5

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

3/5

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

4/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

2/5

No disrespect to Muse, but why is this album on the list?

The Clash

4/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

3/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

2/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

2/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

4/5

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

3/5

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

1/5

Knot my cup of tea

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Woodface

Crowded House

2/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Clandestino

Manu Chao

3/5

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

2/5

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

3/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

2/5

OK

Talvin Singh

3/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

2/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

2/5

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

4/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Iron Maiden

3/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

2/5

Black Metal

Venom

2/5

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

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