My 1001 Albums Journey

118

Albums Rated

3.2

Average Rating

11%

Complete

971 albums remaining

Rating Distribution

Rating Timeline

Taste Profile

2000

Favorite Decade

Metal

Favorite Genre

Top Origin

Curator

Rater Style ?

5-Star Albums

1-Star Albums

Breakdown

By Genre

Top Styles

By Decade

By Origin

Albums

You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite Maxwell	5	2.9	+2.1
Beach Samba Astrud Gilberto	5	2.92	+2.08
Fishscale Ghostface Killah	5	3.05	+1.95
The Visitors ABBA	5	3.21	+1.79
The Age Of The Understatement The Last Shadow Puppets	5	3.25	+1.75
1989 Taylor Swift	5	3.27	+1.73
Channel Orange Frank Ocean	5	3.32	+1.68
25 Adele	5	3.37	+1.63
Smash The Offspring	5	3.37	+1.63
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	5	3.39	+1.61

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
3 Feet High and Rising De La Soul	1	3.45	-2.45
american dream LCD Soundsystem	1	3.17	-2.17
Dig Your Own Hole The Chemical Brothers	1	3.11	-2.11
Teenage Head Flamin' Groovies	1	3.03	-2.03
Safe As Milk Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	1	3.01	-2.01
Mama Said Knock You Out LL Cool J	1	2.91	-1.91
Tarkus Emerson, Lake & Palmer	1	2.79	-1.79
Faust IV Faust	1	2.77	-1.77
Snivilisation Orbital	1	2.71	-1.71
Movies Holger Czukay	1	2.71	-1.71

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Van Halen	2	5

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Taylor Swift	5, 2

5-Star Albums (26)

View Album Wall

Popular Reviews

...And Justice For All

Metallica · 1 likes

5/5

The opening notes of One are legendary. Brings back guitar hero memories. What a damn album.

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners · 1 likes

4/5

Not every song can be Come On Eileen, but it’s a vibe

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell · 1 likes

5/5

Smooth as hell

Highly Evolved

The Vines · 1 likes

3/5

Meh

1-Star Albums (16)

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

All Ratings

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

4/5

Chill waiting room music. Very laid back. I'm assuming Spanish? But some inflections sound different. UPDATE: It's bossa nova and she's based in Brazil. So Portuguese. Makes sense. Mixed English phrases in there as well. Very relaxing and good for background work music.

Blood, Sweat & Tears

2/5

So far it's decently mid across both days. Can't say I was too impressed with this album. Maybe it just hasn't aged well over the last 50 years but it wasn't hitting.

Femi Kuti

3/5

Some big band afrobeat. Not bad, but still feels like background music.

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

1/5

BUNS HOLY SHIT

Van Halen

5/5

What a palate cleanser after 5 straight days of 0 vocals. A classic.

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

4/5

Concert albums aren’t really my thing but otherwise a solid album.

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

1/5

Repetitive Elvis knockoff sound. Tough hour to get through.

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

2/5

Some okay background noise, but every song going around 7 minutes each makes sure that they all overstay their welcome.

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

3/5

The 12 minute opener really lowered my expectations for the rest of the album, so when Relax came on, I was pleasantly surprised.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

I still think Lazaretto is the better Jack White album and I’ll die on that hill. Freedom at 21 and I’m shaking still bang

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Honestly not a fan. If I was at a cookout on the 4th of July, this might carry more weight.

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

1/5

It’s no wonder they lost the war. This was painful to get through.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

4/5

Just a solid all around album. Final track is the perfect outro.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Aw helllllllll yeah

Tidal

Fiona Apple

5/5

Easy listen. Nice and soft. Powerful vocals and you can really tell how much she influenced modern pop sound.

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

Eh not his best work. Just decent. More of a fan of the Ziggy era

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

1/5

Too sober to listen to this. The beats are rough in most songs and the last 2 minutes of Where Do I Begin are just trash.

Talvin Singh

2/5

More like a movie soundtrack. Background music through and through.

Adele

5/5

It’s Adele. This album won 5 Grammys for a reason.

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

Decently poppy 60s rock album. Not the best, not the worst.

...And Justice For All

Metallica

5/5

The opening notes of One are legendary. Brings back guitar hero memories. What a damn album.

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

Smooth as hell

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

1/5

Really expected more from a Bollywood soundtrack. Just kinda boring background noise.

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

3/5

Decent indie. Some shaky tracks here and there but otherwise decent.

Phrenology

The Roots

2/5

Album starts off decent enough, but quickly loses all momentum with the interludes being just boring. I know the album came out in a weird transition period for hip hop, but this just doesn’t fit in anywhere and not in a good way.

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

5/5

Good samba. Just smooth and enjoyable.

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

2/5

Didn’t really care for it. Just not for me.

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

Decent

The Velvet Underground

2/5

I thought it was just a middle ground album but The Murder Mystery really knocked it down another star because of how long and annoying it was.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

5/5

Would be real nice if Frank made another album this century.

LP1

FKA twigs

2/5

I’ve learned that avant garde being in the description is a red flag.

School's Out

Alice Cooper

4/5

Dad rock and that's alright

Another Green World

Brian Eno

2/5

Not really much going on here. Lot of talent from other groups coming together to make an overall boring album.

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

1/5

A hippity hop please stop.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Just a good one. What a legend

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Another schmid album

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Smooth. Listened to the full thing on a flight back home and it was just easy listening.

Manassas

Stephen Stills

4/5

Nice cruising around cross-country road trip music. Some solid guitar bluesy guitar riffs in here.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

C’mon. It’s Elton John. It’s like hating ice cream and puppies. You’re just objectively wrong. This album has so many bangers and it’s his magnum opus for a reason.

Leftism

Leftfield

2/5

Not really my vibe. Pretty much background music at a 90s club.

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

4/5

Hippies were eating well back in the day

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

(Insert any word) Blues

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

Not every song can be Come On Eileen, but it’s a vibe

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

1/5

Brutal listen. Not sure how this one is considered a paragon of music.

Born To Be With You

Dion

3/5

Really felt like a prototype to much better albums later on. You get glimpses of better music in the middle of a song and then it’s done. Some decent songs on this one but it isn’t really enough.

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

2/5

Meh

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

3/5

Was gonna give this 4 stars, but the final song being 16 minutes long really overstayed the welcome. Solid for the genre and I recognize its importance.

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

4/5

If I was told that this album came out at the start of the 2010s, I would’ve believed it. Feels very much ahead of its time given the release date. Solid pop sound.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

I expected more from Radiohead, given their reputation. Just a whole lot of mid

The Only Ones

2/5

Don’t know how some of these albums are cracking the all timers list, but it’s getting pretty disappointing.

Franz Ferdinand

5/5

Peak is back on the menu.

Hms Fable

Shack

3/5

And we’re back to just so-so music.

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

4/5

Actually enjoyed this one. Wasn’t sure what to think at the start, but it won me over toward the end.

1984

Van Halen

5/5

Jump back to back with Panama. Also Hot for Teacher. Just a half hour of straight heat

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

I think AM is by far the better album, but it’s still really solid. When the Sun Goes Down is an all timer from them.

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

5/5

It’s starts with ONE THING. I DON’T KNOW WHY. IT DOESN’T EVEN MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY.

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

1/5

Wow prog rock. 20 minute song that fakes you out with a false ending 10 times. Man.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

Decent British pop rock

1999

Prince

5/5

He had to have been the horniest man alive at the time. What a legend.

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

4/5

It’s a vibe

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

Nice and smooth. Just good background listening.

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

1/5

Yikes. Aged like milk. Mr. Good Bar is one the weirdest songs easily, but the rest is just so damn corny. I was never a fan of Mama Said Knock You Out, so the rest of the album was just downhill from there. Can’t believe they let him run with the Mr. Good Bar joke like 5 times on the album. Just terrible.

Snivilisation

Orbital

1/5

Wow how boring and repetitive.

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

4/5

Nice and easy listen. Got some real good ones on here.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

3/5

Really weird that they chose this Talking Heads album. It’s like the creator of this list wanted to be a lil hipster and intentionally not choose the greatest hits.

Movies

Holger Czukay

1/5

Avant garde always tells me I’m in for a shit time. Experimental does not equal good.

Signing Off

UB40

3/5

Decent reggae. No qualms.

Fleet Foxes

5/5

A nice folksy time. Really nice sound and just overall relaxing. Very much a PNW soundtrack.

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

1/5

Had high hopes going into this given that I’d heard about the band so much. Not a fan of whatever this genre is if this is the mountaintop.

The Visitors

ABBA

5/5

ABBA doing ABBA things. Just wonderful.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

5/5

Hell yeah. As metal as it gets.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

Very upbeat Irish folksy sounding, almost wades into Shipping up to Boston territory. Decent at first, but gets old fast.

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

2/5

Mid as it gets. Some high spots, but just not worth another listen.

En-Tact

The Shamen

1/5

Nope. Just annoying.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

I would’ve listened to this on any given day anyway. It’s a peak album and only gets better with time. Sing About Me I’m Dying of Thirst is an all timer song for me on top of the fact that you have classics like Swimming Pools, Money Trees, Backseat Freestyle, m.A.A.d. city, and Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe. It’s a no skips album.

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

4/5

Super decent pop sound. I dig it.

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

2/5

The biopic where he’s a monkey the whole time has definitely made this a weird album listen. The random like 10 minutes of silence on the final track was a bit annoying to skip through.

Joan Armatrading

2/5

Meh. Just mid.

Eternally Yours

The Saints

2/5

More mid. Shame.

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

3/5

It’s some okay hippy rock.

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

4/5

Wild how future proofed this sounds. 1968 and it sounds like it could’ve come out in the last 20 years.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

2/5

Didn’t care much for it. The guy who put together this list really favored a specific kind of sound and it’s showing.

Microshift

Hookworms

3/5

The back half rallies the album a bit. Still very so so in parts.

Let It Be

The Replacements

4/5

Decent riffs in here. Better than most of the albums getting recommended on this list. The bar is getting lower and lower each day.

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

You know what? I wasn’t sure at first but ended up really liking this one.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

I’m not the biggest Beatles fan, but even I can respect what they had going on here.

The Last Broadcast

Doves

3/5

Kinda sounds like a knockoff mashup of so many pop artists from the early 2000s

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

5/5

Smooth as hell

Highly Evolved

The Vines

3/5

Meh

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Psycho Killer really rallies some parts of this album.

Pump

Aerosmith

4/5

Not the biggest Aerosmith fan but respect where it’s due. Dude has pipes

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Alright yeah I understand the hype behind this one. Night and day with the other radio head album on here.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

Not an ounce of fat on this album. Just fantastic through and through

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

5/5

Sounded a lot like Arctic Monkeys and then I read the lineup. Makes sense why there’s so many bangers here.

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

2/5

Stupid album name aside, Dirty Barry kills any and all momentum for the album and made me wonder when the next shit song would halt all progress for the remainder of the album.

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

Extremely enjoyable listen. No notes, just vibes.

Smash

The Offspring

5/5

Grew up listening to The Offspring so this album is an all timer for me. Just some absolute classics on this thing.

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

3/5

Cowboy music

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

2/5

Just a bit boring

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Still just okay. Consistent mid streak lately on here.

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

4/5

Clocked Damon Albarn from a mile away when he did the mic effect. Good album.

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

3/5

Wasn’t available on streaming platforms

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

3/5

Meh just kinda blends with the others

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

5/5

Wu-Tang forever. As east coast rap as it gets. I also never realized that Action Bronson is essentially white Ghostface both in sound and rhyme scheme. Just crazy.

Truth

Jeff Beck

3/5

Green sleeves was nice but all around just another mid soft rock album.

Viva Hate

Morrissey

2/5

Almost back to back albums from this guy generated for me. Just consistently mid why does he get 2 albums

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

I’d give this 3.5 stars if I could. Better than most of the mid albums, but nothing special.

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1/5

What a mess of an album

Dare!

The Human League

2/5

The only reason this gets 2 stars instead of 1 is because the one hit wonder song Don’t You Want Me finishes off the album.

1989

Taylor Swift

5/5

I’m not a Swiftie by any means, but I can respect the insane impact it has had on everything after this.

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

2/5

Downer indie rock. Very middle school angst

evermore

Taylor Swift

2/5

Wow this one was so incredibly boring. 2 Taylor swift albums within a 5 day span and one was very clearly better. This album feels like a cliche-packed parody of a Taylor swift album.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

5/5

Smooth as hell. You don’t realize how many times they’ve been sampled until you listen through the whole album.

Faust IV

Faust

1/5

So beyond boring

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

4/5

It’s actually a vibe. I like it.