1001 Albums Summary

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Ambient 1/Music For Airports Brian Eno	5	3.08	+1.92
1999 Prince	5	3.6	+1.4
Kid A Radiohead	5	3.71	+1.29
Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul Otis Redding	5	3.93	+1.07

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.7	-2.7
Colour By Numbers Culture Club	1	2.84	-1.84
Graceland Paul Simon	2	3.74	-1.74
Pearl Janis Joplin	2	3.73	-1.73
Guero Beck	2	3.46	-1.46
Ritual De Lo Habitual Jane's Addiction	2	3.19	-1.19
Actually Pet Shop Boys	2	3.18	-1.18
Your New Favourite Band The Hives	2	3.13	-1.13
Another Music In A Different Kitchen Buzzcocks	2	3.09	-1.09
Deserter's Songs Mercury Rev	2	3.02	-1.02

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Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Self-evidently great, but if you stop here, you’re lazy.

1 likes

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

New Order with worse music and slightly better lyrics, which isn't really a good trade-off. "King's Cross" pops off, though.

1 likes

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

The perfect bridge between the 60s and 70s — hard rock and psychedelia giving way to metal, spritely fantasy turning into demonic nightmares, groovy collectivism becoming dissatisfied individualism.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (2)

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Ramones

3/5

What if The Stooges but duller and more rigid.

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Self-evidently great, but if you stop here, you’re lazy.

Graceland

Paul Simon

2/5

Shouldn’t have broken the boycott, bitch!

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

I was ready to slam the SINGLES BAND stamp on this one, but to my surprise, a few of the deep cuts ("Straight Shooter," "Got A Feelin'") are actually pretty nice. Still, not sure this makes it out of the "Great 60s Albums" bracket and onto the "Greatest Albums of All Time" list.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

C’mon

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

As with most things, this benefits when Don Van Vliet is present and suffers when he’s absent.

Tapestry

Carole King

3/5

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

New Order with worse music and slightly better lyrics, which isn't really a good trade-off. "King's Cross" pops off, though.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

Physically impossible for me to smash the one-star button any faster

White Light

Gene Clark

3/5

Guero

Beck

2/5

Real “got in on the first year of eligibility and then didn’t make it into the later editions” energy here (❤️: E-Pro, Girl, Broken Drum)

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

🤖😍

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

2/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Immaculately produced and clearly worthy of representing Pink Floyd on the list, even if the Gilbert-and-Sullivan shit does nothing for me.

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

2/5

What’s next, a Jet album?

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Was this as sexy as electronic music could get in 1990?

Gris Gris

Dr. John

3/5

Look what crawled out of the bayou

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

2/5

SINGLES BAND

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

2/5

You’ve got to be fuckin kidding me

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Starting to think I low-balled PARANOID. Still, quite nice to see Sabbath pushing the boundaries of the genre they established. Just not sure if I’d put this as a top album for ‘72

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

1/5

“Mom, can we have Prince?” “No, we have Prince at home.” Prince at home:

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Home to pretty much every soul standard you could ever want, this brought the genre into the album era.

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Not my bag.

Crazysexycool

TLC

3/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

2/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

5/5

Instant classic

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

2/5

Far more diverse genre-wise than expected, and it deserves credit for foregrounding the R&B and hip-hop influences that other pop stars of the era treated like dirty secrets. This is as much Max Martin vs. Scott Storch as it is Britney vs. Christina. Still, TWENTY songs? Woof.

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

Real “Ship of Theseus” situation here, as only expanded versions of this are available on streaming. You can find the original tracklist fairly easily, but is it really the same as it was in 1970? Anyway, this does an admirable job of capturing the band’s energy, something that’s conspicuously muted on many of their studio albums.

1999

Prince

5/5

Suede

4/5

Wasn’t sold on a glam update for the 90s, but I was surprised by how solid this was.