My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
The United States Of America The United States Of America	5	2.61	+2.39
Duck Stab/Buster & Glen The Residents	4	2.03	+1.97
Germfree Adolescents X-Ray Spex	5	3.05	+1.95
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Sinead O'Connor	5	3.25	+1.75
Faith George Michael	5	3.27	+1.73
Melodrama Lorde	5	3.32	+1.68
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs Marty Robbins	5	3.33	+1.67
Juju Siouxsie And The Banshees	5	3.33	+1.67
Garbage Garbage	5	3.38	+1.62
Odessey And Oracle The Zombies	5	3.42	+1.58

Album	You	Global	Diff
Definitely Maybe Oasis	1	3.53	-2.53
Disraeli Gears Cream	1	3.47	-2.47
Strangeways, Here We Come The Smiths	1	3.44	-2.44
Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem	1	3.42	-2.42
Urban Hymns The Verve	1	3.36	-2.36
Astral Weeks Van Morrison	1	3.27	-2.27
Only By The Night Kings of Leon	1	3.23	-2.23
If I Could Only Remember My Name David Crosby	1	3.07	-2.07
Hypnotised The Undertones	1	3.06	-2.06
The Coral The Coral	1	3.01	-2.01

Artist	Albums	Average
Prince	3	5
Stevie Wonder	2	5
Nick Drake	2	5

Artist	Albums	Average
The Verve	2	1
Kings of Leon	2	1.5
Oasis	2	1.5
The Smiths	2	1.5

U2

2/5

Fine? Never been a U2 fan. Some songs I saved to playlists. “No Exit” was the highlight. Cher’s cover of “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” eclipsed the original for me.

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

Almost every electronic dance dj is influenced by Daft Punk, but very few can curate or craft an album even an ounce as good as their worst one. (Which to be clear is not this. Idk what is right now, but you know. Hyperbole)

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

Not for me. Blending funk and alt rock is fun, but I’ve heard a lot of much better versions.

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

Okay this is my first time listening to any Radiohead album in full and I get it. After resisting all these years (for whatever reason), I have to admit this slaps.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

One of the quintessential albums for a reason. Endlessly listenable and timely. An album that changed the course of music history.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

1/5

Sounds like the kind of music I’d pretend to like to try and get a boyfriend in college.

Goo

Sonic Youth

3/5

More like 3.25. A lot of good here. Didn’t quite connect fully with me. The title track and Tunic were my faves.

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

2/5

Happy for the noise music community. Not for me. I don’t want to get on a pedestal and say it’s bad, but it’s certainly lacking something I like when I listen to music - and I listen to some unconventional stuff. I listened to this album all the way through though!

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

I am an Elton fan and I’m perplexed by this album’s inclusion. For an artist to have multiple entries, they should all be exceptional works and this one doesn’t have the qualities of a Goodbye Yellow Brick Road for me. It’s not a bad album, just not a transcendent one. Tiny Dancer and Levon are incredible songs that anybody would make lifelong careers if those were the only hit songs they had.

Sister

Sonic Youth

3/5

I appreciate Sonic Youth more than I enjoy Sonic Youth. My second SY album on the list. (Which is wild because this is only my tenth album.) I much preferred Goo.

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

No real gripes, but also doesn’t feel incredible. Of course I knew the song “The One I Love”, but I don’t think it ever hit me quite like during this album listen. That is an all timer song.

L.A. Woman

The Doors

2/5

I always found The Doors to be overrated, but listenable. This isn’t tear my ears off bad, but wow it is so reductive. This is the twelfth album I’ve listened through this project and I’ve only heard one album by a black artist and at least three white bands blatantly using black music (in a far less effective way than their predecessors)

Sound Affects

The Jam

2/5

There’s one thing to make a fine album, but why is it on a list of albums I have to listen to? I quite disagree with that sentiment.

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

3/5

I agree with folks on the production of this album. It does hold back some of the songs. However, there’s a lot of great pop R&B tunes here so I won’t complain. Closer to a 3.25

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

4/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

3/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

Better than I would have thought 🤷‍♀️

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

One of my favorite genre of live album where it’s someone who sounds incredible in studio and then we hear them live with rawer vocals and less clean instrumental and it’s suddenly transcendent. Very very few pop acts these days could ever hope to make a live album like this these days.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

3/5

Great rapping skills and production. The misogyny and skits make it so juvenile. Some songs were saved. But this is mostly not for me

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

5/5

I was born the year this album came out and I didn’t listen to it in full until I was 16. It was transformative for me then and I still love it today. I’ve seen Alanis live twice and she’s an incredible live act.

1999

Prince

5/5

Incredible you can have a five star album that might not even be in your top three.

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

4/5

Hypnotised

The Undertones

1/5

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

I’m an adult. I don’t have time for people who don’t like Sade.

Aja

Steely Dan

4/5

Funny this was back to back with Sade’s Diamond Life. Two different takes on smooth jazz. But I like this! Maybe more of a 3.5 but I’ll round up

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

* Off the Wall * Bad * Thriller

Risque

CHIC

3/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

2/5

Aside from Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, no woman has more than four albums on this list. No black artist has more than four albums on this list. Somehow, The Byrds have five? Let’s be fucking for real. Also I love that Wikipedia says this is their first album without Dylan material and the first song is a Dylan knock off.

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

1/5

Mercifully short

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

5/5

Signing Off

UB40

3/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Queens of the Stone Age

2/5

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

Nixon

Lambchop

2/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

3/5

Like a 3.5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

5/5

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

3/5

Be

Common

4/5

A good example of why this project is good for me. I don’t think this album was anywhere near my radar. (I was in fifth grade, smalltown Indiana when it came out) Good stuff!

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

The Slider

T. Rex

4/5

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

1/5

Generic. Just had to be there I guess

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Stevie is one of few artists that has truly earned multiple slots in this list

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

4/5

I am unfortunately the audience for this one

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

Peter Gabriel

3/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

2/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

This birthed an obsessive listening session of his three albums. Wow

The College Dropout

Kanye West

3/5

I had never heard this album in full before so I wanted to listen from a “this album was important, but clearly the legacy has been tarnished” lens. I didn’t love it, but it did make me sad to think of this man who used to make music with purpose and how it quickly became another money making scheme for Kanye on top of him using his platform to either be an actual Nazi or to make the worst social experiment of all time. Time will tell? 3.25 star album. One star man.

Foo Fighters

2/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

Seems way too on the nose for this to be a coincidence, but I guess I’ll see if a number of other people got this album today. Or maybe multiple Beach Boys albums were sent out today. (The day after Brian Wilson’s death if someone reads this in the future for some reason) I never heard this one in its entirety and it’s so good. I saw Brian Wilson live in 2016 and he did the entirety of Pet Sounds. It was a great show and I did not take for granted I was in the presence of such an important figure.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

1/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

3/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

3/5

Permission to Land

The Darkness

2/5

Van Halen

3/5

One of those where I don’t know if it’s a great album, but it’s culturally significant so its placement is apt. Not for me, but I can’t deny Mr. Halen’s talents.

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

3/5

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

2/5

Who's Next

The Who

3/5

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

2/5

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

4/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

5/5

Basket of Light

Pentangle

4/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

2/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

The Modern Lovers

2/5

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

2/5

I don’t understand the music these kids are listening to nowadays.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

3/5

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

4/5

Someone referring to this album as “cheesy” sounds like a two-time Reagan voter

The United States Of America

5/5

An album so of its own breed that you wonder how every album can’t be this kind of unique listening experience.

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

2/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

5/5

Reign In Blood

Slayer

2/5

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

4/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

2/5

The Specials

3/5

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

2/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

3/5

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

1/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

War

U2

3/5

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

4/5

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

2/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

5/5

One of those albums where I wish I had been listening to it all my life and not just the last six years. Truly in my top 10 of all time.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Technique

New Order

3/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

5/5

The best thing this project has done so far is introduce me to Nick Drake

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

1/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

1/5

One of my favorite memories is when I went to a concert that was Garbage and Noel Gallagher’s solo project. Metric opened for them. After Garbage played, I turned to my partner and said “I got my money’s worth.” They agreed and we left. It may have been the minority, but there were still a significant number of people returning to their cars that evening before he ever stepped foot on stage.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

2/5

Two Oasis albums in a row… why would you do that to me

Bad Company

2/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

I like Springsteen, but his vocals on “Backstreets” is one of the most grating vocal performances I’ve EVER experienced

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

World Clique

Deee-Lite

2/5

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

3/5

Third

Soft Machine

2/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

5/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

3/5

Teen Dream

Beach House

2/5

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

3/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

3/5

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

2/5

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

2/5

Pretenders

4/5

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

1/5

The Coral

1/5

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

1/5

Whatever

Aimee Mann

2/5

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

1/5

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Feast of Wire

Calexico

4/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

2/5

Dare!

The Human League

3/5

Revolver

Beatles

4/5

One World

John Martyn

2/5

One of the best albums? Doubtful. One of the best album covers? Absolutely. Just wish it was used on something way more cerebral or flamboyant.

So

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Garbage

5/5

When you search “Garbage” in the keywords, naturally this is the biggest hit. Kid Rock being the second one is great, but also makes wonder why the hell that album is even on this list

Moving Pictures

Rush

4/5

I like doing this project because I find out that Rush is actually a really fun band despite some weird bias I had in my brain they’d just be some other rock group on the list.

More Specials

The Specials

2/5

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

4/5

Odelay

Beck

3/5

New Wave

The Auteurs

1/5

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

1/5

To find out there are THREE Kings of Leon albums on this list?? Sure won’t think about all of the albums missing from this list whose spots are being filled by KINGS OF LEON

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

5/5

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

3/5

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

2/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

2/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

5/5

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

3/5

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

3/5

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

2/5

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

2/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

2/5

This reminded me of working at Goodwill and Wednesdays would be senior Wednesdays where senior citizens could get a discount that day. They’d play a segregated sock hop radio that consisted of the same 50 songs every Wednesday and sometimes they’d loop if you worked long enough of a shift. One or two Little Richard songs would be my breath of relief. That being said, at least three songs from this album were a part of that playlist and therefore I cannot objectively rate this without the bias of retail trauma.

The Clash

3/5

Kimono My House

Sparks

4/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

2/5

I like the two big hits on here, but you’d do much better with Volunteers or even The Worst of Jefferson Airplane

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5