My 1001 Albums Journey

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3.27

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Junkyard The Birthday Party	5	2.16	+2.84
Antichrist Superstar Marilyn Manson	5	2.47	+2.53
Headquarters The Monkees	5	2.86	+2.14
Superfuzz Bigmuff Mudhoney	5	2.94	+2.06
S.F. Sorrow The Pretty Things	5	3	+2
Pacific Ocean Blue Dennis Wilson	5	3.07	+1.93
A Girl Called Dusty Dusty Springfield	5	3.33	+1.67
Pretenders Pretenders	5	3.35	+1.65
Nilsson Schmilsson Harry Nilsson	5	3.43	+1.57
The Gershwin Songbook Ella Fitzgerald	5	3.53	+1.47

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Raising Hell Run-D.M.C.	1	3.51	-2.51
Power In Numbers Jurassic 5	1	3.48	-2.48
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Dead Kennedys	1	3.27	-2.27
Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits	1	2.95	-1.95
Harvest Neil Young	2	3.82	-1.82
Graceland Paul Simon	2	3.74	-1.74
Movies Holger Czukay	1	2.71	-1.71
Duck Rock Malcolm McLaren	1	2.65	-1.65
Birth Of The Cool Miles Davis	2	3.64	-1.64
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Lauryn Hill	2	3.64	-1.64

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Artist	Albums	Average
Pink Floyd	2	5

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Artist	Ratings
Portishead	5, 2

5-Star Albums (22)

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1-Star Albums (6)

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Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

Achtung Baby

2/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

1/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

5/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

2/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

3/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

2/5

Highly Evolved

The Vines

4/5

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

3/5

Common

2/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

3/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

2/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

3/5

Headquarters

The Monkees

5/5

Timeless

Goldie

3/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

The Velvet Underground

4/5

War

3/5

Me Against The World

2Pac

2/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

2/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

Pelican West

Haircut 100

3/5

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Movies

Holger Czukay

1/5

If Gene Belcher was a real person, he would be Holger Czukay

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

3/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

4/5

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Queens of the Stone Age

4/5

Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

5/5

I'm 6 tracks in and I already know I'm going to rate this 5*. I've never even heard of this band, but right off the rip, all I can hear is Mr. Bungle. Except that no one from Mr. Bungle was ever in this band, and this album came out nearly 10 years prior to the first Mr. Bungle studio release. I'm also surprised to learn that one of its founding members is Nick Cave—whom I'm not even very fond of to begin with.

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

2/5

Justified

Justin Timberlake

3/5

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

5/5

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

4/5

Boston

4/5

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

3/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

3/5

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

2/5

Not really my cup of tea. Sounds like a rock opera... very Meatloaf-ish. I did enjoy the VERY last song

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

4/5

Interesting mix of Classic Rock, Country, Punk, and Irish/Scottish Folk

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Pretenders

5/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

5/5

Low-Life

New Order

4/5

Blood, Sweat & Tears

3/5

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

2/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

2/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

5/5

Let It Be

The Replacements

4/5

Night Life

Ray Price

4/5

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

3/5

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

3/5

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

4/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

5/5

How have I never heard of this? I swear I've listened to Mudhoney before, but if I did, IDK why I never listened again. This is right up my alley with a HUGE post-punk/early grunge kinda vibe. Very reminiscent of Johnny Thunders and I'm sure was some sort of inspiration to Kurt Cobain.

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

3/5

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

3/5

California

American Music Club

3/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

3/5

Arular

M.I.A.

4/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

4/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

3/5

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

4/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

2/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

3/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

3/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

My Generation

The Who

4/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

4/5

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

5/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

3/5

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

4/5

I also think this album is underrated. Maybe not 5* like some others are rating it. But I think it deserves some credit. It's got a Leonard Cohen meets Lou Reed meets Bright Eyes meets Butthole Surfers meets The Pixies with a touch of Country and Shoegazing. I don't know how that's possible, but it's definitely a weird vibe and has a strong garage quality to it. I fee like only the TRUE lovers-of-all-genres will appreciate this. But the music is good, vocals are nice, and whoever the bass player is... I hope he or she has become famous, because for me that is the best, most consistent trait across the whole album.

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

2/5

Anyone that knows me knows I'm a connoisseur of depressing, melancholic music... and I've never felt so disappointed by it than I did with this album. The back-up vocals being the worst quality of it all, but I found the choice of effects and arrangements to be very amateur. If you liked this album, or even kind of liked it, check out Tweaker (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3-fOTTKFr4) and Starsailor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nigN8bSP9_4) instead. The Tweaker song I shared is sung by "Will Oldham" (aka Bonnie Prince Billy). I feel like that song is how this whole album SHOULD sound.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

The Poet

Bobby Womack

3/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

2/5

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

4/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

3/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

The Last Broadcast

Doves

4/5

Whatever

Aimee Mann

2/5

Some of these other reviews are calling everyone out as misogynists and sexist. But as a white female who was a teen in the 90s and grew up in a wealthy family, I'm gonna call this shit out for what it truly is: Rich, white girl, 90s-teen-tv-show background music. It's AWFUL!! The cover was more promising than the first 10 seconds of this album. All black clothes, Doc Martens, "whatever".... I thought for sure I was in for some good Grunge or Alternative. NOPE! If you like the Friends theme song, you might love this album. Track 10: I Could Hurt You Now is the only redeemable song of the album. If you want GOOD 90s teen white girl music, please check out Mazzy Star, Jewel, The Cranberries, Natalie Imbruglia, etc.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

2/5

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

3/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

1/5

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

2/5

McCartney

Paul McCartney

4/5

Third

Soft Machine

3/5

Rage Against The Machine

3/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

1/5

I usually don't let other people's opinions of things weigh on mine. But after reading some of these reviews, I almost didn't want to listen to this at all (ie: I did't want to give him the "plays"). But I did skim through about 30 seconds of the first 5 tracks before I decided that I wouldn't continue because my heart just wasn't in it at all. I can't overlook racial appropriation to this degree. As someone who is a fan of the punk scene and British second wave ska... It's sickening to see someone try to monopolize in this way. It's very much the opposite of what those two scenes as well as Hip Hop stands for. The very least I can do as a white person to help end traditions such as this is a hard "pass". Eff this dude.

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

2/5

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

1/5

The Stone Roses

3/5

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

4/5

Harvest

Neil Young

2/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

2/5

The xx

4/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

4/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

3/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Debut

Björk

3/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

3/5

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

2/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

3/5

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

4/5

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

3/5

Virgin Suicides

Air

3/5

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

2/5

I just really can't stand this kind of music. I rate most everything on here 3* because, even if I may not like the music, I can still somewhat enjoy everything I've heard. It's the first album in my, almost, 200 albums that I couldn't finish..... and I even made it all the way through Backstreet Boys and Justin Timberlake. Bonus star in recognition of vocal talent.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

2/5

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

2/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

4/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

3/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Kimono My House

Sparks

4/5

If Abba and Meatloaf had a baby

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

4/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

2/5

Everyone seems to hate the track Student Demonstration Time. I feel like it's the only redeeming song on the entire album. I'm admittedly not a fan of the Beach Boys—I think they're highly overrated. But I think this track is a brave departure from their typical Surf Rock format while they dip their toes into the Blues/Country genres; and I happen to like it much better than their typical happy, bouncy, quintet sound. So much more rockin'!!

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

2/5

Third

Portishead

2/5