My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Modern Dance Pere Ubu	5	2.48	+2.52
Cut The Slits	5	2.72	+2.28
Arular M.I.A.	5	2.84	+2.16
A Northern Soul The Verve	5	2.92	+2.08
Ghosteen Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	2.96	+2.04
Dog Man Star Suede	5	3.01	+1.99
Real Life Magazine	5	3.06	+1.94
Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo MC Solaar	5	3.1	+1.9
Double Nickels On The Dime Minutemen	5	3.12	+1.88
New York Dolls New York Dolls	5	3.12	+1.88

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
OK Computer Radiohead	2	4.11	-2.11
All That You Can't Leave Behind U2	1	2.98	-1.98
The Joshua Tree U2	2	3.67	-1.67
Brothers The Black Keys	2	3.55	-1.55
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	3.48	-1.48
Achtung Baby U2	2	3.3	-1.3

Artists

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	4	5
Stevie Wonder	4	4.75
The Smiths	3	5
David Bowie	6	4.33
Black Sabbath	2	5
Neil Young	2	5
PJ Harvey	2	5

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
U2	3	1.67

5-Star Albums (62)

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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

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

Popular Reviews

Different Class

Pulp · 17 likes

5/5

I can’t help it, I was dragged up My favourite parks are car parks Grass is something you smoke Birds are something you shag Take your "Year in Provence" And shove it up your ass

Cut

The Slits · 11 likes

5/5

Everyone should listen to Typical Girls before they get hit by a bus

The Joshua Tree

U2 · 7 likes

2/5

“If I ever end up like U2 / slit my throat with a garden vegetable.” - Mark E. Smith

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers · 6 likes

2/5

Poundland Funkadelic

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen · 6 likes

5/5

Now some guys they just give up living And start dying little by little, piece by piece Some guys come home from work and wash up And go racing in the street

4-Star Albums (58)

1-Star Albums (1)

All Ratings

Gorillaz

4/5

HEEEELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Debut

Björk

4/5

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

Woodface

Crowded House

3/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

5/5

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

5/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

4/5

The Joshua Tree

2/5

“If I ever end up like U2 / slit my throat with a garden vegetable.” - Mark E. Smith

Achtung Baby

2/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Pretenders

5/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

All That You Can't Leave Behind

1/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Different Class

Pulp

5/5

I can’t help it, I was dragged up My favourite parks are car parks Grass is something you smoke Birds are something you shag Take your "Year in Provence" And shove it up your ass

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

2/5

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

5/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Now some guys they just give up living And start dying little by little, piece by piece Some guys come home from work and wash up And go racing in the street

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

Tical

Method Man

4/5

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

Dookie

Green Day

3/5

Violent Femmes

4/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

2/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Only cowards skip Revolution 9

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

4/5

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

4/5

Arular

M.I.A.

5/5

M.I.A. absolutely is influential enough to appear more than once

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Low

David Bowie

5/5

System Of A Down

3/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

4/5

Time hits a lot harder these days

Black Sabbath

5/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

England was quizzical, in matters physical they were in their prime Surely this would be their time to shiii- i-i-ine Gareth their manager, majoring in mediocrity tells them not to attack Cos in football you never give the ball a whack-ack-ack-ack But as you’re expecting Bellingham to score, Southgate undelivers us once more Bang bang Southgate’s boring game plan came apart once again Bang bang Southgate’s boring game plan wasted another generation of men

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

5/5

New York Dolls

5/5

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

5/5

“My name is David Fucking Thomas… and I’m the lead singer of the best fucking rock and roll band in the world” RIP

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

MY GIRL, MY GIRL, DON’T LIE TO ME

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Metallica

3/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

5/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

4/5

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

5/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

5/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

4/5

Far from their best album but “You Can Go Live At Home” is a bloody brilliant swan song

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

5/5

DON’T YOU WISH YOU NEVER, NEVER MET HER?

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Soul Mining

The The

4/5

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

5/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

Ramones

5/5

Oh no it’s all short and repetitive!!! That’s. The. Fucking. Point.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

5/5

I won't share you, no I won't share you With the drive and the dreams inside This is my time

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

5/5

A landmark in French hip-hop (Prose Combat is better though)

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

Copper Blue

Sugar

4/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

I struggled with some demons They were middle class and tame

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

5/5

The Doors

5/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

Dirty

Sonic Youth

4/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

4/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Every time I hear the crack of a whip My blood runs cold I remember on the slave ship How they brutalise our very souls Today they say that we are free Only to be chained in poverty Good God, I think it's illiteracy It's only a machine that makes money

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

4/5

An important and iconic record within and outside the genre but I'd put it behind "Equal Rights" and "Mama Africa"

Real Life

Magazine

5/5

Perfectly paced, the flow of the final four songs is incredible

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

Arctic Monkeys

5/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

4/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

5/5

Would still be a 5 even if it was just the first 10 seconds of Cherry Coloured Funk

Horses

Patti Smith

5/5

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

3/5

America, your head's too big Because, America Your belly's too big And I love you, I just wish you'd stay where you belong Some of his best solo material is on here but it’s not fully consistent and leagues behind anything by The Smiths.

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

GOOO ON TAKE EVERYTHING, TAKE EVERYTHING, I WANT YOU TO If you like this do yourself a favour and check out Fontanelle by Babes in Toyland

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

4/5

Sounds like I need to check out pre Rollins Black Flag

The Slider

T. Rex

5/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

On the shop floor There’s a calendar As obvious as snow As if we didn’t know

Green

R.E.M.

4/5

I COULD TURN YOU INSIDE-OUT

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

5/5

But we can, you know we can We can, you know we can Let's lynch the landlord Let's lynch the landlord Let's lynch the landlord, man

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

What kinda fuckery is this?

Dog Man Star

Suede

5/5

With ice in her blood and a dove in her head Well, how does she feel when she's in your bed? When you're there in her arms and there in her legs Well, I'll be in her head 'Cause that's where I go and that's what I do And that's how it feels when the sex turns cruel Yes, both of us need her, this is the asphalt world

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

Poundland Funkadelic

Cut

The Slits

5/5

Everyone should listen to Typical Girls before they get hit by a bus

Aladdin Sane