My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Suicide Suicide	5	2.46	+2.54
Eli And The Thirteenth Confession Laura Nyro	5	2.94	+2.06
They Were Wrong, So We Drowned Liars	4	2.11	+1.89
The Idiot Iggy Pop	5	3.21	+1.79
Rust In Peace Megadeth	5	3.24	+1.76
Trout Mask Replica Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	4	2.28	+1.72
Daydream Nation Sonic Youth	5	3.3	+1.7
Channel Orange Frank Ocean	5	3.31	+1.69
Deep Purple In Rock Deep Purple	5	3.33	+1.67
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	5	3.37	+1.63

Album	You	Global	Diff
Electric The Cult	1	3.02	-2.02
Konnichiwa Skepta	1	2.74	-1.74
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	3.7	-1.7
Ramones Ramones	2	3.58	-1.58
My Generation The Who	2	3.43	-1.43
Green Onions Booker T. & The MG's	2	3.4	-1.4
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	2	3.39	-1.39
Countdown To Ecstasy Steely Dan	2	3.28	-1.28
The Message Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five	2	3.28	-1.28
Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters	2	3.23	-1.23

Artist	Albums	Average
Pink Floyd	2	5
Leonard Cohen	3	4.33

Black Sabbath

3/5

Good yet a sort of awkward transition from blues rock into metal with a bit too many traditional instruments that work against the atmosphere of the album for me

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

Buddy Holly really was a guy with so much potential and was taken too soon. Early pop rock songs litter this album with it being a clear influence on later bands like the Beatles

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

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Adele

3/5

Mega hit album, I was surprised that I still enjoy the singles after how much I've heard them. The deeper cuts here are kind of meh though. There is no denying her vocal talent though you do still need the songs to back that up. Did not know she did a Cure cover, not anywhere near as good as the original though.

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

5/5

It's heavy, it's rocking and has amazing riffs. What more do you really need?

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

5/5

Heat stroke dreams

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

A beautiful trip through a cold winter night

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

3/5

The title track deserves its praise and I also really like Kometenmelodie 2, but the rest of it leaves me kind of dry. It's still good but I think they continue to improve on their later releases.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Billy Corgan's angst filled epic, a favourite of teenagers for good reason. The lyrics do push it at times for me but the song writing is strong enough that I get over them pretty easily. I do find it slightly front-loaded though preferring the first disc overall, but the second disc still does have the all timer 1979 on it.

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

3/5

The Libertines

3/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

2/5

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Decent dance music, though I find the progression on the tracks struggle to keep me engaged for their whole lengths.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Nixon

Lambchop

2/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Django Django

3/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

3/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

Can't say its bad but I've heard these songs so many times it has really killed most enjoyment I can get from them

Dirty

Sonic Youth

4/5

Dare!

The Human League

3/5

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

3/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

2/5

Rip it Up is good, but the rest of the songs are lacking. This combined with the singer struggling to carry the melodies makes this an underwhelming listen.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Great A side and a decent B side. I Want You is a real standout here, but a few of the tracks run a little too standard for me to really fall for this album.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

2/5

I was hoping to get past the language barrier on this one despite Chanson being a lyrics focused genre. Sadly I was unable to, Jacques gives an emotive performance but the melodies within the songs sadly left me dry. I understand why a figure like Jacques belongs on this list and I can appreciate him from a distance but this album wasn't for me.

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

3/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

4/5

This album seems to be sort of bridge between the jangle pop of the 80s and the beatlesque pop sounds of the 60s. An album that is both ahead and behind the times.

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

4/5

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

4/5

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

4/5

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Cohen of course has great lyrics but what has really always captivated me about this album is minimalism within the instrumentals. The sparing use of anything past the acoustic guitar such as backing vocals is done very precisely making these simple thing resonate so much more. This creates an atmosphere on this album unlike any I've really ever heard, mostly cold and lonely but with moments of light when these other elements come into play. These elements come together with the lyrics to create a truly one of a kind album.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

4/5

Garbage

4/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

4/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

i honestly expected to enjoy this as I like the big singles from this album but man was I wrong. The other tracks here mostly don't sound like them at all and whenever Kiedis starts rapping on these other tracks all hope for a good song is quickly lost.

Faith

George Michael

3/5

Decent mix of styles here on Georges solo debut album, certainly trying to get rid of his "teenybopper" status by going way more overtly sexual. I think those more sexual / freaky songs are the best ones here with the more plain ballad types not really being to interesting. Father Figure is a real standout for me along with the title track of course. The direction George takes with this album can been seen as a blueprint of sorts for other "teenyboppers"/ Boy band members looking to go solo and appearing more mature. I'd say Timberlake certainly took cues from what George was doing on this.

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

5/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

2/5

Basket of Light

Pentangle

4/5

Fleet Foxes

4/5

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

4/5

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

2/5

Its a long album split into 4 parts but I'm not too sure about why the parts are split the way they are. There isn't much to differentiate each of them with this album being pretty stylistically consistent throughout. The music itself is decent/competent all the way through, though for 75 minutes of runtime you have to bring better than that to justify its length. Half of the runtime could be cut without any real loss in my opinion. There is nothing here I would call outright bad but nothing that really made me have any desire to listen again.

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Shuggie Otis

3/5

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

Truth

Jeff Beck

3/5

2/5

Dookie

Green Day

3/5

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

2/5

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

3/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

4/5

A slight step down from his debut but still a solid album. The change of producer from the previous album can really be felt here, I really don't enjoy the production compared to the masterful work by John Simon previously. They also really loved that Jew's Harp with it being on every song here I'd say unnecessarily a lot of the time. Cohen himself is perfectly enjoyable here though bringing solid songs. It's a solid 7/10 album but i'll round up here cause I like Cohen

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

4/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

5/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

4/5

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

2/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

2/5

The Message is of course a classic early Hip Hop track but the rest of songs here really don't come close to it at all.

Born To Be With You

Dion

2/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

4/5

I was not expecting to enjoy a Rod Stewart album

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

2/5

Rage Against The Machine

3/5

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

3/5

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

4/5

If Wham! isn't bubblegum enough for you give this a try. It sounds extremely 80s and Green's vocals are so extremely sweet and sugary it is almost nauseating. Despite everything though I did actually enjoy this album, its really well produced and matches Green. This creates something very light and sweet that is basically cotton candy pop music. Despite the extremely 80s sound, this album has gone on to have influence into the present with producer AG Cook and the PC music movement being influenced by this album. David Gamson has even gone on to work with more current artists like Charli XCX and Kesha. This album obviously isn't for everyone (currently the 16th lowest rated album) but I came out enjoying for what it is.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

4/5

Me Against The World

2Pac

4/5

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

3/5