My 1001 Albums Journey

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1960s

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Ragged Glory Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.15	+1.85
The Predator Ice Cube	5	3.26	+1.74
Trout Mask Replica Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	4	2.29	+1.71
Low-Life New Order	5	3.3	+1.7
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.31	+1.69
A Girl Called Dusty Dusty Springfield	5	3.33	+1.67
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	5	3.39	+1.61
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	5	3.44	+1.56
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	5	3.46	+1.54
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	5	3.5	+1.5

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Shadowland k.d. lang	1	2.86	-1.86
21 Adele	2	3.69	-1.69
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	2	3.35	-1.35
Pornography The Cure	2	3.31	-1.31
All Mod Cons The Jam	2	3.25	-1.25
Rocks Aerosmith	2	3.12	-1.12
Devil Without A Cause Kid Rock	1	2.06	-1.06
Time (The Revelator) Gillian Welch	2	3.05	-1.05

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	4	4.75
Bob Dylan	2	5
Pixies	3	4.33

5-Star Albums (29)

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Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

1-Star Albums (2)

All Ratings

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

Didn’t listen this time but remember it as a deeply sad album.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

The Beatles starting to find their feet.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Funky

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Decades ahead of its time.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

Over the top, ridiculous, but utterly brilliant and unlike anything else. If anyone else tried to make an album like this it wouldn’t work, it shouldn’t have worked when Meat Loaf did it, and yet it does.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

Enjoyable 70s prog rock time capsule, has aged well

Eternally Yours

The Saints

3/5

Quintessential punk.

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

5/5

Intent to shock and does but still great tunes.

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Nice melodies.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

5/5

Classic after classic

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

3/5

Eighties

Moving Pictures

Rush

3/5

Interesting album, guitar oriented rock, difficult to pigeonhole into one genre.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

Enjoyed it more than I thought I would, soulful.

Gold

Ryan Adams

4/5

Shame he’s such a prick because this is a great album.

Low-Life

New Order

5/5

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Pornography

The Cure

2/5

Who's Next

The Who

3/5

Some great songs, the rest hasn’t stood the test of time

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

New, eclectic, brilliant. Knocked me out the first time I heard it.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

5/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

3/5

Closer

Joy Division

3/5

Dark

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

4/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

Deserves a quiet night.

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

3/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Eclectic. Yes, there are weaker tracks but the good stuff is more than in most shorter albums.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

3/5

Dire Straits

4/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

3/5

Adele

2/5

If Michael Buble is a pale imitation of Frank Sinatra, Adele is a pale imitation of Aretha Franklin. I get the appeal, she does have a great voice but this is not a consistently strong or original album.

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

The greatest by the greatest. Broke down the walls that everyone afterwards walked through.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

Absolute perfection, every song shimmers. Fast paced, fun, gorgeous melodies, relentless.

All Mod Cons

The Jam

2/5

Never fussed on the Jam/Paul Weller, never sounded original enough to stand out from other bands. I’m still not, it’s all very similar.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Beautiful Freak

Eels

3/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

Virtuoso rock, full of energy.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Clandestino

Manu Chao

4/5

Atomizer

Big Black

3/5

Repeater

Fugazi

4/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

4/5

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

4/5

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

The Predator

Ice Cube

5/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Basically sex music.

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

3/5

Nice background music

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Virtuosity and some great tunes but a bit too self indulgent.

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

3/5

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Smooth, and there isn’t enough saxophone in modern music.

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

4/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

3/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

Angry. Not my type of music but I enjoyed a lot of it, hated a lot of the rest of it.

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

2/5

Too angry for me to enjoy it.

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Quality rock

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

2/5

Nothing special, I don’t get the hype

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

3/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Sounds like Dylan and I love Dylan

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Love a bit of soul

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

3/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Rocks

Aerosmith

2/5

Meh

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

Soulful

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

3/5

Headquarters

The Monkees

2/5

Of it’s time

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Calenture

The Triffids

4/5

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

3/5

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

4/5

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

Melodic anger

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Shadowland

k.d. lang

1/5

Dreadful country shite, nothing remarkable about it at all, has no place being on this list.

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

3/5

Save it snobs, this is good pop. No, it’s not Revolver, but for what it is it, it’s great.

The xx

3/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

All time hard rock classic.

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

3/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

5/5

Yes, the lyrics are a bit misogynistic but it’s over 40 years old and was never about the lyrics. Every song is a banger, has to be 5/5.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

To others saying that this is some sort of pastiche of 60s music or that she isn’t sincere, you’re wide of the mark. The best music takes something familiar and changes it to make it new, that’s what Winehouse does here. As for sincere, listen to the lyrics then look at how her short life panned out. She meant it.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

3/5

I think what is said about Wagner applies to this ‘it’s better than it sounds’. Not for me, no melody, no structure. Influential/important etc. etc. yes, clearly. Enjoyable to listen to? Nope. All the 5/5 people are giving it that to look like they’re musical intellectuals but I doubt if they have this on vinyl that it’s worn out.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

Beatles inspired but enough of its own thing to make it enjoyable.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

3/5

Slightly ridiculous and of its time, but enjoyable in parts.

Odelay

Beck

4/5

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Paul Simon

5/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

LP1

FKA twigs

2/5

I can appreciate that she’s talented but this was boring to me

War

3/5

Tracy Chapman

4/5

White Denim

4/5

Slayed?

Slade

2/5

Of its time. The unique thing about them is Noddy Holder’s voice, which is also the worst thing about them, they seem to be a decent bunch of musicians held back by that screaming banshee of a man.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

One of the defining albums of my teenage years, I can’t not give it 5 stars. It holds up well after 30 years.

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

3/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett