My 1001 Albums Journey

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1960

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Tommy The Who	5	3.33	+1.67
Crosby, Stills & Nash Crosby, Stills & Nash	5	3.49	+1.51
Deja Vu Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	5	3.71	+1.29
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits	5	3.74	+1.26
(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) Lynyrd Skynyrd	5	3.75	+1.25
Guitar Town Steve Earle	4	2.8	+1.2
The Stranger Billy Joel	5	3.86	+1.14
Grievous Angel Gram Parsons	4	2.86	+1.14
Who's Next The Who	5	3.91	+1.09

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine	1	3.99	-2.99
Oracular Spectacular MGMT	1	3.61	-2.61
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	1	3.57	-2.57
Funeral Arcade Fire	1	3.56	-2.56
Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys	1	3.47	-2.47
3 Feet High and Rising De La Soul	1	3.45	-2.45
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	1	3.45	-2.45
Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem	1	3.42	-2.42
Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow	1	3.35	-2.35
Neon Bible Arcade Fire	1	3.34	-2.34

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Who	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
Arcade Fire	2	1

5-Star Albums (7)

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1-Star Albums (33)

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Tommy

The Who

5/5

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

1/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

4/5

Great rhythm section! Bass was there but not overplayed. Hardest working drummer I’ve heard.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

1/5

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

1/5

I would rate lower, if I could. There has to be a better way to discuss real or perceived racism than to create a racism rant against racism, especially in a format as repetitive and artsy as this tried to be.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

Parts of it sound like surfer Pink Floyd. Not your typical Beach Boys. I really enjoyed “Student Demonstration Time” though.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

4/5

Parts of it sound like surfer Pink Floyd. Not your typical Beach Boys. I really enjoyed “

Dummy

Portishead

3/5

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

3/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

5/5

5 of 8 songs are classic rock staples. Billy Powell is amazing.

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

An interesting listen. The well-known songs are the best ones. With a few exceptions this album is like a long EP.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

Not really my thing, but there were some good parts.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

1/5

Ugh.

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Some treasure hidden between the commercial successes.

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

4/5

Great album. She really shines on the songs she sings with a gritty voice or a strident tone.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Great album. Broken/Head Over Heels/Broken is fantastic! Good sangs I already knew, but the rest of the album was varied and excellent.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

Parklife

Blur

3/5

Not my jam, but there were some moments.

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

1/5

Monotonous

Permission to Land

The Darkness

3/5

Band was OK - vocals had too much Patti LaBelle going on.

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

4/5

Dark. Put together well, but a live show would be better, I think. Overall, very good.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

The Specials

3/5

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

3/5

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

Great album - several classic rock staples here. Innovative use of synth, for the time.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

2/5

A couple good tracks

Iron Maiden

3/5

This is one album that has not aged well. I can see where some of the later bands (Metallica, for one) got their inspiration, but hindsight is not kind to this one. That being said, it was surprisingly musical. If you listen to this with nostalgia, it is probably great. But the genre left these baby steps (and my tastes) behind long ago. It needs a remix. Still a good album, just not my thing.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

1/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

1/5

Black Sabbath

3/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

1/5

TikTok versions of songs that are only slightly longer than most contemporary TV show theme songs. Not for me.

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

1/5

not for me

Dare!

The Human League

3/5

Don’t You Want Me just proves that even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

1/5

Fun House

The Stooges

3/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

All Mod Cons

The Jam

1/5

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

1/5

Fred Neil

3/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

3/5

A good record, but this could have been awesome it they all had only played the same song at the time.

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

3/5

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

4/5

I really enjoyed this one. This may be country but it’s just on the verge of rockabilly. I’m going to listen to the next couple records, as well.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Yep

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Some good tunes here that I knew from later covers.

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

3/5

Smile

Brian Wilson

3/5

The La's

2/5

Different Class

Pulp

2/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

1/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

1/5

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

2/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

4/5

Fun, if overly commercialized, album. Blues-flavored pop that cannot be played live. I can’t help myself - I like it despite the “Modern Music” aspects.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Great album!

Adele

4/5

The arrangements, instruments, and vocals are great. The pathos is overbearing, but maybe it was cathartic. Schadenfreude is the nature of this beast, unless you’re going through the same thing, I would guess. Still, very good overall.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

1/5

1999

Prince

3/5

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

1/5

Harvest

Neil Young

3/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

I never really knew much about this album, and I didn’t care much for what I heard at the time. Album-oriented FM was no longer the soundtrack of my daily routine. But listening to it now, and having learned its back-story, I can appreciate it for what it is, even if it isn’t an album I’m going to play over and over.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

3/5

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5