My 1001 Albums Journey

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1970

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Our Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper	5	2.73	+2.27
Spiderland Slint	5	2.97	+2.03
Future Days Can	5	3.01	+1.99
Ambient 1/Music For Airports Brian Eno	5	3.08	+1.92
Dig Your Own Hole The Chemical Brothers	5	3.11	+1.89
The Holy Bible Manic Street Preachers	5	3.14	+1.86
Trans Europe Express Kraftwerk	5	3.16	+1.84
Close To The Edge Yes	5	3.19	+1.81
Hot Rats Frank Zappa	5	3.36	+1.64
Blue Lines Massive Attack	5	3.39	+1.61

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Aftermath The Rolling Stones	1	3.37	-2.37
Hysteria Def Leppard	1	3.21	-2.21
Heroes to Zeros The Beta Band	1	2.9	-1.9
Nick Of Time Bonnie Raitt	1	2.84	-1.84
A Little Deeper Ms. Dynamite	1	2.81	-1.81
Hot Fuss The Killers	2	3.73	-1.73
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	2	3.55	-1.55
Imagine John Lennon	2	3.44	-1.44
1989 Taylor Swift	2	3.26	-1.26
McCartney Paul McCartney	2	3.25	-1.25

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	6	4.33
Stevie Wonder	3	4.33

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Beastie Boys	5, 2

5-Star Albums (35)

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1-Star Albums (5)

All Ratings

Spiderland

Slint

5/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

Guero

Beck

3/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

The United States Of America

4/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Child of Time is an amazing song, Flight of the Rat has some great drumming. But outside of that nothing else clicked for me.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

4/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Like A Prayer

Madonna

3/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Son of a Preacher Man and The Windmills Of Your Mind are great and the rest is fine.

Roxy Music

3/5

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

5/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Green

R.E.M.

3/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

5/5

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

4/5

McCartney

Paul McCartney

2/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Iron Maiden

3/5

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

Black Monk Time

The Monks

3/5

It's not a great album, but for 1966 this is very impressive.

Black Sabbath

4/5

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

2/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Being There

Wilco

4/5

Future Days

Can

5/5

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

5/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Gold

Ryan Adams

2/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

3/5

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

3/5

It's a fine album, but why is it on this list?

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

It's a nice, sweet, easy-listening album. But also, it does not really challenge the listener, or push boundaries, or do something that outshines its contemporaries. In fact, it can sometimes feel a bit derivative.

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

3/5

It's fine, smooth listening but nothing that really stuck with me.

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

4/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

5/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

Among The Living

Anthrax

3/5

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

4/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

evermore

Taylor Swift

2/5

Boooooring

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

3/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

4/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Infected

The The

3/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

5/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

The Band

3/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

3/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

3/5

Ingenue

k.d. lang

3/5

Pretenders

3/5

White Denim

2/5

It's fine, but not very memorable. Why is it on this list?

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

2/5

Freedom '90 is a great song and Praying for time is also good, After that nothing else clicked for me.

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

On a pure enjoyment level I might rate it higher than this, but it definitely is not an influential or genre-defining album. Just more of the same from Pixies.

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

4/5

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

2/5

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

2/5

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

2/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

3/5

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

5/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

5/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

1/5

If this was the American reissue it would have gotten 2 stars purely for Paint It Black being on it. But the original UK version truly has no redeeming qualities. Many songs are just plain and uninteresting, Jagger's voice and performance aren't captivating and often do not work well with the rest of the song. Then there are points where the album dips from bad or just uninteresting to awful, such as the bottomless pit of annoying nothingness of Going Home.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

First two songs are nice, then it gets a bit uninteresting

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Sound Affects

The Jam

3/5

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

2/5

Getting real tired of all these 80s British post-punk albums

Frank

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

1/5

Unfocused mess. Production and sound fluctuates so much between okay at best and muddled and confused at worst. Songs that go nowhere and a vocals that are sometimes drowning in reverb or other effects to muddle it to the point of mumbling.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Clandestino

Manu Chao

3/5

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

3/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

3/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

So close to 4 stars, nearly everything is really fun and enjoyable to listen. But only Alright was unique enough for me to think its an essential song to have heard.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

2/5

The first 4 songs are good, of which Mr. Brightside is amazing. Then it goes downhill.

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

3/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Has some of their best songs, sadly they are ruined by the god-awful production.

Kimono My House

Sparks

4/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

4/5

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

3/5

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

3/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Odessa

Bee Gees

2/5

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

The Modern Lovers

3/5

White Ladder

David Gray

2/5

1999

Prince

4/5

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

2/5

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Run-D.M.C.

2/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

3/5

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

3/5

A very high 3

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

3/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

A lot of high quality songs with a great vocal performance. The last disc therefore is a bit lacking without the good songwriting and vocals. Rating this not as an album to sit through in one go, but as a compilation of works, it is quite good.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

3/5

The Clash

3/5

Achtung Baby

3/5

2112

Rush

4/5

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

1/5

Outside of some of the "conscious" lyrics, there is nothing really noteworthy at all. Getting a "Why is this on the list?" score of 1

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

3/5

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

2/5

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

2/5

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

4/5

Teen Dream

Beach House

4/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

4/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

2/5

Imagine

John Lennon

2/5

Black Metal

Venom

2/5

Now I know how people in the 80s/90s felt around "metal kids" in high school

Killing Joke

3/5

Vulnicura

Björk

4/5

A beautiful and fascinating album, but kinda crazy we have this album and Medúlla in this list but not Post or Homogenic.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

1989

Taylor Swift

2/5

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

5/5

Sail Away

Randy Newman

3/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

4/5

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Risque

CHIC

3/5

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Its highlights are better than the other Fatboy Slim album on here, but its messy almost blaring production on some tracks in the second half do make it hard to enjoy as a whole.

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

2/5

Sometimes the amount of streams per song on an album are quite telling. Ignoring the singles, it starts around 177k and gradually decreases until 66k. Which perfectly reflects my opinion on the album, the album isn't even that long, but holy hell does it drag on and on and on at around the halfway point.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

New Wave

The Auteurs

2/5

It's not even that bad, just really really uninteresting

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Germs

3/5

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

3/5

Yes it's repetitive and odd but it at points builds some interesting soundscapes that I could really get into. Still, yes, it is not super interesting compared to its contemporaires around 1994

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

System Of A Down

4/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

5/5

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

2/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

5/5

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

2/5

At first I thought the average score on this album was a bit harsh, since I heard quite some variation in the tracks and their influences. However this album is just too long and at some point I realized that each song had a cool idea or sound and then just did that until the end with little variation. Then the last half of the album just isn't all that good.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

4/5

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

2/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

2/5

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

5/5

Not even Eno's best Ambient album

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

Gets a 4 just because the really high highs balance out the rest of the album

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

4/5

While maybe a bit too long, the mix of triphop with tango and sampling is very unique and interesting. It does what it needs to and works well as music to relax with

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

2/5

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

3/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Skylarking

XTC

4/5

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

4/5

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

2/5

Album sounds a bit ass to be honest

Diamond Life

Sade

5/5

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

3/5

Hysteria

Def Leppard

1/5

It's not necessarily *that* awful, I just wanted it to end as soon as possible and never want to hear it again.

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

2/5

I love love love Beastie Boys, but besides Brass Monkey, Fight For Your Right and No Sleep Till Brooklyn the rest of the songs just aren't good and not enjoyable. Especially knowing what great work they would do later.

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

4/5

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

5/5

This gets 5 stars just for how pleasantly surprised I was. I saved every track : )

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

3/5

+ Great beats, nice production, keeps the sound consistent for its long runtime - The long runtime, general theme of the album and ... questionable lyrics. Nothing wrong with being a bit edgy on your nicely produced hiphop record, but for such a long album AND including some pretty bad interludes, yeah that deducts some points.

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Close To The Edge

Yes

5/5

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

1/5

Nah