1001 Albums Summary

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188
Albums Rated
3.02
Average Rating
17%
Complete
901 albums remaining

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1970
Favorite Decade
Rock
Favorite Genre
UK
Top Origin
Tough Crowd
Rater Style ?
11
5-Star Albums
15
1-Star Albums

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Albums

You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Teenager Of The Year
Frank Black
5 3.01 +1.99
It's A Shame About Ray
The Lemonheads
5 3.12 +1.88
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
5 3.32 +1.68
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
PJ Harvey
5 3.38 +1.62
Amnesiac
Radiohead
5 3.42 +1.58
The Modern Dance
Pere Ubu
4 2.48 +1.52
Timeless
Goldie
4 2.51 +1.49
The Clash
The Clash
5 3.52 +1.48
Aladdin Sane
David Bowie
5 3.61 +1.39
Boston
Boston
5 3.7 +1.3

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
The Gershwin Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald
1 3.5 -2.5
Stand!
Sly & The Family Stone
1 3.43 -2.43
Rum Sodomy & The Lash
The Pogues
1 3.25 -2.25
Autobahn
Kraftwerk
1 3.09 -2.09
Behaviour
Pet Shop Boys
1 3.04 -2.04
Killing Joke
Killing Joke
1 2.99 -1.99
The Dreaming
Kate Bush
1 2.99 -1.99
Spiderland
Slint
1 2.97 -1.97
I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail
Buck Owens
1 2.8 -1.8
Peggy Suicide
Julian Cope
1 2.78 -1.78

5-Star Albums (11)

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Popular Reviews

Stand! by Sly & The Family Stone

For me disappointing. I started this challenge to find some classic gems I had missed along the way. This was an album I was happy to have avoided. A lot of repetitive patterns and similar energy to every song. A lot going on and everyone competing for space. Some nice moments, most of which have no doubt been sampled since! Overall feels like a live band who love to improvise trying ti make a record.

1989 by Taylor Swift

Not much for pop, but Tay Tay I do like. She’s a true songwriter and performer. This album has some classic pop writing. Good wholesome fun

1-Star Albums (15)

All Ratings (188)

Sweet Baby James by James Taylor
Jun 04 2025

Nice production. A little too clean? easy listening and nice roadtrip vibes

Talking Heads 77 by Talking Heads
Jun 05 2025

Love this record!! High energy, groove, foot tapper!

Parklife by Blur
Jun 06 2025

brit pop classic! I wasn't a big fan of this album when it first came out. I found it too much pop and not gritty enough. I've converted over time to get the appeal. To the End and This is a Low are the stand out tracks.

Rubber Soul by Beatles
Jun 07 2025

Torn between this and Abbey Road as the best Beatles album. Not a wasted moment, every song a banger! and possibly Ringo’s best lead song.

Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
Jun 08 2025

I was obsessed with this album around 1994. Music like this just doesn’t exist anymore. In my top10 all time

Stand! by Sly & The Family Stone
Jun 09 2025

For me disappointing. I started this challenge to find some classic gems I had missed along the way. This was an album I was happy to have avoided. A lot of repetitive patterns and similar energy to every song. A lot going on and everyone competing for space. Some nice moments, most of which have no doubt been sampled since! Overall feels like a live band who love to improvise trying ti make a record.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Jun 10 2025

First half, is the a poor mans Ziggy Stardust meets Bob Dylan? I don’t get where this album is going? Thank god for punk rock and new wave came along just a few years later! Listenable, but not something I’m in a rush to get back to anytime soon

Fragile by Yes
Jun 11 2025

I hear a lot of pink Floyd Wish you were here, but it was released 4 years prior! Especially South Side of the Sky. I don’t mind this record. It probably needs a few listens to take it all in.

Ingenue by k.d. lang
Jun 12 2025

This left me cold. Beautiful, soulful voice. But not something I feel inspired for a second listen.

The Beach Boys Today! by The Beach Boys
Jun 13 2025

Nice record, safe and from the production line. The 8th record? I think about how far the Beatles had come in the same time. A bit rinse and repeat for me.

Jun 14 2025

Didn’t mind it, just not my thing. Feel alike a lot of the lyrics and designed more to shock than convey a point or perspective. Won’t be listening again

american dream by LCD Soundsystem
Jun 15 2025

Didn’t hold my attention. Repetitive, melodic, metronomic. Will need to listen again to see what I missed!

Smash by The Offspring
Jun 16 2025

I listened to this album. A lot back in the 90s was great to have a blast in the past. A lot of fun.

Paranoid by Black Sabbath
Jun 17 2025

Classic!

Green by R.E.M.
Jun 21 2025

May need to circle back to this one!

Bone Machine by Tom Waits
Jun 22 2025

May need to circle back to this one!

Pearl by Janis Joplin
Jun 23 2025

May need to circle back to this one!

Brilliant Corners by Thelonious Monk
Jun 24 2025

May need to circle back to this one!

Legalize It by Peter Tosh
Jun 25 2025

May need to circle back to this one!

The Wall by Pink Floyd
Jun 28 2025

Saw Pink Floyd perform this at Wembley. Amazing record!

Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette
Jun 30 2025

90’s classic. On listening back, not as stronger as I remember it

1989 by Taylor Swift
Jul 04 2025

Not much for pop, but Tay Tay I do like. She’s a true songwriter and performer. This album has some classic pop writing. Good wholesome fun

Master Of Puppets by Metallica
Jul 08 2025

Classic! Prefer the later Metallica albums.

Stephen Stills by Stephen Stills
Jul 09 2025

confusing album. feels like it has been mixed or produced at completely different times. more like a greatest hits. Shades of Supergrass in places, other stuff more poppy and unlistenable. strange, but also compelling at times

Dirt by Alice In Chains
Jul 14 2025
Fever To Tell by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Jul 18 2025

There’s so much to like about this album and at the time of its release it was so different to everything else. On listening back now it feels a little contrived and also pretty much the same throughout. A couple of great stand out tracks.

Moon Safari by Air
Jul 23 2025

Nice album, ruined by how many tracks have been used for commercials and tv

In Utero by Nirvana
Jul 27 2025

Such a great record. Listening back now I realise how much more commercialised and produced it was. Nonetheless still a great record

Want One by Rufus Wainwright
Jul 28 2025
Juju by Siouxsie And The Banshees
Jul 31 2025
The Slider by T. Rex
Aug 13 2025

Reminds me of my childhood in the UK in the 80’s

Deja Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Aug 15 2025
25 by Adele
Aug 16 2025
Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Aug 26 2025
1984 by Van Halen
Aug 29 2025
Eagles by Eagles
Sep 08 2025
Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel
Sep 13 2025
Scott 2 by Scott Walker
Sep 18 2025
Boston by Boston
Sep 20 2025

Top10 all time favourite

Bummed by Happy Mondays
Oct 01 2025
Thriller by Michael Jackson
Oct 17 2025
Elephant by The White Stripes
Oct 30 2025
Truth by Jeff Beck
Nov 26 2025
m b v by My Bloody Valentine
Nov 27 2025
1977 by Ash
Dec 03 2025
Shleep by Robert Wyatt
Dec 04 2025
Damaged by Black Flag
Dec 10 2025
Oar by Alexander 'Skip' Spence
Dec 18 2025

Tough Crowd

Average rating is 0.30 points below global average.

Other

Album origins are grouped into three buckets: US, UK, and everything else. “Other” means the artists you rate highest are from outside the US and UK.