1001 Albums Summary

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Skylarking XTC	5	3.04	+1.96
Rio Duran Duran	5	3.49	+1.51
So Peter Gabriel	5	3.55	+1.45
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	5	3.61	+1.39
Young Americans David Bowie	5	3.62	+1.38
Graceland Paul Simon	5	3.74	+1.26
London Calling The Clash	5	3.98	+1.02

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
White Blood Cells The White Stripes	1	3.68	-2.68
Juju Siouxsie And The Banshees	1	3.33	-2.33
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	1	3.32	-2.32
Homework Daft Punk	1	3.29	-2.29
Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin	2	4.12	-2.12
The Scream Siouxsie And The Banshees	1	3.04	-2.04
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge Mudhoney	1	2.84	-1.84
Palo Congo Sabu	1	2.69	-1.69
L.A. Woman The Doors	2	3.67	-1.67
Ill Communication Beastie Boys	2	3.65	-1.65

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Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

3/5

If you want to listen to Blur making songs for Revolver by The Beatles then this is the album for you. Lucky for these guys i like those two things. Nicely paced album, good songs. Long gone into For Now and Ever is a nice closer, God! SHOW ME MAGIC is a good opener. Solid

Sound Affects

The Jam

4/5

First 3 songs bad. Rest of the album very good. Some superb baselines

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

1/5

Folk music where nearly all the songs are indistinguishable from each other. I would never ever ever listen to this album again

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

Good ol fashioned rock and/or roll

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Would be 5 stars but for the 9 minutes of talking in By the Time I Get to Phoenix. The 2nd and 3rd tracks are awesome. Hot, buttery and soulful

Metallica

4/5

Pretty good. Could probably lose 2 songs and be even better

Smile

Brian Wilson

4/5

He's clearly one of the greatest musicians ever but I just don't think it's really an album. More a collection of bits of songs

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

Pleasant album

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

A lot of shrill screaming ruined my enjoyment of this album. Great performance and some good songs

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Great album. Lots of different sounds and influences come through. A couple of weaker tracks in the middle but generally very good

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

Irreverent take on Northern life. Meh

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

1/5

One dimension, tuneless, boring shite.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Very good. Maybe not too much change in tempo or style throughout but a nice listen with some good songs

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Django Django

2/5

1001 albums to hear before you die? Why would this be here? What would I have missed out on exactly? Some generic 2010s indie. I think I could have died without hearing this and died as a content man. Who are these guys? They ought to thank whatever deity they worship that the film Django happened to come out the same year which I assume led to some accidental listens of this album. There will be much much worse albums, but j can't imagine one with less impact. I had Thriller yesterday. Thriller. Michael Jackson. Now, you may think that I absolutely hate this album, in fact it's so ordinary to me and I assume will be about number 600 in the list when all is said and done. It is OK.

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

2/5

Glad to have experienced something I wouldn't have found otherwise. Nice instrumentation but the vocals are draining to me after a while

Rio

Duran Duran

5/5

Pop perfection

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Can't imagine one of these lists without this album. He always somehow makes something so Paul Simon whilst always mixing in new elements. A constantly evolving artist with a flair for taking inspiration and turning it into something other worldly. This album is such a beautiful mixture of western pop with traditional African sounds that create something completely hitherto unfamiliar to the audience of the former. Magic

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

Easy to listen to. Talent

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

3/5

Didn't do much for me but ok. Reminded me of being a kid in my friend's car

Peter Gabriel

5/5

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

3/5

Not much of a cunt try music fan but I did like his dabbling into blues and funk. The funk song easily my favourite

Os Mutantes

2/5

OK, nothing stood out

L.A. Woman

The Doors

2/5

Dull. Lot of 12 bar blues

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

1/5

Terrible

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

2/5

Pleasant listen. Good guitarist

Skylarking

XTC

5/5

Great album. Ome of the best albums I've ever heard where the band is trying to sound like the Beatles. Great melodies and very crisp sound

Young Americans

David Bowie

5/5

The best Bowie album musically in my opinion. I'd give a 4.5 if I could

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

1/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

2/5

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

3/5

The Joshua Tree

4/5

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

2/5

The Score

Fugees

3/5

It is good, just too much of the same thing IMO

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

2/5

I've never understood the appeal of the Rolling Stones and I've really tried. I've listened to this album many times. So many samey melodies and tracks. Of all the albums this one is really the one I can't fathom

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

2/5

Talented guy, gifted songwriter. Just didn't appeal to me

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

2/5

Blues means 2s. It's always fine but it's the same thing over and over again

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Like it, nice mix of melodies and rhythms. Good vibe