1001 Albums Summary

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92
Albums Rated
3.08
Average Rating
8%
Complete
997 albums remaining

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1980
Favorite Decade
Pop
Favorite Genre
UK
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13
5-Star Albums
10
1-Star Albums

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Albums

You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Skylarking
XTC
5 3.03 +1.97
Rio
Duran Duran
5 3.5 +1.5
So
Peter Gabriel
5 3.53 +1.47
Young Americans
David Bowie
5 3.62 +1.38
To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
5 3.64 +1.36
Tea for the Tillerman
Cat Stevens
5 3.67 +1.33
Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
5 3.68 +1.32
Graceland
Paul Simon
5 3.72 +1.28
Konnichiwa
Skepta
4 2.72 +1.28
Songs From The Big Chair
Tears For Fears
5 3.75 +1.25

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
White Blood Cells
The White Stripes
1 3.64 -2.64
Juju
Siouxsie And The Banshees
1 3.33 -2.33
Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen
1 3.32 -2.32
Homework
Daft Punk
1 3.28 -2.28
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)
Bob Dylan
1 3.14 -2.14
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
2 4.09 -2.09
The Scream
Siouxsie And The Banshees
1 3.04 -2.04
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Mudhoney
1 2.85 -1.85
Southern Rock Opera
Drive-By Truckers
1 2.82 -1.82
Is This It
The Strokes
2 3.81 -1.81

5-Star Albums (13)

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Southern Rock Opera by Drive-By Truckers

1001 albums to hear before you die.. A leonard skinner parody album - yes i know how it is spelt. Honestly what the fuck? Its from 2001. I guess in the way space odyssey was 2001.

1-Star Albums (10)

All Ratings (92)

Fuzzy Logic by Super Furry Animals
Jun 07 2025

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 by The Jam
Jun 08 2025

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

Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen
Jun 09 2025

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

Chirping Crickets by Buddy Holly & The Crickets
Jun 10 2025

Good ol fashioned rock and/or roll

Hot Buttered Soul by Isaac Hayes
Jun 11 2025

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 by Metallica
Jun 12 2025

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

Smile by Brian Wilson
Jun 13 2025

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

Live At The Regal by B.B. King
Jun 15 2025

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

To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar
Jun 16 2025

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

White Blood Cells by The White Stripes
Jun 18 2025

One dimension, tuneless, boring shite.

Power In Numbers by Jurassic 5
Jun 19 2025

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

Thriller by Michael Jackson
Jun 20 2025
Django Django by Django Django
Jun 22 2025

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 by Baaba Maal
Jun 23 2025

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

Rio by Duran Duran
Jun 24 2025

Pop perfection

Graceland by Paul Simon
Jun 25 2025

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

The Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden
Jun 27 2025

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

So by Peter Gabriel
Jun 28 2025
Sweet Baby James by James Taylor
Jun 29 2025

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 by Os Mutantes
Jun 30 2025

OK, nothing stood out

L.A. Woman by The Doors
Jul 01 2025

Dull. Lot of 12 bar blues

Juju by Siouxsie And The Banshees
Jul 02 2025

Terrible

Talking Timbuktu by Ali Farka Touré
Jul 03 2025

Pleasant listen. Good guitarist

Skylarking by XTC
Jul 04 2025

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 by David Bowie
Jul 05 2025

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

The Scream by Siouxsie And The Banshees
Jul 07 2025
The Score by Fugees
Jul 12 2025

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

Exile On Main Street by The Rolling Stones
Jul 13 2025

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 by Rufus Wainwright
Jul 14 2025

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

Hard Again by Muddy Waters
Jul 15 2025

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

Figure 8 by Elliott Smith
Jul 16 2025

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

Born In The U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen
Jul 17 2025

Gonna give a reluctant 4 although outside of the big singles it's very weak

Elvis Presley by Elvis Presley
Jul 19 2025

It's elvis singing other people's songs

Oxygène by Jean-Michel Jarre
Jul 21 2025

I think he might have been the first person to own a synth

Vol. 4 by Black Sabbath
Jul 24 2025

Really pleasant surprise. Great album. On tbe verge of 5 stars

London Calling by The Clash
Jul 26 2025

So important, sounds so much more modern to me.

Homework by Daft Punk
Jul 27 2025

The difference between this and discovery is staggering. This is so bland, boning, one note, nonsense. Da funk is a great song

Hms Fable by Shack
Aug 01 2025

Getting hard to rate these 90s britpop beatles inspired albums, there are so many

Morrison Hotel by The Doors
Aug 02 2025

Better than the other Doors album

Time Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Jul 02 2026

Not much improvisation for jazz

The Libertines by The Libertines
Jul 03 2026

Sings with a regional accent so the British press lap it up

Grace by Jeff Buckley
Jul 05 2026
Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jul 06 2026

Sometimes i think they are so cringeworthy and then you hear this masterpiece.

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
Jul 19 2026
Southern Rock Opera by Drive-By Truckers
Jul 20 2026

1001 albums to hear before you die.. A leonard skinner parody album - yes i know how it is spelt. Honestly what the fuck? Its from 2001. I guess in the way space odyssey was 2001.

Chris by Christine and the Queens
Jul 22 2026

I like it but too many songs are too similar. Would give a 3.5 if poss

Parklife by Blur
Jul 23 2026

2 of the worst songs in history on a very good album

Konnichiwa by Skepta
Jul 24 2026

Its a 4...trust me daddy

Felt Mountain by Goldfrapp
Jul 27 2026

I liked the.last few songs but the album was all a bit samey, james bondy

Shadowland by k.d. lang
Jul 31 2026

Pleasant, could.listen to while sipping lemon tea in a cafe

Is This It by The Strokes
Aug 01 2026

Is that it? Take it or leave it? I will leave it thanks

Imperial Bedroom by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Aug 02 2026

I liked the first song

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