My 1001 Albums Journey

112

Albums Rated

3.41

Average Rating

10%

Complete

977 albums remaining

Rating Distribution

Rating Timeline

Taste Profile

1960s

Favorite Decade

Indie

Favorite Genre

Top Origin

Wordsmith

Rater Style ?

5-Star Albums

1-Star Albums

Breakdown

By Genre

By Decade

By Origin

Albums

You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Deloused in the Comatorium The Mars Volta	5	3.2	+1.8
Hot Rats Frank Zappa	5	3.36	+1.64
Dirt Alice In Chains	5	3.47	+1.53
Surfer Rosa Pixies	5	3.5	+1.5
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	5	3.62	+1.38
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	5	3.66	+1.34
Transformer Lou Reed	5	3.67	+1.33
Yank Crime Drive Like Jehu	4	2.7	+1.3
Kid A Radiohead	5	3.71	+1.29
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan	5	3.77	+1.23

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
We Are Family Sister Sledge	1	3.48	-2.48
Under Construction Missy Elliott	1	3.14	-2.14
World Clique Deee-Lite	1	2.87	-1.87
So Much For The City The Thrills	1	2.81	-1.81
Getz/Gilberto Stan Getz	2	3.65	-1.65
Coat Of Many Colors Dolly Parton	2	3.42	-1.42
At Mister Kelly's Sarah Vaughan	2	3.38	-1.38
Come Away With Me Norah Jones	2	3.38	-1.38
25 Adele	2	3.37	-1.37
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	2	3.35	-1.35

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	2	5

5-Star Albums (15)

View Album Wall

Popular Reviews

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

2/5

Always quite liked Erykah Badu’s singles but I get bored listening to a full album. There’s good melodies here but it doesn’t really add up to more than just chill background music. The weird vocal delivery in some songs got on my nerves after a while.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (4)

All Ratings

Bummed

Happy Mondays

3/5

More interesting and jangly than expected. Very eighties. Gets a bit samey but enjoying the percussion. Shame the remastered version is still so muddy in places.

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Fantastic, love the production

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

A classic

Tidal

Fiona Apple

3/5

Good but not nearly as good as her later albums

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

Not quite but close to his best

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

Decent - their later ones are better

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

Heard many times, great but not up there with ah um

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

5/5

A favourite. Hard to believe I have been listening to this for 22 years.

California

American Music Club

2/5

Was excited to finally get something I’ve never heard of, turns out there’s a good reason for that. Bang average dime a dozen boring middle of the road rock that should nowhere near any best albums list. There’s not a memorable or interesting song on it.

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

Very good, nice to hear again after years - all of their albums have a few weaker songs though, weirdly.

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

This was unavoidable around the end of the century - lovely chill album with great production and some fantastic bass lines

Parklife

Blur

4/5

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

3/5

Pretty good, best unknown album so far. some fairly standard blues/boogie but one or two cool songs there.

Kala

M.I.A.

3/5

Not heard this album all the way through before, it’s not my bag but at least it’s interesting. Enjoying some of the polyrhythms and the instruments used are unusual (didgeridoo was pretty cool). Cool pixies and modern lovers references. Some of it just sounds ugly though - never want to hear Jimmy again. Always good to hear someone trying out lots of ideas, especially when the charts are full of boring middle of the road slop these days. I don’t understand people on here giving this 1 scores, what’s the point of doing this list if you’re not going to have an open mind? Challenging yourself is a good thing.

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Pretty good, well aware of the band and have seen them live but for some reason I never went into their back catalogue. It’s very of its time and a little samey but some great stuff there.

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Some of my favourite songs of his are on here (Red Rain) as well as a song I dislike (Don’t give up, I never liked it). A great album though, just a shame it’s so heavy on the synthesizers.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

5/5

Grunge classic, loved it then and love it now

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

4/5

Very good - so many ideas for a debut album. A band I never looked into in any detail but will now.

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

4/5

A very good album although I was more familiar with the two after and like them better.

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

2/5

Always found black crowes vastly overrated, it’s bang average blues rock. Telling the best song is a cover. They’re ok live though.

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

5/5

I love Zappa - this is not his best album (that would be apostrophe, one size fits all or over-nite sensation for me) but still has to be five stars. I can see why this is on the list with peaches on it but would have liked to have seen some more albums on the list.

Adele

2/5

It’s... fine. She is obviously a great singer but I feel absolutely nothing listening to this.

Killing Joke

3/5

Not bad, hadn’t heard this before. Can see some influence on later post punk bands. A little one note in places.

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Come on now, five stars. Their first six albums are all timeless classics.

Guero

Beck

3/5

Good album, fun to revisit. He has better / more influential albums. Starting to doubt this list at this point honestly.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

First great album I hadn’t heard (all of - I did of course know the two big singles). Loved it, it’s so dense and full of energy and righteous anger. Chuck Ds voice and delivery are great on this.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Very familiar, a very good but not exactly a ground breaking album. Fantastic driving music.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Obviously a legend of the Chicago blues, this album is most likely listed because of the famous recording of Mannish Boy. It sounds absolutely fantastic (and has the great Pinetop Perkins on piano) but I still prefer Folk Singer, or Fathers and Sons.

Black Sabbath

4/5

RIP Ozzy. Good and hugely influential album even if it’s not close to paranoid or master of reality.

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

3/5

A name I’d heard but I’ve never listened to them. It’s alright, some of the songs are a bit weak and the singing / playing not the best. I enjoyed some of the noisier songs and unusual instrumentation

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

1/5

Really not for me. Nile Rodgers is a genius and the guitar and bass parts on this make some of it a worthwhile listen. The keyboards sound absolutely atrocious. Some bangers on here of course but only good on a dancefloor really. As an album it’s rubbish and repetitive.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

4/5

A classic live album. Their music has always been a bit straightforward for me but there’s no doubting their influence.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

It’s cool - some fun samples and really inventive lyrics. Not as good towards the end.

Stephen Stills

3/5

Never heard him solo - it’s good but never particularly great and really let down by the production..

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

4/5

Love PJ - this is near her best. Hope the likes of rid of me and to bring you my love are on the list.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Obviously incredible even if not my favourite of theirs.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Aged superbly -nice to revisit

Joan Armatrading

2/5

Good voice but very bland

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

Very cool but a bit repetitive after a while. Enjoyed public enemy more

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

2/5

It’s fine, she’s a good song writer and great singer but nothing grabbed me

Van Halen

3/5

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Not as good as surfer Rosa or Doolittle but still good

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

2/5

It’s good but not for me, bit bland

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Not a raggae guy but this was very good throughout

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

Heard before but enjoyed it more this time - still prefer maiden voyage though

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

2/5

I have heard it before as I have been in a coffee shop in the last 20 odd years. She’s talented and has a great voice but it’s just boring. Starting to understand the criteria for this list less and less.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

A classic

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Of course it’s great but not as consistent as their best albums. Love ventilator blues.

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

4/5

Only very vaguely aware of this band - and they’re fantastic, finally this list is coming good. Sounds like a bit at times like sonic youth, fugazi, toadies, at the drive in, trail of dead.

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

What a debut this is

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

2/5

Not heard of her but a real talent. Music not for me, too much show tune influence.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

An absolute belter I was very familiar with already. The production on this is impeccable

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

2/5

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

4/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

Their good album. Loved it when it came out and still do now, only notable thing is the production is muddier than I remembered. Shame how they developed from here, their recent albums are just unlistenable to me.

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

2/5

Not for me and definitely not worthy of this list but some decent pop tunes on it

Iron Maiden

3/5

Nice to revisit, never liked di’anno’s vocals as much but all the rough ingredients are there for the classic stuff.

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

A classic of course. Album tracks (how do you sleep a special stand out) are actually miles better than the famous two songs on this.

Konnichiwa

Skepta

3/5

Really not my thing but there’s real skill and lyricism here and the Americans are underrating it severely for their own dumb reasons so giving it an extra star

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

It’s great but my favourite will always be pink moon

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

A classic only marred by my least favourite stones song (wild horses)

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

Still good, production sounds a lot harsher than I remember.

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

3/5

Fat of the land is so much better

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

4/5

The Band

3/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

2/5

It’s well recorded and has some good playing. If you like chill background music this is cool, I find bossa nova dull and irredeemably repetitive though. 34 minutes that feels like and hour and a half.

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

4/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Gris Gris

Dr. John

3/5

2112

Rush

4/5

Not their best - still great

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

I am not a hip hop guy but this is a classic

1977

Ash

3/5

I like Ash, they’re a fun band to see live and this album is pretty good. Shouldn’t be anywhere near this list though. Maybe the author wanted to add an album to represent Northern Ireland but even then there’d be the undertones, stiff little fingers and them.

Garbage

4/5

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

2/5

A bit dull

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Exceptional sounding recording

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

4/5

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

1/5

Some cool samples but I don’t like her voice, delivery and lyrics. Gets dull very quickly.

So Much For The City

The Thrills

1/5

I totally forgot about the thrills until today and have seen them live more than once at festivals. Dull then dull now, so bland it sounds like a bad pastiche of folk rock.

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Oh lord yeah

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

3/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

3/5

New to me but familiar with the band. Don’t understand the hate for this - it’s clear that they were ahead of their time and heavily influenced industrial music. Challenging at times and not something I will put on a lot but has lots of interesting moments. I’d rather listen to this a hundred more times than subject myself to that bloody Adele album again.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Stone cold classic.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

Pelican West

Haircut 100

2/5

Dull, and the singer is quite poor. Some great basslines though.

Infected