My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine Cee Lo Green	5	2.66	+2.34
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite Maxwell	5	2.9	+2.1
Beach Samba Astrud Gilberto	5	2.92	+2.08
Done By The Forces Of Nature Jungle Brothers	5	3.03	+1.97
The Notorious Byrd Brothers The Byrds	5	3.05	+1.95
John Barleycorn Must Die Traffic	5	3.17	+1.83
Close To The Edge Yes	5	3.19	+1.81
School's Out Alice Cooper	5	3.2	+1.8
Songs Of Love And Hate Leonard Cohen	5	3.2	+1.8
Ocean Rain Echo And The Bunnymen	5	3.23	+1.77

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Parklife Blur	1	3.38	-2.38
OK Computer Radiohead	2	4.11	-2.11
Water From An Ancient Well Abdullah Ibrahim	1	3.03	-2.03
Pink Moon Nick Drake	2	3.65	-1.65
Young Americans David Bowie	2	3.62	-1.62
Tragic Songs of Life The Louvin Brothers	1	2.58	-1.58
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	2	3.57	-1.57
Boy In Da Corner Dizzee Rascal	1	2.55	-1.55
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	2	3.54	-1.54
Bryter Layter Nick Drake	2	3.52	-1.52

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Artist	Albums	Average
Steely Dan	3	4.33

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Artist	Ratings
Beastie Boys	2, 3, 5
Leonard Cohen	5, 3, 2

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1-Star Albums (5)

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Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

5/5

This was delightful. At times I wished I were just listening to the album without needing to multitask, but the bright and lively samba actually kept me pretty driven while the jazzy, beachy vibes keep things feeling mellow and unrushed. It was kinda perfect for keeping my day flowing. Loved the flute.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

There was some cool stuff here, but I really wasn’t feeling most of the songs and lyrics. “Turn to Stone”, “Standin’ in the Rain”, and “Wild West Hero” were standouts for me. Wish I could give it a 3.5, but 3 seems way too harsh, so a reluctant 4 it is…

OK Computer

Radiohead

2/5

Guero

Beck

4/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

Wild. Bob Dylan’s never really “clicked” for me, but this was weird and fun. Still not really my music style, but surprisingly funny. I don’t know that I’ll ever like it more than ironically, but this album was a good time.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

Love the overall vibe. I can get why this is on the list. I think there’s only 3 or 4 songs I’d personally keep listening to, but I’m into the sound and feel.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Very freaking cool. I already knew a lot of this album but it was a blast to go through. Love this sound. Makes me feel like a fraud

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

Maaaaaaan. What a sick album to go through again. The compositions, the vocal dynamics, the groovy beats. Overall great production.

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

5/5

Ugh!! So good. Gorgeous and funky! Sick bass lines, groovy keyboards, multiple horns!! Breezy, floating vocals. This is everything.

Rapture

Anita Baker

4/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

2/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

3/5

Kid A

Radiohead

3/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

2/5

Repeater

Fugazi

3/5

Not my favorite style of vocals, but I dig this sound.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

En-Tact

The Shamen

2/5

Real Life

Magazine

3/5

This might be a 4 in truth…

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

1/5

This had big “playing over the speakers in the craft store” energy… >_>

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Definitely should be experienced along with the music videos. Totally part of the experience

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

I keep wanting to give this a 2 but the parts that aren’t a 2 are so far removed from a 2…worth checking out again

Live!

Fela Kuti

2/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Aja

Steely Dan

4/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

2/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

She bop, he bop, they bop. Bopology? The study of bop. All jokes aside that one WAS a bop

I Against I

Bad Brains

3/5

I See You

The xx

2/5

I was NAWT feeling this, but the vocals are lovely

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

2/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

No Other

Gene Clark

3/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

2/5

Maaaaaan, idk. Maybe I could get into an earlier album more. A lot of other artists featured on here and they were great. Rick Ross was INCREDIBLE. Had some standout lines that will definitely make it into my regular usage. “I wear my pride on my sleeve like a bracelet If God had an iPod, I'd be on his playlist” “Cause you haters got PhDs Y'all just some major haters and some math minors“ “I call you bitch for short”— “you call me asshole for long”

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Nostalgic and tragic lyrically. But not really my favorite to listen to

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

Some flashes of brilliance for sure. Heartbreaking and driving.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Blood, Sweat & Tears

4/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

4/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

Wild vocals. Much respec’

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

“Once” is like the pathos of my wailing rebellious soul. I love this album

Os Mutantes

2/5

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

3/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

2/5

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

The Visitors

ABBA

3/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

5/5

A blast from my past. This album is dear to me, but it’s soooo freaking fun and good. I hope everyone enjoys it. My heart is healed and lighter hearing this again

Who's Next

The Who

3/5

The Doors

4/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

School's Out

Alice Cooper

5/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

3/5

Okay. I tooootally get the controversy. Idk. Maybe it’s cause I listen to a lot of Jpop and am kinda used to awkward lyrics and line delivery, maybe it’s because it reminds me of listening to Metal Gear Solid music(probably that), but I had fun with it.

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

3/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

5/5

Close To The Edge

Yes

5/5

Mott

Mott The Hoople

3/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

New Wave

The Auteurs

2/5

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

This was tough. The sound is pretty cool, but a couple of the song felt ultra similar and it took me a loooong time to get through. Kept having to take breaks and walk away from it. I don’t think it was just the lack of lyrics. I don’t know. Something was missing for me. Sometimes I wanted to give it a 2, I’d really hoped to give it a 4… so I guess a weird 3.

Adele

3/5

This is so weird. I feel like all the components are good, but I’m just not feeling it. I was bored and idk. It lacked something vital for me.

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

3/5

So Much For The City

The Thrills

2/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

The xx

2/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

5/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

This was so much better than Licensed to Ill.

Connected

Stereo MC's

2/5

Fleet Foxes

3/5

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

4/5

Play

Moby

2/5

It’s wasted on me. But it’s got some neat-o history.

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

3/5

Gotta be in the mood for this. I should probably give this a 4 but I’m a hater.

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

4/5

Okay. I freaking love this.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

4/5

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

4/5

Gris Gris

Dr. John

4/5

Dare!

The Human League

3/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

Close To You

Carpenters

4/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Kala

M.I.A.

3/5

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

2/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

Parklife

Blur

1/5

Skylarking

XTC

4/5

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

3/5

Elvis Presley

3/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Well it was better than Park Life

The Cars

4/5

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

2/5

This was a rough one to get through as a certified Christina sleeper. “Welcome” and Nasty, Naughty Boy” had some of the best vocals I’ve heard in my life. “Welcome” was also just a really interesting production. I really wish she’d do less over singing and emulating others because she’s talented and those songs showcase what she’s capable of. Lyrically juvenile, at its best, mostly just vapid. Tragically vulgar when it should have been cheeky and playful. I want to deduct another star for how pretentious and obnoxious I find the title juxtaposed to what she gave us(I won’t). I get she meant her inspirational foundation. I don’t care. I think it was a mistake and I think it had a title like that because the album had nothing to say. What a waste. I could’ve listened to Alice Cooper today. #CertifiedHater

Gorillaz

4/5

Tical

Method Man

3/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

2/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

2/5

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

4/5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

5/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Debbie Harry’s vocals are incredible

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

4/5

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

3/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

1977

Ash

4/5

Phrenology

The Roots

4/5

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

1/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

The Poet

Bobby Womack

4/5

Headquarters

The Monkees

2/5

Dire Straits

5/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

2/5

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

3/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

4/5

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

5/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

3/5

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

4/5

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

3/5

Tommy

The Who

4/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

The Slider

T. Rex

4/5

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Iron Maiden

4/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

3/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

1/5

Technique

New Order

4/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

4/5

This grew on me. Maybe mostly by reminding me of other music, but I like it. I probably wouldn’t seek it out, but I’d vibe to this again

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

3/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

4/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

What a waste. He’s so witty, but even here there’s a lot to disagree with

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

What!? Why is Licensed to Ill the only stuff I have to hear everywhere when this exists!?! Insane!!

Microshift

Hookworms

3/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

The Undertones

3/5

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

5/5

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

3/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

Shadowland

k.d. lang

3/5

This rating system is killing me. This is a 3.5 Maybe even a 4 that’s just not my flavor, but I guess we’re ranking it a 3.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

3/5

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

4/5

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

3/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

4/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

4/5

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

4/5

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

5/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

2/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

3/5

Among The Living

Anthrax

2/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

This is a 3.5 I hate I can’t do half stars.

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Palo Congo

Sabu

3/5

Bert Jansch

4/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

2/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

Ananda Shankar

3/5

Paul Simon

3/5

It’s a 3.5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

A 3.5, but I can’t bring myself to give it a mere 3

Woodface

Crowded House

3/5

Boston

4/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

What a gorgeous cover of Stardust. That alone makes me come back to this album.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

3/5

Pelican West

Haircut 100

4/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

2/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

The Modern Lovers

3/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

Joan Baez

4/5

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

2/5

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

Adele

3/5

I think this is a 2.5, but the vocal talent feels illegal to assign a 2 to so it’s probably a bland 3? It’s probably a 2

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

3/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

5/5

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Sincere

Mj Cole

1/5

It keeps ALMOST doing something interesting and then drops it and goes back for the preset drumbeats

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Third

Soft Machine

3/5

I saw someone else say DO NOT START with track 1 and yeah. Don’t do it. Besides that, it’s a pretty good time. Not as good as I got my hopes up for upon reading “Psychedelic, Jazz” but good

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

Great live vocals, but not the most interesting songs

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

3/5

It was okay. Not as bad as the reviews were prepping me for

Quiet Life

Japan

4/5

Rock 'N Soul