Listening statistics & highlights
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba
|
5 | 3.18 | +1.82 |
|
Astral Weeks
Van Morrison
|
5 | 3.25 | +1.75 |
|
This Year's Model
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
|
5 | 3.31 | +1.69 |
|
Pornography
The Cure
|
5 | 3.32 | +1.68 |
|
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
|
5 | 3.32 | +1.68 |
|
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus
|
5 | 3.33 | +1.67 |
|
Bossanova
Pixies
|
5 | 3.37 | +1.63 |
|
Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
|
5 | 3.38 | +1.62 |
|
The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks
|
5 | 3.4 | +1.6 |
|
En-Tact
The Shamen
|
4 | 2.43 | +1.57 |
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water
Limp Bizkit
|
1 | 2.51 | -1.51 |
|
1984
Van Halen
|
2 | 3.49 | -1.49 |
|
Dirt
Alice In Chains
|
2 | 3.47 | -1.47 |
|
Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company
|
2 | 3.41 | -1.41 |
|
Synchronicity
The Police
|
2 | 3.4 | -1.4 |
|
2112
Rush
|
2 | 3.36 | -1.36 |
|
It's Too Late to Stop Now
Van Morrison
|
2 | 3.24 | -1.24 |
|
Everything Must Go
Manic Street Preachers
|
2 | 3.11 | -1.11 |
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Beatles | 3 | 4.67 |
| The Cure | 2 | 5 |
| The Clash | 2 | 5 |
| David Bowie | 3 | 4.33 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival | 3 | 4.33 |
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| Van Morrison | 2, 5 |
Really interesting, exciting album. Little surprises in every song...tempo changes, creative vocal choices, quiet-loud. Some of the songs (Green for example) sound incredibly modern.
Not fully my thing, but moments of transcendence. Probably a few songs too many; drags a bit in the later half. The closeout of All along the Watchtower into Voodoo Chile is crazy good.
Fun, funny, futuristic (still somehow 50 years on), just fantastic. Unbeatable walking-around-with-headphones music. You're secretly the coolest person in the block. The profound influence on hip hop is obvious, with little Easter eggs of instantly recognizable samples and lyrics in almost every song that helped define later classics. But even outside of hip hop, I think there must have been some impact from this on new wave and indie rock, particularly that, for lack of a better phrase, shimmering cascade of synthesizer effect on songs like Give Up the Funk and Night of the Thumpasorous Peoples. Beautiful stuff.
Not an album with a ton of stand out tracks, but overall such a solid listen. Hypnotic, funky, weird. The closer, the Big Country, is a beautiful track and the rare song with a laugh out loud punchline.
An interesting time capsule if you're familiar at all with hip hop that came before it. It's clearly a bridge point with some songs in the old Run DMC style and others showing what's to come. Dr. Dre's production is the highlight. Songs like I Ain't tha 1 have a playful, contemporary sound.
I never would have listened to something like this without the 1001 albums challenge. I was mesmerized.
Easiest 5/5. Absolute, no-skip classic.
This grew on me, and by the end, I was really won over. Quirky, adorable. Especially liked the closer, The Wing and the Wheel, which I hear a lot of in Waxahatchee, a more recent favorite.
Immaculate vibes
Absolutely perfect album for a 13 year old. (Note: I was 13 when this album came out.)
Falsetto fatigue really set in by the end, otherwise a fantastic album.
Average rating is 0.20 points above global average.
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.