My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age	5	3.3	+1.7
Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk	5	3.33	+1.67
Live At Leeds The Who	5	3.33	+1.67
Juju Siouxsie And The Banshees	5	3.33	+1.67
The Band The Band	5	3.36	+1.64
Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen	5	3.42	+1.58
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	5	3.47	+1.53
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.55	+1.45
At Newport 1960 Muddy Waters	5	3.55	+1.45
Talking Heads 77 Talking Heads	5	3.56	+1.44

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	1	3.44	-2.44
S&M Metallica	1	3.26	-2.26
Post Orgasmic Chill Skunk Anansie	1	2.99	-1.99
The Stranger Billy Joel	2	3.86	-1.86
With The Beatles Beatles	2	3.66	-1.66
Natty Dread Bob Marley & The Wailers	2	3.58	-1.58
Stankonia OutKast	2	3.55	-1.55
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	3.5	-1.5
Rio Duran Duran	2	3.49	-1.49
Sign 'O' The Times Prince	2	3.45	-1.45

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Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Bruce Springsteen	2	5

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Artist	Ratings
David Bowie	5, 2

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

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All Ratings

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Pretty heavily produced, super ambitious album

With The Beatles

Beatles

2/5

Not super exciting - some hints of the songwriting strength that would mature in a couple of years, but out of that context not an altogether earthshaking experience.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

Elvis Presley

3/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

Soul Mining

The The

3/5

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

2/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

3/5

A bit of a slog at first, but got into it when I gave it a chance later in the day. Definitely asks for some focus to pay attention to the lyrics. All the diverse ft.s and production personnel really help for the variety, which is crucial. Some of the beats and samples are awesome (it felt like J Dilla was all over it but I guess he only did like one song). Hard to find credits for exactly who worked on each track, but the collaborative space is where any wu tang adjacent effort shines. And they seem to known it. Definitely made me appreciate Ghostface more, where he normally sat in the shadow of ODB, RZA, and Method in my mind. Fav tracks: Champ, 9 Milli, RAGU, Back like that, Dogs of War

Destroyer

KISS

2/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

2/5

Rio

Duran Duran

2/5

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

1/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Supernaut is one of the absolute bangers of all time

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

Really loved the 2nd half, even though I did fall asleep to it at one point.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

🤷

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

3/5

3 1/2 - respect and admiration for kraftwerk, but not something I would find myself craving on the day to day.

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

3/5

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

1/5

This makes my blood boil

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

2/5

Mask

Bauhaus

3/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

3/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Hard to not be prejudiced since this is one of my faves. This is one lives in my metaphorical cd changer of autumn soundtracks alongside De Stijl, The Argument, and Rated R.

Moby Grape

3/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

When I was maybe 20, I took probably my first solo trip across country to visit my cousin in Seattle. He lived in this little cool hippie loft in a two flat overlooking gasworks Park. I remember one of the days he had to work and I slept in a bit and when I got up and went through his records, and I found this and Black Sabbath’s Paranoid. T was a beautiful day and I have a distinct memory of hearing this for the first time looking out the window, looking at the Seattle skyline over the Puget Sound while having my mind a little bit blown.

The Real Thing

Faith No More

3/5

Pretty down with it, but not so all the way down.

Green

R.E.M.

3/5

Probably no. 4 or 5 of my bottom five REM albums.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

3/5

Try as I might, I’m just not as into Tom Waits as I feel like I should be.

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

3/5

One of those things where I really enjoy it while listening, and then immediately forget all about it afterwards.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

It grew on me, but a little to campy for my taste. 3.5 stars really

C'est Chic

CHIC

2/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Some fav non singles: Here is no Why, Porcelina, Bodies, Starlight. Certainly a little pompous in its ambition, but fuck man, what a machine of ideas. All the scrapped material, plus pistachio medley? Fahgeddaboddit

Take Me Apart

Kelela

3/5

808 State

3/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

3/5

Palo Congo

Sabu

3/5

Some cool grooves, but not totally my thing.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

Surprised this made the cut to be honest. I can’t imagine this was him in full stride. Surely there are better Bob Marley albums.

Headquarters

The Monkees

2/5

Metallica

3/5

Blur

2/5

Like two great songs, but otherwise felt really unfinished.

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

3/5

Some cool and memorable riffs. Definitely not an energy that I can really associate with, but still can be a fun listen.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

I think Factory and Candy’s Room are pretty much the most obvious, out of place and heavy handed and my least favorite on the album. Love the bombast of Streets of Fire, and the elusiveness of Darkness on The Edge of Town. Racing in The Streets is a great display of how the spirit of early rock and roll is misleading and can be pathetic. I think it’s all on display here in his most accessible and balanced work between cynicism and optimism

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

5/5

My favorite Thelonious Monk album. “Not always beautiful, but always exciting” - some critic

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

I finished it but can’t remember anything but the first song 😕

Queens of the Stone Age

5/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

5/5

Rage Against The Machine

3/5

Didnt listen thoroughly tbh. Not a huge rage fan but this is definitely like a more appropriate/palatable fruition of the rap-rock-funk genre than RHCP’s take. ThoughI can’t say Rage’s mission of social awareness really aged well - time has proven that what most fans latched on to weren’t so much the detailed political expressions but more just anti-establishment angst and anger. Probably much to the band’s chagrin.

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

3/5

Actually enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would

The Band

5/5

Crazy that this was all written and performed by a bunch of 26 year olds. And while almost infinitely less affected than the vast majority of their anachronistic contemporaries (musically at least, in no small parts thanks to their real-life southerner insider in Levon Helm), some of their aesthetic comes across as painfully hip if not disingenuous. Still, that doesn’t detract from the quality of this or their previous record - legit classics.

Ray Of Light

Madonna

3/5

Better than I expected!

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

5/5

Some of the banter is pretty tedious, but man, that fuckin guitar tone is hard to beat. This one blew the lid off The Who for me, even as a casual fan of their regular material. Best version of I Can’t Explain, Shakin All Over, my Generation and on the version including Tommy live - Sparks/Amazing Journey 👌

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

2/5

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

4/5

Never listened before, but I feel like I should have been more wise to this group

Cross

Justice

4/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

2/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

I think it’s really good, but not revolutionary in any way particularly - not necessarily a must hear for me, but definitely an enjoyable listen.

S&M

Metallica

1/5

This seems totally unnecessary

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

The first record - awesome, liked every track. The second record felt like Andre had only Hey Ya and then was like “shit I gotta add like twenty songs” and threw them together in an afternoon.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

3/5

I’ve always found this outing pretty insipid, but cliche aside, Comfortably Numb is still an exquisite song

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

2/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

5/5

Stankonia

OutKast

2/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Chris

Christine and the Queens

3/5

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

3/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

Life on Mars is one of the greatest songs of all time. Also, Rick Wakeman is a beast

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

3/5

Actually dug it quite a bit

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

3/5

Solid

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

5/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Really don’t get why people think this is their best.

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

4/5

Eagles

3/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Cypress Hill

2/5

Good shit, but their tracks/samples are pretty damn repetitive and I don’t see myself going back for more than a few songs.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

2/5

Shouldn’t be on here when compared to their other albums. Some pretty forgettable numbers in here, but a couple good songs: Denial Twist is a standout, and so is white moon. I also think My Doorbell is fun and kind of like their early stuff.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

I forgot how good “The Passenger” is

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

1/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

2/5

Some cool tracks, some awful, but seemingly not anything near the best in his career. Shouldn’t be on here.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

Da Capo

Love

4/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

I mean the hits are great, but some pretty mediocre stuff in there as well

Microshift

Hookworms

4/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

4/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

Movies

Holger Czukay

3/5

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

The Kinks

4/5

The xx

3/5

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

3/5

I dunno, I don’t think this is entirely without merit

1984

Van Halen

3/5

Best song: Hot For Teacher Worst song: Hot for Teacher The whole album feels like a friend of a friend aggressively nudging me in the ribs with his elbow and winking to make sure I get the “innuendo”

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

3/5

Meh

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

This is one of my favorite albums ever, and mostly because while there are a lot of great songs, it’s an almost perfect example of what an LP album should be - both record sides’ sequence, dynamics and story arc fit with the physical experience and limitations of a vinyl record. Not to mention Thunder Road being this amazing crescendoing pop song that does so without even verses or a chorus and it seems to do so effortlessly. I could go on - just the turns of phrase used, the imagery, the concept and delivery is so beautifully executed.

Pyromania

Def Leppard

3/5

Actually enjoyed a fair amount

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

3/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

4/5

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

4/5