My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Brown Sugar D'Angelo	5	2.92	+2.08
Ambient 1/Music For Airports Brian Eno	5	3.07	+1.93
Lost Souls Doves	5	3.16	+1.84
Vivid Living Colour	5	3.2	+1.8
Little Earthquakes Tori Amos	5	3.23	+1.77
Kenya Machito	5	3.27	+1.73
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	5	3.3	+1.7
Synchronicity The Police	5	3.42	+1.58
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	5	3.44	+1.56
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters	5	3.5	+1.5

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Slipknot Slipknot	1	2.67	-1.67
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar	2	3.61	-1.61
Hotel California Eagles	2	3.6	-1.6
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	2	3.59	-1.59
The Clash The Clash	2	3.54	-1.54
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	2	3.49	-1.49
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	2	3.42	-1.42
No Other Gene Clark	2	3.19	-1.19
Dare! The Human League	2	3.05	-1.05
Dog Man Star Suede	2	3	-1

5-Star Albums (22)

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Dog Man Star

Suede

2/5

There are so many better and less pretentious Brit bands from the 90s.

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Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

5/5

So good.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

3/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

2/5

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

2/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Lots of classics packed into a 28-minute album

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

2/5

Good but I wouldn’t go out of my way to listen to again. Plus, he’s a horrible person.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

The duet with Thom Yorke, This Shape We’re In, is fantastic. So is the rest of the album.

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

2/5

A couple of interesting songs.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Not the best Zeppelin album, but some classics on here.

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

5/5

This is a day when I wish there were half stars. Rounding up.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

RIP Ozzy. Not a Black Sabbath fan, but respect the work.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

Good art rock

Synchronicity

The Police

5/5

No doubter five star. One of my favorites.

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

3/5

Justified

Justin Timberlake

3/5

I’m not immune to the pop hooks from Mr. Timberlake.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Great big band album

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

I knew a few of these songs before listening to this album for the first time. Overall, good stuff.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

Excellent. An easy 5 star rating.

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Not the best album by the Beatles, but definitely five stars.

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

This was everywhere when it came out. A rare tight set in the midst of the CD era. In and out in less that 50 minutes.

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

3/5

First time listen. Enjoyed.

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

Good listen. I can hear two very different artists influenced by this one: Janelle Monae's The Arch Android and Flight of the Conchords "The Distant Future."

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

I'll never be a huge Elvis fan. This one has some good tunes on it.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

5/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

The Clash

2/5

I respect the Clash, but this punk album is not my thing.

Dog Man Star

Suede

2/5

There are so many better and less pretentious Brit bands from the 90s.

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

3/5

Not my favorite album by Ryan Adams or his many bands.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

4/5

This album caught me by surprise.

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

4/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

2/5

I may need to give this a closer listen.

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

4/5

I want to immigrate to Rhythm Nation.

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

2/5

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

3/5

Peter Gabriel

4/5

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

No Other

Gene Clark

2/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

5/5

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

3/5

Birdland is a bop. The rest of the album is middling.

Vespertine

Björk

3/5

I think there will be better Bjork to come.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

Amazing how much of this album I knew despite never listening to it before.

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

3/5

Fine enough. She has better albums.

Slipknot

1/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

3/5

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

2/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

Electric

The Cult

3/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

Pyromania

Def Leppard

3/5

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

3/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

2/5

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

3/5

It was short!

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

Scissor Sisters

3/5

This is a mostly fun album. I hadn't heard of any of it except the Comfortably Numb cover, which got some play on our alternative station when it was released.

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Dare!

The Human League

2/5

The Specials

3/5

First or second wave ska? Where’s Ghost Town?

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

5/5

Different Class