My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Medúlla Björk	5	2.72	+2.28
Elastica Elastica	5	3.22	+1.78
Harvest Neil Young	5	3.83	+1.17
Shadowland k.d. lang	4	2.86	+1.14
Ten Pearl Jam	5	3.92	+1.08
Signing Off UB40	4	2.97	+1.03
Throwing Muses Throwing Muses	4	2.98	+1.02

Album	You	Global	Diff
(What's The Story) Morning Glory Oasis	1	3.84	-2.84
Off The Wall Michael Jackson	1	3.78	-2.78
A Love Supreme John Coltrane	1	3.63	-2.63
Maggot Brain Funkadelic	1	3.6	-2.6
Low David Bowie	1	3.55	-2.55
Queen II Queen	1	3.49	-2.49
Odelay Beck	1	3.46	-2.46
Aja Steely Dan	1	3.46	-2.46
Guero Beck	1	3.46	-2.46
Aftermath The Rolling Stones	1	3.38	-2.38

The Flying Burrito Brothers

1/5

*eye twitch* Feels like I accidentally walked into a saloon during an existential crisis.

Elvis Presley

3/5

The poster boy for whitewashing rhythm & blues. Big Mama Thornton and Sister Rosetta Tharpe did it better, louder and first.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

1/5

No.

Low

David Bowie

1/5

Hmm, yes. This ambient track that sounds like a malfunctioning fax machine in a freezer? Profound.

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

The Kinks

2/5

Victoria: ⭐⭐⭐ Shangri-La: ⭐⭐⭐ Everything else: 🫠 and a stupid hat.

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

🔥🔥🔥🔥

B-52's

The B-52's

3/5

Loved hearing the foundational sound that inspired the Pixies’ sharper edge. Overall a one-time listen rather than a repeat favorite.

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

1/5

Definitely not something I needed to hear before I die.

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

1/5

Moist boot energy all the way through.

Odelay

Beck

1/5

Sonic dental surgery with no anesthetic.

Gorillaz

2/5

Clint Eastwood is always a win but the rest of the album just isn’t my cuppa.

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Not a Sinatra fan (sorry Ma), and I usually can't stand bossa nova, but I was pleasantly surprised by how soothing I found this album. Will I listen to it again? Probably not.

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

1/5

Pretentious foonk hell.

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

2/5

🤔😑

Ramones

3/5

Sneaky bubblegum sweetness wrapped inside a leather jacket. "I wanna be your Joey Ramone, pictures of me on your bedroom door, invite you back after the show, I'm the queen of rock and roll." - Sleater-Kinney

Imagine

John Lennon

2/5

Two timeless gems, and a final track that feels like I landed up in the middle of their morning cuddle, awkwardly holding toast.

Signing Off

UB40

4/5

One of my aunt’s favourite albums. Feels like an audio kush-cloud hug soaked in nostalgia. Just what I needed today. 😌✨

Protection

Massive Attack

3/5

Some memorable Tracey Thorn treasures… the rest are just stale now.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

2/5

I came in with hope. It left around track two.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Certified soulful gem! This one left a mark. 🐦‍🔥🔥

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

A velvet-voiced ego trip with a few jangly gems worth keeping. I wouldn’t be mad if it was playing in the background.

Document

R.E.M.

2/5

This album should be repurposed as a coaster.

Black Sabbath

3/5

Listened to this with reverence. Not my favourite Sabbath record, but it’s where it all began. Love how raw and heavy it is and how powerful his voice was. RIP Ozzy. A legend, always.🖤

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

1/5

I would give this album minus stars if I could.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

I’m feeling Billie Holiday on this. Too much damn brass! When it’s unbridled, it’s overwhelming. But when Basie reins it in and lets the rhythm section lead? Divine! Midnite Blue, Splanky and Li’l Darlin’ are pure sexy noir magic.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Almost a perfect album. Paul Simon’s love letter and soft goodbye to Art Garfunkel. I’ve always resonated with Paul, his solitude, his introversion, his ache. And this album holds all of that and more.

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

1/5

No.

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

2/5

What Billy said with an extra star purely for Holiday in Cambodia. Is he called Jello because he constantly sounds like he's being physically shaken while singing? 🥴

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

2/5

Why does Jon Bovi sound like he’s constantly straining?! Honestly, that can’t be healthy.

Blur

2/5

I had to unblock Blur from my Spotify just to listen to this. I'll be generous and give it 2 stars because of Song 2.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

2/5

Yeah… I’m with Rosalie on this one.

Medúlla

Björk

5/5

😭Magnificent. Genius. Masterpiece. This album is a gift.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

A mind-blowing, life-changing album for 14-year-old me. It got huge and overplayed so fast though that I lost connection with it. Still, it remains a pivotal album for me.

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

2/5

This album is a cheesy, awkward mess that might be somewhat okay playing very softly in the background somewhere. Again, WHY IS THIS ON THE LIST!?

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

The easiest 5-star for me so far. I loved this album when it came out and I’ve loved it ever since.

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

Hands down, one of the best albums of all time. 🌾✨ (ignoring A Man Needs a Maid)

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

2/5

The ADHD boss battle of jazz. And I lost, abysmally. 🎺💀

Tom Tom Club

1/5

This album is a torture device. Maximum cringe. I need to lie down.

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

2/5

Eh.

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

🦎 Tolerable feral desert raccoon vibes.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Glorious highs buried in a haystack of filler.

Bad Company

2/5

The album equivalent of your boomer dad going into the garage to saw a plank of wood in half for no reason.

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

IT’S A TRAP! I was lured in by the brilliance of Oh Baby, but I felt like every glimmer of gold after that was steamrolled by something clunky.

Close To The Edge

Yes

1/5

No. Just no.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

Starts strong, ends strong, a little soggy in the middle.

Be

Common

2/5

Not my vibe. Too old school, too soul/r&b, too Kanye-adjacent.

Elastica

5/5

🤘♀️ FUCK. YES. One of those albums that shaped me. I got it as a gift from my mom for my 16th birthday. It was so much more than an album. It was acceptance and unconditional love. This will forever be on my personal list of greatest albums of all time. 🌈🖤 Oh, and Justine Frischmann is such a fucking babe! Effortless swagger, razor-sharp charm, and that beautifully blasé androgyny? YES PLEASE AND THANK YOU. 🥵🔥 While everyone was listening to BLEH and Oasis, I was listening to Elastica.

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

3/5

Enjoyed the warm, rootsy vibe, but not a full album repeat listen for me. Love and saved Igziabeher, though!

The Doors

3/5

No one is more surprised than I am. Maybe it’s the ankle fracture and pain meds talking, because what?! This was actually really good in parts. First full listen of this album, and dare I say… I enjoyed The Doors? Two songs I’d never heard before absolutely stole the show: The Crystal Ship is a shimmering ★★★★. And then out of nowhere, Take It As It Comes dropped with full five-star energy. Consider my mind blown.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

2/5

2 begrudging stars for fumbling Frank.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

2/5

Respect for the lo-fi shimmer and sample sorcery way ahead of its time. Occasionally brilliant, but that old-school rap vibe just doesn't hit for me.

Opus Dei

Laibach

1/5

Nein. I really gave this a fair shot, but that phlegmy, gravel-gargling, mucousy, over-enunciated growl seriously just grossed me out.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

1/5

If an album was an anxiety attack! I’ve never been able to understand this kind of jazz, where it sounds like no one can hear each other, and everyone’s just soloing in their own dimension, jamming wildly, then smashing it all together in post and calling it music. I'd personally like to launch that saxophone into the sun.

Among The Living

Anthrax

3/5

Heard of Anthrax, but this was my first actual listen, and honestly? What a pleasant surprise. The thrash metal core (guitar, bass and especially drums) is SICK. Riffs sharp enough to cut bone and a rhythm section that hits like a freight train. And then there’s Joey. His vocals just don’t mesh with the band’s apocalyptic thrash brilliance for me. It’s giving glam hair metal while the rest of the band is summoning Ragnarok. I swear I could smell the hairspray. Lyrically, Scott Ian crushed it on “Indians” and “One World.” And Charlie Benante? HOLY. FUCK. Now officially one of my favorite drummers of all time. Just a complete beast. No notes. Pure drum god.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Beautiful. Just what I needed today. This album feels like a mirror made of music. Softly devastating, gently perfect. I resonate so deeply with his lyrics and the strange safety of isolation and solitude over being misunderstood.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

I had no idea “It’s better to burn out than to fade away” came from this album. That alone gave it a certain weight going in. I also didn’t realize how fully Neil Young leaned into that off-key, straining wail post-Harvest, and wow, does he commit. 😅 It’s a bit all over the show, but I appreciated the raw edges and the clear roots of grunge planted throughout. A bit messy but undeniably influential.

Trio

Dolly Parton

4/5

Dolly’s voice is everything, Linda got me right in the feels, and while I struggled a little with Emmylou’s tone on this record, she found me in those lower registers. I’ve Had Enough destroyed me in the best way, and Wildflowers is a new favourite. Just loved the warm, golden harmony between three amazing women.

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

A performance so beautiful it hurts, and so vulnerable it feels sacred. 😢🖤

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

2/5

Couldn’t connect with it. Maybe just the wrong album on the wrong day.

My Generation

The Who

2/5

Greasy diner jukebox-core. 🥤🍔

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

Full of personal echoes, past heartbreaks and previously unheard delights. Even though Girl is my favourite on this album, George will always be my favourite Beatle.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

A beige blur of blah.

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

1/5

5 stars for the endurance it took not to claw my own ears off.

Mott

Mott The Hoople

2/5

Not nearly as terrible as I was expecting… but I am just confused.

Fragile

Yes

2/5

A chaotic mess with a couple of breathers.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

An uneven ride with a few gems. From the plink plonk to the WAHHHHHH, it’s not bad, not great, but I do love the softness in his voice.

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

1/5

I mean, I know it’s a wild concept, but I feel like the singer of a band should be able to, you know… sing?

Rapture

Anita Baker

2/5

80's grocery store classic.

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

2/5

What in the shitty 80's family resort, sipping regret out of a piña colada hell is this?! Not the Leonard Cohen I signed up for.

Dire Straits

2/5

This album almost had me in the first half… until it sank into beer-belly braai vibes in the second.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

1/5

A jumbled mess of misogyny.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

3/5

Uncomfortable. A record that drags you through filth and fury, sometimes brilliant, often unbearable.

Boston

2/5

The dad rock cringe is REAL.

The United States Of America

2/5

Who even is this band and why the fuck is this album on the list?! Ugh, why am I even surprised anymore.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Respect for the message. The bars are phenomenal. But the endless funk-jazz slog just doesn’t do it for me.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

His voice, his truth, his poetry! This album is a soul-soothing rebellion, a mirror to society then and now. A folk fuck-you and masterpiece all in one.

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

4/5

Sleepy heaven. Margo’s voice is pure as prayer and Sweet Jane will always have my heart.

Street Signs

Ozomatli

2/5

The soul is there, the sound isn’t. Too much Ricky Martin-esque sparkle for me. 😬

Shadowland

k.d. lang

4/5

k.d. lang will always be one of my heroes. I know how much this album must have meant for her to make. Her voice absolutely shines here, torchy and loungey perfection from one of the greatest voices of all time. But if the Lavender Police come knocking… I’ll confess: it’s not my favourite of hers.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

2/5

I’m a sucker for The Wheel but all I want now is to watch Ab Fab and have Julie Driscoll remind me how This Wheel’s on Fire is supposed to sound.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Muddy Waters kicked down the studio door and reminded everyone who invented the Chicago blues. 🔥

Reign In Blood

Slayer

1/5

Hard pass.

Snivilisation

Orbital

3/5

You can hear the bones of what Orbital would become. Flashes of brilliance, echoes of Aphex Twin and hints of the transcendence they’d later master.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Infinite stars. The best band that ever was, and ever will be.

Aja

Steely Dan

1/5

Mongo is appalled.

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

A fun nostalgic staple!

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

A mixed bag of genius and gentle shrugs.

Eternally Yours

The Saints

3/5

Solid musicianship. But that voice constantly pulled it down into the basement of the high school talent show.

Suicide

2/5

Strange but mildly interesting. I don’t hate it.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Finally, another album that actually deserves to be on the list.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

Deliciously entrancing.

Born To Be With You

Dion

2/5

🙄

Ys

Joanna Newsom

3/5

Intriguing, poetic, lush instrumentation but so long and dense, it really tested my neurospicy limits. Still, I appreciate its Celtic flavour and her gentle vocal moments.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

By far my favourite Sabbath album 🤘🔥

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5

Fascinating, theatrical, occasionally grating, sometimes brilliant.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

2/5

A swirling migraine of genius and chaos.