My 1001 Albums Journey

187

Albums Rated

2.88

Average Rating

17%

Complete

902 albums remaining

Rating Distribution

Rating Timeline

Taste Profile

1970

Favorite Decade

Soul

Favorite Genre

Top Origin

Perfectionist

Rater Style ?

5-Star Albums

1-Star Albums

Breakdown

By Genre

Top Styles

By Decade

By Origin

Albums

You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.3	+1.7
We Are Family Sister Sledge	5	3.48	+1.52
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand	5	3.57	+1.43
Idlewild Everything But The Girl	4	2.58	+1.42
Colour By Numbers Culture Club	4	2.85	+1.15
Want One Rufus Wainwright	4	2.9	+1.1
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You Aretha Franklin	5	3.93	+1.07
Will The Circle Be Unbroken Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	4	2.98	+1.02
The Coral The Coral	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Number Of The Beast Iron Maiden	1	3.58	-2.58
The Libertines The Libertines	1	3.01	-2.01
Kick Out The Jams (Live) MC5	1	2.92	-1.92
Live / Dead Grateful Dead	1	2.82	-1.82
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	2	3.72	-1.72
Let's Get Killed David Holmes	1	2.68	-1.68
Bringing It All Back Home Bob Dylan	2	3.64	-1.64
The United States Of America The United States Of America	1	2.6	-1.6
The Clash The Clash	2	3.53	-1.53
Gorillaz Gorillaz	2	3.53	-1.53

5-Star Albums (4)

View Album Wall

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Popular Reviews

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead · 1 likes

1/5

That was unpleasant and weird. Maybe I haven't done enough drugs?

The Libertines

The Libertines · 1 likes

1/5

Couldn't do it. The singing was horrendous. 1 star.

1-Star Albums (8)

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

All Ratings

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

1/5

That was unpleasant and weird. Maybe I haven't done enough drugs?

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

Jazzy.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

2/5

A little too buttery for me. But definitely better than the grateful dead.

Moving Pictures

Rush

4/5

Enjoyable listening. A couple of good/classic songs. 4+ stars, but not quite a 5.

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

I always confused Van Morrison with Morrisey. Now I know the difference. This jumped right into it on the first song, I had to check that I didn't click a few songs in. Usually there's a bit of instrumental, but not this one. It wasn't bad, but I prefer other late 60s/early 70s albums. 3 stars

Achtung Baby

2/5

Yep. That was U2. Still not a fan. 2 stars.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

I liked this a lot more than I thought I would. It was not as heavy as the heavy metal as always seemed. I was also surprised by how many I knew, mostly from Rock Band. 4/5 stars. I might listen to this again. And I wouldn't turn it off if I heard it.

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

3/5

This was okay. Nothing obnoxious but nothing to write home about. 3 stars.

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

Lyrics are good, nice voice. Songs all sound similar. Good music for a sad rainy day, but I'm not in the mood to be depressed. Mabel's ranking: 5 stars My ranking: 3 stars

The Man Who

Travis

3/5

It was fine. Definitely sounded like early 2000s and apparently on here for being ground breaking in that style. So, there you go. 3 stars.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

2/5

I don't like his voice. It grates on me. Could use more harmonica... Said no one. Ever. 2 stars.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

2/5

I couldn't listen to most of this album due to little ears. The popular songs I knew. So, at least there is that. 2 stars. These boys should wash their mouths out with soap.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

4/5

I enjoyed this.

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

2/5

Oof. I would not have made it through this except I used it as a soundtrack for a video game. I could not have listened just for listening's sake. It was interesting but too much. 2 stars.

The Libertines

1/5

Couldn't do it. The singing was horrendous. 1 star.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

It was okay. Not bad, but not groundbreaking or something incredibly enjoyable. Sounded like Paul McCartney.

Skylarking

XTC

4/5

I enjoyed this a lot more than is expected to. The flow from song to song was smooth and the hooks were catchy. It also made me think of "Secret Tunnel" from Avatar the Last Airbender. Just the voice and the instrumentation reminded me. Wouldn't have been surprised if it was a track on this album. 4/5 stars

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

1/5

I listened to the first song, but couldn't listen to the rest. I love Jesus and it didn't sit well with me. Musically interesting, lyrically couldn't do it.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Quality music. *Chef's kiss* 5/5 stars

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

3/5

Definitely better than I thought it was going to be. But I don't think I'd never pick it back up. Solid 3 stars.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

That was a lot more folky than I would have guessed. It was fine. 3 stars.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Thoroughly enjoyed that. 2000s emo/punk's grandparents. 4 stars.

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Solid pop album. 4 stars.

The Slider

T. Rex

4/5

Good for weed eating, not as pleasant for mowing. But overall, enjoyable. 4 stars

Ramones

3/5

Everything sounded the same. The only way I knew the next song started was because of the few seconds delay between songs. 3 stars.

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

Jazzy. Funky. Background music. 3 stars.

Joan Baez

3/5

This was okay. Folksy, but that seemed to be a given. I personally didn't hate it and it had a few good songs, but I won't put it in my regular rotation for listening. 3 stars.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

2/5

Meh. 2 stars

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

3/5

Alright but not great or ground breaking. 3 stars.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Enjoyable music, singing not bad, a little hard to understand, but that may just be listening for the first time. Didn't think I liked grunge, but perhaps I was wrong. 4 stars.

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

2/5

My, my, how the Mary Poppins penguins have fallen. Jolly Holiday to video game music. It was not the worst I've listened to, but it was weird and I'd be okay not listening to it again. 2 stars

The Coral

4/5

I liked that. 4 stars. Need to investigate further.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

Didn't care for muse in high school. Don't care for muse in my late 30s. I mean... It was fine, but not anything spectacular. 3 stars.

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

3/5

This just made me want to watch Napoleon Dynamite again. But other than that - meh. It all kind of sounds the same. Napoleon Dynamite - 5 stars This album - 3 stars

Calenture

The Triffids

3/5

Well... That was the 80s. 3 stars.

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

2/5

Didn't love it. Felt bland. 2 stars.

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

Meh. Kind of bland outside of the popular songs. And even those are a little bland. 3 stars.

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

2/5

I feel like the Venn diagram of people who like steampunk and this album is a circle. I don't like steampunk. 2 stars.

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

I have listened to this before I died. I do not feel like it made a big difference to my life having listened to this. 3 stars.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

2/5

As not a fan of rap I could at least understand what he was saying. It is not that I dislike the concept of rap and this one was rather enjoyable, but I can't listen to things with that many bad words. So, for that reason... 2 stars.

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

3/5

This is how I imagined a West Coast college sounded in the 1960s. 3 stars.

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

2/5

While I understand the importance to the music industry, this sounded like a lot of noise to me. 2 stars

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Quality piano playing. Fun and funky to listen to.

Parklife

Blur

3/5

This was very British. Not in a bad way, just not my cup of tea... Get it? Lolz. 3 stars

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

3/5

I liked the first half, the second half got weird. First half 4 stars, overall 3.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Meh. 3 stars.

Arular

M.I.A.

2/5

That was an experience. 2 stars.

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

2/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

2/5

It was alright. Didn't feel like anything special.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

2/5

This is what my head sounds like when I don't take my medication. Noisy and discombobulated. 2 stars.

White Denim

2/5

Faith

George Michael

3/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

2/5

This sounded like podcast music. I kept expecting an ad for better help with a 10% off code. 2 stars

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

3/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

Black Monk Time

The Monks

2/5

This sounded muddy.

Os Mutantes

2/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

3/5

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

2/5

Felt pretentious. Also the half talking half singing was not great.

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

1/5

This is what I imagine a seizure would sound like in my head. 1 star

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

3/5

Country is fine. I don't like Willie Nelson specifically. Just want that fact known. 3 stars for the music. 0 stars for Willie.

Closer

Joy Division

4/5

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

3/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

This had a Muppet vibe. 3 stars.

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

2/5

Faust IV

Faust

2/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

The Score

Fugees

3/5

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

4/5

Classic country

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

1/5

I think I'm not meant to enjoy live albums.

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

3/5

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

Shadowland

k.d. lang

3/5

Infected

The The

2/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

1/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

Sincere

Mj Cole

2/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Grunge is not my jam. But it was fine.

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

3/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

Talvin Singh

2/5

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

4/5

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

4/5

I didn't understand a word she said, but her voice was nice and it was a nice arrangement.

Franz Ferdinand

5/5

I'm a little biased. Had this cd in high school.

The Bends

Radiohead

3/5

1977

Ash

3/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

Not a pearl jam fan, but I can understand people who are.

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

3/5

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

2/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

2/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

3/5

The Clash

2/5

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

2/5

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

4/5

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

2/5

This was a trip. Parts were great parts were trash.

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

4/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

2/5

Revolver

Beatles

4/5

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

4/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

Fragile

Yes

3/5

The Band

3/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

3/5

Not my fav Beatles album. Could definitely hear the sitar influence so that was cool.

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

2/5

The voice was hard for me to get past.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

2/5

The White Album

Beatles

3/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

3/5

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

The Kinks

2/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

3/5

Metallica

3/5

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

2/5

Snivilisation

Orbital

2/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

The Cars

4/5

Tracy Chapman

3/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

2/5

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

3/5

Gorillaz

2/5

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

4/5

Whatever

Aimee Mann

3/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

3/5

Fun House

The Stooges

2/5

Risque

CHIC

4/5

Mott

Mott The Hoople

2/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

2/5

Better than I thought it was going to be, but still not a Prince fan.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

2/5

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

2/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

5/5

The Only Ones

2/5

I don't like a whiney singing voice. Or really any whining voice.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

2/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

That was a weird dark Wikipedia rabbit hole. Musically 5/5 right up my alley.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

2/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

1984

Van Halen

3/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

Appropriate background music.

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

2/5

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

3/5

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

4/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

3/5

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

3/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

2/5

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

1/5

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

Black Sabbath

3/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

3/5

I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't this. Not bad, but not great.

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

2/5

This just added to the noise in my head and in my house. 2 stars.

Iron Maiden

3/5

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

4/5

Guero

Beck

3/5

Le Tigre

2/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

The United States Of America

1/5

I See You

The xx

3/5

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

2/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

The Joshua Tree

3/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

#1 Record

Big Star

3/5

Better than I expected.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

3/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

3/5

Sail Away

Randy Newman

2/5

I don't got a friend in him.