My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Atomizer Big Black	5	2.72	+2.28
Oxygène Jean-Michel Jarre	5	3.07	+1.93
Loveless My Bloody Valentine	5	3.17	+1.83
Selling England By The Pound Genesis	5	3.18	+1.82
Joan Armatrading Joan Armatrading	5	3.34	+1.66
...And Justice For All Metallica	5	3.43	+1.57
Shleep Robert Wyatt	4	2.5	+1.5
Ramones Ramones	5	3.58	+1.42
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan	5	3.61	+1.39
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	5	3.62	+1.38

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Sea Change Beck	1	3.33	-2.33
The Boatman's Call Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1	3.2	-2.2
Heartattack And Vine Tom Waits	1	3.07	-2.07
The Rise & Fall Madness	1	3.05	-2.05
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite Maxwell	1	2.9	-1.9
Colour By Numbers Culture Club	1	2.85	-1.85
Talking Book Stevie Wonder	2	3.72	-1.72
Getz/Gilberto Stan Getz	2	3.65	-1.65
Wild Is The Wind Nina Simone	2	3.64	-1.64
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Lauryn Hill	2	3.64	-1.64

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Joanna Newsom

4/5

Modernized Disney princess music with dense lyrics Highlights: Emily, Only Skin

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Good soul/pop music with fun melodies, back up vocals, and orchestral flourishes. On the opening track she makes the case for more morning sex. 2nd half of the album gets a little too sappy for my tastes and drags towards the end.

The Next Day

David Bowie

2/5

I don’t remember any of what I listened to. It’s inoffensive, it’s worst crime is being forgettable and boring.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Always unapologetically weird. I can’t help but zone in on the bass on every song. A few songs come off like they’re written by a group of corny dads. Wish the production sounded fuller.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5

Femi Kuti

3/5

Got better as it went, far too polished. Smooth jazz influences ruined certain songs

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Atomizer

Big Black

5/5

I really like this and I don’t know why

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

2/5

I want to rate this 1 star because I don’t believe it’s influential or remarkable in any way. But I rated Bowie’s The Next Day 2 stars and I’d rather listen to Ms. Dynamite

Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

Surprisingly layered. I think it mostly holds up but still lives in that corny 80’s Pop music soundscape. I was pleasantly surprised by some of the deep cuts. Prince can do a lot of things I didn’t know about.

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

3/5

Quite frustrating. I really like parts of this album but nothing lasts more than a minute or two so it's hard to find your footing while listening. Lots of cool Beatles inspired vocal harmonies and melodies, but they went a bit overkill on the lofi sound in my opinion. There is potential for this to grow on me over time but as of now I can't give it a high rating.

S&M

Metallica

2/5

The album that should not be.

Roots

Sepultura

3/5

ROOOOOOOOTS

Joan Armatrading

5/5

Bangers all the way through. Really fun and hypnotic vocal melodies, funky syncopated percussion. Elements of pop, country, soul. Can’t stop listening

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

Thoroughly enjoyable jazz/funk, would have given a 5 if not for the last track dragging things down to a boringly slow pace to end an otherwise exciting album

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

2/5

I hated this but I also don’t have any cultural context for this type of music. It was a struggle for me.

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Fun, pleasant, but nothing spectacular. Africano was my favorite.

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

Nostalgic for me. Lots of lesser known songs and covers.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

3/5

Pleasant but nothing popped out at me. Looking forward to listening to one of his more lively ones

Play

Moby

4/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

This duck ain’t freeeeee

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

Inconsistent. Feels like they hadn’t quite figured their sound out yet. A few good tracks but mostly generic

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

3/5

meh

On The Beach

Neil Young

2/5

Meh

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

1/5

I can’t

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

2/5

Do something different!

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Surprised!

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

3/5

Black Monk Time

The Monks

4/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

3/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

2/5

Your best friend’s older brother’s band playing at your favorite dive bar

The La's

4/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

2/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

5/5

Arular

M.I.A.

2/5

Didn’t quite hold up

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

2/5

Cool idea as like a private project I guess?

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

1/5

Who is this for? I can’t think of anyone I’ve ever met who would enjoy this.

Os Mutantes

3/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

Ramones

5/5

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

4/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Bleh

Music

Madonna

2/5

Music makes the people boo together

Fun House

The Stooges

4/5

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

4/5

The Score

Fugees

4/5

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1/5

Nick Cave and The Bad Songs

Dirty

Sonic Youth

3/5

I wanted to like this more than I did

The Wall

Pink Floyd

3/5

Better than I expected still not great

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

4/5

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

2/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

The Undertones

3/5

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

2/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

3/5

Soul Mining

The The

3/5

It grew on me as I listened

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

1/5

90’s Christian Mom Minvan Music

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

2/5

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

3/5

Solid for what it is, just not my thing.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Some bangers but lots of filler

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

4/5

Drunk

Thundercat

4/5

Really different from anything else I’ve heard. Unfortunately it’s never different from itself.

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

3/5

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

2/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

5/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

Suicide

2/5

+1 star for experimenting

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

3/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Survivor

Destiny's Child

2/5

Low

David Bowie

4/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

3/5

Out of Step

Minor Threat

3/5

Wild Gift

3/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

The Stooges

3/5

Diamond Life

Sade

2/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Street Signs

Ozomatli

3/5

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

3/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

2/5

Hms Fable

Shack

2/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

4/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

3/5

White Denim

4/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

1/5

New York Dolls

3/5

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

5/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

3/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

The Blueprint

JAY Z

3/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

3/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

4 stars for Quincy Jones

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

5/5

Common

2/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

2/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

5/5

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Eternally Yours

The Saints

4/5

Faust IV

Faust

3/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

2/5

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

3/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

4/5

Tracy Chapman

3/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

White Ladder

David Gray

2/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

2/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

2/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

Goo

Sonic Youth

4/5

Black Sabbath

4/5

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

1/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Kala

M.I.A.

3/5

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

4/5

Viva Hate

Morrissey

2/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

2/5

I really liked the Fugees albums and she was my favorite part of it. This just isn’t hitting for me.

Talvin Singh

2/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Melodrama

Lorde

2/5

Roxy Music

3/5

Third

Soft Machine

3/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

5/5

Cypress Hill

3/5

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

2/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

2/5

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

2/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

2/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

The Cars

4/5

Sulk

The Associates

1/5

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

3/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

3/5

High Violet

The National

3/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

2/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Love when a guy who sucks at singing removes everything but himself from the music, and then proceeds to sing to me about the blue collar life, all while never having worked a real job.

The Poet

Bobby Womack

3/5

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

1/5

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

3/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5