My 1001 Albums Journey

178

Albums Rated

3.74

Average Rating

16%

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1950

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Jazz

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Alien Lanes Guided By Voices	5	2.75	+2.25
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret Soft Cell	5	2.87	+2.13
Psychocandy The Jesus And Mary Chain	5	2.95	+2.05
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) Bob Dylan	5	3.14	+1.86
Hejira Joni Mitchell	5	3.14	+1.86
Screamadelica Primal Scream	5	3.16	+1.84
Close To The Edge Yes	5	3.19	+1.81
Ritual De Lo Habitual Jane's Addiction	5	3.19	+1.81
American Beauty Grateful Dead	5	3.25	+1.75
In The Wee Small Hours Frank Sinatra	5	3.27	+1.73

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Thriller Michael Jackson	1	4.22	-3.22
The College Dropout Kanye West	1	3.31	-2.31
Dookie Green Day	2	3.79	-1.79
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	3.7	-1.7
Slipknot Slipknot	1	2.67	-1.67
Bayou Country Creedence Clearwater Revival	2	3.64	-1.64
Morrison Hotel The Doors	2	3.58	-1.58
The Suburbs Arcade Fire	2	3.5	-1.5
1984 Van Halen	2	3.49	-1.49
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	2	3.48	-1.48

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Bob Dylan	3	5
Beatles	3	5
David Bowie	4	4.5
The Band	2	5
Miles Davis	2	5

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Kanye West	3	2

5-Star Albums (46)

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Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

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1-Star Albums (3)

All Ratings

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

At first you’re cynical and presume this is one of those jazzy 80s things with a bass player with his axe strapped up too far, but it doesn’t take long to succumb to the quality of the first three tracks. Five of these songs are very familiar radio hits; the close listening on headphones reveals lovely double tracked harmonies and very slick percussion. Still loungey and not really my thing, but her voice is beautiful and the whole thing is perfectly realised. Some filler on Side Two, where you don’t realise the time has gone but you’re on to the final track. Highlight: Your Love is King, and the really patient build to the vocal on Why Can’t We Live Together? Low points: Sweet as Cherry Pie and the line about sticking together hand in glove.

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

Tasteful. Clear to see why it’s a classic. Lots of room in the mix and swagger in the band. Getz plays sax in an effortless series of phrases and the vocals are chilled and a little exotic. In keeping with yesterday’s Sadé, this is something to hear at a dinner where the wine is better than the risotto and you’re hoping for a big dessert to make up for the fact that the starter was soup. Lovely, but really, really tasteful.

1984

Van Halen

2/5

On which the band tries synths and sounds like every other 80s rock except for the guitar, which is amazing but frequently shoehorned in, and Dave’s characteristic swagger, which is mainly incoherent. Their first record is ten million times better, but Jump and Panama are terrific and the rest? Not so much.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

5/5

A whole lot of record. At its worst it’s a little Crue-ish but the guitar reminds me of the Pistols now and again and I love it when Paradise City ends and you realise it’s still only half way through. I never bother with the last two tracks, but this is a real classic.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

3/5

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

4/5

Very tasteful, with that VH1 sheen, but the songs and the singing are impressive .

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

4/5

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

3/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Takes a little while to get going but has several moments of greatness.

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

5/5

Far romantic than anyone would admit at the time, this is also a great, cool, noisy album and it contains Taste The Floor, one of the truly great tracks, like, ever.

Mott

Mott The Hoople

3/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

2/5

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

The Kinks

2/5

Odelay

Beck

4/5

LP1

FKA twigs

4/5

Yeezus

Kanye West

2/5

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

3/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

4/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

4/5

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

3/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

2/5

Nope, not good.

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

3/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

1/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Calenture

The Triffids

4/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

3/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

3/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

5/5

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

4/5

Nixon

Lambchop

3/5

Konnichiwa

Skepta

3/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

3/5

Fragile

Yes

4/5

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

3/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

5/5

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

2/5

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

3/5

Feast of Wire

Calexico

4/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

Cut

The Slits

4/5

Document

R.E.M.

5/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

5/5

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

5/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

3/5

Virgin Suicides

Air

4/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

5/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

5/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

4/5

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

3/5

American Gothic

David Ackles

2/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

3/5

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

3/5

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

3/5

The Band

5/5

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

5/5

The streaming version cuts out the booing, which is the point. This is superb: the inexplicable nature of the booing is essential in our ongoing study of stupidity.

High Violet

The National

3/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

4/5

Roots

Sepultura

3/5