My 1001 Albums Journey

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1970

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Little Earthquakes Tori Amos	5	3.23	+1.77
Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel	5	3.23	+1.77
Faith George Michael	5	3.27	+1.73
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	5	3.31	+1.69
Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson	5	3.35	+1.65
Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem	5	3.42	+1.58
Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen	5	3.42	+1.58
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	5	3.43	+1.57
Rio Duran Duran	5	3.49	+1.51
So Peter Gabriel	5	3.54	+1.46

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
m b v My Bloody Valentine	1	2.72	-1.72
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	2	3.61	-1.61
We're Only In It For The Money The Mothers Of Invention	1	2.46	-1.46
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	2	3.45	-1.45
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	2	3.39	-1.39
Bossanova Pixies	2	3.38	-1.38
Eliminator ZZ Top	2	3.37	-1.37
L'Eau Rouge The Young Gods	1	2.32	-1.32
Trout Mask Replica Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	1	2.28	-1.28
S&M Metallica	2	3.26	-1.26

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Bruce Springsteen	2	5
Peter Gabriel	2	5
The Rolling Stones	3	4.33

5-Star Albums (23)

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1-Star Albums (5)

All Ratings

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Boston

5/5

Peter Gabriel

5/5

B-52's

The B-52's

3/5

School's Out

Alice Cooper

3/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Dire Straits

4/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

2/5

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

2/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Violent Femmes

3/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

Traffic

3/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

Suede

2/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

2/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

The xx

3/5

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

3/5

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

4/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

Killing Joke

2/5

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

1/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

5/5

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

2/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

3/5

Microshift

Hookworms

4/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

5/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

5/5

California

American Music Club

2/5

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

Rio

Duran Duran

5/5

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

Faith

George Michael

5/5

Metallica

3/5

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

3/5

The Coral

2/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

2/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

2/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Miriam Makeba

2/5

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

2/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

More Specials

The Specials

3/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

2/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

3/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

4/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

2/5

Highly Evolved

The Vines

2/5

Debut

Björk

4/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

2/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Fleet Foxes

5/5

Garbage

3/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

3/5

So Much For The City

The Thrills

2/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

3/5

Paris 1919

John Cale

3/5

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

3/5

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

The Real Thing

Faith No More

3/5

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Bossanova

Pixies

2/5

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

3/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

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

The Kinks

4/5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

2/5

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

3/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

3/5

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Ananda Shankar

2/5

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

Play

Moby

4/5

Common

3/5

Let It Be

The Replacements

4/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Blur

3/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

3/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

As a career civil servant, I really appreciate David Byrne’s support. It’s been a helluva year but I am working hard and trying to be strong.

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

1/5

Watchgaze

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

2/5

Green

R.E.M.

4/5

I bought Green when I was in high school, but I didn’t really “get” it, and so I didn’t give it much play time in my Walkman. Instead, I usually loaded Appetite For Destruction or Hysteria or Joshua Tree or one of my mixed tapes. What a loss for my teenage self! Fortunately, my adult self came to better appreciate what REM and Green have to offer.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

My dad was a big CCR fan, and listening to them always reminds me of him. I’ll save my “I heard it through the grapevine” story of father - adolescent daughter torment for when the generator serves up “Cosmo’s Factory.”

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

3/5

Albums described by words like noise and dissonance are generally not my thing. But I kinda liked this album. Kinda.

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

3/5

Sounds like a not-very-good Bowie knockoff album. I would give it a high 2. I rounded up because it’s almost Christmas.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

2/5

Perhaps if I was in a good mood, I would be entertained by this album.

2112

Rush

3/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

3/5

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

1/5

DNF

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

2/5

Faust IV

Faust

3/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

4/5

A-ha! Finally drew a fun album after a string of unfun listens.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

3/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

3/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

Black Monk Time

The Monks

3/5

S&M

Metallica

2/5

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

4/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

I will definitely listen to this again, but only when the time is right! I can look past the major Phil Spector blemish.

Different Class

Pulp

3/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1/5

DNF

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

3/5

I thought my French comprehension skills were decent. After all, I studied the language all through high school in the late 80s and early 90s! Apparently, my French comprehension skills are not decent. And so the pedo content went in one ear and out the other. Fine by me. The music was fun but the vocals were not my thing.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

3/5

I sure do like the idea of Bob Dylan.

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

3/5

Future Days

Can

3/5

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Enjoyed the instrumentation but not the vocals. Could not take this guy’s vocals.

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

3/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Hotel California

Eagles

5/5

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

2/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

2/5

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

3/5

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

4/5

One World

John Martyn

3/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

1/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

2/5

I’m glad I listened to this but I’ll tell you what, I never want to listen to it again.

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

3/5

Birds eat it Ants love it Fowls eat it Goats love to play with it I’ve never loved weed but the birds, ants, fowls, and goats have me thinking that I should give it another try.

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

This album warms me up on a frigid day.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Peter Gabriel

5/5

Solsbury Hill is on my short list of all-time favorite songs. The feelings it gives me are hard to put to words — confidence and empowerment and accomplishment to be sure. Perhaps the best way to articulate it is that it is the song that plays in my head when I cross finish lines, both literally and figuratively. On a recent vacation to Bath, my husband and I made sure to climb up Solsbury Hill and see the city light. We were bummed that we didn’t see an eagle, only cows. Maybe next time.