My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Cut The Slits	5	2.71	+2.29
Ananda Shankar Ananda Shankar	5	2.82	+2.18
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry Billy Bragg	5	2.96	+2.04
Ghosteen Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	2.97	+2.03
Throwing Muses Throwing Muses	5	2.99	+2.01
Trans Europe Express Kraftwerk	5	3.15	+1.85
Little Earthquakes Tori Amos	5	3.23	+1.77
Beautiful Freak Eels	5	3.27	+1.73
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	5	3.32	+1.68
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.32	+1.68

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Boston Boston	1	3.71	-2.71
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Ray Charles	1	3.49	-2.49
The Chronic Dr. Dre	1	3.32	-2.32
The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones	1	3.25	-2.25
The Lexicon Of Love ABC	1	3.09	-2.09
Electric The Cult	1	3.02	-2.02
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted Ice Cube	1	2.93	-1.93
Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin	2	3.91	-1.91
The New Tango Astor Piazzolla	1	2.88	-1.88
Grievous Angel Gram Parsons	1	2.86	-1.86

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Artist	Albums	Average
David Bowie	2	5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	3	4.33

5-Star Albums (22)

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1-Star Albums (15)

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

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Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

2/5

There are a few good tracks, particularly Buffalo Stance but it sounds of its time and hasn’t aged particularly well.

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Day 2 and delighted to see this on my list. What a great record, and a truly unique sound. One of the best 10 albums of the 90s and sounds as innovative as it did in 1994, from the theremin sound and buzz roll of the drums on Mysterons right through to the tremelo effect and organ on Glory Box and the haunting vocals throughout. I was lucky enough to see Beth Gibbons live earlier this year. She encored with Roads which was spellbinding. What a treat - if I could give more than 5 stars I would.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Great album - one of Dylan’s finest.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

This was better than I was expecting. The songs were all new to me but good until In The a Ghetto and Suspicious Minds which are among Elvis’s best. A good album - a solid 4 stars.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

2/5

I’ve always admired Talking Heads more than I’ve enjoyed listening to them and this was not my favorite album of theirs.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

5/5

Great album that particularly resonated with me today. I wouldhappily have left it on repeat play all day.

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

5/5

A Seat at the Table

Solange

4/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

3/5

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

3/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

2/5

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

4/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

2/5

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

3/5

The Predator

Ice Cube

3/5

All Mod Cons

The Jam

2/5

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

2/5

Black Sabbath

3/5

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

3/5

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

2/5

Dry

PJ Harvey

4/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

En-Tact

The Shamen

2/5

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

1/5

Definitely a case of the wrong album being included. Original Pirate Material was far superior in every way to this album. A few good tracks but plenty that are embarrassing to listen to (the opener It Was Supposed To Be So Easy and Fit And You Know It which has aged very badly).

The xx

2/5

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

4/5

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

4/5

It has been rare on this list to get an album that I did not know anything about and had never heard of the artist. I enjoyed this a lot. It is definitely reminiscent of a soundtrack to a noir film, dark and atmospheric. A great find and definitely an album I will be returning to.

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

This has been the most difficult album to rate so far. On first listen, it would veer back and forth between terrible, self-indulgent prog rock and great harmonies, often several times on the same track. I gave it several tries and it sounded better but still not all the way through. There were times when I could have rated this one star and others where it was closer to a 4 or a 5. I am going to settle for 3 stars. I generally like complex albums that reward repeated listens. I am undecided whether this justifies further listens. There is too much other great music to listen to.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

1/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

1/5

Ananda Shankar

5/5

I had never heard of Ananda Shankar before and thoroughly enjoyed this album. The covers (Jumpin' Jack Flash and Light My Fire) were great but so were the original compositions, and even the 13 minute Sagar (The Ocean) maintained interest throughout. A great find which I will be listening to again.

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

2/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

3/5

Mott

Mott The Hoople

2/5

Gorillaz

4/5

The United States Of America

3/5

Tical

Method Man

2/5

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

4/5

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Being There

Wilco

3/5

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

It’s the End of The World and The One I Love are great but the remainder of the album was disappointing. They were to go on to make better albums.

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

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

Faces

3/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

3/5

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

2/5

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

2/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

1/5

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

1/5

Winter In America

Gil Scott-Heron

3/5

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Nixon

Lambchop

3/5

Electric

The Cult

1/5

By their third album, The Cult had become a caricature of themselves. This is tired, generic rock. Their second album, Love ,would have been a better inclusion if only for She Sells Sanctuary.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

5/5

It is difficult for me to dissociate this from Bowie's Blackstar. Two extraordinary musicians signing off with sublime albums within months and coinciding with the darkening of the political climate. An incredibly deep, beautiful and reflective album. The lyrics muse on religion, past relationships and his approaching passing. The sparse strings, backing vocals and Cohen's deep baritone compliment the material perfectly.

Survivor

Destiny's Child

2/5

The Rolling Stones

1/5

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

4/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Music From Big Pink