My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bone Machine Tom Waits	5	2.86	+2.14
Fishscale Ghostface Killah	5	3.06	+1.94
Rattus Norvegicus The Stranglers	5	3.15	+1.85
Pretenders Pretenders	5	3.35	+1.65
The Wildest! Louis Prima	5	3.53	+1.47
Boy In Da Corner Dizzee Rascal	4	2.57	+1.43
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan	5	3.61	+1.39
Hounds Of Love Kate Bush	5	3.61	+1.39
21 Adele	5	3.69	+1.31
Grace Jeff Buckley	5	3.72	+1.28

Album	You	Global	Diff
Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club	1	3.66	-2.66
Blue Joni Mitchell	1	3.49	-2.49
Frank Amy Winehouse	1	3.45	-2.45
If I Could Only Remember My Name David Crosby	1	3.06	-2.06
Coles Corner Richard Hawley	1	3.03	-2.03
Ghosteen Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1	2.97	-1.97
The Doors The Doors	2	3.95	-1.95
Come Find Yourself Fun Lovin' Criminals	1	2.92	-1.92
Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman	2	3.79	-1.79
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits	2	3.74	-1.74

Nico

3/5

N.W.A.

3/5

The opening track is amazing, totally timeless and exciting, the rest of the album sounds exactly like you would expect from late 80s hip hop. The gangster lyrics were a huge innovation at the time, but the flows are all in the “well I went to the hat store today and I bought myself a hat, uh huh uh huh” vein

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Probably the greatest album ever, this created the concept of an album as a piece of art rather than a few singles and then some filler tracks. As immense as it is, the project is even more impressive when accounting for the fact that Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane were a product of these recording sessions, even though neither track was included on the album

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

2/5

Deeply inessential compared to everything else happening in 1968

21

Adele

5/5

Plays like a greatest hits album. The vocal power is obvious, but the song selection is what takes this over the top

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Amazing voice and the hits really hit, but for an album with only 10 tracks (one of which is an instrumental) there are a few too many forgettable tunes to justify 5 stars

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

3/5

The Doors

2/5

2 star album. I’m sure it was amazing at the time, but it’s far too linked to that specific counter culture moment

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Easily a 5 star album if not for a few tracks where Lou Reed is furiously channeling Bob Dylan in a way that makes a listener wonder if he hates Dylan and is satirizing him

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

Should have been great, too many filler tracks

Ingenue

k.d. lang

2/5

Hard to justify listening to this instead of Linda Ronstadt if I’m in the mood for a lightly latin-inspired singer-songwriter vibe

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

2/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

1/5

1 star, inoffensive background music

GREY Area

Little Simz

2/5

No tracks that I would be embarrassed if they came up on shuffle (ok that’s not true, the beat on 101 FM is trash) but also no tracks that I’d be excited for

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

5/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

5/5

Feels like the peak of the big band era and the introduction of crooner acts, more modern jazz, and rock all at once.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake