My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Pleasure Principle Gary Numan	5	3.14	+1.86
Beauty And The Beat The Go-Go's	5	3.39	+1.61
Who's Next The Who	5	3.91	+1.09
A Date With The Everly Brothers The Everly Brothers	4	2.96	+1.04

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Stranger Billy Joel	1	3.85	-2.85
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	1	3.74	-2.74
Live And Dangerous Thin Lizzy	1	3.32	-2.32
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	1	3.32	-2.32
Step In The Arena Gang Starr	1	3.17	-2.17
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite Maxwell	1	2.9	-1.9
Arc Of A Diver Steve Winwood	1	2.88	-1.88
Fly Or Die N.E.R.D	1	2.86	-1.86
(What's The Story) Morning Glory Oasis	2	3.84	-1.84
The Score Fugees	2	3.69	-1.69

Dookie

Green Day

3/5

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

5/5

Increibly strong debut album. Less consistently solid that the two albums to follow, but still packed with strong pop-rock compositions. I bought this the first time I saw it in a record store almost 45 years ago and never regretted it.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

The pivot point for the entire rock movement, a whole catalog of prototypes for a new way to make music.

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

5/5

The synth music sounds very mechanical at first, but the delivery and the messaging are all human. And of course Cars is a legend of the dance floor.

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

2/5

It's an acquired taste, I guess. There are very long slow passages. This is not mainstream listening.

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

An important pioneering album in getting some lasting good out of the violent eruption of punk, this album (unlike works like Patti Smith's Horses) stands as a jangly artifact and not a timeless artwork.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

1/5

Same old schlock from rock and roll pretenders.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Risque

CHIC

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Personally I think Hendrix is overrated, but the album is historically important.

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

3/5

Aja

Steely Dan

3/5

A very well crafted album -- maybe too much so. This album, containing only seven songs, was released right at the cusp of a new age in music, where shorter songs were valued over eight-minute ego trips. Case in point: Their next album was Gaucho, another seven songs, a full three years later. Aja was released about the same time as Elvis Costello's My Aim is True. By the time Gaucho was released, Costello had released around forty songs, each a mini-masterpiece. TL/dr: Aja was well-crafted, but that's about all.

Scum

Napalm Death

1/5

Justified

Justin Timberlake

2/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

2/5