My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge Mudhoney	5	2.85	+2.15
John Prine John Prine	5	3.21	+1.79
The Specials The Specials	5	3.29	+1.71
Achtung Baby U2	5	3.3	+1.7
Juju Siouxsie And The Banshees	5	3.33	+1.67
Juju Siouxsie And The Banshees	5	3.33	+1.67
From Elvis In Memphis Elvis Presley	5	3.34	+1.66
Music From Big Pink The Band	5	3.36	+1.64
Lost In The Dream The War On Drugs	5	3.39	+1.61
Live! Fela Kuti	5	3.44	+1.56

Album	You	Global	Diff
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden	1	3.4	-2.4
The Good, The Bad & The Queen The Good, The Bad & The Queen	2	3.03	-1.03

Artist	Albums	Average
The Rolling Stones	3	5
Siouxsie And The Banshees	2	5
Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	5

Siouxsie And The Banshees

5/5

I'd never gotten into this album in depth before, at least not that I remember. I was a late convert to Siouxsie - probably from some teen movie soundtrack. Anyway, first 3 tracks are super solid but 'Sin In My Heart' speaks to me on another level - it's short but has this driving rage that I love (and obviously is heard throughout the album). The album slaps, as the kids say.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

3/5

Not a Ye fan per se, but I found this album very listenable. I’ll have to get over my dislike of him and open up to more of his music.

The Specials

5/5

This came to me after I’d already been introduced to the English Beat/ the Beat and FYC. Still formative for my high school era music education.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

Garage Americana. If not the best debut album, certainly top 3. I’ll let you know the others if/when they generate

Metallica

4/5

I finally got around to seeing these guys in my twenties while they were touring this album with Suicidal Tendencies and Dokken. Seemed like they’d been touring this forever by then, but it was still damn good!

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Opening with Natural Mystic, you know you’re in for a deep, soulful ride. For me, from Heathen on, it’s all peak Marley.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

It’s great but very of its time. Doesn’t hit like it did in the nineties unfortunately.

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

4/5

That was fun. Never listened to a full album of Buck Owens. My bad!

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

Love The White Stripes but never really listened with a critical ear. Powerful in its simplicity even though we’re beyond the earlier rawness at this point.

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

It’s great but there’s a bit of redundancy to it if you’re excluding the hits

Queen II

Queen

3/5

A little to proggy for the current me but I hear seeds of greatness

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

A sophomore album that defined the band’s style. Raw and rocking with very obvious lifts from the greats of the delta blues

Aja

Steely Dan

5/5

What more can be said? Perfectly engineered. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, these dudes knew what the fuck they were doing and what they wanted to achieve.

Technique

New Order

3/5

Was never a New Order fan but I gave it a proper listen. Still not a fan but I get it, I think.

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

4/5

Still holds up well. A lot of the social issues are still here and getting worse unfortunately.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

5/5

Making psychedelic grunge metal as poppy as possible, this album is a favorite of my mid-twenties, and I still love it today.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

5/5

The beginning of my favorite (uh, everyone’s?) Stones era. Salt of the Earth - ‘nuff said!

Leftism

Leftfield

4/5

I needed to be high to truly enjoy this, but I get where it’s coming from.

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

5/5

Another one I never listened to in full. Is it possible to make grunge grungier? These guys did that here with a garage aesthetic that really shines through all that fuzz

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

That sure sounded like a fun time!

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

5/5

I caught on to this one a couple of years after its release, but just in time to help me process what 2016 wrought on this country and my state of mind. Perfectly chill

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

4/5

I could have sworn Clocks came out earlier than this. I’m not a huge Coldplay fan overall, but I did (and still do) love this album. There is an urgency here that is lacking on much of their other output.

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

Maybe my rating is nostalgic because I just saw them, but I got fueled by anger yesterday from the news, so maybe that’s why it hit well too.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

5/5

The beginning of my favorite (uh, everyone’s?) Stones era. Knowing the albums coming after brings a deeper appreciation. Salt of the Earth - ‘nuff said!

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

I remember listening to the Beach Boys on AM radio with Mom while headed to the beach on summer weekends. It wasn't ever anything from this album as far as I remember. I was in my late teens by the time I got turned on to this and probably my twenties until I understood and appreciated it. Every listen brings some new undiscovered texture.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

It might be their most accessible album, even with ‘the doodoo chasers’ appealing to the teenage boy in me, but there is another, earlier album I hold in higher regard. Hint: the title track is on the EP that originally came with this album

Gorillaz

3/5

Demon Days is my jam. This one, not so much

Moving Pictures

Rush

3/5

This album starts off so strong with those first 3 songs and then sort of coasts into redundancy.

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

3/5

Very of its time and a bit boring.

Caetano Veloso

4/5

Wow. That was a psychedelic lounge experience! Loved it. Nice change and something new to me.

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

3/5

His falsetto grates on me but the beats and melodies are good

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

My kind of music. Funky, jamming rock and African rhythm, horns, and Ginger Baker on Drums! What more could you ask for?

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

4/5

Definitely not my thing, but the woman has serious pipes. Hitting a bunch of sub-genres under a pop flag, it's evocative of Janet Jackson to my ears and contains the only song of Aguilera's I've listened to regularly - 'Beautiful'. It kinda is.

John Prine

5/5

Oh boy, another artist I discovered way too late for my own damn good. This one contains my favorite song of Prine's - 'Illegal Smile'. That's right, I love this more than 'Angel from Montgomery' because while "it takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry". And sure, there are plenty of brutal (yet classic) songs here as Biggs points out, but we all need more laughter, these days, ya dig?

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Dulcet tones from a golden age of pop, sprinkled with Motown. Big Chill vibes

Tommy

The Who

4/5

I saw the movie when I was probably too young, but it started my life long love for The Who. This album is ground-breaking and it was at the top of my Who chart until I discovered and dug into Quadrophenia, which is apparently not part of this 1001 album list. I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you!

Fun House

The Stooges

4/5

Primal incantations, proto-punk, a death knell for the industrial age? Whatever you call it, pretty damn awesome.

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

Love Ry Cooder’s guitar. Did get monotonous even though I love world music

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

I appreciate g-funk but this is not my jam

Bad Company

4/5

I think my definition of ‘Heavy Metal’ is vastly different than whatever the critics are defining it as. In any case, great debut album and I love Paul Rodgers’ voice.

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Hard to categorize. Dissonant preaching? I hear the seeds of what I love about Nick Cave but it slightly misses the mark for me.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

It’s just so beautifully sad

Bummed

Happy Mondays

3/5

I guess I need to be in 24 hr party people mode to appreciate this. I am not there. Good production quality though

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

Ah man. Some great hippy dippy shit! I still cry over a few of these songs.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

5/5

Title track alone is brilliant. Bunch of fantastic bangers in there too. More than just Ziggy pt. 2 to me.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

5/5

I'd never gotten into this album in depth before, at least not that I remember. I was a late convert to Siouxsie - probably from some teen movie soundtrack. Anyway, first 3 tracks are super solid but 'Sin In My Heart' speaks to me on another level - it's short but has this driving rage that I love (and obviously is heard throughout the album). The album slaps, as the kids say.

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

2/5

I was trying to figure out why I should care about this one. It’s good, just not compelling. After reading about it on Wikipedia, I see it’s very London-centric and produced (over-produced dare I say) by Danger Mouse, so I guess that’s why?

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

4/5

She’s bringing a lot of influences into this neo soul classic and has some heavy-hitting musicians backing her. This is a perfect Sunday morning coming down kind of album.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

3/5

Not my favorite

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

4/5

Here’s another one that I’m grateful to this list for introducing into my consciousness. I probably won’t listen to it as much as some others but I appreciate the history of it and yet again I’m hit with the realization of how much I don’t know about music

The Libertines

3/5

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

3/5

Desperately trying to remove himself from the Sex Pistols and failing is how I track this

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

This album spoke to me in a very deep, meaningful way at a time of great personal change and the loss of my father. I was always a fan but this was a different level.

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

4/5

That was fun. Never listened to a full album of Buck Owens. My bad!

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

Total banger!

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

You can call me…still in love with this album

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

4/5

I get that it was groundbreaking and some of it is really amazing but I guess I'm more of a 'Kind of Blue' guy.

1989

Taylor Swift

3/5

I’m not saying it’s bad, I’m just saying I feel broken after listening to it.

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

The perfect antidote to T Swizzle. This is Latin-infused rock at some of its finest

Maxinquaye

Tricky

4/5

Ethereal vibe and you can hear multiple genres. Solid

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

4/5

At the start, I was like wtaf is this word salad? Is this some bizarre attempt at Burroughs’ cut-up technique? After a few songs I was laughing at some of the turns of phrase. A pleasant surprise.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

Silky. Great hot date stuff

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Has one of my favorite songs - ‘Changes’ - even if I like Charles Bradley’s version better!

Iron Maiden

1/5

Nope. Later stuff is better

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

Great chill

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

This album makes me agree with my friend “I have not paid enough attention to Black Sabbath” even if I know most of these songs

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

4/5

Good old mid-seventies rocker

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

4/5

Weird, haunting, strangely enjoyable

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

3/5

Educationally sound but not something I need to listen to again

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

This has been a favorite for several years

Electric

The Cult

3/5

This is them getting pretty mainstream but I like ‘Love’ better

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Probably my favorite Stones album, at least in college. It felt like you were going inside the lifestyle

Dire Straits

4/5

Mark Knopfler is underrated and this is a great debut and precursor to ‘Making Movies’

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

This one got me into the Pixies hard back in the day. Camos!

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Was never a huge fan but you couldn’t escape this album and there’s certainly a reason for that. It’s a creepy, spooky great album.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Not my fave, but it’s got my favorite Doors song ‘Peace Frog’ so…

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

5/5

This might be my favorite Elvis. A bit more mature and sliding into that Southern Soul with style.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

What more could possibly be said about his album? Even if you're not a Pink Floyd fan, something here resonates with you.

Achtung Baby

U2

5/5

Haters gonna hate on U2. I get it - they come across as so self-serious during certain eras (ok, most of the time) - but they make great fucking music!. Here they did an awesome job reinventing themselves with fresh sounds and getting silly and coy about the aforementioned self-seriousness. And some of these damn songs are pretty relevant right now. Listen to Acrobat. Really, go ahead, I'll wait

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

3/5

repetitive after a bit

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

From the Brill building to the roots of the Laurel Canyon fabric, this album is amazeballs!

Reign In Blood

Slayer

4/5

Not my genre at all, but I appreciate what they’re doing here.

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