My 1001 Albums Journey

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2010

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Third/Sister Lovers Big Star	5	2.79	+2.21
Go Girl Crazy The Dictators	5	2.84	+2.16
Paris 1919 John Cale	5	2.96	+2.04
Pelican West Haircut 100	5	2.97	+2.03
Country Life Roxy Music	5	3.11	+1.89
Bitches Brew Miles Davis	5	3.3	+1.7
Be Common	5	3.35	+1.65
The World is a Ghetto War	5	3.35	+1.65
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	5	3.45	+1.55
Shleep Robert Wyatt	4	2.5	+1.5

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Hard Day's Night Beatles	1	3.9	-2.9
Metallica Metallica	1	3.78	-2.78
Van Halen Van Halen	1	3.63	-2.63
Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd	2	4.3	-2.3
Music For The Jilted Generation The Prodigy	1	3.07	-2.07
Tuesday Night Music Club Sheryl Crow	1	3.05	-2.05
Your Arsenal Morrissey	1	3.05	-2.05
Who's Next The Who	2	3.9	-1.9
Back In Black AC/DC	2	3.84	-1.84
Roots Sepultura	1	2.79	-1.79

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Miles Davis	3	5
David Bowie	3	4.67

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Beatles	5, 4, 1
The Prodigy	4, 1

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Popular Reviews

The Chronic

Dr. Dre · 1 likes

4/5

That opening synth, though! To whom did Dre sell his soul to be a Synth Lord? Just all around incredible. Completely changed the entire world of music. It's still definitely not as good as 2001.

4-Star Albums (52)

1-Star Albums (9)

All Ratings

Paul Simon

5/5

Tracy Chapman

3/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Achtung Baby

3/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

2/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

Gold

Ryan Adams

2/5

Fells somehow even more bland and pandering than the Springsteen he's ripping off, buuuuut I can hear a lot of sounds that probably inspired bands I like today, so he gets a bonus star.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

4/5

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

5/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

2/5

The Man Who

Travis

2/5

Very Radiohead meets Coldplay. Really shines as background music you actually don't want to pay attention to.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

5/5

Feast of Wire

Calexico

2/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

Low

David Bowie

5/5

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

4/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Metallica

1/5

The Blueprint

JAY Z

4/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

4/5

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

4/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

4/5

Paris 1919

John Cale

5/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

5/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

4/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

Better every listen

Gorillaz

5/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

3/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

5/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

3/5

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

The Band

4/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Who's this drunk mumble rapper trying to rip off Leonard Cohen?

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

5/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

New Wave

The Auteurs

3/5

Kid A

Radiohead

3/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

2/5

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

2/5

White Light

Gene Clark

4/5

Peter Gabriel

2/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

3/5

So Much For The City

The Thrills

2/5

Gris Gris

Dr. John

2/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Phrenology

The Roots

4/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Odessa

Bee Gees

4/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

2/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

2/5

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

3/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

1/5

Roots

Sepultura

1/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

2/5

The Cars

3/5

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

1/5

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

3/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

2/5

Tical

Method Man

4/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

3/5

All Mod Cons

The Jam

2/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

1/5

Van Halen

1/5

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

3/5

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

4/5

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

4/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

4/5

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

3/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

4/5

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

4/5

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

3/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

2/5

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

4/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

4/5

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

Pelican West

Haircut 100

5/5

Scott 4

Scott Walker

4/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

2/5

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

1/5

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

3/5

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

4/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

2/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

1/5

The Poet

Bobby Womack

2/5

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

1/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

2/5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

Celebrity Skin

Hole

3/5

Konnichiwa

Skepta

2/5

Beats were good. But the rest is just...generic trap. It increasingly feels like a "1001 albums that have been popular in Britain over the years" list.

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

5/5

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

4/5

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

2/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

3/5

Common

5/5

Street Signs

Ozomatli

4/5

The Bends

Radiohead

3/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

2/5

Green

R.E.M.

3/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

3/5

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

3/5

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

3/5

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

2/5

Who's Next

The Who

2/5

Run of the mill classic rock. Some of it is pretty good when I'm in the mood, but mostly I just don't know what is supposed to be particularly good...besides Baba O Riley.

Quiet Life

Japan

4/5

Kind of a slow burn for me. Definitely just felt very 80s pop at first, then realized it was very much the original of that sound gave me some appreciation. All in all just sorta grew on me. Super solid.

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

2/5

Just.......no. I don't need Songs from Underground. Also, I get it's going for grunge, but dissonant does not mean out of tune.

A Northern Soul

The Verve

2/5

They're not wrong. It is music. There are sounds and instruments and rhythms. But it's what is playing when you walk out of a coffee shop and say, "oh yeah. There was music playing". Legitimately, I've listened through 3 times and I'm like 95% sure it had lyrics. I would give it a 3 in my normal life, but the list demands more.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

New York Dolls

4/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

3/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

2/5

Every song would be better with no keyboard solo. I'd happily take banger 2 minute songs over these self indulgent 6 minute versions.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

It's just....... captivating. Somehow it makes 2 15 minute adventures feel like one 5 minute song. Can definitely feel the Wayne shorter vibes as they start exploring a bit more free jazz-fusion type ideas.

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

4/5

I mean. It's 70s Brit punk. What more do I really need in my life.

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

3/5

Really foreshadows all the emocore of the early 2000s...which was 90% of my teenage personality. As a more, shall we say, discerning adult, it's a bit harder to stay in it and not get blown out by the drone. But I'm somehow still here for it.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

Before this I had heard of the name Blondie, but that was pretty much the extent of my knowledge. Then I saw all the names of the songs on this album. All the hits. All bangers all the time, even the ones I had never heard before.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

That opening synth, though! To whom did Dre sell his soul to be a Synth Lord? Just all around incredible. Completely changed the entire world of music. It's still definitely not as good as 2001.

Shadowland

k.d. lang

2/5

Far from music I actually like, it somehow still has a vibe. Her voice is amazing enough I think she can just do whatever she wants and I'll pay attention to it. Nevertheless, half an hour of old country covers just doesn't seem like it's worthy of the list, and I am again very confused about the reason this album was picked over so many better, more impactful ones.

1999

Prince

2/5

I appreciate that if I heard it in 82 it would have felt.....less dated? But today, to me, it just feels like what you'd get if a 14yr old kid opened up garage band and said what's a key-tar. Nothing really interesting or exciting about it. Sorry.

Bert Jansch

2/5

Feels like a worse Bob Dylan, and it's interesting cause he got screwed by a record company?

The World is a Ghetto

War

5/5

So good! It sounds a lot like most late 80s pop/funk/jazz fusion stuff, and it should, because it's incredible and inspired all the kids who were 10 in 1973. Absolutely hasn't aged. So subtle and smooth with all the instrumental bits. None of the solos feel selfish or even wanted, just what the vibe needed at the time. Groovy, groovin', grove.

Palo Congo

Sabu

3/5

Really cool example of what I want from the list. I wouldn't say I liked it in the way I normally like music, but it was neat and interesting and felt like it would be foundational to a lot of Latin stuff. Maybe it's also the novelty.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

2/5

If you asked me yesterday, I would have said I was a decent pink floyd fan. But this....I guess it's fine. Pretty good listening. Honestly doesn't excite me in any sorta way. Wish you were here is obviously a good track. Idk. White noise, I guess. A good edit for me would be to have Crazy Diamond 1-3, throw the other 6 parts in the trash, and maybe write another 4 songs that did anything different. It just gets real repetitive real fast after that first chorus finally resolves. Also, have a cigar is deeply bad. Dislike on all levels.

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

2/5

It's fine. Mostly pretty good, but a few really bad ones being it down as a whole.

Adele

4/5

Honestly rolled my eyes when I saw this, but these are banger songs. They're definitely way popular and she gets written off as a pop artist, but she's really good. I think they're also new enough they still really suffer from being overplayed, but as my fiance likes to say, songs get overplayed for a reason....

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

Look. It's super good, and I love it, but it's just not quite there for me. Funk without being funky. Jazz without being jazzy. Idk. I want more fun and fresh and dancy. Oooorrrr more jazz and technical and complex. It's just....not quite there for me and I can't explain why. Maybe I just think Herbie is better than this.