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Album	You	Global	Diff
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.3	+1.7
Music From Big Pink The Band	5	3.36	+1.64
Penance Soiree The Icarus Line	4	2.5	+1.5
Hotel California Eagles	5	3.6	+1.4
After The Gold Rush Neil Young	5	3.62	+1.38
Third/Sister Lovers Big Star	4	2.79	+1.21
Damaged Black Flag	4	2.86	+1.14
American IV: The Man Comes Around Johnny Cash	5	3.89	+1.11
The Only Ones The Only Ones	4	2.92	+1.08
Let Love Rule Lenny Kravitz	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Technique New Order	1	3.17	-2.17
Hunting High And Low a-ha	1	3.12	-2.12
NEU! 75 Neu!	1	3.09	-2.09
Something/Anything? Todd Rundgren	1	3.03	-2.03
Happy Sad Tim Buckley	1	2.78	-1.78
Basket of Light Pentangle	1	2.76	-1.76
Tusk Fleetwood Mac	2	3.46	-1.46
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Beatles	3	4.25	-1.25
GREY Area Little Simz	2	3.24	-1.24
Vivid Living Colour	2	3.2	-1.2

5-Star Albums (6)

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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Popular Reviews

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin · 3 likes

5/5

Easy 5. Bonham beating the drums like they owe him money. I have a hunch the lemon being squeezed is a penis.

Vivid

Living Colour · 1 likes

2/5

I know this comment doesn’t make chronological sense. But it sounds like a bunch of guys got together. One of them wanted to do a rhcp tribute band. Another, spin doctors. Another Lenny kravitz. And finally, extreme. When someone asked them which one they were going to do, they said “yes, but we’re not really gonna get the good parts right”

Technique

New Order · 1 likes

1/5

I swear this is just 1001 garbage new wave albums.

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line · 1 likes

4/5

Not sure how I’ve never heard of these guys until now. Awesome grimy rock.

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg · 1 likes

4/5

Classic. Lots of reviews complaining about the language, but they just don’t understand the life of a g.

1-Star Albums (6)

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Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

2/5

Pretty generic alt/indie record. Wouldn’t actively listen again but it’s good to put on for background vibes.

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

Cheesy European disco trash but I somehow loved every minute.

Liquid Swords

GZA

4/5

I’m not a big hip hop guy. I enjoy it, but couldn’t tell you what makes a good hip hop album. But I can tell you that I just knew that this one was good. Great grooves, amazing lyrics.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Lots of nostalgia. Liked the orchestral elements. Got a bit old after about 5 or 6 songs.

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

2/5

It wasn’t bad but would not listen to again.

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

3/5

I kept expecting it to pick up but it never did. Really enjoyed this album after the 2nd or 3rd listen.

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

3/5

It was fine. Some good grooves. After a while it sounded like the cd they had on repeat in the stereo equipment section of circuit city.

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

2/5

First couple of tracks the vocals kind of made me think of “the wall” but in French. I don’t know but a few words in French, so this may be a lyrical masterpiece I’m just too dumb to understand. The music didn’t do it for me on its own though.

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

Not a fan whatsoever. Boring, uninspiring.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

2/5

Not a FM fan, but may put it on while crushing some garage crispy bois. Really bland background music.

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

2/5

If Ross Gellar got a record deal for “the sound” this would be the result.

The Only Ones

4/5

I’m not sure if I liked this more because it was the first album in a week that wasn’t synth pop bullcrap, or because it was actually good. But I really enjoyed it nonetheless. Good straight up punk/rock.

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

4/5

The album for when you want to smoke some Marlboro reds and cruise Main Street in your Camaro on a hot summer night in the late 70’s. Sometimes you just have to stop sniffing your farts and enjoy stuff.

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

I have to go back and listen to it again.

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

Enjoyable early “pop punk”. Heard lots of Sex Pistols, cars, Ramones, television, clash, influences probably go both ways but can’t be bothered to remember the timelines.

All That You Can't Leave Behind

2/5

I’m convinced U2 is a government psy-op. I don’t think anyone ACTUALLY really loves their music. I think it’s generally tolerable, and people pretend to love it because it’s not outright bad and they feel like they’re the weird one if they don’t like it. Bono is an insufferable douche. This album was everywhere when I was in like 5th grade. Was mildly bad then, is mildly bad now.

...And Justice For All

Metallica

3/5

Metallica has never really done it for me. I enjoy them when they come on the radio or on my shuffle, but not something I generally seek out.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

3/5

I wanted to like this one a lot more. There are some great songs on here. Something was just missing for me.

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

4/5

Not sure how I’ve never heard of these guys until now. Awesome grimy rock.

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

3/5

Good. But kind of crazy that this is my second PJ Harvey rec in the first 10 days of this project.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

It was…fine. Meh. Sounded like every other singer songwriter (?) from that moment in time.

Damaged

Black Flag

4/5

Great old hardcore album that I’d never really given too much time. Good mix of stupid and meaningful lyrics.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Easy 5. Bonham beating the drums like they owe him money. I have a hunch the lemon being squeezed is a penis.

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

2/5

I saw a (professional) review that described this bands previous album as NYU meets lynyrd skynyrd or something to that effect. I, like any red blooded American love lynyrd skynyrd, got excited and listened to said album. Imagine my disappointment when I learned that this professional music writer had obviously never heard lynyrd skynyrd. Double my disappointment when this album sounded exactly like that one. Not a bad listen. Just very uninspiring, and it has no business being on any bucket lists. At least not with a trio of battling guitars.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Starts out great. Then gets into talking about glee gloop and the flooktidoops. Then gets good for a few minutes. Classic but still.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Too much extra noise between some great songs. 3.5, rounded up.

Vulnicura

Björk

3/5

I didn’t hate it as much as I thought I would/wanted to. It wasn’t really my cup of tea though. 2.5 but rounding up because I feel like bjork gets a bad rap.

The Libertines

2/5

Ahh the era where bands were named something like “the vaguely retro sounding noun” or “the (word that tells you I read a book in 10th grade lit)”. Not bad but certainly not good.

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

Can’t believe this is from the Sex Pistols guy.

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

3/5

Meh. I love punk but it rarely rises to the 1001 GAOAT level. Good but probably will never intentionally re listen.

The Visitors

ABBA

3/5

Fun and not what I expected, but yet again a good but not 1001 albums great.

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

I recognize the importance of this album to hip hop. I enjoyed it. But it got old fast.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

3/5

I feel like talking heads is similar to U2 in that no one ACTUALLY really loves them…they just feel like they should because everyone else is also pretending and they want to fit in. Not a bad album just very meh.

Kenza

Khaled

3/5

Wrote this one off before even pressing play. So glad I decided to give it a chance. Didn’t understand a word (besides the small amount of English), but bopped along. Catchy songs.

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

2/5

Dry white toast. Unenthusiastic OTPHJ. Unlike many albums on this list that give you some hope that it will pick up, this one just didn’t.

Survivor

Destiny's Child

2/5

Remember this one from when I was in middle and high school. I still don’t understand the hype. Was a pretty generic mid 00’s pop/hip hop album. Nothing stood out.

Dry

PJ Harvey

3/5

8% of my recommendations so far have been PJ Harvey. I enjoy her albums, but I’m not sure 3 (so far) deserve to be on this list.

Copper Blue

Sugar

2/5

Wanted to be like foo fighters and gin blossoms? Was fine but will not listen again. Also, why were the vocals so low?

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Probably over rating this because of nostalgia. But man this just brings me back to my middle school summer breaks. Listening to this at a sleep over at a friends house, up way too late. Going to the pool the next day and having it stuck in my head all day. Maybe skate boarding or playing street hockey.

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Fun. Sounded a lot like talking heads but less annoying.

Forever Changes

Love

4/5

I need to revisit this one. But it was a perfect Sunday album. Good hippie vibes, nice arrangements.

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

1/5

Not a fan. Boring.

Hotel California

Eagles

5/5

Easy 5. Had honestly never listened to this album start to finish. Starts out with Hotel California…as expected…but then it’s just hit after hit. What a monster!

Joan Armatrading

4/5

I was busy today and couldn’t give this one the attention I feel it probably deserves. Rating it 4 because it feels like one that will grow on me a lot after a single half assed listen.

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

4/5

Love Lenny.

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

2/5

Background noise. Boring.

The Predator

Ice Cube

3/5

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

3/5

Had to look to see if this was the same guy as father John misty. Didn’t hate it as much as I thought I would based on the reviews I read. Lyrics were stupid but I liked the music.

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

2/5

It’s like if REM had less annoying vocals, rocked a little harder, yet is at the same time somehow worse.

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

Tical

Method Man

3/5

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

2/5

I listened to this one yesterday and slept overnight before doing this review. I remember absolutely nothing about this album besides that it wasn’t actively terrible.

Headquarters

The Monkees

3/5

All I could think about was the scene from the simpsons episode where Marge had a monkees lunch box and the other girl told her the monkees don’t even write their own songs. Great value Beatles but still pretty enjoyable.

Chelsea Girl

Nico

2/5

It just wasn’t good.

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

3/5

Made me feel like cruising to the soda fountain to perve on the local broads.

Medúlla

Björk

2/5

I gave my last bjork album a 3 because I felt like maybe people judge her too harshly. But man, what the h-e-double fuck was this? Just because it’s experimental and weird doesn’t mean it’s good. I swear reviewers on here sniffing their own farts. That said I think bjork is a very talented musician, just really misses when it comes to deciding what to record.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Love this period of the stones history. I had just finished reading master and margarita the other day, so when sympathy for the devil came on I wondered if jagger and or Richard’s had read it, and yep. Never did a full listen through of beggars banquet till today, love it.

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

4/5

Fun power pop. Kinda like cheap trick?

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

3/5

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

2/5

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

3/5

Nixon

Lambchop

2/5

Just really boring.

Pelican West

Haircut 100

2/5

Is this 1001 crap British new wave albums you must hear before you die? Seriously, I’ve had a wildly disproportionate number of albums from this garbage genre. 2 stars only because it’s not unintelligible.

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

I’d never actually listened to this one all the way through. Great country/folk/rock.

Bert Jansch

3/5

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

4/5

Great grooves chill flow

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

4/5

Classic. Lots of reviews complaining about the language, but they just don’t understand the life of a g.

Mask

Bauhaus

2/5

Bleh

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

4/5

Maybe it’s the juvenile lyrics delivered impeccably. Maybe it’s the fact that this wasn’t a crappy goth/new wave Brit album like 99% of the other albums I’ve gotten. But I really enjoyed this.

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

I enjoyed it but not as much as I wanted to.

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Blegh

The Modern Lovers

3/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

3/5

Vivid

Living Colour

2/5

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

2/5

Just really boring. Blues gives big divorced dad vibes.

Basket of Light

Pentangle

1/5

Made me feel like I was at a ren fair and that’s not a compliment. I swear I could smell the BO and Mountain Dew.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

40 years before he murdered Lana Clarkson, he murdered with this absolute banger of a Christmas album. I hate Christmas music. But this is an easy 5 star album. The wall of sound is in full force here. Darlene Love is incredible. Masterpiece.

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

1/5

Technique

New Order

1/5

I swear this is just 1001 garbage new wave albums.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Basically the antithesis of rock and roll. Some good riffs and stuff. Overall just kinda meh

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

1/5

Wuss rock. Way too long.

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

I feel like I liked this but not for the right reasons? Loved the grooves. Felt like it was too instrumental to be the revolutionary lyrical powerhouse I was expecting? Maybe I downloaded the wrong release?

Movies

Holger Czukay

2/5

Not really sure how this made it to the list. It was fine, a little weird. Forgot I was listening to it at some point

American Pie

Don McLean

3/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

3/5

It was fine I guess. Not really my style of music. But it seemed good for the style it is? Appreciate the social message and recognize I’m not the target demographic.

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

Masterpiece. It’s all (I think) covers, recorded not long before he died. Hurt is haunting.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

Makes me feel like I’m sitting by a fire in the Smokey’s

Elastica

3/5

NEU! 75

Neu!