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Album	You	Global	Diff
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo Devo	5	3.15	+1.85
The Visitors ABBA	5	3.22	+1.78
The College Dropout Kanye West	5	3.31	+1.69
Doggystyle Snoop Dogg	5	3.36	+1.64
Debut Björk	5	3.38	+1.62
Odessey And Oracle The Zombies	5	3.41	+1.59
Live! Fela Kuti	5	3.43	+1.57
Marquee Moon Television	5	3.5	+1.5
Low David Bowie	5	3.54	+1.46
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	5	3.55	+1.45

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Blue Lines Massive Attack	1	3.39	-2.39
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	1	3.32	-2.32
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1	3.31	-2.31
Your New Favourite Band The Hives	1	3.12	-2.12
Henry's Dream Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1	3.09	-2.09
S.F. Sorrow The Pretty Things	1	3.01	-2.01
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	2	3.81	-1.81
Crosby, Stills & Nash Crosby, Stills & Nash	2	3.48	-1.48
Play Moby	2	3.45	-1.45
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	2	3.44	-1.44

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Artist	Albums	Average
Aretha Franklin	2	5
Johnny Cash	2	5
Led Zeppelin	2	5
Simon & Garfunkel	2	5
Beatles	3	4.33

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Artist	Albums	Average
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	2	1

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The Wall

Pink Floyd · 1 likes

4/5

The wall is so funny conceptually. I like how it compares the anxieties of childhood in a boarding school of a fascist nation to the isolation of stardom. It’s my 3rd fav Pink Floyd album fs fs

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives · 1 likes

1/5

Poop from the butt

1-Star Albums (6)

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Frank Zappa

3/5

3.5/5 This album is really good, an eclectic sound, playful nuttiness but really soulful rhytmns. I think at times it can be a bit too playful but overall a good listen. I like a lot of lounge and international jazz and this feels like the rock extension of that. At some points the instrumental solos roll one after another and I do think I’m listening more to a jazz album in that way

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Very Latin, Very Californian. Was interesting to hear the original version of a lot of these songs and how Santana changes them even if marginally. Loved the big 3 or 4 and what a fantastic opener. I think the weaker spots are when the album goes a more generic hard rock route on tracks like Hope You’re feeling better but even then still commendable.

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Runs the full gamut of music and pushed boundaries in a way I’m unsure will ever be possible again. Very choice bangers and an incredible acoustic sound. Always chuckle to the country rocky raccoon hehe

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

Often times I find it hard to see how the 60s became the 70s stylistically, but I think looking at other countries view of US music and how they meld it to their own musical context is a great way to see the transition in slow motion. Great Funk/Hard Rock opener that would feel at home between James Brown and George Thorogood in a pool hall. 2nd track is full funk. That transitions to mellower sounds in track 3. U can almost feel a growing regional sound as the tracks progress! Brazil!!!

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Lmao I think what makes this album stand out is its a concept album whose concept does not stymie each tracks ability to shine on its own. The radio was playing these singles for like 2 years after its release, so much so that they were still on the airwaves when TPAB was released. Great album, just reminds me of late middle school/early highschool.

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

4/5

I think that this album was really good, my favorite era of country music, but I think it’s hampered by the constraints of its time, especially the over reliance on covers. What is missing in originality is made up for by her performance and unique voice. She clearly has the best version of the song shoes on the other foot, her opening track is written by her and her performance is reflective of this. Hope there is more Loretta Lynn on this list as Fist City and Coal Miners Daughter are both great albums. Really a 3.5/5 stars, but we’ll round up

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

this album is literally Crooner triple platinum. Imagine getting the GOAT to remake the last 20 years of music. That’s what this must’ve felt like to its contemporaries. Insane. Old Devil Moon is the big time tho. I’m going to give it 3.5 stars and round down, bc it’s a cultural landmark and the encapsulation of an era at the end of its cycle of innovation, but doesn’t do anything new or exploratory. It’s old hat, but it’s a certified cultural artifact

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

2/5

I actually liked the album but the album title was so misleading, Elisa said it might be bc they’re killing the harsher sounds of the genre to emphasize soft rock samples. Idk about all that. It might be the album on this list with the least amount of accolades and makes me wonder what albums this might have won out against? Esp with non-English music i dunno

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Least favorite Marley album still has a handful of great songs, I shot the sheriff is still an all timer, love small axe. Love Ja man

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

Easily 5 stars, establishes the bossa nova sound and cemented some of that swinging 60s sound

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1/5

Real nothing burger

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Breakout album by one of the GOATs

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

3/5

Fantastic Album, actually really came around to it, reminds me of a lot of 70s morg music albums that tried to depict industrial and naturalist soundscapes, but you can hear the transition to a poppier sound. Huge knock for 20 minute track tho smh.

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

5/5

West Coast Classic

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

Wow. I think the track listing is incredibly interesting. Pop & grunge rehashed in a folk ballad style and country outlaw music about death and youth sang by a man who started the genre, a man so close to the end of not only his career, but his life.This is probably country black star. Each song so haunting and darkly alluring. The age of Johnny cash seemingly changes the meaning of the music, especially through use of seemingly raw vocals that are enhanced by their weathered nature. Nearly cried the entirety of tracks 1-6.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

There’s the 3 KCal Roq classics of Legs,Sharp Dressed Man, and Gimme all your lovin’. The rest is really whatever tbh.

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

3/5

Really enjoyed the listen, it kind of connects the dots on the development of women’s rap and it’s role in greater hip hop culture at the turn of the century. While I did enjoy it, not what I was expecting from Missy Elliot

The Wall

Pink Floyd

4/5

The wall is so funny conceptually. I like how it compares the anxieties of childhood in a boarding school of a fascist nation to the isolation of stardom. It’s my 3rd fav Pink Floyd album fs fs

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

My first album. Much love

The Bends

Radiohead

3/5

Really good album, starts strong with a solid 4 tracks, thins out, then ends on like a 4 tracks flourish. I love the languishing guitars and the drawn out vocals, funny that they became the band oasis was supposed to be

Follow The Leader

Korn

2/5

Solid numetal, edgy, abrasive, and at times very fun. Freak on a leash always a good time.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

3/5

Really classic songs, love the album but slow start and I could swap music with some of his other contemporary albums and not lose much in terms of theme or classic status

The Visitors

ABBA

5/5

Really wowed by this project, great moves on this you can feel the marital strife and tension fs fs

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

2/5

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

3/5

Loved surprise Bjork, great vocal performance but her ethereal stage presence seemed so surreal in some standard nu wave. The songs that strayed farthest sounded the best <3 bjork

The La's

2/5

Enjoyable but idk not notable enough for 3 stars

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

Rooster

Debut

Björk

5/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

I forget that early rock is often just blues and honky tonk

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

Real enjoyment out of this macabre, 60s meet unwavering album. Also killing moon

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

The trad blues is a bit crazy but when they go to rock it can really be something special

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

Epitome of jazz

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

It’s Amy Winehouse, major contributor to why the ‘10s indie sounded like that and tangentially breathed new life into the retro rockabilly aesthetic. All with good reason this album was amazing

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

1/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

1/5

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

3/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Elvis Presley

2/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Classic Americana. So many KCal Roq hits it’s insane. No wonder we de industrialized

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

Funkadelic

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

4/5

Quintessential Surf Rock Not Brian Wilson coded for sure but there are plenty of hints of baroque, barbershop quartet, Pop all blended in that special west coast way. Saving the 5 for Pet Sounds but wowie

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Jesús of suburbia so catchy

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Peak jimi

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Black Sabbath Baby

The United States Of America

2/5

Worth listening to, very interesting but not good :/

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

Chill vibes to get through the weekend, not my favorite cute, but also not the most easily accessible

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

Peak Nirvana, probably my favorite album by them-in part because it strays enough from the groups core grunge identity and through a live acoustic performance softens the aggressive instrumentation and replaces it with Kurt’s Vulnerable and at times indulgent vocals

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Favorite White Stripes Album, always a fan of their blend of Detroit & Nashville

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

3/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

It’s the smiths dummy!

Play

Moby

2/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

Every Ringo country twang song is fire, 5/5

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

2/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

Tommy

The Who

3/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

2/5

The xx

2/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

Having only ever heard singles, this live record really encapsulates the artist, his dynamism and range. Fun peak into the new styles and influences emerging in the 70’s

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Garf & Sim

Crosby, Stills & Nash

2/5

Kinda a nothing burger. Some good tracks but replacement level with other contemporary artists of this time

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

2/5

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

3/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

Rage Against The Machine

3/5

This is a must listen if you’re listening to 1000 albums. But on the overall it was ok, it’s crazy how ahead they were sonically but also I find it interesting that this was the style that would be in fashion for the mainstream of the 2000’s (stripped of revolutionary potential ofc) necessary early 90s listening fs fs. Personally not my cup of tea tho, but killing in the name of will never not be hype

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1/5

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

Favorite Post Beatles Project

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

Classic Southern Rock, Classic KCalRoq

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

Peak Blues

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

5/5

All bangers except satisfaction. Crit influence on 80’s undercurrents, and to think it’s all very Ohio

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Nice little jaunt, loved the close out of the album but not a fan of the opening track

Medúlla

Björk

3/5

Not my cup of Bjork, but impressive concept nonetheless

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Personal Fav, love the outlandish performance of Iggy. hedonism, sadism pulse through the veins of this album in a way that sonically if not spiritually keeps this album perennially fresh

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

3/5

Love Willie Nelson. I think his country style is a lot more palatable and relatable than most of the genre and listening to this I find it interesting that Willie is not an archetype but a one of a kind performer

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

4/5

Fiona 🍎😈

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

1/5

Poop from the butt

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

3/5

Adele

4/5

It’s Adele!!!

Sail Away

Randy Newman

2/5

Showtime style and his singular voice and charm make for standout Randy. Otherwise I felt eh about it

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

3/5

Too many songs to be a 4 but there are some 5star worthy stretches in this album.

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

2/5

Would be 1 star but I’m in the pocket of Big Elvis

Adele

4/5

Bias

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

2/5

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

3/5

Rule Book for 2010’s indie YouTube bands

The Doors

5/5

It’s the doors buddy

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Bruh no need to explain

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

2/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Common

3/5

Testament to Kanye honestly. Hit or miss on the trax but when they do hit they are a spectacle for the ears

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Peak Live Album, audible fan engagement, committed theme that ties big hits to new material. Biased cash fan but 100/10

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

More Rock Operas! More Piano in rock music, Litschy

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

5/5

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

2/5

Interesting falsetto sound, just not mine

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

2/5

Bruh, maybe it would be fine but I didn’t need this today

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

3/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

2/5

Celebrity Skin

Hole

4/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

2/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

Easy listening, very NY but coming much later it doesn’t hold that same fresh lo-fi sound. 3 for teenage riot

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Even in Mono, 5 star marv

Low

David Bowie

5/5

Can’t believe I hadn’t heard this album before, you can feel the Iggy Pop and Brian Eno influences, movie scores, rockers, and pop stars have all definitely cribbed extensively from this album

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

1/5

Best song was a Curtis mayfield cover

Eternally Yours

The Saints

2/5

Tony Hawk Pro Skater Music (derogatory), still playful campy fun tho

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

2/5

Been Listening to a lot of late 90s and early 2000s alt music and idk I kinda vibe with this one more than Mylo. I think we’re scraping at the edge of musical scenes but I did enjoy this listen but I think this is just a sign of scale creep in 1000 albums

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

Black Sabbath

2/5

Black Sabbath has such a repetitive style but this is 5/5 at the pool hall or scary bar

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

One of my personal favorite albums. Love the atypical vocals, intricate guitar chords, and morbid ambience. This is what it’s all about