My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Apple Venus Volume 1 XTC	5	2.84	+2.16
E.V.O.L. Sonic Youth	5	2.89	+2.11
The Beach Boys Today! The Beach Boys	5	3.27	+1.73
Surf's Up The Beach Boys	5	3.3	+1.7
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	5	3.31	+1.69
Smash The Offspring	5	3.37	+1.63
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	5	3.38	+1.62
Metal Box Public Image Ltd.	4	2.42	+1.58
Hot Buttered Soul Isaac Hayes	5	3.43	+1.57
All Directions The Temptations	5	3.45	+1.55

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	1	3.39	-2.39
Street Signs Ozomatli	1	2.87	-1.87
Dire Straits Dire Straits	2	3.72	-1.72
...Baby One More Time Britney Spears	1	2.68	-1.68
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	2	3.32	-1.32
Live Through This Hole	2	3.3	-1.3
Fetch The Bolt Cutters Fiona Apple	2	3.2	-1.2
Frampton Comes Alive Peter Frampton	2	3.18	-1.18
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns Joni Mitchell	2	3.12	-1.12
Back To Black Amy Winehouse	3	4.02	-1.02

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Beach Boys	2	5

5-Star Albums (21)

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1-Star Albums (3)

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Tago Mago

Can

4/5

I enjoy Can in general, but tend to prefer the motorik beat side of Krautrock, and because of this lean into the songs where they hit a groove rather than a freak-out. Also, whenever I listen to the song Mushroom, I'm reminded that the main guitar lick sounds like the Monkees' Not Your Steppin' Stone.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

I do really enjoy this album, but kind of got burnt out from all the radio hits back when it was new. I much prefer side 2.

All Directions

The Temptations

5/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

My metal days are over, but this one still really holds up.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

There are some good tracks, but I just can't get into the general Big Beat sound and because of that, don't really like any of the radio hits. I found myself enjoying the remixes on the deluxe version more than the full album.

Paul Simon

3/5

The well known songs are great, but overall the album is a little lackluster.

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

Oddly this is the album that really got me into David Bowie and his full catalog. I knew all the hits, but Blackstar really got my attention right before he passed away. This one is always in my top three Bowie albums.

Fragile

Yes

4/5

Bert Jansch

3/5

It does follow in the style of music I usually enjoy, but unfortunately nothing really stuck out.

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

5/5

I love this album.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

While i always enjoyed the radio hits, I really got into Tears for Fears in my late 20s when they reunited for the album Everybody Loves a Happy Ending. I used to think songs from the big chair was hits and filler, but now I enjoy the whole album as one consistent statement.

Black Sabbath

5/5

Excellent choice for Halloween.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

I was surprised to learn that I was already familiar with a lot of the songs on this album. Overall it's a great album, but I still prefer the live version of the title track.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

1999

Prince

4/5

Smash

The Offspring

5/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

It was fine - I like disco and the title track is great, but the rest just feels kind of thrown together as a sub-part Chic album.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Dire Straits

2/5

I do enjoy select Dire Straits songs, but a whole album is too much for me.

Being There

Wilco

4/5

I really loved AM when it first came out and it's still my favorite Wilco album. I wasn't as excited about Being There when it came out and didn't really listen to it much. Now, it really holds up and foreshadows what Jeff Tweedy was going to do over the next 30 years with the band.

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

Loretta Lynn

4/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

3/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

#1 Record

Big Star

4/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

Let It Be

The Replacements

3/5

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

2/5

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

2/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

5/5

Music

Madonna

3/5

Joan Armatrading

3/5

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

1/5

I do enjoy bubble gum pop, and even love the first Spice Girls album, but this album sucked.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Slayed?

Slade

2/5

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

2/5

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

2/5

Stankonia

OutKast

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

5/5

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

2/5

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

5/5

As a fan of ELO I will say that this album is great and worth listening to... though it's a big uneven with it's length and there are better ELO albums that could have been included in this list instead.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

5/5

The Bends

Radiohead