1001 Albums Summary

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Spiderland	5	2.97	+2.03
Crooked Rain Crooked Rain	5	3.24	+1.76
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea	5	3.38	+1.62
Murmur	5	3.42	+1.58
GI	4	2.54	+1.46
In A Silent Way	5	3.61	+1.39
Heroes	5	3.61	+1.39
Buena Vista Social Club	5	3.66	+1.34
Isn't Anything	4	2.74	+1.26
Rage Against The Machine	5	4	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Blood And Chocolate	1	2.92	-1.92
Quiet Life	1	2.85	-1.85
Brothers In Arms	2	3.74	-1.74
A Grand Don't Come For Free	1	2.67	-1.67
Sheer Heart Attack	2	3.65	-1.65
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water	1	2.47	-1.47
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols	2	3.46	-1.46
Bat Out Of Hell	2	3.45	-1.45
Berlin	2	3.1	-1.1
Heartattack And Vine	2	3.07	-1.07

5-Star Albums (8)

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Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

Popular Reviews

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

2/5

it has money for nothing so it cant be a 1

2 likes

Germs

4/5

cool stuff. punky and thrashy. aged infinitely better than the sex pistols

2 likes

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

75 minutes of fred durst that i cant get back

1 likes

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

5/5

malkmus can have my firstborn child

1 likes

1-Star Albums (4)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

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Blood, Sweat & Tears

3/5

i liked the organ. fun jazz rock. i could do without the cheesy callouts to other tracks. also the satie themes.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

4/5

really liked it. kind of boring in the middle though

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

short, inoffensive blues rock. not quite the direction i expected the band to take after the first two albums

Murmur

R.E.M.

5/5

bangers top to bottom

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

a real easy listen in 2025. nowhere near as challenging as bitches brew, but just as enjoyable.

Quiet Life

Japan

1/5

I'd rather listen to Rio. middle and end of the album is a chore

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

5/5

i dont want to just hand out 5/5s but this is actually amazing

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

what can I say

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

easiest listen yet. not bad though

Pretenders

4/5

i think late 2010s - early 2020s music primed me to like 80s music more

Spiderland

Slint

5/5

loved this album since hearing it for the first time in college. crazy it came out in 91

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

honestly liked it more than morrison hotel. though it feels a lil weird bc it clearly sounds like a drugged up white woman trying to sound like a black woman

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

top heavy imo. cool

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

just makes me so happy

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

i just wish it was noisier

Berlin

Lou Reed

2/5

cool album. a bit too theatrical for me. reminded me of bowie

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

2/5

important but eh

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

eclectic. dont think its his best work tho

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

cool stuff. never had the chance to check them out but liked it much more than i expected to.

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

1/5

i dont think this aged all too well. sounds somewhere in between soundcloud and flight of the conchords.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

2/5

it has money for nothing so it cant be a 1

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

nicely executed but id rather be listening to the beatles or simon and garfunkel

Bert Jansch

4/5

kids in williamsburg wish they sounded half as good as bert

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

super fun. 3.5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

nice and progressive for its time. 3.5

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

3/5

kinda preachy but good. better than sex pistols but johnny rotten is still not my fav vocalist

Germs

4/5

cool stuff. punky and thrashy. aged infinitely better than the sex pistols

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

2/5

theater kids of the world unite!

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

4/5

it good but stories gooder

The Specials

4/5

never a bad time to skank

Heroes

David Bowie

5/5

there is no way a pop act today can pull off this side b

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

3/5

the noise is great. but turns out there is such a thing as too much lo-fi

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

3/5

easy. tried a bunch of genres but others have done those sounds much better

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

first half is banging. id rather be listening to bcnr tho. 3.5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

aged surprisingly well. 3.5

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

75 minutes of fred durst that i cant get back

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

1/5

1001 albums dads must listen to feel validated about their music tastes. 1.5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

title track is a bit overrated but overall this is beautiful work.

Picture Book

Simply Red

3/5

deserves a relisten. the kind of sound that wont feel dated for a long time. 3.5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

as good as a full blues album can get

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

3/5

conflicted about this one. they can obviously all play, but it sounds to me like 30 minutes of ringo songs. somewhere between 2 and 4.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

its no east coast. 3.5

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

2/5

dylan and cohen could not have prepared me for this mans voice.

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

pleasant, though i can hear the beginnings of future bands that i hate. 3.5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

3/5

shouldve cut the fluff and kept it 45 mins

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

2/5

i thought the high paced songs up front were corny but the slower stuff later on are somehow even cornier

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

5/5

malkmus can have my firstborn child

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

slash is great! axl rose is great at times. really tight debut album. if im feeling particularly grumpy i could see this album slipping to a 2-2.5 due to axl being annoying. 3.5

Ramones

4/5

fun stuff

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

2/5

im sure it's important. 2-

The Wall

Pink Floyd

4/5

rock opera can be good, actually

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

a bad free dessert doesnt make a bad meal. 4.5. it would be cool to listen to a rawer version, a la let it be naked

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

2/5

i like rhps. but the kitschy tongue in cheek fun of the film is lost without, well, the film.