My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bone Machine Tom Waits	5	2.86	+2.14
Copper Blue Sugar	5	2.97	+2.03
Either Or Elliott Smith	5	3.38	+1.62
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	5	3.46	+1.54
Oar Alexander 'Skip' Spence	4	2.46	+1.54
Moss Side Story Barry Adamson	4	2.53	+1.47
Exile On Main Street The Rolling Stones	5	3.61	+1.39
California American Music Club	4	2.68	+1.32
Dummy Portishead	5	3.71	+1.29
Tago Mago Can	4	2.79	+1.21

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Wall Pink Floyd	2	4.14	-2.14
Destroyer KISS	1	2.86	-1.86
Hotel California Eagles	2	3.6	-1.6
Bryter Layter Nick Drake	2	3.51	-1.51
It's Blitz! Yeah Yeah Yeahs	2	3.49	-1.49
From Elvis In Memphis Elvis Presley	2	3.36	-1.36
Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson	2	3.35	-1.35
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	2	3.32	-1.32
The Boatman's Call Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	2	3.2	-1.2
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 George Michael	2	3.17	-1.17

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

5/5

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

Protection

Massive Attack

4/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

3/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Truth

Jeff Beck

4/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

4/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

3/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

The Last Broadcast

Doves

2/5

California

American Music Club

4/5

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

3/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

2/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Da Capo

Love

3/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

5/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

4/5

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

2/5

Destroyer

KISS

1/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Scott 2

Scott Walker

3/5

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Tago Mago

Can

4/5

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

Be

Common

3/5

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

4/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

4/5

The Band

4/5

Basket of Light

Pentangle

3/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

2/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Interesting to see that this one's average rating has fallen significantly - has there been a bit of a backlash against these guys? Some of the negative reviews mention car commercials and the like, so maybe that has been a factor. It is easy to see why this would appeal to ad-makers. The songs have an immediacy and a bit of punch. It all sounds a bit processed, though, and lacking in personality. My overall feeling was that this is good but not very lovable

Copper Blue

Sugar

5/5

An old favourite of mine, and a touch of nostalgia is probably pushing it up from a 4 to a 5 Hüsker Dü had disintegrated by the time I heard them and Bob Mould's early solo work was good but very bleak, so it was an unexpected delight when his new band turned up with a set of much brighter, catchier tunes. The lyrics are still depressing but this is terrific noise pop. If you want the darker, more abrasive songs from the same recording sessions they are found on 'Beaster': the 'bad Sugar' they siphoned off from this 'good Sugar'

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

4/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

2/5

I've always slightly avoided Pink Floyd and I'm hoping this project will give me a chance to appreciate them more. This wasn't the best start, though. There are a handful of good songs of which Comfortably Numb is comfortably the best, and I love Gilmour's fluid guitar playing, but I found most of this quite turgid.

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

5/5

Probably my favourite Tom Waits album, above even Raindogs. It is typically eclectic and I love the way he orchestrates such a wide variety of sounds (including whatever a chamberlin is). The tone here is more percussive with lots of banging, clanking noises, which I very much approve of. You can hear the sinews creaking as he groans about mortality. Love it.

Ramones

3/5

Loud, fast and fun, but I guess I like my punk a bit more abrasive

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

4/5

Iggy's collaborations with Bowie are fascinating. This one is more like a Bowie album fronted by Iggy, and I miss some of Iggy's usual energy, but it's good and it points ahead in a few gothy directions

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

3/5

I like this album but I can't say it is a great one, and it is strange to have this listed when Zen Arcade is both more exciting and more influential. This is fine, and 'No Reservations' is beautiful, but other Hüsker Dü albums deserve to be here instead

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

A familiar pleasure, but doesn't quite connect with me the way it did when I was young. Still great, of course, and hugely influential

1977

Ash

3/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

2/5

Nick Drake's reputation has risen over the years, climbing from a deserved reappraisal to being lauded as a tragic lost genius. I don't honestly think his music quite matches up to the mythology. Some people dislike the ornate production on this one. Personally I think it makes the most of some fairly slight material. There are not many memorable songs here (although I do love 'Northern Sky'). His singing is lifeless and his lyrics are not very interesting - it is just standard English pastoral with surprisingly little emotional connection to what we know of his life I will give a better score to Pink Moon, where his music finally linked up more with his feelings, but as doomed singer-songwriters go I don't think he had the talent of an Elliott Smith

Tidal

Fiona Apple

3/5

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

4/5

Enjoyable and atmospheric, I love these kind of soundscapes

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Pretty good, if a bit sweet for my tastes. I can't argue with Homeward Bound and For Emily is lovely (I don't mind some sweetness). The dig at Bob Dylan seemed slightly incongruous

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