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Album	You	Global	Diff
Tubular Bells Mike Oldfield	5	3.1	+1.9
Selling England By The Pound Genesis	5	3.18	+1.82
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.34	+1.66
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	5	3.39	+1.61
3 Feet High and Rising De La Soul	5	3.45	+1.55
Playing With Fire Spacemen 3	4	2.55	+1.45
In The Court Of The Crimson King King Crimson	5	3.6	+1.4
After The Gold Rush Neil Young	5	3.62	+1.38
Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan	5	3.66	+1.34
Snivilisation Orbital	4	2.7	+1.3

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bad Michael Jackson	1	3.81	-2.81
Get Rich Or Die Tryin' 50 Cent	1	3.06	-2.06
Planet Rock: The Album Afrika Bambaataa	1	2.79	-1.79
Hot Fuss The Killers	2	3.73	-1.73
Pearl Janis Joplin	2	3.72	-1.72
Hard Again Muddy Waters	2	3.61	-1.61
Darkdancer Les Rythmes Digitales	1	2.59	-1.59
Moving Pictures Rush	2	3.57	-1.57
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water Limp Bizkit	1	2.51	-1.51
She's So Unusual Cyndi Lauper	2	3.48	-1.48

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Bad

Michael Jackson · 2 likes

1/5

Books/websites need to stop promoting this man. If you grew up with him and have a nostalgic or emotional connection to his music then crack on. The rest of us need to move past him. Disco/soul/pop has better icons who didn't abuse minors

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu · 1 likes

2/5

Post punk will struggle on these lists. This album sounds completely whack when it is out of context, but at the time hearing something as raw as this to counter what was being released must have been refreshing. But it was a difficult listen

Melodrama

Lorde · 1 likes

4/5

This is how pop should sound, euphoric and emotional. Let down by a few duds in the middle but the hits so huge

Hysteria

Def Leppard · 1 likes

2/5

I thought this lot were meant to be cool and hardcore. This is lame dad rock

1-Star Albums (6)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

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Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

Bad start taking the biscuit out of NIN, and it got worse! It's fun and maybe would've been more fun in 2000

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

Great album, I imagine a stunner for avid The Who fans. As a hobbiest, didn't blow me away

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

The greatest songwriter of all time with a stunning final album. Would be a 5 but need to save that for SOLAH

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

Good fun, not my cup of tea

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

He was good wasn't he

The White Album

Beatles

3/5

This is the second time I've ever listened to a Beatles album, which frankly is an embarrassingly low number for me and because of that I think The White album was a difficult place to kick off my Beatles journey. Mainly because the album sounds like a compilation album, it's a complete mess, it's twice as long as it should be and you could cut at least 40% of the tracks. It would be excusable if there was a through line throughout the tracks but they're all over the place. Do Helter Skelter and Blackbird need to be on the same record? (I know, I know, it's two different discs but it's still one album). That being said, the highs are phenomenally high. Dear Prudence, Julia, Cry Baby Cry and as already mentioned, Blackbird and Helter Skelter, are some of the most influential and best written songs ever there's no denying that and I think that is what gets it the plaudits. But if you are thinking of an album as a singular piece of work, not just 30(!) tracks it's just not doing it for me the same way it does for others. It feels like the emotion and feelings in the songs gets lost amongst some filler. I believe one day I will be a true Beatles fan and I read this back the same way you would read back a year 9 Facebook status but that day hasn't come yet. I assume Will will find this at some point so shout out to him, please don't take it too personally.

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

3/5

Good stuff. Bowie influence is distracting, I do prefer Pop's more unique style in the later works

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

4/5

RIP Keith Flint

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

My new favourite Stones album!

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

2/5

It's not my bag

Destroyer

KISS

3/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

3/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

2/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

2/5

Important but not incredible as an album 60 years on

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

2/5

If this has sold 800'000 copies at £30 (accounting for inflation) that means £2.2 million has been spent on listening to people talk about the band or the songs instead of the band actually playing the songs

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

4/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

2/5

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

3/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Truth

Jeff Beck

4/5

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

Dance music and house music would not be the same without this

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

What a masterpiece, the aggression and emotion are perfectly balanced

Fever Ray

3/5

I like fever Ray, they make good music, but I always feel like there is something missing that doesn't pull me in so much

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

This is a great album. I think the hysteria around Brit Pop clouds some opinions of some great music around that time. Saying that you can hear the Oasis influence slightly too much at parts

Bad

Michael Jackson

1/5

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

3/5

I find some of these difficult to rate. Clearly this is a fantastic album and deserves to be on this list. But I am so far removed from New York hip hop culture in the 80s that I can't really relate

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

Definitely better than her solo album. Can't say I was expecting Janice Joplin to be the first artist I have two albums from

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Top 5 most influential albums ever made

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

2/5

Modern life is rubbish is rubbish

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

2/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

2/5

It's just a guitar

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

This is one of the best stripped back live sessions recorded. But I do believe that the lore around it has inflated its quality slightly. I like the idea of one of the biggest bands in the world doing a show for the biggest tv channel in the world and not playing any of their hits and instead doing covers

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

Roxy Music

3/5

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

Loretta Lynn

3/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

Vulnicura

Björk

3/5

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

2/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

2/5

Misogynistic man raps really quickly over Dr Dre's peak

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

4/5

John Prine

4/5

The xx

3/5

Really happy to see this on the list. It hearing this in 2009 changed the way I listen to music. Still sounds fresh 16 years later. But is somewhat inferior to this mammoth list

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

New York Dolls

2/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

5/5

This album changed what hip could be and they did it in a way that changed hip hop and music forever

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

3/5

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

This is how pop should sound, euphoric and emotional. Let down by a few duds in the middle but the hits so huge

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

4/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Imagine

John Lennon

2/5

Feels like an album was made because he wrote the single Imagine and needed to bulk it out. Forgettable and in need of a lot more influence when writing, something his previous three bandmates could've helped with.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

3/5

Unfortunately all of these songs are better performed on Stop Making Sense

Garbage

3/5

It's fun

Gris Gris

Dr. John

3/5

One of those albums which doesn't fit into the 5 star rating system. It's crazy but also whack at points

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

2/5

One World

John Martyn

3/5

Who's Next

The Who

3/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

3/5

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

1/5

Uninspiring house music which piggy backed off the French house wave. Dance music has so much more to offer and so many interesting branches that could have been in place of this album

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Merry Christmas

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Concept albums are fun until you don't pay attention for a couple of songs and then who knows what is happening. Will definitely revisit and I can see a higher score coming

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

The only brit pop album which doesn't sound like shite

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

Perfect folk rock

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

2/5

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

3/5

1999

Prince

4/5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

4/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

2/5

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

5/5

What a listening experience, stunning start to finish

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

I think this is the best album ever made 1/1001

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

2/5

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

This is one of those albums that ticks all the boxes for something I love. But I struggle to love it. I feel the same about a lot of the new wave stuff, maybe I just prefer post punk

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

5/5

This is driving me crazy. It's the worst album ever made somehow cheesy but pretentious at the same time. But, I've now listened to it three times and I can't stop. It was a 1 without a shadow of a doubt after the first listen. I had to Ironically listen to The Battle of Epping forest again and then I put Dancing with the Moonlit Knight, but then, it was ironic? I was enjoying it. So I guess it's good? I thought Genesis were a bit more route one than this and I've always enjoyed that about them, they can't do anything too adventurous because my dad likes them. So this really has been quite the day for me. This is the worst album I will give a 5 to and I have no doubt about that.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

Best thing any individual Beatles member ever did

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Best thing any individual Beatles member ever did

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

3/5

Play

Moby

3/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

Dads love this one

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

4/5

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

2/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

Another album right up my street but I find myself struggling to get into. My eyes lit up when I heard the cure at the end which shows how uninterested by the rest of it I was

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

3/5

Faust IV

Faust

4/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

1/5

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

4/5

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

2/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

2/5

Synth pop hasn't aged well, the only song on here worth its place is a questionable cover

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Enjoyed this more than expected. Still feels childish

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

3/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

2/5

Some classics but considering it's only 40 mins long it felt like an eternity

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

I love this album, it is such an amazing melting pot for so many styles and genres that were popular at the time. But in some places it went slightly too off track. The opening track Maggot Brain is perfect, an absolute masterpiece which could not be improved on in the slightest. A funk band making a prog/pysch song which Pink Floyd would be jealous of. Eddie Hazel really deserves all of the plaudits for this one but will always go under the radar. Then we land into what we love Clinton and Funkadelic for, Hit It and Quit It & Can You Get To That are funk at its finest, groovy and silky in equal measures. I would like to have heard more of the prog style guitar riffs throughout but the next couple of tracks again stick to the funky nature and they do it well. But the way the album finishes feels to me like they got bored, that they didn't want to be taken seriously for some reason. It could not be closer to a perfect album, but the two closing tracks are so distracting that you forget what a blast you were having through the whole A side.

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Although not the highest score, definitely an artist I'll be revisiting. I find the mix of studio recordings and live recordings off putting but I great overall sound. Obvious influence from Thom Yorke is also distracting

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

So 2010

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

LP1

FKA twigs

4/5

Really pleased to see this on the list, a modern album that dared to do something completely new and she has continued to do so in her later work

Hysteria

Def Leppard

2/5

I thought this lot were meant to be cool and hardcore. This is lame dad rock

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

The Visitors

ABBA

2/5

If this was a list of 1001 great artists of all time ABBA would be near the top. But that doesn't mean their albums need to be included on this

California

American Music Club

3/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

2/5

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

3/5

Abbey Road will never be the greatest album of all time because 30% of the songs are bad. As with the white album, the highs are as high as can be. Some of the greatest songs ever written. But these ratings aren't for the best song on an album it's for all 17(!) tracks

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

4/5

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

3/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

3/5

Enjoyed this one a lot more than expected

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

3/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

2/5

Debut

Björk

4/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

4/5

Sulk

The Associates

1/5

If Siouxsie Sioux, Robert Smith and David Bowie were paid to make music as bad as possible it would sound a bit like this

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

Episode five of can 1001 album generator cause me to like to the Beatles through exposure therapy. Actually kind of. First album of their that seems to have a through line and good consistency

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Odessa

Bee Gees

2/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

2/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

2/5

I have previously listened and liked this album. But would not expect this to be anywhere near this list

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

3/5

I love the Kinks, but this isn't their finest work, really hoping they have at least three more in this list

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

Good but not my bag

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

2/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

2/5

It's through no fault of their own that I'm giving The Killers this score. From a distance there are some fairly good pop rock songs in the mix. But there are some songs (Mr Brightside) that make me want to blow my brains out, as though it is some form of repetitive action torture, I have heard this song against my will every time I have set foot in a bar in the UK. Being given this album on a Monday morning whilst struggling through a hangover was the icing on the cake for this song and my sanity

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Big fan of the Cocteau Twins but this always has been a little too difficult to hear a single word they are saying for me

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

2/5

Dad rock, but live!

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

1/5

80s hip hop was so important for so many reasons and the onwards influence it has had on all aspects of modern life cannot be understated. But it sounds terrible

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Oo yeah the good stuff

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

3/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

Snivilisation

Orbital

4/5

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

3/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Paris 1919

John Cale

4/5

A great example of how to break away from one the worlds biggest bands and make a completely separate solo project. Sounds so original and unique

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

4/5

I'll always say that I believe Nirvana legacy as a band out shines their output. But then you listen to this and realise it was one of THE great rock albums. 9/10.

Kenza

Khaled

2/5

I was excited to see a non-English language as that seems to be what the list is. But the cover of imagine was enough to put anyone off

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

There's nothing to say about this that hasn't been said a millions times before. Incredible piece of artistry and as good as live jazz can be

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

4/5

This is my kind of album!