My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.31	+1.69
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.32	+1.68
Ágætis Byrjun Sigur Rós	5	3.37	+1.63
One Nation Under A Groove Funkadelic	5	3.42	+1.58
Hail To the Thief Radiohead	5	3.45	+1.55
The Modern Dance Pere Ubu	4	2.48	+1.52
Wild Is The Wind Nina Simone	5	3.64	+1.36
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	5	3.66	+1.34
Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan	5	3.67	+1.33
Bright Flight Silver Jews	4	2.68	+1.32

Album	You	Global	Diff
Pyromania Def Leppard	1	3.13	-2.13
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	2	3.83	-1.83
Live At The Regal B.B. King	2	3.68	-1.68
Van Halen Van Halen	2	3.63	-1.63
Playing With Fire Spacemen 3	1	2.54	-1.54
Live At Leeds The Who	2	3.32	-1.32
Rattus Norvegicus The Stranglers	2	3.15	-1.15
Tuesday Night Music Club Sheryl Crow	2	3.06	-1.06
Nowhere Ride	2	3.02	-1.02
Meat Puppets II Meat Puppets	2	3.02	-1.02

CHIC

3/5

It's obviously a classic funk album. Seminal. But too well-known; I've heard some of those songs so many times before I heard the album. And some of it is a little too smooth for me. Respect it for the position it holds and influence it had on music - but not a big lover of it.

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

3/5

Not for me. So synth and 80's. Tina is an incredible singer but the music doesn't do her justice

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Quality. Bass for days, 80s through and through but with soul and feeling. Great harmonies, fantastic songs, will be listening again

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Boss live blues

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

Just can't get on with his voice.

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

Possibly my favourite nirvana album

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

5/5

It's funkadelic.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

A near-perfect album

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

4/5

Epic album. Straight into the listening rotation

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Quality. Loads of standards and versions of tunes I hadn't heard before.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Boss album, and I'm not a huge fan of the hippety hop

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

2/5

Meh.

Pyromania

Def Leppard

1/5

Bad. How can they sound so turgid, even with all that screamjng

Black Sabbath

2/5

Yes, they're a legendary rock band. But this isn't great. Some good tunes but then a lot of blah

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

4/5

A lovely surprise. Modern Velvet Underground/Lou Reed energy.

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

3/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

4/5

Pleasant Latino stuff. Will listen again

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Vulnicura

Björk

4/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

3/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Boss album with the big tunes on

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Nowhere

Ride

2/5

I really wanted to like this. It was just boring though

Van Halen

2/5

Meh. Not for me

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

Pleasant

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

3/5

Good beats, like his vlixw

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

5/5

Near perfect

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

Delightfulltly weird

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

3/5

Some bangers, some fluff that doesn't translate well from dance floor to record

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

3/5

There's few better sounds in the world than this band. However the songs aren't as good as the performance

Play

Moby

4/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

1/5

This is not a good album. Baffling that they thought it was something worth releasing. Equally baffling to imagine someone rushing to a studio saying 'lads I've written an absolute banger - we're going to repeat two notes for 11 minutes!' At times I thought it reminded me of Spiritualized, a band I love. It has some of the jam vibe but none of the good stuff. Turns out that this band is a precursor to Spiritualized. Makes sense, but still does not make it good.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

This is an 11/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

5/5

Go Girl Crazy

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