My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
One World John Martyn	5	2.82	+2.18
Deep Purple In Rock Deep Purple	5	3.33	+1.67
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	5	3.49	+1.51
Gorillaz Gorillaz	5	3.53	+1.47
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	5	3.56	+1.44
The Number Of The Beast Iron Maiden	5	3.59	+1.41
Songs From The Big Chair Tears For Fears	5	3.74	+1.26
Our Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper	4	2.74	+1.26
(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) Lynyrd Skynyrd	5	3.76	+1.24
D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle Throbbing Gristle	3	1.88	+1.12

Album	You	Global	Diff
In Rainbows Radiohead	1	3.84	-2.84
Blunderbuss Jack White	1	3.4	-2.4
Rubber Soul Beatles	2	4.12	-2.12
OK Computer Radiohead	2	4.1	-2.1
Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman	2	3.79	-1.79
Cheap Thrills Big Brother & The Holding Company	2	3.43	-1.43
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea PJ Harvey	2	3.38	-1.38
Aftermath The Rolling Stones	2	3.38	-1.38
I Should Coco Supergrass	2	3.34	-1.34
Soul Mining The The	2	3.17	-1.17

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Sparse, somewhat rambling second track, singing doesn't follow the song's melody. Voice is open, honest and raw. Important album, but unenjoyable.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

5/5

Kicks off with probably the heaviest and fastest song yet, Speed King and doesn't let up until the third track, Child in Time which is Ian Gillan's finest moment as a vocalist. An all out sonic assault which announced the Mark II lineup's arrival with a declaration of war that defined speed and thrash metal nearly a full decade before either gained steam. Quite simply one of the greatest rock albums in history.

OK Computer

Radiohead

2/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Coming in between the bluesy rock of The Man who Sold the World and the magnificently overblown rock opera of Ziggy, Hunky Dory is a much more conventional pop album with a much tighter focus on songwriting rather than the showmanship that became a staple of Bowie's later music. Not for nothing did many of the songs on Hunky Dory become staple songs of Bowie's live concerts all the way till the end of his career, there's a raw emotion that radiates from every song and the short nature of the tracks (only three of the eleven on the album go past the four minute mark) means nothing ever lingers long enough to bore the listener. It's probably the most straightforward album Bowie ever wrote and the one that firmly established him as pop rock's vanguard for the rest of the 1970's.

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Gorillaz

5/5

Varied, clever and skillfully written and thus far more interesting than anything Albarn ever wrote with Blur, this genre-buster marks the start of the most creative alternative rock project of the 21st century. A little uneven (Punk has a whiff of the pop-punk fad of the era) and not quite as polished as later efforts but all of the core components are here. An album very much of its time (was there another time trip-hop was this mainstream?) and worth a listen if you want a look at a route hip-hop and rock could have taken without the rise of Bling and the garage rock revival respectively.

One World

John Martyn

5/5

Blending Celtic folk with smooth jazz, dub and electronics then adding in a distinctly pop sensibility is the name of the game here. One World sounds ten years ahead of its time and still sounds fresh and interesting. The Trip-Hop/Illbient bands of the 90's owe John Martyn some royalties because the formula for both genres sits here, 15 years before either hit the mainsteam.

Da Capo

Love

2/5

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

3/5

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

4/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

5/5

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

Throbbing Gristle

3/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

2/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

3/5

Tracy Chapman

2/5

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

2/5

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Repeater

Fugazi

2/5

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

3/5

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

4/5

Ambient electronic turn of the millennium trip-hop with a side order of acid jazz. Think Massive Attack with more of a groove. Listening music, not dancing music. You're either going to find it an odd but interesting album or you'll consider it a bunch of aimless guff over a two bar drum loop. Best enjoyed with a good set of headphones and some quality weed.

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

2/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

1/5

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

3/5

Solid Air

John Martyn

3/5