My 1001 Albums Journey

Albums Rated

3.3

Average Rating

Complete

991 albums remaining

Rating Distribution

Rating Timeline

Taste Profile

2010

Favorite Decade

Folk

Favorite Genre

other

Top Origin

Curator

Rater Style ?

5-Star Albums

1-Star Albums

Breakdown

By Genre

Top Styles

By Decade

By Origin

Albums

You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
I See A Darkness Bonnie "Prince" Billy	5	2.98	+2.02
Halcyon Digest Deerhunter	5	3.05	+1.95
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea PJ Harvey	5	3.38	+1.62
2112 Rush	5	3.38	+1.62
Crosby, Stills & Nash Crosby, Stills & Nash	5	3.48	+1.52
Funeral Arcade Fire	5	3.56	+1.44
Master Of Puppets Metallica	5	3.72	+1.28
Live At The Harlem Square Club Sam Cooke	5	3.76	+1.24
Bad Michael Jackson	5	3.8	+1.2
Harvest Neil Young	5	3.81	+1.19

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	1	3.72	-2.72
A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse Faces	1	3.24	-2.24
Maverick A Strike Finley Quaye	1	2.74	-1.74
Honky Tonk Masquerade Joe Ely	1	2.68	-1.68
Lust For Life Iggy Pop	2	3.6	-1.6
GI Germs	1	2.53	-1.53
Murmur R.E.M.	2	3.41	-1.41
25 Adele	2	3.38	-1.38
Smash The Offspring	2	3.37	-1.37
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	2	3.3	-1.3

5-Star Albums (13)

View Album Wall

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

Popular Reviews

Tapestry

Carole King · 1 likes

5/5

Over half these songs could bring me to tears in the right setting.

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax · 1 likes

3/5

I suspect this album is aptly named. Unfortunately I was listening during work hours so I didn’t get the full experience.

1-Star Albums (5)

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

All Ratings

Boston

4/5

I’ve never sat down and listened to Boston, but this was a fun time. Rock and roll!

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

First time listening to The Doors.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Solid Coldplay album

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

3/5

Fun 70’s album.

Murmur

R.E.M.

2/5

Nice vibe. Seems ahead of its time.

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

5/5

Solid album no skips

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

I assumed it would be good and I was right! Production was great.

Dire Straits

4/5

All that guitar playing tickles my brain. Play this in the background while cooking dinner.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

Chelsea Girl

Nico

3/5

“You know, this could be a fall album, winter album, or even a spring album. But it is NOT a summer album.” is what I told Casey who then informed me we were listening to a song called “Winter Song”

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

👩‍🍳 💋

The Doors

3/5

Second time listening to The Doors. This one’s kind of overhyped, but it could be that I don’t actually like The Doors. Jury’s still out.

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

Over half these songs could bring me to tears in the right setting.

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

1/5

I think the only people who listen to this are users of this website.

Germs

1/5

This became very enjoyable once I imagined them all as cats.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Proggy and poppy

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

He sounds like everyone I went to high school with. A few great bangers though.

Pretenders

4/5

Loved every song, will be revisiting this again soon.

The Cars

3/5

Kind of boring

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

Black Monk Time

The Monks

3/5

Weird and energetic and abrasive. Gold star for the Hammond organ.

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

4/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

5/5

I will probably have a hyper-fixation on this for a while.

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

2/5

All the stars go to the opening track

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

4/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

Was only able to listen to a few songs

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

4/5

post bbq summer smoking in the backyard music

John Prine

3/5

Loved the storytelling

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

2/5

I’d rather listen to David Bowie, which I did right after finishing this. 2.5 stars

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

Posh Christmas party music (tis the season)

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

A weird album to have kindergarten field day memories attached to.

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

5/5

First time listening to CSR. Very beautiful vocals and harmonies.

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

Smooth Criminal might be the best pop song ever written. Had to listen to it twice before I could move on.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

Let’s fucking go dude.

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Very beautiful album!

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

2/5

Not for me

Low

David Bowie

4/5

In It For The Money

Supergrass

3/5

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

2/5

Has its moments, but I’ll never revisit it.

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

Didn’t have time to listen to the whole thing

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

3/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

This album sounds soooo old, I’m surprised they aren’t all dead at this point.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

To think this has just been around since 2010. Standout songs: Locked Inside, Cold War, Mushrooms & Roses, Neon Valley Street

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

That was some lovely jazz.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Felt like a daydream.

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

3/5

This is an album I think would really grow on me

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

It’s pretty evident by all the music that came after it how influential the Sex Pistols were. Also, they were fashionistas! Anyway, this album was great. I heard a lot of Green Day in it.

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

1/5

Rod Stewart’s voice makes me want to scratch my skin off and jump in a vat of rubbing alcohol.

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

5/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Live Through This

Hole

3/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

Spent Christmas at Nate’s and he had one playlist on repeat which featured many songs from this. To then have to listen to those songs again was not ideal.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Beautiful music to get lost in. No skip album. 4.5 stars

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

4/5

One does not simply listen to Linkin Park objectively. I can’t listen to Hybrid Theory without remembering being 8 years old listening to Josh’s pirated music on Windows Media Player and hearing “Crawling” for the first time. “Papercut” was a corrupted file that cut off at the bridge and I didn’t know there was more until streaming became popular. I played “One Step Closer” in my head to keep a consistent freestyle pace on the high school swim team (“I need a little room to breath” while counting my breaths? 🤘). I could go on, but I’ll stop there. Great album. RIP Chester.

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

3/5

3.5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

The Hammond organ is at it again 💃🏻 Not a boring moment on this album, despite how long the songs are (including the 8 minutes of spoken word. He’s a storyteller!) Definitely returning to this.

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Suicide

2/5

I kinda liked “Martin Rev's minimalist electronics and harsh, repetitive rhythms” (Wikipedia 😊). Didn’t like anything else.

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

That little bit of growling bowow yodeling is icing on the cake.

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

I recognized Lost In The Supermarket immediately and could only surmise that I’d heard it in Over The Hedge (2006) most likely covered by Ben Folds (I was right, I checked). And to think, I thought I only knew one The Clash song. Why is their most popular song worse than every song on London Calling? The only thing I didn’t like was how long it was. 4.5 stars

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

John Lydon looks like Arthur Weasley.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

1/5

Borderline insufferable. It’s giving “I’m trapped in the car with new people, and I don’t have control of the aux”.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

3.5 Standout songs: Since I’ve Been Loving You, Tangerine, and That’s The Way

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

I’m not saying it’s his fault, but I got my first migraine ever a few hours after listening to some of this.

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

2/5

A master class album filled with every country music cliche.

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

2/5

I don’t appreciate the insinuation that non-Christians are immoral. 0 stars for that. I enjoyed Pretty Boy Floyd, but I prefer Woody Guthrie’s version.

Common

3/5

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

2/5

Some good songs, but overall it falls short of what I was hoping for. 2.5 stars

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

3/5

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

4/5

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

3/5

Adele

2/5

2015 - 2018 weren’t great years for me. Was it because this album was completely inescapable? No, but it certainly didn’t fucking help! I have a hard time respecting Adele as an artist when she makes millions capitalizing on bastardized renditions of heartbreak. The production style feels dated now, thank god. Her performative vocal style is nauseating and the lack of emotional depth in her lyrics is laughable. The only way I could sit through this album was trying to put words to why I have such a strong aversion to her. (Also, I’m not saying she’s an unattractive woman because she’s not, but her album covers are ass.)

Woodface

Crowded House

3/5

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

3/5

Smash

The Offspring

2/5

“Self-Esteem” will be playing on the radio during the apocalypse.

Reign In Blood

Slayer