1001 Albums Summary

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Stand! Sly & The Family Stone	5	3.43	+1.57
Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.	5	3.51	+1.49
Definitely Maybe Oasis	5	3.53	+1.47
1999 Prince	5	3.6	+1.4
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	5	3.63	+1.37
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	5	3.72	+1.28
Dookie Green Day	5	3.79	+1.21
Headquarters The Monkees	4	2.86	+1.14
Led Zeppelin III Led Zeppelin	5	3.95	+1.05

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
In The Wee Small Hours Frank Sinatra	2	3.27	-1.27

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Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

I like the sounds, especially the spaghetti western guitar. Really cool rhythmically, gets you into a vibe. But combine minimalism with a 20-minute piece and it kinda sounds like a Shine on You Crazy Diamond demo tape, a little half baked. I just wish it had more melody. But that’s a genre thing, these guys sound good.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Lots of cool sounds, ambient texture, pop sensibility. Like the Smiths meet ABBA. Proto Melody’s Echo Chamber.

1999

Prince

5/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

So, so much guitar. Some songs are pretty long at the ends, but I’m all in favor of not cutting something short. Really a “loud” album in a good way. Somewhat optimistic sounding 90s rock, or at least not as depressing as their US peers.

Achtung Baby

3/5

Not big on U2 but this album had some good moments. One and Mysterious Ways are definitely highlights.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

4 stars, love Stax, RIP Steve Cropper. Really good pieces ahead of its time, but this band is at its best backing vocalists, Otis, Wilson, et. al.

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

The only good pop punk album. More of an exception to the rule. BJA’s melodies are great.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

The best funk. Sounds like Booker T and the MG’s on LSD. Phenomenal songwriting, a hopeful record. Great contrast with there’s a riot going on.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Dancy, funky, so 2010’s, I can’t believe I missed this album before?

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

3/5

Noisy, songs are kinda catchy. So 90s slacker DIY vibe. Def see how this was influential at the time.

Trio

Dolly Parton

4/5

Three of the best voices in country music. I was expecting the songs to sound more dated to the late 80s but was pretty surprised. Vocal harmonies out of this world. Linda might have come out on top on this one.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

5/5

Lotta guitar, lotta f bombs! Slash has such good hi-gain arrangements. There’s a sharp divide between the mega hit tracks and the other tracks. I can’t tell if it’s familiarity bias or what. There are so many songs on here ingrained into music history, mega hits, that the other tracks sometimes feel out of place. The work as a whole gives a lot of context to late 80s butt metal.

Tommy

The Who

4/5

Love the stereo separation. Great sounding instrument recordings. Good themes song wise. I don’t love the plotline of Tommy. This one has grown on me a lot over the years.

Headquarters

The Monkees

4/5

Great sound, def hear the McCartney/Davies influence. Honestly hadn’t listened to the Monkees before. More than a TV band.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

George Martin is the 5th Beatle. I need to find this in mono.

Pretenders

3/5

Punk, rock, new wave. Couple radio tunes.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Need to Relisten. Total vibe, feel like he perfected the sound on 2001.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Groovy jazz funk, great vibe. Good mix of funk, bop, and afrocuban rhythm.

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

2/5

Songs are good but I don’t think McLaren is what makes them good. Probably better examples of NY radio shows and South African music.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

4/5

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

3/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

4/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

Odessa

Bee Gees

3/5

DNF

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

Good groove throughout. Cisco and ghetto are high points. Some of the other tracks are a little long, but still a jam.

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

Real Life

Magazine

4/5

The Undertones

4/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

5/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

The Score

Fugees

3/5

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

2/5

Great performance by Sinatra, but an album full of sad ballads makes for such a sleeper record. Really beautiful arrangements throughout, but not a ton of differentiation between tracks.

New Forms

Roni Size

2/5