My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Yank Crime Drive Like Jehu	5	2.71	+2.29
S.F. Sorrow The Pretty Things	5	3.01	+1.99
Tigermilk Belle & Sebastian	5	3.23	+1.77
Either Or Elliott Smith	5	3.39	+1.61
Dusty In Memphis Dusty Springfield	5	3.47	+1.53
Bryter Layter Nick Drake	5	3.52	+1.48
The Wildest! Louis Prima	5	3.53	+1.47
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.54	+1.46
Heroes David Bowie	5	3.61	+1.39
After The Gold Rush Neil Young	5	3.62	+1.38

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Blunderbuss Jack White	1	3.39	-2.39
Master Of Puppets Metallica	2	3.72	-1.72
Follow The Leader Korn	1	2.65	-1.65
Are You Experienced Jimi Hendrix	3	4.15	-1.15
Third Portishead	2	3.13	-1.13
The Rising Bruce Springsteen	2	3.06	-1.06

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	2	5

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In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

3/5

It's ok, very 60s.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

5/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

5/5

Great, baroque folk/pop music. I personally have purposefully (for some reason) held off listening to Nick Drake. Still on the fence around his vocals, not personally a fan, I find them too contrived and affected. The music is fantastic, great songwriting. I hear the influence in 90s bands such as Belle and Sebastian, et al. Great album.

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

Mid-tempo rockers, turning the page on the quiet-loud-quiet from the grunge era, adding their touches of Radiohead influence and brit-pop bombastic singing, this album is ok, if not a bit repetitive. Seems to occupy a safe space in rock-n-roll here, nothing "edgy" or similar. Songs are decent and easy sing-a-longs (albeit not Beatles sing-a-long good).

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Stadium anthemic pop punk that carries on the punk tradition of social commentary. Coming out post 9/11, during the Bush administration, its Green Day's take on the current state of America and the decay it sees in suburbia and the american psyche. Its a concept album, I assume, that has that steel thread of a american character passing through this place and time in history. Overall, good songs, better than my previous album of Coldplay, but they're all generic 90s/early-00s rock.

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Kimono My House

Sparks

4/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

1/5

I'm not sure why this on this list and not a White Stripes album. This album doesn't belong on a list like this.

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

First time listen. Dancing Queen has almost 2 Billion listens on Spotify, wow! Good Album, 4.

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

4/5

Its a nice album, ethereal 80s synths and reverb drums. Quite listenable, but dated as well. 4

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

4, quite synth heavy

Rage Against The Machine

3/5

Riff-heavy, guitar really seems to be the focus of this album. Has a real 90s feel. 1 listen, 3 stars

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

5. The album begins with perhaps the most famous rattling chord in rock history to start an album. And it's the Beatles....5.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

I think this was the first vinyl LP I bought (1998 from the sticker), from the $1 bin of course :). One of rock's early supergroups, sounding like Simon & Garfunkel, just more 60s...man. The vocals, when singing together is great adding a layer of complexity to songs that are simple in their acoustic accompaniment. The strongest songs here written by Stills. 4

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

70s soul funk. Great band. 4

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

3/5

punk rock, kinda run-of-the-mill punk. 3.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Elvis Presley

4/5

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

Seminal stoner metal, great overdriven, psych guitar riffing. Granted its Ozzy singing, but its not the focus really, it's all about them heavy riffs. The albums sequencing leans towards a live show with tracks bleeding into the next and perhaps a concept here. I've never really listened to Black Sabbath and I'm digging it. I'm going to have to get into more stoner metal. Probably a 4.5, but gotta round up here, I'm going to give it a 5.

Follow The Leader

Korn

1/5

Why are the drums so high in the mix and dry? The singer sounds like he's always on the brink of something, taking a shit, I'm not sure, but its like some affected stressed growl. This is just not my vibe. From a musical standpoint, there doesn't seem to be a great deal of melody or strong musicianship. This music stresses me out.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

I have not listened to this album or Pink Floyd in a long time. Remember getting into this in college, so years ago. The album dedicated to Syd Barrett is a great one, interesting songs and musicality abound in the album. 5.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

3/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

Chill soul with touches of rap. Vocals, particularly the rap ones) seem somewhat down in the mix whereas the music seems to take the top. Quite listenable. 4.

Throwing Muses

3/5

3. It's ok.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

5, love this record

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

I'm between a 4 or a 5.

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

5/5

Never listened to this. Quality punk.

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

3/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

Feels like this album is the precursor to 80s metal.

Pretenders

3/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Heroes

David Bowie

5/5

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

4/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

5/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

5/5

This is quality psychedelic rock music. 5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

5/5

This is a record that you can put on anytime, anywhere and it will be alright.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

America is a truly great song.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

Third

Portishead

2/5

Not a big fan

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Surprised to see this, given I wouldn't put it in Springsteen's best. These songs aren't good. It's nostalgia at a time I guess people needed it. Generic, crappily written songs. Sounds like songs you'd get from some local band that takes themselves way too seriously.

Play

Moby

4/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

Vulnicura

Björk

4/5

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

3/5

B-52's

The B-52's

3/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

5/5

Ramones

4/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

5/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

2/5

too much double bass drum, not a fan.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Live Through This

Hole

3/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

Enjoy the synths, but the industrial drums not a fan of.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

The playing of Paul Desmond is phenomenal. The entire band is great. Masterpiece.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Wrote a Song for Everyone is such good song. The songs aren't musically complex, but the writing is top-notch and Fogerty's voice has that throaty, tiresome quality that lends itself to the tunes. The dude abides.

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

4/5

First listen, never heard of this group. Digging the chill vibe. Like the jazz, trip hop thing. 4.

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

3/5

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

4/5

First listen to this record, started with their next album many years ago. This band is fantastic.