My 1001 Albums Journey

Albums Rated

3.31

Average Rating

Complete

1028 albums remaining

Rating Distribution

Rating Timeline

Taste Profile

1990

Favorite Decade

Pop

Favorite Genre

Top Origin

Wordsmith

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
Exile In Guyville Liz Phair	5	3.02	+1.98
Behaviour Pet Shop Boys	5	3.04	+1.96
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.3	+1.7
Beauty And The Beat The Go-Go's	5	3.39	+1.61
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Ray Charles	5	3.5	+1.5
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	5	3.56	+1.44
Tea for the Tillerman Cat Stevens	5	3.68	+1.32
Orbital 2 Orbital	4	2.69	+1.31
Graceland Paul Simon	5	3.73	+1.27
Ananda Shankar Ananda Shankar	4	2.82	+1.18

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Exile On Main Street The Rolling Stones	1	3.6	-2.6
The Band The Band	1	3.35	-2.35
Pump Aerosmith	1	3.11	-2.11
Jack Takes the Floor Ramblin' Jack Elliott	1	2.7	-1.7
Beggars Banquet The Rolling Stones	2	3.62	-1.62
Hotel California Eagles	2	3.59	-1.59
Morrison Hotel The Doors	2	3.59	-1.59
Black Metal Venom	1	2.47	-1.47
Reggatta De Blanc The Police	2	3.44	-1.44
Eliminator ZZ Top	2	3.37	-1.37

5-Star Albums (10)

View Album Wall

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Popular Reviews

The Band

The Band · 4 likes

1/5

"I started to play the song yesterday, and stopped myself. Again, I was angry. Again, another story about the blues of Pharaoh, and the people are invisible. The people are always invisible. "These motherfuckers," I mumbled to myself." -Ta-Nehisi Coates, about 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down'

Black Metal

Venom · 1 likes

1/5

Frankly, cringe. Also not my thing, so I am a little biased, but still - I KNOW metal can be better than this, genre defining or not.

1-Star Albums (5)

All Ratings

The Joshua Tree

3/5

Green

R.E.M.

3/5

Undeniably a pretty good/decent album, but it's nothing extraordinary and just didn't do much for me.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

3/5

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

Was kinda surprised by how much I liked this!

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

4/5

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

3/5

gary gilmore's eyes is crazy I love it like a 3.5 - every song is good, but every song is also really similar

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

2/5

the music isn't really bad or anything, I just felt zero connection to it, which was strange

Van Halen

3/5

eruption is a fire song, but the rest of the album is just not my thing at all - too loud and not my vibe - like 2.5/5, but I'll round up to three because it's not poorly done

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

5/5

I See You

The xx

4/5

The xx

2/5

Really disappointed by this one after having just gotten their most recent album ("I See You") yesterday, which was an easy 4 stars. Too muddled and same-y without any appealing factors.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

I had heard some of the more successful tracks from this before, but unsuprisingly the whole thing is stellar. Yusuf/Cat has a great voice, and the guitar-dominant production is really quite rich and complex. Add some great lyrics and you have some top of the line songs. Easy 5 stars! And the super deluxe version from 2020 has some good outtakes as well as some great loose singles (like "If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out")!

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

Merry Christmas!

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

4/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

Moby Grape

3/5

good, sort of a country-rock combo, with "Omaha" as a particular standout. although the shortness of the songs prevents them from overstaying their welcome, it's also indicative of how the album is a little underdeveloped (eg: lyrically) despite some cool sonic ideas

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

Baba O'Riley... holy shit and the rest of the album is great too!!!

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Excellent album, really more like 3.5 stars for me because I don't find the flow/cadence that compelling on a lot of the tracks, but the highlights (that Enya sample on Ready or Not!!! Killing me Softly!!! etc) and the general quality warrant rounding up to 4 stars.

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Boring, weirdly twee at times, some songs are actually grating to listen to. Street Fighting Man is good, and No Expectations and Salt of the Earth are both decent. 2/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

3/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

2/5

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

4/5

Sealand is so good the rest of the album could be trash and I would still give this a high rating. Good thing the rest of the album is also good!!

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

More like a 3/5 personally, but I recognize the musical talent on display here and it does make for great easy listening.

World Clique

Deee-Lite

3/5

they do have some good beats that really make me feel that grove in my heart... in almost an e.s.p way

The Band

1/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

2/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Black Metal

Venom

1/5

Frankly, cringe. Also not my thing, so I am a little biased, but still - I KNOW metal can be better than this, genre defining or not.

Black Sabbath

3/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

4/5

I don't think I'll revisit this album much beyond a few outstanding tracks, but I think it works really well and sounds good - in fact, I would say that "Time Becomes" is a better song that many of the generic rock tracks on a lot of the mid-level albums on this list. That track is like Blue Monochrome by Yves Klein - many people may say it's pointless, but you can also find a near-infinite number of rhythms and meanings within a seemingly monochrome and/or monotone work. Not saying that I'm putting it in playlist rotation, but still. Halcyon is pretty unquestionable in its greatness though, I have to say.

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

4/5

As far as prog rock goes, this seems like some of the best work there is sonically - but I think it's missing the lyrical element that I want so it'll have to stay at 4 for now, but I may very well change my mind and give it a full five later.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

3/5

Virgin Suicides

Air

4/5

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

4/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

2/5

There are a couple good songs on here, and the rest aren't bad, but they slip into the background so easily and totally blur together, which I don't think was intentional and brings the album down to two stars.

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Rapture

Anita Baker

3/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

5/5

Just really good stuff, and the whole album has immense replay value. One of the core albums of the new wave genre, and I think it remains at the top level of pop achievement in general even 45 years later.

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

2/5

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

1/5

no album needs two songs about bugs

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

4/5

Iron Maiden

3/5

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

4/5

Pump

Aerosmith

1/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

1/5

Ingenue

k.d. lang

3/5

Season of Hollow Love is an incredible song. rest of the album pretty good too

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

5/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

5/5

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

2/5

was surprised to find that the album had finished, it just all blurred together in the background and I had sort of assumed it would go on forever - which I can appreciate as the goal of an album, but I don't think it's what Sinatra was really going for and I don't see it that way

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

im just a sucker for this type of music

Ananda Shankar

4/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

3rd REM album so far - one to go! This one might be my favourite one yet.