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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
On The Beach Neil Young	5	3.46	+1.54
We Are Family Sister Sledge	5	3.48	+1.52
Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman	5	3.79	+1.21
Disintegration The Cure	5	3.86	+1.14
London Calling The Clash	5	3.97	+1.03
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels Dexys Midnight Runners	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Joshua Tree U2	1	3.67	-2.67
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	1	3.55	-2.55
Joan Armatrading Joan Armatrading	1	3.34	-2.34
You Are The Quarry Morrissey	1	2.86	-1.86
Third/Sister Lovers Big Star	1	2.79	-1.79
Casanova The Divine Comedy	1	2.66	-1.66
Ramones Ramones	2	3.57	-1.57
Parachutes Coldplay	2	3.46	-1.46
Stand! Sly & The Family Stone	2	3.43	-1.43
My Generation The Who	2	3.41	-1.41

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Parachutes

Coldplay · 1 likes

2/5

i was raised to be a coldplay hater and i actually didn’t HATE this. however in accordance with my upbringing and beliefs i can’t in good conscience give this higher than a 2

4-Star Albums (10)

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Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

1/5

I hate it. White men shouting. Not good rap and also not good rock. Hope tomorrow isn’t Beastie Boys

Aja

Steely Dan

4/5

Awesome white guy music! Jazzy and fun and feel good. Shaking my lil booty to Peg for the rest of my life. I love it when white guys wile out in this particular musical manner. More of this white guy business and less Beastie Boys please 1001albumsgenerator.com gods

Joan Armatrading

1/5

Just didn’t do it for me sadly, definitely is a lazy comparison to make but felt like a less accessible & slightly jarring at times Tracy Chapman record. Maybe needs a relisten

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

2/5

Yeah this got off to a crawling start and never really found its feet did it… Sing a Simple Song however is an absolute banger and I did love some of the funk instrumentals so extra marks for that

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

What a beautiful album and one I would have never listened to had I not been doing this! A couple of songs I knew but never properly appreciated - Father and Son is a true all timer and will stay with me forever now. Rating dragged down by a couple of weaker songs but all in all very grateful for the introduction to Cat Stevens’ gorgeous songwriting and storytelling

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

Loved the production, didn’t pay much attention to the lyrics but there was a lot of mention of willies

On The Beach

Neil Young

5/5

Oh me oh my this is awesome. I think I need to listen to it way more to fully understand and put my finger on what I find so captivating about it, but for sure the first 5 star for me of the project and an album that will be in rotation for a fair while

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

2/5

Cover art is cool and I like the album name, was listenable but nothing remarkable and got a bit samey pretty early on

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

1/5

I could have died without listening to this

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

This is so close to being a 4 but I sadly just don’t think I’ll remember or revisit this album or any of its songs. A good time though! Felt like I should be riding a horse whilst listening to it

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

So nearly a 4, some great songs but just don’t think I’ll revisit as a whole album… Which makes me think some of my previous 3s should be 2s and some of my 2s should be 1s. It’s really hard to rate 1001 albums and have a consistent rating system. Love you Steven Wonderful and looking forward to giving you a 5 stars at some point

Vivid

Living Colour

3/5

C M PUNK! C M PUNK! C M PUNK!

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

2/5

I was brought up on Fat of the Land and hadn’t ever listened to this in full. Some heaters (Break and Enter, No Good, obvs Voodoo People) but also some shite in between. Probably won’t listen to it in full again

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

4/5

Really adored this album, felt so nostalgic to me for some reason - I think because it reminded me a lot of the Levellers albums played in the house growing up. The titular track will be on repeat for a fair while as will this record stay in rotation! Much weaker 2nd half after such a strong start just does bring the rating down a tad but god I love violins lol

Funeral

Arcade Fire

3/5

i think i went into this wanting to give it a 5 as i know im supposed to grant god like status to Funeral by Arcade Fire buuuut i’ve always been a The Suburbs girlie and a lot of this album fades into the background for me. with the exception of course of Wake Up, which is one of the best songs ever made

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

first MJ album i’ve ever listened to in full which is shocking from me. a real good time and probably the first album on this list that i’m not shocked to see featured, one of the greatest to ever do it

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Have discovered via this project that I LOVE Steely Dan lol - also weird that of 1089 albums i’ve got two Steely Dan in the first 20! This was fun but not quite as good as Aja for me. Please 1001albumgenerator gods save me some Steely Dan for later

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

LOVED this. what a time. so british. yorkshire mentioned

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

2/5

inoffensive, very 80s, but pretty uninspiring to me. shame really as i want to support these slay queens and they sound like they’re having a great time

Tracy Chapman

5/5

First album of this project that I already knew front to back really well, and what a joy it is to listen through again. Just one of the best albums ever made, Tracy Chapman is a gift. Baby Can I Hold You remains one of my favourite songs of all time

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

5/5

Two albums in a row that I already know and love, I am such a Nile Rogers fangirl and had the absolute privilege of seeing him and Chic play a few of these tunes live. A moment please for the most underrated most beautiful song Easier To Love PLEASE i’ve been spinning this track so frequently for the past few months

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

2/5

i think if i’d listened to this at a different time in my life i would’ve really enjoyed it

Parachutes

Coldplay

2/5

i was raised to be a coldplay hater and i actually didn’t HATE this. however in accordance with my upbringing and beliefs i can’t in good conscience give this higher than a 2

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

strong start but got pretty samey pretty quick. was funnily motivating to listen to on my morning run as a white woman

The Joshua Tree

1/5

i actually think i’m more ideologically against U2 than i am coldplay, what a dreary listen. actually couldn’t finish it lol first DNF of the game. also im still mad at them for that time they forcefully downloaded their shitey album onto my ipod touch and used all my storage

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

the young man on the bass was going absolutely crazy. got to respect it. was a nice listen but i don’t think i’m sophisticated enough to have much of an opinion on piano jazz

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

a decent listen but lowkey every song sounded the same except for Love Hungry Man which had a funky little bassline

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

god this is so good, forgot how much i loved led zep. could genuinely be a 5 with a few more listens and more time to take it all in. re entering my led zep phase immediately

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

1/5

fuck me this was absolutely dreadful

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

this was so sick, exactly the kind of album i’d hoped to get through this thing - an absolute banger which i would’ve never stumbled across myself. also consolidates my belief that lyrics are the least important part of a song because i don’t know what these guys are saying but by god do i know what they are SAYING

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

the delight i felt when this came up as my album for today! god fuck i love this album so much. so sonically rich, beautiful and thought out, so stylishly dark and moody, sets very few feet wrong in my eyes. just a gorgeous listening experience every single time

White Ladder

David Gray

2/5

how do you rate an album where the second song is one of the best songs ever made and the rest are a load of shite

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

1/5

this was woefully bad i couldn’t even finish it please don’t ever give me this shit again

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

2/5

Some interesting moments and an overall nice easy listen, but rather forgettable sadly

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Not a Bowie record I had even heard of before, but thoroughly enjoyed! A very cohesive album and sounds so sure of itself despite being a diversion from the usual Bowie sound. Good fun

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

felt so overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of this 2 hour beast of an album that i’m now a week behind on this project. i love outkast and there are some undeniable bangers on this but fuck me could it not have been half the length fellas

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

not sure why i have always turned my nose up at listening to this album, big mistake, huge. what a bloody album - i think because i had heard london calling too many times i didn’t want to listen to a full album that sounded like it but by heck the VARIETY! the RANGE! way more ska vibes than i had expected. loved it, solid 5 stars from me

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

3/5

Look I’m sorry but I actually just don’t give a fuck about Pink Floyd

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

i’ve always been a bit of an echo and the bunnymen casual since i decided that donnie darko would be my favourite film when i was 15 trying to be edgy. i did really enjoy this, some brilliant songs and a then a bit of easy background music. the bunnymen really know how to write a bridge - i could listen to the bridge section in the cutter all day every day

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

3/5

divorced dad music

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

i tried to listen to this album in full and review it properly but i ended up just listening to Mayonaise 13 times in a row so i don’t have much to add to the discussion

My Generation

The Who

2/5

why does this album have every single white person genre and does them all mediocrely

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

1/5

getting back on the horse with doing this project is much harder when your first album back is this absolute fucking drivel

Traffic

2/5

booooring. please give me something good i need to get back into committing to this silliness

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

i can’t decide if this album is a 5 for any reason other than being stacked with hits. is it perfectly coherent? unsure. is it banger after banger? absofuckinglutely

Technique

New Order

2/5

i think my personal version of a band that i should love that just doesn’t do it for me is New Order. this wasn’t bad i just was not interested or enthralled by anything. i think an uncool dad would think this was the height of cool

Ramones

2/5

every song sounded the same. like every song. i can’t differentiate one from the other apart from the AO advert one. the one song they have made multiple times sounds good but it’s literally just the same song with different words

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

loved the sound of this but the album itself lost a bit of steam midway through. defo an indicator that i could be a big siouxsie and the banshees enjoyer so a band for me to invest more time into for sure

Pornography

The Cure

2/5

by no stretch my favourite cure record, a bit too dreary even by my emo standards