My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem	5	3.42	+1.58
Fear Of Music Talking Heads	5	3.47	+1.53
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand	5	3.57	+1.43
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	5	3.65	+1.35
Snivilisation Orbital	4	2.7	+1.3
Kid A Radiohead	5	3.7	+1.3
KIWANUKA Michael Kiwanuka	5	3.74	+1.26
Fuzzy Logic Super Furry Animals	4	2.94	+1.06
Hunky Dory David Bowie	5	3.99	+1.01
Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches Happy Mondays	4	2.99	+1.01

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette	1	3.72	-2.72
Green Onions Booker T. & The MG's	1	3.39	-2.39
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	1	3.33	-2.33
The Chronic Dr. Dre	1	3.31	-2.31
Surf's Up The Beach Boys	1	3.3	-2.3
Drunk Thundercat	1	3.12	-2.12
Treasure Cocteau Twins	1	3.1	-2.1
Treasure Cocteau Twins	1	3.1	-2.1
The Dreaming Kate Bush	1	2.98	-1.98
Who's Next The Who	2	3.89	-1.89

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Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Radiohead	2	5

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Cocteau Twins	2	1
Sepultura	2	1.5

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
David Bowie	2, 2, 5, 3

5-Star Albums (8)

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Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals · 1 likes

4/5

Another that I had originally in the 90s and hadn't heard for ages. Still great!

1-Star Albums (12)

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Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Who's Next

The Who

2/5

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

2/5

Illmatic

Nas

2/5

Rio

Duran Duran

2/5

Meh

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

2/5

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

2/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

5/5

12 albums in and finally a 5*

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

2/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

2/5

It's not unlistenable but it's not good either.

Blue

Joni Mitchell

3/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

Adele

2/5

Clearly very good if you like this sort of thing, not for me.

A Northern Soul

The Verve

3/5

Two or three great songs, rest of the album doesn't really stand out.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

3/5

Odelay

Beck

2/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

2/5

At least it's only half an hour long.

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

3/5

Heroes

David Bowie

2/5

Apart from the title track, not much to recommend.

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

1/5

The Stone Roses

5/5

Unlike some other albums from this time and especially the later britpop era, this feels timeless to me. Still something I can and do listen to anytime.

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

2/5

Another one that's just not my cup of tea.

The Next Day

David Bowie

2/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

2/5

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

2/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

2/5

quiet slow FAST FAST FAST LOUD quiet slow Repeat, sometimes for 8 minutes.

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

1/5

Pretty much unlistenable.

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

2/5

Felt like it might improve with repeated listening, only just scraped a 2 to be honest.

NEU! 75

Neu!

4/5

Pretty good!

Fleet Foxes

2/5

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

4/5

Starts off great, loses it's way a bit in the middle.

Snivilisation

Orbital

4/5

Some really good moments but there's definitely better orbital albums.

The Clash

3/5

Interesting, with some really good bits, definition of a 3 for me

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

2/5

Drunk

Thundercat

1/5

Absolute garbage.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

3/5

Arise

Sepultura

2/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

2/5

Led Zeppelin

3/5

High Violet

The National

4/5

With a few more listens it might even be a five

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

3/5

Going to listen again, think it might grow on me.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

1/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

Just a little bit too much filler to be a five. The good songs are very good though.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Very boring.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

First listen for over 30 years. Really wanted to give a five but after that amazing opening, there's just too much filler in the middle. Still love those opening 3 tracks though.

Franz Ferdinand

5/5

Take me out is an amazing track and I vaguely remember the other singles but first time listening to the album as whole and I really liked it.

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

2/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

3/5

Not heard many of these songs before. Sounded OK but I expecting more to be honest!

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

2/5

There are a couple of Beastie Boy's tracks that I like, neither of them are on this album!

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

2/5

The definition of boring middle of the road dad rock.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

1/5

I see yer ma's taking the divorce well.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

1/5

If you've listened to the title track you've listened to the whole album. No need to sit through 35 minutes of this shit.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

2/5

Another one of the supposed 'big guns' that ended up being a bit underwhelming.

All Directions

The Temptations

2/5

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

1/5

Was going to be a 2 but then I got to the yodelling.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

2/5

Found a copy of this on vinyl in the attic when we moved in. Never listened to it, didn't miss much.

The Coral

3/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

3/5

Not a massive jazz fan but can tolerate this.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

Two stand out hits, the rest all sounds a bit samey and dated.

Eagles

2/5

Boring middle of the road easy listening.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

1/5

Absolute garbage. Could not wait for it end.

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

3/5

Ok, like the Foo fighters but better.

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

2/5

It's insane that he's managed to stretch one song not just across an hour long album but a whole career.

New York Dolls

3/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

2/5

It's historic and influential but I think don't need to hear it again.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

1/5

Not the target audience but this is really boring. Like listening to the results of some stoned yr9 kids fucking around in the music room at lunchtime. Flashes of Dre's production skills and Snoop livens it up at times but overall pretty shit.

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Had this on CD originally and played it loads at the time. First listen for ages and it still stands up.

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

4/5

Some great tracks, captures a moment perfectly, Fucking love Shaun and Bez.

Scott 4

Scott Walker

3/5

Maybe it's because it's a beautiful sunny spring morning but I quite like this.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

3/5

2nd time around, still a three

Violent Femmes

3/5

There are some very good bits, but also some dross.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

2/5

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

3/5

Ok I suppose.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

I'd listen to the best of Bowie a lot. Not sure how many from this album would be on it.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

2/5

Basic music for basic people.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

4/5

A bit overwraught at times and too long but the good bits are very good.

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

1/5

So bad I want to find the people responsible and hurt them. Worst suggestion yet.

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

4/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

One of my favorite albums ever. Full of brilliant and sometimes totally different tracks. All my friends is a national anthem for middle aged hipsters like me.

Black Sabbath

3/5

Put aside some of barmy lyrics it's pretty good.

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

3/5

Liked it more than I thought I would.

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

3/5

For a rap album I liked it quite a bit.

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

1/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

2/5

Felt like perfect cafe background music

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

This was a bit of a slog from start to finish!

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

3/5

Bought this when it first came out and liked it have never really listened much since. Still sounds OK but never quite settles down in to what it wants to be.

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

2/5

Meanders around and never goes anywhere.

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

2/5

42 minutes of salsa. I'm sure it's good if you like salsa but it's 40 minutes too much for me.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Roots