My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Ys Joanna Newsom	5	2.8	+2.2
Rejoicing In The Hands Devendra Banhart	5	2.81	+2.19
John Prine John Prine	5	3.22	+1.78
The Seldom Seen Kid Elbow	5	3.24	+1.76
S&M Metallica	5	3.26	+1.74
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	5	3.42	+1.58
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	5	3.43	+1.57
Play Moby	5	3.45	+1.55
I See You The xx	4	2.97	+1.03

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The College Dropout Kanye West	1	3.31	-2.31
At Folsom Prison Johnny Cash	2	3.96	-1.96
What's Going On Marvin Gaye	2	3.95	-1.95
Grievous Angel Gram Parsons	1	2.87	-1.87
Station To Station David Bowie	2	3.69	-1.69
Justified Justin Timberlake	1	2.67	-1.67
Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club	2	3.67	-1.67
Getz/Gilberto Stan Getz	2	3.66	-1.66
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan	2	3.61	-1.61
Fulfillingness' First Finale Stevie Wonder	2	3.57	-1.57

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Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

Has some really great tracks, some are so-so.

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

2/5

Not as good as hunky dory, not really my jam.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

2/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Hypnotised

The Undertones

2/5

A 2 because I enjoyed the first song or two. But then it was straight meh.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

3/5

Wasn't bad, wasn't great, was perfectly fine to listen to.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

3/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

2/5

I think I liked maybe 2 songs. Just not my style of music. Tina Turner is a phenomenal entertainer and a legend, but this album just isn't my style.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

2/5

I appreciate Little Richard's place and importance in music history. And if that's how I was rating these albums I'd give this a 5. But I'm rating on how well I personally like the album and music. And this is just not my style.

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

3/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1/5

I feel like I'm going to say this a lot in this journey. I appreciate the place of this album in music history, but it's just not for me.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

5/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

3/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Wavered between a 2 and 3, settled on 3.

Station To Station

David Bowie

2/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

2/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

3/5

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

4/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

The Only Ones

2/5

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

2/5

Boston

4/5

Truth

Jeff Beck

3/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

2/5

Play

Moby

5/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

1/5

I See You

The xx

4/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

2/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

3/5

Metallica

3/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

5/5

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

2/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

4/5

Better than I remember.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

Tuesday's Gone is a masterpiece, the rest is good.

Rapture

Anita Baker

2/5

Django Django

4/5

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

S&M

Metallica

5/5

Connected

Stereo MC's

3/5

An example of don't judge an album by its cover or most popular song. The hit song from this album is a classic early 90s jam, but I enjoyed most of the rest of the album way more. I was all set to think it was meh, but ended up really liking it.

Infected

The The

2/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

2/5

En-Tact

The Shamen

1/5

Just not for me.

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

Has my favorite Beatles song, Golden Slumbers, as well as a few classics and songs that changed the music scene.

Marquee Moon

Television

2/5

Joanna Newsom

5/5

This album is beautiful and soaring. It's probably not everyone's taste, but it is mine and I love it.

Justified

Justin Timberlake

1/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

2/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

I love Nick Drake. For some reason I had never heard of him until a couple years ago, but I was an instant fan when I did. Northern Sky and Hazy Jane I are my favorites from this album.

John Prine

5/5

Grew up listening to John Prine. It seemed like one of his records was always on the turntable. And he's one if the greatest singer-songwriters of all time. Lyrics that can haunt you, like Hello In There.

Pink Flag

Wire

3/5

I've never heard of Wire, was all set for it to be 'meh', but I actually enjoyed it.

Dust

Screaming Trees

2/5

The only Screaming Trees song I'd heard before was I Nearly Lost You, which I like way more than anything on this album. It wasn't a bad album, but not one I'll probably return to.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

3 because of Gigantic and Where Is My Mind.

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

1/5

Le Tigre

2/5

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

The Kinks

3/5

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

3/5

Debut

Björk

3/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

The Last Broadcast

Doves

4/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

2/5

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

2/5

The United States Of America

3/5

Enjoyable to listen to, not something I would probably listen to again, but it was decent.

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

2/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

2/5

I dunno. To me it sounds like every other late '70s punk album. It's just... meh. Not bad, but not anything I'd search out again.

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

3/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

The kind of album I imagine the kid from Dazed and Confused listening to at the end of the movie.

World Clique

Deee-Lite

2/5

A 2 just for Groove Is In The Heart. Otherwise, it was just meh.

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

2/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

2/5

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

2/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Was all set to score this a 2, but as I listened it grew on me. And La Grange is such a classic, 3 it is.

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

3/5

Am I giving this a 3 just because of Pretty in Pink and all the nostalgia? Yes. Yes I am.

Tom Tom Club

2/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

3/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

3/5

Quiet Life

Japan

2/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

2/5

It's not terrible... but not good either. Definitely not Pet Sounds.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

2/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

2/5

A 2 because this is the ultimate version of O Want You To Want Me, and Surrender wasn't terrible. Otherwise I thought it was not great.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

2/5

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

2/5

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

3/5

This album has THE version of Nothing Compares To You. That alone gives it 3 stars.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

2/5

NEU! 75

Neu!

3/5

Wasn't sure what to expect with this one but ending up kind of liking it.

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

4/5

Doolittle

Pixies

3/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

Embryonic Journey and Somebody to Love are the highlights for me on this one.

Nowhere

Ride

3/5

Buena Vista Social Club

2/5

Guero

Beck

3/5

Not my favorite Beck, but still pretty good.

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

2/5

It's... ok.

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

2/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

2/5

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

3/5

White Light

Gene Clark

2/5

Fleet Foxes

5/5

Fleet Foxes is one of my all-time favorite bands and they are unbelievable live. This album is gorgeous.

Stankonia

OutKast

2/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

2/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

2/5

I can appreciate how others can view this as one of the greatest albums of all time. I get it. And Johnny Cash is a legend. But I'm scoring on how I personally like the music and while Folsom Prison is a classic song, the album as a whole is not my jam.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

2/5

The best songs are the ones without the synth and obligatory "'80s sound".

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

2/5

Torn on this one. If I could do 2.5 stars, that's what I'd probably do. Has a couple good songs, but it's just ok to me.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard