My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Sail Away Randy Newman	5	2.97	+2.03
Imperial Bedroom Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	3	+2
The Trinity Session Cowboy Junkies	5	3.08	+1.92
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	5	3.39	+1.61
Crime Of The Century Supertramp	5	3.4	+1.6
Fear Of Music Talking Heads	5	3.47	+1.53
Rust Never Sleeps Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.51	+1.49
Document R.E.M.	5	3.55	+1.45
Ramones Ramones	5	3.57	+1.43
Getz/Gilberto Stan Getz	5	3.65	+1.35

Album	You	Global	Diff
Youth And Young Manhood Kings of Leon	1	3.09	-2.09
Come Find Yourself Fun Lovin' Criminals	1	2.92	-1.92
Roots Sepultura	1	2.79	-1.79
American Idiot Green Day	2	3.77	-1.77
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys	2	3.73	-1.73
Master Of Puppets Metallica	2	3.72	-1.72
Slipknot Slipknot	1	2.67	-1.67
A Grand Don't Come For Free The Streets	1	2.65	-1.65
Morrison Hotel The Doors	2	3.58	-1.58
Tidal Fiona Apple	2	3.46	-1.46

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

"Let Me Put My Love Into You" is a Spinal Tap song if I’ve ever heard one.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Document

R.E.M.

5/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

5/5

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

2/5

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

1/5

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

2/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

In high school I got The Best of CCR from the Columbia House Record Club, and the thing was an eye-opener. Just banger after banger. And there's like, what, only two tracks from Cosmo's Factory that didn't make their "best of" cut?

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Elton, you gotta tighten this thing up. Some real all-timers on this album, but have you considered cutting some of the chaff…. Like, say, Jamaica Jerk-Off, just as an example?

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

1/5

Ruh-roh

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

3/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

2/5

The Doors are simply not for me.

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

5/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

5/5

Sister

Sonic Youth

3/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

2/5

Eagles

3/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

Roots

Sepultura

1/5

Low-Life

New Order

4/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Led Zeppelin

3/5

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

3/5

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

3/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

3/5

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

3/5

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

2/5

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

4/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

2/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

Fight the Power a 5-star song, despite my overall rating.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

2/5

American Idiot

Green Day

2/5

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

2/5

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

2/5

Sounds so Jack White-y it’s like he’s recording his own Weird Al parodies of himself.

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Adele

3/5

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

1/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

Halfway through the first track I knew this was an album I’d return to again and again.

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

3/5

Drunk

Thundercat

4/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

Beyond Belief is probably my favourite Elvis song, so how can I give this album anything but top marks.

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

3/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam I Am.

Pyromania

Def Leppard

2/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

2/5

I somehow never listened to this band in high school, despite being the right age, and this sort of aligning with my tastes. In another universe I could see myself really getting into this, but now, many years later I’m just not interested in what it’s offering.

I See You

The xx

3/5

Seems ex(x)cessive to have two albums by The xx on this list.

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

4/5

Fun and noisy, gotta love it. People complaining about the number of covers or the loud screaming: congratulations, you’ve discovered the point of this music existing!

Sail Away

Randy Newman

5/5

Think about these first three tracks and how effortlessly he moves from devastating satire in “Sail Away” to the tongue-in-cheek self-effacing “Lonely at the Top” right into the completely earnest and beautiful “He Gives Us All His Love”. Who else can do that?! Also, it’s simply incredible how many people sign up for this project and seem to absolutely hate listening to and thinking about music in any truly open-minded way. Your lazily dismissive, knee-jerk, sophomoric, incurious one-star takes on half these albums are an embarrassment, you philistine babies!

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

4/5

Synchronicity

The Police

2/5

Vespertine

Björk

3/5

Slipknot

1/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back