1001 Albums Summary

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122
Albums Rated
3.39
Average Rating
11%
Complete
967 albums remaining

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1990
Favorite Decade
Punk
Favorite Genre
UK
Top Origin
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14
5-Star Albums
2
1-Star Albums

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Albums

You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Yank Crime
Drive Like Jehu
5 2.74 +2.26
Treasure
Cocteau Twins
5 3.11 +1.89
Machine Gun Etiquette
The Damned
5 3.16 +1.84
Virgin Suicides
Air
5 3.23 +1.77
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Derek & The Dominos
5 3.38 +1.62
Heaven Or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins
5 3.42 +1.58
OK
Talvin Singh
4 2.56 +1.44
good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar
5 3.65 +1.35
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins
5 3.68 +1.32
Vol. 4
Black Sabbath
5 3.74 +1.26

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
McCartney
Paul McCartney
1 3.25 -2.25
Permission to Land
The Darkness
1 3.13 -2.13
The Score
Fugees
2 3.69 -1.69
The Atomic Mr Basie
Count Basie & His Orchestra
2 3.5 -1.5
Blue
Joni Mitchell
2 3.5 -1.5
Paul's Boutique
Beastie Boys
2 3.46 -1.46
Play
Moby
2 3.45 -1.45
Synchronicity
The Police
2 3.4 -1.4
Music in Exile
Songhoy Blues
2 3.33 -1.33
Horses
Patti Smith
2 3.31 -1.31

Artists

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The Smashing Pumpkins 2 5
Cocteau Twins 2 5

5-Star Albums (14)

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Popular Reviews

OK Computer by Radiohead

Ok Computer is…okay. Like yes it’s good, but that’s it. Don’t worry some pretentious prick with daddy issues will argue with me about this until he’s red in the face. And watch him combust when I tell him that this or Kid A isn’t Radiohead’s best album… Album is good and thoughtfully put together but people really act like there aren’t a million albums on the subject of technology’s impact, and others do it better (The Pleasure Principle). Radiohead’s OK Computer is for men who take SSRIs yet think they are better than everyone else, and think women’s opinions suck (but don’t worry he will call himself a feminist). <3 P.s. the bends is better

1-Star Albums (2)

All Ratings (122)

Talking Book by Stevie Wonder
Dec 29 2025

Okay, it was good few hits. But didn’t feel like I uncovered something I was missing.

Hard Again by Muddy Waters
Dec 30 2025

Great blues — guitar riffs really good.

Boston by Boston
Dec 31 2025

A surprise on how cohesive this album was.

Tapestry by Carole King
Jan 01 2026

Perfect album for a rainy day

Horses by Patti Smith
Jan 02 2026

Okay!

Cloud Nine by The Temptations
Jan 05 2026

Solid album! Nothing stuck out to me and grabbed my attention. But good album front to back, would be great as a record for the background.

Jan 08 2026

Not what I anticipated at all. A good listen, but not a ton of diversity in the songs making it feel less cohesive and more stale. The touches of inspiration were really good.

Highly Evolved by The Vines
Jan 09 2026

Great find, so surprised that I hadn’t heard this before. Great album. Sounds like the Strokes

Hunky Dory by David Bowie
Jan 11 2026

Each song a surprise. David Bowie cementing his legacy. Now I see. Near perfect album.

Trans Europe Express by Kraftwerk
Jan 11 2026

Would be good if I were on ecstasy in a German club!

Ten by Pearl Jam
Jan 14 2026
The White Room by The KLF
Jan 18 2026

An unexpected joy. Not what I would normally gravitate towards and not sure how/when I would listen to it again, but I am glad to have done so.

Jan 21 2026

Perfect album for me. A few stand out songs, cohesive, with enough diversity to keep you interested.

Hysteria by Def Leppard
Jan 22 2026

Not as good as the other one. But hard to say, I think this is an album depending on its environment; I think listening on a Walkman in the 80s in the Summer time would change my opinion.

The Pleasure Principle by Gary Numan
Jan 23 2026

This album is the reason I got into this project in the first place. Finding pieces that are exciting and change your perspective of music and taste of music. Such a strong and revolutionary album. I’m appalled that I waited until I was 25 to hear this. This was amazing a very STRONG 4 — 4.5 for me. The back end is where I think it lost some points but hard to tell because the top half is that strong.

At Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers Band
Jan 24 2026

Good album, would be great to own — I’m not sure what context I’d play it in though. It was a great front to back listen but nothing stood out

The Renaissance by Q-Tip
Jan 25 2026

Pretty good, found a few songs that I liked.

Pornography by The Cure
Jan 27 2026

Solid album, happy to have seen the cure in here. I don’t think this is their best album! But a good listen through and I should purchase the record!

NEU! 75 by Neu!
Jan 28 2026

May need to listen again.

Exit Planet Dust by The Chemical Brothers
Jan 29 2026

Someone’s baby daddy loves this album, and I feel sorry for her.

Bossanova by Pixies
Jan 31 2026

I think this is a middle point album to me 3.5 but I’m giving it the 4 here. Kind of a deep pit album where it’s almost too cohesive where there isn’t the diversity that keeps you sucked in to each song. But it does sound great as a whole, it is hard to find a single point I really like.

Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones
Feb 01 2026

A very strong three! A great record to have in the arsenal. The singles definitely out shadow the rest of the album.

Exodus by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Feb 03 2026

Solid album, the singles are standouts. I think it’s more cohesive than I thought it would be, but a little one note. Religious themes more prevalent than I initially remembered.

At Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash
Feb 04 2026

This is being recorded so I probably shouldn’t say sh*t or hell.

1989 by Taylor Swift
Feb 06 2026
Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Feb 08 2026

fell off at the end, overall a good album with some good deepcuts

Tres Hombres by ZZ Top
Feb 09 2026

This album is near perfect and should get more recognition and praise. Has great singles, yet cohesive without being boring and one noted. Album is consistently good and keeps you guessing and moving. This is on a must own list for me.

The Atomic Mr Basie by Count Basie & His Orchestra
Feb 11 2026

Jazz that’s palatable to white people in the 50s.

Either Or by Elliott Smith
Feb 12 2026

Solid, yet unremarkable to me. Solid one to own, but a little one noted for me.

Permission to Land by The Darkness
Feb 13 2026

The vocals were so damn bad on this I struggled to listen to it, this is coming from a person who historically loves bad vocalists. The music was fine but seriously how is this fucking album on here, 1001 best albums to kick puppies?

Ramones by Ramones
Feb 17 2026

Great album, cohesive with great singles and good to listen to front to back!

Tago Mago by Can
Feb 20 2026

3 because it had a strong start…but this is literally MK Ultra Core.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Feb 22 2026

Slacked at the end. But overall good album, you could tell Flea had a blast with this album!

Ghosteen by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Feb 25 2026

Album of agony and despair

Groovin' by The Young Rascals
Feb 26 2026

Non offensive listening!

Melodrama by Lorde
Feb 28 2026

Breaking up with your boyfriend in a Lowe’s parking lot core.

Machine Gun Etiquette by The Damned
Mar 01 2026

Great album! The only thing I disliked about the album is that they are British. Drummer is too good to be British…ugh!!

Mar 04 2026

There is only one way to summarize this: “If you see something, say something.” I’m glad I waited to listen to this sitting at my gate with a black iced coffee early in the morning. This is situationally perfect.

OK Computer by Radiohead
Mar 12 2026

Ok Computer is…okay. Like yes it’s good, but that’s it. Don’t worry some pretentious prick with daddy issues will argue with me about this until he’s red in the face. And watch him combust when I tell him that this or Kid A isn’t Radiohead’s best album… Album is good and thoughtfully put together but people really act like there aren’t a million albums on the subject of technology’s impact, and others do it better (The Pleasure Principle). Radiohead’s OK Computer is for men who take SSRIs yet think they are better than everyone else, and think women’s opinions suck (but don’t worry he will call himself a feminist). <3 P.s. the bends is better

Central Reservation by Beth Orton
Mar 13 2026

Kind of music Wendy puts on in the car and you never hear again.

Brilliant Corners by Thelonious Monk
Mar 14 2026

The foreplay of jazz. Extra star just for the name.

Yank Crime by Drive Like Jehu
Mar 15 2026

A post-hardcore artifact that should be revered as one of the best emo albums of all time. The top is adrenaline spiking motion, then dives into a mellowed rhythm. This is the kind of cool Brits wish they were.

Figure 8 by Elliott Smith
Mar 17 2026

Damp and moody, what I imagine living on the Pacific Northwest does to you. This album deeply suits the depressed, nihilistic, tearful guy who makes his personality drinking PBR and that’s okay . You’ll get her back one day (you definitely won’t) <3 RIP ES

Trio by Dolly Parton
Mar 18 2026

Trio more like Quadruple

Chris by Christine and the Queens
Mar 19 2026
good kid, m.A.A.d city by Kendrick Lamar
Mar 21 2026

I’ll never get over listening to this. One of the best albums of the 21st century.

S.F. Sorrow by The Pretty Things
Apr 01 2026

Kind of like the Beetles if they weren’t famous and full of themselves, and if they really loved left/right localization

Rocks by Aerosmith
Apr 02 2026

If someone told me this was their favorite album, I’m immediately checking an online registry…if you know what I mean.

Tidal by Fiona Apple
Apr 03 2026
Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Apr 04 2026

Giving it a five, would be californication

Picture Book by Simply Red
Apr 07 2026

I saw a review that said it sounds like this would be playing at K-mart — I must agree

Dire Straits by Dire Straits
Apr 11 2026

What you hear in the background when you’re drinking a margarita at Margaritaville.

Blur by Blur
Apr 12 2026

I think this album will continue to grow on me, thus a 4

Murmur by R.E.M.
Apr 13 2026
Blue by Joni Mitchell
Apr 14 2026

Can’t get her black face persona out of my head while listening to this album.

Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins
Apr 15 2026

I just can't enjoy the monotonous sludge of distorted guitars and Corgan's petulant whine. Is what I would say if I were normal.

Sticky Fingers by The Rolling Stones
Apr 17 2026

Just like a young girl should:

This Is Fats Domino by Fats Domino
Apr 19 2026

Couldn’t find this one specifically so I chose “Fat Domino Swings” — reminds me of going to breakfast at Backwater in Melbourne

La Revancha Del Tango by Gotan Project
May 21 2026

If Bad Bunny performed at a Parisian Cafe and was a prick.

Siembra by Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
May 23 2026
Vol. 4 by Black Sabbath
May 26 2026

Bill Ward’s jazz style drumming brings such a unique flair to this album that makes it so enjoyable. This is a must own in a record collection, like find an original pressing. Whenever I listen to this and Master of Reality I think about how Ozzy was called the “Prince of Darkness” but to me he sounds like a teddy bear — my close, personal friend Oz. This is one of the best Rock albums of all time, and I hope it continues to gain recognition as time goes on. This is my “I know ball” album.

Crocodiles by Echo And The Bunnymen
Jun 04 2026

Weird because I liked the album, but nothing stood out to me. 3.5

OK by Talvin Singh
Jun 14 2026

This project will drop you in the middle of nowhere. I never thought I’d to listen to Indian inspired electronica and enjoy it.

Smash by The Offspring
Jun 15 2026

I liked that this was an encapsulation of what being a teenage boy was like. Throughout the album I got whiffs of body odor and a metric ton of Axe body spray. This made me want to put on one of those shell necklaces and be a menace to society.

Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin
Jul 17 2026

Being that this was their first album, and they found their characteristic sound. I gave this a 5 due to the fact that they laid one of the strongest foundations with their debut album. Not my favorite album, nor do I think it’s their best.

Rio by Duran Duran
Jul 18 2026

Surprisingly grew on me, bass line draws you in. Is this something that I will casually listen to regularly? No. But I am glad I gave Duran Duran a chance, though, I still don’t understand their cult following. (3.5)

Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi
Jul 19 2026

A divisive dumpster fire album. I’m giving it a three just based on the fact that the top singles on this album have crazy staying power. Industry designed and forced or not it’s impressive to make singles that are recognized 40 years later. I went into this album being a hair metal denier. I still am BUT I didnt hate this as much as I should have.

Play by Moby
Jul 24 2026

An album made to sample off of.

Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette
Jul 25 2026

It’s the 90s, you went through a bad breakup all you have is anger and a harmonica; you cook this up.

Music in Exile by Songhoy Blues
Jul 28 2026

This really makes me want to buy a brand new, 0% APR, AWD, Jeep.

2112 by Rush
Aug 15 2026

This album is for the people who want to run for congress (in their 80s and have terrible opinions).

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