1001 Albums Summary

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Neon Bible Arcade Fire	5	3.34	+1.66
Disintegration The Cure	5	3.86	+1.14

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Love Supreme John Coltrane	1	3.63	-2.63
Spiderland Slint	1	2.97	-1.97
Ctrl SZA	1	2.92	-1.92
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite Maxwell	1	2.9	-1.9
Alien Lanes Guided By Voices	1	2.75	-1.75
Catch A Fire Bob Marley & The Wailers	2	3.63	-1.63
Moss Side Story Barry Adamson	1	2.53	-1.53
Bryter Layter Nick Drake	2	3.52	-1.52
Nilsson Schmilsson Harry Nilsson	2	3.43	-1.43
Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen	2	3.41	-1.41

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OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Seminal classic! Perfection

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

classic grunge. Era defining with some stand-out tracks. some of the album does blend into one however.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

2/5

Too whimsical, too much discordant jazz piano

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

includes the two tracks everyone knows - Born in the USA and Dancing in the Dark - the rest of the album is very middle-America.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

1/5

Technically brilliant. Don't like jazz.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Classic Rolling Stones - good from first to last.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

2/5

Filled a gap in the musical knowledge, but isn't my cup of tea

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

2/5

A drug-fuelled trip. Echos of early punk.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Very pleasant - soul, country, swing, show. It's all included.

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

3/5

Definitely punk. You can hear how this influenced later bands

Tidal

Fiona Apple

3/5

Unexpectedly pleasant - she has an excellent voice and the melodies were lovely.

Teen Dream

Beach House

2/5

A bit whimsical for me

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

A classic! Santana's best album

Spiderland

Slint

1/5

Discordant. Not for me

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

3/5

Unexpectedly good. Like Morrissey but with more oomph

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

The one and the only

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

1/5

What's worse than jazz? Easy-listening elevator jazz

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Not as instantly memorable.

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

Unexpected. Like the Cure - goth undertones. Relatively mono-cadence.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

Classic Beastie Boys. Not my go to listen, but a slice of life

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

Pleasant - didn't realise this contains Mrs Robinson.

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

1/5

Conceptual - slightly odd

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

Still mellow.

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

3/5

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

3/5

Interesting With some highlights

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

3/5

Pleasent

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

Excellent album

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Classic Rolling Stones. Great to understand where Wild Horses comes from

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

slow listening; good, but not my thing

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

classic album

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Underrated

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

Folk and quite pretty

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

A lot of the tracks have the same sound, Boys are Back in Town x infinity

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

3/5

Definitely influenced Jack White

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

An absolutely stunning album

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

5/5

Absolutely cracking album

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

1/5

Nothing special. It may have been a first, but it's generally poor

Ctrl

SZA

1/5

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Common

4/5

Gospel roots, positive rap. This is good