My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Seat at the Table Solange	5	3	+2
Bandwagonesque Teenage Fanclub	5	3.07	+1.93
Debut Björk	5	3.38	+1.62
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	5	3.4	+1.6
Odessey And Oracle The Zombies	5	3.41	+1.59
Jack Takes the Floor Ramblin' Jack Elliott	4	2.71	+1.29
Graceland Paul Simon	5	3.73	+1.27
Beyond Skin Nitin Sawhney	4	2.76	+1.24
Bone Machine Tom Waits	4	2.84	+1.16
The Sounds Of India Ravi Shankar	4	2.85	+1.15

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Siamese Dream The Smashing Pumpkins	1	3.82	-2.82
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Pink Floyd	1	3.11	-2.11
Gentlemen The Afghan Whigs	1	2.89	-1.89
Court And Spark Joni Mitchell	2	3.35	-1.35
Dry PJ Harvey	2	3.24	-1.24
Done By The Forces Of Nature Jungle Brothers	2	3.04	-1.04

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Artist	Albums	Average
David Bowie	3	4.67

5-Star Albums (11)

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

1-Star Albums (3)

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

David Bowie

5/5

Classic. Wonderful to revisit.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

5/5

This was a sweet one with hidden gems, alongside some classic favorites.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Neil being Neil. I don't like this, but can see how it inspired other artists.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

3/5

A little upbeat for my mood (I was sick)

Low

David Bowie

4/5

I liked the instrumental components of this album. It felt spacious, fun. I really liked “a new career in a new town”

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

A classic for a reason and what classic rock is all about imo. Some sweet hits, but for me no hidden gems. Goes between earnest/believable and corny/put-upon at times. But thru it all, those classics ring as loud today as they did years ago.

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

1/5

Getting really bored of the classic rock. Couldn't get through.

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

Reminds me of High School- real cool guy music and took me back to being cool and on top of new music. Groovy, ambient, electric with enough melody to feel connected to the songs. .

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

Classic- paints a picture of a time and place (what hip hop does best imo).

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Would I like this album as much if I didn't have long-ago memories of establishing musical tastes to it? It's a classic and weird in ways I really like and may not have patience for anymore. RIP my attention span.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Such a great opening song! Some really fun ones on here. Can be repetitive at times, but ultimately high energy and melodic.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

Makes sense why I've never heard any of these songs, despite liking the Beach Boys. A weird one from them, like a whole album of B-sides.

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

This was a fun one!

One World

John Martyn

3/5

Funky yet easy listening. Feels very anchored in time. I liked it more than I thought I would.

1977

Ash

3/5

Surprised to have never heard this one before. Sounds like a nice album of the era.

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

I really like this album.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

Easy listening

Dry

PJ Harvey

2/5

Boring to me

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Fine. Kind of boring in retrospect.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

Fun!

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

Weird to find this on the list. Not sure I needed to revisit this but giving it a passing score for nostalgia.

Suzanne Vega

3/5

I liked it, boring and nice background music. Would have probably made an impact on me 20 years ago... Not sure why I didn't want to give it my full attention.

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

How did this make the list? So boring.

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

4/5

Oregon mentioned! Liked this more than I thought. Incisive and powerful.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Some Old faves here for sure. Fun but I doubt a revisit.

Debut

Björk

5/5

LOVE THIS One

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

4/5

I liked this more than I thought I would. Stopped down, surreal and kind of despondent. Not easy listening, but melodic at times and does what Tom Waits Does best- pushes music to its edge while sometimes going over it.

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

3/5

I don't understand why this is on the 1001 albums list. The album feels really dated, like from the 70's perhaps but I'm not sure what the intention is. Is it referential?

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Kenya

Machito

4/5

Glad to see some variety on this list finally. This was fun and lively

Germs

2/5

Couldn’t get thru it

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

Finally some Motown/funk/RnB. This felt refreshing and fun despite some of the sadder themes on the album.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

Classic- reminds me of high school. Not my favorite in the trilogy but an amazing debut and a great intro to an era-defining producer. So sad that his legacy is forever tarnished and I have to feel bad abt streaming this album and giving KW my $.03!

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

1/5

Mopey white not music from the 90’s. A less charming or melodic (and commercial) Third Eye Blind. Struggling to understand its place on this list!

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

4/5

Finally something interesting! Loved the ambient builds on this

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Wow classic

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

1/5

I wish artists would just remaster albums without adding a million things. Not unique to this album but hard to find a version to listen to that feels authentic to the original output of the album. Besides that, just another grunge album. Maybe I don;t like this genre of music. Boring to me

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

4/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

Some bangers for sure.

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Adele

4/5

So many songs heard against my will, but they do sound very nice together.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

3/5

This one didn't really speak to me, but I do like some of the songs individually

Arular

M.I.A.

3/5

Reminds me of Christmas Eve in Austria

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

So good! Never sat down with the classic- I have a new appreciation

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

5/5

So good! Never sat down with the classic- I have a new appreciation

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

3/5

Aja

Steely Dan

3/5

FUN

London Calling

The Clash

3/5

High Schooool calling

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

5/5

I LOVE THIS ALBUM. So beautiful. Reminds me of where I was in 2011. I'm glad it's getting the love is deserves. Is is a 5 because it's good and I like it or is it good and I like it bc it's 5?

A Seat at the Table

Solange

5/5

So beautiful

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

4/5

Music and a lesson

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

3/5

a classic. Probably the only bob Dylan album that makes me feel nostalgic (vs irritated)

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

easy listening. Hard to place in their timeline. Not sure if there is something unique about this one that their other albums don't also have. But again, great sounds (if not the same sound).

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

4/5

Loved this one

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

2/5

Optimistic hip hop

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

All elvis Costello sounds the same to me