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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Heartattack And Vine Tom Waits	5	3.07	+1.93
Bryter Layter Nick Drake	5	3.51	+1.49
Music Madonna	4	2.68	+1.32
Life Thru A Lens Robbie Williams	4	2.73	+1.27
Vulnicura Björk	4	2.79	+1.21
Automatic For The People R.E.M.	5	3.81	+1.19
Let It Bleed The Rolling Stones	5	3.81	+1.19
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Elton John	5	3.92	+1.08

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
With The Beatles Beatles	2	3.66	-1.66
Either Or Elliott Smith	2	3.39	-1.39
Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk	2	3.33	-1.33
Here Are the Sonics The Sonics	2	3.15	-1.15
NEU! 75 Neu!	2	3.1	-1.1
At Budokan Cheap Trick	2	3.1	-1.1
Another Music In A Different Kitchen Buzzcocks	2	3.09	-1.09

5-Star Albums (7)

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

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Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

5/5

Loved it. I only knew Pink Moon and thought Drake was a slightly overrated singer songwriter. This album was rich and varied

Beautiful Freak

Eels

4/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

I am a big Neil Young fan. This is him and Crazy Horse in optima forma. Ranging from small, intimate songs to full on grunge, angrily slapping the guitar heavy on distortion. This band was versatile. The opening en the ending versions of My My Hey Hey capture this perfectly. I would recommend listening to Live Rust though. It is Live Rust, but contains more tracks including a couple of absolute classics.

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

4/5

I get the cultural impact and it has some great songs, but a lot of this album is just noise.

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

I didn’t know a single song before listening. I like that it was less pop than the Pet Shop Boys I knew and realised it sounded more like Depeche Mode. Honestly, just listen to Depeche Mode for a superior sound

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

4/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Talvin Singh

2/5

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

3/5

Catchy tunes, but nothing memorable

Adele

4/5

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

3/5

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

3/5

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

2/5

To be honest, the album got a bit boring. No goor listening if you’re not in a club setting

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

4/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

3/5

Started with a couple of bangers, bit Adamson lost me halfway through. Nick Cave saved the day at the end

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

Elton John is known for the wrong songs. This album is one banger after another

The Modern Lovers

4/5

If The Velvet Underground and The Doors had a lovechild who grew up to be an angsty teenager

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

This is prime Rolling Stones. Ending the sixties with a banger

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

2/5

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Ananda Shankar

2/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

4/5

I knew the hits, but never listened to the whole album. It’s surprisingly good.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

3/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

2/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Vivid

Living Colour

4/5

Joan Armatrading

4/5

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

2/5

NEU! 75

Neu!

2/5

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

3/5

Play

Moby

3/5

The album has a couple of well known bangers, but all in all it felt a bit subdued? Monotonous maybe. It didn’t live up to its reputation

World Clique

Deee-Lite

2/5

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

2/5

Black Sabbath

3/5

Black Sabbath was still looking for their sound, they found it on their second album. Still, it had hints of the great music to come

With The Beatles

Beatles

2/5

This is a weak Beatles album. Covers and mostly forgettable songs. Please please me would eank higher for being their debut and on A Hard Days Night the hit machine started to roll. Sandwiched between these two, With the Beatles is forgettable and an unnecesary inclusion in this list

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

I am a bit biased. I was born in 1981 and The Prodigy was very much part of the soundtrack of my formative years. I hadn’t listened to the album as a whole in ages and it was a blast to hear it again. I was going to give the album five stars, but on an honest relistening, soms songs felt like fillers and some tunes got repetitive. Still, take me back to a nineties party and I will dance to The Prodigy all night

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Music

Madonna

4/5

I have to applaud Madonna for staying relevant for two decades and not continuing down the road that brought her huge success in the eighties. This album contained some songs that were absolute bangers in clubs around 2000. It still holds up pretty well.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

2/5

About two months into listening an album a day, it has become obvious that this list of 1001 albums leans very much into American/British rock music. A bit too muchZ Now, I understand that the Buzzcocks are pioneers of British punk, but really, this is a top 1001 album? It lacks the timeless impact of Nevermind the Bollocks and isn’t musically interesting like some of their later work, or music by The Clash, for instance. 2 stars. Only because I’m in a good mood

1989

Taylor Swift

3/5

I still don’t get Taylor Swift. Sure, the tunes are catchy and poppy, but the extent she has become the voice of a generation? I still don’t feel, hear or see it.

Pink Flag

Wire

3/5

Now this is punk I can get behind

Van Halen

4/5

Now this is a debut album

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

3/5

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

3/5

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

David Bowie

5/5

Easiest five stars so far. Didn’t need a listen, listened to it twice anyway. God is with Bowie now

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

2/5

I only knew one song by Cheap Trick, guess which one? I rather like live albums, so I was excited to give this one a go. It was pretty disappointing. The music was uninspired and blend. Despite the occasional crowd noise, it didn’t have much of a live feel. The album had the bad luck to come one day after Ziggy Stardust, but it really doesn’t deserve more than two stars

Vulnicura

Björk

4/5

Björk is an acquired taste and I was intrigued, but not really a fan of her work in the nineties. I didn’t know this record at all, but absolutely loved it. No commercial aspirations, just hauntingly beautiful music by an artist who dares to explore musically. Loved it

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

3/5

Fun, clever. Talking Heads is a band where something always happens.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

Nice clean rap, rich melodies. I somehow missed this group, deserves further listening

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

3/5

I was today years old when I learned of the Riot Grrrrl movement. A shame I missed it, these girls kicked ass.

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

5/5

This. This is why I starter listening to 1001 albums. Shame it took me 44 years to discover this album

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

The hits were great fun, the rest of the album more of the same, but inferior. And then there’s a song about tv dinners…

Manassas

Stephen Stills

4/5

I gave the album two listens. It is an extremely varied album, showing Stephen Stills range as a songwriter, composer and guitar player.

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

Smash was part of the soundtrack of my teenage years. For sheer nostalgia, I wanted to rate this record five stars. The re-listen was a great joy. I was tgis close to shouting out ‘stupid dumbshit goddamn motherfuckers’, but luckily I realized I was in a public place. The energy is still off te charts, but lyrically and musically, it hasn’t aged that well. Smash is not as timeless as I hoped. Still, four stars

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

I gave the album two listens. I was vaguely aware that this was an influential album and was looking forward to giving it a full listen. Now, I am no native English speaker and the first listen, I just listened to the music and wasn’t impressed. The second time, I had the lyrics at hand and the album clicked.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

4/5