1001 Albums Summary

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2.38

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Sticky Fingers The Rolling Stones	5	3.86	+1.14

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Fragile Yes	1	3.31	-2.31
Double Nickels On The Dime Minutemen	1	3.12	-2.12
Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin	2	4.1	-2.1
I Am a Bird Now Antony and the Johnsons	1	2.84	-1.84
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	2	3.57	-1.57
American Gothic David Ackles	1	2.48	-1.48
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	2	3.44	-1.44
Cupid & Psyche 85 Scritti Politti	1	2.39	-1.39
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	2	3.39	-1.39
Music in Exile Songhoy Blues	2	3.33	-1.33

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Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

2/5

Un-offensive, bordering on bland. Melodic in parts but this is music to send you to sleep on the sofa on a Sunday afternoon. Opening an album with what seems to be a plagarised track doesn't set the scene well.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

2/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

good country rock album, easy listening but good vibes.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

2/5

Inoffensive background music in a hotel bar

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Classic southern rock album packef with great, timeless tracks.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

2/5

With a couple of exceptions I've always found Coldplay uninspiring - bland is the popular clichéd view, and it's difficult to argue against this, along with CM's whiny vocals. This album does nothing to change that. I've never understood their massive global appeal, I must be missing something.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Absolute classic bluesy rock'n'roll. Stones at their best.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Cave has never really been on my radar so this was a good, if overdue, opportunity to expand my musical education - and this is pretty solid. Now need check the rest of his catalogue to see where it fits.

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

1/5

Why the fuck is this incessant warbling considered anywhere near a 1001 top album list? Dreadful noise, doesn't deserve the 1 star it will get.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Love Bowie for much of his work but he also produced a lot of dross. This album certainly leans to the classic side but doesn't quite get there overall. 3.5 would be the right score but I'll err on the generous side just because it's Bowie.

Fragile

Yes

1/5

Comes accross as pretentious, self-indulgent claptrap, including the alleged standout track Roundabout. 'Wanky' should sum it up.

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

1/5

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

1/5

Instantly forgettable light weight American punk... or something... I've forgotten tbh.

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

2/5

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

2/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

2/5

all a bit weird...an Irish country / something else-but not really punk- mash up. Would go down ok in the stereotypical Irish bars found everywhere. but top 1001 albums, really?

American Gothic

David Ackles

1/5

I listened, but it was a struggle. Dreary little tales with a lack of melody, rhythm or any redeeming qualities whatsoever. Surely must have been self- published, no reputable label would touch this nonsense.

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

some decent funky vibes

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

some ok tunes, not a fan of the vocals though

The Predator

Ice Cube

2/5

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

1/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

2/5

all a bit shouty angry

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

2/5

Mainly inoffensive but completely underwhelming. The clue is in the title.

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

2/5

Like an adolescent's poetry ramblings set to some pretty basic melodies.

Nowhere

Ride

2/5

forget about the genre, which seems to be the focus of so many people, some ok, some decent tracks, none of which are helped by the whiny sounding vocals.

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

pretty good tbf

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

2/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

3/5

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

more pretentious claptrap

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

2/5