My 1001 Albums Journey

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1970

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Specials The Specials	5	3.29	+1.71
The Yes Album Yes	5	3.31	+1.69
C'est Chic CHIC	5	3.34	+1.66
Debut Björk	5	3.38	+1.62
The Village Green Preservation Society The Kinks	5	3.4	+1.6
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes	5	3.5	+1.5
In A Silent Way Miles Davis	5	3.62	+1.38
Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen	5	3.69	+1.31
Dr. Octagonecologyst Dr. Octagon	4	2.7	+1.3
Medúlla Björk	4	2.73	+1.27

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo The Byrds	1	2.82	-1.82
Scream, Dracula, Scream Rocket From The Crypt	1	2.76	-1.76
Django Django Django Django	2	3.2	-1.2
Sister Sonic Youth	2	3.02	-1.02
The Man Who Travis	2	3.01	-1.01

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(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

peak britpop. wonderwall overrated and overplayed, champagne supernova a rightful classic

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Not a 10/10 but it has some of the best individual bangers in the entire LCD Soundsystem discography

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

1984

Van Halen

3/5

not my favorite style of songwriting but the guitar playing is pretty undeniable

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

what do you even say about an album as singular and iconic as this one? even 50 years later, nothing else sounds like it.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

one of the all time jazz fusion albums. when 'in a silent way' hits 13 minutes, good god. i dont throw the word genius around lightly but miles was one of them

Adele

3/5

shes got a nice voice and the songwriting is competent but nothing really feels like, sticky, for me

The Specials

5/5

Really fun album, bridges the gap between old school ska and punk so well. You *Really* hear that Elvis Costello influence on some of these songs

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

perfect length for an album, basically the only song that isnt 100% a banger to me is 'welcome to the machine', just a perfect gorgeous album

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

1/5

not my favorite!

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

not my favorite michael jackson album but it contains a handful of the most undeniable pop bangers ever written

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

4/5

a great hip hop album! a little too long, i think dan the automator gets the pacing a little bit better on the deltron albums

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

4/5

really cool, early elements of trip hop in “I Am Stretched on Your Grave"; i think i actually prefer the Prince version of Nothing Compares 2 U

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

2/5

some very solid songwriting but absolutely not my thing

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Django Django

2/5

Wish this were a bit more interesting! It has good tracks but doesn’t really feel “essential”

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

2/5

listenable but overlong and only really had one song that excited me

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Only contains a good handful of the most iconic songs ever written!

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

4/5

Went in with very minimal expectations and ended up very satisfied. Some excellent songwriting, folksy but with just a bit of edge

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

*the* bossa nova album. Easy listening, doesn’t feel groundbreaking but that’s with 60 years of musical tradition building upon it

Pornography

The Cure

4/5

not totally my "thing" but its pretty undeniable for what it is as a canonical entry in the goth rock canon

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Are you experienced has a couple of songs I probably wouldn’t go out of my way for but also has like 3 or 4 of the most iconic songs in the rock and roll canon

Sister

Sonic Youth

2/5

Sonic youth a real “not for me but I respect it” type band

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

2/5

Interesting album, not really connecting for me beyond being interesting and general competent but I do feel like it makes sense that this is on the list. Also regrettably too long

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

5/5

Not my favorite Kinks album but one that I do still think is all in all pretty delightful

All That You Can't Leave Behind

3/5

Enjoyed this a fair bit more than I thought I would. It’s not great but it’s god a few bangers for sure

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

1/5

reallllllly pushing it with this one

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

i really dug that! a lot of fun, good songwriting, a nice little warren zevon riff... whats not to like?

Blur

3/5

overall fun album but I wish i liked it more than I do, doesn't really compare to my favorite Gorillaz stuff

Maxinquaye

Tricky

4/5

rules. sounds so scifi. halfway between fiona apple and bjork.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

5/5

hell yeah. just true 70s disco funk classic

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

3/5

reminds me of latter period pink floyd, in a not so flattering way.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

3/5

had some definite highlights but not my kind of thing overall, a bit too art poppy

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

great album but not my favorite pixies at all which says a lot

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Just one of the great albums of all time. Absolute gold from start to finish

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

A lot of fun and well done for what it is but a bit tough for me to get into I suppose

Medúlla

Björk

4/5

lots of fun sounds!

Debut

Björk

5/5

A much more palatable Björk album to me than Medulla! A real fun time

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

2/5

Production feels very Michael Jackson inspired , but none of his charisma or songwriting. No thanks

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Simultaneously an amazing album and also Talking Heads’ worst album until late in their careers

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

Will basically always get down with desert blues or blues in general

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Last song a bit of a slog but otherwise banger album

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

2/5

more like the craps am i rite okay not that bad but this didnt do much for me tbh

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

3/5

Okay album. Did not need the 20 minute rambling of the last song.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

a lot of fun for what I would consider to be a surprising inclusion. doesn't feel essential in any way but yeah just straight up a fun record

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

post rock has never super been my thing but this was fairly digestible as they come!

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

3/5

That’s some folk music alright

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

4/5

i enjoyed this one a lot mostly on virtue of its just being fairly straightforward and listenable, surely not high art but not without its merits

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

one of the Great Albums! star spangled and all!

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

3/5

Inessential and short. I can see why someone might have thought this was important like decades ago

Blue

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Joni Mitchell has never really done it for me and this isn't changing my mind to be honest

The Yes Album

Yes

5/5

this on the other hand is so directly up my alley it is insane.

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

4/5

fun little folk album, doesn't overstay its welcome, generally not my thing but im not complaining about it either.

2112

Rush

4/5

not my favorite rush and rush isn't my favorite flavor of prog but still a good time!

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

4/5

its ambient music. quite good ambient music but it is still at the end of the day ambient music

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

very good album with a couple iconic hits that make it stand out,

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

3/5

felt very inessential, albeit also very listenable

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

fun album, very light and listenable! definitely enjoyed this one a fair bit

Violent Femmes

5/5

desert island album

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

its all pretty good but it is a bit ... same-y? isnt it?

The Man Who

Travis

2/5

very post-radiohead but not in a way that i particularly liked

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

4/5

not my favorite SK album but a great one nonetheless and doesn't overstay its welcome at all!