My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Oar Alexander 'Skip' Spence	5	2.46	+2.54
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space Spiritualized	5	3.15	+1.85
Blood, Sweat & Tears Blood, Sweat & Tears	5	3.17	+1.83
Ill Communication Beastie Boys	5	3.63	+1.37
Tea for the Tillerman Cat Stevens	5	3.67	+1.33
Station To Station David Bowie	5	3.69	+1.31
Dummy Portishead	5	3.71	+1.29
Vanishing Point Primal Scream	4	2.82	+1.18
Sticky Fingers The Rolling Stones	5	3.86	+1.14
Broken English Marianne Faithfull	4	2.89	+1.11

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Be Common	1	3.35	-2.35
Music for the Masses Depeche Mode	2	3.37	-1.37
Thriller Michael Jackson	3	4.23	-1.23
Pieces Of The Sky Emmylou Harris	2	3.11	-1.11

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Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

2/5

Song after maudlin song about weak sauce women being mis treated by their man, women thinking about men, women being ignored by men. Have some fucking agency, lady. Go become a doctor or an astronaut or just live your life. You’re not defined by men! You ARE your own person. No go and do something about BEING yourself and not some dude’s shadow. Fucks sake!

The Clash

4/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

3/5

I’m glad I listened to this because I think I have a better understanding of my antipathy to Oasis. So, like, the song writing is fine and it’s catchy and all but it’s still Brit-pop with all the depth of a puddle. The problem comes with how deadly serious they took/take themselves and their music. It’s fine and that’s it. In other cases like MJ we have to ask if we can separate the art from the artist. For Oasis I ask if can I be bothered separating the art from the artist and the answer is a resounding not really. 3 stars

Blood, Sweat & Tears

5/5

Blood, sweat & Tears is everything that (what’s the story) morning glory isn’t. It’s fun and eclectic. BS&T have something to say and the songwriting and musicianship skills to make you want to listen. There’s nothing that says “we fixed this in post”. It’s coherent, immediate, and joyful. I will definitely listen to this again. In fact I’m a little bit sad that it’s finished and I can’t listen to it for the first time again. 5 stars

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

Today I listened to my first Dolly Parton album. I don’t know anything about Dolly other than she’s Southern, has a heart of gold, and her tits are as big as her hair. The album was better than I expected. It was heartfelt at times and playful at other times but never pretended to be anything more than it was. Will I listen to it again? No. I don’t like country music. Was it worth the listen? Emphatic yes. I’m better for the experience. 4 stars

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

4/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

A complex concept album based on Cartesian duality; the physical rock of the body competing with, but ultimately helpless without the rolling mind. It’s a brilliant reinterpretation through thoughtful tracks such as “Let me put my love in you” and “You shook me all night long”. Who hasn’t suffered long sleepless nights wrestling with the paradox of the human condition? I know I have. Highly intellectual study of the duality of the rock and the roll. 4 stars

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

4/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

4/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

Copper Blue

Sugar

2/5

Slayed?

Slade

2/5

I’m sure the drugs said that making this album was a good idea. Boorish, thrusting, spandex-clad glam rock at its most vacuous. Listening to this was like the comedown without the high. 2 stars. Could very nearly be one.

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

3/5

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

4/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

Interesting textures and vibe. Worth a second listen

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

5/5

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

3/5

Pelican West

Haircut 100

3/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

4/5

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

4/5

Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

Another album I should have listened to but never got around to it. Kinda dated but not bad

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

A bit dated but not bad. Extra star because of Tuesday’s gone and Freebird

Common

1/5

I have undergrad and post grad degrees in both STEM and humanities so I feel sufficiently qualified to judge this album…. harshly. Vapid, boring, self-congratulatory. Common has nothing to say but says stuff loudly anyway. I hope I never encounter this album again. Be? Should’ve called it Not To Be.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

The first second and opening notes are sooo fucking nostalgic for a simpler time. No smart phones. No social media. NFTs and crypto. Nigerian princes. Urgh. Things really got shit

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

2/5

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

3/5

Sounds like a thousand other indie pub bands. It’s fine but not anything to write home about

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

3/5

Not my cup of tea but I’m glad I listened to it. Very chill background music

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Rapture

Anita Baker

3/5

So 80’s. Extra star for the nostalgic sound

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

4/5

Mostly ok. I wouldn’t object to listening again

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

Sulk

The Associates

2/5

Too new wave for my tastes

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

3/5

Ok…. Listenable but not memorable

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

I only discovered this album a few years ago but it immediately because one of my favourites

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

5/5

I just listened to Oar by Alexander “Skip” Spence. Had I heard of it before? No. Did I know that my life was missing psychedelic cowboy country/folk rock? Also no. This album comes on slow, a little unusual but by the time you realise how trippy it’s getting you’re already fully committed to the journey until it peaks at the end in a pink Floyd-esque blur of drums, bass, swirling colours and sound. Will definitely listen again

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

3/5

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

2/5

Couldn’t get into it

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction