My 1001 Albums Journey

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2000

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Jazz

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Duck Stab/Buster & Glen The Residents	4	2.03	+1.97
Winter In America Gil Scott-Heron	5	3.26	+1.74
In The Wee Small Hours Frank Sinatra	5	3.27	+1.73
Since I Left You The Avalanches	5	3.28	+1.72
Celebrity Skin Hole	5	3.3	+1.7
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	5	3.39	+1.61
Parachutes Coldplay	5	3.46	+1.54
We Are Family Sister Sledge	5	3.48	+1.52
That's The Way Of The World Earth, Wind & Fire	5	3.5	+1.5
Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Frank Sinatra	5	3.52	+1.48

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits	2	3.73	-1.73
All Hope Is Gone Slipknot	1	2.7	-1.7
Fear and Whiskey Mekons	1	2.6	-1.6
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes	2	3.5	-1.5
The Village Green Preservation Society The Kinks	2	3.4	-1.4
Stardust Willie Nelson	2	3.39	-1.39
Smash The Offspring	2	3.36	-1.36
Fisherman's Blues The Waterboys	2	3.2	-1.2
Pump Aerosmith	2	3.11	-1.11
Sunshine Superman Donovan	2	3.08	-1.08

Artists

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Artist	Albums	Average
Frank Sinatra	2	5

5-Star Albums (14)

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1-Star Albums (2)

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To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Smash

The Offspring

2/5

Not my cup o'tea

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

3/5

Peter Gabriel

3/5

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

4/5

I liked it - may not be one I'd purchase though

Winter In America

Gil Scott-Heron

5/5

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

2/5

I'd have to give this another listen but it was quite experimental and drone-y for my tastes. I don't particularly see the fuss but maybe a second listen in the right mood.

Celebrity Skin

Hole

5/5

Enjoyed it. Great album.

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

5/5

Yesyesyesyes

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

A bit too old sounding for my taste even at 30 mins it becomes a slog.

Soul Mining

The The

3/5

Enjoyed it, very 80s but felt that each song sounded quite similar. There wasn't a song I really latched onto. Probably worth a re-listen but I'd give it a 3.5.

Real Life

Magazine

3/5

Yeah was OK but like others in this list, despite a couple of replays, there wasn't a song I really latched onto. Not one I'd buy.

Violent Femmes

2/5

Enjoyed the first couple of songs but it just descended into very boring droning punk. I like punk but this felt like music you suddenly discovered at 17. I think if the singer's voice doesn't really have any range or sounds very similar harmoniously then I get bored quite quickly. Where is the range? He just talk-sing through half of it. Some cracking songs surrounded by filler.

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

Great album!

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Great album. Starts off really strong with only a few skips in the middle but also ends equally as strong. Some absolute classic heavy hitters in there and a couple I've not heard before. 4.5/5

Elvis Presley

4/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

5/5

Barely any skips. Great Sunday evening music to chill out to and help with the existential dread of work. Probably their best work, maybe neck and neck with Rush of Blood to the Head, before they went stadium rock and boring.

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

4/5

Really enjoyed this and a bit of fresh air from that has been selected so far. Would definitely listen again. First listen I'd say 4 out of 5. Some classics on here I'd heard before.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

Obviously some big tracks here but found a couple skippable. Blue Condition and Mother's Lament I didn't particularly enjoy. Very good psychedelic though. I'll come back to it but I'm not sure I'd buy it. I'd say 3/5.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

This could've been well higher it's too damn long!

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

1/5

This is by far the worst album I've heard on this list so far. Read the reception it got on Wikipedia and can't believe it was so well regarded. I can get the themes are dark and interesting but the music is awful. Horrible screeching violins over some horrendous vocals. Couldn't listen to it again if you paid me and I only managed to get 4 songs in!

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

Really enjoyed this as another turn of pace from the general rock that's been given so far (on album 26). The quality was great, as if it's being played by a jazz band today, and I quite liked the introductions between the songs of each artist. Sort of felt like you were sat with a martini watching it yourself.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Top quality soul. Really enjoyed this, filled with classics. Definitely an all timer!

Pump

Aerosmith

2/5

Meh. I guess I'm not particularly into metal/hair metal but this felt like an album full of filler, or I was in the mood for it. A couple of songs I recognise but I'd rate this at 2.5/5. It's not bad just not me.

Hot Fuss

The Killers

5/5

Seminal. No skips. Unreal debut album. That run from song 1 through to 6 is legendary. Very cliché and millennial but this was top tier in 2000s. Shame they did not continue the heights of this, even though they had some gems over time. Wonderful jangly pop.

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

4.6 on this if we were allowed the decimal. Incredible album filled with great songs. All time favourite album ending track in Street Spirit, just utter misery in one song.

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

4/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

Like ELO and it's a great album but ends up a slog at the latter stages when the album is 1hr 16m. Probably cut a few songs from this. Still 4/5 though, more interesting than that boring Pump album from Aerosmith.

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Enjoyed this but another album that's long and without the visual representation of the film against the music, I think a lot of the feeling is lost. It ends up seeming like an album in the background of a blues bar. Whilst not technically bad or anything I don't think I'd pick this up to listen to again.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

Agree with other comments that the story of this album is interesting, even though it seems Jarrett is difficult but clearly a master at his craft, but with solely piano music it can almost be relegated to sounding like being in the The Sims editor mode. However, once you stop and listen it does sound incredible and it's nice that this list includes something different and interesting, even though it's one of the biggest selling piano albums ever. Also amazing that someone can find themselves in a situation with an instrument not fit for purpose and just riff on pure creation to make something like this. For everything above I can't vote anything less than 5.

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

4/5

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

First half was great, could hear the inspiration it gave later bands especially The Strokes. Second half was boring.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

3/5

I actually didn't mind this despite all the reviews seeming to pan it on here. A couple of good tunes on this and I went off The Who when I was 18.

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

4/5

I enjoyed this, some classics on there and stuff I hadn't heard before.

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

5/5

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

2/5

I tried with this but it did not hit me. I felt like it was very cliché psychedelic, almost what you'd find in a satirical or parody film. I didn't find it interesting all compared to other 60s psychedelic music or alternative 60s. I can hear the mix of folk and rock with pop, hated the ye olde English lyrics. I do appreciate that it's supposed to be a less cynical vibe but nothing for me at all. Not sure why it's in this list but I guess it'd all subjective anyway.

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

4/5

I actually really liked this because of how silly it is. Dark, sinister and cartoonish. I don't think it's one I'd pick up and buy but I wouldn't turn it off. At least it's interesting and funny. Giving it a 4/5 because I thought I'd hate it and was pleasantly surprised. Even the album art is ridiculous.

1999

Prince

5/5

Unreal

Damaged

Black Flag

2/5

Teenage me would have been all over this and whilst it's something different now, I don't think I vibe with it. It's not bad at all though, just no emotional connection. Almost feels like a radio station I'd change over immediately on GTA.

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

1/5

If I could type out a fart noise I would.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

2/5

I get that this rates highly because it's a little different than the psychedelic offerings at the same time. I understand the interesting theme of lampooning the fete faring, garden loving neighbourhood watch of Little Britain (later to be the aging Brexiteers). Also interesting as an early concept album... But It's too folk and musically boring. It really does feel like some Beatles C-side rejects at times. Someone in the reviews for something else said it should be important to rate something for its story and if it's interesting rather than if you found it to your taste. It's a good point to have. That in mind it's still not for me at all, it has to past the ear test and eventually it just sounds like the same song. Background music for The Good Life.

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

5/5

Laughed at the review "Sad boi Sinatra" I really enjoyed it though. Felt like a soundtrack to a film that doesn't exist, only in your head and you can still picture the scenes. Definitely one I'd buy myself.

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

2/5

A tale of two. The more upbeat songs are easy to get into and real highs. However, I hated 'Has Anybody Here Seen Hank?' That's when I really started to feel like it should end and "Am I stuck in an Irish purgatory pub?" A similar theme with a lot of these albums is they end up going on far too long.

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

4/5

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

3/5