My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
I Am a Bird Now Antony and the Johnsons	5	2.84	+2.16
Post Orgasmic Chill Skunk Anansie	5	2.99	+2.01
Live Through This Hole	5	3.31	+1.69
Zombie Fela Kuti	5	3.47	+1.53
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	5	3.59	+1.41
Illmatic Nas	5	3.6	+1.4
American IV: The Man Comes Around Johnny Cash	5	3.87	+1.13
Innervisions Stevie Wonder	5	3.87	+1.13
Rhythm Nation 1814 Janet Jackson	4	3	+1

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hotel California Eagles	2	3.59	-1.59
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	2	3.31	-1.31
Live At Leeds The Who	2	3.31	-1.31
Every Picture Tells A Story Rod Stewart	2	3.24	-1.24
Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin	3	4.1	-1.1

King Crimson

4/5

Eagles

2/5

Hotel California (the song) is obviously great, Wasted Time (Reprise) and Try and Love Again are unexpectedly good, everything else is a reminder that rock music mythology is mostly just good marketing.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

The really superb instrumentation gets sunk on almost every track by Costello’s repetitive vocal bullshit. Chelsea definitely the standout track.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

First album I’m reviewing recorded by a Columbo guest star!

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

4/5

A lot of the pioneering albums I’ve been getting from the generator are interesting because they’re not quite there yet, like the genre isn’t done baking. The singles are great, but the rest of the tracks belong to the previous era. Not Gang of Four babyyyy!! It’s all here. Post-punk has arrived. Great album, killer cover, super listenable.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

3/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

5/5

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

3/5

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

5/5

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

5/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

It’s ironic that the original lyrics to Candle in the Wind really do apply to Diana as well (“they set you on a treadmill,” “loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played,” “all the newspapers had to say…”/“Di goes sex mad!”). But obviously that wouldn’t fit for a song played at her funeral. Oh well!

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

5/5

White Light

Gene Clark

3/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

3/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

3/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

2/5

I appreciate that this list includes major albums from less popular, more controversial genres, but this album runs away from everything that makes nu metal good and isn't even a particularly good Limp Bizkit album. Impressively low-effort.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

3/5

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

3/5

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The xx

3/5

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

3/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

I’ll say it and stand by it: “Don’t Look Back In Anger” is better than “Imagine.”

#1 Record

Big Star

3/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

3/5

The Joshua Tree

U2

4/5

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

3/5

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

3/5

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

4/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

2/5

Live Through This

Hole

5/5

Arise

Sepultura

3/5

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

4/5

Elvis Presley

3/5

This gets an “it’s fine” from me, but it can’t be overstated how dogshit everything else on the radio was when Elvis broke out. There’s a reason everyone lost their minds over this guy.

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

This went triple platinum in my childhood home.

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

3/5

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

2/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin