My User Albums Journey

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User Albums Journey

Exploring beyond the book, one album at a time

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Complicated Woman Self Esteem	5	3.06	+1.94
The Livelong Day Lankum	5	3.22	+1.78
O Damien Rice	5	3.23	+1.77
Dogrel Fontaines D.C.	5	3.29	+1.71
His 'N' Hers Pulp	5	3.29	+1.71
Joy as an Act of Resistance IDLES	5	3.3	+1.7
Romance Fontaines D.C.	5	3.4	+1.6
Give Up The Postal Service	5	3.46	+1.54
Homogenic Björk	5	3.46	+1.54
Portishead Portishead	5	3.47	+1.53

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
"Weird Al" Yankovic "Weird Al" Yankovic	1	3.06	-2.06
Racine carrée Stromae	1	2.96	-1.96
10,000 gecs 100 gecs	1	2.91	-1.91
Savage Sinusoid Igorrr	1	2.78	-1.78
Carrie & Lowell Sufjan Stevens	2	3.53	-1.53
Currents Tame Impala	2	3.51	-1.51
"Awaken, My Love!" Childish Gambino	2	3.51	-1.51
Silent Alarm Bloc Party	2	3.49	-1.49
Nail Scraping Foetus off the Wheel	1	2.42	-1.42
Don't Say No Billy Squier	2	3.34	-1.34

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Artist	Albums	Average
Fontaines D.C.	2	5

5-Star Albums (18)

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4-Star Albums (15)

1-Star Albums (6)

All Ratings

A Live One

Phish

2/5

Spilt Milk

Jellyfish

2/5

Sounds like a new Queen. I didn't like the old Queen. Not my cup of tea, won't be revisiting this album

Control

Pedro The Lion

3/5

Enjoyable, will be an album I'll return to.

Apostrophe(')

Frank Zappa

2/5

Frank Zappa ain't my bag, baby. Stink-Foot is probably my favourite on the album, but I thought Dustin The Turkey sang about yellow snow better!!

Continuum

John Mayer

3/5

Before These Crowded Streets

Dave Matthews Band

3/5

Dogrel

Fontaines D.C.

5/5

Great debut by Irish band. If you like this then have a listen to English band IDLES.

Recipe for Hate

Bad Religion

3/5

Just found out that's Eddie Vedder on Watch It Die.

Daisies Of The Galaxy

Eels

4/5

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Neutral Milk Hotel

4/5

Kick

INXS

5/5

The 1st of 3-in-a-row amazing INXS albums. Each one reads like a greatest hits. Surprised they were not included in the original book, they deserve their place.

A1A

Jimmy Buffett

2/5

F♯ A♯ ∞

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

4/5

Didn't expect to like this, but it's something I'll keep coming back to, and I've no idea why!

Version 2.0

Garbage

4/5

Poesía Básica

Extrechinato y Tu

2/5

Nuyorican Soul

2/5

The Lion's Roar

First Aid Kit

3/5

Bloody Kisses

Type O Negative

2/5

Oncle Jazz

Men I Trust

3/5

No.1 In Heaven

Sparks

3/5

Blink-182

blink-182

3/5

Discosis

Bran Van 3000

2/5

After Hours

The Weeknd

3/5

McDonald and Giles

Ian McDonald

2/5

Piledriver

Status Quo

2/5

King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown

King Tubby

3/5

Dimanche à Bamako

Amadou & Mariam

3/5

Hand. Cannot. Erase.

Steven Wilson

3/5

I Am

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

The Best of The Hot 5 & Hot 7 Recordings

Louis Armstrong

3/5

Don't Throw Stones

THE SPORTS

3/5

Nonagon Infinity

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

3/5

Music For People In Trouble

Susanne Sundfør

3/5

Emotional Mugger

Ty Segall

3/5

Give Up

The Postal Service

5/5

An album that should be included on the 1001 list already.

I Need to Start a Garden

Haley Heynderickx

4/5

Because the Internet

Childish Gambino

3/5

Night Drive

Chromatics

4/5

Maestro

Kaizers Orchestra

2/5

Fuzz

Chucklehead

3/5

Tomb

Angelo De Augustine

3/5

Forced Witness

Alex Cameron

3/5

Vedergällningen

Garmarna

2/5

Cleopatra

The Lumineers

3/5

Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum

Tally Hall

2/5

Ænima

TOOL

3/5

Rêver mieux

Daniel Bélanger

2/5

Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides

SOPHIE

2/5

Weezer

5/5

Masterpiece of an album, how it's not included in original 1001 Albums is beyond me.

Racine carrée

Stromae

1/5

El Circo

Maldita Vecindad Y Los Hijos Del 5to. Patio

2/5

Relatives in Descent

Protomartyr

4/5

Inspired by Nick Cave, The Fall, Joy Division Inspiration on IDLES, The Murder Capital, Fontaines DC Great album.

A Salty Dog

Procol Harum

3/5

Frosting On The Beater

The Posies

2/5

Madvillainy

Madvillain

3/5

Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera

4/5

Yeti

Amon Düül II

2/5

22, A Million

Bon Iver

3/5

Zuckerzeit

Cluster

3/5

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

Come And Get It

Rachel Stevens

2/5

Enema Of The State

blink-182

3/5

Englabörn

Jóhann Jóhannsson

3/5

The Beautiful Letdown

Switchfoot

2/5

Currents

Tame Impala

2/5

The Hazards of Love

The Decemberists

3/5

Sublime

2/5

I And Love And You

The Avett Brothers

3/5

Nurture

Porter Robinson

2/5

Boys And Girls in America

The Hold Steady

3/5

Lahai

Sampha

2/5

Peasant

Richard Dawson

2/5

Live in San Francisco

Thee Oh Sees

2/5

Gotcha! Gotcha! Gotcha!

Gotcha!

2/5

A City Dressed In Dynamite

That Handsome Devil

2/5

When Smoke Rises

Mustafa

2/5

The Black Parade

My Chemical Romance

3/5

M'eh. A few of the singles are good, but the rest is for whiney teenagers.

Hammersmith Odeon, London '75

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

The Animal Years

Josh Ritter

3/5

Game of Fools

Koritni

2/5

Watch Out!

Alexisonfire

2/5

1, 2, Kung Fu!

Boy Azooga

4/5

This must be how Andy felt after crawling through 500 This muat be what Andy felt like after crawling through 500 yards of shit smelling foulness that I can't even imagine.ive trawled through some shit on this user nominated section only to smell freedom in this album. Never heard of them before, but it's something I'll keep coming back to. It has perked my interest.

Misplaced Childhood

Marillion

3/5

Not my cup of tea, not into prog rock, but better than most in the genre.

Korn

4/5

This must be how Andy felt after crawling through 500 yards of shit smelling foulness that I can't even imagine.ive trawled through some shit on this user nominated section only to smell freedom in this album. Never heard of them before, but it's something I'll keep coming back to. It has perked my interest.

Blue Is The Colour

The Beautiful South

3/5

Was interested in hearing this as only knew the incredible singles off this album, sadly those singles are the only songs I'd listen to again. I loved their debut and 3rd album, but ultimately I'm a Carry On Up The Charts kinda guy, a superb best of collection from thst early era.

Nail

Scraping Foetus off the Wheel

1/5

The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking

Roger Waters

2/5

St. Jude

Courteeners

2/5

Britpop, UK indie, UK post britpop etc.. Is my wheelhouse.. But not this album... 1 good tune in Not 19 Forever.. But that's it.

Silent Alarm

Bloc Party

2/5

10,000 gecs

100 gecs

1/5

No. Just no.

Carrie & Lowell

Sufjan Stevens

2/5

Stranger In Town

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

3/5

A few great tunes but not an album I'd return to again.

"Awaken, My Love!"

Childish Gambino

2/5

Does nothing for me, sorry.

Sailing The Seas Of Cheese

Primus

2/5

I can't think of a time or situation when I'd say to myself " I must listen to that Primus album again."

Don't Say No

Billy Squier

2/5

Generic 80s American rock.urgh

Transatlanticism

Death Cab for Cutie

3/5

Afraid Of Sunlight

Marillion

2/5

Savage Sinusoid

Igorrr

1/5

Not today!

Damien Rice

5/5

Animals

Pink Floyd

4/5

Under The Pink

Tori Amos

3/5

Songs Of A Lost World

The Cure

5/5

One of the best albums from 2024 (Underworld and James also on list)..one of the best Cure albums ever. .no, this is not recency bias...it's THAT good.

Homogenic

Björk

5/5

II'm no fucking Buddhist, but this is enlightenment

Souvlaki

Slowdive

4/5

Comfort To Me

Amyl and The Sniffers

4/5

Anytime u listen to this album I'd give it a 5, but my rating system is a 5 star album is one I'll put on anytime and love it. So I guess I know I have to be in the right Aml headapace, which isn't all the time, so I'll give it a 4 But man it's a fantastic album. I'd love to see idles with Fontaines DC and these guys supporting.

Romance

Fontaines D.C.

5/5

An easy 5 for me, I'm the one who submitted Dogrel! They have really matured from that debut to this. An amazing live band if anyone gets the chance to see them. And if you want something a bit dirtier and grittier then listen to Ilthe band Idles.

Alive 2007

Daft Punk

5/5

An album I didn't know I needed, nor did I know existed. I absolutely love this.

Portishead

5/5

An epic album, depending on the day I listen, it may be better than Dummy, it's definitely equal to it. Should have been on the original list.

Out Of Time

R.E.M.

5/5

This albums contains some of my favourite REM songs. Half A World Away, Country Feedback, Texarkana, Me In Honey, which happen to be all Side B, or Memory Side! Yes it's got the awful Radio Song and the instrumental Endgame..but with those two massive hits in Losing My Religion and the radio friendly unit shifter Shiny Happy People, this album is a beast. I still think my favourite REM album is Monster, which isn't in the book. 5/5

Script Of The Bridge

The Chameleons

4/5

Where has this band been all my life. It's like listenting to the birth of Editors or Interpol 20 in 1983. 4/5, it could rise to 5 after many more listens. Now I have to check out the rest of their catalogue. Thanks to whoever submitted this, exactly what I was hoping to find with user submissions, an album/band that I somehow missed over the decades thst is exactly the sound that I love. Top tracks are 1) Second Skin and 2) A person isn't safe anywhere these days

You & I

Rita Ora

2/5

Surely there's other albums out there that one could be listening to. Bland, run of the mill, pop.

Vs.

Pearl Jam

5/5

Pearl Jam's first 3 albums are an easy 5 for me. This was my favourite when the 3 were all out. It's got Elderly Woman, rearviewmirror, and daughter.for a start. Three of their very very best tunes

"Weird Al" Yankovic

1/5

I'm sure my 7 year old would find it funny. He thinks farts are funny. If you smiled at this then this album is probably for you. Grow up .

Fly

Yoko Ono

1/5

If PIL and BJORK did a collaboration, that they put the least amount of effort into and were both embarrassed by the outcome of their respective input, that they both vowed to never speak of this collaboration ever again, this is what it would sound like. I do like Mrs LENNON however. But by all the gods, the rest of it is torture (maybe I'll give Mindtrain a pass as I enjoy the groove they're in). I can perhaps see where Bjork and PIL got inspiration from, but they have musical talent that they trasform obscure ideas into amazing tunes.

Joy as an Act of Resistance

IDLES

5/5

Are Idles the finest new band in the past 10 years? I'd wager so. Could every album be their best album, I guess so. This album, all their albums, is what I want to listen to. Such anger resonates, and speaks about current social issues. From Ultra, I raise my pink fist and say black is beautiful

Mezzanine

Massive Attack

5/5

This is the best album from Massive Attack. Aggressive, errie, dangerous. The sound of war. Amazing. Why was it not selected ahead of their 1st albums is beyond me, both of the are 5s, but this is 6

A Complicated Woman

Self Esteem

5/5

She played before Blur a few years ago and I didn't watch her at all. Then was watching Glastonbury on BBC last year and all I could think was I need to fucking see this act live. Looked her up, and yep, there she was in front of my very eyes at Blur and all I did was drink and chat to my mates. What an album and what a live performance. I love this albim. The Curse is such a mighty powerful track.

Word Gets Around

Stereophonics

4/5

The Presidents of The United States of America

The Presidents Of The United States Of America

3/5

It's a fun record, but not something I'd put on repeat. Although back when I was a teenager I did.

His 'N' Hers

Pulp

5/5

On a given day, this is the best Pulp album. Every single track here is a banger except Someone Like The Moon, but everything else could be called Pulp's best song, that's how amazing this album is. I'd love to seem them perform this album in full. What a trio of albums in a row from this national treasure of a band.

The Livelong Day

Lankum

5/5

My rating system is based off how likely I'm to return to the album. I've been returning to this a lot since I first heard it in 2021. Hunting the Wren, The Wild River and The Young People are epics

Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?

The Cranberries

5/5

An easy 5. When Zombie gets all the accolades because of its grunge (lite) crossover, this album is just perfection. Dolores must have written the lyrics when she was just 20 or 21! Obviously everyone knows the epics of Linger and Dreams (two of the vlbest Irish songs ever written), but Sunday and Not Sorry are equally as good. I adore Waltzing Back (which the drums near the end reminds me of Zombie actually) and How. I love the Irishness of the drums on How. Her vocals are hauntingly beautiful. Both her and Sinéad O'Connor are two of my favourite vocalists, whatever they're doing it works for me.