My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Dead Kennedys	5	3.27	+1.73
Eagles Eagles	5	3.29	+1.71
It's Blitz! Yeah Yeah Yeahs	5	3.48	+1.52
The Joshua Tree U2	5	3.67	+1.33
21 Adele	5	3.69	+1.31
Hot Fuss The Killers	5	3.73	+1.27
Dookie Green Day	5	3.79	+1.21
Let It Bleed The Rolling Stones	5	3.81	+1.19
Elephant The White Stripes	5	3.84	+1.16
Back In Black AC/DC	5	3.84	+1.16

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Amnesiac Radiohead	1	3.42	-2.42
The World is a Ghetto War	1	3.35	-2.35
Dirty Sonic Youth	1	3.1	-2.1
Autobahn Kraftwerk	1	3.09	-2.09
Pacific Ocean Blue Dennis Wilson	1	3.08	-2.08
Crazysexycool TLC	1	3.08	-2.08
BEYONCÉ Beyoncé	1	2.86	-1.86
Basket of Light Pentangle	1	2.76	-1.76
Dire Straits Dire Straits	2	3.72	-1.72
Justified Justin Timberlake	1	2.67	-1.67

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Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	3	4.67

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Beatles	5, 2

5-Star Albums (18)

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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

1-Star Albums (12)

All Ratings

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Decent. Catchy generic sound, but on the back end hasn't aged much.

Infected

The The

2/5

Basket of Light

Pentangle

1/5

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

2/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

Kind sweet until the last song, which is so bad and inconsistent with the foregoing that it lost a star

Dire Straits

2/5

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

1/5

This was not good at all. Y’all must be drunk [in love]

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

Weird Indian sidetrack mid album

Scott 2

Scott Walker

1/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Don’t know that I needed the song straight up repeated.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

1/5

If you like listening to variations of shitty guitar feedback, this is the album for you.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Crazy takes here. This is a classic album

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

3/5

For Your [Moderate] Pleasure

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

5/5

Nice subtle commentary

Achtung Baby

3/5

Decent.

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Fan of the sound of the album (outside of much of the singing), but otherwise could be rough at times.

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

2/5

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

2/5

Maybe hire a singer

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

Slayed?

Slade

4/5

Dudes got pipes and there’s consistent musicianship with variation between songs. Guitar sound is a bit grating, I’d like to hear them with modern polish on the recording.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

Fine

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

2/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

Solid

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

1/5

You could cross the Pacific Ocean in the time it takes to finish this album.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

Solid

Hot Fuss

The Killers

5/5

Never actually listened to the full album, and didn’t realized that it basically contains all their jams.

Justified

Justin Timberlake

1/5

90 percent is so bad that I can’t give the decent parts any star-based credit

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Kinda funk

Adele

4/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

1/5

The worst Radiohead album I’ve ever heard. Any other band and no critic would have put it anywhere near this list

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

Slash hard carrying this album. Hard to rate because of the highs and lows.

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

4/5

Weirdly good?

Smile

Brian Wilson

4/5

Finding this one really hard to rate. Some of that is the weird context of the album, but the production is great and I’ve never heard an album flow from one song to the next as effectively—it plays like one fever dream.

Low

David Bowie

3/5

Purple Rain

Prince

3/5

Some highs, but the lows really dragged this

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Every member of the band killing it for their part, consistent themes and sound, no bad songs and a few all-timers. An easy five irrespective of Ozzy’s death or its outsized influence.

Eagles

5/5

I’m going to veer from the group and rate this highly, classic singles but even the deep tracks are mostly solid. I wish these ratings were out of ten, because really I think this album is an 8.5, but I guess that means I’m rounding up.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

All Along the Watchtower and Voodoo Child truly save this album

Damaged

Black Flag

2/5

Just not good. There’s a huge quality gap between this album and Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

4/5

Realizing that I enjoy live albums. Honestly considering 4 or 5 for this. Also rare that a live album song version is the definitive recording (I want you to want me).

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

I would ride this album like the haradrim

World Clique

Deee-Lite

3/5

Not my taste but decent. My heart didn’t find the groove of some of the deeper tracks

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

2/5

Surprised by how little I enjoyed this. Lyrics are good and some solid tracks—but my man, if your voice sounds like that you can’t also be absolutely blaring mediocre harmonica. If the point of an album is to make enjoyable sounds, then shouldn’t your sound be good?

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

4/5

Unexpectedly good album

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

Weird move Bowie

British Steel

Judas Priest

4/5

Good.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

Halfway through the album I stopped and realized this was rad yo.

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

2/5

It was mostly fine, but that’s about all I’ve got

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

No comments necessary

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

Somewhere between a 3 and a 4 for me. Good and kinda jammy, but not memorable.

The La's

4/5

Familiar with the single but not this album. Pretty impressed. the album falls off a bit towards the end, but a nice mix of like Kinks/REM/acoustic-heavy alternative. On the borderline between 4 and 5–if it had another solid single I’d bump it up easy.

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

3/5

Liked the sound and vibe, but not enough of the individual songs

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

3/5

Hard to review without understanding the lyrics or context, but the music itself was enjoyable enough

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

The depth of this album is almost unparalleled, and if we just forget that Oh Daddy exists, doesn’t hit particular lows.

The Predator

Ice Cube

3/5

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Fairly dense. Both carried and undercut by Eddie’s great/overdone guitar playing

Tommy

The Who

3/5

A rock opera with a story I really couldn’t follow or get into, and not too many great tracks. Gains a point for the attempt and influence.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

2/5

All over the place. I just can’t rate an album highly if I have to listen to a (total shit) song about graphically killing your ex that lasts two minutes longer than your single.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

The album was deeper than I was expecting. I don’t necessarily love or hate Joplin as a singer on singles, but her tone with the quality of the old recording does grate after several tracks.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Pretty good. GF called it elevator music, and it was hard to mount a credible counter argument.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Easy 5

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

Damn catchy.

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

2/5

Listened while driving around Scotland’s highlands, and the vibes still didn’t carry this album too far.

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

Fine. Overproduced and underwritten

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Generally solid throughout.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Generally enjoy the sound and style, but wish there was another great song or two in the album

Frank

Amy Winehouse

2/5

Some was fine, but only really enjoyed a song or two.

Back In Black

AC/DC

5/5

When I think of what rock music should sound like, the guitar tones from this album are the first thing that come to mind.

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

3/5

Influential album that I think is a bit overrated. The few good tracks can get lost in the noise and mediocre ones.

Copper Blue

Sugar

4/5

Pretenders

3/5

Enjoyed generally, especially some of the harder songs

The World is a Ghetto

War

1/5

Not a fan

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Lost cause is great, but the album wears on you

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Decent I guess. Bland generally.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

2/5

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Pretty Decent

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

A who’s who of tracks and hits. Fantastic.

The Visitors

ABBA

2/5

It wasn’t actively bad, but never pulled me in.

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

1/5

It was impressive how effectively they would abandon the enjoyable parts of their songs for ambient dog sounds.

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

Produced well. Often great beats and catchy. Lyrics lacking. Not a fan of non-music tracks

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Kind of a jam

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

An improvement on their first album, AND a gollum reference. Easy 5. I don’t know what’s wrong with the Harris boys.

With The Beatles

Beatles

2/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Between a 3 and 4, much better than their previous album on the list, but still had some low tracks

Dry

PJ Harvey

4/5

Enjoyed the album quite a bit, but not a lot of individual songs that I’m drawn to.

Follow The Leader

Korn

2/5

Play

Moby

4/5

Great and the beginning through the middle, but significant falloff.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

evermore

Taylor Swift

3/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

3/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

3/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

1/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Good album generally.

Parklife

Blur

2/5

There’s way too much Brit pop on this list.

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

3/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Favorite of her albums so far.

Chelsea Girl

Nico

2/5

Not totally down with singing that’s almost in tune. Nonetheless, the album started strong but was a slog by the end

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

1/5

With most albums I dislike, I can at least understand why they are on this list even if the are not to my taste. This album is the exception.

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Pretty good, a bit inconsistent

Black Sabbath

3/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

2/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

3/5

Adele

5/5

Even if not my genre, a clearly great album.

Scissor Sisters

4/5

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

Crazysexycool

TLC

1/5

Normally a classic song will bump an otherwise bad album up a star… but man every other song was rough

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

4/5

Kind of a weird jam

The Joshua Tree

5/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

Bad Company

4/5

Odelay

Beck

3/5

Often good. Often a bit much.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Not only a great composition (if some questionable songs therein), but my favorite Stones sound.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Starts off strong but falls off significantly.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

4/5

Enjoyed more than I was expecting on a full listen through, and you can hear it’s influence on subsequent music.