My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Wonderful Rainbow Lightning Bolt	5	2.29	+2.71
Punishing Kiss Ute Lemper	5	2.4	+2.6
Reign In Blood Slayer	5	2.96	+2.04
Copper Blue Sugar	5	2.98	+2.02
The Who Sell Out The Who	5	2.99	+2.01
Meat Puppets II Meat Puppets	5	3.01	+1.99
Fishscale Ghostface Killah	5	3.05	+1.95
Architecture And Morality Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark	5	3.06	+1.94
Dig Me Out Sleater-Kinney	5	3.07	+1.93
Before And After Science Brian Eno	5	3.08	+1.92

Album	You	Global	Diff
Your Arsenal Morrissey	2	3.05	-1.05

Artist	Albums	Average
Kendrick Lamar	2	5
Beatles	2	5
Radiohead	3	4.33

Sugar

5/5

Wall to wall anthems, you can hear the genesis of later Cure here but even more obviously, Foo Fighters. If Sugar had come along ten years later they’d have been huge

Eliminator

ZZ Top

4/5

One of the more successful reinventions of a reasonably popular blues rock band into a pop rock format, with several very memorable hits. There’s still about half the album I think of as filler, but I’m not mad about it

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

Everybody loves the Reverend Billy Gibbons, and this is a major reason why. Texas Roadhouse style colors in juicy, deep-pocketed grooves. A little smattering of smoke and whiskeyed harmonies gives this album the perfect char to the seared outside.

Low-Life

New Order

3/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

People love Snoop, and his sound is so effortless and cool, the Dre beats are sly and slinky. But the record itself leaves me feeling unfulfilled. This is not Tupac or Biggie skill.

The Blueprint

JAY Z

5/5

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

2/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

Some bangers but also a lot of meandering filler. I can see how it would’ve been more meaningful in its moment, with Ziggy etc. but I’d rather listen to early Bowie/Ronson

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

An interesting album that doesn't quite reach the emotional heights of Kid A and Amnesiac because it doesn't have the melodies that grab a hold of your soul and stay there. But it is a very worthwhile listen for the musical ideas at play, and the idea of play itself

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

5/5

Of course I knew the theme song, but the rest of this soundtrack is delightful, both as a snapshot of the moment and as a harmonic dive into the funk of the moment. Normally I go to like an Alphonse Mouzon album but of course this is a bit more accessible. The drums are so present and a main character that you can't help but focus on. This is now one of my favorite "now that's a pocket" albums.

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

5/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Black Sabbath

5/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

Gorillaz

4/5

The Omnichord!

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

5/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

5/5

Incredible lesson in tight rhythm performance, spot on harmonies, just a tour-de-force

The College Dropout

Kanye West

3/5

The production is immaculate, but to be honest the actual rapping is not my cup of tea. I had never heard this album until fairly recently, and I don't really feel like I missed anything, even though I know most of my friends who are about ten years younger worshipped this album, even if they dislike what Kanye stands for now. I still don't really get it.

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

5/5

New York Dolls

4/5

Raw, powerful, you can hear how influential this record was on punk rock within the first twenty seconds

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

3/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

5/5

Dire Straits

4/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Odelay

Beck

3/5

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

2/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

3/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

5/5

I Against I

Bad Brains

4/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

3/5

The Who Sell Out

The Who

5/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

5/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

3/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

5/5

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Van Halen

5/5

The crime of inspiring hair metal aside, this album was a nuclear bomb dropped on classic rock and roll—a unique blend of prog, metal, punk, and pop with that family sense of swing and Diamond Dave slathered on top

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

5/5