My 1001 Albums Journey

187

Albums Rated

3.42

Average Rating

17%

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902 albums remaining

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1980

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Short Album About Love The Divine Comedy	5	2.77	+2.23
Oedipus Schmoedipus Barry Adamson	5	2.78	+2.22
The Sun Rises In The East Jeru The Damaja	5	2.91	+2.09
Killing Joke Killing Joke	5	2.99	+2.01
The Man Who Travis	5	3.01	+1.99
Ray Of Light Madonna	5	3.02	+1.98
The Rise & Fall Madness	5	3.04	+1.96
Fishscale Ghostface Killah	5	3.05	+1.95
Exit Planet Dust The Chemical Brothers	5	3.15	+1.85
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space Spiritualized	5	3.15	+1.85

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Catch A Fire Bob Marley & The Wailers	1	3.61	-2.61
Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Frank Sinatra	1	3.52	-2.52
On The Beach Neil Young	1	3.45	-2.45
Bossanova Pixies	1	3.37	-2.37
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1	3.32	-2.32
If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Pogues	1	3.32	-2.32
Being There Wilco	1	3.23	-2.23
If You're Feeling Sinister Belle & Sebastian	1	3.19	-2.19
Loveless My Bloody Valentine	1	3.19	-2.19
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) Bob Dylan	1	3.14	-2.14

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
David Bowie	3	4.67
Pink Floyd	2	5
Marvin Gaye	2	5
Simon & Garfunkel	3	4.33

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Frank Sinatra	5, 1, 4
Bob Dylan	1, 4, 2

5-Star Albums (58)

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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Popular Reviews

Killing Joke

Killing Joke · 3 likes

5/5

Probably one of the most delightful post-punk records Ive ever heard and am disturbed it took me 31 years to get here.

The Wall

Pink Floyd · 1 likes

5/5

Such a powerful sonic journey!

The Coral

The Coral · 1 likes

1/5

1-Star Albums (20)

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

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Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Maybe Zeppelin just isn’t for me but I’m glad I know this one start to finish now. Just always a bit one-note.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Surprisingly superb and succinct. Found more TRS I actually enjoy.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

5/5

Perfection. No notes.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

Still going through but I’m always blown away by the moody versatility of new wave sounds.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Such a powerful sonic journey!

Black Sabbath

4/5

Some of the most iconic guitar riffs of all time.

Parklife

Blur

3/5

Tracy Chapman

3/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

5/5

Chunky, funky, and such foundational sounds that shaped hip hop.

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

2/5

Cute.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

Bossanova

Pixies

1/5

Minimal fan

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

1/5

Not for me

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

The Score

Fugees

5/5

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

5/5

Needed this

Microshift

Hookworms

4/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

Don’t think I’ve ever heard this all the way through until now, I’m a fan.

Talvin Singh

2/5

Maybe is a bit too sterile for me.

On The Beach

Neil Young

1/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Le Tigre

3/5

Homework

Daft Punk

3/5

So foundational and it’s quite clear that they were literally doing their homework on what would ultimately be a genre and era defining sound for their albums to follow.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

Breathtaking.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

3/5

Van Halen

3/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

2/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

1984

Van Halen

4/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

2/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

1/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Not my fave J5 but definitely some new old heaters in this one I hadn’t paid attention to.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

5/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1/5

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

1/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

The Poet

Bobby Womack

4/5

Killing Joke

5/5

Probably one of the most delightful post-punk records Ive ever heard and am disturbed it took me 31 years to get here.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

5/5

Foundational. Phenomenal.

Vivid

Living Colour

2/5

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

1/5

Sea Change

Beck

5/5

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

1/5

Not my jam

Technique

New Order

4/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Splendid. Stupendous. Stellar. Striking. Special. Soothing. Spectacular. Slaps.

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

4/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Made for the LA night drives heading to that boy’s place.

The Rise & Fall

Madness

5/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

All Directions

The Temptations

5/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

2/5

Odessa

Bee Gees

2/5

1999

Prince

5/5

Diamond Life

Sade

5/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

3/5

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

3/5

Kid A

Radiohead

3/5

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

2/5

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

1/5

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

5/5

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

4/5

Iron Maiden

3/5

Samey halfway through

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Certified unskippable. Foundational to trip hop. Intrinsically metaphysical.

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

4/5

Real Life

Magazine

2/5

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Stephen Stills

4/5

S’cute.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

1/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

3/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

5/5

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

2/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

Yea fine.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

3/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

1/5

Stop

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

5/5

Sounds so good as a whole. They have this mastery of mixing things up before it gets stale or predictable that all started from the very beginning. The second you feel the song is established and could get repetitive, they completely switch it up. And they carry this through at least Come With Us.

Electric

The Cult

3/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

2/5

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

3/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

Will not support this talent again but know it has cemented itself in the pantheon of hip hop and pop culture.

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

5/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

2/5

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

4/5

Had never been much of a Dylan fan but this speaks to me and gives me more of a depth of understanding of how he is a voice and songwriter of a generation.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

The Coral

1/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

Amazing. No notes.