My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bitches Brew Miles Davis	5	3.3	+1.7
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	5	3.31	+1.69
Ágætis Byrjun Sigur Rós	5	3.37	+1.63
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	5	3.5	+1.5
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.53	+1.47
After The Gold Rush Neil Young	5	3.61	+1.39
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen	5	3.63	+1.37
Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan	5	3.66	+1.34
Elephant The White Stripes	5	3.84	+1.16
Blood And Chocolate Elvis Costello & The Attractions	4	2.91	+1.09

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.48	-2.48
Play Moby	1	3.45	-2.45
Melodrama Lorde	1	3.31	-2.31
Celebrity Skin Hole	1	3.3	-2.3
Arc Of A Diver Steve Winwood	1	2.87	-1.87
Metallica Metallica	2	3.77	-1.77
Electric Prunes The Electric Prunes	1	2.71	-1.71
British Steel Judas Priest	2	3.29	-1.29
1989 Taylor Swift	2	3.26	-1.26
The Visitors ABBA	2	3.22	-1.22

5-Star Albums (13)

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Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood · 1 likes

4/5

12yo me knew these guys were rad. 54yo me remembers they're rad. Especially the title track, amazing. Such a treat, thank you, list.

1-Star Albums (6)

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

David Bowie

4/5

Almost all songs that you know and love already. Didn't quite sense an underlying storyline or theme? Maybe I'm missing something. But there are some stellar songs on here, and some interesting sounds in the background.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

Dire Straits

4/5

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Some real bangers, but a few that didn't resonate with me.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

This is one of the goats. 100% a five star album. Songs that hit so hard. Where did the true poets go?

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

5/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

1/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

5/5

This is an easy one. But five stars isn't enough. A work of art, a true masterpiece, blah blah. It just is. I listened to it again. It's twenty five years old and still as remarkable as ever. Real poetry, unbound by any required context of contemporaneousness. Song segues that make the tiny hairs straighten and tingle.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

The Modern Lovers

3/5

Tago Mago

Can

3/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

5/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

3/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

3/5

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

4/5

This one looks like trash. We'll see. Update: it's not. It's pretty great actually. My prejudices, this time of contemporary pop music, aren't the right way to go through life. This was pretty damn enjoyable.

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

1984

Van Halen

3/5

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

New Wave

The Auteurs

3/5

1989

Taylor Swift

2/5

Play

Moby

1/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

5/5

Top notch. Already one of my all time favorites. A masterpiece if I am able to say it. Svefn-ga-englar starts, you are floating in space and suddenly encounter life. It's comforting and warming and lovely. Suddenly you think you've left the realm, but it brings you back for another embrace before letting you go again. Staralfur you've arrived at your destination and it's a celebratory ceremony. You've begun your work. Flugufrelsarinn You meet the new life forms. Cautious at first. But their presence feels like a revolution is at hand. So much we will learn. Ny batteri You start to communicate with the discovered life forms. They express the suffering they've endured at the hands of the selfish and self centered Didn't complete the narration in this review because I was working while listening. But ultimately I have to give this five stars, it's still hits as hard as it ever did.

World Clique

Deee-Lite

3/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

3/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

You have to be a real imbecile or psychopath or void of feeling to dislike this record.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Wild Gift

3/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

4/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

4/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

3/5

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

2/5

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

4/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

3/5

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

2/5

Good musicianship, but the lyrics seem so pedestrian, sometimes rising to the level of cringe. Not poetry.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

I mean, what to say? The best of all time. I can't think of an album that beats or meets it. As a cohesive unit it wins. From a personal perspective of Roger Waters or a global perspective of humankind, these lyrics transcend time and space. If you were to put the best works of art made by man into a time capsule for other species that come after humans, this work would be an absolute critical requirement inclusion.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Not my style of music necessarily, but I can see how Massive Attack is loved and appreciated for pioneering a musical genre. I saw Tricky back in 1995 when he was opening up for PJ Harvey. I enjoyed it!

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

2/5

Time locked. Not built to last

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

2/5

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

2/5

I don't get it. I love pavement, I like lots of grunge, I like avant garde pop, I like indie. I experienced the full weight of the 90s. I just cannot ever get with Sonic Youth. Where's the melodies and harmonies? What do people like about them?

Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

British Steel

Judas Priest

2/5

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

2/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

I don't know how you listen to this with an open heart and not get emotionally wrecked.

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

Celebrity Skin

Hole

1/5

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

3/5

Rocks

Aerosmith

3/5

Dirty white boy blues, not quite as magical as the stones but still pretty great, although a couple songs lagged.

Among The Living

Anthrax

3/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

Drunk

Thundercat

4/5

Another surprise from the list, I quite enjoyed this. Thundercat writes some truly funny lyrics and very unconventional melodies. I'm not usually someone who would put on any rap music, but I really enjoyed it here.

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

3/5

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

1/5

Guy is such a sock sniffer. Holy fucking cheese. Stinky.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

This is the album that let the cat out of the bag. Metallica was in a league of their own. While you could hear the influences from other metal bands, Metallica took metal to new heights. This is a searing album from start to finish, but unfortunately it was the lead up to a different Metallica starting with the Black album. They grew up, but we didn't want them to.

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

4/5

12yo me knew these guys were rad. 54yo me remembers they're rad. Especially the title track, amazing. Such a treat, thank you, list.

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

2/5

Had high hopes from the first track but then lots of meh.

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

3/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

3/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

3/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

3/5

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

3/5

The Visitors

ABBA

2/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

3/5

I enjoyed this, except for the dog abuse song. I understand I'm applying contemporary principles to an era that was not so nice to pets and animals in general. I still wished for better from Johnny. Three stars instead of four

The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

3/5

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

4/5

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

2/5

Time locked. Repetitive. Tiringly dizzy and plodding, simultaneously. Loud and irritating. Mids.

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

2/5

I mean, this isn't made for me. But I can't help saying, some songs that have been recorded in history are terribly dumb. Blow is one of those songs.

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Phrenology

The Roots

3/5

Metallica

2/5

This album marked to the beginning of the end of Metallica for me. While there are plenty of decent enough songs to make this a three star album, the disappointment of their diminishing unique songwriting qualities cause me to drop it by one.

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

3/5

Melodrama

Lorde

1/5

Gave up halfway through, just awful

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Nobody can say shit to me about OK Computer. Show me another album that says as much about the goings-on in society, both back in the '90s up until current day, while causing such steady and consistent frisson.

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

2/5

Time locked. Boring singer, boring lyrics. Pointless to have on the list.

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

4/5

Originally thinking halfway through that this was a 3 for me. But after the last couple songs and reading a bit about her (didn't know anything before getting the album on the list, didn't recognize the name), I'm reminded of John Prine and started feeling the lyrics. This was nice.

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

3/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Can't say whether I've listened to this or Greetings from Asbury Park more. Either way I was here for it and I'm lucky I was.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

3/5

Started really strong, but kinda cooled down the last half. Still enjoyable.

Pet Sounds