My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Sail Away Randy Newman	5	2.97	+2.03
Imperial Bedroom Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	2.99	+2.01
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road Lucinda Williams	5	3	+2
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight Richard Thompson	5	3.05	+1.95
The Trinity Session Cowboy Junkies	5	3.08	+1.92
Unhalfbricking Fairport Convention	5	3.14	+1.86
Mr. Tambourine Man The Byrds	5	3.22	+1.78
John Prine John Prine	5	3.22	+1.78
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs Marty Robbins	5	3.33	+1.67
My Aim Is True Elvis Costello	5	3.34	+1.66

Album	You	Global	Diff
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	1	3.59	-2.59
Youth And Young Manhood Kings of Leon	1	3.09	-2.09
The Last Broadcast Doves	1	3.04	-2.04
Come Find Yourself Fun Lovin' Criminals	1	2.92	-1.92
Apocalypse Dudes Turbonegro	1	2.9	-1.9
Among The Living Anthrax	1	2.86	-1.86
Roots Sepultura	1	2.78	-1.78
American Idiot Green Day	2	3.77	-1.77
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys	2	3.73	-1.73
Master Of Puppets Metallica	2	3.72	-1.72

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

"Let Me Put My Love Into You" is a Spinal Tap song if I’ve ever heard one.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Document

R.E.M.

5/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

5/5

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

Arctic Monkeys

2/5

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

1/5

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

2/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

In high school I got The Best of CCR from the Columbia House Record Club, and the thing was an eye-opener. Just banger after banger. And there's like, what, only two tracks from Cosmo's Factory that didn't make their "best of" cut?

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Elton, you gotta tighten this thing up. Some real all-timers on this album, but have you considered cutting some of the chaff…. Like, say, Jamaica Jerk-Off, just as an example?

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

1/5

Ruh-roh

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

3/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

2/5

The Doors are simply not for me.

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

5/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

5/5

Sister

Sonic Youth

3/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

2/5

Eagles

3/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

Roots

Sepultura

1/5

Low-Life

New Order

4/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Led Zeppelin

3/5

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

3/5

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

3/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

3/5

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

3/5

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

2/5

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

4/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

2/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

Fight the Power a 5-star song, despite my overall rating.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

2/5

American Idiot

Green Day

2/5

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

2/5

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

2/5

Sounds so Jack White-y it’s like he’s recording his own Weird Al parodies of himself.

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Adele

3/5

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

1/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

Halfway through the first track I knew this was an album I’d return to again and again.

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

3/5

Drunk

Thundercat

4/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

Beyond Belief is probably my favourite Elvis song, so how can I give this album anything but top marks.

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

3/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam I Am.

Pyromania

Def Leppard

2/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

2/5

I somehow never listened to this band in high school, despite being the right age, and this sort of aligning with my tastes. In another universe I could see myself really getting into this, but now, many years later I’m just not interested in what it’s offering.

I See You

The xx

3/5

Seems ex(x)cessive to have two albums by The xx on this list.

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

4/5

Fun and noisy, gotta love it. People complaining about the number of covers or the loud screaming: congratulations, you’ve discovered the point of this music existing!

Sail Away

Randy Newman

5/5

Think about these first three tracks and how effortlessly he moves from devastating satire in “Sail Away” to the tongue-in-cheek self-effacing “Lonely at the Top” right into the completely earnest and beautiful “He Gives Us All His Love”. Who else can do that?! Also, it’s simply incredible how many people sign up for this project and seem to absolutely hate listening to and thinking about music in any truly open-minded way. Your lazily dismissive, knee-jerk, sophomoric, incurious one-star takes on half these albums are an embarrassment, you philistine babies!

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

4/5

Synchronicity

The Police

2/5

Vespertine

Björk

3/5

Slipknot

1/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

3/5

Ramones

5/5

Hey! Ho! Let’s go!

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

2/5

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

2/5

1999

Prince

4/5

The phrase “This one’s for Yosemite Sam” sung over the sounds of a woman orgasming? This is the work of a true artist and visionary.

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

5/5

One of my favorite albums ever from one of my favorite voices ever. Just incredible in every way. I’ve listened it to it so many times. For the purposes of this project, today I chose to listen to the alternative/original Gurf Morlix mix. Lucinda rejected the recording/mix in favor of the rougher, slightly grungier version that became the final album after essentially replacing Morlix with Steve Earle, but this initial version is worth checking out if you’re curious to hear these songs presented in a cleaner, more straight-forward presentation, especially in the context of how they then evolved into the masterpiece that it became.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

I would be remiss if I didn’t commemorate this album by posting about the Weird Al–inspired parody I wrote in high school. Trout, trout, swimming about Fish in the water going in and out Come on! I’m angling for you. Come on!

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Wild Gift

X

3/5

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

2/5

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

2/5

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

David Bowie

5/5

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

1/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

5/5

Snivilisation

Orbital

2/5

The Doors

3/5

Blur

4/5

The Only Ones

4/5

Recognized the first track from the Yo La Tengo cover and was surprised I never heard this original or anything from this album before. Instantly added this to my library. Really great. Speaking of which, no Yo La Tengo on this list???

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

5/5

Incredible how many people on this site have little baby brains that break so easily when a “supposedly great” album has… GASP!… cover songs. “And this one is the title of the album? But! But! That’s not fair! I’m an emotionally stunted manchild that doesn’t know how to critically engage with music and its history!” Anyway, enough about you. Great janglepop here from Da Boys, at the crossroads of folk, rock, country, and pop. And without the Byrd we’d have surely have no R.E.M. so that’s a 5 stars from me.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

Among The Living

Anthrax

1/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

2/5