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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
World Clique Deee-Lite	5	2.87	+2.13
Hot Shots II The Beta Band	5	3.01	+1.99
Done By The Forces Of Nature Jungle Brothers	5	3.04	+1.96
Floodland Sisters Of Mercy	5	3.06	+1.94
Guero Beck	5	3.45	+1.55
Sex Packets Digital Underground	4	2.66	+1.34
Graceland Paul Simon	5	3.72	+1.28
Arular M.I.A.	4	2.84	+1.16
White Light Gene Clark	4	2.85	+1.15
The Sounds Of India Ravi Shankar	4	2.85	+1.15

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Aladdin Sane David Bowie	1	3.6	-2.6
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	1	3.46	-2.46
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	1	3.39	-2.39
S&M Metallica	1	3.26	-2.26
GREY Area Little Simz	1	3.24	-2.24
London Calling The Clash	2	3.96	-1.96
Bug Dinosaur Jr.	1	2.94	-1.94
Superfuzz Bigmuff Mudhoney	1	2.93	-1.93
Greetings From L.A. Tim Buckley	1	2.84	-1.84
Pink Moon Nick Drake	2	3.65	-1.65

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Pink Moon

Nick Drake

2/5

Pink Moon th song, yes. Pink Moon the album, no. I just wanted it to end.

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Not my fave Sade

Tommy

The Who

4/5

Too long. I live the musical and this isn't as compelling, but there's a lot of great stuff here. Definitely worth a listen and it's legend status

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

1/5

This sounds like the 70s in the worst ways. The piano on the second track made my ears cry.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Nice. Languid. 3 stars

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

2/5

Didn't change my mind about funk. 2 stars

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

The softest of jazz

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5

More stomp, clamp, hey than I expected

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

Bloated. I feel like Speakerboxx is better with age and The Love Below is worse. The idea that we let Andre 3000 get away with those abysmal lyrics!

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

The hits are bangers but the rest feels samey and, honestly, pretty immature. I thought this might blow my mind as an overlooked germ, but I think I paid it the right amount of attention at the time.

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

3/5

Excited to get Canned Heat, but got disco Stevie Wonder instead.

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

This is great. Admittedly, it sounds dated in parts, but the non-singles don't feel like filler. I probably won't listen again, but I appreciate it

GREY Area

Little Simz

1/5

This doesn't feel interesting or important.

Street Signs

Ozomatli

3/5

Mexican hip.hop jazz fusion. Ok.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

1/5

Not for me

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

3/5

The more electronic it sounds, the better it is

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Hoo boy. This sounds like high quality blues, but it didn't make me hate blues music any less. This probably deserves 5 stars for quality, but I really hate it

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

3/5

Maudlin

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

3/5

More musical than I expected

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

5/5

Great

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

4/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

If it want for motherfucker and motherfuckin' there would only be beats

Live!

Fela Kuti

3/5

Cool, but too much jam band energy

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

4/5

Smooth

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

4 stars for Maps, but I have to agree with Angie's take on this: "It's screamy"

London Calling

The Clash

2/5

I don't get the love for the Clash. Were they just the most pop punks at the time? I like some of the songs, but it's not for me overall.

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Like Elvis if he were bad

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

2/5

I wish this was a different, better Goldfrapp album

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

Better than I expected. I like the horns

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

2/5

Sinatra goes bossa nova. Didn't make me like him any more.

Joan Baez

2/5

Beautiful voice, but terrible songs

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

2/5

Some of these are songs

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

3/5

I'm no expert, but these were not the sounds of country and western music.

On The Beach

Neil Young

2/5

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

4/5

Nice 90s vibe, but top 1001? I'd listen again

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

I'm more of a Hello, Nasty fan

S&M

Metallica

1/5

If Metallica had no haters, I'm dead

Ramones

2/5

It's the Ramones. At least it's short

White Light

Gene Clark

4/5

A really solid surprise.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

2/5

This is a lot more honky tonk than I expected. Spotify Auto played some TRex after this was over and that was better, so I can only give this two stars - and those stars are all earned by Sympathy for the Devil.

War

4/5

Solid

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

3/5

Bob Dylan is as Bob Dylan does

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

5/5

This is what Dwayne Wayne and Whitley were listening to

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

4/5

I appreciate that he was trying to teach me about the music.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

At its best when it sounds less like the Beatles

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

Still sounds great

Germs

1/5

Music expresses the range of human emotions. Sometimes the emotion is screaming.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Ok, but it all sounds like Bad Moon Rising

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

4/5

I'm supposed to get high and listen to THIS while I watch the Wizard of Oz? Crazy

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

4/5

Great Trip hop representation

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

It's a Neil Young album. No surprises here.

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

3/5

Ok, he likes king fu

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

Keeping high school jazz bands in business since 1957

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

4/5

More interesting than I expected. I'm most familiar with The Message (the song) which feels pretty dated in 2026. It's easy to see how it's foundational, but I expected it all to feel as dated as The Message (the song). It isn't. With some exceptions. There's a lot to like here and not just in a nostalgic way.

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

4/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

This is not a serious band. Now I'm older, I'm tattooed all over My wife is tattooed, too A-rooty-doot-toot, rooty-tooty-toot-toot Rooty-tootle-tootle tattoo, too

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

2/5

Way more marimba than you think

I Against I

Bad Brains

2/5

No, thank you.

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

2/5

PJ Harvey has better albums

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

This album sounds great with headphones on

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

5/5

The most dramatic new wave I've ever heard. This was a welcome surprise.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Classic, but loses a star because each song is juuuuust a bit too long

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

2/5

Shit innit

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

2/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

Crisp

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

Light and enjoyable

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

2/5

Of all the albums that make me feel nothing, this is one of them.

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

1/5

Started meh and just got worse until I turned it off. My first non-finish in my 1001 albums journey. I decided I don't have to listen to everything.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

I debated skipping this album. I have a bias against Black Sabbath based on who I think their audience is and certain expectations of what this would sound like. I'm glad I listened. This is much more musical and stylistically diverse than I was prepared for. This is a great album and well worth the time. More guitar heavy than I would prefer, but honestly an enjoyable surprise.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

3/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

1/5

...but if you can get past the misogyny, homophobia, and graphic violence...

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

"I've been working real hard tryin' to get my ass clean." - Bruce Springsteen in Prove it All Night as heard by me Turns out he's actually trying to get his HANDS clean. Good, because I was like it shouldn't be that hard, man.

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

I'm more of a post-Automatic for the People guy, but R.E.M. is undeniable

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

The problem with Sigur Ros isn't that the music isn't good, it's that I don't know when I would listen to it. I don't think I live a down tempo electronic atmospheric life. Maybe I'm more of a sad trombone instrumental

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

2/5

Purposefully ugly and unpleasant. An extra star for the undeniable influence on grunge.

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

The first half of this album is literally bad The second half of figuratively bad. If it wasn't a single, it's yeah (also Bad).

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

3/5

Ol' Sourpuss himself

Arular

M.I.A.

4/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

This album confused me. I had to listen to it a few times, but I like it? The Beach Boy harmonies, but not the Beach Boy sound I've come to expect.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

2/5

I think this is too early in the Pixies discography for me. Too raw.

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

2/5

After the album finished, Spotify played better later-era Psychedelic Furs songs. I say, skip this one and start later in the discography.

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

1/5

"Like most of his other albums, Greetings from L.A. did not sell well" Wow. Hard to imagine.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

2/5

Not every album needs to be in this list. Speaking in Tongues, sure. Little Creatures, yes. Talking Heads 77, no, not really.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

3/5

Meh

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

2/5

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

3/5

There's too much punk on this list. Maybe I've been worn down, but this isn't so bad. At least it's melodic.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

2/5

This is fine.

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

4/5

Guaranteed this is the only album on the list with lyrics about having sex in a Burger King bathroom.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

2/5

Give me Legs instead.

The World is a Ghetto

War

2/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

1/5

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

2/5

Yucky

World Clique

Deee-Lite

5/5

So many of the albums I've listened to from the list have been punk or some form of rock, maybe a little rap. This felt like a breathe of fresh air. Deee-Lite are amazing

Parklife

Blur

4/5

My brit pop awakening

Guero

Beck

5/5

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

2/5

No single song is terrible, but listening to them all together highlights how empty they sound

In Utero

Nirvana

3/5

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

4/5

Never heard of the Brothers, but this is great early 70s country rock