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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Aphex Twin	5	3.21	+1.79
Head Hunters Herbie Hancock	5	3.54	+1.46
Low David Bowie	5	3.55	+1.45
Moon Safari Air	5	3.57	+1.43
Mothership Connection Parliament	5	3.61	+1.39
Van Halen Van Halen	5	3.62	+1.38
Yeezus Kanye West	4	2.75	+1.25
Rip It Up Orange Juice	4	2.89	+1.11
Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective	4	2.92	+1.08

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Back In Black AC/DC	2	3.84	-1.84
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan	2	3.75	-1.75
After The Gold Rush Neil Young	2	3.61	-1.61
Ramones Ramones	2	3.56	-1.56
Cheap Thrills Big Brother & The Holding Company	2	3.41	-1.41
Pretenders Pretenders	2	3.35	-1.35
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	2	3.33	-1.33
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Sinead O'Connor	2	3.27	-1.27
System Of A Down System Of A Down	2	3.27	-1.27
Dry PJ Harvey	2	3.24	-1.24

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Jimi Hendrix

3/5

It's not Jimi's best, but it marked a shift to the even more psychedelic that is seen in Electric Ladyland.

Van Halen

5/5

A quintessential rock debut that is not only Van Halen's best, but one of the best of the era. No skips on this one!

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

4/5

Sprawling, big sounding, and a pleasant surprise from a band I only thought to be known as the "You Really Got Me band"

Black Sabbath

4/5

Genre defining! Made by people who didn't quite know where their sound was or heading!

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

It's fun (This album is what I presume it feels like to have a big beard)

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

The sound of California, a sound I feel that I've outgrown as I've gotten older

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

Funky, loose concept doesn't help or hurt my enjoyment, great driving album! Another great discovery!

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

4/5

Great live performance, high energy makes it a personal favorite

Moon Safari

Air

5/5

Lush sounding, an album that can be enjoyed at every mood, what a gem!

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

Not my favorite Metallica album, nor do I think it's their best, but this album is more than just the album with their best song

Dry

PJ Harvey

2/5

Not my thing, the more I look into the album the more it became interesting, still don't understand the influence it has to be included in this list

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Great gem found this project, great to see 2010s inclusion

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

5/5

Influential, wild, and worth digesting! Seriously there's a 15 minute song in here that might seem like it goes on forever but it's worth it!

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

2/5

First example of I see why it's seen as great, but folk rock isn't my much of my thing to rate as highly as others

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Easy to hear why this album was included, influential sound for so many acts to follow them

Fun House

The Stooges

3/5

Fast, fun, great find from this journey!

Funeral

Arcade Fire

3/5

I wish I could give a 2.5 star rating, it's just ok, little overrated to my ear but there is flashes of brilliance

Achtung Baby

3/5

This is the album with One on it, immediate 2 stars alone, the rest is hit or miss

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

2/5

Hard to rate, folk isn't my thing

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

4/5

Yet another gem, a sound is from the 70s but before it's time

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Mick Jagger sings the blues, if the Stones went this direction after this then they might be worth exploring further

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Measuring stick album similar to Black Sabbath, not quite to the upper echelon for me to give a 5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Hard to rate, this album would lend well to multiple listens, so my baseline has to be a 3 given my limited experience

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

4/5

Gem of an album, the author of the original book had to want readers to know about this album to avoid it from being overlooked

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

2/5

Not my thing but I'm glad to have given it a try, this album is something I would've never discovered on my own without this project

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

She's more than the woman who sings Son of a Preacher Man, would listen to again

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

2/5

I always thought that Janis Joplin sounded like a dude, seriously, this is just alright, docked the rating for the fake live elements that didn't really add anything to my experience

Pyromania

Def Leppard

2/5

Just ok, never was a fan and this go around isn't no different, fun rock to drive to and that's about it to my ears

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Another album I would've never given a shot if it wasn't for this project, by the halfway point of the opener I had a general idea of where this album would go but I wasn't disappointed, finally glad to give the notable Nick Cave a chance

Moby Grape

3/5

Forgotten according to the streets, cool piece of history from the psych rock era

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

Yet another album I would've never discovered, this whole genre I probably would've never found

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

This was their peak, no ifs ands or buts about it

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

3/5

An album that gets more interesting the more details you learn about it, not my favorite thing Eno has had his hand in but of his solo works it's a great look into his style

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

3/5

"The first punk album" It's wacky, wildly ahead of its time soundwise, not one I would go back to regularly though

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

If this is the first album of Stevie's classic period then he was on a hell of a run, excited when other entries following this come up

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

Top tier concept album that suffers from some individual tracks not being able to stand on their own, middling album without the concept and large scale songs that are on both sides

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

2/5

Vampire Weekend owns a little bit to this album, the resemblance to their sound is uncanny at times, ok album that I would've never found without 1001

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

4/5

Super influential sound, perfect music to disassociate to

Back In Black

AC/DC

2/5

Suffers from same sound syndrome, easily their best album, feeling like a greatest hits album at times

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Much like Funeral this album has its highs, but is The Suburbs the better of the inclusions? Albums like them both need time to marinate, and the format of this project force you to revisit them as you make your journey

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

Every genre has a defining classic and this is the one for bossa nova, a genre I would've never considered without 1001

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

4/5

Gem, one of the most vulnerable sounds I've ever heard, an album lost to time but shouldn't be

Lost Souls

Doves

4/5

Manchester representation, this sound is as if Oasis was able to survive the new millennium, great band I plan on continuing with through their discography

Nowhere

Ride

2/5

Shoegaze legend, enjoyment is based solely on your enjoyment of the genre, not my thing compared to others from this era but it's just fine

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Essential rock album with personal favorites, I'm looking at you "Someday"

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

3/5

The interludes slow down the album for me, still high quality rhymes throughout

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Album was inescapable for months when it was released, most of my enjoyment now is the nostalgia for that period

System Of A Down

2/5

Not even their best, hard to give any higher rating

Peter Gabriel

3/5

One of the most diverse sounding albums I've encountered so far in 1001, lowkey gem that I may keep in rotation

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

Yet another album from this week that might be in my rotation

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Half of this album feels disjointed as it was extra material from another album, even then this was a great discovery

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Interesting look at another period from the band who made "Come on Eileen"

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

5/5

One of the most influential albums for a reason, unbelievable that a teenager composed these tracks

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Fun, catchy as hell, cool to have such an influential album come up that might stay in my rotation

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

Fun concept album that lacks the umph to give it anything more than a middle of the road rating

Pretenders

2/5

I don't understand this album, it feels derivative compared to others I've heard as earlier as this week, might need to come back to this one!

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Immensely influential to a lot of the stuff I love already, I plan on adding more from their discography after giving this a thorough listen

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

2/5

Super nostalgic for the opening track, it almost transports me to when I like 8, rest of the album isn't as great but it's fun enough to get a middling rating within the context of rating the entire thing

Low

David Bowie

5/5

One of my favorites I found before 1001, with my limited time with Bowie's discography this is my favorite

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Besides the music, easily the best album cover so far I've found through 1001, the music is funky too

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

2/5

Kind of a hard listen at times, but "Who Knows Where The Time Goes?" alone holds it up to a 2 on my personal scale

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Funny this came after Depeche Mode's Violator, this seems more dated and neutered by comparison while still being a fun 80s album

Yeezus

Kanye West

4/5

Yet another classic I heard already, one of Kanye's most underrated projects more than a decade after its first release, beyond all the memes and sound clips this album will stand the test of time for its innovation

The Wall

Pink Floyd

3/5

Great musicianship but the pretentiousness persists, I can understand the love for this and Pink Floyd

Ramones

2/5

Didn't enjoy this one, crazy to say about the Ramones but their sound isn't my thing

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

3/5

More experimental than Peter Gabriel 1 from earlier, not quite to my level past a 3 but it was enjoyable for the day