1001 Albums Summary

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Billion Dollar Babies Alice Cooper	5	3.11	+1.89
Every Picture Tells A Story Rod Stewart	5	3.24	+1.76
Dance Mania Tito Puente	5	3.29	+1.71
Deep Purple In Rock Deep Purple	5	3.31	+1.69
L'Eau Rouge The Young Gods	4	2.32	+1.68
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	5	3.38	+1.62
Green Onions Booker T. & The MG's	5	3.39	+1.61
Stankonia OutKast	5	3.55	+1.45
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	5	3.59	+1.41
Hounds Of Love Kate Bush	5	3.63	+1.37

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys	1	3.73	-2.73
Teen Dream Beach House	1	3.26	-2.26
Tonight's The Night Neil Young	1	3.24	-2.24
Le Tigre Le Tigre	1	3.15	-2.15
Back To Black Amy Winehouse	2	4.02	-2.02
Beggars Banquet The Rolling Stones	2	3.61	-1.61
Ramones Ramones	2	3.56	-1.56
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	2	3.44	-1.44
Metal Box Public Image Ltd.	1	2.42	-1.42
Homework Daft Punk	2	3.28	-1.28

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

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Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

2/5

Still feel Amy is overrated and derivative. An actual doo-wop album would have better. I think her popularity was influenced by the contrast of other artists at the time and later by the tragedy of her death. I found nothing innovative in her vocals or music (given that some tracks were direct samples). Overall a “good” to “okay” album, but not 1001-worthy.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

Excellent harmonies and lush story telling. The influence of the Beatles is evident in the horns sections of certain tracks of the album recorded in Abbey Road studios. The final track “Time of the Season” is the quintessential psychedelic groove. An album worthy of its place on this list.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

This album is by all interpretations, a transitional album both in its date of release (at the end of the 60s the cusp of the 1970s) and in the style of songs. the first half of the album has groovy funk rhythms that would become the bedrock of the 1970s soul funk genre while the second half of the album is the classic Motown sounds that the Temptations were known for.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Stankonia

OutKast

5/5

The first album in the generator that made me say “YYEESSS!!” when I saw it pop up. One of the greatest rap groups of all time, OutKast redefines the genre in this album. A mixture of tracks and interludes, some go hard, others humorous. There’s an undertone of joy in this album. I wish music videos were part of the 1001 experience as OutKast masterfully paired film with lyrics in Ms Jackson and BOB. Andre was right, “the South’s got something to say!”

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

1/5

“Experimental noise album”

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Boston

5/5

One of the best debut albums in rock history. It defined the sound of 70’s rock.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

Deserves to be on the best 100 albums let alone 1001. Kate Bush wrote, recorded, and produced this album in her private studio in her barn. Layering the vocals, synthesizer, and sound effects herself. Always innovative and ahead of her time, this album’s influence can be heard in artists to come a decade later like Bjork, Fiona Apple, and Tori Amos and less obvious artists like Placebo, Radiohead, and Big Boi.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Just not a Stones fan but otherwise okay. Sounds like a working man cosplay album. Only diamond is sympathy for the devil.

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

5/5

Surprised how much I enjoy this album. The pageantry of the first number is evident, an overture meant to be performed live.

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

5/5

Even at 26 Rod has the gravelly, textured voice and the reflective, sentimental lyrics of someone much older. The acoustic and steel guitars give an unpolished but lovely, sincere sound.

Among The Living

Anthrax

3/5

I’m not a fan of the genre myself but can understand the appreciation of this album.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

First album to come up from Africa. Delightful surprise

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

4/5

The influence on future bans like NIN and Rammstein is evident. An innovative, early industrial album.