1000 Album Update
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2025 11:57 am
I hit album #1000 of the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die! Since there are 1089 albums in the different editions of the book, the website includes them all, so I'm not quite done, yet!
Links:
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1001 Albums Dashboard: https://1001albumsdashboard.fun/6189c67 ... 118b9f7fb/
In the last 100 albums:
NEW 5-STAR ALBUMS
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Rust Never Sleeps
Peter Tosh – Legalize It
R.E.M. – Document
Nick Drake – Pink Moon
R.E.M. – Murmur
Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Gang of Four – Entertainment!
Green Day – American Idiot
The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
Janis Joplin – Pearl
Elton John – Madman Across The Water
Minor Threat – Out of Step
Sonic Youth – Sister
Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
Alice in Chains – Dirt
NEW 1-STAR ALBUMS
Ghostface Killah – Fishscale
Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Laura Nyro – Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
Ms. Dynamite – A Little Deeper
Lambchop – Nixon
Joanna Newsom – Ys
Robert Wyatt – Shleep
GENRE SHIFTS
Favorite genres: Punk (unchanged), Grunge (unchanged), Reggae (new!) — Peter Tosh helped push this up, and ska/ska-adjacent albums are also categorized under reggae.
Least favorite genres: World, Hip-Hop, Samba (unchanged).
NEW BEST STREAK
Nick Drake – Pink Moon (5)
R.E.M. – Murmur (5)
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik (4)
Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks… (5)
The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (5)
MOST 4-STAR ALBUMS IN A ROW
Supergrass – In It for the Money
The Monks – Black Monk Time
The Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
The Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium
Anthrax – Among the Living
NEW 2-STAR STREAK
Baaba Maal – Djam Leelii
Merle Haggard – I’m a Lonesome Fugitive
Bebel Gilberto – Tanto Tempo
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – The Message
NEW “STRAIGHT” (ALL RATINGS ACROSS 5 ALBUMS)
Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (4)
Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (3)
Alice in Chains – Dirt (5)
Gotan Project – La Revancha Del Tango (2)
Robert Wyatt – Shleep (1)
This was a really strong batch of 100 — way more 5-star albums than 1-star this time. On to the final stretch!
Links:
1001 Albums Generator: https://1001albumsgenerator.com/shares/ ... 4118b9f7fb
1001 Albums Dashboard: https://1001albumsdashboard.fun/6189c67 ... 118b9f7fb/
In the last 100 albums:
NEW 5-STAR ALBUMSNeil Young & Crazy Horse – Rust Never Sleeps
Peter Tosh – Legalize It
R.E.M. – Document
Nick Drake – Pink Moon
R.E.M. – Murmur
Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Gang of Four – Entertainment!
Green Day – American Idiot
The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
Janis Joplin – Pearl
Elton John – Madman Across The Water
Minor Threat – Out of Step
Sonic Youth – Sister
Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
Alice in Chains – Dirt
NEW 1-STAR ALBUMSGhostface Killah – Fishscale
Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Laura Nyro – Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
Ms. Dynamite – A Little Deeper
Lambchop – Nixon
Joanna Newsom – Ys
Robert Wyatt – Shleep
GENRE SHIFTSFavorite genres: Punk (unchanged), Grunge (unchanged), Reggae (new!) — Peter Tosh helped push this up, and ska/ska-adjacent albums are also categorized under reggae.
Least favorite genres: World, Hip-Hop, Samba (unchanged).
NEW BEST STREAKNick Drake – Pink Moon (5)
R.E.M. – Murmur (5)
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik (4)
Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks… (5)
The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (5)
MOST 4-STAR ALBUMS IN A ROWSupergrass – In It for the Money
The Monks – Black Monk Time
The Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
The Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium
Anthrax – Among the Living
NEW 2-STAR STREAKBaaba Maal – Djam Leelii
Merle Haggard – I’m a Lonesome Fugitive
Bebel Gilberto – Tanto Tempo
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – The Message
NEW “STRAIGHT” (ALL RATINGS ACROSS 5 ALBUMS)Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (4)
Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (3)
Alice in Chains – Dirt (5)
Gotan Project – La Revancha Del Tango (2)
Robert Wyatt – Shleep (1)
This was a really strong batch of 100 — way more 5-star albums than 1-star this time. On to the final stretch!