1000 Albums Project

Rankings

I rank everything in a master matrix every 100 albums. I also take time to re-score any albums on which my position has shifted. The two # columns on the right represent the original score (first) and revised score, if any (second).

Position Album Artist # #
1 The Reality of My Surroundings Fishbone 9
2 Metal Galaxy Babymetal 9
3 Tokyo Jukebox Marty Friedman 9
4 Homogenic Björk 9
5 Psychic Warfare Clutch 8 9
6 Permutation Amon Tobin 8 9
7 The Strength. The Sound. The Songs Volbeat 9
8 X Infinity Watsky 8
9 From The Fires Greta Van Fleet 9 8
10 Yeezus Kanye West 8
11 Reign In Blood Slayer 8
12 No More Idols Chase and Status 8
13 Kite Kirsty Maccoll 8
14 Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette 8
15 Bahamut Hazmat Modine 8
16 Cheer Up! Reel Big Fish 8
17 Wisconsin Death Trip Static X 8
18 Painting Signs Eric Bibb 8
19 Best of Dolly Parton (GP) Dolly Parton 8
20 The Fat of the Land The Prodigy 8
21 Epicloud Devin Townsend Project 8
22 Mad Apple Circus Mad Apple Circus 8
23 Kick INXS 8
24 Twin Cinema The New Pornographers 8
25 More Late Night Transmissions Jaya the Cat 8
26 Sunrise Over Sea John Butler Trio 8
27 Hypersonic Missiles Sam Fender 8
28 The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner Ben Folds Five 8
29 Safe as Milk Captain Beefheart 8
30 Doppelganger Curve 8
31 The Dark Pool Thornhill 8
32 Sound Mik Artistik’s Ego Trip 8
33 Disko Partizani Shantel 7
34 If The Beatles Had Read Hunter The Wonder Stuff 7
35 We Are Born Sia 7
36 If I Should Fall from Grace with God The Pogues 7
37 Urban Hymns The Verve 7
38 The Beetlejuice Musical Soundtrack 7
39 The Head on the Door The Cure 7
40 Shatter Me Lindsey Sterling 7
41 Effloresce Covet 7
42 Loved to Death Dance with the Dead 7
43 Ska Me Crazy Tokyo Ska Paradise 7
44 In Silico Pendulum 7
45 Panic Prevention Jamie T 7
46 Facelift Alice In Chains 7
47 Green River Creedence Clearwatre Revival 7
48 Hellfire Club Edguy 7
49 Designer Aldous Harding 7
50 Sound and Fury Sturgill Simpson 7
51 Imaginary Man Rayland Baxter 7
52 Different Stages Rush 7
53 Follow the Leader KoRn 7
54 Sheer Heart Attack Queen 7
55 1000 Forms of Fear Sia 7
56 Swagger Flogging Molly 7
57 Violator Depeche Mode 7
58 All Pop No Star Slingbacks 7
59 Darkest Darks, Lightest Lights The White Buffalo 6 7
60 Exsolve Jo Quail 7
61 Attak KMFDM 7
62 Juju (FA) Siouxsie and the Banshees 7
63 RTJ4 Run The Jewels 7
64 Syro Aphex Twin 7
65 T H E tricot 6 7
66 Blast Tyrant Clutch 7
67 Spiritbox Spiritbox 7
68 Thirty Seconds to Mars Thirty Seconds to Mars 7
69 Aqualung Jethro Tull 7
70 Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space Spiritualized 7
71 Everybody Down Kate Tempest 6 7
72 Anon. Hands Like Houses 7
73 Tu Alien Weaponry 7
74 Joy as an act of resistance IDLES 6
75 Hello Nasty Beastie Boys 6
76 Live at the Star Club Jerry Lee Lewis 6
77 Who Are The Girls? Nova Twins 6
78 Symphony Metallica 6
79 This Machine The JB Conspiracy 6
80 Scoundrel Days A-Ha 6
81 Life of Pablo Kanye West 6
82 Rave to the Grave China Shop Bull 6
83 Blue Horse The Be Good Tanyas 6
84 Sampler Bert Jansch 6
85 Devdas Sountrack Soundtrack 6
86 Pornograffiti Extreme 6
87 Play It Again, Sham (GP) The Sawdoctors 6
88 Ella and Louis Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong 6
89 Live and Dangerous Thin lizzy 6
90 Crush 2NE1 6
91 Mechanical Animals Marilyn Manson 6
92 Этажи Molchat Doma 6
93 Periphery II Periphery 6
94 …are the Dark Horse Besnard Lakes 6
95 Hold your colour Pendulum 6
96 Walk The Sky Alter Bridge 6
97 Goi Rode Goi! Аркона (Arkona) 6
98 Remind Me Tomorrow Sharon Van Etten 6
99 Monster REM 6
100 First and Last and Always Sisters of Mercy 6
101 Doggystyle Snoop Doggy Dogg 6
102 In Absentia Porcupine Tree 6
103 Temple of the Dog Temple of the Dog 6
104 UNLOCKED Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats 6
105 Page Avenue Story Of The Year 6
106 Dope Shit Russkaja 6
107 Milk-eyed Mender
Joanna Newsome
6
108 Labour Days Aesop Rock 6
109 Transgender Street Legend Vol 1 Left at London 6
110 Have You In My Wilderness Julia Holter 6
111 The Neon Handshake Hell is for Heroes 6
112 Dookie Green Day 6
113 Pimp a Butterfly Kendrick Lamarr 5 6
114 Man Alive (1) Everything Everything 6
115 People Hothouse Flowers 6
116 Kveikur Sigur Ros 6
117 Black Sands Bonobo 6
118 Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It Rolo Tomassi 6
119 Cohere Alex Vargus 6
120 Spit Kittie 6
121 Around The Fur Deftones 6
122 From Mars to Sirius Gojira 6
123 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young 6
124 For Ever Jungle 6
125 Adams Adams Heartbreaker Ryan Adams 5
126 If You Wait London Grammar 5
127 Very Necessary Salt N Pepa 5
128 Under My Skin Avril Lavigne 5
129 Lateralus Tool 5
130 Laune Der Natur Die Toten Hosen 5
131 Legend Bob Marley 5
132 Imaginations from the Other Side Blind Guardian 5
133 Tomorrow We Die Alive Born Of Osiris 5
134 Made in the Manor Kano 5
135 Groove Family Cyco Infectious Grooves 5
136 Legally Blonde The Musical [OBC] Soundtrack 5
137 Crash talk SchoolboyQ 5
138 Either / Or Elliot Smith 5
139 Speaking In Tongues Talking Heads 5
140 Artifical Selection Dance Gavin Dance 5
141 Into The Black Kittie 5
142 Queen’s Speech EP Lady Leshurr 5
143 Last Meal Snoop Dogg 5
144 <|°_°|> Caravan Palace 5
145 18 Moby 5
146 MCMXC a.D. Enigma 5
147 The Resurrection Geto Boys 5
148 Frozen (GP) Soundtrack 5
149 Infest Papa Roach 5
150 Eden Burning (GP) Brink 5
151 The Stooges The Stooges 5
152 The Congregation Leprous 5
153 Aquemini OutKast 5
154 Vile Child Milk Teeth 5
155 The Money Store Death Grips 4 5
156 Ok Talvin Singh 5
157 Leftism Leftfield 5
158 The Heart of the Congos The Congos 5
159 Flying in a Blue Dream Joe Satirani 5
160 We Started Nothing The Ting Tings 5
161 Peripheral Vision Turnover 5
162 Blue Monk Thelonious Monk 5
163 Collector’s Item Twelfth Night 5
164 In The Skies Peter Green 5
165 Forever Changes Love 5
166 Devouring Radiant Light Skeletonwitch 5
167 Steal This Album System of a Down 5
168 Jomsviking Amon Amarth 5
169 Symphony No 3 Goreki 5
170 Blonde Frank Ocean 4
171 Hands Are Made For Working Guvna B 4
172 Onset of Putrefaction Necrophagist 4
173 Tourist Athlete 4
174 Completely Canadian Compilation Arrogant Wurms 4
175 Meat Puppets II Meat Puppets 4
176 White Ladder David Grey 4
177 Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavoured Water Limp Bizkit 5 4
178 Conqueror Mechina 4
179 Kezia Protest the Hero 4
180 Things to Make and Do Moloko 4
181 Voyage 34 Porcupine tree 4
182 calling out of context Arthur Russell 4
183 Super Slimey Future & Young Thug 4
184 Decompositions: Volume Number One Circle takes the Square 4
185 Music to Die Alone In Space To Bill Boulden 4
186 Complete Symphonies Vaugh Williams 4
187 Aida James Levine 4
188 Up Right Said Fred 3
189 Parry Gripp Mega-Party Parry Gripp 3
190 Guilty Barbra Streisand 3
191 Spirit of the Glen Royal Scotch Dragoon Guards 3
192 Boccherini Cello Concerto 1 and 2 Haydn 3
193 New Boots and Panties Ian Dury 3
194 Testing A$AP Rocky 3
195 Architecture and Morality Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 2
196 The Undivided Five A Winged Victory for the Sullen 2
197 Enter the Stream Prana Crafter 2
198 Apollo Brian Eno 2
199 Welcome to Loserville Son of Dork 2
200 Everywhere At The End Of Time Mr Caretake 1

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