Top 75 Greatest Music Albums by Radioscope

I know there's a lot of artists with more than one album, but I tend to love more than one album from the same artist, maybe a bit too much. Truth be told, I still have a long way to be as musically experienced as I would like to, so this is a work in progress. Not much will be surprising, but this is, after all, my favorites.

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"Everything In It's Right Place"

Music is an experience. There is something special about this form of art that is for me unique, a way of connecting with a very primal inner self of the listner that allows a very special experience. There's people that don't enjoy painting, literature, or even film, but music is universal. You don't just hear it, sense it, enjoy it, feel it. You live it. And for me, nothing tops living music as this.

It's very hard to describe what Kid A does to me. I first heard this about eightyears ago, when I was 20, since then topping my favorite albums. What it means to me? A means of transportation to a parallel universe, an alien abduction to a whole other world, the one Thom Yorke so beautifully prayed for in his previous album. But the more I hear it the more I realize the purpose behind every single sound, how every member of Radiohead set themselves with an objective of making the listener be in a very specific place. A friend of mine described it perfectly: "Listening to this is as if somebody was in complete control of your mind, moving it up and down and sideways with exact movements." Nothing in this album is set ashore, everithing is in fact in its right place to evoke a certain feeling, a particular imagery. Listening to Idioteque evokes the "blocks and shiny tripes" picture from the booklet, and I still can't understand how this is possible. Nothing tops Kid A, and I believe nothing ever will.

Favorite tracks: Kid A, the album. The whole album.
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2000
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"If I could have it back
All the time that we wasted
I'd only waste it again"

Arcade Fire is somewhat always singing about the same thing, basically about how we are utterly alone in this world so we try to feel like we belong, or like we "connect". Maybe the fact that we are all feeling disconnected and that we are now more than ever driven into total isolation with fake ways to interact with each other is part of the reason why these guys are popular in the indie world of the 2010s. We can all feel identified with the nostalgia-driven lyrics that reminds us of when we were all one with the world and the people surrounding us, when we were young and had lots of friends and nothing mattered. Every Arcade Fire album goes for that.

The Suburbs, however, is much more effective and, in my opinion, elegant in giving that message. It goes from a naive childhood where you are the world and the world is you to a trip towards self-identity, a necessary but painful step where you realize you are actually an isolated person with individual thoughts, which drives you away from those "childhood friends". Now that you are all by yourself, you look back and feel with nostalgia all that wasted time where you made nothing productive, but you realize those memories might be the only thing that connects you to the world.

In other words: OMG I so emo, no one understands me, I am alone in this world.

Favorite Tracks: The Suburbs/Ready To Start, Suburban War.
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2010
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"And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea"

Is it the horns? Is it the acoustic guitar? Is it Magnum's breaking voice? Or the surrealistic images the lyrics easily depict in my mind? Who knows, but this odd fantastic tale gets me every time I listen to it. Something about the eerie atmosphere is so special, so magical and so weird yet familiar, with its lofi-esque aesthetic giving it some type of special closeness and sincerity few things can. This album is for me the equivalent of Dali in music: the painting and the strokes give such realistic details yet the whole image is so surreal.

Favorite tracks: King of Carrot Flowers Pt 1, 2 & 3; In The Aeroplane Over The Sea.
[First added to this chart: 11/29/2014]
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1998
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"You hate me, don't you? You hate my people"

The lyrics of this album just kill me. Despite it being all about blackness and calling on social injustice, TPAB goes far beyond that as Duckworth takes an idea he had previously played with and now masters, which is the need to love oneself before expecting the rest to do the same. It's interesting how whenever Kendrick Lamar talks about racism you can easily see he does not feel he is not entitled to talk about the subject, as he has probably done some of the acts that fall on the stereotype and so being part of the problem instead of the solution. This, however, is a vicious circle: "I have done something bad, therefore I am bad, so I will continue with this way of acting". I love how Kendrick reminds us the importance of forgiving, though not forgetting, our own sins to evolve as people and to overcome any etiquettes we might have on us. I cannot imagine how it is like for a black person to live in the US right now, and so I let them have this album, but maybe that's what makes this album so strong as you almost feel as if you can sort of understand such a big cosial problem. Even with this in mind I was able to take the essence of the message for myself, and helps me whenever I feel like I should change the way I am.

Favorite Tracks: u (by far my favorite), The Blacker The Berry, Alright, Wesley's Theory.

"Obama said what it do!!!!"
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2015
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"Karma police
I've given all I can it's not enough"

After a traumatic event, you find yourself with a new way of seeing life, convinced you are going to make a difference for good. However, just as you went up you go down as you see the world does not want to be helped, packed with toxic people. You feel so alienated you wish you could fly away from this world, a situation so unbereable you feel like death is the only way out, as life is happening around you but you feel like it has nothing to do with you. Anyways, you have done some bad things, you have hurt people around you, so why do you feel you have the right to save the World? At the same time, you have that society that tries to turn you into a robot, while the people above you makes things that take you further into this alienation as you are more and more dependent on work due to the lack of help it gives you. So yeah, not even the government makes you feel safe, so you grow this anxiety about how everyone judges you, how you must keep things secret but people will anyways find out. You are so willing to keep that privacy to yourself you stop wondering about the big picture, you just fear failure so much you opt for a predictable future and a conventional life. Funnily enough, even with this you are in a great danger of something horrible happening to you, as you will have to move and movement brings danger with it. But... hey, man, slow down. Look at life, it is beautiful and you are missing it. You are so obsessed with those little things in life and you are forgetting to appreciate the small things in life.

Just... so perfect.

Favorite Tracks: Paranoid Android, No Surprises, Subterranean Homesick Alien.
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1997
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"So can we be friends sweetly before the mystery ends? I love you more than the world can contain in it's lonely and round-shackle head"

Amazing album, amazing lyrics, amazing everything. Chills every time I listen to it.

Favorite Tracks: Fourth Of July, Death With Dignity, John My Beloved.
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2015
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"'Cause nothing's hid from us kids
You ain't fooling nobody with the lights out!"

When I listen to this album, should I dance and laugh or should I scream and cry? I don't know and I probably never will. Maybe that is the reason why Arcade Fire, but more importantly Funeral, is so fantastic: almost emo-depressive feelings with open epicness of the songs. The opening of Power Out is so amazing, but then you hear Win's voice screaming in loneliness, and you have to stop jumping to hear him. But then you want to jump again. So, how do you feel while listening to this? Maybe cry and dance at the same time?

Favorite Tracks: Power Out, Crown Of Love, Tunnels.
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2004
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"I wasn't afraid, I was a boy, I was a tender age..."

Why not go one step forward from the cabin he kept himself at For Emma, Forever Ago and just look at all the landscapes around it. The forest, the mountains, the river.

Favorite Tracks: Holocene, Michicant, Beth/Rest.
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2011
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"This is not a joke so please stop smiling"

I first listened to this album at the beginning of my "listening to real music" stuff.

Funnily enough, the reason I grabbed this album from all the discs that were lying in the local library was the front covered, that reminded me of some buildings in a Zelda game. I remember putting this thing on, being completely confused at the noise games from the first song and asking myself why was it that I even wanted to play it until the end. That is a good question I still ask myself everytime I listen to it, ¿what is it about this album?

Favorite tracks: I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Poor Places, War On War.
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2002
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"You're asking me will my love grow? I don't know"

This was a late bloomer for me. At the beginning of my Beatles-mania (which marked the start of my obsession for listening to LPs as they were intended to: from beginning to end) this was by far one of my least favorite albums from them. I jumped from The White Album to Sgt. Pepper's, depending on my mood. But lately I have little by little learned to appreciate Abbey Road as probably their most consistent work, with such beautiful songs that will move you from one place to another. And let's not underestimate the last quarter of album, banger after another seamlessly jumping from song to song.
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1969
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Top 75 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 3 4%
1960s 10 13%
1970s 9 12%
1980s 8 11%
1990s 13 17%
2000s 17 23%
2010s 15 20%
2020s 0 0%
Artist Albums %


Radiohead 4 5%
The Beatles 4 5%
Neil Young 2 3%
Joy Division 2 3%
Rosalía 2 3%
Arcade Fire 2 3%
Kendrick Lamar 2 3%
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Country Albums %


United States 40 53%
United Kingdom 21 28%
Canada 5 7%
Spain 3 4%
Mixed Nationality 2 3%
Cuba 1 1%
Iceland 1 1%
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Live? Albums %
No 73 97%
Yes 2 3%

Top 75 Greatest Music Albums chart changes

Biggest climbers
Climber Up 27 from 40th to 13th
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
by The Beatles
Climber Up 14 from 31st to 17th
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
by Kendrick Lamar
Climber Up 13 from 22nd to 9th
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
by Wilco
Biggest fallers
Faller Down 5 from 17th to 22nd
Spiderland
by Slint
Faller Down 5 from 18th to 23rd
Revolver
by The Beatles
Faller Down 4 from 15th to 19th
Dvořák: Symphony No. 5 In E Minor, Op. 95 "From The New World"
by George Szell / The Cleveland Orchestra

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From 04/17/2019 16:37
Love this chart, I agree with a lot of your choices and overall I think we have pretty similar tastes.
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Good choice of album list and great to see it spans over numerous decades too!
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Probably will give a higher rating when I see all 100 albums, hoping for some earlier Biffy stuff!
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From 04/04/2017 05:51
Loved your chart!! And we have so much in common tol!
Keep on working, writing and being that person who loves music...
Can't wait to see the rest of it! Cheers!
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From 03/07/2017 03:35
Excellent chart, the notes are really nice and I love your album choices! Hope to see it expand to 100 in the future.
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I like your notes, I totally know how you feel about Arcade Fire.
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You can surely convince a person to listen to an album!
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From 05/16/2015 16:26
Great to see Trouble Will Find Me so high, massively underrated
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From 04/01/2015 17:02
Lots of classics. I'm interested to see which unique picks you bring to this chart in the future. Definitely going to check out Los Planetas as well. Nice start
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Lovely picks
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