Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Strangel
These albums are my favourites. This is not meant to be a 'Greatest Album's' chart, although I would strongly argue for each of my chosen albums in being considered for a greatest albums list. My interest is more toward the alternative/indie and electronic genres with a tendency toward experimentation in the music. I also need to be able to comfortably immerse myself in the music. So while I appreciate, and want to explore the work of Autechre (for example), I get far more pleasure from listening to Burial which has more reverie to the sound rather than almost pure math and tech. Aphex Twin, in fact, manages to bridge these aspects perfectly.
It might be noted that Radiohead dominates the list which simply expresses my belief that they have the uncanny ability to release album after album of near perfect alternative music, shifting the landscape of what's possible whilst always remaining relevant. I don't apologise for this. They are that good.
- Chart updated: 02/07/2024 05:15
- (Created: 07/04/2016 14:26).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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ALBUM HIGHLIGHT: The building crescendo in Exit Music. It was the first eargasm I think I ever had. [First added to this chart: 07/05/2016]
Rating: 99/100
ALBUM HIGHLIGHT: The metaphorical depiction of Yorke floating down the Liffey; he's not here, this isn't happening... [First added to this chart: 07/05/2016]
Rating: 99/100
ALBUM HIGHLIGHTS: Yorke hitting that elongated, emotive high note in Nude; 'You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thiiiiiiiiinking".
Also, the building crescendo in All I Need deserves mention. It becomes this extraordinary cacophony of sound that ends abruptly before it can outstay its welcome. To be honest, I personally would have liked it to stretch on for a lot longer than it does. [First added to this chart: 07/05/2016]
Rating: 99/100
ALBUM HIGHLIGHT: The complexity within the lyrics, composition, and music is exhaustive. The title track is structured using the Fibonacci sequence, incorporating golden means, and invoking the sacred geometric imagery of spiraling out through a psychedelic wormhole and reaching our spiritual potential. [First added to this chart: 07/05/2016]
Rating: 98/100
ALBUM HIGHLIGHT: The opening track, Xtal, has an nostalgic, comforting resonance as soon as it's subtle iconic beats begin to emerge. [First added to this chart: 07/05/2016]
He seems to be telling us that beauty truly eminates from the darkness and not from the light of which most of us presume. Few artists have the genius to make us realise this incredible insight.
Rating: 98/100
ALBUM HIGHLIGHT: Into My Arms setting the scene from the opening track. [First added to this chart: 07/05/2016]
Rating: 98/100
ALBUM HIGHLIGHT: The poetic closer, Darker with the Day -
'Inside I sat, seeking the presence of a God
I searched through the pictures in a leather-bound book
I found a woolly lamb dozing in an issue of blood
And a gilled Jesus shivering on a fisherman's hook' [First added to this chart: 07/05/2016]
Rating: 98/100
ALBUM HIGHLIGHT: So many to choose from, because this really is a complete album to be enjoyed in its entirety. Single tracks are not its focus so much as the whole. For now I'd probably settle for the reflective beauty of Olsen Olsen. But I also love the build from lulling ambient to euphoric cacophany in VVLT and NB, and the transcendent qualities of SGE and Staralfur. [First added to this chart: 07/05/2016]
Rating: 97/100
ALBUM HIGHLIGHT: For me it's probably the title track Amok. At first it seems a simple little closing track. After some listens you realise that there are many intricacies. Eventually you nod your head at how all the components that generate from previous layers of silence somehow, inexplicably work as a whole, fitting in just as they should. Other songs such as Default show this same mastery but Amok does it for me due to the subtleties.
Another highlight is the use of Yorke's voice on this album. It plays with his ethereal qualities as his voice comes at you from a distance, in the background, before moving to the foreground or supporting his own main vocal. The opening and closings tracks both demonstrate this personal highlight. [First added to this chart: 07/05/2016]
Rating: 97/100
ALBUM HIGHLIGHT: Probably Pink Bullets, but depending on the day it could be Mine's Not A High Horse, or Kissing the Lipless, or Those to Come. or... [First added to this chart: 07/05/2016]
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
Decade | Albums | % | |
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1930s | 0 | 0% | |
1940s | 0 | 0% | |
1950s | 0 | 0% | |
1960s | 7 | 7% | |
1970s | 7 | 7% | |
1980s | 5 | 5% | |
1990s | 29 | 29% | |
2000s | 34 | 34% | |
2010s | 17 | 17% | |
2020s | 1 | 1% |
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Radiohead | 8 | 8% | |
The Beatles | 4 | 4% | |
Aphex Twin | 4 | 4% | |
Metallica | 4 | 4% | |
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 3 | 3% | |
Pearl Jam | 3 | 3% | |
Sigur Rós | 3 | 3% | |
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42 | 42% | ||
41 | 41% | ||
6 | 6% | ||
5 | 5% | ||
3 | 3% | ||
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Love your chart! I agree on amok it is a very underated album.
I like your chart. Have a lot Artists and Albums in common.
Good list! We share the Radiohead "problem". I suggest you to dive into some older Krautrock and Ambient music. You will find a lot of Radioheads work is influenced by that stuff and there are some gems to be found.
We have 31 albums and 21 artists in common... It's very funny!
I find your chart very interesting and complete. You have musical tastes very similar to mine. Radiohead is one of my favorite bands!
I'm glad you like Icelandic music: Sigur Rós and Björk. I agree with you that "Vespertine" is Björk's best album: It's a real masterpiece. You put a lot of recent music in your chart and it's nice to see AMOK of Atoms For Peace in your rankings. This is surely one of Thom Yorke's underrated albums. I'm really happy to see artists not very well known as Burial, Nick Cave or Amon Tobin who are part of my favorite artist. The 90s are really well represented in your chart with great artists like Nirvana, Aphex Twin, Tool or Massive Attack. Really very good job and very good choice!
Good choices, great descriptions, great diversity (even with 8 Radiohead albums!). I particularly appreciate the presence of some electronic (Four Tet, Jon Hopkins, Burial...) among all the rock picks.
I don't agree with your top ten, or some other picks, or (as has been noted by others) the excess of Radiohead, but who gives a shit about my opinion. I love the passion in your descriptions and the personalized responses. Great chart!
Ahh well, what can you do? They're that good. It's not like Pablo Honey is on the chart just coz Radiohead. Pablo Honey was an objectively average to good album and thus hasn't got anywhere near this chart. Their subsequent albums were all objectively created to a much higher level and the artistic merit of each universally critically acclaimed. Subjectively (which is what this chart mainly expresses), the music deeply resonates with me so why wouldn't their very best be difficult to supplant by another artist's work?
Radiohead! Radiohead everywhere!
Great list, love your descriptions. We have 13 albums and 16 artists in common
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