Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by mianfei

From sageamagoo 01/15/2024 19:59

Hejira blew my mind, clearly a landmark work of fusion and poetry! This is exactly the kind of music I've spent my life searching for. Hearing the essential contributions women have made to music could not be more important to me, and your chart is full of exactly that.

Not hard to tell when someone's true passion lies in exploring the depths of this world's music. Your chart is learned with a lifetime of research and I will happily reference it for my own pursuits.

Impressive, interesting, inspiring!

Laika, Linda Perhacs, Joanna Newsom... lots of stuff that i would also rate high...

I have discovered some artists that seem interesting and I am looking forward to listen to their records. On the other hand there are some artists that I know, but I think they are just OK and not good enough to be considered for the top positions of a "Greatest Music Album" chart. Thanks for posting this chart!

A thought provoking chart and your commentary on the first 50 albums reveals the deepest reflection in your music journey and should be applauded. I was a little disappointed not to see a single Australian artist/album make the top 100 grade.

From seb7 07/05/2021 21:34

Not my picks, but a diverse chart nonetheless. Love seeing Hejira getting love.

From DommeDamian 07/05/2021 21:23

Oh my god this is great work buddy!

Really nice and unique chart. I like it a lot

From ExTeaSea 03/27/2021 15:22

Quite the original chart, love that. I'll definitely check out Annette Peacock, thanks for the suggestion. Tons of other artists on here I need to check out as well. Laika are underappreciated, own all their albums.

From KitchenSink 02/10/2021 23:07

thanks for checking out the chart. appreciate the criticism. regarding notes, I fully agree and I've been planning on adding proper notes for ages (and I regard the chart as inherently incomplete until I've done so, just haven't gotten around to it yet). Hopefully I'll adequately clarify some stuff about those various artists albums when I do write notes, because while I understand your concerns there I do think with a little context it'll be clear that the "various artist" designation for most of them is really only a matter of technicality and doesn't really reflect the music contained therein or how it was assembled. Will be sure to make some post in the chart talk thread once I've finally thrown some notes up there, fingers crossed I can bring myself to finally sit down and do that before too long

re: Messiaen, I am very familiar with Carl-Axel Dominique's interpretations, and quite like what he does with the pieces. Would probably put him on par with Austbø and maybe Loriod's original 50s recording of the Catalogue for Vega, although my personal holy grail of Messiaen's bird music remains Loriod's 70s recording for Erato. That said I still need to listen to Kim's, as I've heard nothing but immensely high praise (much of it from Loriod herself, which of course is probably the highest praise one can receive when interpreting Messiaen).

Now regarding your chart, fabulous work all around. First of all I never thought I'd see another chart that has both Messiaen and Joni Mitchell in the top 10 (not to mention Hejira is a very close second favorite just behind Hissing of Summer Lawns for me) as well as many other favorites represented (love seeing Gubaidulina -I've noticed a trend with Messiaen fanatics also being very partial to Gubaidulina as well, although that might just be good taste in action haha). But happy as I am to see a great many favorites represented, am far happier to see plenty that I haven't heard that catches my interest, and that I'll be sure to check out in the near future; have a feeling I'll be having a lot of fun combing through the bits here that are unfamiliar to me (and I very much appreciate the notes giving me a sense of what lies behind the album cover, again hopefully I'll be following suit soon enough)