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dihansse · 2016-04-10T12:28:28-04:00

Well! Here I would like to start with my own long term project taking advantage of the best BEA has to offer: overall charts from people who are as interested in music as I am. I already have year charts which are based on the albums I already own or know, but there are a lot of them which I haven't listened to yet and which might be worth discovering. I'd like to do this by going through the overall BEA top lists per year starting in 1963 which is both my year of birth and the year in which I personally think rock music started to become interesting. To keep it a bit varied I will skip through the years in five year periods, ie starting in 1963 then 1968 then 1973 all the way to 2013 and then back to 1964 and so on. Every year I will start with some stats of my personal chart in comparison to the overall year charts, both top 20 an top 50 and will start to listen to at least the top 20 albums I don't know and I'll hope to give some comments sometimes very short, sometimes a bit longer. I will also update my personal year charts accordingly. In principle I will use Apple Music to listen to the albums, which I suppose will cover most of the field. If a certain album isn't present in Apple Music, I'll have to skip it. I will try to listen to all the albums at least once and sometimes twice if I doubt, but I'll skip the really stupid ones (ex a Xmas compilation in 1963) and also other compilations, classical music, jazz and easy listening. This will be a long term project which means there might be times in which I will stop a bit of course because I don't want be stuck listining to albums of the same year all the time. However I suppose this will take at least a month per year. I will try to keep it up but please don't be mad if I give up (maybe already after the first year :lol: )

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A second batch of albums to listened to of 2014:
- To Be Kind by Swans (nr 4 on the overall BEA top chart of 2014): I was in for a long haul on this album and a long haul it was. There are many fantastic pieces on this album even in long songs like Bring The Sun/Toussaint L'Ouverture but then there are these long and very boring pieces as well again within the same track. So it is really a mixed bag for me but in the end I decided to include it in my personal top chart of 2014 because it did make an impact.
- St. Vincent by St. Vincent (nr 6): a bit too much electronics without good songs for me.
- Black Messiah by D'Angelo And The Vanguard (nr 7): the soul this album is so smooth it rolls of my skin: a big no no for me.
- LP1 by FKA Twigs (nr 8 ): also not really my thing with the first and the last song being the best because the nice voice she comes out the best in these ones.
- Royal Blood by Royal Blood (nr 9): this album suffers from the same problem with most 2 piece bands: the music becomes very uniform after a few tracks although they rock very hard on some tracks like the first track and the great Figure It Out. But overall not completely convincing.

The next album to listen to is This Is All Yours by Alt-J.

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and some more albums of 2014 I listened to:
- This Is All Yours by ∆ (alt-j) (nr 10 on the overall BEA top chart of 2014): I didn't find one good song on this album
- Alvvays by Alvvays nr 11): this album felt like a breath of fresh air between all the not very good albums I already had to listen to from this year. Very good rocking album
- They Want My Soul by Spoon nr 12): Upto now I hadn't heard any of the 5 albums of Spoon in the top 2500 and also not the new 2017 album. However this particular album isn't gonna convert me to the Spoondom. Maybe the earlier albums will be more to my taste.
- You're Dead! by Flying Lotus (nr 13): I quite liked the jazzy instrumental pieces on this album but as this was not the main part of the album...
- Sun Structures by Temples (nr 14): OK this is a bit of anachronism in 2014 but this is a very good sixties album and I really liked the The Golden Throne and Keep In The Dark. They even sound a bit like the Madchester scene on some of the tracks. All in all a good album and certainly better than Tame Impala.

The next album to listen to is Pinata by Freddie Gibbs & Madlib.

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Fourth list of albums of 2014 I listened to (and I must admit skipped through):
- Piñata by Freddie Gibbs & Madlib (nr 15): rap
- Morning Phase by Beck nr 16): for one reason or another I only listened to some tracks of this album in 2014 although I liked Sea Change a lot and this album is a bit the twin sister although a bit softer. There are a couple of good tracks here like Morning and Blue Moon but there are also many weaker ones. Nevertheless the scales tilt in favour of including it in my personal top chart
- Pom Pom by Ariel Pink (nr 17): The last track on this album is good but the rest is a bit at the same time over the top and songs that are not good enough.
- Syro by Aphex Twin (nr 18 ): not my taste
- Ultraviolence by Lana Del Rey (nr 19): sometimes her voice is not too r&b but in many cases a bit too poppy (and r&b)
- 2014 Forest Hills Drive by J. Cole (nr 21): rap
- 1989 by Taylor Swift (nr 22): an insult to my ears
- Turn Blue by The Black Keys nr 24): again one good track, Weight of Love, but otherwise I already heard better from Dan and his mates
- Are We There by Sharon Van Etten (nr 25): I must say i like her voice and some of the songs are not bad either but overall not good enough
- It's Album Time by Todd Terje (nr 26): this seems to be very dated dance music (with all the bleeps and oinks that go with it) and sometimes nearly Leisure Suit Larry lounge, and I didn't really dig it.

The next album to listen to is Too Bright from Perfume Genius.

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This is my last contribution to the year 2014:
- Too Bright by Perfume Genius (nr 28 on the overall BEA top chart of 2014): I know this artist mainly from his first admit I don't really like. But that's different for this one: especially the first 7 tracks all have that something special which makes music interesting and which I'm sure they might grow more on my after a few more listens. The latter part of the album is in my opinon not that good.
- Everyday Robots by Damon Albarn (nr 29): certainly not the best album of Damon.
- Singles by Future Islands (nr 30): I've found nothing special in this album
- Lazaretto by Jack White nr 33 and the last album with an overall BEA rank better than 2500): The music on this album is bluesy and the guitars are fuzzy but otherwise nothing interesting enough to make want to include this album in my overall top chart of the year.

And this ends my journey into the year 2014 which to me is not a very interesting year in music. This is the overall conclusion (with at the start the BEA overall rank and after that the BEA year rank and then my rannk before and after this listening session:

BEA Rank Title By Band BEA YearRank - My Rank before To My Rank after
8648 The Best Day By Thurston Moore 163 - 1 To 1
21083 Tomorrow's Hits By The Men 500 - 2 To 2
11432 Heal By Strand Of Oaks 239 - 3 To 3
22447 Beauty & Ruin By Bob Mould 555 - 4 To 4
8567 Eagulls By Eagulls 159 - 5 To 5
27037 Fuego By Phish 737 - 6 To 6
32398 Weirdon By Purling Hiss 973 - 7 To 7
10771 Wig Out At Jagbags By Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks 221 - 8 To 8
16949 Sukierae By Tweedy 374 - 9 To 9
34179 Motivational Jumpsuit By Guided By Voices 1054 - 10 To 10
9452 Rips By Ex Hex 194 - 11 To 11
295 Lost In The Dream By The War On Drugs 1 - 12 To 12
16387 Cope By Manchester Orchestra 357 - 13 To 13
17678 Cheatahs By Cheatahs 397 - 14 To 14
38810 Deep River By Jon Allen 1291 - 15 To 15
19211 Meteorites By Echo & The Bunnymen 442 - 16 To 16
24882 Glass Boys By Fucked Up 650 - 17 To 17
39022 V For Vaselines By The Vaselines 1298 - 18 To 18
2333 Here And Nowhere Else By Cloud Nothings 27 - 19 To 19
2631 Sonic Highways By Foo Fighters 35 - 20 To 20
50954 Sketches In Spain By Steve Wynn 1910 - 21 To 21
11222 Inside Outside By Novastar 233 - 22 To 22
1996 El Pintor By Interpol 23 - 23 To 23
47499 World Of Joy By Howler 1741 - 24 To 24
2494 More Than Any Other Day By Ought 32 - 25 To 25
1888 Plowing Into The Field Of Love By Iceage 20 - 26 To 26
7111 Ryan Adams By Ryan Adams 121 - 27 To 27
21195 Eighteen Hours Of Static By Big Ups 504 - 28 To 28
32854 Stockholm By Chrissie Hynde 999 - 29 To 29
18327 After The End By Merchandise 415 - 30 To 30
19963 Upside Down Mountain By Conor Oberst 468 - 31 To 31
1314 Sun Structures By Temples 14 - To listen To 32
628 Salad Days By Mac DeMarco 6 - 32 To 33
28505 Give My Love To London By Marianne Faithfull 792 - 33 To 34
61509 Harlaz By Mad About Mountains 2368 - 34 To 35
7283 Sunbathing Animal By Parquet Courts 125 - 35 To 36
1253 Alvvays By Alvvays 11 - To listen To 37
6147 Do To The Beast By The Afghan Whigs 94 - 36 To 38
19052 By Absence Of The Sun By Triggerfinger 435 - 37 To 39
65394 Kill All Kings By Channel Zero 2522 - 38 To 40
3988 Songs Of Innocence By U2 54 - 39 To 41
21477 Content Nausea By Parquet Courts 514 - 40 To 42
20978 Close To The Glass By The Notwist 497 - 41 To 43
2967 The Take Off and Landing of Everything By Elbow 40 - 42 To 44
1363 Morning Phase By Beck 16 - To listen To 45
524 To Be Kind By Swans 4 - To listen To 46
2360 Too Bright By Perfume Genius 28 - To listen To 47
3023 The Endless River By Pink Floyd 41 - 43 To 48
507 Run The Jewels 2 By Run The Jewels 2 - To listen To A No
521 Benji By Sun Kil Moon 3 - To listen To A No
627 St. Vincent By St. Vincent 5 - To listen To A No
854 Black Messiah By D'Angelo And The Vanguard 7 - To listen To A No
944 LP1 By FKA Twigs 8 - To listen To A No
1016 Royal Blood By Royal Blood 9 - To listen To A No
1148 This Is All Yours By (alt-j) 10 - To listen To A No
1279 They Want My Soul By Spoon 12 - To listen To A No
1299 You're Dead! By Flying Lotus 13 - To listen To A No
1325 Pinata By Freddie Gibbs & Madlib 15 - To listen To A No
1594 Pom Pom By Ariel Pink 17 - To listen To A No
1634 Syro By Aphex Twin 18 - To listen To A No
1661 Ultraviolence By Lana Del Rey 19 - To listen To A No
1943 2014 Forest Hills Drive By J. Cole 21 - To listen To A No
1946 1989 By Taylor Swift 22 - To listen To A No
2052 Turn Blue By The Black Keys 24 - To listen To A No
2281 Are We There By Sharon Van Etten 25 - To listen To A No
2301 It's Album Time By Todd Terje 26 - To listen To A No
2361 Everyday Robots By Damon Albarn 29 - To listen To A No
2390 Singles By Future Islands 30 - To listen To A No
2464 Ghost Stories By Coldplay 31 - Already listened To A No
2496 Lazaretto By Jack White 33 - To listen To A No

I'm again as near to today as i can so I'll retrace my steps again and move back to 1965.
But before that I'll give (for the second time) a bit of stats at where I am in this journey:
So my intention is to listen to all the first 2500 ranked albums on the BEA website:
- of these I had excluded 120 albums (because they're compilations, live albums, etc)
- I had already listened to 137 albums before which were not good enough for my personal top charts
- I had already 576 albums in my personal charts before this session
- In these sessions, I already listened to 185 albums I appreciated enough to include in my personal charts
- In these sessions, I already listened to 458 albums I didn't like enough to include in my personal charts
- which leaves 1024 albums still to listen to
Apart from these 2500 albums I have 973 albums which don't appear in the 2500 but that I also like.

And with this I can start listening to the albums of 1965 in the overall BEA top 2500 I haven't listened to yet.

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Happy 11th BEAnniversary! 🎂

I'm back at the beginning and will start again with 5 year leaps beginning in 1965 (with the albums having an overall BEA rank of better than 2500)/
This is the list of albums I will go through with at the start the overall BEA rank and after that the BEA year rank and my year rank before I start this listening session.

BEA Rank Title By Band BEA YearRank - My Rank before
20 Highway 61 Revisited By Bob Dylan 1 - To listen
22 Rubber Soul By The Beatles 2 - 2
94 A Love Supreme By John Coltrane 3 - Already Listened
96 Bringing It All Back Home By Bob Dylan 4 - To listen
201 Help! By The Beatles 5 - 1
356 Otis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul By Otis Redding 6 - To listen
542 My Generation By The Who 7 - To listen
928 The Beach Boys Today! By The Beach Boys 8 - To listen
1080 Pastel Blues By Nina Simone 9 - To listen
1102 Spiritual Unity By Albert Ayler 10 - Jazz excluded
1294 Mr. Tambourine Man By The Byrds 11 - To listen
1338 A Charlie Brown Christmas By Vince Guaraldi Trio 12 - Easy listening excluded
1468 Out Of Our Heads By The Rolling Stones 13 - To listen
1499 Live At The Regal By B.B. King 14 - Live Excluded
1610 Here Are The Sonics!!! By The Sonics 15 - To listen
1789 Jackson C Frank By Jackson C Frank 16 - To listen
1982 Maiden Voyage By Herbie Hancock 17 - To listen
2303 Bert Jansch By Bert Jansch 18 - To listen
46873 Eve Of Destruction By Barry McGuire 239 - 3

This means that I'm starting with two Dylan albums which I will discuss together:
- Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan (nr 1 on the ovoverall BEA top chart of 1965) and Bringing It All Back Home by Bob Dylan (nr 4): I think there are much bigger fans of Bob Dylan on this site than me, but of course I can't deny his importance in music history and in a way I do like his nasality of course. These are the two albums where his electrical period started and both contain so many great songs that I can't do anything else than put them both in my personal top chart although not very high because to me there is a lot of filler on it.

The next album I will listen to is an Otis album.

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The point with albums in the mid-60s: you know most of the songs and you have them on greatest hits compilations but you never bother to listen to the full albums. And when you do, you notice that they have a high quality on their own notwithstanding the fact there's always a bit of filler. There are some fine examples of those albums here:
- Otis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul by Otis Redding (nr 6 on the overall BEA top chart of 1965): The term R&B/soul has been really spoiled by those soulless R&B acts of nowadays but this guy has it both and is to me the best in this genre. There are a few real classics on this album like I've Been Loving You too Long and the great cover of Satisfaction. While this is not really my genre and not all the tracks are high quality I do find that I have to include this album in my personal top chart
- My Generation by The Who (nr 7): Of course there is the magnificent title track but the real highlight of this album is The Kids Are Alright which has an incredible vibe that not all songs have. Also A Legal Matter and I'm A Man are very Good which more than compensate the few weaker songs at the beginning of the album.
- The Beach Boys Today! by The Beach Boys (nr 8 ): this is an album where the diamond of Brian Wilson really started to shine and combined with the great close harmonies on songs like When Grow Up (to be a man) and some of the slower songs in the latter half of the album, this makes it outstanding.

The next album to listen to Pastel Blues by Nina Simone.

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This is the next few albums of 1965 I listened to:
- Pastel Blues by Nina Simone (nr 9 on the overall BEA top chart of 1965): Not a bad album but not really the best of Nina Simone. Strange Fruit is of course as haunting as ever but the version of Billie Holiday in my opinion still without competition. Overall not for my personal top chart of 1965).
- Spiritual Unity by Albert Ayler (nr 10): I changed my mind about not listening to jazz album in these session but this one is a bit too free jazz and "experimental" for my taste.
- Mr. Tambourine Man by The Byrds (nr 11): There are maybe a lot of Dylan covers on this album of which the title tracks is the best example but they however make them completely their own. Apart from that there are three absolute classics to be found: I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better, The Bells of Rhymney and All I Really Want To Do. The other tracks are maybe a bit less good but overall this album is one of the best of the year.
- A Charlie Brown Christmas by Vince Guaraldi Trio (nr 12): some good piano playing but overall a bit too mellow to really like
- Out Of Our Heads by The Rolling Stones (nr 13): Satisfaction and especially the Last Time alone is enough to make this a classic. The other tracks are maybe not that good but overall a go
- Live At The Regal by B.B. King (nr 14): This live album can count as a regular album so I added it here but although there's some real fine guitar playing it doesn't contain any of the highlights of his musical carreer so I decided not to include this one.
- Here Are The Sonics!!! by The Sonics (nr 15): the recording quality of this album is really really bad especially in tracks like Roll Over Beethoven. These guys do rock however but real punk it ain't in my opinion. Like Seth I especially like Have Love Will Travel but overall this album is not really original in my opinion so I decided not to include it in my personal top chart

The next album to listen to is Jackson C Frank.

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There are not so many albums of 1965 in the overall BEA top 2500 so this is my last contribution for that year:
- Jackson C. Frank by Jackson C. Frank (nr 16 on the overall BEA top chart of 1965): some very nice fingerpicking but overall a bit too soft to really appeal.
- Maiden Voyage by Herbie Hancock (nr 17): one of the better jazz albums to be found but not something I would buy (in those times long ago where you still had to buy albums).
- Bert Jansch by Bert Jansch (nr 18 and the last album of 1965 with an overall BEA rank of better than 2500): a bit the same as with Jackson C. Frank: not too bad but not enough to keep it interesting a whole album.

And this ends this year where I can't really say I discovered something new but nevertheless with some very good albums which are still influential to nowadays rock music.

And to conclude here is the final list with at the start the overall BEA rank and after that the BEA year rank and my rank before and after this listening session:

BEA Rank Title By Band BEA YearRank - My Rank before To My Rank after
201 Help! By The Beatles 5 - 1 To 1
22 Rubber Soul By The Beatles 2 - 2 To 2
1281 Mr. Tambourine Man By The Byrds 11 - To listen To 3
533 My Generation By The Who 7 - To listen To 4
927 The Beach Boys Today! By The Beach Boys 8 - To listen To 5
1468 Out Of Our Heads By The Rolling Stones 13 - To listen To 6
96 Bringing It All Back Home By Bob Dylan 3 - To listen To 7
20 Highway 61 Revisited By Bob Dylan 1 - To listen To 8
46873 Eve Of Destruction By Barry McGuire 239 - 3 To 9
355 Otis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul By Otis Redding 6 - To listen To 10
98 A Love Supreme By John Coltrane 4 - Already Listened To A No
1078 Pastel Blues By Nina Simone 9 - To listen To A No
1096 Spiritual Unity By Albert Ayler 10 - To listen To A No
1334 A Charlie Brown Christmas By Vince Guaraldi Trio 12 - To listen To A No
1501 Live At The Regal By B.B. King 14 - To listen To A No
1603 Here Are The Sonics!!! By The Sonics 15 - To listen To A No
1793 Jackson C Frank By Jackson C Frank 16 - To listen To A No
1980 Maiden Voyage By Herbie Hancock 17 - To listen To A No
2333 Bert Jansch By Bert Jansch 18 - To listen To A No

And as you know I will again skip 5 years and move over to 1970.

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These are the albums of 1970 in the overall BEA top 2500 I will listen to (or have already listened) with at the start the overall BEA rank and after that the BEA year rank and my rank for the year before this listening session.

BEA Rank Title By Band BEA YearRank - My Rank before
76 Paranoid By Black Sabbath 1 - 3
80 After The Gold Rush By Neil Young 2 - To listen
114 Bridge Over Troubled Water By Simon And Garfunkel 3 - To listen
116 John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band By John Lennon 4 - To listen
127 Led Zeppelin III By Led Zeppelin 5 - 4
144 Moondance By Van Morrison 6 - 12
154 All Things Must Pass By George Harrison 7 - 6
187 Fun House By The Stooges 8 - Already listened
197 Let It Be By The Beatles 9 - 11
200 Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs By Derek & The Dominos 10 - 2
205 Loaded By The Velvet Underground 11 - 7
216 Bitches Brew By Miles Davis 12 - Already listened
237 American Beauty By Grateful Dead 13 - To listen
246 Cosmo's Factory By Creedence Clearwater Revival 14 - To listen
260 Bryter Layter By Nick Drake 15 - To listen
267 Déjà Vu By Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 16 - To listen
310 Black Sabbath By Black Sabbath 17 - 9
381 Tea For The Tillerman By Cat Stevens 18 - 5
438 Deep Purple In Rock By Deep Purple 19 - 1
480 Morrison Hotel By The Doors 20 - To listen
485 Abraxas By Santana 21 - 8
501 Atom Heart Mother By Pink Floyd 22 - Already listened
513 Live At Leeds By The Who 23 - Live Excluded
622 Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One By The Kinks 24 - To listen
717 The Madcap Laughs By Syd Barrett 25 - To listen
727 Curtis By Curtis Mayfield 26 - To listen
738 The Man Who Sold The World By David Bowie 27 - 10
760 Third By Soft Machine 28 - To listen
765 Workingman's Dead By Grateful Dead 29 - To listen
838 Starsailor By Tim Buckley 30 - To listen
876 Band Of Gypsys By Band Of Gypsys 31 - To listen
901 Just Another Diamond Day By Vashti Bunyan 32 - To listen
972 Tumbleweed Connection By Elton John 33 - To listen
1042 Sunflower By The Beach Boys 34 - To listen
1092 Cold Fact By Rodriguez 35 - To listen
1123 Desertshore By Nico 36 - To listen
1185 Yeti By Amon Düül II 37 - To listen
1217 Sweet Baby James By James Taylor 38 - To listen
1234 Lorca By Tim Buckley 39 - To listen
1260 Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus By Spirit 40 - To listen
1386 Emerson, Lake & Palmer By Emerson, Lake & Palmer 41 - To listen
1518 Ladies Of The Canyon By Joni Mitchell 42 - To listen
1544 John Barleycorn Must Die By Traffic 43 - To listen
1615 Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! By The Rolling Stones 44 - Live Excluded
1694 Barrett By Syd Barrett 45 - To listen
1713 Exuma By Exuma 46 - To listen
1744 Fire And Water By Free 47 - To listen
1799 Mona Bone Jakon By Cat Stevens 48 - To listen
1814 Lizard By King Crimson 49 - To listen
1913 Chicago II By Chicago 50 - To listen
2135 McCartney By Paul McCartney 51 - To listen
2149 In The Wake Of Poseidon By King Crimson 52 - To listen
2195 Trespass By Genesis 53 - To listen
2198 Benefit By Jethro Tull 54 - To listen
2219 Lick My Decals Off, Baby By Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band 55 - To listen
2230 Elton John By Elton John 56 - To listen
2394 Idlewild South By The Allman Brothers Band 57 - To listen
2457 Kristofferson By Kris Kristofferson 58 - To listen

So a great year for Eric Clapton, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Cat Stevens, Van Morrisson and many others.

I have already started listening to the first two albums:
- After The Gold Rush by Neil Young (nr 2): of course I already knew nearly all the songs (from CSNY or live albums) but I didn't actually possess the album and it's certainly one of his best with absolute classics like Southern Man, Only Love Can Break Your Heart and When You Dance I can Really Love.
- Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon And Garfunkel (nr 3): and another classic with again many classics like the title tracks and Cecilia but not all tracks are of the same quality. However still a classic.

The next album to listen to is John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, also not really an album which will be really new to me.

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A large number of classics of 1970:
- John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon (nr 4 on the overall BEA top chart of 1970): Of course John Lennon made his best work with the Beatles but this album is also a token of his genius although not everything on the album is of the highest quality and even sometimes a bit dated. Mother and Working Class Hero are the best tracks. A classic anyway.
- American Beauty by Grateful Dead (nr 13): I know many people regard this album as a classic and I saw the making of in Classic Albums but somehow this band and this album doesn't completely connect with me and while they're not bad, none of the tracks are really good to me so I won't include it in my personal top chart.
- Cosmo's Factory by Creedence Clearwater Revival (nr 14): completely the opposite with this album which is just cluttered with classics with a lot of tracks I already knew but there is one great discovery I made: the guitars in Ramble Tamble, a song I hear for the first time, are absolutely fantastic.
- Bryter Layter by Nick Drake (nr 15): I have also heard the other two albums from Nick Drake and this one is certainly the best to me but somehow between the nice instrumentation which makes me think a bit of what Van Morrison was also doing on his classics around this time, I didn't discover any really good songs so sorry I know many people think otherwise but I won't include this album in my personal top chart
- Déjà Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (nr 16): I have their live album (4 way street) and I think I already have listened to this album but I didn't have in my possession but it's of course also an absolute classic with many many tracks like Carry On, Almost Cut My Hair etc etc
- Morrison Hotel by The Doors (nr 20): and another classic with especially Roadhouse Blues and Ship of Fools and Waiting for the Sun and many others.

The next album to listen to is Lola.. by The Kinks