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OK Computer

Radiohead

"I only really discovered Radiohead 2 jears ago. Didn't like Yorke's voice at first. Then one day stuck in traffic, I listened to OK Computer from beginning to end... I still get goosebumps... the moment when the 'second' Yorke falsetto screams 'You know where you are' towards the end of 'Let Down..." Reply

Steff3n | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 23

Year of Release:

1997

Appears in:

4,476 charts

Rank Score:

59,089

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Average Rating:

92 (5,692 votes)

Comments:

865

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

"Everything has already been said about this album. Everyone has given their 2 cents about how great it is or how some have said that they cannot hear or comprehend DSOTM's greatness. This album is a stroke of genius from the heart beats that opened with Speak to Me, to the finishing heart beats t..." Reply

C_Krug2009 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 13

Year of Release:

1973

Appears in:

4,178 charts

Rank Score:

55,876

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"But the main thing for me is this...it's rock & roll. It doesn't matter how many big fancy sentences you can wrap around the medley on side 2 of Abbey Road...what matters is does it move you or not? It's cool either way, but no one wants to hear someone turn it into an incomprehensible scientific..." Reply

Romanelli | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 10

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

3,780 charts

Rank Score:

53,549

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"I finally listened to this album two days ago. I hadn't sat down to do so before, so I figured I'd see what was all the hype. I enjoyed it for the most part, but didn't think much of it at the moment. I put my headphones away and went to get ready for bed. I calmly brushed my teeth, flossed, shav...""I finally listened to this album two days ago. I hadn't sat down to do so before, so I figured I'd see what was all the hype. I enjoyed it for the most part, but didn't think much of it at the moment. I put my headphones away and went to get ready for bed. I calmly brushed my teeth, flossed, shaved, and washed my face prior to heading back to my bedroom. I decided to pull out my laptop and review a few albums. I settled on listening to several Switchfoot albums, but I found that just going a few seconds into the first song caused me to grow very, very tired. I fell asleep soon after the first song ended and my review was never completed. I had some interesting dreams that night. One of my dreams involved a giant talking tree named 'Joshua' and my struggle to fight him off as he grew hostile. Another dream involved some guy walking into a record store I was working at, slamming Refused's 'The Shape of Punk to Come' on the counter and asking me, "HOW MUCH?"; to which I responded with the price, but then he kept screaming at me about how he wanted it to rock his socks off. He came back later with his socks still on and proceeded to assault me for it. I woke up pretty early and felt odd. I wasn't myself, but I couldn't figure out what was going on. I turned over a few times but couldn't shake the feeling off, so I turned my light on to see of anything was different about me. I looked down at my legs to see that I was, in fact, not myself. I all of a sudden had legs like a beetle, and it was hideous and horrifying. Nothing like this had ever happened to me and I was speechless. I felt the legs with my hands and I wanted to vomit. I shook it off like it was a bad dream and fell back to sleep. My alarm went off and I wasn't able to reach my snooze button. I couldn't reach very far at all. I looked down to see that my covers were off and I now possessed the body of some disgusting insect, like a cockroach or a beetle. I exclaimed, "Oh, God! What is this? Why am I an insect? Why did this happen?" I tried to stand up, but I couldn't get out of bed. I struggled to turn myself over but it took me what seemed like twenty minutes to do so. I finally turned over completely but fell off the bed in the process. I was a massive, human sized insect, and this really sucked. My brother apparently heard a thump and came to see what happened. He didn't see me at first, but going to the other side of the bed, he appeared to be terrified, jumped up, and exclaimed, "WHERE IS MY SHOE?!?" He ran out of the room as I tried to pick myself up. 5 minutes later I finally got up and was able to kind of move around. Suddenly, I felt a hard blow to the back of my head. The blow came several times as my brother began beating me over the head with a shoe. I yelled, "Hey, it's me! I'm an insect now! Stop hitting me!!". My brother wasn't interested in what I had to say as he kept hitting me and yelling, "DIE YOU DISGUSTING BASTARD I HATE YOU STUPID THINGS YOU SHOULDN'T EVEN EXIST DIE DIE DIE!" He hit me for another minute until he finally stopped, glared at me, and said, "WHERE IS MY BIGGER SHOE?!?". He ran out of the room and I looked around the room. "Maybe I'll be back to normal tomorrow," I said as I gazed at the clock. It was 10:22. "OH GOD....I gotta go to work..." I opened the door, stepped out, and checked to see if the coast was clear. Seeing nobody, I headed out the door and headed towards my office building. After walking about a quarter of a mile, I was hit over the head with a shoe. "DIE, YOU DISGUSTING PIECE OF SHIT!!" yelled the businessman-looking guy. He hit me a few more times before heading off some other direction. Walking a little bit further down the road I was hit a few more times by a few other people. Finally, I reached my office building and walked through the door. Immediately, the 8 or so people in the main lobby were reaching for their shoes. I couldn't even get a word out before they all ran up and began to relentlessly slam the shoes over my head. I tried reasoning with them: "Guys! I work here! Stop it!" After 8 minutes, they stopped, and I headed towards my desk and sat down. As an animator, my current task was to animate some walk cycles. I spent ten minutes trying to finish the last few frames before my boss entered the room. "Hey, boss, I almost have the walk cy..." He began to hit me over the head with his shoe. I tried reasoning with him: "Hey! Boss! It's me, I work for you!" This seemed to register with him as he lowered his shoe. "Oh, you're him...ok, well show me what you've gotten done so far." my boss said. I hit the play button, and what happened next I could not explain. My character that I was working on had all the movements right, and his steps were flawless, but he was going backwards! My boss began hitting me over the head again with his shoe. "THAT WILL NOT WORK FOR ANYTHING YOU WORTHLESS BASTARD!" After 10 more minutes, he stopped, walked out of my workplace, and I continued to work in my task. After several hours, my workday was finally over. A few shoes were thrown at me or slammed over my head on the way home, but I had gotten used to it. I didn't even bother doing my typical routine as I plopped down on my bed and tried to sleep. I was woken up quickly with my brother yelling, "DIE, YOU PATHETIC INSECT SCUM!" as he slammed a gigantic shoe over my entire body, and just leaving it there, assuming it had killed me. I still didn't fail to fall asleep...and I drifted..and drifted...just wanting this nightmarish day to end. My alarm went off at 6:00. I reached over with no struggle to hit the snooze button as I tried to drift back off. I then realized that I had my own arm back. Ecstatic, I leaped out of bed and rushed to the bathroom mirror to see that I was myself again. Excited, I approached my brother and exclaimed, "HEY! I'M MYSELF AGAIN! ISN'T THIS GREAT?!?" "DIE YOU MISERABLE SACK OF SHIT!" he exclaimed as he hit me over the head with his shoe several times. "WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?!?" I yelled as I struggled to get my brother to stop hitting me. This is what I get for listening to 'Revolver'. I wouldn't recommend it unless you want to become a disgusting, mutant creature and get pummeled with shoes.." Reply

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Year of Release:

1966

Appears in:

3,630 charts

Rank Score:

46,049

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"What a great album this is! The music is so packed full of raw emotion that it makes it impossible to not fall in love with the passionate displays the group are putting into the music. The best demonstration of this is on Shine On You Crazy Diamond (both track 1 and 5) and the phenomenal Wish Yo..." Reply

- Untitled | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 6

Year of Release:

1975

Appears in:

3,044 charts

Rank Score:

41,561

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Average Rating:

91 (4,104 votes)

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317

The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars

David Bowie

"Was never a huge Bowie fan until hearing this record. It completely changed my opinion on him as a whole, I will probably do some more listening soon. Incredibly consistent album full of glorious 70's Rock. I enjoyed every second of it. Nothing negative I can really say. Killer record." Reply

xMUSICSNOBx | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 7

Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

3,053 charts

Rank Score:

40,503

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Average Rating:

90 (3,601 votes)

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305

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

The Beatles

"Unfortunately, one decision in the making of Sgt. Pepper leaves room for criticism and popular distaste. The band and (mainly) George Martin's decision not to put Strawberry Fields Forever or Penny Lane on the album simply because they had never done so before was indeed a dreadful mistake. With ..." Reply

thedistantship | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 12

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

3,526 charts

Rank Score:

40,341

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""In Rainbows" brings together the two different Radiohead sounds in perfect cataclysm. I personally enjoy all of Radiohead whether it was their earlier, guitar-driven sound, or their textural, electronic-based reinvention. As such, this record hits that sweet spot of having power rockers ("Bodysn..." Reply

- jbray | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 16

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

2,995 charts

Rank Score:

40,283

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Average Rating:

89 (3,993 votes)

Comments:

400

Kid A

Radiohead

"I am one of those people who have always thought that Kid A was superior to OK Computer. As impressive as OK Computer is, Kid A is the greater achievement because it was Radiohead totally reinventing themselves." Reply

teganxsara96 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 18

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

3,248 charts

Rank Score:

38,500

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Average Rating:

89 (4,506 votes)

Comments:

565

10.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground & Nico

"'The Velvet Underground And Nico' is arguably one of the two most groundbreaking and influential pieces of music ever to have been produced in the entire history of rock music. It is no exaggeration to say that alternative rock music was born the moment the Velvet Underground entered a recording ...""'The Velvet Underground And Nico' is arguably one of the two most groundbreaking and influential pieces of music ever to have been produced in the entire history of rock music. It is no exaggeration to say that alternative rock music was born the moment the Velvet Underground entered a recording studio. Most notably, their influence can be heard in the progressive and new-wave movements of the 1970s through to the post-punk and shoe-gazing movements of the 1980s and 1990s and beyond. The Velvet Underground's approach to their art was not as a commercial enterprise in order to satisfy the aspirations of record company executives and the public relations industry, but was deliberately intended to disturb and unsettle. Their music self-consiously explored the inner depths and recesses of the human pysche. Unlike their mainly pop contemporaries, the Velvet Underground were classically trained musicians who engaged in elongated suites and complex jams. The cultural tradition that the band aligned themselves with was not the jaded faction of the hippy movement, but the progressive movement that was to follow in its wake. The band were as far removed from hippy culture as it was possible to be, but paradoxically were also embedded within it to the extent that, like Frank Zappa, they were able to successfully garner a platform from which they critiqued and challenged the all-pervasive current that dominated it. So although the album was recorded during the time of the hippy movement, their 'darker' programme represented its antithesis. In this sense, they originated the 'pessimistic' strand of psychedelic music (as opposed to San Francisco's optimistic strand). Above all else, they originated a spirit of making music (independent, nihilistic, subversive) that ten years later will be labelled 'punk'. 'The Velvet Underground And Nico' recorded in the spring of 1966, includes an impressive number of masterpieces (mostly penned by Lou Reed and John Cale, and sung by Nico): the cold, spectral, autumnal odes of 'Femme Fatale', 'All Tomorrow's Parties', 'Black Angel's Death Song' and 'Heroin' are particularly stunning. The latter piece symbolizes the dark underbelly of hippydom like no other piece of music has ever done. Its sheer magnificence is unsurpassed. When I first heard this on the radio, I knew from that moment on my life would never be the same again. 'European Son' pounds to a dissonant tribal beat and a cross-fertilization of musical textures add to the incredible mix. A rich decadent spleen imbued with Indian raga, permeates 'Venus In Furs' which is immersed in a dark, almost oppressive atmosphere of decadence and oppulence. German expressionism and French existentialism is evident throughout the entire recording, as is the exhaltation of an epic libido: Each song is exumed with a sexual and fetishistic undercurrent for which no precedent exists in the entire history of music. " Reply

- hairymarx1 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 13

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

3,071 charts

Rank Score:

37,081

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Average Rating:

89 (3,590 votes)

Comments:

357

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Overall Chart composition

Decade	Albums	%

1930s	2	0%
1940s	32	0%
1950s	302	3%
1960s	710	7%
1970s	1,409	14%
1980s	1,393	14%
1990s	1,595	16%
2000s	1,731	17%
2010s	1,987	20%
2020s	839	8%

Artist	Albums	%

Neil Young	42	0%
Bob Dylan	37	0%
The Rolling Stones	36	0%
Miles Davis	33	0%
David Bowie	32	0%
The Beatles	29	0%
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	25	0%
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Country	Albums	%

	5,030	50%
	2,654	27%
	427	4%
	336	3%
	222	2%
	156	2%
	136	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	9,739	97%
Yes	261	3%

Live?	Albums	%
No	9,743	97%
Yes	257	3%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	9,885	99%
Yes	115	1%

Overall Chart chart changes

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Up 4 from 104th to 100th A Rush Of Blood To The Head by Coldplay
Up 3 from 101st to 98th All Things Must Pass by George Harrison
Up 3 from 65th to 62nd Dummy by Portishead
Up 3 from 50th to 47th Paranoid by Black Sabbath
Up 2 from 84th to 82nd After The Gold Rush by Neil Young

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Down 3 from 47th to 50th Hunky Dory by David Bowie
Down 2 from 37th to 39th Are You Experienced by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Down 2 from 70th to 72nd Astral Weeks by Van Morrison
Down 2 from 79th to 81st Closer by Joy Division
Down 1 from 20th to 21st To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar

New entries New entries in top 100 since last month
Up 3 from 101st to 98th All Things Must Pass by George Harrison
Up 4 from 104th to 100th A Rush Of Blood To The Head by Coldplay

Leavers Leavers from top 100 since last month
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Down 1 from 100th to 101st Innervisions by Stevie Wonder

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