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12.

Pet Sounds 

 The Beach Boys

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"What can I say about "Pet Sounds"? This album is just so ridiculously out-of-this-world. Especially considering where music was at in 1966, it is very hard to believe that a guy could create this music almost single handedly. Composition and production-wise, this album is a complete masterpiece a...""What can I say about "Pet Sounds"? This album is just so ridiculously out-of-this-world. Especially considering where music was at in 1966, it is very hard to believe that a guy could create this music almost single handedly. Composition and production-wise, this album is a complete masterpiece and showcases the genius of Brian Wilson like never before, or after. I think the Beatles were a better band than the Beach Boys, but for me, "Pet Sounds" is better than any Beatle album. There is absolutely no flaws in it and, in my perception, it is the very first album that really felt like an album. "Rubber Soul" was close, then "Pet Sounds" was it. And the rest is history."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1966

Appears in:

2,870 charts

Rank Score:

37,490

Rank in 1966:

2

Rank in 1960s:

5

Overall Rank:

12

Average Rating:

 88 (3,309 votes)

Comments:

361

13.

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Nevermind 

 Nirvana

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"'IF this album were to be erased from history tonight, you would find little on what precious darlings of what is called "indie."' No! Nirvana did not invent indie rock, or even so-called alternative music. That would be Black Flag, Husker Du, The Replacements, R.E.M. The Pixies, Sonic Youth, Din...""'IF this album were to be erased from history tonight, you would find little on what precious darlings of what is called "indie."' No! Nirvana did not invent indie rock, or even so-called alternative music. That would be Black Flag, Husker Du, The Replacements, R.E.M. The Pixies, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, and a bunch of other trailblazers that predated Nirvana by 5-10 years. Go read Route 66: On the Road to Nirvana or Our Band Could be Your Life to learn the history. What Nirvana does get credit for though is bringing alternative music into the mainstream. They were the band that kicked open the door, but there were countless bands that laid the foundation for Nirvana's success. As jojoexile wrote two posts down: "Timing is everything" and Nirvana was simply the right band at the right time. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

3,246 charts

Rank Score:

36,888

Rank in 1991:

1

Rank in 1990s:

2

Overall Rank:

13

Average Rating:

 87 (4,362 votes)

Comments:

414

17.

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea 

 Neutral Milk Hotel

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"It's a strange phenomenon that this record has garnered so much critical acclaim. With its simplistic harmonic progressions and expectable cadences, and with its lo-fi production value, and Jeff Magnum's vocals (under normal circumstances, underwhelming), the tracks are not exactly complex in a m...""It's a strange phenomenon that this record has garnered so much critical acclaim. With its simplistic harmonic progressions and expectable cadences, and with its lo-fi production value, and Jeff Magnum's vocals (under normal circumstances, underwhelming), the tracks are not exactly complex in a musical context. But it's these very qualities that In the Aeroplane over the Sea owes its charm. If, on the other hand, we consider the highlights, what we have is a very carefully arranged and structured work with seamless transitions from track to track, and centering around (or influenced by) the birth, experiences, death, and memory of a miss Anne Frank. This can literally be considered an album - or a concept album, if you must need call it that - as opposed to a collection of songs, which has invariably become the norm for developing records. We have beautifully elementary horn arrangements by Robert Schneider and Scott Spillane. What we have are raw, realistic vocals relating stories naturally, sanguinely, and without restraint. What we have is Magnum's lyricism that's vivid in its descriptions. While it might not be impressive in ways normally envisioned by listeners and critics of rock, ItAotS is spirited enough to ameliorate most of the complaints that arise. This piece requires more than five listens to 'get it' - it's not an instant payoff. Allow it to grow on you. "  [+]  Reply

- soundguardian | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +18 votes (23 helpful | 5 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

1998

Appears in:

2,428 charts

Rank Score:

30,932

Rank in 1998:

1

Rank in 1990s:

3

Overall Rank:

17

Average Rating:

 87 (2,972 votes)

Comments:

432

18.

Doolittle 

 Pixies

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"Their are albums and artists who I struggle with - My Bloody Valentine, Bob Dylan, and this band the Pixies. I have played this album over and over and over trying to understand its greatness just like MBV’s Loveless and I just don’t get it. I’ve tried my best and concede that it’s not for me, I ...""Their are albums and artists who I struggle with - My Bloody Valentine, Bob Dylan, and this band the Pixies. I have played this album over and over and over trying to understand its greatness just like MBV’s Loveless and I just don’t get it. I’ve tried my best and concede that it’s not for me, I guess a perfect example of someone’s rubbish being another’s treasure. Oh well not trying to offend as I’m sure I have favs that others are still scratching their heads why?"  [+]  Reply

- Simon_bramhall | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +12 votes (12 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

1989

Appears in:

2,560 charts

Rank Score:

30,771

Rank in 1989:

1

Rank in 1980s:

2

Overall Rank:

18

Average Rating:

 88 (2,977 votes)

Comments:

293

20.

To Pimp A Butterfly 

 Kendrick Lamar

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"@Mother Nature's Son Consider this scenario: a man with a child walks into an art museum. In this museum, paintings are displayed containing graphic, vulgar images, including nudity, violence, etc. The man, upon seeing these pictures, storms out of the museum, enraged by the crass sight he and hi...""@Mother Nature's Son Consider this scenario: a man with a child walks into an art museum. In this museum, paintings are displayed containing graphic, vulgar images, including nudity, violence, etc. The man, upon seeing these pictures, storms out of the museum, enraged by the crass sight he and his child had witnessed. "This is not art! This is disgusting!" he shouts, unable to understand how anybody could find pleasure in something so terrible. Is this man correct? Subjectively, yes. If he does not enjoy the art, then to him it has no personal value. But to deny the art any value whatsoever would be a crime. Vulgarity of this sort can be used to push an artistic point. Would a war painting be complete without violent imagery? Would Michaelangelo's statues be complete without penises? Would a portrayal of a stereotype be complete without a phrase such as "my dick is big"? No. By including such a statement, Kendrick addresses the stereotype that nobody else has the guts to talk about so bluntly. Some things, such as this, are not vulgar- they are real. Black stereotypical characteristics such as this, that are used to define who Kendrick is based on his physical features, are real things. Many people, I'm sure, don't view Kendrick as an artist but as just another black man. Those who do are missing the bigger picture- its only vulgar because it tries to portray the vulgarity of the world. If you can't enjoy it, that's fine, but you can't ignore the truth of the world we live in."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

1,870 charts

Rank Score:

30,068

Rank in 2015:

1

Rank in 2010s:

1

Overall Rank:

20

Average Rating:

 89 (2,322 votes)

Comments:

371

23.

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Is This It 

 The Strokes

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"This album was hyped as bringing back rock n roll. I don't know that it ever left, but it certainly was an extremely influential album, as the number of "The" bands skyrocketed after this one hit. Equal credit must also be extended to The White Stripes, for sure. This has been on regular rotation..."" This album was hyped as bringing back rock n roll. I don't know that it ever left, but it certainly was an extremely influential album, as the number of "The" bands skyrocketed after this one hit. Equal credit must also be extended to The White Stripes, for sure. This has been on regular rotation ever since I got it in early 2002, blasting tracks like "Someday" "Last Night" and "Soma" at high volume."  [+]  Reply

- drivebytornado | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +18 votes (18 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

2,493 charts

Rank Score:

27,662

Rank in 2001:

1

Rank in 2000s:

4

Overall Rank:

23

Average Rating:

 86 (3,053 votes)

Comments:

277

26.

Remain In Light 

 Talking Heads

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"David Byrne set out to do the extreme with Eno as producer in '80 when post punk and new wave magically intertwined with obscure funk, which was the foundation for the amazing "Remain In Light". Polyrhytmics and samples all over the place is the key to musical fragmentation here. Actually, litera...""David Byrne set out to do the extreme with Eno as producer in '80 when post punk and new wave magically intertwined with obscure funk, which was the foundation for the amazing "Remain In Light". Polyrhytmics and samples all over the place is the key to musical fragmentation here. Actually, literally written out of fragmented post-it notes, this is utterly freely associative and absurd in its poetry - and the music follows in the best way possible. Radiohead would not have seen the day of light, Yorke has admitted on several occasions, if it wasn't for these guys' absolute masterpiece. My favorite strange album! "Once In A Lifetime" is in a class of its own."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

2,049 charts

Rank Score:

27,231

Rank in 1980:

1

Rank in 1980s:

3

Overall Rank:

26

Average Rating:

 87 (2,313 votes)

Comments:

196

27.

Highway 61 Revisited 

 Bob Dylan

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"People underestimate the musical quality of Dylan's albums because of how great he is lyrically. There is nothing further I can add on the subject of lyrics, but for such a big artist to release a record that was this raw and urgent without sacrificing any of its immediate accessibility is stunni...""People underestimate the musical quality of Dylan's albums because of how great he is lyrically. There is nothing further I can add on the subject of lyrics, but for such a big artist to release a record that was this raw and urgent without sacrificing any of its immediate accessibility is stunning. This record is a speeding train, each song chugging along at an alarming rate, with so much going lyrically that it's easy to miss some of the musical nuances. I honestly don't think keyboards have ever been put to better use in pop music, and some of the melodies are astonishingly complex for somebody who is supposedly lacking musically. But yeah, whatever. His voice is shit or something."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1965

Appears in:

2,376 charts

Rank Score:

26,294

Rank in 1965:

1

Rank in 1960s:

8

Overall Rank:

27

Average Rating:

 88 (2,836 votes)

Comments:

229

28.

The Doors 

 The Doors

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"A drunk poet, a classically-trained pianist, a flamenco guitarist, a jazz drummer and no bassist at all: the Doors were just destined to be unique. All four members of the band took the different traditions of their diverse musical backgrounds and applied them within a rock context, making possib...""A drunk poet, a classically-trained pianist, a flamenco guitarist, a jazz drummer and no bassist at all: the Doors were just destined to be unique. All four members of the band took the different traditions of their diverse musical backgrounds and applied them within a rock context, making possible some absolutely brilliant moments such as the bossanova clave that drives most of 'Break On Through' and the Bach-inspired organ introduction to 'Light My Fire', one of Manzarek's finest achievements. The double acid attack of Krieger and Manzarek provided the perfect atmosphere for Morrison's esoteric prose and improvisational poetry passages, as spidery guitar licks and quirky organ riffs drunkenly dance their way into your skull, resulting in one of the most electrifying records of the psychedelic era."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

2,440 charts

Rank Score:

26,143

Rank in 1967:

3

Rank in 1960s:

9

Overall Rank:

28

Average Rating:

 87 (2,867 votes)

Comments:

209

32.

Blonde On Blonde 

 Bob Dylan

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"The way I feel about this album is best represented by the scene in High Fidelity in which Jack Black's character, Barry, describes not owning it as "perverse." That about sums it up. Song for song, this is finest folk rock album ever made. "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" is probably the highligh...""The way I feel about this album is best represented by the scene in High Fidelity in which Jack Black's character, Barry, describes not owning it as "perverse." That about sums it up. Song for song, this is finest folk rock album ever made. "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" is probably the highlight for me, but there's not a weak track here."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1966

Appears in:

2,053 charts

Rank Score:

24,284

Rank in 1966:

3

Rank in 1960s:

11

Overall Rank:

32

Average Rating:

 88 (2,422 votes)

Comments:

175

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Overall Chart composition

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Decade	Albums	%
1930s	2	0%
1940s	34	0%
1950s	302	3%
1960s	709	7%
1970s	1,424	14%
1980s	1,415	14%
1990s	1,601	16%
2000s	1,725	17%
2010s	1,964	20%
2020s	824	8%

Artist	Albums	%
Bob Dylan	37	0%
The Rolling Stones	35	0%
David Bowie	32	0%
The Beatles	29	0%
Miles Davis	27	0%
Neil Young	26	0%
Various Artists	25	0%
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Country	Albums	%
	5,002	50%
	2,654	27%
	431	4%
	336	3%
	221	2%
	157	2%
	134	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	9,729	97%
Yes	271	3%

Live?	Albums	%
No	9,737	97%
Yes	263	3%

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