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1051.

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got 

 Sinéad O'Connor

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"Sinead's vocal performance is excessively stunning. Her powerful and "breaking" switch between her modal voice and falsetto is sheer awesomeness. But I found the album not much interesting on the whole. I still prefer her debut, where there are more impressive songs such as Drink Before the War a...""Sinead's vocal performance is excessively stunning. Her powerful and "breaking" switch between her modal voice and falsetto is sheer awesomeness. But I found the album not much interesting on the whole. I still prefer her debut, where there are more impressive songs such as Drink Before the War and Troy. However, Nothing Compares 2 U is my favorite song from her, which I kept listening to and which had me cry! But other than this song, this album is generally average despite her technically and emotionally astounding singing."  [+]  Reply

- ilovelctr | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 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:

1990

Appears in:

346 charts

Rank Score:

1,662

Rank in 1990:

14

Rank in 1990s:

200

Overall Rank:

1,051

Average Rating:

 75 (342 votes)

Comments:

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1052.

Ellington At Newport 
Live

 Duke Ellington And His Orchestra

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"Ahahaha Did that darn ol popular opinion change again? You have the ability to think for yourself, try it sometime."  Reply

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Year of Release:

1956

Appears in:

229 charts

Rank Score:

1,662

Rank in 1956:

4

Rank in 1950s:

26

Overall Rank:

1,052

Average Rating:

 79 (207 votes)

Comments:

6

1053.

A Farewell To Kings 

 Rush

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"For whatever reason Rush is not a band that I've ever felt the need to connect with and listen to until now, a relatively late phase in my musical discovery (of classic rock at least), and I am completely shocked and blown away by how good this album is (especially considering that you don't hear...""For whatever reason Rush is not a band that I've ever felt the need to connect with and listen to until now, a relatively late phase in my musical discovery (of classic rock at least), and I am completely shocked and blown away by how good this album is (especially considering that you don't hear about it all that often). I can't think of a single reason to dock this album even five points. A true masterpiece of performance, thematic cohesion, innovation...just great rock music in every sense. All six tracks are spectacular in their own right and work wonderfully together. The album opens with the title track, which immediately pulls you in with its incredibly catchy chorus "Cities full of hatred fear and lies". Whereas the Ayn Rand influence can be a bit overbearing in some of their earlier albums, here I feel like it is mixed in just the right amount, capturing a sense of dissatisfaction in the present and a deeply held internal conviction that things can be better, as relevant now as ever. The song ends with the lyric "closer to the heart" which acts as a perfect connection to the song of the same name which appears third on the album and succinctly encapsulates all these things. In between these two songs is the album's centerpiece, the incredible "Xanadu" which is an absolute tour de force, from its beautiful zen opening, to its parade of brilliant riffage that opens the work, glossed with reverberated sounds that anticipated the 80s before its time, leading to the song itself that maintains momentum with its sudden tempo changes, and topped off by a truly tremendous drumming performance by Peart. The second half of the album is equally strong, beginning with the hugely underrated "Cinderella Man", one of the most earwarm pleasant songs I have ever heard. It seems to idolize an Elon Musk kind of figure, which honestly probably is not the most aligned with my personal beliefs but is done so convincingly you can't help but to be swept up by it. Sure, "Madrigal" is the weakest track, but it fits very well as a palette cleanser and it is nice to have a more simple, sweet sentiment within all the complex political and social theory. The last track on the album is the first one I heard, and when it popped up on a playlist without me checking the artis or song name, I could have sworn something from "Kid A" snuck its way in. Well, it quickly transitions from that course, but you get some of the coolest prog rock I've ever heard, kind of proto-Tool in a way with its complex time signatures and heavy mayhem, giving a quite convincing musical portrayal of a black hole while lyrically genuinely reflecting on the mysteries of the cosmos that could cause such a phenomena. One heck of an impressive album, very surprised this isn't regarded higher or more frequently as Rush's best."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1977

Appears in:

345 charts

Rank Score:

1,662

Rank in 1977:

25

Rank in 1970s:

215

Overall Rank:

1,053

Average Rating:

 80 (520 votes)

Comments:

34

1054.

Picaresque 

 The Decemberists

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"Picaresque is my favorite album from the Decemberists. It starts off with a muted tribal horn i often blast before the drums beat in with Colin narrating the premise of "the infanta": "Here she comes in her palanquin / on the back of an elephant / on a bed made of linen and sequins and silk / all...""Picaresque is my favorite album from the Decemberists. It starts off with a muted tribal horn i often blast before the drums beat in with Colin narrating the premise of "the infanta": "Here she comes in her palanquin / on the back of an elephant / on a bed made of linen and sequins and silk / all astride on her father's line / with the king and his concubines / and her nurse with her pitchers of liquors and milk / and we'll all come praise the infanta". The charging literature of the song is finely offset by the quieter, pensive, recharging bridge. The lyrics on "infanta" are the best decemberists lyrics yet (and i love intelligent lyrics), replete with high-point scrabble words like "palanquin", "pachyderm" and "folderol", tied with another picaresque tune, the epic "mariner's revenge song", probably my favorite decemberists songs of all-time. "mariner's" starts in flashback mode "in this belly of a whale" recalling a "rake and a rastabout" who moved in on the narrator's mother when he was 14 "Leaving my mother A poor consumptive wretch" with a killer-yet-frail chorus delivered by Jenny wisping "Find him, bind him / Tie him to a pole and break / His fingers to splinters / Drag him to a hole until he / Wakes up naked / Clawing at the ceiling / Of his grave". The narrator later was hired in a priory "But never once in the employ / Of these holy men / Did I ever once turn my mind / From the thought of revenge" hearing about a captain known for "wanton cruelty", the man who left his mother destitute in death. There's even a pensive instrumental passage as the narrator contemplates commiting a "wicked deed" (to kill that captain) which nails the sound of the old sea (as only the Decemberists can!). Then "And then that fateful night / We had you in our sight / After twenty months at sea / Your starboard flank abeam / I was getting my muskets clean / When came this rumbling from beneath" as the whale rose from beneath which chews up all but our two antagonists. Marvelous storytelling and delivery including an energized ending. All tunes have the feel of tales of centuries ago, classic stories charles dickens or herman melville would be proud of, full of motorcars and muskets ablaze. "we both go down together" is a tale of a couple who commit suicide knowing their families will never allow them together ("Meet me on my vast veranda / My sweet untouched Miranda / and while the seagulls are crying / we fall but our souls are flying"). That Colin can make such wordsmithy, sea shanties so catchy and endearing is a testament to his intelligence and ability to tap the human condition. Like on "eli the barrow boy", the soliloquied epitaph of a loved one, singing "Would I could afford to buy my love a fine robe / Made of gold and silk Arabian thread / But she is dead and gone and lying in a pine grove / And I must push my barrow all the day". Or the humorously playful "the sporting life": "I fell on the playing field / the work of an errant heel / the din of the crowd and the loud commotion / went deafening silence and stopped emotion" . The instrumentation on this album kicks arse too, from the fiddle on "together" to the organ and horns on "16 military wives" to the accordion on "mariner's revenge song". The slower numbers work well too, from the crime scene buildup of "the bagman's gambit" ("On the lam from the law / on the steps of the capitol / you shot a plainclothes cop on the ten o'clock") and literally lost love "from my own true love (lost at sea)", to what i feel is Colin's first love song "of angels and angles". Beautiful acoustic guitar prefaces simply-felt lines like "there are angels in your angles, there's a low moon caught in your tangles", the perfectly understated closer to offset the literary bombast of "infanta". The sentiment is as saddening-sweet on "the engine driver" with a chorus pleading "and if you don't love me, let me go", and even on the lyrically-simple-life-of-a-male-prostitute of "on a bus mall" illustrating "here in our hovel we fuse like a family, / But I will not mourn for you. / So take off your makeup / And pocket your pills away. / We're kings among runaways / On the bus mall." . There's even a jab at politics in "16 military wives": "Cheer them on to their rivals / Cause America can, and America can't say no / And America does, if America says it's so". "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

285 charts

Rank Score:

1,658

Rank in 2005:

18

Rank in 2000s:

157

Overall Rank:

1,054

Average Rating:

 78 (301 votes)

Comments:

15

1055.

All Eyez On Me 

 2Pac

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"i love tupac, prolly my second favorite rapper after nas but this album always bothered me. it feels like the producers took the artistic merit out from under pacs feet with all these funky radio-ready beats and SO MUCH GOD DAMN FILLER, minus 15 songs woulda helped a lot. i guess this is what hap...""i love tupac, prolly my second favorite rapper after nas but this album always bothered me. it feels like the producers took the artistic merit out from under pacs feet with all these funky radio-ready beats and SO MUCH GOD DAMN FILLER, minus 15 songs woulda helped a lot. i guess this is what happens when you blow up and 90,000 producers wanna give u a beat and make a hit, its not a bad album, just overrated and not his best one. both killuminati and against are better. killuminati is far better, he left death row producers and made "his own" album and its a beautiful portrait of an angry, betrayed, poet plus the production is way better, more emotion."  [+]  Reply

- tbau1191 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 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:

1996

Appears in:

352 charts

Rank Score:

1,658

Rank in 1996:

22

Rank in 1990s:

201

Overall Rank:

1,055

Average Rating:

 74 (518 votes)

Comments:

24

1056.

The Magic Whip 

 Blur

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"Here they are again, sounding better than everyone else all over again. A marked improvement on Think Tank and most definitely rubbing shoulders with some of their best records. Reflective of the city it was recorded in - Hong Kong, there's a spacey, futuristic glow to each song whilst all the wh...""Here they are again, sounding better than everyone else all over again. A marked improvement on Think Tank and most definitely rubbing shoulders with some of their best records. Reflective of the city it was recorded in - Hong Kong, there's a spacey, futuristic glow to each song whilst all the while a sense of melancholy loneliness and dislocation pervades amongst the hubbub. The Magic Whip finds Blur very much Lost. In. The. City. It is without a shadow of a doubt a brilliant album and an excellent return to form, sounding for all the world like the same band who released She's So High or even still The Great Escape, it will leave very few Blur fans disappointed - even if inevitably, you're left wanting more. Standout tracks include: Thought I Was A Spaceman; My Terracotta Heart; There Are Too Many Of Us and Mirrorball. 10 out of 10."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

366 charts

Rank Score:

1,658

Rank in 2015:

15

Rank in 2010s:

152

Overall Rank:

1,056

Average Rating:

 76 (608 votes)

Comments:

55

1057.

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Expensive Shit 

 Fela Kuti & Africa 70

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"Water No Get Enemy is one of Fela Kuti's finest."  Reply

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Year of Release:

1975

Appears in:

251 charts

Rank Score:

1,657

Rank in 1975:

16

Rank in 1970s:

216

Overall Rank:

1,057

Average Rating:

 80 (239 votes)

Comments:

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1058.

Pyromania 

 Def Leppard

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"Absolutely adore this album. Def Leppard's best. Perfect mix of pop, heavy metal and hard rock. It sounds dated in comparison to Hysteria, but has a more rawer sound to that pop masterpiece. Each song is killer. Favourites include "Photograph", "Rock Rock Till You Drop", "Rock of Ages", "Comin' U...""Absolutely adore this album. Def Leppard's best. Perfect mix of pop, heavy metal and hard rock. It sounds dated in comparison to Hysteria, but has a more rawer sound to that pop masterpiece. Each song is killer. Favourites include "Photograph", "Rock Rock Till You Drop", "Rock of Ages", "Comin' Under Fire" and "Billy's Got a Gun". "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1983

Appears in:

314 charts

Rank Score:

1,655

Rank in 1983:

16

Rank in 1980s:

162

Overall Rank:

1,058

Average Rating:

 72 (442 votes)

Comments:

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1059.

Music For The Jilted Generation 

 The Prodigy

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"This is one of those albums that make me think this is how music is supposed to be. It does what it has to do to be good, and leaves all other unnecessary bullshit. It introduces a sound and shows what it can do. If that sound is truly good and original, you don't need to convince your audience w...""This is one of those albums that make me think this is how music is supposed to be. It does what it has to do to be good, and leaves all other unnecessary bullshit. It introduces a sound and shows what it can do. If that sound is truly good and original, you don't need to convince your audience with anything else. Good beats, good sounds, good variation. The sounds on the foreground though; this style depends on the sounds being satisfactory, as with most electronic music. Best sound can be found at the start of 'The Heat (The Energy)'."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1994

Appears in:

298 charts

Rank Score:

1,654

Rank in 1994:

30

Rank in 1990s:

202

Overall Rank:

1,059

Average Rating:

 75 (391 votes)

Comments:

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1060.

Cavalcade 

 Black Midi

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"(Avant-Prog, Prog rock, Jazz rock, noise rock, ooooh babayyyy! Prog is back! - for a more cogent statement I’ll say that this is the best Prog rock album I’ve heard that’s been released in years. And it’s bloody brilliant almost the whole way through.) What a rock solid album. Feels like somethin...""(Avant-Prog, Prog rock, Jazz rock, noise rock, ooooh babayyyy! Prog is back! - for a more cogent statement I’ll say that this is the best Prog rock album I’ve heard that’s been released in years. And it’s bloody brilliant almost the whole way through.) What a rock solid album. Feels like something significant. But maybe that is just the hype and me getting swept up in it. I have been delaying and delaying on writing any sort of comment on this beast. I have listened to it a dozen or more times. And I notice my opinions change with almost every listen. Sometimes I feel like saying hyperbolic things like “This is this generation’s In The Court of the Crimson King”, and sometimes I feel like this is a bit of an uneven and yet vibrant and exciting avant-Prog album for a new generation. I switch between feeling effusive love - and merely feeling strong, healthy respect. Haven’t landed yet on what my final thoughts are. Maybe only time can tell, after we have seen the progression of black midi, that Windmill scene, and underground rock in general over the next 3-10 years time. I don’t know. I do know that “John L” is my song of the year so far. Something special it is, indeed. I know that “Marlene Dietrich” is gorgeous and features a brilliant subdued groove that I adore. I know that the 1-2 punch of “Chondromalacia Patella” and of course the masterpiece that is “Slow” never fail to blow me away, and sweep me up and away somewhere fresh and new. I’m confident that “Diamond Stuff” is beautiful if a bit too slow in its development and a bit anti-climactic. I know that “Dethroned” is very solid but one that hasn’t yet clicked with me fully. I know that “Hogwash and Balderdash” is excellent and the closest to the sound of “John L” that this album ever comes back to and I know it’s too short. And, finally, I think “Ascending Forth” is… a bit lost on me and for some reason, despite most people considering it a stand out track or even THE standout, I think it’s my least favorite song here. Of course “Ascending Forth” is still like, idk, 70% incredible. That is an indicator of how much I like this album through and through. I also love that these songs do flow. Like, this feels like a concise yet complete album statement, where each track logically rolls to the next despite at times featuring INSANELY massive changes in tone and style. Not sure how the guys in black midi pulled that off but they did. I’m closing, I have a feeling this will be one of those memorable albums for years and decades to come. I hope it does become something of a classic as time goes on. For now, it’s too new for all that. But it is for sure amd without a doubt one of the few albums that managed to fully live up to my expectations (hopes more like) and, I think, the music fandom’s as well. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2021

Appears in:

295 charts

Rank Score:

1,647

Rank in 2021:

7

Rank in 2020s:

32

Overall Rank:

1,060

Average Rating:

 79 (330 votes)

Comments:

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Overall Chart composition

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Decade	Albums	%
1930s	2	0%
1940s	34	0%
1950s	301	3%
1960s	710	7%
1970s	1,425	14%
1980s	1,412	14%
1990s	1,605	16%
2000s	1,719	17%
2010s	1,967	20%
2020s	825	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	%
	4,997	50%
	2,657	27%
	432	4%
	337	3%
	221	2%
	158	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%