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1061.

Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

"I'm on the other side of the fence as Chrisey22. I think the second half of the album outshines the first half by a wide margin. The final three songs were the best ones on the album, and the very ending in whole was pretty classic as well. Right when I thought I had a handle on the album, it --" Reply

ShaneSpear | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1990

Appears in:

323 charts

Rank Score:

1,651

Rank in 1990:

Rank in 1990s:

201

Overall Rank:

1,061

Average Rating:

77 (393 votes)

Comments:

1062.

Sabotage

Black Sabbath

"Best Ozzy vocals and some of the most overlooked great songs: Symptom of the Universe (thrash metal in 1975) and Megalomania Deserves more attention, definitely" Reply

- JuanLuisGG14 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1975

Appears in:

306 charts

Rank Score:

1,650

Rank in 1975:

Rank in 1970s:

213

Overall Rank:

1,062

Average Rating:

79 (503 votes)

Comments:

1063.

Picaresque

The Decemberists

"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

paladisiac | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +11 votes (11 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

286 charts

Rank Score:

1,650

Rank in 2005:

Rank in 2000s:

158

Overall Rank:

1,063

Average Rating:

78 (301 votes)

Comments:

1064.

Kimono My House

Sparks

"WOw sparks are good i dont know why theyre not more popular" Reply

- christopher | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1974

Appears in:

278 charts

Rank Score:

1,649

Rank in 1974:

Rank in 1970s:

214

Overall Rank:

1,064

Average Rating:

79 (336 votes)

Comments:

1065.

Heart Of The Congos

The Congos

"As NoWaxJim says this is 'unmitigated genius'! A great album far ahead of its time." Reply

- | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1977

Appears in:

266 charts

Rank Score:

1,648

Rank in 1977:

Rank in 1970s:

215

Overall Rank:

1,065

Average Rating:

78 (265 votes)

Comments:

1066.

Clouds Taste Metallic

The Flaming Lips

"Today was the first time I heard this album and I can only describe it as the bastard son of Pet Sounds and The Piper at Gates of Dawn. It seems a little early for a review but I can't ever imagine not loving this album." Reply

ButterThumbz | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1995

Appears in:

306 charts

Rank Score:

1,647

Rank in 1995:

Rank in 1990s:

202

Overall Rank:

1,066

Average Rating:

78 (429 votes)

Comments:

1067.

The Man Who Sold The World

David Bowie

"A stellar dip into hard rock for Bowie; it lacks polish and doesn't feel as accomplished as his later work, but it fulfills a more improvisational, semi-experimental/let's-see-what-works sort of vibe that feels appropriate for this early stage in his career. Early signs of his lyrical genius can ..." Reply

DeusExMackia | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1970

Appears in:

455 charts

Rank Score:

1,646

Rank in 1970:

Rank in 1970s:

216

Overall Rank:

1,067

Average Rating:

78 (877 votes)

Comments:

1068.

On The Corner

Miles Davis

"Hahaha, nice review Borve... this is funk, and I actually love Funk, Sly and the Family Stone and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are honestly 2 of my favorite bands... and then Miles Davis playing with it... I actually like this better than Bitches Brew... So far Vote For Miles and Black Satin are som..." Reply

RoundTheBend | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

304 charts

Rank Score:

1,646

Rank in 1972:

Rank in 1970s:

217

Overall Rank:

1,068

Average Rating:

80 (349 votes)

Comments:

1069.

Young Americans

David Bowie

"Yes, this is my favorite David Bowie album, which is probably a little strange. I just think the beauty of the songs never flags. Every track has a beauty and emotional appeal for me, without any of them becoming sentimental. I love that the album is somewhat about a kind of music, like a tribute..." Reply

- larryrrr | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1975

Appears in:

434 charts

Rank Score:

1,645

Rank in 1975:

Rank in 1970s:

218

Overall Rank:

1,069

Average Rating:

77 (769 votes)

Comments:

1070.

Torches

Foster The People

"Back in 2011 I was a little pretentious when it came to music. If an album didn't make it in some form of top ten list from Rolling Stone, NME, or Pitchfork magazine I considered it dumb even if I hadn't even listened to it. But then Foster The People came along and pulled me out of my cave of ig..." Reply

- VanillaBean | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

305 charts

Rank Score:

1,644

Rank in 2011:

Rank in 2010s:

154

Overall Rank:

1,070

Average Rating:

72 (566 votes)

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Overall Chart composition

Decade	Albums	%

1930s	2	0%
1940s	32	0%
1950s	302	3%
1960s	711	7%
1970s	1,415	14%
1980s	1,397	14%
1990s	1,590	16%
2000s	1,729	17%
2010s	1,992	20%
2020s	830	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	%

	5,027	50%
	2,658	27%
	427	4%
	336	3%
	221	2%
	156	2%
	138	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	9,737	97%
Yes	263	3%

Live?	Albums	%
No	9,738	97%
Yes	262	3%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	9,884	99%
Yes	116	1%

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