Listed below are the overall rankings for the best albums in history as determined by their aggregate positions in over 59,000 different greatest album charts on BestEverAlbums.com! (Chart last updated: 4 hours ago).
"In the late nineties and early 2000's, Bruce Springsteen was at a bit of a loss. He had recently reformed the E street band for a successful tour, but Springsteen hadn't released an album of new material since, the ghost of Tom Joad, in 1995. Springsteen was also at his best when he had something...""In the late nineties and early 2000's, Bruce Springsteen was at a bit of a loss. He had recently reformed the E street band for a successful tour, but Springsteen hadn't released an album of new material since, the ghost of Tom Joad, in 1995. Springsteen was also at his best when he had something to say, when he was inspired, when there was 'something to push against', as he would later say. That inspiration came on 11th September 2001, when terrorists attacked the United States of America, in the worst U.S. tragedy since pearl harbour 60 years before. Soon after 9/11, Springsteen was in a parking lot when a voice called out to him. 'We need you now', the voice said. Springsteen heard. In July the following year, Bruce Springsteen was back. The rising, was a fantastic collection of songs, concerning the events of 9/11. From devastated family members, to the courageous emergency services, even to the thoughts of a suicide bomber. It was moving stuff. The rising, is easily springsteen's best E street album since, born to run. Working with producer Brendan O'Brien who had previously recorded pearl jam, the band sounded bigger and better than ever. Lonesome day, is a fantastic opener, followed by the moving, into the fire. Other 9/11 inspired tracks were, empty sky, world's apart, paradise, and the title track itself, all brilliant. There are lighter moments, waitin'on a sunny day, and the wonderful Motown pastiche, Mary's place, are great fun. Other standouts are, the contemplative, nothing man, the rocking, further on up the road, and the excellent, you're missing. If there are any lightweight moments, it's the throwaway, let's be friends. Elsewhere though, it's brilliant, ending with the uplifting, my city of ruins. The rising, Is a fantastic record, that goes down as one of Bruce's best. It's a moving album that only someone with the stature of Bruce Springsteen could have pulled off. Marvellous. "[+]Reply
"I listen to this one on vinyl all the time since my uncle gave me an original copy along with Purple Rain. The sum is greater than it's parts for sure as it has a loose concept going on based on the horrible movie Prince directed (The one talent he didn't exactly shine in, though a decent actor)....""I listen to this one on vinyl all the time since my uncle gave me an original copy along with Purple Rain. The sum is greater than it's parts for sure as it has a loose concept going on based on the horrible movie Prince directed (The one talent he didn't exactly shine in, though a decent actor). Some of the songs sound a bit too similar and are either way too short, or go on too long. But I still have to say that Mountains & Sometimes it Snows In April are among his greatest musical achievements. Sometimes In Snows In April carries a deeper emotional weight for me, and I'm sure for others, concerning Prince died in April, and the song is about the concept character, Tracy, dying. I find myself skipping much of the album to get to those songs, along with Kiss. It's not because the rest of the songs are bad by any means, but those three are so classic they kind of overshadow everything else. This, along with Around The World In A day are his trippiest albums; but there is still plenty of funk and pop to go around."[+]Reply
""mother and child reunion" and "me and julio down by the schoolyard" are both here. This is as good as you'd expect from the chief songwriter and main voice of simon & garfunkel. You still hear the same street-wise, folksy common-folk narratives woven into songs as catchy as he is short. There ar..."""mother and child reunion" and "me and julio down by the schoolyard" are both here. This is as good as you'd expect from the chief songwriter and main voice of simon & garfunkel. You still hear the same street-wise, folksy common-folk narratives woven into songs as catchy as he is short. There are some horns on here that "intrude" on the folk/pop aesthetic established by S&G; but otherwise, if you like S&G, dig in to this."[+]Reply
"Far removed from Pink Flag. Seems like another step forward into unchartered territory after Chairs Missing. Really inventive guitar sounds, creating a unique atmosphere."Reply
"I'm not much of an Elton John fan; too showy and pop style above substance for my taste. However, this is one of my personal favorites and an album I'll never get tired of listening to. It has lyrics that are delivered with real emotion and warmth in tracks like "Someone Saved my Life Tonight" an...""I'm not much of an Elton John fan; too showy and pop style above substance for my taste. However, this is one of my personal favorites and an album I'll never get tired of listening to. It has lyrics that are delivered with real emotion and warmth in tracks like "Someone Saved my Life Tonight" and "We All Fall in Love Sometimes" but also has the lights in your eyes fun that reminds me of Bowie's best in tracks like "(Gotta Get a) Meal Ticket" and "Tell Me When the Whistle Blows". Not a weak track IMO and just a genuinely pleasurable album all around. There are only three albums by EJ that I admire and this is certainly the highlight of his career in my opinion."[+]Reply
"Love this strategy of having 12 songs that are all good and interesting, performances that are tight and dynamic, and production that's organic and warm and punchy. More artists should try this because it might make their music good."Reply
"Great sound, almost combines Guns N Roses style hair metal with Cocteau Twins style dream pop. All tracks are good to great ("Rhinoceros", maybe the best ever Pumpkins song?) with maybe the exception of "Suffer". Overall a must-own for Pumpkins fans."Reply
"Yes that is the same sample White Town used, and being able to recognize it immediately makes me feel really fucking old. Anyways I actually really dig this! maybe doesn't quite have enough of the "Future" that's promised early on at least sonically (except on "Don't Start Now", which feels like ...""Yes that is the same sample White Town used, and being able to recognize it immediately makes me feel really fucking old.
Anyways I actually really dig this! maybe doesn't quite have enough of the "Future" that's promised early on at least sonically (except on "Don't Start Now", which feels like a laser'd-up version of one her earlier hits), but with nostalgia that for once sounds this, yes, fresh and purposeful it's hard to complain. Maybe because it takes more of it's ideas from late 70s disco-1980 disco and that turn of the millenium-to-early '00s stage when the dance hits had a more noticeable house influence, it doesn't just melt into another tired 80s pastiche that felt promised (except on the the aptly-titled "Physical", which is engaging enough to forgive anyways).
In many ways I'm reminded of last year's Dedicated, another album with a similar sultry-yet-sinewy sound that had a lot of similar influences and that musically was very attractive... but always felt like it was missing something, or that it just wasn't a good album for Carly Rae personally, as much as I love her dearly. Now it seems clear that it needed that kind of larger-than-life swagger that's also slyly circumvent about when to push the music deeper into the surface that Dua provides here. It's one snappy velvet-rope of a release, with only one truly forgettable moment ("Hallucinate"), that works pretty seamlessly as a singular sound but also (I can't stress this enough) how it finally reminds the pop world about the beauty of brevity. This is not some turgid 18 track dumping ground, trying to tick as many streams and find it's way onto the highest number of playlists as possible, at 37 minutes it almost never loses it's steam or feels un-neccessarily flabby, where nearly every moment she knows exactly what she's doing and how best to maximize the potential of each track without over-doing it....
... well, usually. Unavoidably it feels like we just can't have a constiently immaculate pop release that can simply announce it's importance based on the music alone, now everything has to have it's obligatory Very Important Message moment. The problem here (the offending number "Boys Will Be Boys") is that it feels like it both wants to be a button-pushing conversation starter but also end up feeling as blandly inspirational as a latter-day Pink or Alessa what'shername track, which means you get big orchestral arrangements (yes, and a fucking choir too) with simplified sloganeering lyrics- delivered in Dua Lipa's coolly detached prescence that hitherto has worked so well but at this moment guarantees any attempt at a provocation useless. Even if it was secretly intended as the most basic cheeky kiss-off. When the album should've been enjoying an ecstatic victory lap or a more organic swell to a thundering closer, this becomes a limp attempt at political relevance that brings nothing new to the table and hammers the ending flat in the process (in many ways the album could've ended with the more early 00s hip-hop influenced "Good in Bed", not dissimilar in themes but less blandly preachy and a far more congenial way to go out).
While that might be a bit of a dissapointing post-script (nobody goes to the club awaiting a scrapped-together lecture at 1:57 am), it doesn't destroy the appeal of what came before it. I think it's best to temper expectations somewhat as the over-praise has been a bit unavoidable (in these apocalyptic times anything this sleek and sexy and well-produced and get-the-bootstraps-kicking is bound to get that treatment), and whether this does end up delivering on the initial promise of being the start of something big or just a great little pop capsule in it's own right I can't imagine it will ever stop sounding this exquisite in the... *tongue out* Future. "[+]Reply