Overall Chart
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"Walking down a quiet city street at night, feeling the cool air flow by as you watch the last lights from the surrounding apartment buildings flicker out, losing yourself in your own introspection, contemplating love, loss, and heartbreak before realizing you've been walking for hours, full circl..." [+] Reply
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1989
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896
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"Billy Joel's follow up to his artistic and commercial peak, the stranger. 52nd street, is a good album, but it just hasn't quite got the edge that it's predecessor had. The first side of the album though is very good. Opening with one of the best examples of that cynical songwriting Joel is so go..." [+] Reply
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1978
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894
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"Why listen to an album before its release and before any others have rated it if you already hate the band and know that you'll hate the album too, thejoj96? Just to talk it down? Have you even listened to it? I bet you've not! You must have waited impatiently for someone to finally put it on a c..." [+] Reply
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Mother Nature's Son | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +13 votes (13 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2012
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894
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"While the album as a whole may not be musically that dark, there is a haunting and gloomy aura hovering over the album, especially on tracks such as I'm Going Slightly Mad, Bijou and The Show Must Go On. Mercury was a dying man, but you genuinely cannot tell just by listening to the sheer power i..." [+] Reply
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1991
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893
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"Fantastic album! A mixture of Punk, Jazz, & Soul. You wouldn't think that would work, but it seriously does." Reply
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Hayden | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1980
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891
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"My favourite Oldfield album. Side 2 of Tubular Bells began with that jangly, Celtic sounding melody and this album is of course Celtic themed, including the Gaelic singing/chanting in the second half of side 1(though I believe there isn't a lot of meaning behind what's she's saying over and over!..." [+] Reply
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AndrewJFisher | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1975
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887
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"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 ..." [+] Reply
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cestuneblague | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (5 helpful | 2 unhelpful)
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2020
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"This was my first experience of listening Yes. So it was a wonderful experience. The first side is full of great tracks. The second side not quite as strong although it ends very well with Hearts. What a comeback. Still I can understand why this may have annoyed many Yes fans - it really isn't Yes!" Reply
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1983
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887
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"S.V.E's 'Remind Me Tomorrow' is a brave move for an artist that is cut from the folk guitar cloth , but satisfyingly it works The electronic sound is jarring to the S.V.E fan upon first listen but ultimately rewards with patience and repeated listening's . The album really kicks into gear with th..." [+] Reply
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Brad1770 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2019
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886
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"Small change is without doubt the best Tom Waits album of the seventies. Here, he is fully formed, the sozzled barroom troubadour reaches it's peak. Waits is at the top of his game. While, closing time, was uncertain, the heart of Saturday night, slightly immature, and, nighthawks at the diner, a..." [+] Reply
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1976
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885
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Total albums: 10,000. Page 118 of 1,000
Overall Chart composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 3 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 2 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 180 | 2% | |
| 1960s | 666 | 7% | |
| 1970s | 1,536 | 15% | |
| 1980s | 1,387 | 14% | |
| 1990s | 1,612 | 16% | |
| 2000s | 1,771 | 18% | |
| 2010s | 1,986 | 20% | |
| 2020s | 857 | 9% |
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| Bob Dylan | 36 | 0% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 33 | 0% | |
| David Bowie | 32 | 0% | |
| Various Artists | 30 | 0% | |
| Miles Davis | 26 | 0% | |
| Pink Floyd | 24 | 0% | |
| Genesis | 23 | 0% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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4,952 | 50% | |
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2,628 | 26% | |
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427 | 4% | |
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350 | 4% | |
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223 | 2% | |
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160 | 2% | |
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145 | 1% | |
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