Overall Chart
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"This album defined how rock N' roll riffs and solos would look like from ten years and so on, It is a remarkable stand point on 50s guitar music, and Chuck is the first guitar god from Rock History." Reply
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1957
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1,475
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"The talking heads were still experimenting in david byrne's latter years with the band, here incorporating a country flare working the steel guitar often." Reply
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paladisiac | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1985
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1,473
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"This is an easy album to not take seriously, partially thanks to the videos. But george michael was a very good singer-songwriter, who shows it not just on "father figure" and "one more try", but also lesser known songs like the desperate urgency of "hand to mouth" and the beautifully-plaintive p..." [+] Reply
- paladisiac | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1987
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1,472
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"Norah's greatest, although the best tracks had already been released on the 2001 EP First Sessions. Great cocktail and fireplace music." Reply
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Bork | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2002
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1,471
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"Oh so sorry Jimmy dread, but my 'review' wasn't actually a 'review' it was 'comment', hence the 'showing all 11 comments', it would have been slightly different else. Your 'reveiw' wasn't particularly constructive either. By the way, good luck with the parallel timeline." Reply
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1982
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1,471
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"This album never bores me. It may be his most commercial, but it is still very musical and comical. There are a handful of people who could write a line like "He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my right eye," and make it groove. And Zappa made it groove indeed." Reply
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AAL2014 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1974
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1,470
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"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
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HoldenM | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (6 helpful | 3 unhelpful)
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2025
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1,470
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"Released in 1980, 'Underwater Moonlight' is an album that has stood the test of time remarkably well and still sounds fresh and inventive. Reminscent of the work of Television and Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, the band manage to straddle the early new-wave of the former and the psychedlic whimsy of..." [+] Reply
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1980
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1,468
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"Barely saved from the doom of oblivion thanks to the band's international name and its singles, this album is horribly weak for me. I am not able to listen to the whole Juicebox song without hating myself and the bassist of this band. However, Razorblade is an amazingly fun song, and YOLO is... w..." [+] Reply
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Radioscope | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (4 helpful | 1 unhelpful)
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2005
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1,465
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"The quotes below are - for the most part - from “Van der Graaf Generator - The Book” by Jim Jim Christopulos and Phil Smart. John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers) - "When we started touring for the album By The Way, I and the rest of the band would always be listening to Pawn Hearts on the bus ..." [+] Reply
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1971
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1,463
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Total albums: 10,000. Page 119 of 1,000
Overall Chart composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 2 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 34 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 302 | 3% | |
| 1960s | 710 | 7% | |
| 1970s | 1,425 | 14% | |
| 1980s | 1,413 | 14% | |
| 1990s | 1,602 | 16% | |
| 2000s | 1,720 | 17% | |
| 2010s | 1,967 | 20% | |
| 2020s | 825 | 8% |
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| 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 | % | |
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4,997 | 50% | |
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2,657 | 27% | |
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432 | 4% | |
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337 | 3% | |
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221 | 2% | |
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157 | 2% | |
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134 | 1% | |
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| Best Artists of the 1960s | |
|---|---|
| 1. The Beatles | |
| 2. The Velvet Underground | |
| 3. Jimi Hendrix | |
| 4. Bob Dylan | |
| 5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience | |
| 6. The Beach Boys | |
| 7. The Velvet Underground & Nico | |
| 8. The Doors | |
| 9. Led Zeppelin | |
| 10. The Rolling Stones | |
| 11. John Coltrane | |
| 12. King Crimson | |
| 13. Frank Zappa | |
| 14. The Kinks | |
| 15. Neil Young | |
| 16. Love | |
| 17. Charles Mingus | |
| 18. Van Morrison | |
| 19. Miles Davis | |
| 20. Simon & Garfunkel |
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