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"Flawless album in my view, yes, including Four Sticks and Misty Mountain Hop. Some consider Stairway To Heaven to be on of if not the most overplayed song ever, but it's so amazing that I could listen to it a thousand more times. My favorite track on LZ4 is not Stairway or even Levee, but rather ..."  [+]  Reply
- Cojo7 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +16 votes (16 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help 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.
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1971
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37,776
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Top rated album (90/100 - 4022 votes)  90 (4,022 votes)
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"What can I say about "Pet Sounds"? This album is just so ridiculously out-of-this-world. Especially considering where music was at in 1966, it is very hard to believe that a guy could create this music almost single handedly. Composition and production-wise, this album is a complete masterpiece a..."  [+]  Reply
- bonnequestion | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +10 votes (10 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help 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.
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1966
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37,717
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Top rated album (88/100 - 3305 votes)  88 (3,305 votes)
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"I think I do respect other people opinions and tastes, But for god sake this album is nowhere near the top 10 not even mention in NO 6. Don't get me wrong .It's a pretty good album that made Grunge popularized in the mainstream but again it's just not that great anyway. too much overrated"  Reply
- jomth | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +20 votes (27 helpful | 7 unhelpful) Help 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.
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1991
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37,063
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Top rated album (87/100 - 4360 votes)  87 (4,360 votes)
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"This album has it all. From gorgeous songs like 'while my guitar gently weeps' and 'blackbird', to just great songs like 'happiness is a warm gun' and 'im so tired', to hard rock (for the time) like 'helter skelter' and 'birthday', to blues jams like 'why dont we do it in the road' and 'yer blues..."  [+]  Reply
- JulianR | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +12 votes (13 helpful | 1 unhelpful) Help 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.
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1968
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36,437
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Top rated album (89/100 - 3848 votes)  89 (3,848 votes)
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2004
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33,227
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Top rated album (88/100 - 3683 votes)  88 (3,683 votes)
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"The Queen is Dead has an allure that no other album can match, what other lp can you reach for, when to put it simpy, no other will do? Who else in the music industry but Morrissey could dare to write a love song as suicidally but as beautifully pessimistic as 'I Know It's Over'? And this is the ..."  [+]  Reply
- johnner | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +18 votes (19 helpful | 1 unhelpful) Help 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.
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1986
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32,757
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Top rated album (88/100 - 2939 votes)  88 (2,939 votes)
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"It's a strange phenomenon that this record has garnered so much critical acclaim. With its simplistic harmonic progressions and expectable cadences, and with its lo-fi production value, and Jeff Magnum's vocals (under normal circumstances, underwhelming), the tracks are not exactly complex in a m..."  [+]  Reply
- soundguardian | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +18 votes (23 helpful | 5 unhelpful) Help 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.
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1998
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31,284
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Top rated album (87/100 - 2973 votes)  87 (2,973 votes)
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"I completely take back my last comment! Grown on me so much, now stuck on repeat! Love it. Also, has anyone ever noticed this? : Take the titles of "Here Comes Your Man" and "There Goes My Gun" Here --------------- There Comes ------------ Goes Your -------------- My Man --------------- Gun Prett..."  [+]  Reply
- steve_o_619 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +21 votes (21 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help 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.
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1989
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30,788
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Top rated album (88/100 - 2972 votes)  88 (2,972 votes)
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"What can you say about Rumours that has not already been said? One of the most beautiful and yet bittersweet collection of songs ever put on record. It's impossible to pick standout tracks because they are all equally good but different to each other. How the record shifts from Chrissy's heartbre..."  [+]  Reply
- evilzzz | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (7 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help 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.
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1977
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30,460
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Top rated album (87/100 - 2670 votes)  87 (2,670 votes)
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"@Mother Nature's Son Consider this scenario: a man with a child walks into an art museum. In this museum, paintings are displayed containing graphic, vulgar images, including nudity, violence, etc. The man, upon seeing these pictures, storms out of the museum, enraged by the crass sight he and hi..."  [+]  Reply
- jeremih724 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +28 votes (35 helpful | 7 unhelpful) Help 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.
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2015
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30,263
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Top rated album (89/100 - 2317 votes)  89 (2,317 votes)
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Overall Chart composition

Best Artists of the 1980s
1. The Smiths
2. Prince
3. The Cure
4. Pixies
5. Talking Heads
6. U2
7. Metallica
8. Kate Bush
9. R.E.M.
10. The Stone Roses
11. Sonic Youth
12. Michael Jackson
13. Bruce Springsteen
14. Iron Maiden
15. Prince And The Revolution
16. Tom Waits
17. Joy Division
18. New Order
19. Talk Talk
20. Rush