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2111.

Midnight Blue 

 Kenny Burrell

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"It swings like jazz, wails like blues, and has a funky groove. This album was way ahead of its time and remains at the top of the jazz heap as well as the guitar heap for any genre. Burell's absolutely masterful technique is on display throughout as well. Absolutely faultless."  Reply

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Year of Release:

1963

Appears in:

107 charts

Rank Score:

493

Rank in 1963:

8

Rank in 1960s:

174

Overall Rank:

2,111

Average Rating:

 78 (123 votes)

Comments:

4

2112.

Modern Guilt 

 Beck

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"Some have grumbled that "Modern Guilt" is minor Beck. Sure it doesn't twist your mind into as many shapes as its predecessor ("The Information"), provide the perfect soundtrack for cruising through Los Angeles ("Guero") or open your ears to the enormous sonic possibi...""Some have grumbled that "Modern Guilt" is minor Beck. Sure it doesn't twist your mind into as many shapes as its predecessor ("The Information"), provide the perfect soundtrack for cruising through Los Angeles ("Guero") or open your ears to the enormous sonic possibilities of sadness ("Sea Change"). Yet "Modern Guilt" is a step forward with its stripped down more rock heavy sound and fairly plain album jacket. Lyrically it constitutes some of his richest, most honest writing yet. Personally I wish the production was less murky (why not a little more shine?), but it's a small complaint. Each song is impressive, but none on the album can top the ethereal "Chemtrails". I've haven't heard anything this year as musically stimulating or as darkly haunted. "  [+]  Reply

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

Year of Release:

2008

Appears in:

188 charts

Rank Score:

493

Rank in 2008:

26

Rank in 2000s:

339

Overall Rank:

2,112

Average Rating:

 75 (347 votes)

Comments:

16

2113.

The Visitors 

 ABBA

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"They say that a prophet is never accepted in his homeland. Likewise it is often that art which challenges us to explore new vistas is never fully appreciated until time has passed and hindsight is used grant it immortality. So it was that the works of many a great composer, writer or artist were ...""They say that a prophet is never accepted in his homeland. Likewise it is often that art which challenges us to explore new vistas is never fully appreciated until time has passed and hindsight is used grant it immortality. So it was that the works of many a great composer, writer or artist were ignored in their own time, and lay waiting, dormant until the day would come when a new generation, freed from the prejudices of the past, would learn to adore what had previously been spurned. A case in point was the 18th century composer Vivaldi whose music remained forgotten until rediscovered in the 20th century. And so it is, in its own small way, with The Visitors, ABBA’s last and least commercially successful album! If the fact that it failed to deliver more than one big hit single was not disastrous enough, the entire album concept was given a mixed reception and even panned by some of the more serious music critics of the time. Rolling Stone which awarded the album only two stars out of five blasted the album as "lousy" while the album’s commercial performance itself could only mirror that exact description managing the lowly position of 29 on the American Billboard Hot 100 Album listings. The exploration into melancholy and maturity in a new modern musical style was interpreted as nothing more than synch-drenched melodramatic balladeering. For the group itself, lacking only unanimous critical acclaim and used to almost 7 years of unbroken commercial success, the relative failure of the album must have been particularly hard to take. Within a year they had effectively disbanded, split up; gone their separate ways. Once again we were witness to the sorry sight of the artists attempt to break the chains of necessity and discover for us new worlds being spurned and derided. And now a decade into a new century, their music lives on: stubbornly refusing to let go of the old fans with its nostalgia and rich diversity; seducing and enchanting new fans with its timeless melodies and addictive hooks. Prominent among the many reasons for ABBA's staying power has been the effect of their music catalogue to touch a raw nerve in practically every emotion. From bounding joy to deep sadness, ABBA music has a power over its listener that the critic no longer dare dismiss and no ABBA album tugs at the emotional strings stronger than the Visitors. In truth there is an air of defiance permeating the entire album. However this is no grand scale strategy on the part of the creators but the ordinary and breakable human defiance of real people desirous of artistic freedom. From the muffled cry of "help me" on the title track, to the refusal to lie down and cry in "When all is said and done", and to the admission of a twinge of guilt in "Slipping through My Fingers", there is an emotional honesty with which we, the everyman listener can readily identify with. While the primary ideas for the concept and the music lay with the male group members, Benny and Bjorn, the creative process can not be entirely disassociated from their female colleagues, for it is to them that is assigned that momentous task of actually bearing open the human soul and showing it to us. In hindsight theirs is truly a wondrous achievement both guiding the listener and then imparting the emotional meaning throughout the progression of the various themes. Notably it is on the Visitors that Frida really gives a spectacular rendition of her capabilities with songs like The Visitors, When All is Said and Done, I Let the Music Speak and Like an Angel Passing Though My Room, all bearing witness to that vocalists range and powers of mimicry. It would be unfair and essentially factually incorrect however to ascribe all the virtues of that album to its emotional power alone. The music, the melodies and the harmonies are as good as anything the band had come up with before, while new styles are explored and then performed with aplomb. In the overall reckoning the album forms a key component in the progression from bubble-gum pop fantasy to adult musical maturity and reality. If ABBA was a story then the defining moment is the song "I Let the Music Speak", effectively their final soliloquy. All that follows, including the magnificent The Day Before You Came, can be then viewed as mere epilogue. In contrast to its troubled conception and birth, it is in its maturity that The Visitors has come constitute one of the more revered parts of the ABBA canon. The formers band members can rightfully look back with pride for having put faith in their own artistic capabilities and for producing a work which is both magnificent in itself as well as being oblivious to the times in which it was conceived. Freed of the commercial baggage they produced a work of art which has both meaning and enjoyment in the lives of many living and will do so for many generations to come. For the artist the temporary rewards of commercial success, initially satisfying though they maybe, are as nothing compared to those of art and the immortality that it brings. For the critics and for the rest of us, has not the time finally come when we should acknowledge this album in its rightful place, as one of the finest works ever produced in the history of popular music? "  [+]  Reply

- jomclane | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +8 votes (8 helpful | 0 unhelpful) 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.

Year of Release:

1981

Appears in:

164 charts

Rank Score:

493

Rank in 1981:

29

Rank in 1980s:

312

Overall Rank:

2,113

Average Rating:

 74 (217 votes)

Comments:

13

2114.

Lights Out 

 UFO

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"I've always thought that UFO was a very under-rated band. I saw them in 1977 on their Lights Out tour (Cheap Trick was opening act) and they were just great live. This is a great album; I think their best (not counting Strangers in the Night, which is like a greatest hits collection and my favori...""I've always thought that UFO was a very under-rated band. I saw them in 1977 on their Lights Out tour (Cheap Trick was opening act) and they were just great live. This is a great album; I think their best (not counting Strangers in the Night, which is like a greatest hits collection and my favorite live album of all time)."  [+]  Reply

- mtr1979 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful) 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.

Year of Release:

1977

Appears in:

96 charts

Rank Score:

492

Rank in 1977:

40

Rank in 1970s:

430

Overall Rank:

2,114

Average Rating:

 77 (107 votes)

Comments:

10

2115.

The Works 

 Queen

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"This was the first Queen album for me having bought into their singles at that time. It prompted me to get their back catalogue and I found some excellent work back there. They are a top band with songs that everyone sings probably without always knowing who they are. This album gave us Radio GaG...""This was the first Queen album for me having bought into their singles at that time. It prompted me to get their back catalogue and I found some excellent work back there. They are a top band with songs that everyone sings probably without always knowing who they are. This album gave us Radio GaGa and it's synchronised clapping; Hammer To Fall and I Want To Break Free also feature with the album closing with the delicate and excellent Is This The World We Created?"  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1984

Appears in:

233 charts

Rank Score:

492

Rank in 1984:

33

Rank in 1980s:

313

Overall Rank:

2,115

Average Rating:

 72 (380 votes)

Comments:

24

2116.

Abacab 

 Genesis

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"With this album, Genesis had finally tipped the scale in favor of pop: they were now more pop than prog, and fans weren't too pleased. I actually like the new direction: every song on here is shamelessly catchy and none of them blow me away musically, but I can still tell that this band that coul...""With this album, Genesis had finally tipped the scale in favor of pop: they were now more pop than prog, and fans weren't too pleased. I actually like the new direction: every song on here is shamelessly catchy and none of them blow me away musically, but I can still tell that this band that could still play and play well. If we had been stuck with a stagnant Genesis, we would've had an endless stream of Wind and Wuthering clones. That wouldn't have been good, IMO - I'll take the pop direction over W&W clones any day of the week. This was a band of songwriters; I have no issue with them writing catchy pop songs, because they already proved they could master prog. Why not let them try to master pop as well? Hint: they would come pretty close to doing just that. I guess I have a different perspective because I was born in 1988. I didn't grow up with this band; I grew up listening to both "eras" of Genesis. In all honesty, I think I respect Genesis more -because- they were able to make the transition to pop quite well. Good songwriters can and should master a variety of genres. Plus, contrary to what some might think, they never completely abandoned their roots. Whodunnit, Like It or Not, and Another Record are pretty bad though. Like I said, there were more duds during this era of Genesis, but the good outweighs the bad."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1981

Appears in:

171 charts

Rank Score:

492

Rank in 1981:

30

Rank in 1980s:

314

Overall Rank:

2,116

Average Rating:

 70 (321 votes)

Comments:

15

2117.

Stranger Than Fiction 

 Bad Religion

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"So far the best Bad Religion album I've heard. Much better than the previous ones. Much more varied, and very interesting lyrics. Oh, and about the re-release of what became later their biggest hit, 21st Century Digital Boy, there's one good and one bad: One bad: The original version is better. O...""So far the best Bad Religion album I've heard. Much better than the previous ones. Much more varied, and very interesting lyrics. Oh, and about the re-release of what became later their biggest hit, 21st Century Digital Boy, there's one good and one bad: One bad: The original version is better. One good: 22 years after, we're all 21st Century Digital Boys"  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1994

Appears in:

105 charts

Rank Score:

492

Rank in 1994:

53

Rank in 1990s:

381

Overall Rank:

2,117

Average Rating:

 74 (149 votes)

Comments:

5

2118.

Blow By Blow 

 Jeff Beck

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"Jeff Beck is incredible. I love how groovy and complex this album is. It just makes my head spin."  Reply

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Year of Release:

1975

Appears in:

143 charts

Rank Score:

492

Rank in 1975:

38

Rank in 1970s:

431

Overall Rank:

2,118

Average Rating:

 79 (194 votes)

Comments:

13

2119.

Discreet Music 

 Brian Eno

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"the polar opposite of trout mask.. only 4 or 5 notes in the piece, could be construed as simplistic, but it has such a hypnotic effect.. and each time a new bit of instrumentation comes in.. ahhhh.... fuck, i'm getting weirder by the day."  Reply

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Year of Release:

1975

Appears in:

125 charts

Rank Score:

491

Rank in 1975:

39

Rank in 1970s:

432

Overall Rank:

2,119

Average Rating:

 77 (170 votes)

Comments:

6

2120.

Dr. Octagon 

 Dr. Octagon

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"The production maintains this cold, artificial, alien, minimal sound - at times it comes close to sounding too empty, but it never does, it manages to keep your interest throughout the whole running time of the album, not to mention there are tracks like I'm Destructive that provide a welcome -if...""The production maintains this cold, artificial, alien, minimal sound - at times it comes close to sounding too empty, but it never does, it manages to keep your interest throughout the whole running time of the album, not to mention there are tracks like I'm Destructive that provide a welcome -if not much needed- change of pace. His eccentric rapping requires a peculiar taste that I wanna say I possess, but the truth is I don't, not 100% at least, there are some parts where it gets tiring and I find myself losing attention. The lyrics, well, where do you even begin? A bit of comedy, science fiction, sophistication and non sense blended together in a unique, surreal construction ("The plane managed to land, the skeleton at the controls A place called the Twilight Zone Are extraterrestrials able to accomplish this? I will explain but you'd become more puzzled at the possibilities Earth ending trilogies, wacky stuff Like gas passing dinosaurs While I stroll in circles blindfolded Gave a lady some wrinkle cream out of rat poop You might just laugh so hard your skull cracks Brain spills thick blood shooting out like a champagne cork"). When it comes to highlights, Blue Flowers is simply impossible to ignore, a haunting beat accompanied by his highly distressing delivery ("Listen to your heartbeat—delete, beep, beep, beep! Your insurance is high, but my price is cheap"). Also, General Hospital has to be one of the greatest under 30 seconds tracks ever and a perfect sum up of the album. To sum it up, approach with caution, but it's quite a ride. Plus, you have to give it some -many actually- extra points if you compare it with everything else that was going on in hip hop back then."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1996

Appears in:

165 charts

Rank Score:

491

Rank in 1996:

39

Rank in 1990s:

382

Overall Rank:

2,120

Average Rating:

 79 (157 votes)

Comments:

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Overall Chart composition

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Decade	Albums	%
1930s	2	0%
1940s	37	0%
1950s	304	3%
1960s	721	7%
1970s	1,436	14%
1980s	1,430	14%
1990s	1,613	16%
2000s	1,735	17%
2010s	1,991	20%
2020s	731	7%

Artist	Albums	%
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	%
	5,007	50%
	2,664	27%
	431	4%
	317	3%
	222	2%
	159	2%
	136	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	9,725	97%
Yes	275	3%

Live?	Albums	%
No	9,729	97%
Yes	271	3%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	9,885	99%
Yes	115	1%