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"Went to see her live, touring for this album. It was one of the worst live shows I've ever attended. Nearly everyone there left at around the halfway point. Turned me way the fuck off her music, which I'd been undecided about up till that point. But yeah, no." Reply
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swagnadalf | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (5 helpful | 4 unhelpful)
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2016
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"This album present to us something we would never think about. the good side of the sad breakup of Oasis. On his gigs, Noel always starts with "(It's Good) To Be Free" and this contrasts with the freedom of his talent with the end of Oasis. The best songs of Noel Gallagher since the end of the 90..." [+] Reply
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2011
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"This album makes Art Angels look like an outlier in her discography cuz this feels like a closer sonic successor to Visions. It pulls back on a lot of the bombast of Art Angels, for better or worse, but its not necessarily a decline in quality. But that also makes it easier to explore, fall in lo..." [+] Reply
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Vatsal | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (8 helpful | 1 unhelpful)
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2020
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"The interesting thing with this album is that there's nothing that's specifically unique or different than other albums from this genre. Nothing that really sets it apart in some original way. Yet it's so fucking brilliant. The melody, vocals, song structure of every song on this makes it one of ..." [+] Reply
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1996
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477
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"If you were a college student in 1974, and were at a Friday night party where everyone was smoking pot, the two albums playing on the stereo were "Dark Side of the Moon" and "Bridge of Sighs"." Reply
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ffudnebbuh | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (3 helpful | 1 unhelpful)
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1974
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"Recently bought the vinyl reissue on Gnome Life after listening to it for a while on a poorly-ripped mp3 copy I downloaded from the 'net. And it sounds absolutely gorgeous. You'd have to have a heart of stone not to appreciate the beauty and emotions that leaps off Basho's guitar strings, and eve..." [+] Reply
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Jimmy Dread | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"This is the record that sent Biffy to the mainstream... (Puzzle already did this though, but this is the one that did it on a new level). For a lot of people this more commercial sound was a bad change, but in my opinion it gave place to some of Biffy's greatest tracks. In this record there are m..." [+] Reply
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2009
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476
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"with Iris being possibly the best rock ballad EVER written and the rest of the album being a decent soft rock collection it bugs my mind how in the world this album is not in top 10 of '98 on this site." Reply
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zwiebel | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1998
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"This is Steve-O at his peak. Some great deep tracks here including Mercury Blues, Wild Mountain Honey and a revision of Sam Cooke's You Send Me that makes it all Steve's own." Reply
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jhuik | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1976
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"Elbow have self-classified themselves as "prog without the solos," an assessment I cannot dispute. There are times when Guy Garver sounds exactly like Peter Gabriel, which I consider high praise (even if it's a tad disconcerting for the listener). And although I think Build a Rocket Boys! could d..." [+] Reply
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zdwyatt | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2011
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Total albums: 10,000. Page 218 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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4,970 | 50% | |
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2,628 | 26% | |
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427 | 4% | |
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332 | 3% | |
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223 | 2% | |
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160 | 2% | |
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145 | 1% | |
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| Best Ever Artists | |
|---|---|
| 1. The Beatles | |
| 2. Radiohead | |
| 3. Pink Floyd | |
| 4. David Bowie | |
| 5. Bob Dylan | |
| 6. Led Zeppelin | |
| 7. The Rolling Stones | |
| 8. Arcade Fire | |
| 9. Neil Young | |
| 10. Nirvana | |
| 11. The Velvet Underground | |
| 12. Kendrick Lamar | |
| 13. Miles Davis | |
| 14. The Smiths | |
| 15. R.E.M. | |
| 16. The Beach Boys | |
| 17. Kanye West | |
| 18. Bruce Springsteen | |
| 19. The Cure | |
| 20. Pixies |
