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2241.

Era Vulgaris 

 Queens Of The Stone Age

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"When I think about misunderstood albums, this is the one I always think of. Perhaps that’s because of what QOTSA where when the recorded this album; Songs for the Deaf is one of the all-time best straight rock albums, I’d recommend it but chances are you already have it. Era Vulgaris is not a str...""When I think about misunderstood albums, this is the one I always think of. Perhaps that’s because of what QOTSA where when the recorded this album; Songs for the Deaf is one of the all-time best straight rock albums, I’d recommend it but chances are you already have it. Era Vulgaris is not a straight rock album at all. Era Vulgaris is offbeat, ugly and clunky. Era Vulgaris is also a record that I adore to pieces. This album however needs a fair bit of explaining. The title means “common age” and refers to the decadent, self-absorbed culture of today. Josh Homme is rarely his charming rocker self, instead taking the role of a spoilt, modern brat and sarcastically ripping them with their own tongue. If you will, this album is a satire of the YouTube generation. The lyrics have a very Tom Sawyer-ish feel about them. “I’m Designer” is a blast if you get this concept. The drums are clunky on this track, the guitar screeches repeatedly while the lyrics efferminately declare “We all have our own style and bag-age, why hump it yourself?”. In the chorus Homme’s true voice comes out, calling the verses “lies” and bemoaning his plastic existence. The sound is appropriately off-beat; the chords sound like they were devised with random rolls of dice. This isn’t a metal album at all, but the sound is robotic and mechanical melody certainly wasn’t one of the priorities, focusing on repeating weird noises until they have dug so far into your brain they work. QOTSA have always been a hypnotic band too, I mean c’mon, they named an album “Lullabies to Paralyze”. Era sees a lot of this, the opening track “Turning on the Screw” has on odd solo (?) where Homme declares “you sound like this” before all the instruments repeat the same sustained sound over and over. It’s witty and odd stuff, the kind of thing I can see people really hating if they aren’t into some good old fashioned sound lashing. On “Battery Acid” the drums just pound the same beat over and over, the only difference is they get louder and louder as the band ramp up the intensity. Also “Robots! Robots! Brain Washed Babies!” Is the greatest hook ever. Era is an eclectic mix too. Track 7 drastically changes gear to a straight blues song, in text slang of course, “Make It Wit Chu”. Josh is back on his charming sexy self and is a welcome return. Overall though QOTSA tongue is firmly in their cheek, I fear I have made this sound too arty when infact it is big, dumb noisy fun with a brainy twist. This album is a divisive choice; I know people who despise it and people who love it. You won’t know which one you are until you try it yourself. Worse comes to the worse, it’s a cool bit of album art to have on you iPod."  [+]  Reply

- Captain Spacker | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (7 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:

2007

Appears in:

222 charts

Rank Score:

734

Rank in 2007:

38

Rank in 2000s:

367

Overall Rank:

2,241

Average Rating:

 75 (421 votes)

Comments:

26

2242.

Here, My Dear 

 Marvin Gaye

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"A kind of soul, blood on the tracks. Here, my dear, is a stunningly ambitious album dealing with Marvin Gaye's relationship, break up and divorce to his wife Anna Gordy. Apparently, Gaye even used the advance payment for the record to pay for the divorce. The music is equally incredible. Shifting...""A kind of soul, blood on the tracks. Here, my dear, is a stunningly ambitious album dealing with Marvin Gaye's relationship, break up and divorce to his wife Anna Gordy. Apparently, Gaye even used the advance payment for the record to pay for the divorce. The music is equally incredible. Shifting from one mood to another, both musically and lyrically, it is impossible not to get drawn into the emotion, it is simply heartbreaking. It is an incredible song cycle, each track playing it's part, and it is every bit as beautiful and brilliant as his classic album, what's going on. Simply jaw dropping. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1978

Appears in:

185 charts

Rank Score:

734

Rank in 1978:

39

Rank in 1970s:

404

Overall Rank:

2,242

Average Rating:

 77 (222 votes)

Comments:

16

2243.

Stranger In Town 

 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

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"Bob Seger is a musician, born and raised in the Detroit-area . As Bruce Springsteen is to Jersey, Bob Seger is to Michigan. The rootsy crunch of Seger’s Rock 'n' Roll is a bit glossier. This is the R&B-based rock sound of blue-collar America in 1978. He writes for the common man. This album is fi...""Bob Seger is a musician, born and raised in the Detroit-area . As Bruce Springsteen is to Jersey, Bob Seger is to Michigan. The rootsy crunch of Seger’s Rock 'n' Roll is a bit glossier. This is the R&B-based rock sound of blue-collar America in 1978. He writes for the common man. This album is filled with track after track of heart and soul. Bob Seger is a impassioned Midwestern rocker, celebrating "Old Time Rock & Roll" ."  [+]  Reply

- ~SMiLE~ | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 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:

1978

Appears in:

164 charts

Rank Score:

734

Rank in 1978:

40

Rank in 1970s:

405

Overall Rank:

2,243

Average Rating:

 77 (152 votes)

Comments:

11

2244.

No Name 

 Jack White

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"Easily his best since the White Stripes ended, and maybe his best since Elephant."  Reply

- PartridgeAHA | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 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:

2024

Appears in:

176 charts

Rank Score:

733

Rank in 2024:

19

Rank in 2020s:

122

Overall Rank:

2,244

Average Rating:

 77 (154 votes)

Comments:

7

2245.

Evil Friends 

 Portugal. The Man

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"Awesome job. Portugal. The Man keeps trying new stuff without abandoning their sound, and Danger Mouse helped a lot on this one, making a great and catchy album. Creep In a T-Shirt, Evil Friends, Plastic Soldiers, PYR&B are some of the stand-out tracks, Smile is a perfect way to finish it."  Reply

- rafaellaxer | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 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:

2013

Appears in:

97 charts

Rank Score:

733

Rank in 2013:

47

Rank in 2010s:

360

Overall Rank:

2,245

Average Rating:

 74 (178 votes)

Comments:

5

2246.

Monk's Music 

 Thelonious Monk Septet

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"A masterful display of his carefree and playful attitude- not to be confused with naivety or simplicity."  Reply

- kokkinos | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 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:

1957

Appears in:

136 charts

Rank Score:

732

Rank in 1957:

11

Rank in 1950s:

60

Overall Rank:

2,246

Average Rating:

 77 (133 votes)

Comments:

1

2247.

Through Silver In Blood 

 Neurosis

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"A brutal, dark and aggressive masterpiece. This is not metal to head-bang to, this is metal to be meditated upon."  Reply

- TheHolyKiwi | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 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:

1996

Appears in:

99 charts

Rank Score:

732

Rank in 1996:

42

Rank in 1990s:

391

Overall Rank:

2,247

Average Rating:

 76 (135 votes)

Comments:

6

2248.

Bert Jansch 

 Bert Jansch

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"ON THE ROAD Strollin' down the highway I'm going to get there my way Dusk till dawn I'm walkin' Can hear my guitar rocking? (Strolling Down The Highway) If Neil Cassady & the gang (from Jack Kerrouc’s classic On The Road) weren’t so into jazz - if they had been born perhaps just five years years ...""ON THE ROAD Strollin' down the highway I'm going to get there my way Dusk till dawn I'm walkin' Can hear my guitar rocking? (Strolling Down The Highway) If Neil Cassady & the gang (from Jack Kerrouc’s classic On The Road) weren’t so into jazz - if they had been born perhaps just five years years later - Jansch is the kind of music they would have been into. Music about the inherent conflict born of being human and having human desires. Between freedom & responsibility. Safety and comfort vs. excitement and adventure and the desire for something new. The freedom to explore and not be tied down while searching for the ultimate expression of who your are. In a way, this is the folk equivalent of that Southern Rock archetype that The Allmans' & Skynyrd loved to wax poetic about - The Ramblin' Man. The Renegade. The Outlaw. “Ain’t no girl going to tie me down.” Hey girl, oh how my heart is torn Hey girl, now that your baby's born What shall it cost? Is my freedom lost? What is the price of nature's own way (Oh How Your Love is Strong) But there’s a weariness in this album. A realization that this particular path is not the easiest. There’s an internal conflict. That maybe he’s got it all wrong. That maybe he’d been better off - happier, more content, even more self-realized - if he had just stuck back home. Married that love that he knocked up back in his early twenties. Settled down & relaxed. Been a good father. Because life on the road ain’t easy. Loneliness ain’t easy. Because restlessness is just greed in another form. It’s an impatience. An inability to surrender to the moment and just be. Ask me why a rambler ain't got no home Ask me why I sit and cry alone I wish I knew I wish I knew If I knew, I'd know what to do (Rambling’s Going To Be the Death of Me) But like Cassidy and the rest of the beats, Jansch probably had no other choice. And this is THE album for embracing those regrets you’ve made along the way with a kindred spirit. For accepting that a part of you never would have been satisfied with that orthodox life. The wife you no longer found attractive. The 2.5 kids and the hour commute to that cubicle 8 floors up in the sky. It’s an album that helps you embrace the randomness of life. Accepting that life doesn’t go according to expectations. For accepting the regret. For accepting that you’ve probably made your life a whole lot more difficult than it had to be because that’s part of who you are. That’s part of being human. We’re never satisfied. Never content. And that Jansch is able to capture this uniquely human quality and the conflict born of it in a folk album is staggering. And makes it one of the true great masterpieces of 60s music. I love what I wrote about this album a few years back when I first heard it shortly after joining BEA… Herein lies sparse, finger-picked folk songs on acoustic guitar mostly about how one's quest for personal freedom can sometimes be the very cause of our loneliness & isolation. In a sense one's quest for freedom to find the ultimate can leave you old and exhausted at the side of the road. Wearied. Jealous of all the smart folks who were satisfied with less. Because less is almost always more. But some of us alas need to go On The Road to learn this. Grade: A+. Do you want a kickass record collection? Of course you do! Why else would you be here, right? Well then there are two folk albums from 60s that EVERY music aficionado NEEDS. One has to be Dylan. Duh. So take your pick between Freewheelin’ and Another Side. It doesn’t really matter. They’re both Dylan at his folk peak before he plugged in. And then get THIS. Jansch’s debut. England’s true answer to Dylan (it certainly wasn’t Donovan. Donovan was something else completely.) Jansch was already rocking on just a acoustic guitar on this here album. His guitar playing lightyears beyond what most of The Village doing across the pond. And then you’ll be set. Sated. Satisfied to have two of the best folk albums of all time. Until you’re not. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1965

Appears in:

168 charts

Rank Score:

731

Rank in 1965:

19

Rank in 1960s:

204

Overall Rank:

2,248

Average Rating:

 77 (178 votes)

Comments:

11

2249.

Everywhere At The End Of Time 
Compilation

 The Caretaker

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"This is probably the only album or set of albums that I don't want to touch. Not because it's bad. No, far from the contrary. Listening to some snip-its from this are quite jaw dropping on how potent they are. But for people who know what this album is about, there is something that feels uncanny...""This is probably the only album or set of albums that I don't want to touch. Not because it's bad. No, far from the contrary. Listening to some snip-its from this are quite jaw dropping on how potent they are. But for people who know what this album is about, there is something that feels uncanny about this that terrifies me. And for newcomers that are reading this comment wondering what the hell I'm talking about, read what this is about, listen to songs like the last song of section 2 as well as the second half and you will know true fear. Just had to get that off my chest. The more I think about it, the more depressed I get."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2019

Appears in:

69 charts

Rank Score:

729

Rank in 2019:

26

Rank in 2010s:

361

Overall Rank:

2,249

Average Rating:

 82 (95 votes)

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2250.

Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards 

 Tom Waits

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"Tom waits orphans, subtitled, brawlers, bawlers and bastards, is a 3cd collection of unreleased and new songs. Brawlers, gives over to the more rock/blues material, while, bawlers, is for the ballads, and, bastards, to the more obscure stuff such as spoken word, instrumental and even jokes. The f...""Tom waits orphans, subtitled, brawlers, bawlers and bastards, is a 3cd collection of unreleased and new songs. Brawlers, gives over to the more rock/blues material, while, bawlers, is for the ballads, and, bastards, to the more obscure stuff such as spoken word, instrumental and even jokes. The first and second discs are both excellent, the third ok. Highlights in terms of tracks on the first disc are, lie to me, fish in the jailhouse, and Waits' anti-war rant, road to peace. Second disc standouts are, long way home, never let go, and, widow's grove. The third disc is a bit hit and miss, still, orphans, is another piece of the Tom Waits jigsaw that you need to help you complete the puzzle. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

168 charts

Rank Score:

729

Rank in 2006:

41

Rank in 2000s:

368

Overall Rank:

2,250

Average Rating:

 78 (156 votes)

Comments:

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Overall Chart composition

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Decade	Albums	%
1930s	2	0%
1940s	35	0%
1950s	303	3%
1960s	709	7%
1970s	1,426	14%
1980s	1,409	14%
1990s	1,600	16%
2000s	1,743	17%
2010s	1,950	20%
2020s	823	8%

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	%
	5,013	50%
	2,652	27%
	430	4%
	335	3%
	219	2%
	157	2%
	133	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	9,728	97%
Yes	272	3%

Live?	Albums	%
No	9,738	97%
Yes	262	3%

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