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281.

The New Abnormal

The Strokes

"The Strokes are among the handful of bands to blame for the new rise of indie rock in the early 2000s. Their debut album Is This It is one of the best rock albums of the naughties, and the band also released a couple of nearly as good follow-ups. After slowly disappearing from the rock music rada..." [+] Reply

- MrScallops | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +12 votes (12 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2020

Appears in:

598 charts

Rank Score:

5,782

Rank in 2020:

Rank in 2020s:

Overall Rank:

281

Average Rating:

83 (843 votes)

Comments:

282.

Trouble Will Find Me

The National

"Finally, The National have made the album I always knew they were capable of making. Their past two albums have all been very good, but nothing too amazing, but there was a lot of potential that I could hear there. But now, with “Trouble Will Find Me", they’ve finally realized that potential and ..." [+] Reply

RockyRaccoon | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (7 helpful | 2 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

715 charts

Rank Score:

5,742

Rank in 2013:

Rank in 2010s:

Overall Rank:

282

Average Rating:

79 (955 votes)

Comments:

283.

Boston

"A stone cold classic of the era, and the best of it's genre (AOR, album-oriented rock, now called Classic Rock). Yes, Elvis Costello and The Clash were out there, but we didn't realize it at the time. Timeless mainstream rock that still sounds great." Reply

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

Year of Release:

1976

Appears in:

762 charts

Rank Score:

5,740

Rank in 1976:

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Overall Rank:

283

Average Rating:

78 (974 votes)

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284.

The Smile Sessions

The Beach Boys

"Brian Wilson's genius aside is this the lost masterpiece we all wish to believe it to be? I might be the biggest Beach Boys fan in this site so I have to take this with grain of salt. I've always hated Vegetables and Mrs. O'Leary's Farm gives me gas like no other 'classic' album section since sid..." [+] Reply

- daftpunter | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +9 votes (9 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

474 charts

Rank Score:

5,737

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Rank in 2010s:

Overall Rank:

284

Average Rating:

85 (850 votes)

Comments:

285.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

"I remember 2001... I thought the music industry was spiraling downhill... dominated by boy bands, Shaggy, Limp Biskit, Linkin Park, Staind, Creed, etc... Those were dark days indeed. When the Strokes and White Stripes burst onto the scene with their huge 2001 albums, it restored my faith in the m..." [+] Reply

junodog4 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

936 charts

Rank Score:

5,723

Rank in 2001:

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Overall Rank:

285

Average Rating:

81 (1,387 votes)

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286.

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

"Art rock done extremely well. Two notable things to this album; 1) It has very engaging atmospherics ranging from distantly dreamy to psychedelically fuzzy with it's layers of guitar coming to the fore in certain songs. 2) It is a complete album of exceptional songs without a filler or mediocre m..." [+] Reply

Strangel | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

794 charts

Rank Score:

5,711

Rank in 2010:

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Overall Rank:

286

Average Rating:

81 (924 votes)

Comments:

287.

The Clash

"Hits you like a tornado. This is what rock sounds like when it's pushing all the barriers. Scorching guitars , snarling vocals , and very very intelligent lyrics which were a Clash trademark. They would equal this album a couple of times but never surpass it." Reply

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

Year of Release:

1977

Appears in:

909 charts

Rank Score:

5,698

Rank in 1977:

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Overall Rank:

287

Average Rating:

82 (1,311 votes)

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288.

Titanic Rising

Weyes Blood

"Natalie Mering is a bit of a nostalgic, in the finest way possible. This doesn't seem to be a blinding nostalgia that reflects the allure of contemporary music. This is a kind that serves as the heartbeat of her work, a tender nucleus that she builds around with expert craftsmanship (or craftwoma...""Natalie Mering is a bit of a nostalgic, in the finest way possible. This doesn't seem to be a blinding nostalgia that reflects the allure of contemporary music. This is a kind that serves as the heartbeat of her work, a tender nucleus that she builds around with expert craftsmanship (or craftwomanship). It's not hard to see what her strengths are. She wields a voice powerful enough to disrupt fault lines and agitate prospective avalanches. In short, she's a beautiful singer who's designed an album perfectly engineered around her vocal dexterity. Weyes Blood's fourth record is entitled Titanic Rising, which is fitting considering many of the tracks here call upon the past, through both Mering's personal experience and her music's sonic disposition. The result is a dreamy, aqueous take on different kinds of love, self-satisfaction and loss. The album art refers to Mering's creative subconscious from the comfort of her bedroom. The metaphor couldn't be more appropriate given that the young songstress' portrays her innermost sentiments flawlessly and with vivid explicitness on Titanic Rising. The LP begins with A Lot's Gonna Change, a track that starts with a series of fragile piano key strikes. The track quickly escalates with the introduction of Mering's stirring voice. Her voice washes over every inkling of the track like a soothing breeze, starkly opposite of bracing drumbeats. The track finishes amongst lush backing vocals that play off of Mering's sympathies, "Let me change my words, show me where it hurts." The track exemplifies the term "grand opening" and provides a blueprint for ambitious soundscapes to follow. Second track Andromeda, the first single off of the album, sports a western-tinge blended with psychedelia, embodying equal parts Dolly Parton and Iron Butterfly. If you haven't listened to the track, please take a moment to imagine that sonic cocktail in your mind. Mering laments, "Treat me right, I'm still a good man's daughter, let me in if I break, and be quiet if I shatter." The song paints a portrait of unrealistic expectation and subsequent emotional investment. Sixth track, Movies, stands as the album's artistic centerpiece. It's also the most pioneering cut from Weyes Blood so far, submerged in synthesizer arpeggios that are just as delectable as they are alien. The vocals lacerate the wall of electronics with ease as she announces, "I'm bound to that summer, big box office hit, making love to a counterfeit." The poetry points to an endless wave of typicality when it comes to romance and a distinct longing for a love-affair fit for the silver screen. The track ends with a cello barrage capping the whimsical, serene track supported by Mering's heavenly bellows. The penultimate, Picture Me Better, is a likely candidate for the most straight-forward cut of the lot. The instrumentation is heavily stripped back incorporating pacifying strings that play shyly behind Mering's vocals. Her hair-raising falsettos quickly supplant the strings and aid the notion that she could create transfixing serenades if rendered acapella. The song itself is a poignant memorial to a friend lost to suicide's destruction. "If I could have seen you just once more, tell you how much you are adored, there's no point anymore," she details. The track winds down into a final instrumental entitled Nearer to Thee, a reference to the final song played during the demise of the unsinkable ship. Titanic Rising's artistic vision is crystalline and unalloyed. The thematic framework is a thunderous damnation of monotony and all things ordinary relating to modern life and romance. It's a testament to the artist's admiration of true love in its purest form. Furthermore, the album is a musical mission statement pleading the listener to refuse social conventionality. As emotional as the record is, it's also a vehemently liberating experience. Much of its power is drawn from the sun-dwarfing brightness of its vocal standard-bearer. These tracks are crafted around Natalie's Mering's voice as opposed to common music-making methodology. After all, a traditional approach would just be too run-of-the-mill for Weyes Blood. We can thank her ambition, emotional insight and angelic vocal register for her ever-growing collection of winsome work. "Lost and tangled up in you, Everyone knows you just did what you had to, Burning much more than ever before, Burning down the door, It's a wild time to be alive." -Wild Time Standout Tracks: 1. A Lot's Gonna Change 2. Andromeda 3. Picture Me Better 94.4" [+] Reply

DriftingOrpheus | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2019

Appears in:

649 charts

Rank Score:

5,671

Rank in 2019:

Rank in 2010s:

Overall Rank:

288

Average Rating:

82 (703 votes)

Comments:

289.

Pornography

The Cure

"If you say you like gothic rock and you don't like this album, you're a liar." Reply

- ChingeeFlingee | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +8 votes (10 helpful | 2 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1982

Appears in:

725 charts

Rank Score:

5,667

Rank in 1982:

Rank in 1980s:

Overall Rank:

289

Average Rating:

80 (1,008 votes)

Comments:

290.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

"Nebraska is better than Born to Run, he's so very honest and down-to-earth on this masterpiece. the themes are nihilistic, dark, and consistent. it opens with a song about a ruthless, disaffected murderer from first person perspective. it continues with powerful lyrics on atlantic city: "I got de...""Nebraska is better than Born to Run, he's so very honest and down-to-earth on this masterpiece. the themes are nihilistic, dark, and consistent. it opens with a song about a ruthless, disaffected murderer from first person perspective. it continues with powerful lyrics on atlantic city: "I got debts no honest man could pay," "so I got 2 tickets on that coast city bus," "down here it's just winners and losers and don't get caught on the wrong side of that line, well I'm tired of comin' out on the losin' end, so honey last night I met this guy and I'm gonna do a little favor for him, well I guess everything dies baby that's a fact...." every track after is told from the perspective of someone who's done or is doing something wrong for some reason or another. he tells it matter of factly, as though they're just unlucky, all just playing the cards they were dealt: "the bank was holdin' my mortgage and they was takin' my house away, now I ain't sayin' that makes me an innocent man, but it was more than all this that put that gun in my hand." this, after being sentenced to life, b4 asking instead for the death penalty.... strong stuff. another song is from the perspective of a cop who claims always to have done an honest job. his brother gets in trouble with the law though and in a high speed chase, the cop lets him get away. the cop's values, "a man turns his back on his family, he just ain't no good" clashed with his duty to do his job and he did the only thing he really could have. he puts the reasons to catch his brother on one side of the scale, the reasons to let him go on the other, and the reasons to let him go just outweighed the reasons to catch him. he doesn't get to choose how important each reason is - how much weight they have. he doesn't get to choose for those reasons to exist in the first place. the understanding of how ppl can do terrible things and not place blame or judge is the point here. most ppl are too naive, short-sighted, ignorant, and stupid to agree with this point of view though, else this album would be ranked higher. of course you need your delusions of control, your "choice." lol, pathetic. 'reason to believe' is so powerful and a perfect closer. "struck me kinda funny, yeah it's funny sir to me/ how at the end of every hard-earned day people find some reason to believe." cold as ice. no BS from the boss, he tells it like it is. life's a b*&^% and then you die. PERFECT album cover as well. his more commercial material gains perspective from this. for the great production, the whole band, AND lyrics that are real, check out Darkness on the Edge of Town, another masterpiece of his, if Nebraska is too downbeat, stripped back, or depressing for you." [+] Reply

- jackbrown8786 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (6 helpful | 4 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1982

Appears in:

737 charts

Rank Score:

5,654

Rank in 1982:

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Overall Rank:

290

Average Rating:

80 (1,009 votes)

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Overall Chart composition

Decade	Albums	%

1930s	2	0%
1940s	35	0%
1950s	299	3%
1960s	709	7%
1970s	1,417	14%
1980s	1,396	14%
1990s	1,597	16%
2000s	1,744	17%
2010s	1,980	20%
2020s	821	8%

Artist	Albums	%

Neil Young	43	0%
Bob Dylan	37	0%
The Rolling Stones	36	0%
Miles Davis	33	0%
David Bowie	32	0%
The Beatles	29	0%
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	25	0%
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Country	Albums	%

	5,022	50%
	2,655	27%
	428	4%
	336	3%
	219	2%
	154	2%
	137	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	9,734	97%
Yes	266	3%

Live?	Albums	%
No	9,739	97%
Yes	261	3%

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

Overall Chart chart changes

Biggest climbers Biggest climbers in top 100 since last month
Up 4 from 97th to 93rd ★ [Blackstar] by David Bowie
Up 2 from 73rd to 71st Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens
Up 2 from 69th to 67th Songs In The Key Of Life by Stevie Wonder
Up 1 from 101st to 100th All Things Must Pass by George Harrison
Up 1 from 99th to 98th Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) by Wu-Tang Clan

Biggest fallers Biggest fallers in top 100 since last month
Down 3 from 93rd to 96th Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Down 3 from 94th to 97th Blond by Frank Ocean
Down 2 from 71st to 73rd Illmatic by Nas
Down 2 from 79th to 81st Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen
Down 1 from 7th to 8th In Rainbows by Radiohead

New entries New entries in top 100 since last month
Up 1 from 101st to 100th All Things Must Pass by George Harrison

Leavers Leavers from top 100 since last month
Down 1 from 100th to 101st Surfer Rosa by Pixies

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