Listed below are the overall rankings for the best albums in history as determined by their aggregate positions in over 58,000 different greatest album charts on BestEverAlbums.com! (Chart last updated: 6 hours ago).
"This is definitely not a B-sides album. Yes, the songs were recorded at the same time as Wall of Eyes but they collated 2 albums of very different aesthetics - the various songs chosen to best suit the feeling they were looking for. This album is a meandering jam that incorporates all the playful...""This is definitely not a B-sides album. Yes, the songs were recorded at the same time as Wall of Eyes but they collated 2 albums of very different aesthetics - the various songs chosen to best suit the feeling they were looking for. This album is a meandering jam that incorporates all the playful skills they possess as musicians. It’s another grower which is what makes Thom/Johnny projects so much fun to indulge in. There’s so much to unpack in a seemingly unconvoluted album. This has the potential to be my favourite album as a whole of theirs, pieced together for a greater single work. Their other albums have singularly better songs, no doubt, but there’s something more cohesively interesting here, like pulling together a loosely sewn seam so that the edges come together without a gap in between."[+]Reply
"Amazing voice. I don't really think this album has any business having any songs over 10 minutes, much less two, as I think the brevity of songs that are typical in this style are what make them work so well. Great nonetheless."Reply
"I might go as far to say this is my favourite album to listen to ever, but I feel it's not really an album in the sense everything else is, so I'm abstaining it from my chart. If there was one thing The Beatles weren't so good at it was creating a cohesive body of work - even Sgt. Peppers Feels m...""I might go as far to say this is my favourite album to listen to ever, but I feel it's not really an album in the sense everything else is, so I'm abstaining it from my chart.
If there was one thing The Beatles weren't so good at it was creating a cohesive body of work - even Sgt. Peppers Feels mostly like 3 incredible musicians doing their best to collaborate on the same record.
You take all of the Beatles best work and create a flowing piece from it, with a beginning and end, and you have something truly special. George Martin is a genius."[+]Reply
"Album Rating: 77.75 (933/12) Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - Sable, Fable 11.04.2025 A bit glitchy at times, it’s still probably my favourite of Justin Vernon’s output, other than perhaps 2011s ‘Bon Iver, Bon Iver’. Could imagine drifting along the fast lane of the autobahn, thinking of spent sun ...""Album Rating: 77.75
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Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - Sable, Fable
11.04.2025
A bit glitchy at times, it’s still probably my favourite of Justin Vernon’s output, other than perhaps 2011s ‘Bon Iver, Bon Iver’. Could imagine drifting along the fast lane of the autobahn, thinking of spent sun tan lotion and oregano-flecked feta, whilst a 4-mile tailback of angry Alpina drivers are flicking v’s with reckless, bodykit-fuelled abandon. Expansionist, but not in an invade Greenland sort of way. The skies may never close but, when Michael Laudrup’s hair bounces in the wind, top down and product free, there is little as soothing in 2025. No one dares undertake.
1.Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - Things Behind Things Behind Things 80
2.Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - S P E Y S I D E 84
3.Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - Awards Season 79
4.Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - Short Story 78
5.Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - Everything Is Peaceful Love 83
6.Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - Walk Home 70
7.Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - Day One (Feat. Dijon & Flock Of Dimes) 73
8.Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - From 70
9.Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - I’ll Be There 83
10.Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - If Only I Could Wait (Feat. Danielle Haim) 83
11.Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - There’s A Rhythmn 83
12.Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - Au Revoir 67
Ranked in order:
* Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - S P E Y S I D E 84
* Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - Everything Is Peaceful Love 83
* Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - If Only I Could Wait (Feat. Danielle Haim) 83
* Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - I’ll Be There 83
* Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - There’s A Rhythmn 83
* Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - Things Behind Things Behind Things 80
* Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - Awards Season 79
* Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - Short Story 78
* Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - Day One (Feat. Dijon & Flock Of Dimes) 73
* Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - Walk Home 70
* Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - From 70
* Bon Iver (SF - USA - Apr 25) - Au Revoir 67"[+]Reply
"This is an album which I've felt many ways about at many different times. When I first heard it I thought it was an emperor's new clothes situation. I heard all the glowing reviews, heard the story of Skip Spence, the way this ramshackle, indescribable album influenced a lot of my favorite artist...""This is an album which I've felt many ways about at many different times. When I first heard it I thought it was an emperor's new clothes situation. I heard all the glowing reviews, heard the story of Skip Spence, the way this ramshackle, indescribable album influenced a lot of my favorite artists like Uncle Tupelo and Tom Waits, and then I heard the album and I was like "Man, this is just sloppy.".
Then I came back to it, Something was calling me. There was something going on here. I just couldn't put my finger on it. I listened and I liked it! Then I listened again and I liked it more! Then, that moment came when it was 2am, I couldn't sleep, and the day was long behind and before me, I was a bit down and lost in my own head. I sat in my livingroom with almost no light outside of that emanating from my computer screen, and I just listened to this record. It was glorious. There is something here especially in tracks like "Weighted Down" and "Grey/Afro" and "Diana" which is low and so deeply broken hearted and lost that I just can't wrap my head around how Spence managed to capture such feelings.
And on other tracks, like the constantly off kilter, sweetness of the opener "Little hands", there is something weird happening. Like the music isn't where I would ever expect it to be, the drums and the guitars are doing things at weird times which don't make sense! But the result is something special and strange and peerless.
The record, again, is sloppy. And it is not a normal record at all. But the state of mind that the record captures is so rare, and its so unique and insightful into Spence's mental state that the album is just too good to ignore.
Oh and a few quick thoughts: its super cool that spence recorded everything by himself here. Or at least almost everything, I'm pretty sure he literally plays everything himself here. His voice is all over the place, and the interesting throughout, it makes me sad that a 22 or 23 year old can wheeze out lines like "Diana, I am in pain" with such heartbreak and realness. I mean the kid was a kid. But already was dredging up the ugliest realities of life that I wouldn't expect anyone to feel at all or if ever until much later in life. Another random rapid fire thought: the guitar playing in "War In Peace" is so sharp and screaming and intense its really jawdropping. "weighted Down" is the deepest blues you'll hear from anyone not named Blind Willie Johnson, or Tommy Johnson, or Blind Lemon Jefferson,e tc. Its on this track that I can hear some roots to similar ramshackle americana veins mined by Waits in albums like Mule Variations and Bone Machine.
Okay, that's all. This is an album almost sure to rise in my mind, due to just digging its claws deep into my psyche, until I can't listen to anything else. That inevitability hasn't happened yet. Still this is crazy good and probably should be higher than other albums on my list.
Rating: 9.1/10"[+]Reply
"PHENOMENAL. Great album, builds more upon his Debut record rather than 2013's "Overgrown", and that was certainly the best move. My favorite release of this year thus far, hands down! As of May 7th."Reply
"This album needs and deserves commenting on! So here's what I've written about it on my chart: In my opinion, this is everything OK Computer is made out to be and more - a reflection on our primal human nature and its dislocation in a modern industrialized world. The album features beautiful soun...""This album needs and deserves commenting on! So here's what I've written about it on my chart: In my opinion, this is everything OK Computer is made out to be and more - a reflection on our primal human nature and its dislocation in a modern industrialized world. The album features beautiful soundscapes and a chilly atmosphere as it traverses genres and unravels a brilliant collection of songs from my very favourite band of all time.
...listen to it!"[+]Reply
"Day for Night was the album the Tragically Hip had long attempted produce. Hints from previous albums including the pacing and cohesiveness of Road Apples with the exceptional songwriting of Fully Completely come together here as the band's masterpiece. In addition to the retrospective approach, ...""Day for Night was the album the Tragically Hip had long attempted produce. Hints from previous albums including the pacing and cohesiveness of Road Apples with the exceptional songwriting of Fully Completely come together here as the band's masterpiece. In addition to the retrospective approach, this is a band looking into the future and moving forward by focusing their sound with a greater emphasis on Gord Downie's painstakingly clever lyrics infused with the now classic Hip style. While "Grace, Too" may be the standout track on this record, the exceptional run from "Fire in the Hole" to "Scared" is unparalleled in the Hip's catalogue."[+]Reply