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"Great Black Sabbath record, not one bad track, excellent folkow-up to their previous album. Heaviness is revolutionary for its time and highly influential. The lyrics are great too: Children Of The Grave is the best example, apocalyptic instrumentation fits with narration of anti-nuclear youth ve..." Reply
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1971
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5,458
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"Britpop's softer and most eloquent side. A songbook for the disenfranchised, Urban Hymns is beautiful from start to finish, capturing the disgruntled tinge of its contemporaries and presenting it in a conversational and delicate attire. It's a flawed masterpiece, too long and too soft for its own..." Reply
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DeusExMackia | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 4
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1997
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5,454
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"My favorite Arctic Monkeys album. It is darker sound-wise and lyrics-wise, which is a always a plus in my book. Most importantly, I think the songs themselves are all incredible. Alex Turner's lyrics are once again fantastic and all band members are great on their respective instruments. Love it." Reply
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Mike43 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 4
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2007
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5,415
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"The last iconic Bowie album before Outside and The Next Day. David Bowie missed a bit of direction needed in the 80's, but this album does NOT succumb to that. This is a good album, and a quite experimental one at that." Reply
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1980
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5,411
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"While not as great a revolutionary opus as A Love Supreme, Blue Train is nevertheless its equal as an exemplary exposition of what great jazz can be. This one is highly listenable without forsaking any of the compositional and improvisational challenge that sets Coltrane apart in the first place...." Reply
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Fischman | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 1
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1958
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5,386
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"'One of These Things First' is a great track" Reply
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albummaster | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 6
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1971
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"Great band cutting loose, recorded badly but what can you do. Even if you're sick of the title song, the first three sides are great for just hearing Clapton and Jim Gordon and all these guys doing their thing. Bobby Whitlock, of course, is the piano player and second singer on this album. If you..." Reply
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1970
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5,352
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"I actually think many Bowie fans underrate Aladdin Sane. I think it's incredibly consistent, and the title track and Time are as good as any 70s songs he wrote." Reply
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1973
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5,349
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"This is the most cohesive and beautiful music that I have ever stumbled upon." Reply
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Fishmans | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 12
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1996
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5,327
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"This was the one of the first rap albums I ever bought and I still love it to this day! Huge step up from College Dropout in terms of lyricism and musical variety. Very good featured appearances by Lupe, Nas and even Adam Levine (I HATE Maroon 5, but he's used well here). This is still my favorit..." Reply
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2005
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Overall Chart composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 2 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 32 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 302 | 3% | |
| 1960s | 710 | 7% | |
| 1970s | 1,410 | 14% | |
| 1980s | 1,397 | 14% | |
| 1990s | 1,595 | 16% | |
| 2000s | 1,728 | 17% | |
| 2010s | 1,988 | 20% | |
| 2020s | 836 | 8% |
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| Neil Young | 42 | 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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5,028 | 50% | |
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2,654 | 27% | |
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426 | 4% | |
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336 | 3% | |
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222 | 2% | |
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156 | 2% | |
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137 | 1% | |
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