Listed below are the overall rankings for the best albums in history as determined by their aggregate positions in over 59,000 different greatest album charts on BestEverAlbums.com! (Chart last updated: 4 hours ago).
"Look, I love First Two Pages of Frankenstein. It's a record that took time for me to appreciate, but that I love like pretty much all of The National's discography. But Laugh Track? The band is COOKING. Where the band's songs from High Violet on became bedded in moody textures, and even their sma...""Look, I love First Two Pages of Frankenstein. It's a record that took time for me to appreciate, but that I love like pretty much all of The National's discography. But Laugh Track? The band is COOKING.
Where the band's songs from High Violet on became bedded in moody textures, and even their smallest songs could not help being cinematic, Laugh Track is their least precious collection of songs in the best way possible. The immediacy and warmth recalls Alligator or Boxer, although the refined performances are more akin to the latter. There's an easiness to Laugh Track that The National has only shown off sporadically, but that drives this record, going their hardest this consistently for the first time in over a decade. Hell, "Smoke Detector" is the first genuinely upbeat closer the band has put on an album since "Mr. November." There's still dense instrumentation, but all of it sits perfectly together--Aaron Dessner really going for the most tasteful aesthetic possible. Lyrically, there's a longing which is far less forlorn, but no less poignant. Matt Berninger still has it. I'll still need some time to really dig in there.
But on the whole, if you've found The National to be a bit too slow and sleepy the last few albums, Laugh Track is a formidable and firm rebuttal. "[+]Reply
"Knowing more for their singles and that compilation, Buzzcocks had some decent albums, including this one. the first half is classic pop punk the second half more experimental. worthy for anyones collection Top 3 Tracks You Say You Don't Love Me I Dont know what to do with my life I Believe""Knowing more for their singles and that compilation, Buzzcocks had some decent albums, including this one. the first half is classic pop punk the second half more experimental. worthy for anyones collection
Top 3 Tracks
You Say You Don't Love Me
I Dont know what to do with my life
I Believe
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"84 YT are still a safe bet, creative, talented, magical, so many adjectives that can describe them. This new project continues to prove the more "pop" ambition of the artist, its content gains in finishing, becomes more accessible. They also embrace this Post-Punk / Dance-Punk wave that shows thi...""84
YT are still a safe bet, creative, talented, magical, so many adjectives that can describe them. This new project continues to prove the more "pop" ambition of the artist, its content gains in finishing, becomes more accessible. They also embrace this Post-Punk / Dance-Punk wave that shows this beginning of the year 2023, keeping the usual coherence and style. On the other hand the album did not convince me as much as the previous ones, for 2 reasons:
- it lacks great songs as there were always a handful of them. Besides, none of them compete with their top 5.
- In my opinion Tumor embodies the avant garde spirit in a "pop" corp, and I'm rather surprised that they follows a soon to be viral trend rather than taking their listeners by surprise
Key songs : Heaven Surrounds.. / Ebony Eye / Lovely Sewer / God Is a Circle
Other ratings:
- Safe in the Hands of Love (2018) 87
- Heaven To A Tortured Mind (2020) 86
- The Asymptotical World (2021) 75
- Serpent Music (2016) 74
- When Man Fails You (2015) 65
Guide best Yves Tumor’ songs :
Kerosene! / Noid / Limerence / Gospel For A New Century / Lifetime / Jackie / Licking An Orchid / Romanticist-Dream Palette / Recognizing The Enemy / Super Stars / The Feeling When You Walk Away / Secret As Incredibly Important To The Both Of Them / Economy Of Freedom / Medecine Burn / Heaven Surrounds.. / Ebony Eye / Lovely Sewer / God Is a Circle /"[+]Reply
"Yeah, they still sound like Pavement but they also remind me of The Modern Lovers and they're really good at copying Lou Reed's ostrich guitar by way of 'The Black Angel's Death Song'. Saying all that, Human Performance is the type of indie album you thought they'd forgotten to make with tunes ap...""Yeah, they still sound like Pavement but they also remind me of The Modern Lovers and they're really good at copying Lou Reed's ostrich guitar by way of 'The Black Angel's Death Song'. Saying all that, Human Performance is the type of indie album you thought they'd forgotten to make with tunes aplenty. it's got the flavour!"[+]Reply
"UNITL IT BECOMES PART OF YOU This is my third time trying to review this album. My first review started with… It’s sorta ironic that this was viewed as Dylan’s comeback album after the supposed debacle of Self-Portrait. Because Self-Portrait towers of over it and makes this album feel sort incons...""UNITL IT BECOMES PART OF YOU
This is my third time trying to review this album. My first review started with…
It’s sorta ironic that this was viewed as Dylan’s comeback album after the supposed debacle of Self-Portrait. Because Self-Portrait towers of over it and makes this album feel sort inconsequential & light-weight. Self Portrait teems with life and ideas and unpredictability whereas this sounds like the standard fare country/California rock that was popular at the time.
Well I quickly realized after a few more spins the error of my ways. I was falling quite enchanted with the variety & relaxed vibe of the album. I concluded that my impression was just plain daft. That it was just a different sort of album and that my expectations after the brilliant, mercurial mess that was Self Portrait were just too high. That this was a different affair entirely but totally lovable & cuddle worthy.
So… My next review started with…
This is a mediocre Dylan album. This is an AMAZING album.
I thought it was kinda funny & perhaps even a little witty. Pointing out that Dylan is sort of a God and that even his lesser albums are treasures. I think Mercury summed it up best in a PM to me with …
Oh and yeah I totally agree on "New Morning" it's not peak dylan, yet it's so warm, natural, unassuming, and just unegotistical, so that gives it all that offhand beauty. Even lesser dylan is DYLAN and so is amazing! (but lets not speak of godawful dylan, sad!)
BUT, then something funny happened. This album took over my life. I got the crave to play it every single morning while I fixed my morning cup of coffee for WEEKS. I’ve easily listened to this fifty or so times in the last two months. And I realized something. This is not lesser Dylan. This is peak Dylan! This is Dylan at his most relaxed and unassuming. Just having fun and letting all his influences show and imbue this laid-back country rock record. And I’m a huge fan of country rock from this period. And this easily stands with the best of them.
So I learnt something crucial. Something that I knew well back in the days when I didn’t have every single record ever recorded available to me at the push of my finger. Back when I was teenager. Life way before Spotify existed. And Napster was not even a thought. That’s there’s a great benefit to just plunging into one or two records at a time. Unveiling their layers. Living with them and letting them become a part of you. Instead of being constantly driven to find that next record. Less can truly be more. And in the years since Napster dawned, I forgot this. I forgot how magical those records I bought in the 80s and 90s became for me because I would play them constantly. Over and over again. Until they became a part of me. And I a part of them.
Grade: A. This is yet another five-star Dylan album! It’s a different animal than a lot of his other highly touted albums. Why? Because Dylan’s happy! So it’s warm. It’s playful! Dylan was clearly at peace with himself and that peace comes out of in the relaxed vibe of the songs and feel of the album. What stands out again is Dylan's love of music. All kinds of music - ragtime, blues, jazz. The stuff he grew up with and listened to probably on one of those old-time radios with one crummy speaker. But this time in a very cohesive manner that flows just perfectly. There’s great variety among the tracks here and each one is delivered with love, care and the utmost attention to detail that is revealed upon repeated listens. So let this album become a part of you. Let all albums become a part of you. And this album becomes a part of my chart all the way up at number 15.
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"Will Oldham should really have changed his moniker again for this one. Because he's all grown up. This is no longer Will channeling a Bonnie "Prince" Billie to sing about the darkest recesses of his soul. This is just Will. Producing some of the best mature country & indie rock songs about love a...""Will Oldham should really have changed his moniker again for this one. Because he's all grown up. This is no longer Will channeling a Bonnie "Prince" Billie to sing about the darkest recesses of his soul. This is just Will. Producing some of the best mature country & indie rock songs about love and hurt out there. These songs stand on their own without any of that drama and theater that our boy Will is sort of known for. And the harmonies with Dawn McCarthy are simply dead on. In a lot ways this may be the best album of Oldham's career. It’s certainly more consistent than his better known work I See A Darkness.
Grade: A. Super solid mature country/indie rock album that holds up well to multiple replays. These are timeless songs that are perhaps the best of Will’s impeccable & prolific career. I like this even more than No Other so this moves all the way up to number three.
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