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4071.

Volta

Björk

"Not as good as any of Bjork's previous albums, but "Earth Intruders" is a pretty great song." Reply

- alexfields | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

145 charts

Rank Score:

359

Rank in 2007:

Rank in 2000s:

685

Overall Rank:

4,071

Average Rating:

70 (262 votes)

Comments:

4072.

Friday Night In San Francisco
Live

Al Di Meola / John McLaughlin / Paco De Lucía

"Recorded live at The Warfield Theatre, December 1980. Three Tenor of the Guitarists!" Reply

- Error Finn | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1981

Appears in:

72 charts

Rank Score:

359

Rank in 1981:

Rank in 1980s:

596

Overall Rank:

4,072

Average Rating:

78 (93 votes)

Comments:

4073.

Headquarters

The Monkees

"The people who dismiss the Monkees without ever having listened to them, and who refer to them derisively as a "band" (never without quotation marks), can never really be convinced of their merits. I don't have ill feelings toward these people because they had the whole media telling a story abou...""The people who dismiss the Monkees without ever having listened to them, and who refer to them derisively as a "band" (never without quotation marks), can never really be convinced of their merits. I don't have ill feelings toward these people because they had the whole media telling a story about the Monkees that wasn't really true. I'm gonna skip over the music for a minute and talk about the relationship between the band and the label/company. Somebody commented on here that the Monkees represented the end of musical integrity and the triumph of the love of money. The thing is, if the Monkees are not important for their music, they are important for being a group, perhaps the first, that stood up AGAINST this paradigm. The Monkees came around in the mid-to-late 60s. What do you think was going on before this? I'll tell you-- companies were putting together groups of men or women who could sing, and then they were choosing songs written by professional songwriters under contract, and they were recording those songs in the studio with session musicians. That's just the way it was done (with a few exceptions). It was rare that any groups would play their own instruments either on record or on stage. That's how the corporations liked it--Total Control. If it sounds familiar, it's because that's how the Monkees started out. Yes, they were prefabricated. Nobody's going to deny that. But, they because an extremely important band because they broke the mold. Somehow, they and a couple of allies they had in the company, waged a war in order to control their own musical destiny. They shouldn't be denigrated for having started out just the same as so many other groups; they should be celebrated for showing the music world that artists are not puppets to be controlled by corporations. They have to have free will. As for the album Headquarters, they played every note, and it turns out they were talented guys. Does the album stand up with the greats? Well, no, but it is one of the better albums of the year. Moreover, it is better than just about any other talented band at the time that were playing their own instruments and writing their own songs. Much of this is due to the prodigious talents of Michael Nesmith, who's song "You Just May Be the One" is an extraordinary study in pop hooks, and is the best tune on the albums. His other songs, along with Micky's "Randy Scouse Git" are the album's other best songs. The album is weakest when it is borrowing corporate tunes, written for money, like those by Boyce and Hart, and Mann and Weil. Like most of the songs on the first two Monkees albums, these songs lack heart. Nesmith's were always the best because he was an artist recording his own tunes. So many of the songs that Don Kirshner selected were so flat because they were written for a paycheck. " [+] Reply

- OutOfSpace | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

116 charts

Rank Score:

358

Rank in 1967:

Rank in 1960s:

339

Overall Rank:

4,073

Average Rating:

73 (136 votes)

Comments:

4074.

Kenya

Machito

"This album really gets you moving and has such a fantastic rhythm to it which is just so infectious. It really does groove and that is all down to the brilliant instrumentation with each aspect of the sound playing a vital role. The percussion is simply phenomenal with the bongos and timbales ste..." [+] Reply

- Untitled | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1957

Appears in:

68 charts

Rank Score:

358

Rank in 1957:

Rank in 1950s:

122

Overall Rank:

4,074

Average Rating:

72 (72 votes)

Comments:

4075.

Montrose

"IMO, this is the greatest hard rock debut album of all time. There is not a single bad track on the album; absolutely no filler. Ronnie Montrose is extremely under-rated as a guitar player. It angers me that this album is virtually forgotten by most people when discussing debut albums." Reply

- mtr1979 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1973

Appears in:

99 charts

Rank Score:

358

Rank in 1973:

Rank in 1970s:

682

Overall Rank:

4,075

Average Rating:

76 (110 votes)

Comments:

4076.

Songs For Beginners

Graham Nash

"Forgot how much I liked this album, one of the true classics of the 70s..."Chicago" was the hit single from this, but "I used to be a King" was the track that AOR played and it is one of my all time favorite album tracks. It could have easily fit on a CSNY album. This album ha..." [+] Reply

ffudnebbuh | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +8 votes (8 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1971

Appears in:

105 charts

Rank Score:

358

Rank in 1971:

Rank in 1970s:

683

Overall Rank:

4,076

Average Rating:

76 (118 votes)

Comments:

4077.

The Sciences

Sleep (US)

"Excessively heavy metal. Just grinds you down. If Black Sabbath were depressed, they would have played like this." Reply

- meltchett | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2018

Appears in:

104 charts

Rank Score:

358

Rank in 2018:

Rank in 2010s:

714

Overall Rank:

4,077

Average Rating:

75 (122 votes)

Comments:

4078.

666.667 Club

Noir Désir

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Year of Release:

1996

Appears in:

47 charts

Rank Score:

358

Rank in 1996:

Rank in 1990s:

664

Overall Rank:

4,078

Average Rating:

76 (60 votes)

Comments:

4079.

Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death)

Marilyn Manson

"Pretty good album. Falls off a bit towards the end. Could’ve benefited from being trimmed to 15 or 16 songs. Overall respectable alternative metal album. Don’t let Manson’s persona scare you away. This is nearly as good as Antichrist Superstar Love Song, Fight Song, Disposable Teens, Target Audie..." [+] Reply