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).
"Midnight Oil are underrated as heck. Third favorite album of theirs. Becoming one of my favorite 80s bands for sure. Catchy, quite unique and fun as heck. His vocals and their style are addictive to my brain. One of those rare artists that impressed me right off the bat when I finally listened to...""Midnight Oil are underrated as heck. Third favorite album of theirs. Becoming one of my favorite 80s bands for sure. Catchy, quite unique and fun as heck. His vocals and their style are addictive to my brain. One of those rare artists that impressed me right off the bat when I finally listened to them. Doesn't happen often but when it does I rank such an artist quite highly very quickly after first listen."[+]Reply
"I bought this on cassette when it came out and was hooked. I listened to it several times in a row without stopping and haven't stopped listening to it for 20 years. In the span of albums from "Box" through "Under the Stars," Robert Pollard draws inspiration from the entire history of rock after ...""I bought this on cassette when it came out and was hooked. I listened to it several times in a row without stopping and haven't stopped listening to it for 20 years. In the span of albums from "Box" through "Under the Stars," Robert Pollard draws inspiration from the entire history of rock after about 1965, possibly paying tribute or even satirizing the sensibility of Bowie in the early 70s, Pink Floyd, the Beatles and Stones, Genesis and obscure prog, plus 70s art-pop like Wire and the Clean. Earlier GBV albums like "Bee Thousand," "Alien Lanes" and "Same Place the Fly Got Smashed" seem to have more satirical or humorous moments (e.g. "Blatant Doom Trip," "Hot Freaks" and "Chicken Blows") while "Under the Bushes" is more of a serious musical effort full of beauty, nostalgia and emotional power. There are still some funny references to psychedelia and Ziggy Stardust-era mod sensibilities, sometimes by Tobin Sprout ("It's Like Soul Man"). ... Pollard's practice of sequencing many short tracks, each one built on a strong musical concept, might have been inspired by the series of tracks that ends The Beatles' "Abbey Road" or the entirety of the White Album. And "Under the Bushes" draws particular inspiration from Genesis' "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway." You can here it in moody, watery passages and lyrical content, lots of references to marine life as a metaphor for sexual discovery and the mystery of biological urges. (A psychedelic take on human reproduction is one of Pollard's main themes throughout his career, along with transportation, middle class American life and alcoholism.) So on the Genesis album, we have aquatic sexual symbols like "lamia" that are part of a story of adolescent sexual discovery, while on "Under the Bushes" we have "Underwater Explosions" and the surreal life forms of "Look at Them." ("Look at them, they're sensitive, and they inch out.") "Burning Flag Birthday Suit" is most evocative of early Genesis prog tracks with its changing, contemplative musical narrative and completely surreal lyrics that might be symbolic of nothing and refer only to psychedelic and prog-rock surrealism in general. In other words, it might only be a formal reference without any symbolic content. Of course the greatest strength of this album is in the melodies and song structures, inspired by years of listening to the Beatles, prog rock and psychedelic folk. I also think Pollard's expressive, Peter Gabriel style of singing is one of the reasons I keep coming back to the album. Some of the most memorable moments are in the pleading choruses of "Acorns and Orioles," "No Sky" and "Look at Them," the melancholia of "Bright Paper Werewolves" and the spinning chandeliers of "Big Boring Wedding." "[+]Reply
"If you're expecting another Return to Cookie Mountain (or even a Dear Science), you'll be disappointed with this. But this album is fantastic in its own right - much more immediate and with tons of hooks. I'd almost call this alternative R&B over indie rock. Not to say it's completely hook-driven...""If you're expecting another Return to Cookie Mountain (or even a Dear Science), you'll be disappointed with this. But this album is fantastic in its own right - much more immediate and with tons of hooks. I'd almost call this alternative R&B over indie rock. Not to say it's completely hook-driven though; there's still plenty of experimentation and new things to find on repeated listens."[+]Reply
"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...""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 Audience, Nobodies, Death Song are the standouts
Overall: 77/80"[+]Reply
"The debut album by The Replacements is a rip roaring punk rock record that fizzes by in a flash. Sorry Ma, is a superb record full of energy and hunger. Some tracks, or at least moments sound uncannily like The Clash or the Sex Pistols, but at the end of the day it's still the Replacements. Thril...""The debut album by The Replacements is a rip roaring punk rock record that fizzes by in a flash. Sorry Ma, is a superb record full of energy and hunger. Some tracks, or at least moments sound uncannily like The Clash or the Sex Pistols, but at the end of the day it's still the Replacements. Thrilling stuff. "[+]Reply
"why? is one of those freaky artists that is pretty unclassifiable, i guess mostly part indie pop, part hip-hop. "Alopecia", the falling apart of a man (by the folicle), starts off "i'm not a ladies man, i'm a land-mine" in "the vowels, part 2", and so starts the falling apart of the narrator endi...""why? is one of those freaky artists that is pretty unclassifiable, i guess mostly part indie pop, part hip-hop. "Alopecia", the falling apart of a man (by the folicle), starts off "i'm not a ladies man, i'm a land-mine" in "the vowels, part 2", and so starts the falling apart of the narrator ending in the deceptively catchy "cheery A, cheery E, cheery I, cheeriO, cheery U". . It's like he's writing and reading anything and everything into his journal "reading Puerto Rican porno" and "blowing kisses to disinterested bitches" on "Good Friday" with another deceptively catchy lyrical hook (which is common on "Alopecia"). There's a lot of death and dead-or-alive rotting from "the smell of our still human bodies gas" on "These Few Presidents" (with the poetically universal sentiment "even though i haven't seen you in years, yours is a funeral i'd fly to from anywhere") to the opening stanza on "the hollows" (possible best track) to "song of the sad assassin" which begins "we lifted the body from the water like a gown" and ends "billy the kid did what he did and he died". There's a complicated bluntness of the human condition and mortality that you'll miss if you're too busy humming along.
I highly recommend this if you're into TV on the radio, beastie boys, and of course artists like cloudDEAD and 13&God. This is the album where Why? transitioned from hip-hop to more "indie pop" and more conventional song structures."[+]Reply