Overall Chart
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"Oh my glob... beautiful. This is what I love about the BEA tourneys." Reply
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SquishypuffDave | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"This deserves to be MUCH higher. Mind blown. Aretha's version of Amazing Grace is beyond amazing and makes this among my top 5 all time favorite albums." Reply
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"First album from the second quintet, but I can't argue with a previous comment that they are already at their peak...from which they never dropped in their three years together. While Coltrane was moving to the noisy free jazz of Ayler and Ornette etc, Miles and the quintet were keeping it much m..." [+] Reply
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1965
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331
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"It took me a long time to warm up to this one. Maybe it was the soft jazz of the opening track. Maybe it was the operatic vocals on the second track. Maybe it was the marimbas. But in general it felt a tad too precious. Like they were trying to create the most new-agey sounding album of the 70s, ..." [+] Reply
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Repo | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"The Monkees most solid effort by virtue of being more of Mike Nesmith and less of everyone else, though still too much Davy Jones. Mike sings Salesman, Door Into Summer, Love Is Only Sleeping, What Am I Doin' Hanging 'Round?, and Don't Call On Me. Mickey Dolenz does well on Words, Pleasant Valley..." [+] Reply
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Charicature | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"Absolutely stunning in so many places, it is basically the same contrast they did in White Light from the Mouth on Infinity; grandiose loud walls of sound pitted against dreamy folk (albeit this time the loud bits are even louder, and there is now an overt country tinge to the folk bits) The one ..." [+] Reply
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2010
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"I'll have to remember to put this on my list once we can expand to 100. What a beautiful album from one of my favorite games of all-time." Reply
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ShaneSpear | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"A bit of a departure from their first two albums, The Back Room and An End Has A Start, to a more electronic sound. And it didn't really work for me. Although I do like Bricks And Mortar - great song." Reply
"I liked it since the first time I listened to it, underrated album." Reply
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katerpillar | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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Total albums: 10,000. Page 431 of 1,000
Overall Chart composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 2 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 37 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 303 | 3% | |
| 1960s | 719 | 7% | |
| 1970s | 1,437 | 14% | |
| 1980s | 1,432 | 14% | |
| 1990s | 1,611 | 16% | |
| 2000s | 1,735 | 17% | |
| 2010s | 1,993 | 20% | |
| 2020s | 731 | 7% |
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| Bob Dylan | 37 | 0% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 35 | 0% | |
| David Bowie | 32 | 0% | |
| The Beatles | 29 | 0% | |
| Miles Davis | 27 | 0% | |
| Neil Young | 26 | 0% | |
| Various Artists | 25 | 0% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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5,012 | 50% | |
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2,664 | 27% | |
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432 | 4% | |
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317 | 3% | |
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222 | 2% | |
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159 | 2% | |
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136 | 1% | |
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