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4571.

American Stars 'N Bars

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

"NY has to be my fav artist of all time. Not his best album by a long way but still better than most. Star of B, Howegrown & the awesome Like A Hurricane are the standout tracks." Reply

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

Year of Release:

1977

Appears in:

149 charts

Rank Score:

312

Rank in 1977:

Rank in 1970s:

748

Overall Rank:

4,571

Average Rating:

74 (218 votes)

Comments:

4572.

Blues For Allah

Grateful Dead

"This is one of my favorite albums, I've listened to it countless times. that being said, I dont think Blues for Allah is the best song, i think its meant to be empty and desolate like a desert but its not incredibly fun to listen to and it's 12 minutes, also the flute in sage and spirit can bothe..." [+] Reply

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

Year of Release:

1975

Appears in:

87 charts

Rank Score:

312

Rank in 1975:

Rank in 1970s:

749

Overall Rank:

4,572

Average Rating:

74 (127 votes)

Comments:

4573.

Jesus Freak

dc Talk

"This album effectively combines rock, rap, R&B, gospel, and pop music along with faith based lyrics to create a classic album. It is considered a landmark album in the Contemporary Christian Music scene." Reply

- | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1995

Appears in:

38 charts

Rank Score:

311

Rank in 1995:

Rank in 1990s:

752

Overall Rank:

4,573

Average Rating:

72 (56 votes)

Comments:

4574.

Out Of Exile

Audioslave

"Nowhere near as good as their debut and one of the weaker Chris Cornell albums I've listen to so far but "Be Yourself" is one of the greatest songs of the 2000s and absolutely hits me with nostalgia the second it begins. Best song(s): "Be Yourself" "Your Time Has Come" "Heaven's Dead" "Out of Exile"" [+] Reply

- CelticBird23 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

104 charts

Rank Score:

311

Rank in 2005:

Rank in 2000s:

782

Overall Rank:

4,574

Average Rating:

71 (177 votes)

Comments:

4575.

Quo

Status Quo

"Alan Lancaster shines on this one singing 4 of the 8 tunes, the first two tracks being worthy of mention. Not to be outdone Francis Rossi sings 2 very good songs and Rick Parfitt proves that Status Quo isn't all about 3 chord boogie. Not the classic hits of Hello but a better record overall." Reply

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

Year of Release:

1974

Appears in:

60 charts

Rank Score:

311

Rank in 1974:

Rank in 1970s:

750

Overall Rank:

4,575

Average Rating:

76 (70 votes)

Comments:

4576.

Don't Look Back

Boston

"Not bad, but not nearly as good as their first. My favorite songs are Used to Bad News and A Man I'll Never Be. This album's song titles alternate between positive and negative. Not sure what was going on with the band on a personal level (though I know they had their legal troubles) but someone ..." [+] Reply

- mtr1979 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1978

Appears in:

116 charts

Rank Score:

311

Rank in 1978:

Rank in 1970s:

751

Overall Rank:

4,576

Average Rating:

71 (176 votes)

Comments:

4577.

Sound Of Confusion

Spacemen 3

"Excellent debut." Reply

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

Year of Release:

1986

Appears in:

69 charts

Rank Score:

311

Rank in 1986:

Rank in 1980s:

653

Overall Rank:

4,577

Average Rating:

77 (61 votes)

Comments:

4578.

Morbid Tales

Celtic Frost

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Year of Release:

1984

Appears in:

53 charts

Rank Score:

311

Rank in 1984:

Rank in 1980s:

654

Overall Rank:

4,578

Average Rating:

75 (71 votes)

Comments:

4579.

Compton

Dr. Dre

"Frankly, this album is far better than anybody could have reasonably expected it to be. If you think back to the singles he's put out in the interim since The Chronic 2001, both 'Kush' and 'I Need a Doctor' were overhammed and half-speed, precisely the sorts of out-of-touch songs you would expect...""Frankly, this album is far better than anybody could have reasonably expected it to be. If you think back to the singles he's put out in the interim since The Chronic 2001, both 'Kush' and 'I Need a Doctor' were overhammed and half-speed, precisely the sorts of out-of-touch songs you would expect from a hip-hop artist nearing his fifties. 'I Need a Doctor' in particular reeked of all the focus group balladry trappings that have marred Eminem's work over the past six or seven years, and it was difficult to imagine Dr. Dre ever sounding relevant again. Thankfully, those songs can now be consigned to history, along with everything else locked away in those infamous Detox vaults; Dre finally binned that album in favour of something far more focused, and I'm delighted to say that it's an unqualified success. Now, for an album named after the city of Compton, you'd be forgiven for thinking that this album is going to be a trip down memory lane, a retrofetishist jaunt through Dre's past, from the g-funk sounds of the early '90s to the brash and cocky clean lines of his second album - and that would, in all honesty, probably be welcome (to some extent) among a lot of listeners. But, instead, Dre has opted for something else, a labyrinth of different styles, heavily layered and maximalist in the extreme, snaking in multiple unpredictable directions, refusing to settle on one particular style. It makes the album feel refreshingly out of time, neither beholden to the ghosts of West Coast past or to the sounds of hip-hop's present. I mean, yes, we do get a couple of nods to trap, and the occasional moment that harks back to Dre's early Parliament-aping days, but on the whole this album defies any sort of categorisation. It's beefy, in the same way that The Chronic 2001 was, but it's also undeniably more frazzled than that record. It's lush, but it isn't always clean. Production-wise, it sounds to me like peak-era Timbaland being reimagined by MBDTF's ambitious perfectionist, but captured through an undeniably West Coast lens. It might be comparable to 2015's West Coast masterpiece, To Pimp a Butterfly, in that it doesn't ever settle into a particular groove, but where that album was tied together by its jazzy leanings, this record is harder to pin down - we get a lot of twinkling synths and triumphant horns, but its cohesion comes from how luxurious it all sounds. If Kendrick has had a major influence on this album, it's in proving to Dre that he can make a massive, mazy album in 2015 without it having to bend to current trends, whilst still sounding utterly contemporary. It's an exciting direction for Dre, and proves that even throughout these late-career, headphone-hawking wilderness years, he can still stay ahead of the game. In terms of rapping, the album feels more mature than previous Dre albums. Whilst he has always been able to offer a more sobering view of life in the ghetto than he's often given credit for (think The Chronic's 'Lil Ghetto Boy'), this record feel undeniably more mature than previous records, something that feels to me as though it's been brought on not only by middle-age but also by his current connection to Kendrick, who has proven that you can stay true and authentic and resolutely Compton whilst still offering some perspective on that gangster lifestyle. And so, yes, this album goes over a lot of West Coast gangsta tropes, but does so in a way that feels more grown up (and, perhaps, detached) than the Dre of albums past, for better or worse. Newcomers Justus and King Mez (and, to a lesser extent, Anderson Paak) excel whenever they show up throughout the record, and there are some brilliant throwback verses from Snoop, Ice Cube, Xzibit, and in particular Cold 187um. Kendrick predictably offers standout moments, but it's Dre evolution as a rapper that is most interesting on this album. Whilst his verses are obviously ghostwritten, I don't think Dre has ever sounded this comfortable on the mic - his flow has become much more nimble with age, and gone are the clunky missteps that occasionally marred albums past. That said, he appears to have lost something vocally, and he isn't quite as immediately recognisable as he has been in the past. Being as he's never been a writer, it's questionable whether nimble flows for booming voice is a good trade off, but I generally think it works on this album, which plays out like a real team effort, with Dre acting as a deep-lying playmaker, allowing others to steal the show as and when certain people are better suited to certain moments. So lyrically, this album is a cohesive love letter to Compton, comfortably and naturally speaking on both the positives and the negatives of the city over the past three decades. Sonically, it's unique within the Dre canon, but maintains a West Coast vibe without necessarily falling back on a stereotypical West Coast sound. I've only listened to the record three times, but it already stands out as easily one of the best hip-hop records of 2015 and, as I said in my opening sentence, a far better album than could reasonably have been expected from Dre in 2015. Brilliant stuff. " [+] Reply

Skinny | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (7 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

116 charts

Rank Score:

311

Rank in 2015:

Rank in 2010s:

816

Overall Rank:

4,579

Average Rating:

70 (160 votes)

Comments:

4580.

Cast Of Thousands

Elbow

"For some reason I never noticed it before, but this album is a lot like Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden. And with each listen is grows more and more profound. From the poetic lyrics, to the brilliant musicianship that blends jazz and post rock into lush arrangements. It's an album that seems much simp..." [+] Reply

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

Year of Release:

2003

Appears in:

102 charts

Rank Score:

311

Rank in 2003:

Rank in 2000s:

783

Overall Rank:

4,580

Average Rating:

74 (133 votes)

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Overall Chart composition

Decade	Albums	%

1930s	2	0%
1940s	34	0%
1950s	302	3%
1960s	710	7%
1970s	1,426	14%
1980s	1,414	14%
1990s	1,599	16%
2000s	1,722	17%
2010s	1,967	20%
2020s	824	8%

Artist	Albums	%

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	%

	4,997	50%
	2,659	27%
	431	4%
	337	3%
	221	2%
	157	2%
	134	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	9,729	97%
Yes	271	3%

Live?	Albums	%
No	9,737	97%
Yes	263	3%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	9,885	99%
Yes	115	1%

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