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4671.

Compton 

 Dr. Dre

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"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

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Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

116 charts

Rank Score:

199

Rank in 2015:

86

Rank in 2010s:

847

Overall Rank:

4,671

Average Rating:

 70 (160 votes)

Comments:

16

4672.

Priest=Aura 

 The Church

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"Behind the ordinary title track lays a collection of sublime, melancholic pop songs. A rich bounty to plunder and perhaps one of the albums of tbe decade."  Reply

- stangetzaway | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

1992

Appears in:

55 charts

Rank Score:

199

Rank in 1992:

79

Rank in 1990s:

780

Overall Rank:

4,672

Average Rating:

 76 (60 votes)

Comments:

1

4673.

Rossz Csillag Alatt Született 

 Venetian Snares

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"I didn't know what I was missing out on. Why was I never told about this album? Why do I have to stumble onto things like this via the internet?"  Reply

- craola | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

81 charts

Rank Score:

198

Rank in 2005:

88

Rank in 2000s:

802

Overall Rank:

4,673

Average Rating:

 75 (105 votes)

Comments:

8

4674.

The Scholars 

 Car Seat Headrest

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"I adore Car Seat Headrest. Teens of Denial was one of the best indie albums of the '10s, but after an unimaginative re-record of Twin Fantasy in 2018 and five years passing since a bizarre DIY synthpop record, I and many others feared that the prolific Will Toledo and co. had finally run out of s...""I adore Car Seat Headrest. Teens of Denial was one of the best indie albums of the '10s, but after an unimaginative re-record of Twin Fantasy in 2018 and five years passing since a bizarre DIY synthpop record, I and many others feared that the prolific Will Toledo and co. had finally run out of steam. What a way to prove the doubters wrong -- a 70 minute prog rock opera that trades in biblical (and furry) themes. Godspeed space cowboy. From my top 20 Albums of 2025: https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=83050&cbid=0&f=&fv=&orderby=Rank&sortdir=asc &page=1"  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2025

Appears in:

94 charts

Rank Score:

198

Rank in 2025:

28

Rank in 2020s:

320

Overall Rank:

4,674

Average Rating:

 76 (114 votes)

Comments:

2

4675.

Raw Like Sushi 

 Neneh Cherry

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"Pop/hip-hop. Buffalo Stance is a tune and a half. Thought it might be a one-hit wonder of an album but the rest of the tracks are also decent. Second favourite track is the final track, So Here I Come."  Reply

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Year of Release:

1989

Appears in:

124 charts

Rank Score:

198

Rank in 1989:

58

Rank in 1980s:

674

Overall Rank:

4,675

Average Rating:

 71 (110 votes)

Comments:

7

4676.

The Gray Race 

 Bad Religion

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Year of Release:

1996

Appears in:

28 charts

Rank Score:

198

Rank in 1996:

97

Rank in 1990s:

781

Overall Rank:

4,676

Average Rating:

 71 (57 votes)

Comments:

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4677.

Torres 

 Torres

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"Great album. The minimalist production really matches the straightforward, often stark lyrics. Really quite emotionally affecting at times ('Honey' and 'November Baby' especially touched me, but I found the whole album very sincere and mostly pretty sad). It was something I wasn't really expectin...""Great album. The minimalist production really matches the straightforward, often stark lyrics. Really quite emotionally affecting at times ('Honey' and 'November Baby' especially touched me, but I found the whole album very sincere and mostly pretty sad). It was something I wasn't really expecting to enjoy, so it's safe to call it a very pleasant surprise."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

60 charts

Rank Score:

198

Rank in 2013:

89

Rank in 2010s:

848

Overall Rank:

4,677

Average Rating:

 75 (65 votes)

Comments:

5

4678.

Control 

 Pedro The Lion

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"Good album, it has something I cannot describe with words. 8/10."  Reply

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Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

48 charts

Rank Score:

198

Rank in 2002:

82

Rank in 2000s:

803

Overall Rank:

4,678

Average Rating:

 76 (48 votes)

Comments:

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4679.

Full Collapse 

 Thursday

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"One of my favorite PHX albums of the early 00s era. Take the sentimentality of Sunny Day Real Estate, the setup of At The Drive-In and the bleak, hopeless atmosphere of a great Radiohead song and you have this thing called Full Collapse."  Reply

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Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

48 charts

Rank Score:

198

Rank in 2001:

79

Rank in 2000s:

804

Overall Rank:

4,679

Average Rating:

 71 (50 votes)

Comments:

2

4680.

Stray 

 Bambara

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"The slow burn buzz around this band continues to grow and with this album number 4 for good reason If you are enjoying this album check out their 2018 ‘Shadow on Everything’ release it’s just as good with that rich gothic vibe in spades"  Reply

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Year of Release:

2020

Appears in:

28 charts

Rank Score:

198

Rank in 2020:

58

Rank in 2020s:

321

Overall Rank:

4,680

Average Rating:

 72 (34 votes)

Comments:

1

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Overall Chart composition

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Decade	Albums	%
1930s	3	0%
1940s	2	0%
1950s	180	2%
1960s	666	7%
1970s	1,536	15%
1980s	1,387	14%
1990s	1,612	16%
2000s	1,771	18%
2010s	1,986	20%
2020s	857	9%

Artist	Albums	%
Bob Dylan	36	0%
The Rolling Stones	33	0%
David Bowie	32	0%
Various Artists	30	0%
Miles Davis	26	0%
Pink Floyd	24	0%
Genesis	23	0%
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Country	Albums	%
	4,970	50%
	2,628	26%
	427	4%
	332	3%
	223	2%
	160	2%
	145	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	9,717	97%
Yes	283	3%

Live?	Albums	%
No	9,713	97%
Yes	287	3%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	9,884	99%
Yes	116	1%