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: 3 hours ago).
"Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Danse Macabre" is one of my favorite pieces of music because it musically represents death so incredibly well. You listen to it, and it just sounds like death, it sounds like the music of the dead. Every sound in that piece sounds like it’s coming from a ghost itself. Not si...""Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Danse Macabre" is one of my favorite pieces of music because it musically represents death so incredibly well. You listen to it, and it just sounds like death, it sounds like the music of the dead. Every sound in that piece sounds like it’s coming from a ghost itself. Not since I heard “Danse Macabre" have I heard a piece of music that so accurately represented death as this album does. It’s really quite astounding. Bobby Krlic (aka The Haxan Cloak) has created an album that sounds like death. With it’s seemingly bottomless bass and incredible orchestration, this album is death itself, it’s being scared of death, it’s the process of death, and ultimately, a feeling of redemption, that maybe it isn’t so bad. That’s what you go through listening to this album.
At first, this album sounds like the soundtrack to a horror film, the first couple tracks make you anxious and just sound straight up scary. I mean, it’s just frightening. Then things slow down and become calmer, and ultimately, with the album’s longest song, “The Drop", you feel better about everything. It’s still slow and it still sounds like the end, but it has a bit of a lighter sound to it than the rest of the album, like the end of the end, redemption in death. This album really is put together so incredibly well, I am very impressed with it. "[+]Reply
"Varg is a mastermind of this genre. This is arguably one of the best black metal records ever made. It's chaotic, depressing and dark... but also peaceful at the same time, great to relax to."Reply
"I have the same problem with this albums like I have with Star Wars. It doesn't feel like a real Wilco-album. Both albums feel like some songs from a demo tape. It's a nice compilation of songs that didn't fit on the regular albums. This a not the visonary songs that made Wilco great. It feels li...""I have the same problem with this albums like I have with Star Wars. It doesn't feel like a real Wilco-album. Both albums feel like some songs from a demo tape. It's a nice compilation of songs that didn't fit on the regular albums. This a not the visonary songs that made Wilco great.
It feels like The Whole Love is the last regular album from Wilco. Still I hope that they will release some more"[+]Reply
"It's barely listenable, the songs have no discernible structures, and each vocal melody sounds like a dog being horribly maimed. I mean, it better be one of the best emo records ever recorded."Reply
"Cat's best album, IMO. The raw production most of the songs makes it hold up well almost 50 years later, I guess the acoustic nature of folk music is generally rather timeless in style. Funny piece of trivia: the name of the album was Cat's name for a certain, uh, masculine part of his body - whi...""Cat's best album, IMO. The raw production most of the songs makes it hold up well almost 50 years later, I guess the acoustic nature of folk music is generally rather timeless in style. Funny piece of trivia: the name of the album was Cat's name for a certain, uh, masculine part of his body - which the tongue-in-cheek 6th track with the same name is also about. That song, and Popstar are the only real breaks in the otherwise dark tone of the album. Popstar is a funny but satirical reflection on the music industry after his experience with his former record label. Favorite songs (they're all good though!): Maybe You're Right, Trouble and Lady D'Arbanville."[+]Reply
"Even though this album is widely considered a Paul Westerberg solo album for the purposes of this review it will be considered as The Replacements final release The Replacements in many ways echo the career of R.E.M with 'All Shook Down': both darling indi bands who find major label success only ...""Even though this album is widely considered a Paul Westerberg solo album for the purposes of this review it will be considered as The Replacements final release
The Replacements in many ways echo the career of R.E.M with 'All Shook Down': both darling indi bands who find major label success only to misfire late in their careers (R.E.M with 'Around The Sun' and 'Accelerate' , The Replacements with 'Don't Tell A Soul') , only to ultimately find redemption with good final albums - R.E.M with 'Collapse Into Now' and The Replacements with 'All Shook Down'
'All Shook Down' is largely an acoustic piece with its strong point lyrical content rather than musicality . There's a real sense with this album that Westerberg knows this is the end and there's a sad reflection throughout in terms of where did it all go wrong ? Westerberg's self deprecation has always been front an centre and the theme continues on 'A.S.D' , take for example these lines from track 6 "Someone Take the Wheel":
'I see we're fighting again
In some fucking land
Throw in another tape man
Someone take the wheel
And I don't know where we're going
Anybody say what you feel
Everybody's sad, but nobody's showing'
This track perfectly encapsulates where the band were at this junction in time
Interestingly the 2 best tracks on this album feature guest contributors with John Cale (Velvet Underground) playing viola on the excellent "Sadly Beautiful" and Johnette Napolitano (Concrete Blonde) dueting with Westerberg on "My Little Problem." .
And so this incredible phase of The Replacements career comes to a close with the prophetic "The Last" very much like to the Beatles 'The End' on Abbey Road
Like a shooting star The Replacements came into our lives in 1981 and by 1990 the star had re-entered earths atmosphere and disappeared but not before it left an indelible mark on music with some timeless tracks "I Will Dare" , "Here Comes A Regular" , "Bastards Of Young" , "Skyway" , "Can't Hardly " .. just to name a few , and that incredible quad release of albums starting with 'Hootenanny'(1983) , followed by 'Let It Be' (1984) , followed by 'Tim' ( 1985) , followed by 'Pleased To Meet Me' (1987) .. 4 albums that were quite simply breathtaking
It has been remarked that Paul Westerberg is either the greatest song writer in the history of rock or the luckiest , from someone that has followed their career closely the truth be told is some where in the middle
The Replacements: The Greatest Band That Never Was
All Shook Down: 55/100
The Replacement Legacy: un-quantifiable
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"Roy Orbison has always been one of my favorite artists of the 60's, and this album is one of my three favorites (the other two being "Crying" and "Mystery Girl"). It's easy for anyone to see how Roy became such an icon to so many. He was so inept at his craft of singing and songwriting, that he f...""Roy Orbison has always been one of my favorite artists of the 60's, and this album is one of my three favorites (the other two being "Crying" and "Mystery Girl"). It's easy for anyone to see how Roy became such an icon to so many. He was so inept at his craft of singing and songwriting, that he fit right in with the iconic artists of his time."[+]Reply
"After Going deaf for Living, this album was way darker, also because the new input of the keyboards. But their direct statements were much more meaningful and founded the success for the band of John Watts in europe. Side A is an absolute classic. And B with Cruise Missiles and Luton to Lisbon a ...""After Going deaf for Living, this album was way darker, also because the new input of the keyboards. But their direct statements were much more meaningful and founded the success for the band of John Watts in europe. Side A is an absolute classic. And B with Cruise Missiles and Luton to Lisbon a cracker."[+]Reply