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501.

De-Loused In The Comatorium 

 The Mars Volta

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"These guys are crazy awesome. The way Omar Rodríguez-López writes and thinks is very reminiscent of Robert Fripp/King Crimson, but the music comes at you full force like Bad Brains or Fugazi. De-Loused in the Comatorium might be their most accomplished and realized work, though I do go back and f...""These guys are crazy awesome. The way Omar Rodríguez-López writes and thinks is very reminiscent of Robert Fripp/King Crimson, but the music comes at you full force like Bad Brains or Fugazi. De-Loused in the Comatorium might be their most accomplished and realized work, though I do go back and forth between this one and their next, Frances the Mute. Definitely give it a listen."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2003

Appears in:

493 charts

Rank Score:

3,444

Rank in 2003:

9

Rank in 2000s:

81

Overall Rank:

501

Average Rating:

 79 (682 votes)

Comments:

39

502.

The Who Sell Out 

 The Who

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"This album is an interesting case. Individually, I'm not a huge fan of any of the songs, but as a whole, it's an amazing listen."  Reply

- Fischman | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (6 helpful | 1 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:

1967

Appears in:

635 charts

Rank Score:

3,435

Rank in 1967:

16

Rank in 1960s:

64

Overall Rank:

502

Average Rating:

 80 (874 votes)

Comments:

57

503.

Emergency & I 

 The Dismemberment Plan

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"How does this only have an 80?? the lowest rated track is an 84 the average track rating is a fucking 88, higher than every single beatles album, and higher than most albums on this website cmon guys"  Reply

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Year of Release:

1999

Appears in:

465 charts

Rank Score:

3,431

Rank in 1999:

9

Rank in 1990s:

86

Overall Rank:

503

Average Rating:

 81 (530 votes)

Comments:

33

504.

Songs Of Love And Hate 

 Leonard Cohen

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"More hate than love, so that we can love it better..."  Reply

- apeiron | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 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:

1971

Appears in:

537 charts

Rank Score:

3,424

Rank in 1971:

22

Rank in 1970s:

112

Overall Rank:

504

Average Rating:

 83 (626 votes)

Comments:

21

505.

69 Love Songs 

 The Magnetic Fields

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"So many amazing songs and not a few irritating experiments. You can't help but pick through, revisit your favorites and overlook all the terrible moments. Sorta like love?"  Reply

- jeraffe | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +16 votes (16 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:

1999

Appears in:

531 charts

Rank Score:

3,424

Rank in 1999:

10

Rank in 1990s:

87

Overall Rank:

505

Average Rating:

 80 (628 votes)

Comments:

52

506.

The Times They Are A-Changin' 

 Bob Dylan

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"1964 was a turbulent year for the United States of America. Injustice violated the air with a stench that, at its best, resembled cigar smoke caked into waterlogged, whiskey-stained clothing. At its worst, it conjured the fragrance of rotting corpses piled into black plague mass graves. A societa...""1964 was a turbulent year for the United States of America. Injustice violated the air with a stench that, at its best, resembled cigar smoke caked into waterlogged, whiskey-stained clothing. At its worst, it conjured the fragrance of rotting corpses piled into black plague mass graves. A societal powder keg was ready to burst, sending shrapnel in the form of violence and revolution across the land. Chronicles of this time in history are aplenty, but Bob Dylan's 'The Times They are A-Changin' occupies a place of poignance and societal relevance as our newest decade commences. The greatest art tends to come rocket-strapped with perennial staying power and universal application. Bob Dylan's third LP effort slides comfortably into those categories and classifications. It touches upon righteous, homely, American ethnocentrism, the painful ineffectiveness of the justice system and selective poverty. Despite Dylan rejecting the label of "Protest Songs", journalists flocked to confine his writing to an ideological box that they could present to the curious and quick-to-judge public. Dylan coyly sat on the fence during interviews which felt more like police interrogations, never confirming or denying anything. Still, the lyricism said more than Dylan ever could, surely illuminating the fact that the poet staunchly sympathized with the plight of the racially suppressed and disenfranchised. The inner shade of Dylan's heart was never in doubt with his position usually reserved for artists of color, those with intentions of questioning the status quo when it came to inequality in the United States. To hear a mid-western, white youth comment on the hypocrisy of American military conquest, the hideousness of white nationalism and imbalanced nature of wealth distribution was refreshing to millions and for thousands more fortunate, feather ruffling. 'The Times They are A-Changin' is concurrently a pinpoint, flaming arrow aimed at the controversial topics of the 1960's and a philosophical thought cloud of ideas and wisdom. All this from a scrawny, Minnesota-born New Yorker who could seemingly wear both hats and walk in all kinds of shoes. The record greets us with the eternal strums of an acoustic guitar as Dylan's voice, strained and imperfect, a survivor of house fire, arrives with its own visage. The seminal opener chugs along at a fixed tempo, adorned with harmonica bursts that enliven the docile guitar tones. The harmonica, a humble and inexpensive instrument that acted as a trusted companion for many, was Dylan's weapon of choice during his early years. He declares, "Come mothers and fathers throughout the land and don't criticize what you can't understand." His prophetic and anthemic rallying cry has endured for nearly 60 years since it first graced ears. The album turns to a significantly grimmer beast with the introduction of second track, 'Ballad of Hollis Brown', a look at a poverty-stricken farmer in rural South Dakota. Dylan takes his tale of desperation and uses it as an allegory for those struggling with destitution. The metaphors are intentionally fatalistic, but many could view them as exaggerated. Here, Dylan's goal is to establish perspective, not provide a factual retelling. It's merely a painting of despair to be learned from. Dylan sings, "Your brain is a-bleedin' and your legs can’t seem to stand; Your eyes fix on the shotgun that you’re holding in your hand." The expanding wage distribution, in Dylan's estimation, provides a slow death with one alternative. One of Dylan's darkest, yet powerful statements. Next, he confronts an extremely prevalent bias during the middle of the 20th century in the United States. 'With God on Our Side' creates an image of an elitist America, one that can do no wrong and is justified, no matter the bloodshed. Dylan sees toxic patriotism acting as a slow, indoctrinating cancer (another contemporary issue). He wails, "The First World War, boys, it came and it went; The reason for fightin' I never did get but I learned to accept it, accept it with pride; For you don’t count the dead when God’s on your side." The arrogance needed to assume God identifies with a specific country's crusade is elephantine, however, it's a belief typified by the Pledge of Allegiance and by swearing upon a bible. Dylan's character comes to the realization that God's love is reserved for people and not places and that a country is just a plot of land and nothing more. Sadly, it's usually the prize for which fighting is done. The Vietnam War enveloped the decade and Dylan's parable is forever an unheeded warning. The second half of the record begins with 'Only a Pawn in Their Game', another narration confronting hatred and prejudice, this time by way of propaganda and inculcation. The track examines lower-income, white southerners who are brainwashed into hating their black neighbors with an end goal of sustained oppression. Dylan illustrates this with syntax, "A South politician preaches to the poor white man “You got more than the blacks, don’t complain; You’re better than them, you been born with white skin." The simple instrumentation of 'Pawn' and the stressed rhyme repetition make sure that the message doesn't get clouded beneath the music. However, Dylan doesn't refuse the chance to include a romantic ballad on the LP. 'Boots of Spanish Leather' is a letter-exchanged anecdote of longing and gradual realization. The song is tinted by delicately plucked strings and alternating perspectives that create a gloomy overtone that comes to fruition when the narrator surmises the final fate of his crumbling union across a vast ocean. "I’m sure your mind is a-roamin'; I’m sure your thoughts are not with me but with the country to where you’re goin." The record arrives at an uptick in morale with 'When the Ship Comes In', an affirmative, inspirational testification that the future holds brighter days and that those who engage in tyranny and bigotry will eventually be overcome. Finally, LP centerpiece, 'The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll', draws inspiration from the murder of an African-American barmaid by the wealthy William Zantzinger. The track directs scrutiny at the murderer for devaluing the life of a woman he deemed "lesser than" and the justice system for (mostly) turning a blind eye. Dylan delivers the verdict, "And handed out strongly, for penalty and repentance, William Zanzinger with a six-month sentence." The track is a microcosm of the record's major themes and an unsettling reminder that justice remains imbalanced. Dylan was just 23 years of age when 'Times' was first pressed, but his incredible perception was decades his senior. The clairvoyance of his prose is even parts astonishing and tragic given that little has changed since his pen first hit the paper. The poetry of these 10 tracks easily sit amongst the scribe's most visceral compositions. The album presents Dylan at perhaps his most uncompromising and forthright, functioning as his final, unabashed protest record. Oddly, the LP is often shunned from the 1960's landmark music rolodex with albums such as 'Highway 61 Revisited', 'Bringing It All Back Home' and even 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan' achieving a higher sense of reverence. Strangely enough, its content makes it a contender for his most topical, underrated and pertinent enterprise, both in 1964 and 2021. Dylan's uncanny ability to find the pulse of the given zeitgeist has never been in doubt, as he's strung together lyrical encapsulations at will for 60 years. Here, he weaves sorrow and hope into a homogeneous, digestible whole the likes of which none could reproduce. The power of 'Times' does not lie in division, but in a belief that human morality will win out. It's a beautiful sentiment and an eternal principle. In some ways, we're still waiting. "And we’ll shout from the bow your days are numbered And like Pharoah’s tribe they’ll be drowdned in the tide and like Goliath, they’ll be conquered." -When the Ship Comes In Standout Tracks: 1. The Times They are A-Changin' 2. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll 3. When the Ship Comes In 94.4"  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1964

Appears in:

597 charts

Rank Score:

3,423

Rank in 1964:

3

Rank in 1960s:

65

Overall Rank:

506

Average Rating:

 81 (953 votes)

Comments:

52

507.

American Football (1999) 

 American Football

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"Ayyyyy! I finally GOT it! This album has seemed so dumb for me to me for so long. Dry, repetitive, bland, you name a criticism that has been stated below and I have had that opinion. But after just coming back to it again and again periodically, it finaly clicked, as all good albums do. There is ...""Ayyyyy! I finally GOT it! This album has seemed so dumb for me to me for so long. Dry, repetitive, bland, you name a criticism that has been stated below and I have had that opinion. But after just coming back to it again and again periodically, it finaly clicked, as all good albums do. There is something really seductive in the layered guitars and strangely static songwriting. The songs don't really go anywhere at all, and it can be hard to understand why at first. But I eventually realized that this album is just the musical distillation of small town life. The cover, the backstory, etc all point toward it, but even structure wise, it feels meandering and aimless, waiting for something to happen. But nothing ever does, and things are always the same, and yet you can't help but love your little nondescript cornfield town. I don't think it's a coincidence that Talk Talk's later works and this album have both made their genius apparent to me around the same time. Though they are different in many ways, they both have a kind of featurelessness to them, as described a but above. They are unstructured and meandering, and if you are not listening attentively, it feels like the same thing over and over. But just as there is beauty in the use of silence by Talk Talk, there is beauty in the use of repetition by American Football. 80/100"  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1999

Appears in:

386 charts

Rank Score:

3,423

Rank in 1999:

11

Rank in 1990s:

88

Overall Rank:

507

Average Rating:

 80 (502 votes)

Comments:

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508.

The Holy Bible 

 Manic Street Preachers

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"A superb release where the imperfections only make it more interesting. Maybe the sound was a little too hushed, and the lyrics a little too cryptic, but that only increased it's mystery. And the songs themselves were something truly out-there, covering many unusual topics and some very dark subj...""A superb release where the imperfections only make it more interesting. Maybe the sound was a little too hushed, and the lyrics a little too cryptic, but that only increased it's mystery. And the songs themselves were something truly out-there, covering many unusual topics and some very dark subject manner. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1994

Appears in:

462 charts

Rank Score:

3,421

Rank in 1994:

14

Rank in 1990s:

89

Overall Rank:

508

Average Rating:

 78 (627 votes)

Comments:

41

509.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme 

 Simon & Garfunkel

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"Their best album. Gorgeous. Gorgeous. Gorgeous. On this one Simon has finally reached his peak as an arranger and composer (maybe not as a lyricist, but not a big problem) and Garfunkel and him sing these songs with pastoral youthful emotion. There's an emotional arc to almost every song, and the...""Their best album. Gorgeous. Gorgeous. Gorgeous. On this one Simon has finally reached his peak as an arranger and composer (maybe not as a lyricist, but not a big problem) and Garfunkel and him sing these songs with pastoral youthful emotion. There's an emotional arc to almost every song, and the instrumental pallete is always mysterious but soothing. "Homeward Bound" and "The 59th Street Bridge Song" are pop at its purest and most charming level. Must listen."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1966

Appears in:

587 charts

Rank Score:

3,419

Rank in 1966:

7

Rank in 1960s:

66

Overall Rank:

509

Average Rating:

 80 (662 votes)

Comments:

42

510.

Computerwelt 

 Kraftwerk

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"There's a brilliant hook in every track with the most famous one being the one in "Computer Love" thanks to Coldplay. Ironic how an album aiming for something very futuristic ends up sounding this nostalgic. A compliment, not a complaint!"  Reply

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Year of Release:

1981

Appears in:

493 charts

Rank Score:

3,414

Rank in 1981:

2

Rank in 1980s:

76

Overall Rank:

510

Average Rating:

 80 (555 votes)

Comments:

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Overall Chart composition

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Decade	Albums	%
1930s	2	0%
1940s	35	0%
1950s	303	3%
1960s	709	7%
1970s	1,426	14%
1980s	1,409	14%
1990s	1,602	16%
2000s	1,743	17%
2010s	1,949	19%
2020s	822	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	%
	5,013	50%
	2,652	27%
	430	4%
	335	3%
	219	2%
	157	2%
	133	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	9,728	97%
Yes	272	3%

Live?	Albums	%
No	9,738	97%
Yes	262	3%

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