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"The first thrash metal album! This is raw Metallica! This is the album that fueled most of the 80s metal. I realize that's a big statement but I stand behind it. My least favorite song on the album is Phantom Lord and even then it is a kickass track. Dave Mustaine's writing is immediately apparen..." [+] Reply
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Jasonconfused | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1983
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3,117
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"Beautiful harmonies, creative arrangements, great lead vocals... I like this album a lot. Favourite track is probably The Fix, but there are many contenders." Reply
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2008
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3,115
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"I've found myself coming back to this album much more often than What's Goin On, the album that inspired it and is often compared to. Both albums are classics tackling similar themes of the plights of black men living in 60's and 70's America, with What's Goin On talking more generally about the ..." [+] Reply
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1972
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3,113
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"Album tracks New Religion, On My Own are ok but the Hits are what hold this album together best tracks Hungry like the Wolf, Save a Prayer." Reply
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1982
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3,105
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"Another instance of me not being able to pick which release from an artist I like more. Jar of Flies and Dirt are polar opposites, but are companion pieces in the AIC cannon. This record sees AIC plotting the same hopeless marshes, but this time with beautifully depressing acoustic sounds. Being ..." [+] Reply
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micah88800 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1994
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3,102
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"This is a masterpiece of modern progressive rock." Reply
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2002
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3,088
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"Very surprised this album isn't as popular as it should be and recognized as. A weird, disturbingly overly humorous, ridiculous, tight, beautifully brilliant album." Reply
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1997
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3,083
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"Britpop's hidden gem. Darker, deeper and a lot more tasteful than many of its contemporaries, Suede's self titled debut plays far better than anyone could expect a first album to go. Of more significant note, however, is that it goes to places its contemporaries could only dream of. The confidenc..." [+] Reply
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DeusExMackia | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1993
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3,074
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"sheer bloody genius. If this lp only contained Tightrope alone it would be classic (like carry on my wayward son is the only classic song on that Kansas lp) but there is also Telephone Line, Do Ya and Livin Thing. In it's day, it sold for a new world record too." Reply
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1976
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3,065
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"Overall: 9.6 Top Tracks: "Where Do the Children Play?", "Father and Son", "Tea for the Tillerman" Beautiful, melodic songs with some incredible lyrics and powerful, emotive singing. One of the best folk or pop albums of the 1970s, without a doubt." Reply
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1970
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Overall Chart composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 2 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 35 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 300 | 3% | |
| 1960s | 707 | 7% | |
| 1970s | 1,418 | 14% | |
| 1980s | 1,396 | 14% | |
| 1990s | 1,596 | 16% | |
| 2000s | 1,748 | 17% | |
| 2010s | 1,974 | 20% | |
| 2020s | 824 | 8% |
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| Neil Young | 43 | 0% | |
| Bob Dylan | 37 | 0% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 35 | 0% | |
| Miles Davis | 33 | 0% | |
| David Bowie | 32 | 0% | |
| The Beatles | 29 | 0% | |
| King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | 25 | 0% | |
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5,020 | 50% | |
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2,652 | 27% | |
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428 | 4% | |
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336 | 3% | |
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219 | 2% | |
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154 | 2% | |
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137 | 1% | |
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