Overall Chart
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"Let's face it Hamilton Leithauser has got the sort of name that screams head of the IMF rather than kick-ass rock n roller but ...he manages to get away with it...just. Teaming up with Rostam from Vampire Weekend seems to have been a fortuitous experience with the songs being a more concise and c..." [+] Reply
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johnner | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"Good hits, and the filler's not bad either. All the tracks are quite catchy." Reply
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eclab | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"Sounding a little like classic ELO, especially on the second track, "It Ain't Over", the duo brings forth another album of sparkling garage rock/blues and an early favorite for the best album of 2022." Reply
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TheDude85 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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""Morph the Cat" from 2006, is Donald Fagen's third solo album. Apart from the absence of Steely Dan's partner Walter Becker, the musicians are almost the same as on Steely Dan's latest album from 2003 "Everything Must Go". The sound is thus not surprisingly very similar to Steely Dan's, and as Fa..." [+] Reply
"A great, rockin' romp through some blues classics. Not only Clapton;s best studio album in 20 years, but also a great starting point for fans to familiarize themselves with blues." Reply
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Decurso | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"Our Lady Peace have released a lot of incredible albums, and it makes it really hard to choose any favourite. Each are concrete, and complete creations. Especially among their older albums, this band has managed to put together tracks that pull one's emotions. Key to this is Raine Maida, and in S..." [+] Reply
""Nicely Out of Tune" was Lindisfarne's 1970 debut-album. Lindisfarne's music is catchy folk-inspired music; maybe it could be described as a British version of Lovin' Spoonful's good-time music. Lovin' Spoonful had John Sebastian and Lindisfarne had Alan Hull; both great singers and songwriters. ..." [+] Reply
"Absolutely underrated, this one. Not to mention the very ill-deserved statement from that one critic at the time - "What is this shit?". This album is anything but that. I was absolutely, and I must say, very pleasantly surprised with its impact on me. Right from the beginning, through to the end..." [+] Reply
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1970
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224
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"This is a fantastic record, and I don't really understand how it's the lowest-ranked of ELO's original-run studio albums. It puts on display an ELO at their most uncompromising; the orchestral elements are used less as enhancements for pop songs and more to imbue an explicit classical music influ..." [+] Reply
"Great lost psychedelic. Beautiful arrangements with string overdubs a la "Forever Changes" and strongly influenced by it. You can clearly hear these influences in "A Horn Playing On My Thin Wall", "Look At The Wind", "Look To The Sun" and "Didn't" among others. In other respects it draws from jaz..." [+] Reply
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NickVolos | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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Total albums: 10,000. Page 598 of 1,000
Overall Chart composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 2 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 34 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 302 | 3% | |
| 1960s | 710 | 7% | |
| 1970s | 1,424 | 14% | |
| 1980s | 1,413 | 14% | |
| 1990s | 1,601 | 16% | |
| 2000s | 1,721 | 17% | |
| 2010s | 1,968 | 20% | |
| 2020s | 825 | 8% |
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| 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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4,998 | 50% | |
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2,658 | 27% | |
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432 | 4% | |
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337 | 3% | |
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221 | 2% | |
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157 | 2% | |
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134 | 1% | |
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| Best Artists of 1981 | |
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| 1. Rush | |
| 2. Kraftwerk | |
| 3. King Crimson | |
| 4. Siouxsie And The Banshees | |
| 5. Brian Eno & David Byrne | |
| 6. Electric Light Orchestra | |
| 7. The Cure | |
| 8. Black Flag | |
| 9. The Human League | |
| 10. The Rolling Stones | |
| 11. This Heat | |
| 12. The Police | |
| 13. Wipers | |
| 14. The Gun Club | |
| 15. Glenn Branca | |
| 16. Echo & The Bunnymen | |
| 17. Phil Collins | |
| 18. Iron Maiden | |
| 19. Grace Jones | |
| 20. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark |
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