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"This is an album best used: As a superb background for a quiet lounging evening with your dream girl in a fine bar downtown NY. or in any other town you might want to be! Just so COOL.."  Reply
- Jboy56 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help 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.
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1970
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1985
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"Max Richter's score for Wayne McGregor's dance piece 'Woolf Works' based on three Virginia Woolf novels (Mrs Dalloway, Orlando, and The Waves). Being one of classical music's most forward-thinking composer's the music is surprisingly, more concerned with creating a sense of pathos and empathy tha..."  [+]  Reply
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2017
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2010
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"Every now and then, an album’s name is absolutely perfect to describe the album itself, and in the case of Autre Ne Veut’s “Anxiety", you have an album that feels anxious, that feels crazy. It’s difficult to describe this album with much clarity. It has a pop sensibility to it, but it keeps you o..."  [+]  Reply
- RockyRaccoon | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help 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.
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2013
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1980
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1990
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"Don't let the condensed tracklisting fool you, this album picks up where I Am Not Afraid of You left off and is just as sprawling. With songs veering in almost every direction the band has ever explored, Popular Songs is coming from a band oozing with confidence in who they are as a band. Highlig..."  [+]  Reply
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2009
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1981
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1999
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Overall Chart composition

Best Artists of the 1960s
1. The Beatles
2. The Velvet Underground
3. Jimi Hendrix
4. Bob Dylan
5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience
6. The Beach Boys
7. The Velvet Underground & Nico
8. The Doors
9. Led Zeppelin
10. The Rolling Stones
11. John Coltrane
12. King Crimson
13. Frank Zappa
14. The Kinks
15. Love
16. Neil Young
17. Charles Mingus
18. Van Morrison
19. Miles Davis
20. Simon & Garfunkel