Overall Chart
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"Quite possibly my favourite album ever, speaks to me like no other album ever has. Imposible to say how much this album means to me, soundtrack to my teenage years and still relevant now. I can see why some might hate this album but at least give it a try it might change your life." Reply
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HigherThanTheSun | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (7 helpful | 2 unhelpful)
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2002
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"They broke all the rules. A completely timeless masterpiece, and a wonderfully made album. No end of great songs. Highly recommend to anyone who likes avant-garde, or psychadelic, or punk, or really anything. It's just good." Reply
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Sandinistar | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (7 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1968
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"My favorite album by MJ. All the songs are great but my #1 is wonderfully underrated "Who Is It"" Reply
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1991
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"Imperial bedroom, is Elvis Costello's best album of the eighties. It's a wonderfully rich record featuring some great orchestration which is the icing on the cake to a lot of the tracks. Costello would try the same thing nine years later with, mighty like a rose, but where as on that record he th..." [+] Reply
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1982
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"One of the greatest hard rock albums ever!! For those that like hard rock, metal, or punk...you should listen to this album, rock out, and make it part of your collection. Lemmy is an anomaly (a true rock legend)...he's still lives the fast life and plays incredibly loud, blistering, fast hard ro..." [+] Reply
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1980
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2,138
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"There aren't too many standout tracks but that's really the only problem I can find with this album. It consistently sounds great and it has a very solid direction and the overall sound is very interesting, influential, and ahead of it's time." Reply
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1997
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""1984" is an album that will likely appeal to the inner-10 year old in everyone, (if that inner-10 year-old still exists, that is.) The garage band aspects that defined Van Halen's first five albums (with David Lee Roth, natch,) have been smoothed, but not eliminated - and the results are compell..." [+] Reply
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1984
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"When I was 13 there was nothing cooler than this- The title track is my favorite song by them." Reply
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1994
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2,128
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"Great album, one of the best debuts. Songs are great, production is great, Shirley is awesome, it's all here. Butch Vig is the king of the 90s." Reply
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lightmyway | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1995
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"I respectfully disagree with the below comment. Taylor Swift has often had high profile collaborators and producers (Max Martin; Jack Antonoff etc.). Taylor's records tend to sound both like Taylor and her collaborators. I see it as a strength rather than a weakness, which has enabled Taylor to c..." [+] Reply
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2020
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Overall Chart composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 2 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 35 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 303 | 3% | |
| 1960s | 709 | 7% | |
| 1970s | 1,425 | 14% | |
| 1980s | 1,410 | 14% | |
| 1990s | 1,599 | 16% | |
| 2000s | 1,745 | 17% | |
| 2010s | 1,950 | 20% | |
| 2020s | 822 | 8% |
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| Bob Dylan | 38 | 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 | % | |
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5,015 | 50% | |
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2,650 | 27% | |
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430 | 4% | |
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335 | 3% | |
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219 | 2% | |
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157 | 2% | |
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133 | 1% | |
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