Listed below are the overall rankings for the best albums in history as determined by their aggregate positions in over 59,000 different greatest album charts on BestEverAlbums.com! (Chart last updated: 2 hours ago).
"One of the most beautifull latin american rock album. García expands his repertoire towards progressive rock and tradicional music call tango; specialy in "cuando ya me empiece a quedar solo". García continues with his existentialist lyrics that are increasingly shocking, all accompanied by beaut...""One of the most beautifull latin american rock album. García expands his repertoire towards progressive rock and tradicional music call tango; specialy in "cuando ya me empiece a quedar solo". García continues with his existentialist lyrics that are increasingly shocking, all accompanied by beautiful compositions. "Bienvenidos al tren" is a happy blues whith piano presence. "Un hada un cisne" is a beautiful jazz rock, "Mr. Jones" is a blues with sadistic lyrics, and is a criticism about typical American family. "tribulaciones..." a piano master piece with progressive rock structure. And besides that, it contains three of the most beautiful rock songs in Spanish speech: "Confesiones de invierno" (An very intimate song), "Rasguña las piedras" (Existential song) and a beautifull blues "Aprendizaje". "[+]Reply
"I love this band's early stuff. This is along with Vengeance one of their two best albums. Title track No Rest is a storming anthem and one of my favourite all time tracks."Reply
""Below the Salt" was Steeleye Span's fourth album, but probably the first where the sound that gave the band their greatest successes is predominant. Producer of the first albums Sandy Robertson has been replaced by Jerry Boys, and the two founder-members Ashley Hutchings, Martin Carthy are repla..."""Below the Salt" was Steeleye Span's fourth album, but probably the first where the sound that gave the band their greatest successes is predominant. Producer of the first albums Sandy Robertson has been replaced by Jerry Boys, and the two founder-members Ashley Hutchings, Martin Carthy are replaced by Rick Kemp and Bob Johnson. Later also the drummer Nigel Pegrum was added to the band and it was this 6 man line-up which with the album and the single "All Around my Hat" achieved the greatest commercial successes..
On "Below the Salt", the group has found eight old songs and given them a new and different life. Most surprising is the fact that the group actually achieved a single hit with the old Roman church-song "Gaudete".
Otherwise it is old English folk songs which in addition to the acoustic instruments mandolin, fiddle and banjo also have been added electric bass and electric guitar.
Vocally it is obviously Maddy Prior who is fronting the band, but all members beautifully take a part in the vocals and a couple of numbers are purely a capella.
It may now be difficult to understand that the group, along with Fairport Convention, actually were the leading force in folk-rock, and that this kind of music was attective to a vast audience. Today, this genre is probably only a niche, and this album may also seem somewhat dated.
Besides the fine "Gaudete", I think still enjoy "Saucy Sailor" very much , the song oozes atmosphere. It not that the rest of the album is uninteresting, quite the contrary, it's probably more about that part of the magic of the folk-rock is gone.
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"I like almost everything about this album, love almost nothing. It's a solid throwback pop rock album, sob rock indeed, breakup songs, cool beats and some seriously fabulous Mayer guitar soloing and little licks. If he had expanded on that - those guitar heroics - I may actually love this. For so...""I like almost everything about this album, love almost nothing. It's a solid throwback pop rock album, sob rock indeed, breakup songs, cool beats and some seriously fabulous Mayer guitar soloing and little licks. If he had expanded on that - those guitar heroics - I may actually love this. For some reason he really pulls back. When ever he hits me with some inspired guitar part he doesn't let that breathe and grow. I wish there was at least one or 2 extended 3-6 minute guitar compositions. He is a beast of a guitarist, one of my favorites even. And at times his playing evokes Mark Knopfler and other times Clapton and most other times he showcases that sound which is all his own. And in those moments I am, without fail and every time, in music heaven. Its bliss hearing some sharp, emotional, understated Mayer guitar solo. But... then he stops almost as soon as he starts. On tracks like "Wild Blue", shit, if he had expanded on that tone and that melodic phrase, it would have been a brilliant track.
There are some legitimately catchy, and fabulous little track in here. The opner "Last Train Home" is infectious and just a good friggin pop rock song in every way. The aforementioned "Wild Blue" has something cool about its atmosphere, and is quite solid. "New Light" is a similar rock solid pop rock song to the opnening track. The ridiculous and ridiculously named "Why You No Love Me" is so good, much better than it has any right to be. I also really like "Shot in the dark" and "Till the Right One Comes" and a couple others. The album is just a solid set of tracks. Adore the album cover, it cracks me up and its executed flawlessly - he nails that 1987 pop rock album cover better than anyone outside of the 80s obviously.
The songs are each and every one about breakups and lost love. The consistent topic of the album made me wonder "did John like go through a divorce recently?" and I can't tell if he did. And of course this theme is almost a running joke for John, he is always writing songs about this subject, but here its almost every song and its even more pronounced than usual.
As for the production, its cool. Very much a throwback to heartland rock/80s pop rock. Some cool beats and synth melodies and overall the album sounds nice.
The issue and its a big one, is that I feel like half of these songs had so much potential. Maybe he just wanted to make a set of 3 minute pop tracks and not get too fancy. But damn man! Your guitar playing is brilliant, flex a little, apply your sharp musical mind to making some epic guitar jams to end all modern guitar jams! I mean The War On Drugs are amazing. They can be compared because they are also a band rooted in the same era of music that Sob Rock is. But they amp up the studio creativity and they give us lengthy, breathing, bracing, morphing, transcendent guitar solos. You can do it, John!
Anyway. It's a good album. Listened thrice and enjoyed it each time. Not quite a Top tier 2021 album. But also certainly not bad by any stretch."[+]Reply
"I like this record. The production and arrangements are top notch. Maybe this is not Mr. Dylan at the top of his form but there are some great songs on here."Reply
"This is the best game OST I've ever listened to. Japanese musician Keiichi Okabe has made all the music. Some songs are instrumental, but most have vocals, and besides their language is a mix of english, german, french and japanese-like words. If you doubt, whether to try it or not, listen to: a)...""This is the best game OST I've ever listened to. Japanese musician Keiichi Okabe has made all the music. Some songs are instrumental, but most have vocals, and besides their language is a mix of english, german, french and japanese-like words.
If you doubt, whether to try it or not, listen to:
a) Cold Steel Coffin
b) The Lost Forest
c) Song of the Ancients Hollow Dreams / or The Wretched Automations"[+]Reply
"I agree that Nickelback is a bad joke of a band, but it's really the musical movement they came out of that is the problem, which All Music refers to as the "post-grunge" period where every band and its brother had a lead singer that sounded like Eddie Vedder accompanying bland AOR mid-...""I agree that Nickelback is a bad joke of a band, but it's really the musical movement they came out of that is the problem, which All Music refers to as the "post-grunge" period where every band and its brother had a lead singer that sounded like Eddie Vedder accompanying bland AOR mid- tempo distorted guitar rock that sounded pretentious, self-important and totally unoriginal. Remember Nickelback came up with the likes of Staind, Puddle of Shit (Mudd), and the worst of all, Creed. It was a bad time for music. I suppose Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Nirvana are all to blame really although none of those second-rate bands had the originality of their forebearers.
Here's what All Music says about post-grunge:
"The major difference is that while the Seattle bands were firmly rooted in underground alternative rock of the '80s, post-grunge was influenced by what grunge became -- a wildly popular form of inward-looking, serious-minded hard rock. That meant many post-grunge groups imitated the sound and style of grunge, but not necessarily the individual idiosyncracies of its original artists." Hence why bands like Nickelback suck. "[+]Reply