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: 5 hours ago).
"An excellent album from The Byrds. Younger than yesterday, really sees the band moving on. Opener, so you want to be a rock'n'roll star, is a sardonic take on the music business featuring trumpet from Hugh Masekela, and it's followed by, have you seen her face, one of Chris Hillman's best byrd so...""An excellent album from The Byrds. Younger than yesterday, really sees the band moving on. Opener, so you want to be a rock'n'roll star, is a sardonic take on the music business featuring trumpet from Hugh Masekela, and it's followed by, have you seen her face, one of Chris Hillman's best byrd songs. Elsewhere, there's hints of, sweetheart at the rodeo, on the countryfied, time between, and, the girl with no name, and, everybody's been burned, is a great David Crosby track. Unfortunately, another Crosby number, mind gardens, is atrocious, an awful attempt at something unconventional, it's the only moment on the LP that stops it from being a total classic. A pity, because everything else here is great, from the brilliant, thoughts and words, and an excellent Dylan cover in, my back pages. All in all, a very good album, just tarnished by a moment of indulgence from Crosby. "[+]Reply
"I had a busy day of listening today. I had a half dozen albums to relisten to. This one included. And to be honest I just wasn't overwhelmingly excited about listening to Tim Buckley. He had never yet clicked with me. Meaning he had never really connected with me or illuminated for me some sort o...""I had a busy day of listening today. I had a half dozen albums to relisten to. This one included. And to be honest I just wasn't overwhelmingly excited about listening to Tim Buckley. He had never yet clicked with me. Meaning he had never really connected with me or illuminated for me some sort of realization of the greatness of his music or the coolness or the style or virtuosity, etc. It just had never straightened into a clear concept in my mind which I liked. I had listened to this album and a few of his later (stranger and more experimental) albums.
But I just made myself push play to at least recollect what i thought of this album. And the coolest thing happened. I finally "Got It". I mean I finally heard the sheer creative audacity of what Buckley had done with this album. I found myself overcome by the emotions he was expressing, I heard and understood what he was doing with his somewhat over the top musical waves. The palate with which he paints this album is immense. There are strange effects on many things, and guitars, and keyboards and symphonies and big crescendos and there is, of course, his vocals. His vocals were what finally worked for me. They just are all over the place and all in service of the songs. His voice has always been mentioned as a game changer in many ways, but I never liked them much. But here they really work, he sounds like he is almost bursting with an unimaginable amount of emotion and fire and sadness. And as he sings he is releasing these sounds and these feelings and its oft-times glorious.
And yes later albums are definitely pushed way way up my "To Listen" list. I believe its generally understood that he got more and more out there and experimental as he went along in his short life. And I do recall "Lorca" and "Starsailor" being quite strange and beautiful. I am very very excited to listen to them for later songwriter lists (1969-1971 will probably HAVE to be top 15s at this rate cuz man there is a lot of great stuff coming up to listen to for those years). Its amazing to think he became somehow MORE innovative. Cuz listening to this today just blew my mind in how incredibly unique and forward-thinking the whole sound and flow of the album was. I mean you can hear traces of it in Fred Neil, but this is just next level wild and ahead of its time. Its a goodie.
Grade: 9.2/10"[+]Reply
"Use Your Illusion should have been one disc. Would have gone down in history. My perfect Use Your Illusion: 1. Civil War 2. Yesterdays 3. Don't Cry (original) 4. November Rain 5. Perfect Crime 6. Double Talkin Jive 7. Estranged 8. You Could Be Mine 9. Garden of Eden 10. Coma Submit your own. Can'...""Use Your Illusion should have been one disc. Would have gone down in history.
My perfect Use Your Illusion:
1. Civil War
2. Yesterdays
3. Don't Cry (original)
4. November Rain
5. Perfect Crime
6. Double Talkin Jive
7. Estranged
8. You Could Be Mine
9. Garden of Eden
10. Coma
Submit your own. Can't do much better than this. "[+]Reply
"I find it very interesting when people accuse a band of recording purposefully obtuse music, or accuse a person of purposefully listening to obtuse music, in order to promote some image. Just because you don't enjoy an album doesn't mean everyone else isn't going to enjoy it, and it certainly doe...""I find it very interesting when people accuse a band of recording purposefully obtuse music, or accuse a person of purposefully listening to obtuse music, in order to promote some image. Just because you don't enjoy an album doesn't mean everyone else isn't going to enjoy it, and it certainly doesn't meant that those who do enjoy it are necessarily just saying so to make themselves seem "hip" (though there are certainly some such people).
I discovered this album on this website, when reading someone else's chart who also had a bunch of albums in common with me. I listened to it without knowing anything about the image it was supposed to have, and I fell in love with it. "[+]Reply
"I understand comparisons to Ok Computer but for me that album dealt with humanity losing itself through technological advancement whereas here Jason Lytle is dealing with the aftermath where that battle is in the past and nature has reclaimed the earth. I think this is best exemplified by the son...""I understand comparisons to Ok Computer but for me that album dealt with humanity losing itself through technological advancement whereas here Jason Lytle is dealing with the aftermath where that battle is in the past and nature has reclaimed the earth. I think this is best exemplified by the songs Broken Household Appliance National Forest, where man's technological detritus is now home to the animals,
"The refrigerators house the frogs
The conduit is the hollow log"
and Miner At The Dial-A-view where the eponymous Miner is looking back at his old home from some Mining Outpost and although he finds familiar landmarks he can't find the people he knew. Often described as post apocalyptic I don't think the album gives any indication of there having been an apocalypse,it's more that progress has rendered man obsolete and now the world he built has nobody to serve and is crumbling back to the earth."[+]Reply
"Whereas the debut album had a very acoustic feel to it, "Radio City" was more raw album without losing the sound of Big Star, though. Chilton's "September Gurls" has become a power-pop classic. The song has been recorded by numerous other artist, but none of those that I have heard come close to ...""Whereas the debut album had a very acoustic feel to it, "Radio City" was more raw album without losing the sound of Big Star, though. Chilton's "September Gurls" has become a power-pop classic. The song has been recorded by numerous other artist, but none of those that I have heard come close to surpassing this terrific original version.
The album contains so much great music that it can be difficult to bring out just a few specifically; but songs like "Life is White", "Way Out West", "What's Going Ahn" and "Daisy Glaze" are so great that I can't help just bringing them up. Bassist Andy Hummel and drummer Jody Stephens helped Chilton in writing these songs.
With the closing track, the nice acoustic "I'm in Love With a Girl", they return to the softer feel of the first album. "[+]Reply
"Everything Jack White touches is gold. I have firmly believed that ever since I first discovered him and he hasn’t disappointed me yet. Whether it’s The White Stripes, The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, as a producer or just by himself he continues to make great music. This album is everything you...""Everything Jack White touches is gold. I have firmly believed that ever since I first discovered him and he hasn’t disappointed me yet. Whether it’s The White Stripes, The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, as a producer or just by himself he continues to make great music. This album is everything you could want from a Jack White album. In the realm of previous things Jack White has done, this is probably closer to a White Stripes sound than anything else. A lot of blues and folk sounds to this album and White does it very well, especially when playing guitar, I’ve always been a huge fan of his guitar playing. I cannot recommend this album highly enough, it’s a must-listen, there isn’t a weak track on it."[+]Reply
"Well having been a defender of this album against popular opinion for so many years but realising that for the last 15 years whenever I fancy lisening to R.E.M it's never Monster, I came on here to exhume some ghosts and finally admit it's not very good. Only to find popular opinion has changed i...""Well having been a defender of this album against popular opinion for so many years but realising that for the last 15 years whenever I fancy lisening to R.E.M it's never Monster, I came on here to exhume some ghosts and finally admit it's not very good. Only to find popular opinion has changed it's mind and seems to regard Monster as an underrated classic. So I thought I'd give it another listen to try and crystallise my thoughts and I'll be goddamned if I didn't really enjoy it. In conclusion, Monster is not very good but I love it. Right I'm off to listen to The Stone Roses' Second Coming and see if I was right/wrong about that wonderful piece of crap."[+]Reply