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911.

Father Of The Bride 

 Vampire Weekend

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"I think most people on this site will have a band that they connected with significantly more than any others in their adolescence. When you're moving from the stages of just uncritically absorbing whatever's on the radio or whatever your parents play, to a point of having your own musical tastes...""I think most people on this site will have a band that they connected with significantly more than any others in their adolescence. When you're moving from the stages of just uncritically absorbing whatever's on the radio or whatever your parents play, to a point of having your own musical tastes it's vital to have an artist like this to change your whole attitude to music. For me this band was Vampire Weekend. This is the first Vampire Weekend album to come out since my tastes expanded out from that start point, and it follows a great string of albums culminating in their 2013 masterpiece 'Modern Vampires of the City' which managed to create an emotional connection with the listener whilst still experimenting with massive amounts of production and variation in instruments. 'Father of the Bride' isn't as good as any of those albums but it still brings a lot to the table. There's quite a lot to set this album apart from their other projects. First off it's significantly longer than the rest of their records and I don't think it's better for it. There's a lot of variation between most of the tracks here but a few fail to establish themselves and they have counterparts on the album that make better use of the same ideas. On the other hand for an 18 track album it does a good job of remaining cohesive in spite of the range of the tracks. In general the tracks here have a bright feel to them but the lyrics are often more negative. This is also the first album without Rostam being in the band. This puts Ezra more at the centre of the album than any previous projects. I'm not sure how songwriting was divided up between the band here (both of the other members of the band have had solo albums out in the past couple of years) but the song's feel like Ezra's, most likely because of the personal nature of the lyrics here. The songs themselves range in quality. 'Unbearably White' is probably my favourite track here. The vivid lyrics, subtle production and great guitar work go really nicely together (not sure what the deal is with the Smash Bros sound effect that makes you jump out of your skin though). 'Big Blue' is a great short track where it feels like the guitar notes are flying all over the place. I also like 'Rich Man' but it's a bit off-putting that it sounds so similar to parts of 'Everlasting Arms'. The first 30 seconds of 'Harmony Hall' is my favourite part of the album, the guitars especially evoke a sunrise, not sure if that's just me though. After this choral arrangements and a very bright sounding piano enter the mix and it all gets very ABBA and it's not bad but it does feel like an amazing amount of potential for the track was squandered by overproduction. This brings me to one of my gripes with the album, there are very mixed results with the maximalist production. There's great stuff like the mass of rhythms in 'Sympathy' and the brass instruments sound really good alongside the guitars at the end of 'My Mistake', but a lot of the time it can feel really lazily applied like in the distorted vocals in '2021' and the weird electronic beats that emerge at the end of 'Jerusalem, New York, Berlin'. So, at the end of the day 'Father of the Bride' isn't extraordinary but it does have quite a lot going for it. There's such a range of sounds here that anyone can find a fair amount that they like but I don't think many people are going to love it all the way through. Although Vampire Weekend don't shape my tastes the way they once did it's still a pretty huge relief to see a band I love this much stay on form and I'm looking forward to whatever's next. Sony Music"  [+]  Reply

- JamesMowbray | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +12 votes (12 helpful | 0 unhelpful) 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.

Year of Release:

2019

Appears in:

354 charts

Rank Score:

1,137

Rank in 2019:

10

Rank in 2010s:

136

Overall Rank:

911

Average Rating:

 76 (535 votes)

Comments:

32

912.

Ambient 1: Music For Airports 

 Brian Eno

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"I remember reading BEA user JulianR’s comment on My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless “never has an album been so synonymous with a genre, yet so unique within it”, but my mind, however, leapt immediately to this one. So iconic was its release that the entire labelling of the ambient genre followed its...""I remember reading BEA user JulianR’s comment on My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless “never has an album been so synonymous with a genre, yet so unique within it”, but my mind, however, leapt immediately to this one. So iconic was its release that the entire labelling of the ambient genre followed its precedent. No other record wears its ethos so proudly on its sleeve (in this case quite literally) than this one. Its simplicity is often what leaves Ambient 1 so overlooked and overcriticized; yes, the album is sparse, but this is exactly where its impact lies; there’s no worth in comparing it to the complexity of jazz or prog since the entire manifesto of ambient is to do more with less. With tracks 1/1 and 2/1 being piano and vocal driven respectively, the third track combines the two elements to create a stunning harmony between the classical piano keys and the synth-laden vocals. The effect is transfixing and heartwrenching all at once; there seems to be a tragedy unfolding slowly before your eyes, but the lack of any lyrics leaves the nature of this tragedy just out of reach. Eno’s urge to move towards ambient music came as a result of a car accident, after which he was confined to his bed for a considerable time. A friend of his on their way out the door offered to put a record on, however Eno realised after she had left that the volume was far too low and moreover, the sound of the rain which had started to fall all but drowned out the music. This was his eureka moment, and both these elements are here if you look for them. Ambient 1 is the faintest remnant of the melody and the pounding cacophony of the rain. Most of this is copied from the description of the album in my overall chart, do check it out if you have the time!!"  [+]  Reply

- ForegroundNoise | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +8 votes (8 helpful | 0 unhelpful) 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.

Year of Release:

1979

Appears in:

365 charts

Rank Score:

1,133

Rank in 1979:

18

Rank in 1970s:

208

Overall Rank:

912

Average Rating:

 80 (557 votes)

Comments:

32

913.

No Other 

 Gene Clark

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"Is this the greatest country rock album of all time? There are so many nights I feel that way. The songs are simply majestic. The type of songs that make me feel like I can take on the entire world no matter what the odds. And I need that kind of music in my life. Songs that make me want to shirk...""Is this the greatest country rock album of all time? There are so many nights I feel that way. The songs are simply majestic. The type of songs that make me feel like I can take on the entire world no matter what the odds. And I need that kind of music in my life. Songs that make me want to shirk off the shackles of my self destructive ways and once more reach for something bigger than myself. Plus, the guitar on this just destroys me and the lyrics are second to none. The only problem with this album, and it's a big one, is that it peters out towards the end on those last two songs. Considering the album's only 8 tracks long that's kind of lame. But those first six tracks? Totally essential, mind-blowing stuff that fires me up like little else. Grade: A. Cosmic Country Rock at it's best. Since it's a tad inconsistent at the end, it's not ever going to get top billing. But these are my fighting songs right now so I'm going to slide it into the number two pole at least for now. "  [+]  Reply

- Repo | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful) 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.

Year of Release:

1974

Appears in:

248 charts

Rank Score:

1,132

Rank in 1974:

16

Rank in 1970s:

209

Overall Rank:

913

Average Rating:

 79 (234 votes)

Comments:

11

914.

Kala 

 M.I.A.

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"Not one of my favorite albums, but I'll never forget the first time I heard this. Such a shocking and unique sound."  Reply

- Mozart | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (4 helpful | 1 unhelpful) 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.

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

417 charts

Rank Score:

1,132

Rank in 2007:

17

Rank in 2000s:

145

Overall Rank:

914

Average Rating:

 75 (527 votes)

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915.

Shore 

 Fleet Foxes

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"This year has been so shitty. And while an album like Fetch the Bolt Cutters recognizes our turmoil and frustration, Shore is a great complement. This is a work of love, joy, and hope that has come at not a moment too soon. But even musically, it's making a strong claim as the best Fleet Foxes al...""This year has been so shitty. And while an album like Fetch the Bolt Cutters recognizes our turmoil and frustration, Shore is a great complement. This is a work of love, joy, and hope that has come at not a moment too soon. But even musically, it's making a strong claim as the best Fleet Foxes album. It encapsulates the excitement and accessibility of their self-titled, matches the scope and consistency of Helplessness Blues, while pushing the sound and songwriting with similar adventurousness as Crack-Up. It remains to be seen whether it captures thee same adoration for me as those first two records, given that I've had a decade with them, and at such a formative age. But I gotta say, Shore does not disappoint. "  [+]  Reply

- HoldenM | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +11 votes (11 helpful | 0 unhelpful) 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.

Year of Release:

2020

Appears in:

391 charts

Rank Score:

1,130

Rank in 2020:

8

Rank in 2020s:

24

Overall Rank:

915

Average Rating:

 78 (375 votes)

Comments:

21

916.

Os Mutantes 

 Os Mutantes

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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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Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

352 charts

Rank Score:

1,129

Rank in 1968:

15

Rank in 1960s:

82

Overall Rank:

916

Average Rating:

 80 (365 votes)

Comments:

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917.

The Madcap Laughs 

 Syd Barrett

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"The most important thing to realize going into listening to this album the first couple of times is that Syd Barrett really *was* a talented songwriter, and that even without his total mental breakdown he still would have amassed a pretty decently sized following. There are quite a few melodies a...""The most important thing to realize going into listening to this album the first couple of times is that Syd Barrett really *was* a talented songwriter, and that even without his total mental breakdown he still would have amassed a pretty decently sized following. There are quite a few melodies and chord sequences here that would have worked just fine in a normal setting, with a lyrical combination of playfulness and self-confession that would make quite an impact on their own. The opening "Terrapin" is a great example of this, as it's a rather gentle acoustic ballad that combines playful (and only somewhat nonsensical) lyrics about being a swimming fish and simple (but still kinda clever to my ears) boy-girl lyrics like, "Well oh baby my hair's on end about you." Simple and poppy, yes, but high quality simple-and-poppy, if you ask me. But of course, it's not the normal aspects of the album alone that ultimately draw people here, but rather the way in which they provide a context for the train wreck of Syd's mind. "Terrapin," by having such 'regular' appeal, is an extremely deceptive opener, as the evidence for this album's weirdness reputation begins in full force with track two. Witness the dark aggressive (and outright disturbing) cacophony of "No Good Trying", whose most revealing moment is the line about the person Syd is singing to spinning around in a car while lights are flashing all around. Witness the hilariously catchy up-tempo, nonsensical "Love You," where Syd and Co. conjure up a vaguely Kinksy piano number and let it linger in the astral plane just long enough to totally screw it up (meant in a good way). Witness ESPECIALLY when Syd's performance (singing, lyrics, guitar, everything) goes totally off the deep end in "Octopus," all culminating in the ecstatic chanting of, "Please leave us here! Close our eyes to the octopus riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide!!!" And so on. The easiest way, for me at least, to categorize the rest of the album is to divide it into "lucid" and "less lucid." The less lucid parts sometimes happen within the songs themselves (like the weird mumbling freak-out in the second half of "No Man's Land"), but the most frightening one comes when Roger Waters and David Gilmour (the producers) share an outtake from right before Syd's 'proper' rendition of "If It's In You," where Syd starts into the number and ends up hideously off-key in singing, "Yes I'm thiiiiiiiiiiiNNNNNNNNNNKing" and follows by mumbling only semi-coherently. Poor, poor, Syd. What makes his collapse even more frightening and sad in my mind, though, is the ways the lucid moments show he was fully aware of it. "Dark Globe" is playful and has somewhat off-key vocals, yes, but those are serious chills down my back when he sings, "Won't you miss me? Wouldn't you miss me at aaaallllllll??" Those chills stay when I hear Syd longing for a girl in "Here I Go," in the mournful "Long Gone," and even when he's slowly singing James Joyce poetry to an elementary melody. Beyond these, there are some songs that aren't really that super, and that kinda negate my original hopes that, even in the wake of such heavy drug abuse, his songwriting abilities would remain completely unscathed. But really, I don't think that's the point. This is an album that can be extremely enjoyable at points, yes, but it's also very sad, and more than that really has no parallel in music of which I'm aware. It's messy, it's playful, it's sad ... it's Syd. And Syd was great, despite himself. This is why I like this album terribly much, despite that I almost never bring it out. If you don't like it, I can understand, but you must also understand that those of us who do like it get a feel from it that's largely indescribable, and thus you should not condemn us or this album. PS: Somehow, I left out mention of the album's second best song, the closing "Late Night." It's probably the best example on the album of a semi-coherent love song, one that had a great song at its core but got tweaked more than a bit by being filtered through Syd's mind. It brings a tear to my eye each time I hear it. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1970

Appears in:

326 charts

Rank Score:

1,129

Rank in 1970:

27

Rank in 1970s:

210

Overall Rank:

917

Average Rating:

 76 (445 votes)

Comments:

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918.

Combat Rock 

 The Clash

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"Combat rock, is really the 'last' proper Clash album, and looking at the contents of the box set a few years ago, it seems the band agrees with this. If you take out, should i stay or should i go, and, rock the casbah, it would be an incredibly frustrating album. The rest is fine, but it's clear ...""Combat rock, is really the 'last' proper Clash album, and looking at the contents of the box set a few years ago, it seems the band agrees with this. If you take out, should i stay or should i go, and, rock the casbah, it would be an incredibly frustrating album. The rest is fine, but it's clear by now that the Clash were slipping. Not as bad as, cut the crap, but still disappointing. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1982

Appears in:

466 charts

Rank Score:

1,128

Rank in 1982:

14

Rank in 1980s:

139

Overall Rank:

918

Average Rating:

 76 (729 votes)

Comments:

25

919.

The Real Thing 

 Faith No More

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"One of the most creative, interesting and ambitious rock albums of the entire decade, this basically sticks a middle finger up at the conventions of both glossy glam rock and mopey indie college bands that were popular at the time. It doesn't really fit in with the metal genre either, nor the gru...""One of the most creative, interesting and ambitious rock albums of the entire decade, this basically sticks a middle finger up at the conventions of both glossy glam rock and mopey indie college bands that were popular at the time. It doesn't really fit in with the metal genre either, nor the grunge sound popular a few years later. This is its own beast doing its own thing; incorporating piano and synth and finding unusual sounds to weave into each song with just the right amount of restraint. This is so much fun to listen to that I'm not even mad at it for influencing the (mostly) garbage nu metal movement that hit about a decade later. And if titles like "Zombie Eaters" and "Woodpecker from Mars" don't automatically pique your interest then sorry, we can't be friends."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1989

Appears in:

332 charts

Rank Score:

1,128

Rank in 1989:

14

Rank in 1980s:

140

Overall Rank:

919

Average Rating:

 78 (504 votes)

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920.

Sigh No More 

 Mumford & Sons

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"Everything about this band irritates me. That includes their faux "organic family greengrocers" name, the shameless plundering of Shakespeare quotes, Marcus Mumford's pathetic hangdog vocal delivery, the faux hand-me-down caps and waistcoats look, the use of the word "heart" in every other line, ...""Everything about this band irritates me. That includes their faux "organic family greengrocers" name, the shameless plundering of Shakespeare quotes, Marcus Mumford's pathetic hangdog vocal delivery, the faux hand-me-down caps and waistcoats look, the use of the word "heart" in every other line, their piss-poor attempt at English folk rock, and as for that sodding banjo... But the worst thing about them is for the whole of 2011/12, I couldn't escape them. They were on the radio, the TV, in the pub, in my friends' and family's car stereos, and even butted in on every damn youtube video I tried to watch. They were EVERYWHERE. Mumford and Sons are the musical equivalent of McDonalds - massively naff, totally disingenuous, nutritionally void, puzzlingly popular and irritatingly ubiquitous. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2009

Appears in:

368 charts

Rank Score:

1,127

Rank in 2009:

11

Rank in 2000s:

146

Overall Rank:

920

Average Rating:

 67 (731 votes)

Comments:

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Decade	Albums	%
1930s	3	0%
1940s	2	0%
1950s	180	2%
1960s	666	7%
1970s	1,536	15%
1980s	1,387	14%
1990s	1,612	16%
2000s	1,771	18%
2010s	1,986	20%
2020s	857	9%

Artist	Albums	%
Bob Dylan	36	0%
The Rolling Stones	33	0%
David Bowie	32	0%
Various Artists	30	0%
Miles Davis	26	0%
Pink Floyd	24	0%
Genesis	23	0%
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	2,628	26%
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	350	4%
	223	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	9,717	97%
Yes	283	3%

Live?	Albums	%
No	9,713	97%
Yes	287	3%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	9,884	99%
Yes	116	1%