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921.

Pithecanthropus Erectus

Charles Mingus

"Pushing the boundaries and I like it. Jazz isn't really my thing, but I like how they did things different in this... blowing whistles and the such." Reply

RoundTheBend | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1956

Appears in:

265 charts

Rank Score:

1,897

Rank in 1956:

Rank in 1950s:

Overall Rank:

921

Average Rating:

80 (278 votes)

Comments:

922.

Diesel And Dust

Midnight Oil

"I went through a period of loving Aussie rock so much back in the late eighties that I wound up spending my junior year of college in Perth. Of all those Australian bands that I loved back then, Midnight Oil was probably the best, and is the one that has had the most staying power for me. They ma..." [+] Reply

buzzdainer | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1987

Appears in:

299 charts

Rank Score:

1,895

Rank in 1987:

Rank in 1980s:

138

Overall Rank:

922

Average Rating:

76 (333 votes)

Comments:

923.

Operation: Mindcrime

Queensrÿche

"Fantastic concept album with an intricate plot that never wavers. Its wonderfully thought out, planned, and executed. Still as intriguing to listen to it today as it was back then. The amazing thing is that the songs are great individually as well as part of the whole." Reply

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

Year of Release:

1988

Appears in:

292 charts

Rank Score:

1,895

Rank in 1988:

Rank in 1980s:

139

Overall Rank:

923

Average Rating:

79 (371 votes)

Comments:

924.

Songs Of Faith And Devotion

Depeche Mode

"Though it's not Violator by any means, it's a damn good album with great songs! Very interesting how the Mode branched out to natural instruments and took influences from other genres" Reply

- F1Aaron | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1993

Appears in:

323 charts

Rank Score:

1,894

Rank in 1993:

Rank in 1990s:

170

Overall Rank:

924

Average Rating:

77 (454 votes)

Comments:

925.

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

"The Byrds debut album brings folk rock to the masses. It's an enjoyable album although sonically it all sounds the same, still, it's an excellent and influential LP. The jangly guitars dominate, a sound that The Beatles had used on the previous year's, what you're doing, on their, Beatles for sal..." [+] Reply

- garycottier | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1965

Appears in:

416 charts

Rank Score:

1,894

Rank in 1965:

Rank in 1960s:

103

Overall Rank:

925

Average Rating:

78 (410 votes)

Comments:

926.

This Nation's Saving Grace

The Fall

"The most highly regarded album by the Fall on this particular site, and this album does still have much to shout about, it is better for example than the further trio of Brix albums that followed it. However, in my opinion it cannot compete with the likes of Grotesque, Hex or Perverted By Languag..." [+] Reply

- TheSmiths82-87 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1985

Appears in:

377 charts

Rank Score:

1,892

Rank in 1985:

Rank in 1980s:

140

Overall Rank:

926

Average Rating:

78 (455 votes)

Comments:

927.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

"This is a seriously great album that would be on my chart if we had more room. It will probably be on my chart soon anyway. Ugh, 40 albums does not go very far. You explain whats great about Steely Dan really with two words; Jazz Cocaine. The bands use of cocaine has been widely chronicalled. It ..." [+] Reply

- seraphlaim | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1974

Appears in:

385 charts

Rank Score:

1,890

Rank in 1974:

Rank in 1970s:

190

Overall Rank:

927

Average Rating:

80 (535 votes)

Comments:

928.

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

"A great post punk album. Similar in attitude and presentation with Joy Division's, unknown pleasures. The modern dance, is a fantastic record of alienation, frustration, and anger, and delivered with a swagger. There is no point in picking out individual tracks, it all needs to be listened togeth..." [+] Reply

- garycottier | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1978

Appears in:

310 charts

Rank Score:

1,885

Rank in 1978:

Rank in 1970s:

191

Overall Rank:

928

Average Rating:

78 (412 votes)

Comments:

929.

Mule Variations

Tom Waits

"Yeah, I really love this record. From start to finish I find it to be really engaging and interesting and really effective at all the moods and styles it tries to take on. The slow numbers are just really sad and romantic. And the louder and more abrasive numbers are equal parts funny and disturb...""Yeah, I really love this record. From start to finish I find it to be really engaging and interesting and really effective at all the moods and styles it tries to take on. The slow numbers are just really sad and romantic. And the louder and more abrasive numbers are equal parts funny and disturbing. Lyrically he is great here as well. I feel the lyrics on "Take It With Me" are stunning because they really carry the whole song as the musical accompaniment is very minimal, and the mood is very hushed and intimate. To me that song feels like a quiet conversation with Tom or whatever character he is playing, about his life and the love he's had and lost and his philosophy and his adentures. It's breathtaking! The opening lines of "The phone's off the hook. No one knows where we are. It's a long time since I drank champagne. The ocean is blue, as blue as your eyes." Just sets up the whole track beautifully. And this album has similar tender successes with the simple, blues style lyrics of "Picture In A frame" and the rambling songwriting gem "Hold On". As for the more wild and raucous side, everything from the opener "Big In Japan", and "Chocolate Jesus", "Eyeball Kid" (HAIL HAIL! THE EYEBALL KID!/... He doesn't have a body! Not even a brow!") and "Filipino Box Spring Hog" all work and are funny and enjoyable. There's also other aspects to this album. There's a whole folk side to it. But it's not a simple guitar and vocal rendition of folk and roots, it's a down and dirty rendition. Waits really knows how to get to the essence and spirit of old time music - folk, blues, work songs, etc. but he does it with his own stamp or style all over it. Great examples of this on this album are standouts like "Get Behind The mule", "Georgia Lee", "Cold Water" (especially love this song to its core) and the old time preacher gospel of "Come On Up To The house" which also happens to be a PERFECT and super uplifting closer to this master work. In closing, this thing just features almost everything I love about Mr. Waits. He's such a musical genius and such an important artist in my life. And I feel this is his best album and most well rounded and consistent, bar none. I think it's got a better sound and production than "Rain Dogs" and some of his earlier albums and it balances songs with experiments better here than on some of his other modern (last 30 years) classics. Yeah, this is honestly the best album of his. But there are so few bad ones it's wild. This album is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! If you love this, also check out "Alice" and "Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers an Bastards". He really hasn't released a whole lot of less than great stuff in the last, oh, 40+ years." [+] Reply