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: 32 minutes ago).
"I have to wonder if the awkward release is the reason this record isn’t getting much traction here. I thought Part I was as good as anything that came out last year and part II is as good as anything that came out this year. That makes it… the Album of 2022-‘23?"Reply
"A lovely 2-Part drone piece – I can only ever devote my attention to a few new pieces like this as it's easier to just return to past favourites, and I'm glad I tried this one out. Part 1 is like Colin Stetson's "and they still move" but slower, more dragged out. Part I is haunting, it takes moti...""A lovely 2-Part drone piece – I can only ever devote my attention to a few new pieces like this as it's easier to just return to past favourites, and I'm glad I tried this one out. Part 1 is like Colin Stetson's "and they still move" but slower, more dragged out. Part I is haunting, it takes motifs from the first section and crushes and distorts them."[+]Reply
"(Really solid artsy indietronica/art pop or rock/etc album. This actually a fairly hard to describe sound, but its all good. Really, really good.) So, LUMP is a collaboration between Laura Marling (love her she is great) and Mike Lindsay (uhhh… never heard of him). And, well, these 2 they make mu...""(Really solid artsy indietronica/art pop or rock/etc album. This actually a fairly hard to describe sound, but its all good. Really, really good.)
So, LUMP is a collaboration between Laura Marling (love her she is great) and Mike Lindsay (uhhh… never heard of him). And, well, these 2 they make music. Its like pop and indie and has electronic elements, and it is quite hard to narrow down exactly what genre this should be. There are pianos and electronic synth parts, and big orchestral sounds, and there are super sexy eargasmic rhythms, and there are sad ballads and there is poetic lyricism, and there a whole atmosphere created on this album that is unique and powerful and warm and somehow just about the best thing released this year in some ways.
It sounds like these 2 have great chemistry. Laura has a great voice. And these songs utilize her instrument in varied and always quite gorgeous ways. On “Red Snakes” it’s a sad sorrowful voice, on a song like “Gamma Ray” her voice has this sexy, imposing, deeper power. On a track like “Paradise” she sounds almost deadened at times and cold in an intriguing way… Anyway, news flash, Laura Marling is incredible. Oh, and, like, the sky is blue… fucking DUH! Mike and Laura just absolutely killed it with the vocal arrangements and sounds here.
The main thing that I always notice more than anything else on this album is how GREAT the bass tones and the heavy-footed rhythms sound. It feels so heavy and tangible and just, idk, like it feels like your head is being rattled. Its brilliant. And the melodies and the other synthetic and organic sounds that are built around these deep foundations are always quite cool and ear-catching. For an example of this dope heavy rhythm sound check out “Gamma Ray” or “Paradise”.
“Hair On the Pillow” is alright, I guess. Its just a little electronic instrumental. Doesn’t add much. But outside of that track and perhaps the short little number “Oberon” which also seems a bit throwaway, the rest of the track list is pretty much fat-free and bursting with supple, beautiful musical ideas.
Also, something really cool about this album is how it closes. It saves the best for last, folks! That twin guitar melody and harmonizing on the closer, “Phantom Limb” is mesmerizing especially when paired with the gentle gorgeousness of Marling’s vocal performance. Then the song just builds and goes into a cool progressive electronic passage and then the horn comes in and it just keeps going! Its fabulous! That bookend paired with the opener (aka the other bookend), “Bloom at Night” and the stunning electronic swirl that starts that amazing opener, you have yourself an amazing opening and closing of this very neat, tidy, cool as fuck, album. Yes, the whole Closing Credits Reading by Marling at the end of “Phantom Limb” is a bit strange and I’m not sure how I feel about it. All things considered it doesn’t take much if anything away from this beautiful record.
If I have any critique or anything that maybe is holding me back from proclaiming this a standout, top-tier album for this year, its that there is a feeling I get of mild interest, or kind of a laid back and not particularly impassioned vibe coming off this album like an odor. Not a bad, fecal or BO type odor, just a hint, an aura, or whatever. I get the feeling this is a couple friends who get along and whenever they are in touch there is a quickening of creative juices. They start bandying back and forth their ideas that maybe wouldn’t fit on their main band’s albums or on Marling’s solo albums. And they get in a studio, and they put their heads together and they make these, admittedly glistening and gorgeous, songs. So, the album feels slightly cold and calculated. That may just be the intended sound or message or vibe that these artists want to exhibit, or it may just be a product of this style or genre. I don’t know. But it makes me feel like this isn’t a major release, just a side project. A really cool side project rife with cool musical ideas, but not the main dish all the same.
Still, I recommend this album very much. Its gorgeous and if you like Art Pop, or Indietronica, or lowkey ballads with some subtle and gorgeous production or you like albums that just exude calm, cool, and chill, you’ll like this a lot methinks."[+]Reply
"Violent By Design is to me, one of the greatest Hip-Hop releases of the 90's. It marks an interesting time for the group as it shows the transition period from abstract, obscure and almost unearthly lyrical content to grimy, hardcore death rap. Vinnie's voice gets a little more graveled and rough...""Violent By Design is to me, one of the greatest Hip-Hop releases of the 90's. It marks an interesting time for the group as it shows the transition period from abstract, obscure and almost unearthly lyrical content to grimy, hardcore death rap. Vinnie's voice gets a little more graveled and rough (especially noticeable on the track Genghis Khan) which was nonexistent on the group's debut album. Jus Allah also crafts some of the most gruesome and intelligent verses of his career, and Stoupe is at his prime, flipping samples that are not overpowering and bass filled, but still completely chilling and angry. You can tell this album was inspired by some heavy metal groups like Black Sabbath and Slayer (especially because of the borrowed song titles) and it works perfectly with the image of violence this album intends to display. Although not as mystical or psychedelic as The Psycho-Social LP, Jedi Mind Tricks still provide some interesting lyricism and obscure metaphors with a new angry and murderous delivery from beginning to end."[+]Reply
"I used to own this on tape until some little shite burgled my car in a Yorkshire hotel car park many many years ago! I was so happy to come across an excellent condition vinyl in my local vinyl store recently. Brought back many happy memories (prior to losing my entire tape collection in one nigh...""I used to own this on tape until some little shite burgled my car in a Yorkshire hotel car park many many years ago! I was so happy to come across an excellent condition vinyl in my local vinyl store recently. Brought back many happy memories (prior to losing my entire tape collection in one night!). For those of you who remember, tapes could be played in cars before CD's! Sweeping the nostalgia to one side, a great eighties synth pop/rock album. Like Silent Running, sits somewhere between U2 and Simple Minds."[+]Reply
"Originally a German import from Rough Trade minus the Destroy the Heart ep, this is still an awe inspiring collection showcasing just how brilliant Chadwick & co. were in the early days."Reply
"I think the great thing about this album is the way they captured a specific global sentiment of what Hispanic/Latino culture had in common. It is in a way a concept album."Reply
"So it's been about a year since my first comment, and I have to say that my appreciation for this album just kept growing stronger to the point that I now have it in my top 20 and as the top rated yugoslavian album (I think at the time of my first entry it just gained the chart entry at the last ...""So it's been about a year since my first comment, and I have to say that my appreciation for this album just kept growing stronger to the point that I now have it in my top 20 and as the top rated yugoslavian album (I think at the time of my first entry it just gained the chart entry at the last spot - #50 at the time).
Out of all albums that came from this area, this is the one that I would recommend the most to the fellow BEA users. Not just because it was voted as the best yugo-album of all time in '98, not because it's so high on my chart or even because I feel it's the kind of music that people here would like. It might sound weird, but it's mostly because it's the one album from this area of the world that I don't generally have any emotional attachment from "before". I could easily see myself overrating some other "non-english" albums on my chart (for the "emotional reason"), but this is the one I discovered very late, and thus approached it somewhat differently.
Anyway, a year ago I commented on some weaker songs. This was a problem for me because listening to "Odbrana..." felt less of an "album experience", because I more or less focused on the better songs. Now it's different. "Moja si", which I disliked before, I now find pretty... awesome. It's a brilliantly strange song with a somewhat dark and sinister atmosphere, with its slightly bizarre lyrics and ending (the songs ends with a prayer). The shorter songs I'm no longer bothered with at all, in fact the only song I feel is unnecessary is "Igrale se Delije", but it's less than 3 minutes long, so it's not that bad.
Overall, what I like the most about this album is, that it offers quite a variety of styles, while still being connected in way that it maintains the "feel" of being an album. The general atmosphere, mainly created by distinctive rough (some might say a bit amateurish) production and synth experimentation. I love it when artists experiment with their sounds, while still being able to create songs that are accessible and easy to listen. This album is a perfect example of that.
Track picks: Poslednji Dani, Rusija, Nebeška Tema, Glavna Ptica"[+]Reply
"Rougher than their prior "Ignore the ignorant" what I seem to like about this album (and the band in general) is that they have lost all pretentious and dedicate to do what they do best, overwhelmingly addictive from start to finish..."Reply