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100 most mind-bending, life-changing, brain-expanding records of all time
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[First added to this chart: 07/18/2013]
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1980
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15,231
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Top rated album (85/100 - 1924 votes)  85 (1,924 votes)
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I've heard Portishead (the album) in December 1998 for the first time. All I knew, up until then, about Portishead (the band) is that they were one of those creative groups emerged from the Bristol's underground with a unique music vision. I got the album from a girl who said, and I remember that very well, that she "couldn't start a day without it". We were classmates. Another girl, from my class as well, whom I've tried to get into the band, had no understanding for the album. I couldn't say with certainty today what happened to either of them, or where are they now, although I have my premonitions... Oh, pardon my digression.

Portishead was probably the first album I was able to feel PHYSICALLY and my first encounter with this record can only be compared to some kind of sensual experience, but even that is not good enough; because the first kiss or the first sex (or whatever) come and go, while Portishead still inspires or injures, fascinates or terrorizes me, brings me blessings or catatonia, all depending on the circumstances. I remember those crowded high school hallways, cold classrooms and winter joys and how only Beth Gibbon's vulnerable voice, the voice of the loneliest woman in the universe, could make a sense out of it. That was before, while Portishead today, next to its combatants like In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Colossal Youth and Closer remains a masterpiece without an expected sequel [edit: this was written before the appearance of Third; maybe that's why I never liked that record so much]. Come to think of it, perhaps it wasn't expected at all. No, it couldn't have been, not after that subdued, life-affirming whisper: "Oh, this uncertainty/ Is taking me over"...
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1997
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1,725
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We're all Cohen's children, whether we're aware of it or not. Leonard Cohen, that universal Good, the most talented among all the poets, a Canadian charmer, converted Zen Buddhist, know-it-all wise man who has seen everything an who, just like Jesus in his song "Sisters of Mercy" observes the world from a "lonely wooden tower" giving advices to those with an open mind and a pure heart, fears for us all. Songs of Leonard Cohen has remained his best record even after all these decades. It was sent to us to encourage us, to prepare us for new battles ahead and to always be near us. During the best of of times. During the worst of times.

Sometimes I think that, if I had an opportunity to meet him, I would like to do so many things. I would thank him for all those beautiful stories made into songs and all those gorgeous moments he'd given me that made me a better person. I would ask him if we're really gonna make it, what does Tomorrow bring and will the Cruelty in the end destroy even those few noble things resistant to the corrosion of the Rotten; I would ask him if he's gonna stay forever in his voluntary exile, what's the color of the sky where he lives now and who did he really dedicated "Suzanne" to. But perhaps I wouldn't do any of those things. Perhaps it wouldn't be necessary. It would be enough if we just sat in silence for a few minutes and exchange a couple of glances. I know he would understand. He always does.
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1967
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9,656
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The Velvet Underground & Nico might be getting a higher position almost anywhere, but I would be hard pressed to say if it's a better record then The Marble Index. A fact: The Velvet Underground & Nico has influenced thousands of bands and should be lauded for that alone. The Marble Index was not so influential and I believe it to be its only "flaw" (well, next to its inaccessibility, but that is, as always, debatable – I'd be harder for me to memorize the songs on any given The Beatles album that these jewels here, but... to each his own).

So, what kind of music does The Marble Index offer us? Modern Classical? Experimental Avant-Garde? All true. But the more correct answer would be – unique. With the help of John Cale Nico has presented us her worrying, strange and poetic compositions. In fact, I have the reissue of the album with two bonus tracks ("Roses in the Snow" and "Nibelungen"), but I think it's one of those unique (there it goes that word again!) cases in musical history when bonuses feel like an integral part of an album. No more no less. Get this issue if possible. This is how it should be done.
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1968
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1,319
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I still remember the fist time I've heard this album - I was not too young, but it was not too late either; right on time, that is. But with all the insane music I've discovered on that piece of plastic the question that more than any other wouldn't leave me alone was: how come more people in the World don't know about Pere Ubu? I suppose that even at the end of the Seventies, next to Sex Pistols' blasphemy and The Clash's megalomania, few cared about some crazy band that dared to name itself after an Alfred Jarry's experimental surrealist drama.

But in this case, just like in every other similar I guess, that isn't so important - being ghettoized is the curse of geniuses anyways, since mediocre ones have all the momentary privileges. The Modern Dance is an attempt to humanize Avant-Garde, to bring Captain Beefheart's weirdness closer to an ordinary man. But it's not about "mellowing out" you see; it's about finding new musical forms (though I'd gladly avoid the trap of trying to define them). The band's leader, David Thomas, had managed to build a New Art from his vocal anti-aestheticism and I put him, along with Elizabeth Fraser, at the Vocal Divinities' pedestal. In domain of what we might define "experimental music" The Modern Dance barely has a decent competition. But "experiment" is an awkwardly deceiving notion. Yet, Pere Ubu is a band of the rarest kind - the one that give back a meaning to the word.
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1978
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2,065
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Pixies were a wonder. Post-modern traditionalists, way before "post-modernism", along with "political correctness", became the hottest meta-linguistic phase. Pixies entered my life unexpectedly and furiously and have shaken my whole world; listening to Surfer Rosa was the most intense cultural shock since the time I watched Brian De Palma's movies as an eight-year-old. Discovering a new artistic world, full of unimaginable possibilities, in which the black-and-white stylization and the basic abstraction are the only reliable compasses in a forest full of reduced and naked symbols.

Steve Albini's best production work. A year later an equally brilliant Doolittle followed, but Surfer Rosa, in an analogy of the four Pixies albums with the four seasons, gets an advantage - this is their spring, a moment in which a young band spreads its wings for the first time in all its mighty glory, impulse and strength, ready for the last innovation in music, the end. Without Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joye Sanitago and David Lovering we wouldn't have had a bunch of other bands, from the marvelous (Modest Mouse) to the mediocre ones (Placebo), but more than twenty years later things are clear as they've ever been - Surfer Rosa remains the only document worth possessing. Everything else is just inertia.
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1988
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12,013
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7. (=)
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Ramones weren't intellectuals. Come to think of it, they probably weren't even exceptionally smart. They were just four ordinary street kids that the Lord had blessed with the talent for Rock'n'Roll. However, this is hardly Rock'n'Roll (few things on the list actually are, perhaps more figuratively than anything else). This is an exercise in deconstruction. But of what sort? Academic? No. Pre-planned? A-a. Accidental? Absolutely.

I don't even know how to explain this band and this album. How to explain the aesthetic itself? How to explain that contradictory combination of infantile emotionality and refined minimalism? When I listen to Ramones (the album) I realize that childish playfulness is life's only certainty and that being infantile and intelligent is not a contradiction but the only desirable imperative in the time of the Antichrist. Meaning: it's either Ramones either Željko Joksimović and "Grand Parada" (which is the same thing, I suppose). And it mustn't be forgotten: it's a question of attitude, not just taste. Besides, the best line on Ramones has already been written. I've read is somewhere on the internet: "It takes sophistication to understand Ramones' simplicity." Just as effective as it is economic. The way it should be.
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1976
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Music listening experience doesn't necessarily indicate an unconditional surrender to passive enjoyment or short-lived hedonism. It's an activity that should stimulate all your senses and have a positive effect on your brain cells. With his meticulous composing and producing activities, Brian Eno understood the essence of the most beautiful art form, the way it affects an ear, the way its mechanisms agitate the body, heart and brain, and then he reconstructed it into elementary parts which he then combined anew.

With Another Green World he offered a complex sound texture, a beautiful combination of deconstructed pop music and rich ambient passages of unbelievable depth. Another Green World is a record on which "ambient" doesn't imply, as usually, relaxing and boring, though certainly seducing, musical background, while "pop", like rarely ever before, seems spiritually simulating, elitist, intelligent and, above all, emotionally resonant. Another Green World is an album that should be studied at schools and faculties, in the same way that literature classics are. The world would be a better place. I firmly believe that, with all my aching heart.
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1975
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Every puritan's worst nightmare. A dark, sixty-minute long, dance-inducing, downward spiral of macabre thrills and pure madness. Second Edition (originally issued as Metal Box) has a completely separate place in the history of music. It doesn't have any obvious predecessors, equivalents or followers that I'm aware of; yet, it seems that its genius still hasn't been valuated properly (#14 for 1979 , #634 overall... RYM, ARE you kidding?).

"Albatross" determines, like a mantra, the album's character, with verses "I know you very well/ You are unbearable" that John Lydon addresses to unknown SOMEONE, yet gives them a much wider application value. The whole human micro-cosmos is described in ironically (what else?) titled tracks like "Death Disco" (a.k.a. "Swan Lake"), "Pop Tones" or "Careering". "Chant" is a paranoid rant of someone who has waken up one morning to see the Sun for the last time, while "Radio 4" is a journey to the Heart of Darkness itself. The absurdity lies in the fact that this is not an "anti-social" album. Oh, no. Perhaps, if a music like this could be really heard in discotheques, those temples of desperation, stupidity and uniformity, the world would be more humane. But, Public Image Ltd. still live today in Post-Post-Punk/Dance (whew!) bands like The Rapture. For our pleasure, or pure terror. Never mind the bollocks... Here's the PiL.
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1979
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2,103
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10. (=)
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Are Martin Rev and Alan Vega accidental messengers of self-proclaimed nihilism? Or just transparent exhibitionists deprived of good taste? I mean, Suicide – Suicide? And on top of it – just to confirm our prejudices – the music itself, that, theoretically, seems way too trivial – electronic sounds, cheep synthesizers, and Alan Vega's whimpering anemic voice. Yuck!

On the pragmatic level, however, we lose the ground beneath out feet. Suicide present us Hell itself, but the real, Earthly, social-demagogic and, therefore, much more dangerous one. "Frankie Teardrop" still remains the human existential angst's purest manifesto, one of the scariest songs ever. "Cheree", is, however, equally discomforting, while "Che" is the final nail in the coffin because by then you realize that numbness has become the only indicator of (your) life. Suicide is an invitation to examine your humanity and your ability to recognize life in the Rotten and the Evil. Not an album I would recommend to any of my friends, but the one I'm jealously keeping away from my enemies also. The reservation is necessary, because it's a question of mental hygiene. Consume at your own risk.
[First added to this chart: 07/18/2013]
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1977
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1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 0 0%
1960s 14 14%
1970s 19 19%
1980s 25 25%
1990s 33 33%
2000s 8 8%
2010s 0 0%
2020s 0 0%
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 3 3%
Nick Drake 3 3%
Pixies 2 2%
PJ Harvey 2 2%
Sonic Youth 2 2%
Nico 2 2%
Morphine 1 1%
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United States 47 47%
United Kingdom 28 28%
Germany 6 6%
Canada 6 6%
Australia 5 5%
Mixed Nationality 4 4%
Iceland 2 2%
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No 96 97%
Yes 3 3%
Live? Albums %
No 97 98%
Yes 2 2%

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