Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by 
Antonio-Pedro 
"God gave us music so that we, first and foremost, will be guided upward by it. All qualities are united in music: it can lift us up, it can be capricious, it can cheer us up and delight us, nay, with its soft, melancholy tunes, it can even break the resistance of the toughest character. Its main purpose, however, is to lead our thoughts upward, so that it elevates us, even deeply moves us. ... Music also provides pleasant entertainment and saves everyone who is interested in it from boredom. All humans who despise it should be considered mindless, animal-like creatures. Ever be this most glorious gift of God my companion on my life's journey, and I can consider myself fortunate to have come to love it. Let us sing out in eternal praise to God who is offering us this beautiful enjoyment.
- Nietzsche in 1858
This chart needs some work to blossom away, still need to end some notes from my diary, men at work in progress.
Love you all, Antonio Momonio <3
- Chart updated: 02/22/2023 15:15
- (Created: 10/24/2013 19:00).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Titanic Rising is characterized by a triumph in the field of contemporary art-pop, Weyes Blood can create songs that burst with humanity and life, with contagious vocal melodies, ensuring a pleasurable and rich musical journey. Titanic Rising abstracts some symmetrical influence from rock albums of the '70s, guitar solos a-la George Harrison, composition crescendos that make Elton John have memory lapses and a voice that ring a bell with Karen Carpenter. The album opens with A Lot’s Gonna Change, an ethereal song which opens with angelical strings followed by a piano and weyes's voice slowly opening like a flower into something bigger, something more beautiful, the drum stretches and the violins dawn in a euphoric chorus , the name of the song is repeated so softly that it seems that it was made by a divine touch, a musical entity of a dreamlike plane; in my opinion the highlight of the album and the best song of 2019. The first 4 songs are a streak that currently holds the best opening sequence of an album, with “ Andromeda ” being a more sentimental ballad, playing with a somewhat challenging progression and contains a solo that would make Harrison proud if he were alive today, “Everytime” A pop song that uses the artifice of weyes skill with a beautiful vocal melody to stand out from its not so unique evolution. “Something to believe ” closes this room with a bittersweet request for peace, the whole aura of the song longing for a feeling that overwhelmed a comfort of having something to hold on to nearby. One of the things that I find most intriguing about titanic rising is how all of her songs can catch my attention, it seems like all of them were done in their own time and the recordings themselves took their time and the creative respect that these songs deserved. The result is a much more organic, enjoyable product that allows you to be much closer emotionally to weyes, within the possibilities, and this makes the richness of elements that the songs are immersed into much more visible and passable of appreciation. “Wild time” triumphs in the second part of the album for its theme-like resemblance and progressive construction of older songs (as I said, weyes managed to bring very good 70s aspects to this album) and probably builds the album's most epic song, being a distant second cousin of "Us and Them " and "I Talk to the Wind," she harnesses the instrumental richness of the album and the bold progression in which it is built to stretch between sonic arrangements that echo in the furthest parts of the universe. Titanic Rising is a work of art of painted priceless beauty in a person 's head in his room, asking the why the world is like that, the album exudes a mature tone, but it contains a refreshing breeze of innocence.
[First added to this chart: 08/05/2019]
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2019
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5,328
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Jim O'Rourke is a fantastic and enigmatic man, surely one of my favorite personalities on all music, and one of the most overlooked and creative minds producing music out there,one of the best aspects about him, is that he is able to create a certain substantial sound, not only for this album, but in all of his other works, shapeshifting between his american primitivism roots, until his neo drone spiderwebs, in which nothing has a concrete and real shape, everything can be changeable and palpable, and he swings from this many forms in such a smooth way, that drowns even the more uninterested listener into his pink sea, as the the effects of the incoherence and his miserableness echoes through the deepest and more emotional abyss in your mind, the actual ear pleasure is feeling almost everything is real and close to you, and Jimmo knows how to do that, he architects the instrumentation from the simplest banjo until the most sophisticated orchestra, while he glimpses and kisses the melodies from each song gratefully, giving them an extra glimpse of beauty. Opening with a Fahey like fairytale dreamland, he explores all the harmonies the song is able to support until it explodes in a ecstasy of beauty, as each layer of elastic instrumentation lays down, as a choir of mini Jims follow their master until the river in each this song drowns into ghost ship in a storm. Sometimes I think the album gets in a state of paranoia as when the instrumentation begins to talk with itself and seems to get out of control (The beginning of "Movie on the Way Down" for example when all the strings and drums begin to dance with each other), But it's incredible how O'Rourke can contain all this raw colorful melody caged, and let it fly slowly. Introspection with the artist is one the aspects that is more explored in music, how to make you feel really close and emotionally attached to that one special alien which feels the entire aquarium with his liquid, and in most of jim's work he explores it using mediocrity of our own states, some feelings that we condemn ourselves for feeling, or those actions we also condemn, your own pride, he connects us with his human state, he has felt the same way as us, he has experienced all those heartbreaks, and in the future he just knows how it ends, and all the strings fill in the blank of the lyrics with a slow warm on your soul, a huge step forward is just looking yourself in the mirror, and acknowledging how ridiculous we have been with ourselves, I think this is one of the main subjects behind eureka. One thing which makes me love Eureka, is that Jim seems not to be stopped, he and this album moves to various directions in a way that none of the songs sound alike, some are smother, feels like he is moving like a somber ghost in the dark alleys of tokyo, but there is even space for the psychedelic and melancholic (melanpsyche... haha sounds like a mellon who kills other melons) compositions, In which he builds a total different atmosphere from the actual direction of the song, and suddenly throws us back into a distant alternate story for the same tale, but in all of these years listening to this album the most incredible aspect which still bubble my dongles, is still the fact that he made these 43 minutes float down so quickly through my mind, it was just beautiful in an miserable and emotional way.
"I can't stand this record, it's just a disaster to me." - Jim O'Rourke [First added to this chart: 05/31/2015]
"I can't stand this record, it's just a disaster to me." - Jim O'Rourke [First added to this chart: 05/31/2015]
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1999
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1,147
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I already had many diverse experiences with Souvlaki until this moment that it becomes really hard to put it all down into a single review. After all, what hasn't been said since its release in the 90's? yeah, I know... the dreamy wave that makes it the middle school sister of Loveless; But in the end, the question that pops inside my head everytime I try to write something about this is How to critically analyze something that means so much to you without automatically involve yourself into? Every human that has it's soul breathing, has certain attachment with their favorite records in a way that only determinate experiences can speak, what means that even if I write 8 zillion words over here, none of them will be able to capture how many smiles and tears souvlaki has gifted me. From lonely trips at 4 am, to sudden discoveries about how much the sunrise is beautiful, this record has composed a big part of my structure as a person, I have tied so many moments and unique feelings in it, and the fact that I could record these experiences inside something concrete and real makes it so much better, because there is no better way to recall myself how human I am, than seeing how soft I have been, how strong and deep my roots are. Souvlaki is a mother's hug, something that surely we can live without, but it's surely missed and irreplaceable, it's warm, a hot blanket in a snowy night, it's ethereal, something that transgress the capacity of my own intellect to comprehend how subtly it moves between my ears, and comforting, there is a blue feeling of love and friendship that bursts out of these songs. "When The Sun Hits" for example, after it emerges out of its embryonic state like a champagne bottle, might be the closest I've ever been of a drawn of an inside supernova, the explosion of every single atomic element that exists in the universe is colorful and slow, the collapsing of two dry mouths into one single body, chaos has never been so organized and bright before.
In my first contact with Souvlaki, I remember listening to it 5 times in-a-row, it felt challenging and rewarding after each listen, I was every single time more and more drowned into it, the metaphysical adventures were just about to start. But I started to admire its structure and crafting after seeing the pitchfork documentary for this record, how some sad blokes just decided to pack up their things and, record all that in depth emotion, not something raw and pure, but rather a psychological and elaborated take in teenage relationships and the numerous curves of love. I found myself motivated to share some of my simpler or remarkable moments with it since then, don't really know why, and that's what kept me trying to find the perfect moment with Slowdive, I always felt there would be a perfect timing to fit with this album, because something in this, an unknown mass keeps pulling it over my ears, maybe it's the bittersweet sounding wall of sound that hugs the sculpture of these songs. And then, it just became so overwhelmingly connected with me, that it occupied many of my lonely nights with mellow yellow poems, daydreaming in a bus to school became part of my routine, there was a time I was listening to souvlaki 31 times a month, so I can say I have most of their ethereal and dreamy soundscapes painted in a unconscious part of my mind.
See? I have told a really long story about how I clicked with this record but I couldn't still explain its reason to sound so perfect. And the reason is, there is so much, or maybe there is so little I've still not experienced with souvlaki, that I can't, at this moment, point a reason or a formula to its mysterious melancholic atmosphere, there is still pieces of the music here I haven't collected, there is still details that I haven't noticed. Souvlaki is special, because it maintains it's because it maintains it's blissful unknown substance until today, the search for its essence is more astonishing than the discovery. There is some magical liquid running through my ears every time the opening of "Alison" plays. [First added to this chart: 07/11/2014]
In my first contact with Souvlaki, I remember listening to it 5 times in-a-row, it felt challenging and rewarding after each listen, I was every single time more and more drowned into it, the metaphysical adventures were just about to start. But I started to admire its structure and crafting after seeing the pitchfork documentary for this record, how some sad blokes just decided to pack up their things and, record all that in depth emotion, not something raw and pure, but rather a psychological and elaborated take in teenage relationships and the numerous curves of love. I found myself motivated to share some of my simpler or remarkable moments with it since then, don't really know why, and that's what kept me trying to find the perfect moment with Slowdive, I always felt there would be a perfect timing to fit with this album, because something in this, an unknown mass keeps pulling it over my ears, maybe it's the bittersweet sounding wall of sound that hugs the sculpture of these songs. And then, it just became so overwhelmingly connected with me, that it occupied many of my lonely nights with mellow yellow poems, daydreaming in a bus to school became part of my routine, there was a time I was listening to souvlaki 31 times a month, so I can say I have most of their ethereal and dreamy soundscapes painted in a unconscious part of my mind.
See? I have told a really long story about how I clicked with this record but I couldn't still explain its reason to sound so perfect. And the reason is, there is so much, or maybe there is so little I've still not experienced with souvlaki, that I can't, at this moment, point a reason or a formula to its mysterious melancholic atmosphere, there is still pieces of the music here I haven't collected, there is still details that I haven't noticed. Souvlaki is special, because it maintains it's because it maintains it's blissful unknown substance until today, the search for its essence is more astonishing than the discovery. There is some magical liquid running through my ears every time the opening of "Alison" plays. [First added to this chart: 07/11/2014]
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1993
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Old dusty dixieland records playing with an holographic exposition of happy people on 40s ballroom dances. Luckily I have been on a certain stroke of good discoveries in the last few blue moons, this album and some few I found while in my wild musical jungle discoveries out there, certainly got me joyful on its first respective spins, in a way which both of them could translate into a certain emotional enchanting reverberation in my ears, and this just has got me hyped and certainly kinda artistic (such as my interest for different areas of art, such as Graphic design and photography) have developed a lot lately. And so I thought it would be more than fair writing about one of the responsible for all this curiosity. I commonly have the habit of setting a tone to certain albums, and it's no lie that it normally makes the experience of enjoying the music itself more delightful, as all the landscape that my eyes can catch is comfortable and adequate, giving a blooming synesthesiatic avalanche for my heart and soul, the ears and eyes are able to transport me to a certain dimension that is almost achievable to the aesthetic of the record. With An empty bliss, I commonly find it being the last thing I hear at night, and the first soundtrack to my dreams at dawn, it's such a peaceful and mellow record with its scratching noises and dixieland nostalgia, it could bring back unlived and living memories of your grandpa's childhood, with it's sampling of old jazzy tunes it manages to disintegrate the listener into a liquid flow of homesickness and relate-ness. While many people can almost portray this as a certain blood-brother as the bioshock sondtrack, I find it much more closer to that scene in wall-e in which it watches the old movies and with its humanized consciousness, is able to scratch emotions from that gradient of art, which is also one of the most significant scenes on the cinema for me. I have been speaking of bittersweetness in my notes for quite a few time, and for me one of the most interesting moments of music's after laughter bittersweet is that it manages to contrast opposing extremes of the whole spectrum into the same artistic package, and with this album they have quite hit the perfect high spot for it. As I have spoken before, my impulse of attaching the album to a certain atmosphere outside of me is mostly because of the desire of being vulnerable for to all the thousand-face feelings to take over me and mix inside my stomach, until bringing me to a certain contrast of unexplainable melancholia, melancholia has never been so pleasurable before, as the strings locks in with the record playing in the back I lay down in my chair and think about my past and nostlagia tickles me into a dreamy adventure reminding me how good life is. Last week I was reading about human emotion and how different cultures have their own native words for their emotions, and it allowed me to understand so much about this sea of consistent emotional ups and downs in my mind, it allows you to understand so much more and to give voice to that human expression inside of you, and recognize that moment of bliss in which we found ourselves to find a meaning in the universe around us, and it's a fucking beautiful place.
"An Empty Bliss Beyond This World follows the mind of a person who tries and struggles to remember even small parts of his life using broken sounds. The record was based on a 2010 study about the ability of people with alzheimer's disease to remember music they listened to when they were younger, as well as where they were and how they felt when they listened to it. The Caretaker project was inspired by the use of ballroom music in films such as Carnival Of Souls, The Shining, and the television series Pennies from Heaven, which drew James Kirby to themes of memory loss that appear on An Empty Bliss Beyond This World: "Famously, people as they got older have started seeing dead people, people from the past, and that's their reality because the brain's misfiring. I'm very interested in these kinds of stories. Music's probably the last thing to go for a lot of people with advanced Alzheimer's. There are a lot of people who suffer from Alzheimer's who just hum the same songs over and over again" [First added to this chart: 01/30/2018]
"An Empty Bliss Beyond This World follows the mind of a person who tries and struggles to remember even small parts of his life using broken sounds. The record was based on a 2010 study about the ability of people with alzheimer's disease to remember music they listened to when they were younger, as well as where they were and how they felt when they listened to it. The Caretaker project was inspired by the use of ballroom music in films such as Carnival Of Souls, The Shining, and the television series Pennies from Heaven, which drew James Kirby to themes of memory loss that appear on An Empty Bliss Beyond This World: "Famously, people as they got older have started seeing dead people, people from the past, and that's their reality because the brain's misfiring. I'm very interested in these kinds of stories. Music's probably the last thing to go for a lot of people with advanced Alzheimer's. There are a lot of people who suffer from Alzheimer's who just hum the same songs over and over again" [First added to this chart: 01/30/2018]
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2011
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[First added to this chart: 07/29/2019]
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2000
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Going out at night after midnight when it's all dark, finding a woman sitting in a seat, alone in the park, with her headphones. Her long brown hair dances along the wind and her voice can lighten up all the lights around her, she is singing with her eyes closed, she doesn't want to leave the fantasy world she is hypnotized in, there is something beautiful that escapes from her lungs, you can literally see the colors of the sounds and the wonderful melodies of her voice through the air and hitting the lightbulbs out there. You both take a walk through the city at night, Dead Streets, corners blinking, buildings that seem to breath, each little step she does is a fresh air breeze, the city is alive again, its blood moves again, I don't want to go back home tonight, and I hope the sun doesn't rise some time. She blows worlds and entire universes with her voice, as it shapeshifts over my ears, new places rises inside my mind, I can almost feel the hot tone of the lightbulb of the streets she sings on, it hits me like a warm breeze passed between each of my bones. Julia is some nocturnal goddess that decided to take her human form and comfort our poor cold urban hearts, and I'm so happy I have this to share a lonely friday night. Thank You Holter.
[First added to this chart: 02/16/2014]
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2013
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I have so many things to say about this song. When I got into the fishmans a year ago, this was the first song of theirs that I've put my ears onto, and surely I was not expecting it to be so long, but most surprisingly I was not expecting it to throw many diverse feelings into me. See, long season is built over a single melody that variate into 5 parts shaping inside a 43 minute puzzle, minimalistic dream pop made correctly, the way the harmonies lay beside the guitars and that looping piano track it's hysterical, and there is also space for a 6 minutes drum solo. While listening to this live album I was so excited for this song to come on, because it's indeed the epitome of everything they have played through this record, it's filled with too many details, more than the recorded version, that the reward for the risk of going through this monumental musical piece is as big as the effort to immerse yourself into it. Long season is a song that would be the musical equivalent of a photography book, the phase of growing up and realizing how weird the world is, all of this in just a long winter. Knowing that this would be shinji last song, someway puts me in his position, in a way that the song feels like an enormous flashback through the life of this little boy, all the happiness all the sadness, a bittersweet taste of having the life passing through this melody, its ups and downs. I know that I am very paranoid about keeping old stuff with me, avoiding everything that built myself as a man, blow away like dust, keeping every single human and moment someway next to me, so I don't find myself lost in oblivion sometime, so I can someway find a existential meaning in these little pieces of my memory I've brought with me, and I guess this might be long season. There is this moment in the song where everybody in the crowd is swallowed by this immense amount of high and sweetly sharp sounds, that almost feel like a purifying moment, I could say that it's kinda spiritual for those who believe in it, and for those who even don't, everyone (from the band to the last person standing on the crowd) is tune with this animistic and outer-dimensional spiritual body. Some people keep photographs, some other videos, I like to think that this was shinji's way to remember all that the universe meant to him, and they played it like never before. after these 37 minutes there is a taste in my mouth (or ears) that wants more. Winter has never been so warm.
[First added to this chart: 07/31/2016]
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1996
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5,524
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"Every time you look up at the stars, it’s like opening a door. You could be anyone, anywhere. You could be yourself at any moment in your life. You open that door and you realize you’re the same person under the same stars. Camping out in the backyard with your best friend, eleven years old. Sixteen, driving alone, stopping at the edge of the city, looking up at the same stars. Walking a wooded path, kissing in the moonlight, look up and you’re eleven again. Chasing cats in a tiny town, you’re eleven again, you’re sixteen again. You’re in a rowboat. You’re staring out the back of a car. Out here where the world begins and ends, it’s like nothing ever stops happening" - Bryan Lee O'Malley
Stargazing for a whole night, solidifying the feeling of being eaten by the moonlight, Wondering How many stars are out there, and looking for numerous meaning of existence. I remember that one of my favorite hobbies when listening to music in the past (about 2 or 3 years ago) was to lay on my backyard at night and look at all the stars and moons with patience, appreciate the shine from each light, I tried to identify where they were in the universe, if they all were from different galaxies, and if someone out there could just hear me. And one of the reasons this habit was so addicting was because space would bring a certain etheral energy for me, I would feel so fulfilled with myself as I gazed upon all the dozens of stars that shined continuously or periodically, and loved how the moon used to shine on me. And one of the best experiences I could ever have was to do this while listening to AIA, having a backstory of not doing this for quite a long time. And as the night went to pass by, this record looped at least 3 times before I decided to silently hear my own breath. Transcendence is the magical word that this record will forever associated, that intimate feeling which your feel your aural self levitate some feet above your material yourself in a state where bliss and the unknown meet, a magical line of pleasure and mystery is extended and you're quite walking on both sides, it feels like a spiritual heal, in a way that it elevates this little boy out from this world and all that look he has given the universe has dilated in some orgasmic and soft moments, your eyes are closed and you feel nothing but a weight over your shoulders disappear and a slow lifting like a feather. And there is something beyond all these dreamy layers, which liz involves us, there is all this lush and warm fog, that involves all our organs from inside and puts up in connection with the higher presence of this being that is in touch with us, all this nakedness, all this pureness, bring us to our instincts, to our most inner wishes and wishes, letting us in such an vulnerable aural state to allow the melodies to shape our dreamland. Alien observer is such a special gift for me, and such a great memory from all the nights I have spent out there looking for the beauty in the universe, it is one of the few way outs that can wormhole me into a different dimension in such an effective and crystal way, wrapped in a bubble flying out there calmly and silently. It is something certainly otherwordly, and what a better way to celebrate this extraterrestrial experience than with a outherspace lady which slowly invades our ears and make our hearts as her home.
It's a blessing we are not alone in the universe.
. [First added to this chart: 04/15/2017]
Stargazing for a whole night, solidifying the feeling of being eaten by the moonlight, Wondering How many stars are out there, and looking for numerous meaning of existence. I remember that one of my favorite hobbies when listening to music in the past (about 2 or 3 years ago) was to lay on my backyard at night and look at all the stars and moons with patience, appreciate the shine from each light, I tried to identify where they were in the universe, if they all were from different galaxies, and if someone out there could just hear me. And one of the reasons this habit was so addicting was because space would bring a certain etheral energy for me, I would feel so fulfilled with myself as I gazed upon all the dozens of stars that shined continuously or periodically, and loved how the moon used to shine on me. And one of the best experiences I could ever have was to do this while listening to AIA, having a backstory of not doing this for quite a long time. And as the night went to pass by, this record looped at least 3 times before I decided to silently hear my own breath. Transcendence is the magical word that this record will forever associated, that intimate feeling which your feel your aural self levitate some feet above your material yourself in a state where bliss and the unknown meet, a magical line of pleasure and mystery is extended and you're quite walking on both sides, it feels like a spiritual heal, in a way that it elevates this little boy out from this world and all that look he has given the universe has dilated in some orgasmic and soft moments, your eyes are closed and you feel nothing but a weight over your shoulders disappear and a slow lifting like a feather. And there is something beyond all these dreamy layers, which liz involves us, there is all this lush and warm fog, that involves all our organs from inside and puts up in connection with the higher presence of this being that is in touch with us, all this nakedness, all this pureness, bring us to our instincts, to our most inner wishes and wishes, letting us in such an vulnerable aural state to allow the melodies to shape our dreamland. Alien observer is such a special gift for me, and such a great memory from all the nights I have spent out there looking for the beauty in the universe, it is one of the few way outs that can wormhole me into a different dimension in such an effective and crystal way, wrapped in a bubble flying out there calmly and silently. It is something certainly otherwordly, and what a better way to celebrate this extraterrestrial experience than with a outherspace lady which slowly invades our ears and make our hearts as her home.
It's a blessing we are not alone in the universe.
. [First added to this chart: 04/15/2017]
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2011
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OH YEAH
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it, turn it, leave it, start, format it
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it, turn it, leave it, start, format it
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it, turn it, leave it, start, format it
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it, turn it, leave it, start, format it
TELEVISIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON
RULES THE NATIOOOOOON
AROUND THE WOOORLD THE WOOORLD THW WOOORLD
WORK IT
MAKE IT
if you listened to any of these on the back of your head while reading this, then wow you are truly ready for this album and should revisit/visit it ASAP, trust me I'm a doctor [First added to this chart: 12/17/2017]
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it, turn it, leave it, start, format it
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it, turn it, leave it, start, format it
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it, turn it, leave it, start, format it
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it, turn it, leave it, start, format it
TELEVISIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON
RULES THE NATIOOOOOON
AROUND THE WOOORLD THE WOOORLD THW WOOORLD
WORK IT
MAKE IT
if you listened to any of these on the back of your head while reading this, then wow you are truly ready for this album and should revisit/visit it ASAP, trust me I'm a doctor [First added to this chart: 12/17/2017]
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2007
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I used to compare Phil Elvrum's works as the musical equivalent of Lars Von Trier's movies. The Boldness is combined with a sense of creativity that spills emotion all over the listener, He/She is ripped out from the comfort zone and thrown out in the middle of a hurricane without any clues of how he got there, and how Elvrum decides to treat us is insanely weird, he quietly comes closer and closer until we can listen to him breathing, so close that we can hear his blood moving through his veins, so close that we can see that wilderness that is covered behind his eyes. He appears alone to calm down the disorder that is established in "The Sun", and inserts us in some kind of stellar ritual, with the moon and the sun as witnesses, the abstract glow is now swallow by a big mass of vacuum and negative energy coming from a big black hole. What I most love in Phil's works is how much it seems personal and how much it represents the chaos that is the human mind, our pessimism personified in trumpets and nymphs' voices, inducting you to be weaker and weaker. "Solar System" is the perfect ode to the myth of the eternal return, The troubadour that interacts with his loneliness and outside forces to wish his lover comeback, The continuous use of "I Know you're out there" reinforces the feeling of how much he has waited and will wait for her to be back, let it rain, let there be sun, the world will end and his dreams will still be floating in the ether. In "universe I" the band join its multi-instrumental magic to give life to the fragility of human conscience and confidence, from the lonely guitar that follows Elvrum through the glow of the moon, going through reflexes in mud puddles with her curves drawn, until our hero down to his knees offers himself to the force that moves the universe, and we are brought then to a weird journey that is mount eerie, a force that purifies and devours each piece of your soul. The eclipse starts, his eyes are burnt, he is tilting towards the sun, and the mount eerie wakes from his thrones and begins to drain any light that remains in the listener's hope. This has been a hell of an adventure huh? When I first completed Mount Eerie I got myself theorizing all night and dawn, what the hell did I just passed through? Is this some kind of metaphor to the trifling human emotions and feelings? That's why I consider this record to be so great, it explores the outside world of music, it's not just about listening to something, but rather taking a philosophical walk to somewhere, we are humans and overall we should know how soulless we have become in the last years. In the end we have stars and galaxies inside us, we are a whole universe of deception and loneliness, love and hate, we are a big avalanche of synesthesia, we are a big mess of sense. And In the end we will be all swallow and superb about how deep our night is, how coloured our supernovas are, how enormous our soul is.
[First added to this chart: 10/15/2016]
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2003
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 5 | 5% | |
| 1970s | 15 | 15% | |
| 1980s | 7 | 7% | |
| 1990s | 15 | 15% | |
| 2000s | 23 | 23% | |
| 2010s | 34 | 34% | |
| 2020s | 1 | 1% |
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| Jim O'Rourke | 4 | 4% | |
| Pink Floyd | 2 | 2% | |
| Car Seat Headrest | 2 | 2% | |
| Beach House | 2 | 2% | |
| The Beatles | 2 | 2% | |
| Sonic Youth | 2 | 2% | |
| Mac DeMarco | 2 | 2% | |
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25 | 25% | |
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7 | 7% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 29 from 34th to 5th Figure 8 by Elliott Smith |
| Up 2 from 3rd to 1st Titanic Rising by Weyes Blood |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 1st to 2nd Eureka by Jim O'Rourke |
| Down 1 from 2nd to 3rd Souvlaki by Slowdive |
| Down 1 from 5th to 6th Loud City Song by Julia Holter |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums ratings
93/100 (from 184 votes)
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 100/100  | 07/27/2022 23:02 | Soencer | | 100/100 |
| 90/100 | 11/24/2021 00:27 |  DriftingOrpheus | | 91/100 |
| 90/100 | 11/23/2021 19:43 |  rockbluesfolkjaz | | 87/100 |
| 100/100 | 11/23/2021 12:29 |  Cytoma | | 90/100 |
| 100/100 | 11/20/2021 05:16 |  Charade | | 97/100 |
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From 
DommeDamian 02/24/2023 21:45
DommeDamian 02/24/2023 21:45
Maybe I should give Titanic Rising a new spin.
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90/100
From rockbluesfolkjaz 11/23/2021 19:42
rockbluesfolkjaz 11/23/2021 19:42
Very nice. I like the added info under each choice as well. Explanations and information referring to the choice and the reason picked helps the reader a lot. I've done a few, buy not all. Very sad that that the number one album, "Eureka," can't be found in most places, or anywhere else to purchase or listen, except on youtube.
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95/100
From 
seb7 10/22/2021 23:16
seb7 10/22/2021 23:16
I just listened to Eureka. Mind-blowing
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90/100
From Johnnyo 12/24/2020 15:06
Great chart and the effort that has gone into the accompanying notes really makes in come alive.
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From Luigii 10/21/2020 16:39
Just want to mention that the greatest list for me is done for now.
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100/100
From 
Joeingram 09/14/2020 18:13
Joeingram 09/14/2020 18:13
One of the best charts! I love Eureka and Long Season very much.
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100/100
From 
Keatownrodriguez 09/14/2020 14:52
Keatownrodriguez 09/14/2020 14:52
From the albums that I do know and your descriptions on the ones I don't this chart is sick! I'll be listening to a lot of new albums thanks to this chart
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100/100
From BraddlesHendo 09/14/2020 12:57
A+ 5 stars just for incredibly well written commentary on your fave albums. Lots of time to compile this
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100/100
From 
benpaco 01/22/2020 18:25
benpaco 01/22/2020 18:25
Finally time to mine this for recs
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100/100
From DommeDamian 01/22/2020 17:41
DommeDamian 01/22/2020 17:41
This is my fifth comment on this chart:
- I feel I have a spiritual connection with this chart in some way, gnomesayin'.
- If I could take 5 charts with me if the internet crashes down and never recovers, this'll be one of 'em.
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