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

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As the sun rises and the trees smile for their dreamlike food, the people move out their house like zombies in hunt for their jobs or schools or even food, at the bus stop chicane you glimpse dozens of heads, shaved and hairy, and antonio and his headphones ready to board in his crowded adventure, and while the road from his centripetal dream land is far away from the caves of med study it allows the own to listen to musical masterpieces that can once disintegrate his grumpy humor and let the sunshine flow through his skin and warm up his veins, and you look at the skinny and flamboyant dressed kid that is almost dancing to the tunes he has on his pocket, and you can catch julian casablancas cheering his bones and soul up with a lovely song, it's almost a breakfast like tradition, maybe that little kid is moved to music after all, good to know that the worms of magical experience still manage to crawl through his body. The title track portraits a jumpy bass, a drum that encourages you to get chained to the rythm, turn it up it's my favorite song! the little kid squeezes his backpack on his front and move his red all-stars in the bus corridor, moving his neck and letting his muscle flowing as the rythm pulses constantly and bubbly into his ears. as we go through the city the shinny and sharp guitar seems to put him to look out in a positive way to all these pieces of meat going to life, work or maybe pilot an airplane, or maybe a painter coming back from a dawn mystical experience, all of them brundled in a sardine can... I mean bus, and so we look on in a optimistic and romantic prism to the world around us, the happy (or at least pseudo-happiness) melodies pave the way for a fulfilling and colorful roads filled with cars and roundabouts and life! Sometimes he catches himself closing his eyes and having a lucid dream in the streets of new york, the quick timing of the world, fake happy smiles and promisses and appointments.

If you look around the pre-2001 optimism through fast images of the world you will get a little bit of how vivid this album's experience kicks in this lonely dancy-boy has every morning.

Now It's not a mantra I sing to myself, but I kinda am adept of living with a good energy, there are so many wonderful things out there, many people that care with me, that like to make a good thing to the world, spreading a bad energy is just as bad to the others as it will corrupt your day and you if it becomes a certain habit, there are more outside there to bring smiles to our face, rejoice as once again we stumble between smiles and tears, to tilt towards the sun and live a brand new day. Choose life my dear buddies, there is something bright, something beautiful and new waiting for us everyday.

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2001
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[First added to this chart: 04/30/2016]
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2015
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GO FUCK YOURSELF, YOU HEARD ME RIGHT. Roads with dead end streets in which weird and wounded ghosts live on by, throw a stone the first one that hasn't felt spooked when heard about the demons and the visceral creatures that live on the depths of the underworld. MGMT's music always struck me with such an eerie and halloween-like vibe, in a way like they were trying to always to hit us with some galactic and otherworldly stories and psychedelic sysnesthethic aesthetic that was masterfully crafted on their debut Oracular spectacular. But I always had a step behind with Oracular as I felt it was mostly built around as castles of sand for the lead singles, in a way that everything there just pales in comparison and looks sorta odd (like inserting alien blood into a worm heart). So as you probably would think I wasn't sleeping on the kilo metrical ticket line for Little dark Age when it was announced, since their Self-titled album dragged me through a lot of hype curves, and fell off as a collage of experimental attempts of deconstructing their own pop structure. By the lightning, LDA hits you with a bat with she works out too much dressing you out on aerobics lycra clothing, with a retrowave atmosphere which evolves the entire record like a star gift paper, it sounds like it just came from a fitness channel directly broadcasted into your ears, welcome to the shitshow as the song opens. LDA feels like an astral successor to MGMT (actually it sounds more like its twin unknown brother that happened to live in a alternate dimension) flowing like a solid intermediate point between their structural experimentation and their pop refinement, not allowing the album flow into a sea of mediocrity in the non-singles song (which is actually a really good achievement since I couldn't notice myself which of the singles were actually singles). And in the end "Hand it over" feels like such a fitting closer with its lightweight as bubble plastic progression and bittersweet warm hands evolving all over your body, slowly surrendering into the flow of the river, it's always harder to fight the inevitable. Living a Virtual nightmare with x-ray goggles infected by a radioactive junkie, look out for what is actually there and what isn't, the sun doesn't look too hot as today as it was one day, as I don't remember my shadow having this kind of silhouette. [First added to this chart: 03/19/2018]
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2018
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The baroque symphony for the last weeks of autumn, a Michelangelo-like painting on the shades of brown from the leaves falling from the almost dead trees, the strings scream and minimalize the emotion from the young kids adventures in these country forests. Fall is just by the corner and, even not being my favorite season (that being winter, but since I live in a equatorial climate, It doesn't change shit), when its signs began to appear I immediately was taken back to my little record store, bought and put out this record to play. While it is a fantastic and addictive and accessible record, funeral was probably the last record from AF that I got into (not counting reflektor since I began listening to them around 2012 or so). I had a hard time swallowing the emotional roller-coaster from this record, of course I had an instant and unstoppable love for the opening song and I really enjoyed the design of the cover (which I spent an hour trying to draw but since I SUCK at drawing It seemed like the guy had some deficiency in his hand haha.), but besides that, the melancholic and desperate tone of growing up from the suburbs attracted me more than the chamber shade of brown from this record. As moving on in life, I noticed that even having the big desperation of losing the beauty from the youth that the suburbs was trying to portray, the numerous crisis of identity that I had last year also destabilized a big part of my confidence in myself and attached me more to the suburbs than a bee is attached to flowers (or would it be honey?), I found the beauty of the dying signs of the passage of time from Funeral much more lovely, You know when you look to some old photos from yours and your family and looking behind sees that all that you've passed through was necessary and worth it? Now I know that when talking about both of these albums they surely are tangible in some subjects, that being the Weberian application of the dying innocence theory and the semi-stages of grief, suburbs shows the depth of the feeling apocalypse, eclipsing the whole bright side of it (besides having Sprawl II as brief moment of euphoria still shadowed with a quiet dark-tone), Funeral besides showing the death of the innocence, and trying to deal with the lost of all that ether that was inside of your person can catch the most beautiful tears from your person when attaching the necessity of moving on, Nostalgia is exactly the exact power that keeps pushing this record on, not on the musical quality of course, but what keeps feeding us the vignete like instrumentation that can remembers us from our unforgotten past. It's kinda weird because I never felt like that I would give records determined human values or share of memories as many of them take care of right now, though, as time kept moving on my life and mostly everyone's I found that art, specially music is one of the few things that can keep that special part of the universe close to us (like is already probably stated in the description for this chart), and if music is god's work to ascend the humans to another ethereal level of existence, then I think it's right to say that it's god's hands writing stuff on the cover. [First added to this chart: 11/24/2013]
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2004
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WARNING: Tago Mago may have some collateral Effects:
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Perturbation, sensuality, fear, dreams, madness, life.
this is one of those albums that you need more than 10 listens case you do not like the first time. is very innovative for its time, but also looks very disconcerting for its time.The album begins in a well manner brought to the rock, demonstrating ability and dexterity. "Paperhouse" seems to be a mix between rock and noise-rock, leading the album to very different direction to where it was about to go. After finishing the guitar solo, the album does not let you rest, weaving songs quickly. "Mushroom" seems like a pretty sexy song for me, but the lyrics are very strange, and instrumentation also already showing the true path of the album, things start to get heavy from there. And in the last bite or spark of "Mushroom" you hear a bomb, BOOM! and a violent rain falls, a climate of darkness forms in music, the ideas start coming into your head quickly, imaginations start flying across the room, and increasingly you wonder why you're enjoying it, and your mind responds furious because she needed it for a while. "Oh Yeah" is my favorite of the album, it can join the two parts of the album, the first more sane taken a more classic rock with milder effects, and second most whimsical. The song already shows what is to come, Damo starts singing backwards, the music pulsates rapidly ,then he speaks Japanese, and the song is illuminated by the dark glow of that guitar solo. Soon after the feeling of fear in "Oh Yeah" comes "Halleluhwah" which seems to have been made to be played in the resistance tests. A trip, this is the song, Drum Solos, light bass that leads the song quickly and with a black glamour. And Damo sings as ever, and that voice again it can fit in the song, he screams like crazy, driving the words on your face, and transmits strange and incoherent ideas with the state of the person, it's like a light room binding and erasing quickly, Barging your vision, and your mind will gradually degrading, at the point of fusion. After .. Well I will not write this difficult title again, we have "Aumgn" which seems to have been made for relaxation, but then you discover that you're in a trip to the hell, or in a dark room without people to watch you, you get stoned musically, and those little microbes of your brain lurk to your feet to escape the torture of hearing it for the first time and it lasts more than fifteen minutes, fifteen minutes of strange imagination, If Halleluwah was going to heaven this song directed you to the hell, with suffering, people eating your soul and slicing every part of your heart, playing with you organs, and burning your spirit. And there hard work of antibodies to prevent brain melt and pour to the entire body and prevent your ears from bleeding quickly. "Peking O" brings suffering at your hands, the despair in your eyes, in your mind and life, the strangest thing I've ever heard, took me 11 minutes of mental torture, where every minute I thought of throwing up my thoughts or vomit that melted brain. To close it all have "Bring Me Coffee Or Tea" is the emergency exit from this album, and you better run than the song closes and you get stuck inside that coordinated by the illusion of reality and the reality of the illusion. There's nothing better in the world than dream with it.
[First added to this chart: 11/04/2013]
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1971
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[First added to this chart: 04/07/2017]
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2010
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Who says music can't sound like drinking creamy soda while cotton buds are lightly pressing against your cheeks and an attractive young woman licks you between your shoulder blades? [First added to this chart: 12/02/2014]
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2012
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[First added to this chart: 07/29/2019]
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1975
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[First added to this chart: 06/17/2019]
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1972
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Now I have to be quite honest with you my friends, while I've gotten to jangle with many of the jewels that beach boys have brought to us mere mortals with time, I always found pet sounds to be an album that lacked something, Of course "God only knows" and "Wouldn't it be nice" are eternal masterpieces which are not in question when I mean it, but I always felt like the album went into something bigger as a complete work and it has got somewhere close to what it wanted to be. I remember listening it for the first time some years ago, and finding nothing special about it (I admit that I had a bias virus for the 60s installed in my consciousness at that time) and rubbing it with other eldery stuff I had in my library. After thousands of lunar cycles and song cycles, I've came back and gave it the spin it deserved, it clicked a lot with me, and I began to notice how tasty the harmonies and the composition were when they merged together in the opening song. Still last year I was dragged to listen to The smile sessions after reading about a 50s pet sounds article which said that brian wilson had a mental breakdown in the making of the real SMILE and he let all the mashed potatoes that he created fall all over place, which quite brought me, an enthusiastic student of the human mind to investigate the art he has left after he managed to unite all the pieces he has lost in the making of this. It also contained as the songwriter one of which I consider the most musically-flamboyants, no one but Van Dyke Parks, semi-famous for his avante-pop record Song Cycle which has been a very divisive record for me in the past.

After listening to both song cycle and The Smile Sessions you can almost feel the psychedelic influence that Dyke Parks had on the composition and songwritting for many of the songs here (vega-tables being my favorite example) but differently from his fragmented and deconstructed album, smile manages to blend wilson's pop structure knowledge with Parks' dynamism in almost the perfect doses (surf's up being the high point from the album in both studio and solo versions). The result is the sound of an angelical choir splattering over elastic arrangements in such a cohesive progression, like I've said once to myself, it's like ear-candy for those who are sugar lovers. And also while evoking a similar summer feeling as pet sounds (at least for my ears' judge) I feel that smile sessions manages to be a more emotional dense and warmer album, besides having many different songs that could do about the oposite work, but it works like a peacock when it flourishes. It's interesting to think an album that almost never existed (or does it exist thought? it's still a mystery to me) manages to become one of my favorite records of all time, Descartes didn't tell me about 60s psychedelic pieces. And while we are in a certain metaphysical discussion around here, I got another confession to make, I messed up with the order of the album, it's album sessions, so I guess I can do this, the out-takes scramble in the middle of the songs producing a certain light aural climax to the album and avoiding my plausible unfocusing from the songs, which tended to happen so often before, I don't know if I'm committing a crime to an intergalactic musical order but if I am, then it will be damn worth going arrested, you're under arrest!
[First added to this chart: 01/19/2018]
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2011
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade Albums %


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%
Artist Albums %


Jim O'Rourke 4 4%
Beach House 2 2%
The Beatles 2 2%
Sonic Youth 2 2%
Mac DeMarco 2 2%
The Caretaker 2 2%
Radiohead 2 2%
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Country Albums %


United States 53 53%
United Kingdom 25 25%
Canada 7 7%
Brazil 3 3%
Australia 3 3%
Germany 2 2%
Sweden 2 2%
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Compilation? Albums %
No 96 96%
Yes 4 4%
Live? Albums %
No 99 99%
Yes 1 1%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 99 99%
Yes 1 1%

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From 01/15/2024 20:58
titanic rising #1 is based
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From 02/24/2023 21:45
Maybe I should give Titanic Rising a new spin.
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From 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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I just listened to Eureka. Mind-blowing
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Great chart and the effort that has gone into the accompanying notes really makes in come alive.
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From 10/21/2020 16:39
Just want to mention that the greatest list for me is done for now.
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From 09/14/2020 18:13
One of the best charts! I love Eureka and Long Season very much.
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From 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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From 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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Finally time to mine this for recs
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