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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Funeral 

 Arcade Fire

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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]

Year of Release:

2004

Appears in:

2,877 charts

Rank Score:

36,156

Rank in 2004:

1

Rank in 2000s:

3

Overall Rank:

15

Average Rating:

 88 (3,656 votes)

Comments:

401

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The Suburbs 

 Arcade Fire

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I'm feeling really old and tired, my hair is all gray, I'm a human being, fulfilled with regrets, fulfilled with dreams, dead dreams. Do you remember when they stole our youth? Who stole our dream?

Some stories mark classic albums , but for me this is special . I heard and saw something special in this album on the first song." The Suburbs " was the first Arcade Fire's song that I heard. The song seemed to be perfect to look the rain falling, to ride a bike with the bright moonlight shining your body and heart, Or to look back and realize that what you did in the past was great , and now your whole life is a shit. And "Ready To Start" that breaks your memories telling that the past is over AND THE future is coming and you have to stop with this sentimental thing!!!! It is like the big weight of finally keep growing and see the good times going away, see that magic and happiness slipping out of your body, to you finally become a stone with no emotion. It is that feeling of boredoom almost everyday, you feeling someone is sucking your childlike wonder, and if you still have it someone will take it slowly and painfully at force. It hurts to grown up :( I live in the suburbs of my city since I was born , so this album takes my emotions on high, even if the song does not match with what I lived , I can fit it in any event or moment of my life. following the album , the songs will float between sadness, and rare and different Happiness. "Month of May" is one of my favorites because it takes away that annoying and warm climate of the album , making it more energetic and live, even for a short time. "Wasted Hours" is also one of my favorite , it makes me think about those stupid moments in life when I could be doing something useful , but I was losing my life happily. "Sprawl I" brings me more waves of depression , at a time that I suffer with myself , while that one solitary light that shone over me faded slowly. But near the end , "Sprawl II" gives light and magic to that desolate story , making me climb the railings of the house and sing as high as possible without caring what the world thinks. It makes me go to my garden, Find the sunlight in those late afternoons, and sing, while I walk and dance at the same time to the rhythm and vibrations of the song. "The Suburbs Continued" is like that dawn which you you wake up , look out the window and see that nothing has changed , and is prepared to live it again.................... and again .................and again. "The Suburbs" may for some be a stupid album , composed of idiots songs with a classic and boring theme. But for me it is the soundtrack of my life , and will remain being as long as I live here. [First added to this chart: 10/27/2013]

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

1,846 charts

Rank Score:

19,830

Rank in 2010:

2

Rank in 2010s:

4

Overall Rank:

47

Average Rating:

 84 (2,724 votes)

Comments:

255

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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%
The Beatles	2	2%
Sonic Youth	2	2%
Mac DeMarco	2	2%
The Caretaker	2	2%
Radiohead	2	2%
Kendrick Lamar	2	2%
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Country	Albums	%
	53	53%
	25	25%
	7	7%
	3	3%
	3	3%
	2	2%
	2	2%
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From SUPERJEFF6 01/15/2024 20:58

titanic rising #1 is based

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From DommeDamian 02/24/2023 21:45

Maybe I should give Titanic Rising a new spin.

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From 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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From seb7 10/22/2021 23:16

I just listened to Eureka. Mind-blowing

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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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From Joeingram 09/14/2020 18:13

One of the best charts! I love Eureka and Long Season very much.

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From 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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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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From benpaco 01/22/2020 18:25

Finally time to mine this for recs

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