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: 08/28/2025 00:45
• (Created: 10/24/2013 19:00).
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Eureka 

 Jim O'Rourke

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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]

Year of Release:

1999

Appears in:

129 charts

Rank Score:

998

Rank in 1999:

36

Rank in 1990s:

318

Overall Rank:

1,704

Average Rating:

 79 (136 votes)

Comments:

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Bad Timing 

 Jim O'Rourke

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[First added to this chart: 08/08/2019]

Year of Release:

1997

Appears in:

42 charts

Rank Score:

190

Rank in 1997:

118

Rank in 1990s:

1,108

Overall Rank:

6,762

Average Rating:

 78 (41 votes)

Comments:

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Halfway To A Threeway 

 Jim O'Rourke

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Yeah, I'm aware that this is an Ep and that I'm cheating "my top 100 albums list", and that this list is getting a little bit O'Rourke heavy, and the world turns and doesn't care about what you wear, and that the we will once again spin around the sun and celebrate another year like it's a lifechanging thing, and that love doesn't need to be romanticized to death to understand its tension. Halfway to a threeway was probably the last of the main O'rourke projects that I got into, with no reason whatsoever, and it sure was a horrible mistake that I shouldn't have done, because this album is more focused and much more concentrated lyrically and musically than any of his other projects, as once again, as in Eureka and Insignificance, the album portrays Jim's descent into mediocrity in such a charming way, that it's impossible not to relate to his pain in some songs like the fantastic title song. Also the mastercraft of the songs are extraordinary, jim pulls of his hat many genres and let them bubble around wind, exploding melodies inside the musical floor, and all of this in less than 25 minutes, God bless this man wherever he is right now. [First added to this chart: 06/08/2017]

Year of Release:

1999

Appears in:

19 charts

Rank Score:

133

Rank in 1999:

132

Rank in 1990s:

1,482

Overall Rank:

9,090

Average Rating:

 77 (35 votes)

Comments:

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Insignificance 

 Jim O'Rourke

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Honestly I don't really know from where and why I create these musical comparisons, but Jim O' Rourke's records have many similarities with medieval sculptures of gods for me, while Eureka pictures a young sculptor that doesn't rush any of his lines, everything seems all handmade, and the beauty is in the details of each curve of the album's the body of work, Insignificance is all composed of new working tools, that although offers us a bigger image, the shine of the details is replaced with sharp curves, that removes a certain elegance from his acoustic guitar playing. I've began to appreciate Jim's music since he worked with Sonic youth in Murray Street, his drone sounds surely gave the record a new breeze of fresh air; but everything changed last year when I heard "Eureka" for the first time, I was completely blown away for his melancholic-alcoholic songwriting, and his late-night song crafting style. That being said, one of the most difficult tasks to solve while listening to an artist's discography for me is to stop comparing older and newer works into a same page of enjoyment, that's why it took so long for me to click with Insignificance after listening to Eureka and Simple songs last year. O' Rourke is not worried about continuing his older american primitivism vibe, here he moves to a more rockier sound, of course his jazzy and singer-songwriter influences are still melted all over this record, but the way he chooses to explore these influences is very different from his older records and colabs, the foggy and lonely sound is now replaced with an injection of clearer and more visible art-pop (or indie rock if I dare) music. The guitar arrangements are all followed by a pulsating instrumentation, composed principally of more usual sounds than he is used to work (the loud presence of the drums contrasting the delicate melodies was something I had a hard time dealing with in the first spins), that unfortunately doesn't add much expressiveness to the sound created over here, actually the emotion and the arrogant sadness is overthrown by this strong musical accompaniment. Besides all of that change, Jim can still keep up with his essence over the unrolling of the record, his writing, that feels more modern and more interactive with the listener, is still on top, with cruel yet spiritual material on his lines (You failed again/ Like a house that needs a floor to be stepped on) that implicitly describes the contemporary vices & Virtues, also his guitar picking, even with the electric support, still blooms many of the songs, his sliding solos are the highlight of this record, even in more energetic and harder songs like "All Downhill From Here", there is still space to fit some more crafted composing. Insignificance only gets better with each listen, the ongoing of multiple plays allows that the most simple evidences of great composing float to the surface of your ears, songs like "Good times" will never sound the same when you finally let that glidering sound slip through your mind and memories. This is the perfect abrupt tender side to Jim's personality coin, the other being the psychedelic melancholy of Eureka. Being ignored by your best friend and family in a beige room has never sounded so thrilling. [First added to this chart: 12/24/2016]

Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

86 charts

Rank Score:

418

Rank in 2001:

65

Rank in 2000s:

604

Overall Rank:

3,525

Average Rating:

 78 (85 votes)

Comments:

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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade	Albums	%
1930s	0	0%
1940s	0	0%
1950s	0	0%
1960s	4	4%
1970s	14	14%
1980s	7	7%
1990s	15	15%
2000s	22	22%
2010s	36	36%
2020s	2	2%

Artist	Albums	%
Jim O'Rourke	4	4%
The Radio Dept.	2	2%
Arcade Fire	2	2%
Beach House	2	2%
Sonic Youth	2	2%
Pink Floyd	2	2%
Daft Punk	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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