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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I knew this was coming, the day that I would try to sit my ass down in a chair and manage to dissolve my thoughts about what is considered the most complete musical work of all times, feels like a responsibility I knew I would have someday when I began writing about music, congrats on dooming yourself Antonio Pedro. Well here we are, their magnum opus (come fight me irl, me vs KidA cocksuckers in the abandoned place behind the bar), OK Computer, the embodiment of our musical generation, the mass hysteria, the new world order, the machine soul and all the stuff they tell you about when you put your foil hat (haha, kidding). There are so many things already said about this album that is almost impossible to not fall in a certain redundancy in this review, there is something magnificent about this album that brought all this increasingly popularity as "The best record ever made". Maybe it's the way that Ok computer still sounds until today, Radiohead created a fluid record, and Like Marquee Moon it feels like it could have been done yesterday. Now why is this so important? Revolver is one of my favorite records of all time and we know that both lennon and paul where pretty high in 60s while I listen to it, it doesn't affect me any way, so why is it so good to it feeling new? Well, by one side there is the hidden influence that we all can capt that this record is in, what means, like most modern music, it presents such a modern structure and yet with all the deconstructed melodies, it's pretty hard to catch and date a certain era to that musical trend. It's the good part of the said artmusic, most of the album that fall in this category doesn't feel old at all because there is something new that they brought to the table, which like a snakeskin keeps changing every time you listen to it, even you already marking every note in every song. This is why it's so hard to say something about this record that will be my final vision of it, it has changed a lot through the years, and will probably at the future, I think this is one of the reason I appreciate this record so much. Well, Let's take a look about what younger Antonio wrote about this and then let's evolve into a description to how the album aged like wine to listeners like me.

Antonio in 2014' wrote:
It's amazing how radiohead can juggle with the chords , changing and hiding the true progressions , leaving gaping the most classic guitarist, and giving intelligence to the most idiotic punks. I never would like to enjoy this album , because everyone liked, but in a day he could win my love. Even though I'm not a fan of alternative music ( that's my peak), I got to the end of the album , with so many different movements and progressions. having depression, doom and invisible happiness while listening every lost voice or every guitar in the vacuum. In fact , emotions arise every time I hear this album , I know it seems like it is a being made of stone , but it just there to give you good times (well...not too good).It seems like every song is moving like a shadow, but a shadow that sometimes want to make you sad and this shadow sometimes wants to make you indifferent making you feel happy and unhappy at the same time, it is hard to regret a feeling for this shadow sometimes you want to kill it. But it is not bringing any problem. I used to see my father singing " Karma Police" with my godfather, I thought that it was a strange thing,since it was such a depressing song. Today I still don't know why he did it , but i guess that sometimes that depression is so strong that you get to the point of having to share it with someone to not support all the weight. " Exit Music " is another favorite , reminds me of desperation , and final movie scenes,(of course you idiot ... this is the name of the song duhhh. but for me the best is "No surprises", it manages to convey a sense an of lightness and calm at the same time making you forget that time is passing and enjoy your last nap. A new way of making music had been created , playing with it and taking listeners to extremes of feeling and reason.

Now beside my uncontrollable wish to shoot my feet after reading this ridiculous description of my love for this album some years ago, the terrible knowledge of musical theory at the time, and my not-that-bad english at the time, there are many things that have changed in my feelings with the album.

FIrst, this is not a perfect record, and it doesn't deserve a 10 by me (I don't even know if I ever gave a ten to a record...) as much as I love with heart and soul the highs, and the highs are bigger than the Everest for a first-time listener, the lows hit me with a certain disdain face at the times, of course no record could be only made by highs, but the way the lows appear like a totally different tidal wave that the album is emerged into, kinda annoys me. For one side we have "Paranoid Android", that it's a hell of a song; for a really long time I (like the whole record) didn't get what the milk avalanche over this song was about, I thought it was dull and trying way too hard, pretentiously, to sound poetically cold and anxious. But as I developed my taste I began to notice that the way Greenwood and Yorke crafted this whole song was indeed worth my sleepwalk applause, the way that thom unleashes all his depressive and eerie wishes at my ears, along with the guitar pick up, makes up to such a great and rewarding listen. I used to say it build up to nowhere, the song had no center or a base to construct a monumental melody over, but I think there is indeed a route that this song moves, and in the context of the record (I guess that by itself the song wouldn't have all this popular esoteric recognition, but whatever MTV bumped this to hell in the 90s), this song really sets up a high fly in the radar, in a way that it's not essential to the record to survive, but it wouldn't have all this pessimistic and artsy delight that it has to many people so a toast to that

Well, as for the lows there is not many to say, I used to say "Let down" was the definitive slip from this record, and besides being a pretty rosey song, it feels so out of place in this record, what really turns me off (because I'm really just waiting for Karma Police to come on, ok My fault for that). It's residual of their Bends' era that someway got into a unknown body causing into to appear certain characteristics of it, like a virus that like sweat in a chemical reaction dripped into this record. And what about "Fitter Happier"? the interlude that is so encrypted that still divide the opinion on the lovers of this record? Is it really amazing? or just something that concurs to be the first "Vaporwave" song of all time? Well, as I already discussed, or at least tried, before, in which moment the context of all the fuzz the song is inserted into affects in my plane of enjoyment?
It's a interlude, and this is one of the biggest things I'm afraid to deal with, are interludes really necessary? In this case it's not only necessary, but indeed it vanishes all the noisy and edgy force that moved karma police and presents something that is between the barriers of hallucinogenic and paranoiac. Even not being my favorite song, or something I would highlight from this record(hell are we looking to the drawing or the full painting?), Fitter Happier is the perfect description for this record, as if it was the first words from a book, or an epilogue, a dark elegy for the modern times, something that the album slices but not aboard as much as their later records (Hail to the thief being the pinnacle of their complex and cryptic expression). It's not great as a song, but meaningful as a moment.

And there are tunes like "No Surprises", which I got really surprised when I first listened to OK Computer Back and forth, It was one of those songs you know what it is, but your tongue has no knowledge of where, when and why you heard it. And even with all the time that I've been listening to this record, this one song, might be the only one I can still carry the magic that I had with my first listen everytime that hook starts. "No surprises" was a so
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While constantly reworking on my chart throughout the last years, I found myself constantly uprising this album from times to times, but in a consistent manner on the list, and the reason it keeps happening is because the potential it has to grown on you is achieved mainly when you respect your own need from this album, and for me it has contributed a lot with all the pressure going around my head on this senior year of high school and with time it has left a shape of its core on my soul. Picking a favorite radiohead album to fill in my heart is as easy as choosing either hot or cold water when you're feeling sick in a cold night, or either finding a ladybug in the middle of a summer garden in Amsterdam, it's a band which has transmuted into various shapes into its carreer that it gets really hard to decide which one to pass through the top 100 filter. From the grungy slickness of their debut, to the bleep-blops of their sonically robotic King of limbs, A moon shaped pool stands out, even being their newest record it has such an eerie atmosphere attached to it that it feels way more complete than their other records, it's undoubtedly their most cohesive work, the instrumentation and the production contribute to all this eerie and cold atmosphere distillated on this record, but don't get your mumbo jumbo mixed on, cold is different of emotionless, it's like the hug of a bear on the north pole, it's cold, but it's intimate skin provides us so much comfort and animal heat.

The year is 2016 and yours truly is far away from having the old contact that he used to have with music, school has swallowed all his free time and thrown him into a studying loop, but when radiohead announced that they were coming out with a new record after a real long time break my hopes got way too hyped and I could get back my attention to the melodies that used to attract me that much, and also a broken heart subsequent of a failed relationship has put all his emotions on revolver to the music, it was the only comfort I found to share my pain with, and Like for emma... forever ago, it has helped me a lot recovering from the broken pieces and tie them into myself. And when such an album has this significant outside-the-box power to rock my lonely universe, I begin to consider it even more as a blossom work of art, the idea of the art, not as an static object, but as a moving force capable of shapeshifting our emotions and our own internal physical states is something magical that brings me butterflies to the stomach. As for the album itself, Counting with a multi-faced side of radiohead, it not only display bleeps or rock, but a fantastic composing and lyric crafting that completely blows me out. As I said before it feels more complete, because, differently from KID A or In Rainbows the songs feel attached one to another and not glued together to feel more like an album, you can almost feel the foggy vibration hitting your ears while it plays. Also it has "True love waits" in a studio version which is a special antonio-approved highlight for this album. I always thought it was kinda frightening, Did you ever had a feeling of feeling worried about the characters of detective novels? A moon shaped pool is a distorted future investigation series on the streets and corners of montreal, rainy days colour this story.

On a sidenote (another sidenote antonio? how many mores on this chart?) I used to find the "Radiohead are the beatles of this generation" argument to be pretty wack, the musical dissonance between both bands made me throw all of this analysis into the bashing can, but looking deeper like an ego's argument, they might really look closer than I Imagined, not because of all the music contacts (I find radiohead's composition to be miles away both objectively and emotionally from the beatles most simplistic pop approach) but the way they have aged and consistently evolved their work into a more mature sound is really interesting and worth noticing.

A moon shaped pool, floating in a interstellar liquid on low gravity, hold your breath.
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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%
Country Albums %


United States 53 53%
United Kingdom 25 25%
Canada 7 7%
Australia 3 3%
Brazil 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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From 10/22/2021 23:16
I just listened to Eureka. Mind-blowing
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From 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 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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