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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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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The main point in which I think King crimson is different from its progressive descendants and allies is how well they embrace their artsy side pulling their more experimental site closely to their sound, which means that songs like 21st Century Schizoid Man manage to pull different faces of their musical skills, the first part a well written ode to a monument, a utopia of a dystopical future, in which it curses along with phylosofical questions about existence in a post-modern battlefield warfare. But while the song progresses it unveils its velvet artsy side, feels like different arms grow, like a ultraviolet octopus swimming in the silent dark sea of the midnight, the constant time change and their precisely timed silence breaks only add up to this experience. It's intense but still something meticulously calculated, like a controlled chaos, a magician with numerous powers teaching her students, the saxophone floats uncontrollably from one side of the ear to the other giving the sensation of a certain disorientation but fear nothing little child, this is only a twisted fairy tale, it's twisted of how human it sounds, so differently from the mystical atmosphere created by most progressive artists by the time this album was released, it certainly paved the way for their most antiquate experimentation. Although this description makes it looks like this album is based solely on disoriented frequencies, songs like "I talk to the wind" and "Epitaph" arouse the most melodically sensible ears and display their comfort zone, such a pleasant atmosphere, something that puts you to close your eyes and float into flute's and guitar solos, both of them facing Robert Fripp's incredible musical abilities, like complex spiderwebs slowly fading into existence and catching you. In The court is not a long album, it rest only in the quality and consistency of its 5 songs, which flow in such a subtle way, it feels like a book, different chapters that leaves no cliffhangers between songs, and makes the best of them by gluing them into each other like Epitaph. This consistency is so effective because there is no space to get disperse between the songs, so it makes all the journey even more attractive and remarkable, surely by the first time we hear it we will be able to extract some remarkable points from it, it lays such dramatic and intense sound, yeah it sounds terribly outdated, but it's weird how it still could be done today, it feels fresh in the same way, I guess this is the most charming point of this record, it only shows how much ahead of their time this actually was. The most abstract point of the record is for sure the mysterious moonchild, it's one of the songs you either find it a masterpiece or a piece of garbage, there's no midpoint for it because mostly of its enormous length and its experimental site for improvisation in which is not even a little bit inviting to most comfortable listeners. most of its 10 minutes of improvisation is spent slowly building ambient sandcastles which fade away in an instant, it's something that is not even a sight of uncomfortable, but causes some estrangement of how odd it sounds placed in the middle of two emotional and expressive songs. Guitars appear from the dark like colored fireflies, in a starless sky, between breezes of drum crashes invading the soundscape, and keyboards watching distantly like old owls, all the elements are surely inoffensive, but for someone who surely loves some uncoordinated musical landscape it sounds absolutely delightful and delicious. I think Moonchild works really well by calming the album and setting the tone to the explosion that is the court of the crimson king in the end, an epic medieval fairy-tale with Machiavellic remarks of how the power had to be in good hands so the magic of the world would not end in the wrong hands. I used to hate the album art cover back then, but today it feels just odd... it grabs your attention and by the aural assault that it causes you, and leaves you well pleased (as seen in the back cover) the two moons of this album complete each other, I think this is something pretty human and still mystical, that's fantastic.
[First added to this chart: 05/20/2017]
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1969
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31,619
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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 [First added to this chart: 02/22/2014]
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 [First added to this chart: 02/22/2014]
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1997
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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. [First added to this chart: 05/11/2017]
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. [First added to this chart: 05/11/2017]
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2016
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[First added to this chart: 10/24/2013]
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1973
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It's funny to think that their most cohesive and signature record came when they all couldn't stand each other's presence as a band, they got it all best for last, thanks for the show guys, have a nice night.
[First added to this chart: 03/19/2018]
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1969
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Truly one of a kind, I can't think of any kind of art similar to this, and I think it's quite beautiful. It's bittersweet, and sad, it takes you through a lot, and the end explores your inner fragility with such sadness it's fantastic. Rationally challenging, an emotional odyssey.
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[First added to this chart: 07/29/2019]
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1975
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Probably already said this in my first write-up for X&Y but I find coldplay to be one of the few bands in the overrated and underrated spectrum at the same time, this album is the proof of it, while A rush of blood to the head is significantly their most melodic and cohesive record, it's either pared as one of the greatest records of the last decade or one of the most overapreciated ones. Now, I'm not the real voice of reason to be heard here, as you would probably guess If you have been watching the late dawn show with antonio, I'm influenced most be the exposition I had once or more to certain artist in the past, and this manages to make me resonate more closely with the music, well I used to be a lot exposed to coldplay, being mainly on watching videos of their earlier albums on MTV or just taking a ride through the city, my mom had this and parachutes as CDs in our older cars, so Chris martin voice was almost inescapable and stuck in my mind like orange jello. A rush of blood to the head has nothing could rank it along the greatest or most interesting works of art out their, maybe the chorus of God Put a smile on my face could be the most challenging thing over here, but their greatest perk is how they manage to glue together all these sonic pop pieces with such flow and consistency. The first side is one of the greatest mainstream pop achievements, probably Martin's peak of songwritting and composing and the band has such an atmospheric unison it's freaking cool, The scientist, clocks and In My place could make a great EP by themselves.
It's true that the album has a little downfall through the second act, daylight ruining your clocks experience is there to makes this statement true, and while I find the two songs of one the best they have made, it's unavoidable to say it's kinda pale compared to the first pop filled side. I think that one of the things that makes me love this album how simple it is to love this, of course some people could argue that it's as bland as the sound of a fox shitting in your garden, but in the end, these songs really make for me the day, It's quite a relaxing experience to hear this after coming from a rough day at the uni, it feels like a peaceful conversation with eris. And there's this moment in clocks when it all explodes in such a magnificent way in the chorus, you are left begging for it to stay there and soak you into its starry night, a vision of older days, a hand around your shoulder telling it's all going to be alright, the day might be cloudy, but heck the sun is still around there.
There is this moment in Bryan Lee O'Malley's Book in which raleigh, a girl which soul was stolen by a cat in california, reminds herself by looking at the stars of the pleasure that is to gaze the universe and have a heartbraking moment to acknowledge how hard it's to pass the coming of age and transporting herself to a more mature phase of her life, in the purgatory between the pleasures of past and the agony of the future the stars remind her what is her inner motivation, and in the downfall of her own dreams, there is A rush of blood to the head to make it softer and more understandable, have a good night. [First added to this chart: 12/28/2015]
It's true that the album has a little downfall through the second act, daylight ruining your clocks experience is there to makes this statement true, and while I find the two songs of one the best they have made, it's unavoidable to say it's kinda pale compared to the first pop filled side. I think that one of the things that makes me love this album how simple it is to love this, of course some people could argue that it's as bland as the sound of a fox shitting in your garden, but in the end, these songs really make for me the day, It's quite a relaxing experience to hear this after coming from a rough day at the uni, it feels like a peaceful conversation with eris. And there's this moment in clocks when it all explodes in such a magnificent way in the chorus, you are left begging for it to stay there and soak you into its starry night, a vision of older days, a hand around your shoulder telling it's all going to be alright, the day might be cloudy, but heck the sun is still around there.
There is this moment in Bryan Lee O'Malley's Book in which raleigh, a girl which soul was stolen by a cat in california, reminds herself by looking at the stars of the pleasure that is to gaze the universe and have a heartbraking moment to acknowledge how hard it's to pass the coming of age and transporting herself to a more mature phase of her life, in the purgatory between the pleasures of past and the agony of the future the stars remind her what is her inner motivation, and in the downfall of her own dreams, there is A rush of blood to the head to make it softer and more understandable, have a good night. [First added to this chart: 12/28/2015]
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2002
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1970s | 15 | 15% | |
| 1980s | 7 | 7% | |
| 1990s | 15 | 15% | |
| 2000s | 23 | 23% | |
| 2010s | 34 | 34% | |
| 2020s | 1 | 1% |
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| The Microphones | 2 | 2% | |
| New Order | 2 | 2% | |
| Pink Floyd | 2 | 2% | |
| Car Seat Headrest | 2 | 2% | |
| Beach House | 2 | 2% | |
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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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From SUPERJEFF6 01/15/2024 20:58
titanic rising #1 is based
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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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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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seb7 10/22/2021 23:16
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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100/100
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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
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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
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benpaco 01/22/2020 18:25
benpaco 01/22/2020 18:25
Finally time to mine this for recs
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