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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Titanic Rising is characterized by a triumph in the field of contemporary art-pop, Weyes Blood can create songs that burst with humanity and life, with contagious vocal melodies, ensuring a pleasurable and rich musical journey. Titanic Rising abstracts some symmetrical influence from rock albums of the '70s, guitar solos a-la George Harrison, composition crescendos that make Elton John have memory lapses and a voice that ring a bell with Karen Carpenter. The album opens with A Lot’s Gonna Change, an ethereal song which opens with angelical strings followed by a piano and weyes's voice slowly opening like a flower into something bigger, something more beautiful, the drum stretches and the violins dawn in a euphoric chorus , the name of the song is repeated so softly that it seems that it was made by a divine touch, a musical entity of a dreamlike plane; in my opinion the highlight of the album and the best song of 2019. The first 4 songs are a streak that currently holds the best opening sequence of an album, with “ Andromeda ” being a more sentimental ballad, playing with a somewhat challenging progression and contains a solo that would make Harrison proud if he were alive today, “Everytime” A pop song that uses the artifice of weyes skill with a beautiful vocal melody to stand out from its not so unique evolution. “Something to believe ” closes this room with a bittersweet request for peace, the whole aura of the song longing for a feeling that overwhelmed a comfort of having something to hold on to nearby. One of the things that I find most intriguing about titanic rising is how all of her songs can catch my attention, it seems like all of them were done in their own time and the recordings themselves took their time and the creative respect that these songs deserved. The result is a much more organic, enjoyable product that allows you to be much closer emotionally to weyes, within the possibilities, and this makes the richness of elements that the songs are immersed into much more visible and passable of appreciation. “Wild time” triumphs in the second part of the album for its theme-like resemblance and progressive construction of older songs (as I said, weyes managed to bring very good 70s aspects to this album) and probably builds the album's most epic song, being a distant second cousin of "Us and Them " and "I Talk to the Wind," she harnesses the instrumental richness of the album and the bold progression in which it is built to stretch between sonic arrangements that echo in the furthest parts of the universe. Titanic Rising is a work of art of painted priceless beauty in a person 's head in his room, asking the why the world is like that, the album exudes a mature tone, but it contains a refreshing breeze of innocence.
[First added to this chart: 08/05/2019]
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2019
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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]
"I can't stand this record, it's just a disaster to me." - Jim O'Rourke [First added to this chart: 05/31/2015]
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1999
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The private infinity of millions of people in a metropolis of bittersweet dreams.
I like to believe that this was Elliott Smith's last work within his short career, (and yes, I know there are other unfinished projects, but this is my writing of the notes, okay?) an artist whose life was taken too soon, with still so much to bloom to the world. From the first notes on the keyboard in “Son of Sam” to the ones that close the album in “Bye”, Elliott recites lyrics that reflect a more emotionally mature being, far from the sentimental demons that already tormented him in his previous albums. Here he finds himself in a good relationship with his stories of the past, as if observing from a long distance, he now has a clear horizon of everything that was part of those events, making this more rational reflection of his tales, as he has always been more of a poignant storyteller. I feel that I, the listener, was also much more impacted by this album with the onset of adult life. As if the chronicles that were written here reverberated even more with the day-to-day dichotomies: the comings and goings of work, the multifaceted relationships, and the memories of people who once passed through our lives, whether in a subtle way, or those that caused an avalanche of events to occur. There are hidden spaces where the art of the songs present here fit into our existence. And it's funny because this is one of those albums that I didn't always feel was so important to me. One fine day, I realized that I would be willing to listen to it at any time, and this is due not only to the variety of musical styles, instruments and musical structures that are present, but also to the quality with which each song distills its time into my ears, all of them have something to please, and all of them are incredibly rich, creative and diverse. Musically speaking, there's nothing to be said here, Elliott was at his fertile peak on every instrument he either composed or performed on Figure 8. It becomes redundant to say that the musical progressions play with each other in countless moments, "everything means nothing to me” is the main example of this; This song varies from a more decadent beginning to an emotionally devastating atmosphere at the end of the song, with ripping instruments, remarkably strong, but that do not take anything away from the lightness of the song, which allows itself to be painful, but to be just another piece of distorted memory, like trying to remember a stormy dream in the dawn, before the sun rises again in "L.A". The B side of the album delivers songs richer in storytelling than the first side, but the musicality never lags behind. “Happiness” is the highlight of the album, a song that lives in the duality between its Upbeat composition and the melancholy lyrics that reflect its writing: people from everyday life representing a set of practices in which happiness can fade so drastically, but the ending leaves a bittersweet and optimistic message, maybe happiness is still there. Maybe life is still worth living for something. [First added to this chart: 07/29/2019]
I like to believe that this was Elliott Smith's last work within his short career, (and yes, I know there are other unfinished projects, but this is my writing of the notes, okay?) an artist whose life was taken too soon, with still so much to bloom to the world. From the first notes on the keyboard in “Son of Sam” to the ones that close the album in “Bye”, Elliott recites lyrics that reflect a more emotionally mature being, far from the sentimental demons that already tormented him in his previous albums. Here he finds himself in a good relationship with his stories of the past, as if observing from a long distance, he now has a clear horizon of everything that was part of those events, making this more rational reflection of his tales, as he has always been more of a poignant storyteller. I feel that I, the listener, was also much more impacted by this album with the onset of adult life. As if the chronicles that were written here reverberated even more with the day-to-day dichotomies: the comings and goings of work, the multifaceted relationships, and the memories of people who once passed through our lives, whether in a subtle way, or those that caused an avalanche of events to occur. There are hidden spaces where the art of the songs present here fit into our existence. And it's funny because this is one of those albums that I didn't always feel was so important to me. One fine day, I realized that I would be willing to listen to it at any time, and this is due not only to the variety of musical styles, instruments and musical structures that are present, but also to the quality with which each song distills its time into my ears, all of them have something to please, and all of them are incredibly rich, creative and diverse. Musically speaking, there's nothing to be said here, Elliott was at his fertile peak on every instrument he either composed or performed on Figure 8. It becomes redundant to say that the musical progressions play with each other in countless moments, "everything means nothing to me” is the main example of this; This song varies from a more decadent beginning to an emotionally devastating atmosphere at the end of the song, with ripping instruments, remarkably strong, but that do not take anything away from the lightness of the song, which allows itself to be painful, but to be just another piece of distorted memory, like trying to remember a stormy dream in the dawn, before the sun rises again in "L.A". The B side of the album delivers songs richer in storytelling than the first side, but the musicality never lags behind. “Happiness” is the highlight of the album, a song that lives in the duality between its Upbeat composition and the melancholy lyrics that reflect its writing: people from everyday life representing a set of practices in which happiness can fade so drastically, but the ending leaves a bittersweet and optimistic message, maybe happiness is still there. Maybe life is still worth living for something. [First added to this chart: 07/29/2019]
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2000
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Going out at night after midnight when it's all dark, finding a woman sitting in a seat, alone in the park, with her headphones. Her long brown hair dances along the wind and her voice can lighten up all the lights around her, she is singing with her eyes closed, she doesn't want to leave the fantasy world she is hypnotized in, there is something beautiful that escapes from her lungs, you can literally see the colors of the sounds and the wonderful melodies of her voice through the air and hitting the lightbulbs out there. You both take a walk through the city at night, Dead Streets, corners blinking, buildings that seem to breath, each little step she does is a fresh air breeze, the city is alive again, its blood moves again, I don't want to go back home tonight, and I hope the sun doesn't rise some time. She blows worlds and entire universes with her voice, as it shapeshifts over my ears, new places rises inside my mind, I can almost feel the hot tone of the lightbulb of the streets she sings on, it hits me like a warm breeze passed between each of my bones. Julia is some nocturnal goddess that decided to take her human form and comfort our poor cold urban hearts, and I'm so happy I have this to share a lonely friday night. Thank You Holter.
[First added to this chart: 02/16/2014]
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2013
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"Really it's impossible to chose a number one sometimes, and I found with my other number one spots I'd place the album on a sort of pedestal and try to savour it in someway, which often lead to be becoming scared that when I listened to it I wouldn't enjoy it as much as the last time. On Fire isn't an album that totally blows me away or requires my complete attention, but instead it's an album I find infinitely comforting. The very first time I heard it I felt at home, everything about it was just as it should be. To me, that's what makes the album special, no matter what my mood, all the songs on this album feel like an old friend to accompany me along the way.
And 'friend' is accurate, because there's something so charmingly human about this album. Every imperfection is what makes it, the production is amateur, Wareham isn't the worlds greatest vocalist and the guitar solos feel pretty directionless, but the album is the sound of some kids grabbing a guitar and creating music they can call their own, and create something they care about. It's something I've always wanted to do, and to me it's the most perfect form music can take, because there's something special about forming a band with people who share that vision, and I can hear that here. 'Strange' is a perfect example, there's so much raw passion in the verses, and the quaint lyrics in the chorus really contrast with the more downbeat tone that just sounds to me like a moment of sadness can be found in any situation, regardless of how mundane it is. Moments like that in this album are what make me love it so much. Even the cover of 'Isn't It A Pity' works so well, as though the whole album is a live performance that's open to cover songs.
It may be the only album that sounds just as on-point every time I hear it, because there's no pretences or surprises, it's just fantastic pop rock music through and through."
- Puncture Repair [First added to this chart: 12/07/2014]
And 'friend' is accurate, because there's something so charmingly human about this album. Every imperfection is what makes it, the production is amateur, Wareham isn't the worlds greatest vocalist and the guitar solos feel pretty directionless, but the album is the sound of some kids grabbing a guitar and creating music they can call their own, and create something they care about. It's something I've always wanted to do, and to me it's the most perfect form music can take, because there's something special about forming a band with people who share that vision, and I can hear that here. 'Strange' is a perfect example, there's so much raw passion in the verses, and the quaint lyrics in the chorus really contrast with the more downbeat tone that just sounds to me like a moment of sadness can be found in any situation, regardless of how mundane it is. Moments like that in this album are what make me love it so much. Even the cover of 'Isn't It A Pity' works so well, as though the whole album is a live performance that's open to cover songs.
It may be the only album that sounds just as on-point every time I hear it, because there's no pretences or surprises, it's just fantastic pop rock music through and through."
- Puncture Repair [First added to this chart: 12/07/2014]
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1989
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"Every time you look up at the stars, it’s like opening a door. You could be anyone, anywhere. You could be yourself at any moment in your life. You open that door and you realize you’re the same person under the same stars. Camping out in the backyard with your best friend, eleven years old. Sixteen, driving alone, stopping at the edge of the city, looking up at the same stars. Walking a wooded path, kissing in the moonlight, look up and you’re eleven again. Chasing cats in a tiny town, you’re eleven again, you’re sixteen again. You’re in a rowboat. You’re staring out the back of a car. Out here where the world begins and ends, it’s like nothing ever stops happening" - Bryan Lee O'Malley
Stargazing for a whole night, solidifying the feeling of being eaten by the moonlight, Wondering How many stars are out there, and looking for numerous meaning of existence. I remember that one of my favorite hobbies when listening to music in the past (about 2 or 3 years ago) was to lay on my backyard at night and look at all the stars and moons with patience, appreciate the shine from each light, I tried to identify where they were in the universe, if they all were from different galaxies, and if someone out there could just hear me. And one of the reasons this habit was so addicting was because space would bring a certain etheral energy for me, I would feel so fulfilled with myself as I gazed upon all the dozens of stars that shined continuously or periodically, and loved how the moon used to shine on me. And one of the best experiences I could ever have was to do this while listening to AIA, having a backstory of not doing this for quite a long time. And as the night went to pass by, this record looped at least 3 times before I decided to silently hear my own breath. Transcendence is the magical word that this record will forever associated, that intimate feeling which your feel your aural self levitate some feet above your material yourself in a state where bliss and the unknown meet, a magical line of pleasure and mystery is extended and you're quite walking on both sides, it feels like a spiritual heal, in a way that it elevates this little boy out from this world and all that look he has given the universe has dilated in some orgasmic and soft moments, your eyes are closed and you feel nothing but a weight over your shoulders disappear and a slow lifting like a feather. And there is something beyond all these dreamy layers, which liz involves us, there is all this lush and warm fog, that involves all our organs from inside and puts up in connection with the higher presence of this being that is in touch with us, all this nakedness, all this pureness, bring us to our instincts, to our most inner wishes and wishes, letting us in such an vulnerable aural state to allow the melodies to shape our dreamland. Alien observer is such a special gift for me, and such a great memory from all the nights I have spent out there looking for the beauty in the universe, it is one of the few way outs that can wormhole me into a different dimension in such an effective and crystal way, wrapped in a bubble flying out there calmly and silently. It is something certainly otherwordly, and what a better way to celebrate this extraterrestrial experience than with a outherspace lady which slowly invades our ears and make our hearts as her home.
It's a blessing we are not alone in the universe.
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Stargazing for a whole night, solidifying the feeling of being eaten by the moonlight, Wondering How many stars are out there, and looking for numerous meaning of existence. I remember that one of my favorite hobbies when listening to music in the past (about 2 or 3 years ago) was to lay on my backyard at night and look at all the stars and moons with patience, appreciate the shine from each light, I tried to identify where they were in the universe, if they all were from different galaxies, and if someone out there could just hear me. And one of the reasons this habit was so addicting was because space would bring a certain etheral energy for me, I would feel so fulfilled with myself as I gazed upon all the dozens of stars that shined continuously or periodically, and loved how the moon used to shine on me. And one of the best experiences I could ever have was to do this while listening to AIA, having a backstory of not doing this for quite a long time. And as the night went to pass by, this record looped at least 3 times before I decided to silently hear my own breath. Transcendence is the magical word that this record will forever associated, that intimate feeling which your feel your aural self levitate some feet above your material yourself in a state where bliss and the unknown meet, a magical line of pleasure and mystery is extended and you're quite walking on both sides, it feels like a spiritual heal, in a way that it elevates this little boy out from this world and all that look he has given the universe has dilated in some orgasmic and soft moments, your eyes are closed and you feel nothing but a weight over your shoulders disappear and a slow lifting like a feather. And there is something beyond all these dreamy layers, which liz involves us, there is all this lush and warm fog, that involves all our organs from inside and puts up in connection with the higher presence of this being that is in touch with us, all this nakedness, all this pureness, bring us to our instincts, to our most inner wishes and wishes, letting us in such an vulnerable aural state to allow the melodies to shape our dreamland. Alien observer is such a special gift for me, and such a great memory from all the nights I have spent out there looking for the beauty in the universe, it is one of the few way outs that can wormhole me into a different dimension in such an effective and crystal way, wrapped in a bubble flying out there calmly and silently. It is something certainly otherwordly, and what a better way to celebrate this extraterrestrial experience than with a outherspace lady which slowly invades our ears and make our hearts as her home.
It's a blessing we are not alone in the universe.
. [First added to this chart: 04/15/2017]
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2011
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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: 08/08/2019]
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For the last 2 years, I worked in a small town, in the countryside of my state, twice a week. I worked at a small health clinic, located in a very humble village on a mini-highway in a city with less than 20,000 people. Since it was 200km away from the city where I live (the capital of my state), I had to make this trip every week, by car, at dawn on the way there and at dusk on the way back. Although they were long and tiring trips, I loved looking at the road, all the farms, animals, the forests around us, the lakes blooming with light gleaming from the sun, happily beating down on the windshield of my car. I loved taking these trips with my friends, a total of 3 or 4, who always shared the car with me (and also shared many nights on the same town). We would talk for hours, tell stories about our adolescence, our time together at college, or our appointments and other interesting facts about this countryside city. Sometimes, lately, I had some flashback memories of those trips, like little flashes of happiness and nostalgia dancing in my memory, as beautiful as a caterpillar, a future butterfly, slowly moving and caressing your skin. Smiles, those little beauties, that at the moment you experience them, you can't fully appreciate the immensity that perhaps a sunset, a group singing, can be for you in the future. I think in that sense, Dragon new warm... is an album that makes you feel trapped in that amber of a mental photo album with a touch of nostalgic synesthesia.
For a long time I was afraid that my musical taste was feeling stagnant. After years and years listening to different things for so long, there comes a time when you start to think if you haven’t reached the limit of beauty, if there is still something so beautiful that it can still move you, that it can touch you so deeply that it makes you feel that it is something special. I think that over the years I developed this “fear” with the albums I used to listen to, always thinking, always overthinking actually, can I still find things as good as the ones I listened to when I was younger? Do I, as a person, being older, still have the ability to identify a work of art that is so beautiful? Can I still allow myself to love something? In this sense, this Big Thief album arrived in a random day of 2022, and just embraced me like a friend who hasn't seen you in years. At no point did I feel like it demanded my attention, as if it were pretentious, or wanted to take huge flights within its aspirations (which I have no problem with! I think many works of art should dare and feel megalomaniacal!). But here, I felt its simplicity, its beauty in small harmonies, its singing in the late afternoons, where it seems that countless songs were written here. Adrianne Lenker, one of the best composers of this decade, turns the blank paper here into a drawing like on the cover, full of feeling, but so simple that it's easy to ignore its emotional depth. The album embarks on different songs that vary from classic country like in "Sparrow" to more alternative approaches like in the magnificent "Simulation Swarm" (one of the songs I love the most, all time), demonstrating in all of them a very bucolic feeling, a taste of Arcadianism in all its notes, as if it were made to represent a life, a story distant from yours, a rural counterpart to a dream you had last night, but still connected by the feeling that makes us human beings. I think it's easy to connect when you can conjure up such beautiful images through memories that it feels like we've all shared at some point.
For a long time I was afraid that my musical taste was feeling stagnant. After years and years listening to different things for so long, there comes a time when you start to think if you haven’t reached the limit of beauty, if there is still something so beautiful that it can still move you, that it can touch you so deeply that it makes you feel that it is something special. I think that over the years I developed this “fear” with the albums I used to listen to, always thinking, always overthinking actually, can I still find things as good as the ones I listened to when I was younger? Do I, as a person, being older, still have the ability to identify a work of art that is so beautiful? Can I still allow myself to love something? In this sense, this Big Thief album arrived in a random day of 2022, and just embraced me like a friend who hasn't seen you in years. At no point did I feel like it demanded my attention, as if it were pretentious, or wanted to take huge flights within its aspirations (which I have no problem with! I think many works of art should dare and feel megalomaniacal!). But here, I felt its simplicity, its beauty in small harmonies, its singing in the late afternoons, where it seems that countless songs were written here. Adrianne Lenker, one of the best composers of this decade, turns the blank paper here into a drawing like on the cover, full of feeling, but so simple that it's easy to ignore its emotional depth. The album embarks on different songs that vary from classic country like in "Sparrow" to more alternative approaches like in the magnificent "Simulation Swarm" (one of the songs I love the most, all time), demonstrating in all of them a very bucolic feeling, a taste of Arcadianism in all its notes, as if it were made to represent a life, a story distant from yours, a rural counterpart to a dream you had last night, but still connected by the feeling that makes us human beings. I think it's easy to connect when you can conjure up such beautiful images through memories that it feels like we've all shared at some point.
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2022
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It's not that I have (or had since I finally got this essay going) nothing to say about this album, hell, by thkinking about how many times I've listened to it I feel like I know already where each phrase and note is, but it's so hard to pinpoint how much this impact, It just feels amazing to listen to this, and sometimes this is the only feeling that matters when writting about music, specially those who touch your soul in ways you don't quite understand. Still this album means so much, that I thought I could give it a chance and pay honor to one of the greatest composers of modern rock music, so here it is.
I think it has become cliché to refer to an album aging like wine in the context of music criticism, mainly because there are albums that serve as a reference to the development of a certain genre that is impossible to distinguish it from the influence it had on its contemporaries. However, in this case I will make an exception for Marquee Moon, in view of how much it dared to deconstruct the punk movement that was taking place on both sides of the Atlantic (both in the US and the UK) and apply to it a musical tangency of its angest with meticulous guitar cuts that complement each other in heavenly arpeggios that echo to this day in the most beautiful solos of all time. The songwriting throughout all the songs, however, is a thing of another world, from the lightest ballads like Guiding light to the most aggressive like "See no evil", there isn't a moment when a lyric or a note seems to be lost or out of place. It's amazing how new this album sounds every time I listen to it, its main characteristic is how loaded with details the songs are, without appealing to production techniques that were offered at the time, the album develops so cohesively and effortlessly that they seem to be musical portraits of stories (chronicles or dramas) moments and human emotions. Tom Verlaine (RIP) deserves all his recognition for this album, it is impossible not to recognize his genius when listening to the title song "Marquee Moon". A 10:30 serenade that kisses your ears in such a delicious way and is the summary of this whole project, the beginning slowly instigates you to appreciate the direction of each instrument, the guitars get lost in each other's endless solos, the chorus that grows through the guts of brilliant drum turns, and how the band always dares to go further, reaching unforgettable moments like the harmonies that dance an arpeggiated ballet at the end of the song. It is absurd to think how something like this could be written and also performed so spontaneously, considering the era in which it was conceived as well. As I mentioned before nothing here seems locked or extremely calculated, despite the natural fits, I would say that the greatest achievement of this album is to bless us with a musical tetris played slowly between its rhythmists, each colorful musical note fitting exactly where it should be until a dreamlike explosion, it is amazing how magical listening to this album can be sometimes. [First added to this chart: 05/01/2014]
I think it has become cliché to refer to an album aging like wine in the context of music criticism, mainly because there are albums that serve as a reference to the development of a certain genre that is impossible to distinguish it from the influence it had on its contemporaries. However, in this case I will make an exception for Marquee Moon, in view of how much it dared to deconstruct the punk movement that was taking place on both sides of the Atlantic (both in the US and the UK) and apply to it a musical tangency of its angest with meticulous guitar cuts that complement each other in heavenly arpeggios that echo to this day in the most beautiful solos of all time. The songwriting throughout all the songs, however, is a thing of another world, from the lightest ballads like Guiding light to the most aggressive like "See no evil", there isn't a moment when a lyric or a note seems to be lost or out of place. It's amazing how new this album sounds every time I listen to it, its main characteristic is how loaded with details the songs are, without appealing to production techniques that were offered at the time, the album develops so cohesively and effortlessly that they seem to be musical portraits of stories (chronicles or dramas) moments and human emotions. Tom Verlaine (RIP) deserves all his recognition for this album, it is impossible not to recognize his genius when listening to the title song "Marquee Moon". A 10:30 serenade that kisses your ears in such a delicious way and is the summary of this whole project, the beginning slowly instigates you to appreciate the direction of each instrument, the guitars get lost in each other's endless solos, the chorus that grows through the guts of brilliant drum turns, and how the band always dares to go further, reaching unforgettable moments like the harmonies that dance an arpeggiated ballet at the end of the song. It is absurd to think how something like this could be written and also performed so spontaneously, considering the era in which it was conceived as well. As I mentioned before nothing here seems locked or extremely calculated, despite the natural fits, I would say that the greatest achievement of this album is to bless us with a musical tetris played slowly between its rhythmists, each colorful musical note fitting exactly where it should be until a dreamlike explosion, it is amazing how magical listening to this album can be sometimes. [First added to this chart: 05/01/2014]
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| 1960s | 4 | 4% | |
| 1970s | 14 | 14% | |
| 1980s | 7 | 7% | |
| 1990s | 15 | 15% | |
| 2000s | 22 | 22% | |
| 2010s | 36 | 36% | |
| 2020s | 2 | 2% |
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| Mac DeMarco | 2 | 2% | |
| Kendrick Lamar | 2 | 2% | |
| Radiohead | 2 | 2% | |
| New Order | 2 | 2% | |
| Car Seat Headrest | 2 | 2% | |
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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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90/100
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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