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.
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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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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.
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2013
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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.
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2011
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I used to compare Phil Elvrum's works as the musical equivalent of Lars Von Trier's movies. The Boldness is combined with a sense of creativity that spills emotion all over the listener, He/She is ripped out from the comfort zone and thrown out in the middle of a hurricane without any clues of how he got there, and how Elvrum decides to treat us is insanely weird, he quietly comes closer and closer until we can listen to him breathing, so close that we can hear his blood moving through his veins, so close that we can see that wilderness that is covered behind his eyes. He appears alone to calm down the disorder that is established in "The Sun", and inserts us in some kind of stellar ritual, with the moon and the sun as witnesses, the abstract glow is now swallow by a big mass of vacuum and negative energy coming from a big black hole. What I most love in Phil's works is how much it seems personal and how much it represents the chaos that is the human mind, our pessimism personified in trumpets and nymphs' voices, inducting you to be weaker and weaker. "Solar System" is the perfect ode to the myth of the eternal return, The troubadour that interacts with his loneliness and outside forces to wish his lover comeback, The continuous use of "I Know you're out there" reinforces the feeling of how much he has waited and will wait for her to be back, let it rain, let there be sun, the world will end and his dreams will still be floating in the ether. In "universe I" the band join its multi-instrumental magic to give life to the fragility of human conscience and confidence, from the lonely guitar that follows Elvrum through the glow of the moon, going through reflexes in mud puddles with her curves drawn, until our hero down to his knees offers himself to the force that moves the universe, and we are brought then to a weird journey that is mount eerie, a force that purifies and devours each piece of your soul. The eclipse starts, his eyes are burnt, he is tilting towards the sun, and the mount eerie wakes from his thrones and begins to drain any light that remains in the listener's hope. This has been a hell of an adventure huh? When I first completed Mount Eerie I got myself theorizing all night and dawn, what the hell did I just passed through? Is this some kind of metaphor to the trifling human emotions and feelings? That's why I consider this record to be so great, it explores the outside world of music, it's not just about listening to something, but rather taking a philosophical walk to somewhere, we are humans and overall we should know how soulless we have become in the last years. In the end we have stars and galaxies inside us, we are a whole universe of deception and loneliness, love and hate, we are a big avalanche of synesthesia, we are a big mess of sense. And In the end we will be all swallow and superb about how deep our night is, how coloured our supernovas are, how enormous our soul is.
[First added to this chart: 10/15/2016]
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2003
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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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One of the things I love the most in Carrie & Lowell (and there are infinite of them) is how sufjan's naked emotion is disposed to the listener, it always feels like we're way too intimate with him, almost trespassing his comfort zone just to feel his raw and impulsive sensitive spectrum, it's such a human atmosphere, grief seen through the eyes of a man who cries like a kid, looking for his parents comfort. Only himself by the light of his bedroom looking at photographs of his old memories, shadows fading, lovely breakfast with mom and that warm feel of comfort that is to be with someone you truly love and know that in the curves of her/his arm you will find an island of hope and bright light. And like I said we are way too close to the ethereal atmosphere that is being portrayed in Stevens' soul that all the ghostly instrumentation that dances around his track move soo soft between our ears, not noticing its presence and letting it swift its fingers upon our inside. One of my favorite moments in this experience is the ending of "shade in the shadow of the cross", the quiet sound of sufjan's grief infested bedroom, his breath slowly dragging us out of the painting that he drew with his lyrics. Before I ever began to write these notes and sink deeper into my own musical inner journey, I always told myself I would never connect albums with moments and feelings, because it should stand as it is thematically, after a few blue moons, I just can't resist to connect this with my old tree drawing, with all those spirals, it meant something about missing that one person, life has so many teardrops of emotion and hysterical moments of quirkiness, we don't eve notice how quickly all the sunsets leaves us. It's also really wonderful and worth noticing how many of these songs end in such a dreamy way, the foggy atmosphere that catches and traps us inside the purgatory-like process that this album is inserted into, all the thematic hell that is to pass through the loss of your deary parents, who told you how to see and taste the world around, comforted you in the times of darkness, and to see how Sufjan portrays how this loss affects all his daily-routine, haunts him in his bests dreams, is too see his naked emotion, to feel his shape, to appreciate the raw picture of his soul, these are the moments that make me cry everytime the only thing hits the first string of my deary heart, making me appreciate how lovely everyone around is (with their mistakes and strong points) by pouring all his miserability so close to me, god bless your vesuvius sized impossible soul sufjan.
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2015
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Going out with your friends at night in the 70s new york city, and getting drunk in the CBGB'S wondering where has your head and conscience gone.
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Will Write More [First added to this chart: 05/01/2014]
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1977
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Yeah, I'm aware that this is an Ep and that I'm cheating "my top 100 albums list", and that this list is getting a little bit O'Rourke heavy, and the world turns and doesn't care about what you wear, and that the we will once again spin around the sun and celebrate another year like it's a lifechanging thing, and that love doesn't need to be romanticized to death to understand its tension. Halfway to a threeway was probably the last of the main O'rourke projects that I got into, with no reason whatsoever, and it sure was a horrible mistake that I shouldn't have done, because this album is more focused and much more concentrated lyrically and musically than any of his other projects, as once again, as in Eureka and Insignificance, the album portrays Jim's descent into mediocrity in such a charming way, that it's impossible not to relate to his pain in some songs like the fantastic title song. Also the mastercraft of the songs are extraordinary, jim pulls of his hat many genres and let them bubble around wind, exploding melodies inside the musical floor, and all of this in less than 25 minutes, God bless this man wherever he is right now.
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| Up 29 from 34th to 5th Figure 8 by Elliott Smith |
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| Down 1 from 1st to 2nd Eureka by Jim O'Rourke |
| Down 1 from 2nd to 3rd Souvlaki by Slowdive |
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From SUPERJEFF6 01/15/2024 20:58
titanic rising #1 is based
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100/100
From 
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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90/100
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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95/100
From 
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
From 
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
From 
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
From 
benpaco 01/22/2020 18:25
benpaco 01/22/2020 18:25
Finally time to mine this for recs
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