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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- (Created: 10/24/2013 19:00).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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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.
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1969
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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.
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This album is a big mess, but it's a lovely mess, It's so huge and eclectic
that it's hard to put in words what makes it so magnificent to me. My second favorite beatles record, it contains so many different faces of the beatles that makes me blush whenever I listen to it, They don't have the same sound everyone, they work out in their own ways, you can almost define who wrote the lyrics, who made the composition, which means they were already picking different tones to their career, affecting the band's whole sound, what could work out as a catastrophe, becomes incredible once their ideas get together almost symmetrically. By one side we have their psychedelic rock side remaining of the revolver and sgt. pepper's times with songs like "While my guitar gently Weeps", a beautiful Harrison song, that transcend the listener's ears, a lovely dance between your soul and the song, There is their heavier and rockier sound with songs like "Helter Skelter", a Proto-punk energy bomb planted in the album, that surely influenced many jam bands. But this seems like the multi faced Beatles record, they don't work in the album together as a band (in one), everyone seems to contribute to its part to the point it has no single characteristic to it, and it's length, besides taking a real long time from beginning to end, only shows how far each of them could push the album. It feels correct since being this big means they had a lot to produce alone, a lot of material brought to the table, which ends working in all, as a magic record, even revolution 9 (the master clusterfuck of this record) seems to fit in the context that it was produced, closing with the lovely Good night, which leaves ringo alone in the studio, closing the doors of what would be the beginning of the end of an era. [First added to this chart: 04/29/2017]
that it's hard to put in words what makes it so magnificent to me. My second favorite beatles record, it contains so many different faces of the beatles that makes me blush whenever I listen to it, They don't have the same sound everyone, they work out in their own ways, you can almost define who wrote the lyrics, who made the composition, which means they were already picking different tones to their career, affecting the band's whole sound, what could work out as a catastrophe, becomes incredible once their ideas get together almost symmetrically. By one side we have their psychedelic rock side remaining of the revolver and sgt. pepper's times with songs like "While my guitar gently Weeps", a beautiful Harrison song, that transcend the listener's ears, a lovely dance between your soul and the song, There is their heavier and rockier sound with songs like "Helter Skelter", a Proto-punk energy bomb planted in the album, that surely influenced many jam bands. But this seems like the multi faced Beatles record, they don't work in the album together as a band (in one), everyone seems to contribute to its part to the point it has no single characteristic to it, and it's length, besides taking a real long time from beginning to end, only shows how far each of them could push the album. It feels correct since being this big means they had a lot to produce alone, a lot of material brought to the table, which ends working in all, as a magic record, even revolution 9 (the master clusterfuck of this record) seems to fit in the context that it was produced, closing with the lovely Good night, which leaves ringo alone in the studio, closing the doors of what would be the beginning of the end of an era. [First added to this chart: 04/29/2017]
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*Writes here a giant text with as many buzzwords as this damn site can allow me too, displaying how much this album was important for the free jazz to take shape and certain popularity in the future jazz stream of consciousness*
The truth is that I've never been a jazz fan, of course like all the kids that are trying to get into the genre for the first time (wew, my first miles album was this and I had only 17 years and revisited all Jim O'Rourke discography), Miles Davis is the easiest and most looked spotlight to get into the genre. And while I can understand why Kind of blue gets all te praise it has, I don't feel it displaying the sonic development and emotional connection that In a silent way has to me. While the most quiet moments are the ones which steal my breath whenever this album unfolds into my stomach, I feel like miles trumpet sound is quite often overlooked or eclipsed by the genious playing that the other instruments have around him. Their ability to keep the song flowing in such a smooth way is what keeps me into the album and not letting it pass as a background listen, it's intense in a theoric manner which attracts me as the smell of a strawberry pie attracts the dogs and neighboors on old cartoons. I may not know a lot about the construction and arrangements or if there is any rules going over here, if there it is, it would kinda disapoint me because I put my soul that they are truly improvising all these variations with heart and soul. Without a doubt though, miles is sweating all his heart and soul in each song, if you listen really closely you can feel it dropping on the floor, this is quite unexplicable for such a poor mind as mine. [First added to this chart: 10/08/2017]
The truth is that I've never been a jazz fan, of course like all the kids that are trying to get into the genre for the first time (wew, my first miles album was this and I had only 17 years and revisited all Jim O'Rourke discography), Miles Davis is the easiest and most looked spotlight to get into the genre. And while I can understand why Kind of blue gets all te praise it has, I don't feel it displaying the sonic development and emotional connection that In a silent way has to me. While the most quiet moments are the ones which steal my breath whenever this album unfolds into my stomach, I feel like miles trumpet sound is quite often overlooked or eclipsed by the genious playing that the other instruments have around him. Their ability to keep the song flowing in such a smooth way is what keeps me into the album and not letting it pass as a background listen, it's intense in a theoric manner which attracts me as the smell of a strawberry pie attracts the dogs and neighboors on old cartoons. I may not know a lot about the construction and arrangements or if there is any rules going over here, if there it is, it would kinda disapoint me because I put my soul that they are truly improvising all these variations with heart and soul. Without a doubt though, miles is sweating all his heart and soul in each song, if you listen really closely you can feel it dropping on the floor, this is quite unexplicable for such a poor mind as mine. [First added to this chart: 10/08/2017]
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
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| Up 2 from 3rd to 1st Titanic Rising by Weyes Blood |
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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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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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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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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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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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benpaco 01/22/2020 18:25
benpaco 01/22/2020 18:25
Finally time to mine this for recs
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