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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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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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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I have so many things to say about this song. When I got into the fishmans a year ago, this was the first song of theirs that I've put my ears onto, and surely I was not expecting it to be so long, but most surprisingly I was not expecting it to throw many diverse feelings into me. See, long season is built over a single melody that variate into 5 parts shaping inside a 43 minute puzzle, minimalistic dream pop made correctly, the way the harmonies lay beside the guitars and that looping piano track it's hysterical, and there is also space for a 6 minutes drum solo. While listening to this live album I was so excited for this song to come on, because it's indeed the epitome of everything they have played through this record, it's filled with too many details, more than the recorded version, that the reward for the risk of going through this monumental musical piece is as big as the effort to immerse yourself into it. Long season is a song that would be the musical equivalent of a photography book, the phase of growing up and realizing how weird the world is, all of this in just a long winter. Knowing that this would be shinji last song, someway puts me in his position, in a way that the song feels like an enormous flashback through the life of this little boy, all the happiness all the sadness, a bittersweet taste of having the life passing through this melody, its ups and downs. I know that I am very paranoid about keeping old stuff with me, avoiding everything that built myself as a man, blow away like dust, keeping every single human and moment someway next to me, so I don't find myself lost in oblivion sometime, so I can someway find a existential meaning in these little pieces of my memory I've brought with me, and I guess this might be long season. There is this moment in the song where everybody in the crowd is swallowed by this immense amount of high and sweetly sharp sounds, that almost feel like a purifying moment, I could say that it's kinda spiritual for those who believe in it, and for those who even don't, everyone (from the band to the last person standing on the crowd) is tune with this animistic and outer-dimensional spiritual body. Some people keep photographs, some other videos, I like to think that this was shinji's way to remember all that the universe meant to him, and they played it like never before. after these 37 minutes there is a taste in my mouth (or ears) that wants more. Winter has never been so warm.
[First added to this chart: 07/31/2016]
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1996
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Step Inside, it's all a dream. Nothing that you see is real, but what you wanted it to be, You are in a perfect place, do not fall on the hypnosis of the truth. "loveless" attracted me to the amazing aural power it contained. Sounds like askafroa made it, with her all calm, and little details, with her mystic fingers, planting little roses and lotus flowers in every tree she's next. (http://ericahenderson.net/art/images/media/Askafroa.jpg). Everything is a dream, waves go in front, and drown your feelings, it is a soul bath made by angels, that clean your spirit and burn the pessimistic sense. Everything begins with the initial step you take in "only shallow." The moment that you fall in dream leafs, you forget the real world ,and feel a kind of light, coming from your heart, You begin to falling from the real world but your feelings you hold preventing you from hitting into the nightmare,and when you're on the floor you don't know what you do, but an angelic voice comes to guides you through a world in black and white. throughout the album you discover the power of your subconscious takes the brush from inside, and paint the art that flows through your fingers, and allows you to transpire for the regular sun. Not only are the feelings that bring you to euphoric aura, are the memories, and feelings, "When You Sleep" I go back to my childhood when I was younger and saw the world with eyes of platinum that sparkled with the magic that the world brought me where fantasy surrounded me and took me to do unimaginable things, take a rain shower while the sun does not leave to cool, feel every drop running down his body, reach the bottom of the nervous system. I was thinking that there was something missing while I was listening to this song So I just got my guitar at night went to my backyard's garden and then sang to the night, for minutes the feeling of euphoria controled me I would like to never stop to play it, The stars were dancing with me and I was feeling at each chord that was playing there were invisible colors getting out of my guitar, floating in the garden, and letting my backyard invisibly colorful, even My Neighbor's dog saw me playing and decided to come with me That was an amazing night, and when the chorus come you feel the happiest person of the world you're 100% out of evil, just let the love get into your heart and direct you to the song's heart. Meanwhile the album leads me to earthworms where my body is small tube I get empty in the middle of the zig zag movement of my head. we arrived in "sometimes" a moment of the night, I rise to the moon I get to sit on it slowly singing. Feelings traveling by mind as the heartbeat of my adrenaline, It is the power of closing your eyes and the... a new universe expand on your brain, you start to ignore reality, let the love hit the last part of your hate, Because We really just need to found our twin soul, but she could be aborted and you just survived being created by an horrible world, and that was not what you want, so you escaped.Life will be no longer scary, Life will be no longer azoic or mediocre, just believe that you are living this moment, and do never wake up after you do that. the whole album I walk with a flower on my head but I 'm not a tree, I 'm just fascinated by what mother nature can do, or maybe I just opened my beauty to the world, but the world haunted me and I finally found my trail. butterflies, rabbits, Blue- jays, etc... follow the trail sometimes afraid, but nothing scares us here. small ladybugs stick in my hair and make it a home (actually someone already told me this story). I can finally find myself, I can find my world to live on, it is far away from the urban stress, a place where everything seems to not making sense, but sometimes the senses lost the reason, when emotions control you.
[First added to this chart: 03/01/2014]
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1991
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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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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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I remember it was all foggy, waking up in an old farmhouse, It's familiar but I can't quite remember where this has been on my memory lane, it's between twilights, there are no colors, not really sure if the sun is about to shine or fall, there is nothing to see except the horizon line and a little river around the house moving soothly with malice, there is something eerie about this house, it's empty, I look and search around all the rooms, there are dust footsteps fading with time, are these mine? there are eyes all around me, but there is no human around, at least that's what I see, confusion of thoughts in my brain, breath in breath out, The sun is almost going out, the birds present a weird formation and sound, no faces at all, no eyes, just the shadow of a bird or the illusion, as if they were hunting and running from the prey, There are floating bodies in the lake and a memory book on the sand next to their clocks, all stopped at the same second: 4:42, the bodies gaze at the sky with an uncertain smile, the images in the books are screwed all over the face with X instead of eyes, and marks all over the body, fake smiles and timestamps, there are more footsteps closer, the sound of them is mesmerizing, as if it was soft and cold, don't turn back, the night has fallen, your eyes are glowing, fingers shaking and bumping into each other, feeling blistering and coldness all over your bones, a hot breeze invades the spine and everything is shaken. Read all the exclaiming and all the screams in the sand, and only the stars are here as witnesses. Good night captain.
[First added to this chart: 02/02/2017]
Year of Release:
1991
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13,731
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[First added to this chart: 08/08/2019]
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I LOVE YOU JESUUUUUUUUUUUUS CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSST
[First added to this chart: 04/14/2017]
Year of Release:
1998
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39,467
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[First added to this chart: 08/18/2021]
Year of Release:
1996
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10,300
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 5 | 5% | |
| 1970s | 15 | 15% | |
| 1980s | 7 | 7% | |
| 1990s | 15 | 15% | |
| 2000s | 23 | 23% | |
| 2010s | 34 | 34% | |
| 2020s | 1 | 1% |
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| Jim O'Rourke | 4 | 4% | |
| Kendrick Lamar | 2 | 2% | |
| The Radio Dept. | 2 | 2% | |
| Arcade Fire | 2 | 2% | |
| Daft Punk | 2 | 2% | |
| The Microphones | 2 | 2% | |
| New Order | 2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 29 from 34th to 5th Figure 8 by Elliott Smith |
| 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 |
| Down 1 from 5th to 6th Loud City Song by Julia Holter |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums ratings
93/100 (from 185 votes)
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95/100  | 01/15/2024 12:25 | Untitled | | 84/100 |
 100/100 | 07/27/2022 23:02 | Soencer | | 100/100 |
| 90/100 | 11/24/2021 00:27 |  DriftingOrpheus | | 91/100 |
| 90/100 | 11/23/2021 19:43 |  rockbluesfolkjaz | | 87/100 |
| 100/100 | 11/23/2021 12:29 |  Cytoma | | 90/100 |
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From SUPERJEFF6 01/15/2024 20:58
titanic rising #1 is based
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100/100
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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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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
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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
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
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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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