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).
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TELEVISIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON
RULES THE NATIOOOOOON
AROUND THE WOOORLD THE WOOORLD THW WOOORLD
WORK IT
MAKE IT
if you listened to any of these on the back of your head while reading this, then wow you are truly ready for this album and should revisit/visit it ASAP, trust me I'm a doctor [First added to this chart: 12/17/2017]
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it, turn it, leave it, start, format it
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TELEVISIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON
RULES THE NATIOOOOOON
AROUND THE WOOORLD THE WOOORLD THW WOOORLD
WORK IT
MAKE IT
if you listened to any of these on the back of your head while reading this, then wow you are truly ready for this album and should revisit/visit it ASAP, trust me I'm a doctor [First added to this chart: 12/17/2017]
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2007
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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.
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Every single time when I come back to my chart and look for my top 10 I ask to myself, what does this all mean? Are these the most important albums to me? were they who shaped my youth? Do they make my life any better? And for each time I had no answer. Sincerely Lesser Matters seems like the album that means so much for what I am now that is the answer to all these questions. It's not about what is the Greatest album of all time, but what album can make me feel great any time, which album spills sunshine on my soul, which album is there for the best and worse moments.
Life of a book writter is hard, you have to throw out a lot of unused stuff and stories that could have been created, so many adventures disappeared, so many characters that are never going to have life, but then there is lesser matters, it is a world created by these forgotten stories, by this lonely writer, in each piece of land in this weird planet there are his feelings, memories, and little beautiful thing in life we just ignore, a place where nothing is rushed, everything take your time to fit itself in the equation. Lesser Matters, is one of those albums that for me it takes the right time to listen and get it, like I was doing nothing, feeling that my life was going like a boring wave, and that I was jut being taken with it, days were just days, nights were only nights, monotony was dictating my boring life, until I find this, this is the sugar I need, the taste of music, something funny, cute, happy and sweet ^_^ . Whenever I listen to music I try to relate at things at life, or sometimes just fantasy, to build one, As many researches have already pointed the human smell can remember more than images, so sometimes I feel like Lesser matters feels like a candy perfume that you use just to feel new, and re-live those old times even through they are just in your mind, but It feels more like a super 8 movie, with your friends, and as "Too soon" goes slowly covering you with a warm blanket the songs all evolve into series of movies, in the most remotes places as possible, and as "Lost and found" fades away this movie achieve its ends, although there is a great satisfaction to remember all of it and to feel cuddled by the happiness in your heart, It's sad to see you grew up, those good times will probably never get back. I try not to think in loveless when I hear other called shoegaze albums, and they all have failed even with other mbv albums, but this was the one who broke this curse, I didn't even think I was listening to shoegaze, it was so dreamy, the melodies were amazing my ears that I couldn't even hear the corrupting noise,making my ears dilate like eyes of a baby when it meets the sun for the first time, songs like "Why Won't you talk about it" can bring some straight in front noise that is kinda blinding, but it's incredible how they can insert that floating charming keyboard in it, it is sweetly heavy, Like skating on a thin ice river next to your house, that winter, those moments. If in any day of the world it could have a rain of snowflakes that could melt in my jacket and I was in my grandma's house over that green hill, and I could dance, this would be what I would dance to, specially "Strange Things Will Happen" which is our tip toes in the white snow, making those snowballs, and those angels shapes, all day, and there is a star in their eyes in a way that they feel complete, and that was what I was needing when I listened to lesser matters, i think this what makes me love it so much, it kinda completes me in some few ways. I was in the backseat of the car while listening to this, it was raining, and then this played, you know when the memories of the sentimental side of the mind hit you without you feeling but just accepting, a goddamn nostalgia, not to be growing up, but not to do what you could have done, so many things, and while this play, my age, my thoughts, what is and what is not conscientious are the thing that lesser matters to me, there is a new wave taking me away, even that for some few minutes [First added to this chart: 05/03/2015]
Life of a book writter is hard, you have to throw out a lot of unused stuff and stories that could have been created, so many adventures disappeared, so many characters that are never going to have life, but then there is lesser matters, it is a world created by these forgotten stories, by this lonely writer, in each piece of land in this weird planet there are his feelings, memories, and little beautiful thing in life we just ignore, a place where nothing is rushed, everything take your time to fit itself in the equation. Lesser Matters, is one of those albums that for me it takes the right time to listen and get it, like I was doing nothing, feeling that my life was going like a boring wave, and that I was jut being taken with it, days were just days, nights were only nights, monotony was dictating my boring life, until I find this, this is the sugar I need, the taste of music, something funny, cute, happy and sweet ^_^ . Whenever I listen to music I try to relate at things at life, or sometimes just fantasy, to build one, As many researches have already pointed the human smell can remember more than images, so sometimes I feel like Lesser matters feels like a candy perfume that you use just to feel new, and re-live those old times even through they are just in your mind, but It feels more like a super 8 movie, with your friends, and as "Too soon" goes slowly covering you with a warm blanket the songs all evolve into series of movies, in the most remotes places as possible, and as "Lost and found" fades away this movie achieve its ends, although there is a great satisfaction to remember all of it and to feel cuddled by the happiness in your heart, It's sad to see you grew up, those good times will probably never get back. I try not to think in loveless when I hear other called shoegaze albums, and they all have failed even with other mbv albums, but this was the one who broke this curse, I didn't even think I was listening to shoegaze, it was so dreamy, the melodies were amazing my ears that I couldn't even hear the corrupting noise,making my ears dilate like eyes of a baby when it meets the sun for the first time, songs like "Why Won't you talk about it" can bring some straight in front noise that is kinda blinding, but it's incredible how they can insert that floating charming keyboard in it, it is sweetly heavy, Like skating on a thin ice river next to your house, that winter, those moments. If in any day of the world it could have a rain of snowflakes that could melt in my jacket and I was in my grandma's house over that green hill, and I could dance, this would be what I would dance to, specially "Strange Things Will Happen" which is our tip toes in the white snow, making those snowballs, and those angels shapes, all day, and there is a star in their eyes in a way that they feel complete, and that was what I was needing when I listened to lesser matters, i think this what makes me love it so much, it kinda completes me in some few ways. I was in the backseat of the car while listening to this, it was raining, and then this played, you know when the memories of the sentimental side of the mind hit you without you feeling but just accepting, a goddamn nostalgia, not to be growing up, but not to do what you could have done, so many things, and while this play, my age, my thoughts, what is and what is not conscientious are the thing that lesser matters to me, there is a new wave taking me away, even that for some few minutes [First added to this chart: 05/03/2015]
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As the sun rises and the trees smile for their dreamlike food, the people move out their house like zombies in hunt for their jobs or schools or even food, at the bus stop chicane you glimpse dozens of heads, shaved and hairy, and antonio and his headphones ready to board in his crowded adventure, and while the road from his centripetal dream land is far away from the caves of med study it allows the own to listen to musical masterpieces that can once disintegrate his grumpy humor and let the sunshine flow through his skin and warm up his veins, and you look at the skinny and flamboyant dressed kid that is almost dancing to the tunes he has on his pocket, and you can catch julian casablancas cheering his bones and soul up with a lovely song, it's almost a breakfast like tradition, maybe that little kid is moved to music after all, good to know that the worms of magical experience still manage to crawl through his body. The title track portraits a jumpy bass, a drum that encourages you to get chained to the rythm, turn it up it's my favorite song! the little kid squeezes his backpack on his front and move his red all-stars in the bus corridor, moving his neck and letting his muscle flowing as the rythm pulses constantly and bubbly into his ears. as we go through the city the shinny and sharp guitar seems to put him to look out in a positive way to all these pieces of meat going to life, work or maybe pilot an airplane, or maybe a painter coming back from a dawn mystical experience, all of them brundled in a sardine can... I mean bus, and so we look on in a optimistic and romantic prism to the world around us, the happy (or at least pseudo-happiness) melodies pave the way for a fulfilling and colorful roads filled with cars and roundabouts and life! Sometimes he catches himself closing his eyes and having a lucid dream in the streets of new york, the quick timing of the world, fake happy smiles and promisses and appointments.
If you look around the pre-2001 optimism through fast images of the world you will get a little bit of how vivid this album's experience kicks in this lonely dancy-boy has every morning.
Now It's not a mantra I sing to myself, but I kinda am adept of living with a good energy, there are so many wonderful things out there, many people that care with me, that like to make a good thing to the world, spreading a bad energy is just as bad to the others as it will corrupt your day and you if it becomes a certain habit, there are more outside there to bring smiles to our face, rejoice as once again we stumble between smiles and tears, to tilt towards the sun and live a brand new day. Choose life my dear buddies, there is something bright, something beautiful and new waiting for us everyday.
and cut. [First added to this chart: 10/24/2013]
If you look around the pre-2001 optimism through fast images of the world you will get a little bit of how vivid this album's experience kicks in this lonely dancy-boy has every morning.
Now It's not a mantra I sing to myself, but I kinda am adept of living with a good energy, there are so many wonderful things out there, many people that care with me, that like to make a good thing to the world, spreading a bad energy is just as bad to the others as it will corrupt your day and you if it becomes a certain habit, there are more outside there to bring smiles to our face, rejoice as once again we stumble between smiles and tears, to tilt towards the sun and live a brand new day. Choose life my dear buddies, there is something bright, something beautiful and new waiting for us everyday.
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2001
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The baroque symphony for the last weeks of autumn, a Michelangelo-like painting on the shades of brown from the leaves falling from the almost dead trees, the strings scream and minimalize the emotion from the young kids adventures in these country forests. Fall is just by the corner and, even not being my favorite season (that being winter, but since I live in a equatorial climate, It doesn't change shit), when its signs began to appear I immediately was taken back to my little record store, bought and put out this record to play. While it is a fantastic and addictive and accessible record, funeral was probably the last record from AF that I got into (not counting reflektor since I began listening to them around 2012 or so). I had a hard time swallowing the emotional roller-coaster from this record, of course I had an instant and unstoppable love for the opening song and I really enjoyed the design of the cover (which I spent an hour trying to draw but since I SUCK at drawing It seemed like the guy had some deficiency in his hand haha.), but besides that, the melancholic and desperate tone of growing up from the suburbs attracted me more than the chamber shade of brown from this record. As moving on in life, I noticed that even having the big desperation of losing the beauty from the youth that the suburbs was trying to portray, the numerous crisis of identity that I had last year also destabilized a big part of my confidence in myself and attached me more to the suburbs than a bee is attached to flowers (or would it be honey?), I found the beauty of the dying signs of the passage of time from Funeral much more lovely, You know when you look to some old photos from yours and your family and looking behind sees that all that you've passed through was necessary and worth it? Now I know that when talking about both of these albums they surely are tangible in some subjects, that being the Weberian application of the dying innocence theory and the semi-stages of grief, suburbs shows the depth of the feeling apocalypse, eclipsing the whole bright side of it (besides having Sprawl II as brief moment of euphoria still shadowed with a quiet dark-tone), Funeral besides showing the death of the innocence, and trying to deal with the lost of all that ether that was inside of your person can catch the most beautiful tears from your person when attaching the necessity of moving on, Nostalgia is exactly the exact power that keeps pushing this record on, not on the musical quality of course, but what keeps feeding us the vignete like instrumentation that can remembers us from our unforgotten past. It's kinda weird because I never felt like that I would give records determined human values or share of memories as many of them take care of right now, though, as time kept moving on my life and mostly everyone's I found that art, specially music is one of the few things that can keep that special part of the universe close to us (like is already probably stated in the description for this chart), and if music is god's work to ascend the humans to another ethereal level of existence, then I think it's right to say that it's god's hands writing stuff on the cover.
[First added to this chart: 11/24/2013]
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2004
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Probably already said this in my first write-up for X&Y but I find coldplay to be one of the few bands in the overrated and underrated spectrum at the same time, this album is the proof of it, while A rush of blood to the head is significantly their most melodic and cohesive record, it's either pared as one of the greatest records of the last decade or one of the most overapreciated ones. Now, I'm not the real voice of reason to be heard here, as you would probably guess If you have been watching the late dawn show with antonio, I'm influenced most be the exposition I had once or more to certain artist in the past, and this manages to make me resonate more closely with the music, well I used to be a lot exposed to coldplay, being mainly on watching videos of their earlier albums on MTV or just taking a ride through the city, my mom had this and parachutes as CDs in our older cars, so Chris martin voice was almost inescapable and stuck in my mind like orange jello. A rush of blood to the head has nothing could rank it along the greatest or most interesting works of art out their, maybe the chorus of God Put a smile on my face could be the most challenging thing over here, but their greatest perk is how they manage to glue together all these sonic pop pieces with such flow and consistency. The first side is one of the greatest mainstream pop achievements, probably Martin's peak of songwritting and composing and the band has such an atmospheric unison it's freaking cool, The scientist, clocks and In My place could make a great EP by themselves.
It's true that the album has a little downfall through the second act, daylight ruining your clocks experience is there to makes this statement true, and while I find the two songs of one the best they have made, it's unavoidable to say it's kinda pale compared to the first pop filled side. I think that one of the things that makes me love this album how simple it is to love this, of course some people could argue that it's as bland as the sound of a fox shitting in your garden, but in the end, these songs really make for me the day, It's quite a relaxing experience to hear this after coming from a rough day at the uni, it feels like a peaceful conversation with eris. And there's this moment in clocks when it all explodes in such a magnificent way in the chorus, you are left begging for it to stay there and soak you into its starry night, a vision of older days, a hand around your shoulder telling it's all going to be alright, the day might be cloudy, but heck the sun is still around there.
There is this moment in Bryan Lee O'Malley's Book in which raleigh, a girl which soul was stolen by a cat in california, reminds herself by looking at the stars of the pleasure that is to gaze the universe and have a heartbraking moment to acknowledge how hard it's to pass the coming of age and transporting herself to a more mature phase of her life, in the purgatory between the pleasures of past and the agony of the future the stars remind her what is her inner motivation, and in the downfall of her own dreams, there is A rush of blood to the head to make it softer and more understandable, have a good night. [First added to this chart: 12/28/2015]
It's true that the album has a little downfall through the second act, daylight ruining your clocks experience is there to makes this statement true, and while I find the two songs of one the best they have made, it's unavoidable to say it's kinda pale compared to the first pop filled side. I think that one of the things that makes me love this album how simple it is to love this, of course some people could argue that it's as bland as the sound of a fox shitting in your garden, but in the end, these songs really make for me the day, It's quite a relaxing experience to hear this after coming from a rough day at the uni, it feels like a peaceful conversation with eris. And there's this moment in clocks when it all explodes in such a magnificent way in the chorus, you are left begging for it to stay there and soak you into its starry night, a vision of older days, a hand around your shoulder telling it's all going to be alright, the day might be cloudy, but heck the sun is still around there.
There is this moment in Bryan Lee O'Malley's Book in which raleigh, a girl which soul was stolen by a cat in california, reminds herself by looking at the stars of the pleasure that is to gaze the universe and have a heartbraking moment to acknowledge how hard it's to pass the coming of age and transporting herself to a more mature phase of her life, in the purgatory between the pleasures of past and the agony of the future the stars remind her what is her inner motivation, and in the downfall of her own dreams, there is A rush of blood to the head to make it softer and more understandable, have a good night. [First added to this chart: 12/28/2015]
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There's someone new in the building, I sometimes get the same elevator that she takes to go to her work, We smile to each other, talk about the other neighbor who screams with his fat wife. We laugh about how silly our conversation about life is, for 2 minutes the day is brighter for both of us. Life is so fast at times, I get myself thinking about the time that has already passed through this year, how much I've grown up, how little I've done the same, The everyday routine tends to swallow my memories, But there are afternoons that the color spilled all over the sky activates some of my older memories, I like to think this is a transition time that I'm passing, the death of youth and innocence is something we all pass, but the outcome as a responsible man that know how to deal and curve my bones when the world requires it, This is what YHF means to me, the epitome of opening eyes to the new pleasures of the adult world, specially love and nostalgia.
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*Read this as you listen to "Headless Horsemen"*
It's been a long time since I've written something that has came from the deepest part of my heart, It's been so long since I have spent this whole time writing, It's been so long since I've listened to something so confronting and moving, It's been a long time... a long time... A real long time... 2015 was a strange year, In various ways, I feel my life and myself was crushed by the coming of maturity, I found myself in a melancholic state more than in any way, I've cried lots and lots for stupid things, I've lost almost all my love for BEA, I got into a bad state of depression, and the hole went down, My head was a weird tornado, that destroyed everything that was in its front, I remember having tons of discussions with my parents and friends that didn't end so well, I wanted to scream, I wanted to scream a lot!. Something that I remember like yesterday was the day when I lost my best friend, a real stupid death, I felt sad, sore, mostly, bland, I looked at anything thinking the why, I had no reason to breathe, or whatever. To try to kill this pain, I decided to look back at the things that we liked, to see If I could... catch something that was related to her, and kinda bring back those old times, (she liked "Her" as an example) but I felt nothing, I felt nothing. One day, By a coincidence, I found That she liked the Microphones, principally this album, and decided to give it a listen, for some reason I didn't find it that appealing for the first time, Everything was so, odd, actually it was more like a weird puzzle that was not for me, and then decided to forget it a little bit, but as much as I tried to avoid relating albums to people I failed to resist to this one, I always came back to this every night for some reason, I found myself more in love with it at each listen. Someday, It was like 2 A.M, and I was with a bad insomnia, after beginning the whole thing I decided to look up for the lyrics, and for each song, I teared up a little, I will not pretend I got everything that was contained in behind it, however, slowly, the story was unfolding, in a moment I realized, then felt... She was there, Between the lines of each song. And as the album was going on I could still listen that lonely note all over it, For a long time I used to find it unnecessary, and thought everything was ruined by it, that seemed to make no sense, "My Warm blood" was a song totally dedicated to it, And it was so long, I ignored it... but finally I Understood, no matter how loud the sound is, the note is still there, no matter how long the song is, the note still beats, and in the end there is nothing at all besides that lonely sound, it still beats, the heart still beats, Her heart, She was in the album, She Was the album, In each heartnote (It's how I call now) I felt her closer and closer. Until one day I was in another place I can't remember well, I remember It was dawn, I decided to take one of my dawn walks, there weren't many light posts, so I could see the moon and the whole space, I felt everything, Everything was transcending all over my soul, the light of the sun crashing all over the moon was burning my eyelids, I saw that it doesn't matter how much she leaves, there is always the moon or the stars, to bring me back, to take her back. Phil wrote one of the most human things ever, It feels like even with all the metaphors, the human life resides in there, We are deep, we are bored, we are cold, we are just like a rock, but in the end doesn't matter how big the noise is, there is always something that pump inside us, there is still the blood we bleed, and the heart that beats, in each note that is poured all over the album, It is haunting, it is warm, and confusing, it is soft. And When in "Headless Horsemen" Phil sings "I miss my closest friend" and that note hits, I felt myself again. I felt her Again. I felt it all. I felt for a long time... [First added to this chart: 11/08/2015]
It's been a long time since I've written something that has came from the deepest part of my heart, It's been so long since I have spent this whole time writing, It's been so long since I've listened to something so confronting and moving, It's been a long time... a long time... A real long time... 2015 was a strange year, In various ways, I feel my life and myself was crushed by the coming of maturity, I found myself in a melancholic state more than in any way, I've cried lots and lots for stupid things, I've lost almost all my love for BEA, I got into a bad state of depression, and the hole went down, My head was a weird tornado, that destroyed everything that was in its front, I remember having tons of discussions with my parents and friends that didn't end so well, I wanted to scream, I wanted to scream a lot!. Something that I remember like yesterday was the day when I lost my best friend, a real stupid death, I felt sad, sore, mostly, bland, I looked at anything thinking the why, I had no reason to breathe, or whatever. To try to kill this pain, I decided to look back at the things that we liked, to see If I could... catch something that was related to her, and kinda bring back those old times, (she liked "Her" as an example) but I felt nothing, I felt nothing. One day, By a coincidence, I found That she liked the Microphones, principally this album, and decided to give it a listen, for some reason I didn't find it that appealing for the first time, Everything was so, odd, actually it was more like a weird puzzle that was not for me, and then decided to forget it a little bit, but as much as I tried to avoid relating albums to people I failed to resist to this one, I always came back to this every night for some reason, I found myself more in love with it at each listen. Someday, It was like 2 A.M, and I was with a bad insomnia, after beginning the whole thing I decided to look up for the lyrics, and for each song, I teared up a little, I will not pretend I got everything that was contained in behind it, however, slowly, the story was unfolding, in a moment I realized, then felt... She was there, Between the lines of each song. And as the album was going on I could still listen that lonely note all over it, For a long time I used to find it unnecessary, and thought everything was ruined by it, that seemed to make no sense, "My Warm blood" was a song totally dedicated to it, And it was so long, I ignored it... but finally I Understood, no matter how loud the sound is, the note is still there, no matter how long the song is, the note still beats, and in the end there is nothing at all besides that lonely sound, it still beats, the heart still beats, Her heart, She was in the album, She Was the album, In each heartnote (It's how I call now) I felt her closer and closer. Until one day I was in another place I can't remember well, I remember It was dawn, I decided to take one of my dawn walks, there weren't many light posts, so I could see the moon and the whole space, I felt everything, Everything was transcending all over my soul, the light of the sun crashing all over the moon was burning my eyelids, I saw that it doesn't matter how much she leaves, there is always the moon or the stars, to bring me back, to take her back. Phil wrote one of the most human things ever, It feels like even with all the metaphors, the human life resides in there, We are deep, we are bored, we are cold, we are just like a rock, but in the end doesn't matter how big the noise is, there is always something that pump inside us, there is still the blood we bleed, and the heart that beats, in each note that is poured all over the album, It is haunting, it is warm, and confusing, it is soft. And When in "Headless Horsemen" Phil sings "I miss my closest friend" and that note hits, I felt myself again. I felt her Again. I felt it all. I felt for a long time... [First added to this chart: 11/08/2015]
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2001
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[First added to this chart: 01/18/2019]
Year of Release:
2007
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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% | |
| Arcade Fire | 2 | 2% | |
| Daft Punk | 2 | 2% | |
| The Microphones | 2 | 2% | |
| New Order | 2 | 2% | |
| Pink Floyd | 2 | 2% | |
| Car Seat Headrest | 2 | 2% | |
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53 | 53% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
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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 186 votes)
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100/100  | 01/15/2025 16:23 | Exist-en-ciel | | 99/100 |
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 |
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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
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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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