Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by 
Antonio-Pedro 
"God gave us music so that we, first and foremost, will be guided upward by it. All qualities are united in music: it can lift us up, it can be capricious, it can cheer us up and delight us, nay, with its soft, melancholy tunes, it can even break the resistance of the toughest character. Its main purpose, however, is to lead our thoughts upward, so that it elevates us, even deeply moves us. ... Music also provides pleasant entertainment and saves everyone who is interested in it from boredom. All humans who despise it should be considered mindless, animal-like creatures. Ever be this most glorious gift of God my companion on my life's journey, and I can consider myself fortunate to have come to love it. Let us sing out in eternal praise to God who is offering us this beautiful enjoyment.
- Nietzsche in 1858
This chart needs some work to blossom away, still need to end some notes from my diary, men at work in progress.
Love you all, Antonio Momonio <3
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Titanic Rising is characterized by a triumph in the field of contemporary art-pop, Weyes Blood can create songs that burst with humanity and life, with contagious vocal melodies, ensuring a pleasurable and rich musical journey. Titanic Rising abstracts some symmetrical influence from rock albums of the '70s, guitar solos a-la George Harrison, composition crescendos that make Elton John have memory lapses and a voice that ring a bell with Karen Carpenter. The album opens with A Lot’s Gonna Change, an ethereal song which opens with angelical strings followed by a piano and weyes's voice slowly opening like a flower into something bigger, something more beautiful, the drum stretches and the violins dawn in a euphoric chorus , the name of the song is repeated so softly that it seems that it was made by a divine touch, a musical entity of a dreamlike plane; in my opinion the highlight of the album and the best song of 2019. The first 4 songs are a streak that currently holds the best opening sequence of an album, with “ Andromeda ” being a more sentimental ballad, playing with a somewhat challenging progression and contains a solo that would make Harrison proud if he were alive today, “Everytime” A pop song that uses the artifice of weyes skill with a beautiful vocal melody to stand out from its not so unique evolution. “Something to believe ” closes this room with a bittersweet request for peace, the whole aura of the song longing for a feeling that overwhelmed a comfort of having something to hold on to nearby. One of the things that I find most intriguing about titanic rising is how all of her songs can catch my attention, it seems like all of them were done in their own time and the recordings themselves took their time and the creative respect that these songs deserved. The result is a much more organic, enjoyable product that allows you to be much closer emotionally to weyes, within the possibilities, and this makes the richness of elements that the songs are immersed into much more visible and passable of appreciation. “Wild time” triumphs in the second part of the album for its theme-like resemblance and progressive construction of older songs (as I said, weyes managed to bring very good 70s aspects to this album) and probably builds the album's most epic song, being a distant second cousin of "Us and Them " and "I Talk to the Wind," she harnesses the instrumental richness of the album and the bold progression in which it is built to stretch between sonic arrangements that echo in the furthest parts of the universe. Titanic Rising is a work of art of painted priceless beauty in a person 's head in his room, asking the why the world is like that, the album exudes a mature tone, but it contains a refreshing breeze of innocence.
[First added to this chart: 08/05/2019]
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2019
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Old dusty dixieland records playing with an holographic exposition of happy people on 40s ballroom dances. Luckily I have been on a certain stroke of good discoveries in the last few blue moons, this album and some few I found while in my wild musical jungle discoveries out there, certainly got me joyful on its first respective spins, in a way which both of them could translate into a certain emotional enchanting reverberation in my ears, and this just has got me hyped and certainly kinda artistic (such as my interest for different areas of art, such as Graphic design and photography) have developed a lot lately. And so I thought it would be more than fair writing about one of the responsible for all this curiosity. I commonly have the habit of setting a tone to certain albums, and it's no lie that it normally makes the experience of enjoying the music itself more delightful, as all the landscape that my eyes can catch is comfortable and adequate, giving a blooming synesthesiatic avalanche for my heart and soul, the ears and eyes are able to transport me to a certain dimension that is almost achievable to the aesthetic of the record. With An empty bliss, I commonly find it being the last thing I hear at night, and the first soundtrack to my dreams at dawn, it's such a peaceful and mellow record with its scratching noises and dixieland nostalgia, it could bring back unlived and living memories of your grandpa's childhood, with it's sampling of old jazzy tunes it manages to disintegrate the listener into a liquid flow of homesickness and relate-ness. While many people can almost portray this as a certain blood-brother as the bioshock sondtrack, I find it much more closer to that scene in wall-e in which it watches the old movies and with its humanized consciousness, is able to scratch emotions from that gradient of art, which is also one of the most significant scenes on the cinema for me. I have been speaking of bittersweetness in my notes for quite a few time, and for me one of the most interesting moments of music's after laughter bittersweet is that it manages to contrast opposing extremes of the whole spectrum into the same artistic package, and with this album they have quite hit the perfect high spot for it. As I have spoken before, my impulse of attaching the album to a certain atmosphere outside of me is mostly because of the desire of being vulnerable for to all the thousand-face feelings to take over me and mix inside my stomach, until bringing me to a certain contrast of unexplainable melancholia, melancholia has never been so pleasurable before, as the strings locks in with the record playing in the back I lay down in my chair and think about my past and nostlagia tickles me into a dreamy adventure reminding me how good life is. Last week I was reading about human emotion and how different cultures have their own native words for their emotions, and it allowed me to understand so much about this sea of consistent emotional ups and downs in my mind, it allows you to understand so much more and to give voice to that human expression inside of you, and recognize that moment of bliss in which we found ourselves to find a meaning in the universe around us, and it's a fucking beautiful place.
"An Empty Bliss Beyond This World follows the mind of a person who tries and struggles to remember even small parts of his life using broken sounds. The record was based on a 2010 study about the ability of people with alzheimer's disease to remember music they listened to when they were younger, as well as where they were and how they felt when they listened to it. The Caretaker project was inspired by the use of ballroom music in films such as Carnival Of Souls, The Shining, and the television series Pennies from Heaven, which drew James Kirby to themes of memory loss that appear on An Empty Bliss Beyond This World: "Famously, people as they got older have started seeing dead people, people from the past, and that's their reality because the brain's misfiring. I'm very interested in these kinds of stories. Music's probably the last thing to go for a lot of people with advanced Alzheimer's. There are a lot of people who suffer from Alzheimer's who just hum the same songs over and over again" [First added to this chart: 01/30/2018]
"An Empty Bliss Beyond This World follows the mind of a person who tries and struggles to remember even small parts of his life using broken sounds. The record was based on a 2010 study about the ability of people with alzheimer's disease to remember music they listened to when they were younger, as well as where they were and how they felt when they listened to it. The Caretaker project was inspired by the use of ballroom music in films such as Carnival Of Souls, The Shining, and the television series Pennies from Heaven, which drew James Kirby to themes of memory loss that appear on An Empty Bliss Beyond This World: "Famously, people as they got older have started seeing dead people, people from the past, and that's their reality because the brain's misfiring. I'm very interested in these kinds of stories. Music's probably the last thing to go for a lot of people with advanced Alzheimer's. There are a lot of people who suffer from Alzheimer's who just hum the same songs over and over again" [First added to this chart: 01/30/2018]
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Going out at night after midnight when it's all dark, finding a woman sitting in a seat, alone in the park, with her headphones. Her long brown hair dances along the wind and her voice can lighten up all the lights around her, she is singing with her eyes closed, she doesn't want to leave the fantasy world she is hypnotized in, there is something beautiful that escapes from her lungs, you can literally see the colors of the sounds and the wonderful melodies of her voice through the air and hitting the lightbulbs out there. You both take a walk through the city at night, Dead Streets, corners blinking, buildings that seem to breath, each little step she does is a fresh air breeze, the city is alive again, its blood moves again, I don't want to go back home tonight, and I hope the sun doesn't rise some time. She blows worlds and entire universes with her voice, as it shapeshifts over my ears, new places rises inside my mind, I can almost feel the hot tone of the lightbulb of the streets she sings on, it hits me like a warm breeze passed between each of my bones. Julia is some nocturnal goddess that decided to take her human form and comfort our poor cold urban hearts, and I'm so happy I have this to share a lonely friday night. Thank You Holter.
[First added to this chart: 02/16/2014]
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"Every time you look up at the stars, it’s like opening a door. You could be anyone, anywhere. You could be yourself at any moment in your life. You open that door and you realize you’re the same person under the same stars. Camping out in the backyard with your best friend, eleven years old. Sixteen, driving alone, stopping at the edge of the city, looking up at the same stars. Walking a wooded path, kissing in the moonlight, look up and you’re eleven again. Chasing cats in a tiny town, you’re eleven again, you’re sixteen again. You’re in a rowboat. You’re staring out the back of a car. Out here where the world begins and ends, it’s like nothing ever stops happening" - Bryan Lee O'Malley
Stargazing for a whole night, solidifying the feeling of being eaten by the moonlight, Wondering How many stars are out there, and looking for numerous meaning of existence. I remember that one of my favorite hobbies when listening to music in the past (about 2 or 3 years ago) was to lay on my backyard at night and look at all the stars and moons with patience, appreciate the shine from each light, I tried to identify where they were in the universe, if they all were from different galaxies, and if someone out there could just hear me. And one of the reasons this habit was so addicting was because space would bring a certain etheral energy for me, I would feel so fulfilled with myself as I gazed upon all the dozens of stars that shined continuously or periodically, and loved how the moon used to shine on me. And one of the best experiences I could ever have was to do this while listening to AIA, having a backstory of not doing this for quite a long time. And as the night went to pass by, this record looped at least 3 times before I decided to silently hear my own breath. Transcendence is the magical word that this record will forever associated, that intimate feeling which your feel your aural self levitate some feet above your material yourself in a state where bliss and the unknown meet, a magical line of pleasure and mystery is extended and you're quite walking on both sides, it feels like a spiritual heal, in a way that it elevates this little boy out from this world and all that look he has given the universe has dilated in some orgasmic and soft moments, your eyes are closed and you feel nothing but a weight over your shoulders disappear and a slow lifting like a feather. And there is something beyond all these dreamy layers, which liz involves us, there is all this lush and warm fog, that involves all our organs from inside and puts up in connection with the higher presence of this being that is in touch with us, all this nakedness, all this pureness, bring us to our instincts, to our most inner wishes and wishes, letting us in such an vulnerable aural state to allow the melodies to shape our dreamland. Alien observer is such a special gift for me, and such a great memory from all the nights I have spent out there looking for the beauty in the universe, it is one of the few way outs that can wormhole me into a different dimension in such an effective and crystal way, wrapped in a bubble flying out there calmly and silently. It is something certainly otherwordly, and what a better way to celebrate this extraterrestrial experience than with a outherspace lady which slowly invades our ears and make our hearts as her home.
It's a blessing we are not alone in the universe.
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Stargazing for a whole night, solidifying the feeling of being eaten by the moonlight, Wondering How many stars are out there, and looking for numerous meaning of existence. I remember that one of my favorite hobbies when listening to music in the past (about 2 or 3 years ago) was to lay on my backyard at night and look at all the stars and moons with patience, appreciate the shine from each light, I tried to identify where they were in the universe, if they all were from different galaxies, and if someone out there could just hear me. And one of the reasons this habit was so addicting was because space would bring a certain etheral energy for me, I would feel so fulfilled with myself as I gazed upon all the dozens of stars that shined continuously or periodically, and loved how the moon used to shine on me. And one of the best experiences I could ever have was to do this while listening to AIA, having a backstory of not doing this for quite a long time. And as the night went to pass by, this record looped at least 3 times before I decided to silently hear my own breath. Transcendence is the magical word that this record will forever associated, that intimate feeling which your feel your aural self levitate some feet above your material yourself in a state where bliss and the unknown meet, a magical line of pleasure and mystery is extended and you're quite walking on both sides, it feels like a spiritual heal, in a way that it elevates this little boy out from this world and all that look he has given the universe has dilated in some orgasmic and soft moments, your eyes are closed and you feel nothing but a weight over your shoulders disappear and a slow lifting like a feather. And there is something beyond all these dreamy layers, which liz involves us, there is all this lush and warm fog, that involves all our organs from inside and puts up in connection with the higher presence of this being that is in touch with us, all this nakedness, all this pureness, bring us to our instincts, to our most inner wishes and wishes, letting us in such an vulnerable aural state to allow the melodies to shape our dreamland. Alien observer is such a special gift for me, and such a great memory from all the nights I have spent out there looking for the beauty in the universe, it is one of the few way outs that can wormhole me into a different dimension in such an effective and crystal way, wrapped in a bubble flying out there calmly and silently. It is something certainly otherwordly, and what a better way to celebrate this extraterrestrial experience than with a outherspace lady which slowly invades our ears and make our hearts as her home.
It's a blessing we are not alone in the universe.
. [First added to this chart: 04/15/2017]
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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.
[First added to this chart: 09/17/2017]
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2015
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While constantly reworking on my chart throughout the last years, I found myself constantly uprising this album from times to times, but in a consistent manner on the list, and the reason it keeps happening is because the potential it has to grown on you is achieved mainly when you respect your own need from this album, and for me it has contributed a lot with all the pressure going around my head on this senior year of high school and with time it has left a shape of its core on my soul. Picking a favorite radiohead album to fill in my heart is as easy as choosing either hot or cold water when you're feeling sick in a cold night, or either finding a ladybug in the middle of a summer garden in Amsterdam, it's a band which has transmuted into various shapes into its carreer that it gets really hard to decide which one to pass through the top 100 filter. From the grungy slickness of their debut, to the bleep-blops of their sonically robotic King of limbs, A moon shaped pool stands out, even being their newest record it has such an eerie atmosphere attached to it that it feels way more complete than their other records, it's undoubtedly their most cohesive work, the instrumentation and the production contribute to all this eerie and cold atmosphere distillated on this record, but don't get your mumbo jumbo mixed on, cold is different of emotionless, it's like the hug of a bear on the north pole, it's cold, but it's intimate skin provides us so much comfort and animal heat.
The year is 2016 and yours truly is far away from having the old contact that he used to have with music, school has swallowed all his free time and thrown him into a studying loop, but when radiohead announced that they were coming out with a new record after a real long time break my hopes got way too hyped and I could get back my attention to the melodies that used to attract me that much, and also a broken heart subsequent of a failed relationship has put all his emotions on revolver to the music, it was the only comfort I found to share my pain with, and Like for emma... forever ago, it has helped me a lot recovering from the broken pieces and tie them into myself. And when such an album has this significant outside-the-box power to rock my lonely universe, I begin to consider it even more as a blossom work of art, the idea of the art, not as an static object, but as a moving force capable of shapeshifting our emotions and our own internal physical states is something magical that brings me butterflies to the stomach. As for the album itself, Counting with a multi-faced side of radiohead, it not only display bleeps or rock, but a fantastic composing and lyric crafting that completely blows me out. As I said before it feels more complete, because, differently from KID A or In Rainbows the songs feel attached one to another and not glued together to feel more like an album, you can almost feel the foggy vibration hitting your ears while it plays. Also it has "True love waits" in a studio version which is a special antonio-approved highlight for this album. I always thought it was kinda frightening, Did you ever had a feeling of feeling worried about the characters of detective novels? A moon shaped pool is a distorted future investigation series on the streets and corners of montreal, rainy days colour this story.
On a sidenote (another sidenote antonio? how many mores on this chart?) I used to find the "Radiohead are the beatles of this generation" argument to be pretty wack, the musical dissonance between both bands made me throw all of this analysis into the bashing can, but looking deeper like an ego's argument, they might really look closer than I Imagined, not because of all the music contacts (I find radiohead's composition to be miles away both objectively and emotionally from the beatles most simplistic pop approach) but the way they have aged and consistently evolved their work into a more mature sound is really interesting and worth noticing.
A moon shaped pool, floating in a interstellar liquid on low gravity, hold your breath. [First added to this chart: 05/11/2017]
The year is 2016 and yours truly is far away from having the old contact that he used to have with music, school has swallowed all his free time and thrown him into a studying loop, but when radiohead announced that they were coming out with a new record after a real long time break my hopes got way too hyped and I could get back my attention to the melodies that used to attract me that much, and also a broken heart subsequent of a failed relationship has put all his emotions on revolver to the music, it was the only comfort I found to share my pain with, and Like for emma... forever ago, it has helped me a lot recovering from the broken pieces and tie them into myself. And when such an album has this significant outside-the-box power to rock my lonely universe, I begin to consider it even more as a blossom work of art, the idea of the art, not as an static object, but as a moving force capable of shapeshifting our emotions and our own internal physical states is something magical that brings me butterflies to the stomach. As for the album itself, Counting with a multi-faced side of radiohead, it not only display bleeps or rock, but a fantastic composing and lyric crafting that completely blows me out. As I said before it feels more complete, because, differently from KID A or In Rainbows the songs feel attached one to another and not glued together to feel more like an album, you can almost feel the foggy vibration hitting your ears while it plays. Also it has "True love waits" in a studio version which is a special antonio-approved highlight for this album. I always thought it was kinda frightening, Did you ever had a feeling of feeling worried about the characters of detective novels? A moon shaped pool is a distorted future investigation series on the streets and corners of montreal, rainy days colour this story.
On a sidenote (another sidenote antonio? how many mores on this chart?) I used to find the "Radiohead are the beatles of this generation" argument to be pretty wack, the musical dissonance between both bands made me throw all of this analysis into the bashing can, but looking deeper like an ego's argument, they might really look closer than I Imagined, not because of all the music contacts (I find radiohead's composition to be miles away both objectively and emotionally from the beatles most simplistic pop approach) but the way they have aged and consistently evolved their work into a more mature sound is really interesting and worth noticing.
A moon shaped pool, floating in a interstellar liquid on low gravity, hold your breath. [First added to this chart: 05/11/2017]
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2016
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I LOVE KANYE AND YOU LOVE KANYE. I LOVE YOU LIKE KANYE LOVES KANYE.
[First added to this chart: 02/02/2017]
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An ode to departure, the symphonic sound of memories falling in oblivion. I guess it's from the human nature to not get comfortable with changes, with the expansion or the retraction of our comfort zone, in this plan, I always had a hard time dealing with the constant departure of friends since I was young, it was/is weird to imagine how everything would still be the same and still so different without these people in my life. I've created such an affection for the place and the friendships I've tied in my life, that even an inevitable loss seems out of my plans, even knowing that the world besides being a concrete place, has its roots established in abstract liquid human relationships. I've finished school last month, (never, in a billion years, I could have thought that this would be the place that I would have my life changing experiences) and nothing else has pictured my adrift doubts as this record did, I remember putting it to play just because I loved the cover, and with some minutes in the ambient atmosphere had already got me into its spiderweb; I have been lost in the tunnels of my mind many nights before sleep after this, wondering how much my life has changed in the last 3 years, how much a departure from this way of living will impact my emotional state, how hard it will be to see all the people who shaped a big part of my personality disappear. Adulthood frightens me, the lack of a certain magic, the draining boredom in the everyday life of a busy person, how complex and cold everything will turn into, makes me want to live somewhere close to infinity, floating in some place that everything is static. How weird it is to detach from places and persons you are used to live on every single day, how beautiful even the silliest moments in the past were, how special has every mili-second been, it's not about being afraid of the future, but being so careful with everything you have built through time that you don't want to see your temporary buildings and monuments fall down from night to day. A winged Victory for the sullen is one of my favorite records to portray the avalanche of feelings and thoughts that roll over through the last moments of a goodbye (it certainly is a topic that I commonly approach while writing about records that have a nostalgic connection with my past), the last strong hug that sticks a sensation of black-hole solitude inside your stomach, that replays a whole B&W movie inside your mind, that makes you look back and forward on your objectives as a human being. And as the closing track reminds, "All farewells are sudden"... they are not surprising, they are dated to extinguish, and are heartbrokenly hard to accept.
On a side note, I know how dumb or premature all of this must sound considering my young age and how much of life I've already tasted of. But from the brief parenthesis of time I've spent on this planet, these were the notes my mind have taken on this topic, I have an interesting hope that someday my views on loss and leaving will change, just to prove to myself it wasn't that worrying tornado it seems to be today. Heraclitus was correct, we never step on the same river twice. [First added to this chart: 12/14/2016]
On a side note, I know how dumb or premature all of this must sound considering my young age and how much of life I've already tasted of. But from the brief parenthesis of time I've spent on this planet, these were the notes my mind have taken on this topic, I have an interesting hope that someday my views on loss and leaving will change, just to prove to myself it wasn't that worrying tornado it seems to be today. Heraclitus was correct, we never step on the same river twice. [First added to this chart: 12/14/2016]
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The soundtrack for a cat that wakes up before everyone in a sunday morning and decides to enjoy each second of that day being as lazy as possible. Shawcross was a pleasant recent discovery in the immense jangle pop cloud, Don't know if it is an EP or an album, it is too short (containing 18 minutes), but it feels way more longer and funnier than many records playing in this short space of time. Shawcross is pretty young in its essence, in a way that it could have been made in a garage yesterday by some kids that listened to the smiths for the first time in their entire life and decided to record their songs with the drummer's uncle guitar pedal, and this lack of more specialized production and creation tools, leaves the record with a softer and more intimate sensation. The guitar here is the leading feature of this mini-record, it produces, along with the following instrumentation and the lead singer that is probably higher than a mountain in some of the songs here shown, a really laid-back experience to the listener, a totally inoffensive music, that surely will not challenge the more requesting listeners, but can be listened anywhere and anytime, so the musical flexibility and replay-value here presented is one of the major factors for my enjoyment. It's the kind of music that whenever appears on youtube you can see people in the comments, "Wtf I'm so high right now, yo this is like the perfect mayonaise to my ears" (Every neo-psychedelia album ever).
Besides having many similarities with some Captured tracks' artists, that have become part of the nu-jangle pop hysteria, Good Morning can maintain certain distance from that heavily DeMarco-influenced sound that surrounds the mainstream spot of this genre, and the main reason for this is firstly, the inclusion of two guitars (That was better than I expected, just listen to how they dance in the beginning and in the end of "Once You Know") that are bound to divide your attention while in the two sides of your ears, and secondly, how the mixing provides the bass and the drum a special spot, what means that the record isn't a work of just one man's mind, there is a whole group of youngsters that got together and decided to play together in the pure meaning of the word. Besides all of what I've mentioned there is not much of what to tell here about Shawcross, it's a record full with youth energy and desires (those silly lyrics makes me smile and that's great), and it's pretty catchy, like a chewing gum stuck under the school desk, but even with the fast oriented songs, the summer and lazy atmosphere remains intact, what is to be admired for its management (or the lack of itself) being conducted by some guys that just want to have some fun, and doesn't care for the direction that the record takes, hell they just want to have some fun and play some songs, wasn't rock n' roll supposed to be about this?
Edit: as I finished writing about this record, Shawcross had already played 3 times haha. [First added to this chart: 12/24/2016]
Besides having many similarities with some Captured tracks' artists, that have become part of the nu-jangle pop hysteria, Good Morning can maintain certain distance from that heavily DeMarco-influenced sound that surrounds the mainstream spot of this genre, and the main reason for this is firstly, the inclusion of two guitars (That was better than I expected, just listen to how they dance in the beginning and in the end of "Once You Know") that are bound to divide your attention while in the two sides of your ears, and secondly, how the mixing provides the bass and the drum a special spot, what means that the record isn't a work of just one man's mind, there is a whole group of youngsters that got together and decided to play together in the pure meaning of the word. Besides all of what I've mentioned there is not much of what to tell here about Shawcross, it's a record full with youth energy and desires (those silly lyrics makes me smile and that's great), and it's pretty catchy, like a chewing gum stuck under the school desk, but even with the fast oriented songs, the summer and lazy atmosphere remains intact, what is to be admired for its management (or the lack of itself) being conducted by some guys that just want to have some fun, and doesn't care for the direction that the record takes, hell they just want to have some fun and play some songs, wasn't rock n' roll supposed to be about this?
Edit: as I finished writing about this record, Shawcross had already played 3 times haha. [First added to this chart: 12/24/2016]
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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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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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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
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Joeingram 09/14/2020 18:13
Joeingram 09/14/2020 18:13
One of the best charts! I love Eureka and Long Season very much.
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100/100
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Keatownrodriguez 09/14/2020 14:52
Keatownrodriguez 09/14/2020 14:52
From the albums that I do know and your descriptions on the ones I don't this chart is sick! I'll be listening to a lot of new albums thanks to this chart
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100/100
From BraddlesHendo 09/14/2020 12:57
A+ 5 stars just for incredibly well written commentary on your fave albums. Lots of time to compile this
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100/100
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benpaco 01/22/2020 18:25
benpaco 01/22/2020 18:25
Finally time to mine this for recs
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