Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by 
Antonio-Pedro 
"God gave us music so that we, first and foremost, will be guided upward by it. All qualities are united in music: it can lift us up, it can be capricious, it can cheer us up and delight us, nay, with its soft, melancholy tunes, it can even break the resistance of the toughest character. Its main purpose, however, is to lead our thoughts upward, so that it elevates us, even deeply moves us. ... Music also provides pleasant entertainment and saves everyone who is interested in it from boredom. All humans who despise it should be considered mindless, animal-like creatures. Ever be this most glorious gift of God my companion on my life's journey, and I can consider myself fortunate to have come to love it. Let us sing out in eternal praise to God who is offering us this beautiful enjoyment.
- Nietzsche in 1858
This chart needs some work to blossom away, still need to end some notes from my diary, men at work in progress.
Love you all, Antonio Momonio <3
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- (Created: 10/24/2013 19:00).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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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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5,449
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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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999
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The private infinity of millions of people in a metropolis of bittersweet dreams.
I like to believe that this was Elliott Smith's last work within his short career, (and yes, I know there are other unfinished projects, but this is my writing of the notes, okay?) an artist whose life was taken too soon, with still so much to bloom to the world. From the first notes on the keyboard in “Son of Sam” to the ones that close the album in “Bye”, Elliott recites lyrics that reflect a more emotionally mature being, far from the sentimental demons that already tormented him in his previous albums. Here he finds himself in a good relationship with his stories of the past, as if observing from a long distance, he now has a clear horizon of everything that was part of those events, making this more rational reflection of his tales, as he has always been more of a poignant storyteller. I feel that I, the listener, was also much more impacted by this album with the onset of adult life. As if the chronicles that were written here reverberated even more with the day-to-day dichotomies: the comings and goings of work, the multifaceted relationships, and the memories of people who once passed through our lives, whether in a subtle way, or those that caused an avalanche of events to occur. There are hidden spaces where the art of the songs present here fit into our existence. And it's funny because this is one of those albums that I didn't always feel was so important to me. One fine day, I realized that I would be willing to listen to it at any time, and this is due not only to the variety of musical styles, instruments and musical structures that are present, but also to the quality with which each song distills its time into my ears, all of them have something to please, and all of them are incredibly rich, creative and diverse. Musically speaking, there's nothing to be said here, Elliott was at his fertile peak on every instrument he either composed or performed on Figure 8. It becomes redundant to say that the musical progressions play with each other in countless moments, "everything means nothing to me” is the main example of this; This song varies from a more decadent beginning to an emotionally devastating atmosphere at the end of the song, with ripping instruments, remarkably strong, but that do not take anything away from the lightness of the song, which allows itself to be painful, but to be just another piece of distorted memory, like trying to remember a stormy dream in the dawn, before the sun rises again in "L.A". The B side of the album delivers songs richer in storytelling than the first side, but the musicality never lags behind. “Happiness” is the highlight of the album, a song that lives in the duality between its Upbeat composition and the melancholy lyrics that reflect its writing: people from everyday life representing a set of practices in which happiness can fade so drastically, but the ending leaves a bittersweet and optimistic message, maybe happiness is still there. Maybe life is still worth living for something. [First added to this chart: 07/29/2019]
I like to believe that this was Elliott Smith's last work within his short career, (and yes, I know there are other unfinished projects, but this is my writing of the notes, okay?) an artist whose life was taken too soon, with still so much to bloom to the world. From the first notes on the keyboard in “Son of Sam” to the ones that close the album in “Bye”, Elliott recites lyrics that reflect a more emotionally mature being, far from the sentimental demons that already tormented him in his previous albums. Here he finds himself in a good relationship with his stories of the past, as if observing from a long distance, he now has a clear horizon of everything that was part of those events, making this more rational reflection of his tales, as he has always been more of a poignant storyteller. I feel that I, the listener, was also much more impacted by this album with the onset of adult life. As if the chronicles that were written here reverberated even more with the day-to-day dichotomies: the comings and goings of work, the multifaceted relationships, and the memories of people who once passed through our lives, whether in a subtle way, or those that caused an avalanche of events to occur. There are hidden spaces where the art of the songs present here fit into our existence. And it's funny because this is one of those albums that I didn't always feel was so important to me. One fine day, I realized that I would be willing to listen to it at any time, and this is due not only to the variety of musical styles, instruments and musical structures that are present, but also to the quality with which each song distills its time into my ears, all of them have something to please, and all of them are incredibly rich, creative and diverse. Musically speaking, there's nothing to be said here, Elliott was at his fertile peak on every instrument he either composed or performed on Figure 8. It becomes redundant to say that the musical progressions play with each other in countless moments, "everything means nothing to me” is the main example of this; This song varies from a more decadent beginning to an emotionally devastating atmosphere at the end of the song, with ripping instruments, remarkably strong, but that do not take anything away from the lightness of the song, which allows itself to be painful, but to be just another piece of distorted memory, like trying to remember a stormy dream in the dawn, before the sun rises again in "L.A". The B side of the album delivers songs richer in storytelling than the first side, but the musicality never lags behind. “Happiness” is the highlight of the album, a song that lives in the duality between its Upbeat composition and the melancholy lyrics that reflect its writing: people from everyday life representing a set of practices in which happiness can fade so drastically, but the ending leaves a bittersweet and optimistic message, maybe happiness is still there. Maybe life is still worth living for something. [First added to this chart: 07/29/2019]
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2000
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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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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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2013
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1,881
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OH YEAH
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it, turn it, leave it, start, format it
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it, turn it, leave it, start, format it
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it, turn it, leave it, start, format it
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it, turn it, leave it, start, format it
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
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it, turn it, leave it, start, format it
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it, turn it, leave it, start, format it
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it, turn it, leave it, start, format it
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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1,191
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"Really it's impossible to chose a number one sometimes, and I found with my other number one spots I'd place the album on a sort of pedestal and try to savour it in someway, which often lead to be becoming scared that when I listened to it I wouldn't enjoy it as much as the last time. On Fire isn't an album that totally blows me away or requires my complete attention, but instead it's an album I find infinitely comforting. The very first time I heard it I felt at home, everything about it was just as it should be. To me, that's what makes the album special, no matter what my mood, all the songs on this album feel like an old friend to accompany me along the way.
And 'friend' is accurate, because there's something so charmingly human about this album. Every imperfection is what makes it, the production is amateur, Wareham isn't the worlds greatest vocalist and the guitar solos feel pretty directionless, but the album is the sound of some kids grabbing a guitar and creating music they can call their own, and create something they care about. It's something I've always wanted to do, and to me it's the most perfect form music can take, because there's something special about forming a band with people who share that vision, and I can hear that here. 'Strange' is a perfect example, there's so much raw passion in the verses, and the quaint lyrics in the chorus really contrast with the more downbeat tone that just sounds to me like a moment of sadness can be found in any situation, regardless of how mundane it is. Moments like that in this album are what make me love it so much. Even the cover of 'Isn't It A Pity' works so well, as though the whole album is a live performance that's open to cover songs.
It may be the only album that sounds just as on-point every time I hear it, because there's no pretences or surprises, it's just fantastic pop rock music through and through."
- Puncture Repair [First added to this chart: 12/07/2014]
And 'friend' is accurate, because there's something so charmingly human about this album. Every imperfection is what makes it, the production is amateur, Wareham isn't the worlds greatest vocalist and the guitar solos feel pretty directionless, but the album is the sound of some kids grabbing a guitar and creating music they can call their own, and create something they care about. It's something I've always wanted to do, and to me it's the most perfect form music can take, because there's something special about forming a band with people who share that vision, and I can hear that here. 'Strange' is a perfect example, there's so much raw passion in the verses, and the quaint lyrics in the chorus really contrast with the more downbeat tone that just sounds to me like a moment of sadness can be found in any situation, regardless of how mundane it is. Moments like that in this album are what make me love it so much. Even the cover of 'Isn't It A Pity' works so well, as though the whole album is a live performance that's open to cover songs.
It may be the only album that sounds just as on-point every time I hear it, because there's no pretences or surprises, it's just fantastic pop rock music through and through."
- Puncture Repair [First added to this chart: 12/07/2014]
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1989
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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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2011
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729
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Tired of the goddamn vacation, inside a supermarket cart when you are very high, and with your friends taking the wildest ride at Walmart to see the mess you guys can do.
Watching my life, passing in front of my eyes, I Found DeMarco in a very special and nostalgia-filled moment in my life, with 15 years, salad days first popped into my headphones in the middle of the summer school break, and was almost the rythm of that season (hell it probably is still today my most listened artist on last.fm). The sun cracking the asphalt from the suburbs and just loosing afternoons in pool sessions with salad days pumping on the sound. And one of the reasons I got so attached to him was mostly his persona which at the time seemed the role model of musician to me, a guy who was really captivating, doing whatever he liked with his guitar, and smoking here and there his vintage cigarettes from the 70s. At first glance, salad days didn't catch me as expected, of course I loved the guitar sound that it blew, but I found it to be dissonant and quite boring, but as the summer progressed and I found that old love of mine wasn't loving me as much as I thought her would be, I began to spin this album more often than my coscience would catch. It is something so colorful and joyful, I normally express a lot of dramatic feelings towards many of my records on this chart, because I feel that the melancholy and the abyss i'm stuck in the middle of the disitegration the music has on me brings me to a certain state of transcendence and ethereal fulfilling. Salad days managed to sneak between these albums and find a place to be venerated on the spotlight of my soul, it's so fun and puts you to shake all your muscles or at least your feet to the vibration of these jangly guitars.
a Jizz jazz morning shines in my window every time I would bring this on my casual saturday mornings, it feels so lazy and homestuck it could tear apart all my stress of 2nd grade studies. I remember going to his show in 2015, the same year that I began to listen to his music. Now for the north of Brazil it's quite rare to have such a "big" talented musician as mac performing, so I couldn't loose this opportunity, and although he didn't play my favorite song (My kind of woman) Mac put out a lovely show that could cozy all my heart and melt it into an euphoric bubble of joy, he seemed kinda tired but still smiling with that big old gap on his teeth which could be seen from miles and miles. And I still managed to talk to him and He touched my hand! haaaaaaaa, and I did't clean that hand for a week or more, it was still damn worth it. It smells like salad and boredom, but a compreensive and fortunate laziness, You're awesome mac. [First added to this chart: 06/25/2015]
Watching my life, passing in front of my eyes, I Found DeMarco in a very special and nostalgia-filled moment in my life, with 15 years, salad days first popped into my headphones in the middle of the summer school break, and was almost the rythm of that season (hell it probably is still today my most listened artist on last.fm). The sun cracking the asphalt from the suburbs and just loosing afternoons in pool sessions with salad days pumping on the sound. And one of the reasons I got so attached to him was mostly his persona which at the time seemed the role model of musician to me, a guy who was really captivating, doing whatever he liked with his guitar, and smoking here and there his vintage cigarettes from the 70s. At first glance, salad days didn't catch me as expected, of course I loved the guitar sound that it blew, but I found it to be dissonant and quite boring, but as the summer progressed and I found that old love of mine wasn't loving me as much as I thought her would be, I began to spin this album more often than my coscience would catch. It is something so colorful and joyful, I normally express a lot of dramatic feelings towards many of my records on this chart, because I feel that the melancholy and the abyss i'm stuck in the middle of the disitegration the music has on me brings me to a certain state of transcendence and ethereal fulfilling. Salad days managed to sneak between these albums and find a place to be venerated on the spotlight of my soul, it's so fun and puts you to shake all your muscles or at least your feet to the vibration of these jangly guitars.
a Jizz jazz morning shines in my window every time I would bring this on my casual saturday mornings, it feels so lazy and homestuck it could tear apart all my stress of 2nd grade studies. I remember going to his show in 2015, the same year that I began to listen to his music. Now for the north of Brazil it's quite rare to have such a "big" talented musician as mac performing, so I couldn't loose this opportunity, and although he didn't play my favorite song (My kind of woman) Mac put out a lovely show that could cozy all my heart and melt it into an euphoric bubble of joy, he seemed kinda tired but still smiling with that big old gap on his teeth which could be seen from miles and miles. And I still managed to talk to him and He touched my hand! haaaaaaaa, and I did't clean that hand for a week or more, it was still damn worth it. It smells like salad and boredom, but a compreensive and fortunate laziness, You're awesome mac. [First added to this chart: 06/25/2015]
Year of Release:
2014
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3,913
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The taste of sunshine into an ice cream, old VHS Tapes with loops of your childhood. Futuristic streets and roads of Europe filled with Retrocolateral ads of failed companies, lucid dreaming inside a kaleidoscope with your best friends surfing between southern lights and billboard leds in a single night. IDM is a such a weird genre, not because of the music it contains only, but mostly because of what its name could possibly mean, how is something intelligent, does it imply it lives with its own IQ, or has its own decisions? It actually could mean that the song is able to sustain by itself like it was a colllective body of work that was able to feedback itself with the music around it, like some kind of sunflower into a multi-colored garden of sound, smells so sweet still so cherish. Music has the right to the children lives in a past dimension, this is what I like the most of it, it feels in a different sphere of existence, one of which we all were in a part of our lives, the sounds of existent moments photgraphed with analogue cameras and digest into heavenly computers with nostalgic value added into all over it. Do you guys remember those old youtube videos in which they used to add songs to it to retro videos they would find in their parents tapes, it feels like some kind time capsule that keeps being buried and as much as the time passes it keeps giving us that lovely breeze of authentic air, it's like a watermark of its time, something you can bring your mind to such a interesting joy to recognize those patterns that are all locked into your subconscious, and suddenly come to click into a weird recognizable ecstasy of art and memory. Well MHTRTTC feels like collected sounds from these lost pieces of our own memories and experiences that come to emerge and blend into a spectrum of elastic recognizance of collective memories. And lies here a special mention to one of the most beautiful and one of my favorite songs of all time "ROYGBIV" which is the conjunct of all the colours of the rainbow that blow into different perception sequences, bursting itself out of joy and brightness, sounds like the culmination of all what MUsic has the right to the children tries to portray, sequenced memories of the past all blended into an infinite cosmic cream-dream. It's so good to be a kid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT0gRc2c2wQ [First added to this chart: 11/05/2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT0gRc2c2wQ [First added to this chart: 11/05/2017]
Year of Release:
1998
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5,106
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 4 | 4% | |
| 1970s | 14 | 14% | |
| 1980s | 7 | 7% | |
| 1990s | 15 | 15% | |
| 2000s | 22 | 22% | |
| 2010s | 36 | 36% | |
| 2020s | 2 | 2% |
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| Jim O'Rourke | 4 | 4% | |
| Daft Punk | 2 | 2% | |
| The Beatles | 2 | 2% | |
| The Caretaker | 2 | 2% | |
| The Microphones | 2 | 2% | |
| Mac DeMarco | 2 | 2% | |
| Kendrick Lamar | 2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 35 from 45th to 10th Music Has The Right To Children by Boards Of Canada |
| Up 32 from 46th to 14th Lonerism by Tame Impala |
| Up 22 from 37th to 15th Bloom by Beach House |
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| Down 11 from 10th to 21st Mount Eerie by The Microphones |
| Down 10 from 12th to 22nd Loveless by My Bloody Valentine |
| Down 10 from 13th to 23rd Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens |
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 Grey Areaby Little Simz |
| Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You by Big Thief |
| Night Time, My Time by Sky Ferreira |
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 American Idiotby Green Day |
| Os Mutantes by Os Mutantes |
| Trans Europa Express by Kraftwerk |
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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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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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| 1. King Crimson | |
| 2. Neil Young | |
| 3. Genesis | |
| 4. Supertramp | |
| 5. Queen | |
| 6. Brian Eno | |
| 7. Eno | |
| 8. Robert Wyatt | |
| 9. Joni Mitchell | |
| 10. David Bowie | |
| 11. Jorge Ben | |
| 12. Camel | |
| 13. Sparks | |
| 14. Big Star | |
| 15. Steely Dan | |
| 16. Van Morrison | |
| 17. Kraftwerk | |
| 18. Frank Zappa | |
| 19. Richard & Linda Thompson | |
| 20. Gene Clark |