Best of the Bay Area by benpaco

A chart celebrating the diverse music scene of the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. To keep it diverse, one album per artist cap here. So as to keep from having to compare such different albums, I'm just doing it in chronological order. Lemme know who I missed!

Notable Bay Area Artists who have no eligible albums include: Furthur, Sage The Gemini, DJ Earworm

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1956 [First added to this chart: 02/27/2014]
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1956
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36
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1958 [First added to this chart: 02/27/2014]
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1958
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218
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1961 [First added to this chart: 09/24/2014]
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1961
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62
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1967 [First added to this chart: 02/27/2014]
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1967
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877
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1967 [First added to this chart: 02/27/2014]
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1967
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5,865
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1968 [First added to this chart: 02/27/2014]
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1969
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4,119
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1968 [First added to this chart: 02/27/2014]
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1968
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Rank Score:
317
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8. (=)
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1969 [First added to this chart: 02/27/2014]
Year of Release:
1969
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Rank Score:
2,443
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1969 [First added to this chart: 02/27/2014]
Year of Release:
1969
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Rank Score:
1,276
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1973 [First added to this chart: 09/24/2014]
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1973
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Rank Score:
576
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Total albums: 63. Page 1 of 7

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Best of the Bay Area composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 2 3%
1960s 7 11%
1970s 5 8%
1980s 11 17%
1990s 15 24%
2000s 14 22%
2010s 9 14%
2020s 0 0%
Country Albums %


United States 61 97%
Mixed Nationality 2 3%
Compilation? Albums %
No 62 98%
Yes 1 2%
Live? Albums %
No 62 98%
Yes 1 2%

Best of the Bay Area chart changes

Biggest fallers
Faller Down 7 from 53rd to 60th
Floating Coffin
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Faller Down 7 from 54th to 61st
Tears You Apart
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Faller Down 7 from 55th to 62nd
Gang Forever
by HBK Gang

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From 02/28/2014 01:16
CRAP clicked the wrong album in the select an album thing!
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From 02/27/2014 07:43
I don't quite understand The Rolling Stones being here?

Anyway, some possible recs: American Music Club ("San Francisco" LP for instance; Dan The Automator & side projects (Deltron maybe?); Flipper; Chrome; Swell; Sneetches; Jake Holmes; anything Kozelek; The Units; DJ Shadow; cLOUDDEAD and all of the Oakland rap scenes; Creedence; Doobie Brothers, Linda Perhacs...
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