Top 40 Greatest Music Albums
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- Chart updated: 01/04/2015 08:45
- (Created: 01/04/2015 05:29).
- Chart size: 40 albums.
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Three talented songwriters -- one storyteller, one poet, one good-natured protest singer -- take what at core are harmonized folk-rock songs in every direction they can think of, from toy instruments to gospel Pearl Jam to doo-wop to 7/8 time hardcore punk (with xylophone) to Jeff Buckley grandeur and beyond, in an album that sounds as much fun to make as any in history.
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1994
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Spectacularly literate, romantic, wounded lyrics; spectacularly literate, allusive, funny song titles and liner notes; gorgeously ambitious spiraling melodies; intricate arrangements; experimentation; fragility; and loud, energetic rock.
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Smart, dark (but not humorless) rock songs featuring the narrative enthusiasm of Bob Geldof's singing, the superb piano/synth playing of Johnny Fingers, the consistently outstanding drumming of Simon Crowe, brattily fun backup vocals, and the best detail-oriented rock production I've ever heard.
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My favorite singer ever, with the possible exception of Freddie Mercury: sometimes operatic, sometimes as dryly perfect a speak-singer as Laurie Anderson, sometimes just giddily lovely. Here singing dark songs -- introspective and dream-logicky, veering from playful to haunting -- with complexly layered arrangements built from loops so that she can perform it all herself live.
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2004
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As whimsically, joyously British as Monty Python or the Bonzo Dog Band, but as melodic, densely arranged, and psychedelic as late-60s Beatles, with more nifty guitar bits than either.
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1988
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See "Interbabe Concern" at #2. This, three years prior, was less aggressively rocking, slightly less bitter, more '80s-synth-inflected, and very slightly less funny (and minus the liner notes), but amazing for the same reasons.
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Word-dense, political, sample-free hip-hop (with rock and world-music influence) by two white Jewboys from Juilliard, with all the instrumental fluency implied. Fleshed out by several superb black female singers who make sure soul and gospel are clear musical influences; Tracey Amos even wrote her own melodies, guaranteeing that "Little Earthquakes" was only my second-favorite debut album of 1992 to feature a T. Amos singing.
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1992
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Her most piano-centric and conventional album until 2014; also her most lyrically direct and intense, probably her prettiest, and the one best showing that her playing is amazing. I've heard people tell me all her songs sound alike, from the ominous roil of "Precious Things" to the AOR pop of "China" to the stark a-capella of "Me and a Gun": these people safely can be ignored.
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1992
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See "Interbabe Concern" at #2. This, two years later, has a band whose experiments are lovelier, less reckless, and lyrics, dramatically reduced in anger (not at all in wit), that still strike me as rock's best attempt to portray growing up and growing wiser as a worthwhile adventure.
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I liked her breakout "Jagged Little Pill", which was always a kinder, less angry album than people discuss it as, but this, her follow-up, was a stunner: a musical and lyrical overflow in every direction, one young woman, her world turned upside-down, trying to be happy while learning every truth the human race had to offer.
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1998
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Top 40 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 1 | 3% | |
| 1970s | 2 | 5% | |
| 1980s | 8 | 20% | |
| 1990s | 14 | 35% | |
| 2000s | 13 | 33% | |
| 2010s | 2 | 5% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| The Loud Family | 4 | 10% | |
| Rheostatics | 3 | 8% | |
| The Boomtown Rats | 2 | 5% | |
| Amy X Neuburg | 2 | 5% | |
| XTC | 2 | 5% | |
| The Dresden Dolls | 2 | 5% | |
| The Beatles | 1 | 3% | |
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| ! | 07/30/2022 02:34 | Soencer | 47 | 100/100 |
| ! | 07/19/2017 00:00 |  junodog4 | 712 | 73/100 |
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From junodog4 07/19/2017 00:01 | #194570
junodog4 07/19/2017 00:01 | #194570
Pretty cool chart. Love the thought-out comments. It's also cool to see an avowed Rheostatics fan.
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From sssvnnn 07/11/2015 02:20 | #145500
sssvnnn 07/11/2015 02:20 | #145500
Very personal and independent chart.
I´m sorry to say I´m not fully convinced of your top artists: Rheostatics, The Loud Family, Amy X Neuburg.
Anyway thanks for introducing.
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pa 01/04/2015 19:59 | #130820
beautiful chart man and...welcome to BEA!
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