Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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dr_worm_md 
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Best of "All-Time" means "All of MY Time".
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- Chart updated: 06/25/2019 19:15
- (Created: 03/08/2011 02:47).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Most of the time, I listen to music because I want to feel something...usually I just want to feel cool. But sometimes, I hear an album and it feels really incredible...sometimes it feels important. In The Aeroplane feels important.
And the key reason to me is that it sounds so familiar. To me, it's the sound of remembering childhood... Not actual childhood...the remembering. Because the lyrics are very adult at times, but only because it is an adult remembering those innocent things and knowing that at times it wasn't so innocent...like maybe innocence is something we put on children in a bogus way. Like I never felt like a child when I was one. I just remember trying to figure it all out. But maybe that's just another bogus trip I’m imposing on my memories.
At any rate...the sounds and words of In The Aeroplane help me explore that idea of "what have I gone through" without granting any easy answers. So that makes the album honest and exciting for me. It makes the album important.
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And the key reason to me is that it sounds so familiar. To me, it's the sound of remembering childhood... Not actual childhood...the remembering. Because the lyrics are very adult at times, but only because it is an adult remembering those innocent things and knowing that at times it wasn't so innocent...like maybe innocence is something we put on children in a bogus way. Like I never felt like a child when I was one. I just remember trying to figure it all out. But maybe that's just another bogus trip I’m imposing on my memories.
At any rate...the sounds and words of In The Aeroplane help me explore that idea of "what have I gone through" without granting any easy answers. So that makes the album honest and exciting for me. It makes the album important.
[First added to this chart: 03/07/2011]
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1998
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As you'll see from exploring my lists...TMBG are my favorite band. And I can't decide if it was because they came into my ears during what I consider a crucial year in every listener's life...the age of fourteen.
Tiny Toons was my entry point...like a lot of fans...but I stuck around after Flood to experience the entire catalog. And like a lot of fans...Lincoln is my favorite.
Seeing it now as an adult I know exactly why I like it more than Flood. It's more lo-fi....it's weirder...it's a little darker in places...but at the time there was just one reason: it was more emotionally brutal. They'll Need a Crane is this upbeat danceable tune set alongside this tragic tale of a crumbling marriage. Santa's Beard again is a rocking-ly fun song about infidelity. And I've always been drawn to the heartbreaking loneliness of Ana Ang.
An early teen me fell in love instantly. It was the songs that truly spoke to my angst...even though now I understand I was just being a kind of typical child of divorce.
Whatever the reason...Lincoln will always raise that young me from the grave to dance. I have felt worse than when I was a teen...but few albums have ever made me feel better.
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Tiny Toons was my entry point...like a lot of fans...but I stuck around after Flood to experience the entire catalog. And like a lot of fans...Lincoln is my favorite.
Seeing it now as an adult I know exactly why I like it more than Flood. It's more lo-fi....it's weirder...it's a little darker in places...but at the time there was just one reason: it was more emotionally brutal. They'll Need a Crane is this upbeat danceable tune set alongside this tragic tale of a crumbling marriage. Santa's Beard again is a rocking-ly fun song about infidelity. And I've always been drawn to the heartbreaking loneliness of Ana Ang.
An early teen me fell in love instantly. It was the songs that truly spoke to my angst...even though now I understand I was just being a kind of typical child of divorce.
Whatever the reason...Lincoln will always raise that young me from the grave to dance. I have felt worse than when I was a teen...but few albums have ever made me feel better.
[First added to this chart: 03/07/2011]
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1988
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I got into this album several years after its release. It's a popular album and band in the indie music circles that I typically run. But my well cultivated snobbishness from my youth made me suspicious of anything that was popular...even if it was only popular in a small, insular circle of other snobs. Such was the strength of my elitism.
But then I started hanging with my friend Brent who was...like those other indie snobs I had met before...really into Wilco. But by this time I was older...mellowed...not such a dick. So I gave it a whirl.
Surprise, surprise...it's awesome.
I have never dug Spoon or Yo La Tengo. But Wilco...they were the ones I began to really like from among that group of solid, rocking indie band. And it's probably for all the reasons everyone else likes them...the songs are fucking great.
So whenever I hear Heavy Metal Drummer...I don’t just bounce along...I remember how far I've progressed from my early music listening days. I remember that I have gotten over myself.
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But then I started hanging with my friend Brent who was...like those other indie snobs I had met before...really into Wilco. But by this time I was older...mellowed...not such a dick. So I gave it a whirl.
Surprise, surprise...it's awesome.
I have never dug Spoon or Yo La Tengo. But Wilco...they were the ones I began to really like from among that group of solid, rocking indie band. And it's probably for all the reasons everyone else likes them...the songs are fucking great.
So whenever I hear Heavy Metal Drummer...I don’t just bounce along...I remember how far I've progressed from my early music listening days. I remember that I have gotten over myself.
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2002
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I figure that most folks that are really into records...they went through a phase when they sided with a snobbish, slightly dick-ish clique about how terrible popular music is and how great un-popular music is. When I discovered Jawbreaker...I was essentially president of that clique.
The only problem was I found Dear You before I found 24 Hour Revenge Therapy. You see Dear You is considered the "sell-out" album of the band. It's polished and slicker than the band's earlier albums. It's closer to pop than punk.
So when I began to find out that other indie folks loved Jawbreaker, I was pumped...but then I saw how they all mourned Dear You's existence.
As a young callow person, I lacked the confidence to stand up for my tastes and lead the charge in Dear You's defense. Instead, I hid my true allegiance and weaponized my snobbishness into obnoxiousness (ironically in direct defiance of the message of Boxcar).
But now I display my appreciation boldly. May 4th isn't about Star Wars to me...it's The Sluttering.
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The only problem was I found Dear You before I found 24 Hour Revenge Therapy. You see Dear You is considered the "sell-out" album of the band. It's polished and slicker than the band's earlier albums. It's closer to pop than punk.
So when I began to find out that other indie folks loved Jawbreaker, I was pumped...but then I saw how they all mourned Dear You's existence.
As a young callow person, I lacked the confidence to stand up for my tastes and lead the charge in Dear You's defense. Instead, I hid my true allegiance and weaponized my snobbishness into obnoxiousness (ironically in direct defiance of the message of Boxcar).
But now I display my appreciation boldly. May 4th isn't about Star Wars to me...it's The Sluttering.
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I'm from Fort Worth, TX...so...yeah...pretty much.
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Do you know what Dallas has that Fort Worth doesn't? A better town thirty minutes away.
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I get a lot of heat for this pick. I know it seems weird having a Blink album in the Top 10 of anything. But when I was trying to figure out what rank this album had...I kept coming back to the same realization...I love all of these songs. And if you grew up in the 90's...chances are you are familiar with most of these songs. And you never love any music more than the music you loved when you were a teen. What's my age again?
[First added to this chart: 02/01/2012]
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1999
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Whenever I look over my Top 10, I usually look at Blonde on Blonde and furrow my brow in suspicion. Am I just name-checking this album? Do I really like Bob Dylan this much? Then I go back and just look at the track listing: One of Us Must Know, Just Like a Woman, Stuck Inside...et cetera. And I realize that this album should be an auto pick for everyone's Top 10.
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1966
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When I went back to re-listen to my favorite albums to make these charts, I came across some real forgotten gems. That's really why I love this site, it helped me re-discover more than anything else. And when I came across Long Tall Weekend, I thought I was totally unfamiliar with the tracks. It was one of the first new release albums released digitally, so I guess I associated the lack of official CD with lack of familiarity. But I was totally wrong. I basically had the whole thing memorized. Music is really fun that way...it sticks with you. I really enjoyed remembering these great songs and the times spent listening to them.
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You probably had a vibrant local scene if you grew up in the 90's. It seems that every medium sized community in America had one. Well DFW was no different, and this album is easily my favorite from that scene. That's not to say that Funland, Dooms U.K., Brutal Juice, Baboon, Tablet or the rest aren't really great. They are. But Rocks Your Lame Ass does just that. And for that, I give thanks to Hagfish.
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 20 | 20% | |
| 1970s | 9 | 9% | |
| 1980s | 9 | 9% | |
| 1990s | 26 | 26% | |
| 2000s | 20 | 20% | |
| 2010s | 16 | 16% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Bob Dylan | 4 | 4% | |
| They Might Be Giants | 3 | 3% | |
| Kanye West | 3 | 3% | |
| Simon & Garfunkel | 3 | 3% | |
| The Tallest Man On Earth | 2 | 2% | |
| Bon Iver | 2 | 2% | |
| The Clash | 2 | 2% | |
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BestEverAlbums 11/06/2019 09:00 in Chart of the day (#2936): By dr_worm_md
BestEverAlbums 11/06/2019 09:00 in Chart of the day (#2936): By dr_worm_md“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by dr_worm_md () 1. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel (1998) 2. Lincoln by They Might Be Giants (1988) 3. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco (2002) 4. Dear You by Jawbreaker (1995) 5. Too Far To Care by Old 97's (1997) 6. Wreck…”
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BestEverAlbums 03/10/2018 09:00 in Chart of the day (#2330): By dr_worm_md“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by dr_worm_md () 1. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel (1998) 2. Lincoln by They Might Be Giants (1988) 3. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco (2002) 4. Dear You by Jawbreaker (1995) 5. Too Far To Care by Old 97's (1997) 6. Wreck…”
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BestEverAlbums 04/08/2016 08:00 in Chart of the day (#1634): By dr_worm_md“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by dr_worm_md () 1. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel (1998) 2. Lincoln by They Might Be Giants (1988) 3. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco (2002) 4. Dear You by Jawbreaker (1995) 5. Too Far To Care by Old 97's (1997) 6. Wreck…”
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19loveless91 TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/17/2014 21:20 | #114639
Idoli, and "Odbrana" that's in my top 10 are just a classic bit of Yugoslavian new wave, although with their sound on this album being a bit more "raw" and more post-punk than anything. Not sure how much I can say about it, listen to a few tracks like Poslednji dani, or Odbrana, or Kenozoik, and see if they're your thing.
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btener11 05/17/2011 20:50 | #21909
btener11 05/17/2011 20:50 | #21909
Although I absolutely detest some of the bands that you have ranked in your top 50, you have some of the best, most criminally under appreciated albums included as well. In this case, the albums I love more than make up for the ones I dislike. For example, XTC, GBV!!, Mission of Burma, Replacements, BPB!!, Death from Above...I'm a huge fan!
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Dekk 11/02/2011 14:25 | #29590
Thank you, I guess it would be rude from me if I ranked your chard with less than 100 :)
Still, it is very hard for me to rank all these albums, so the chart changes in time :d
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EyeKanFly 06/15/2013 13:56 | #78927
EyeKanFly 06/15/2013 13:56 | #78927
Like others said, this is nice and unique and quirky, and though there's several albums I don't know, what I know I like for the most part.
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daftpunter 11/10/2011 03:23 | #30271
Dust bowl ballads. I haven't heard that album in 25 years. Thanks for the reminder, I'm on a mission. A great chart.
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