Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Strangel

These albums are my favourites. This is not meant to be a 'Greatest Album's' chart, although I would strongly argue for each of my chosen albums in being considered for a greatest albums list. My interest is more toward the alternative/indie and electronic genres with a tendency toward experimentation in the music. I also need to be able to comfortably immerse myself in the music. So while I appreciate, and want to explore the work of Autechre (for example), I get far more pleasure from listening to Burial which has more reverie to the sound rather than almost pure math and tech. Aphex Twin, in fact, manages to bridge these aspects perfectly.

It might be noted that Radiohead dominates the list which simply expresses my belief that they have the uncanny ability to release album after album of near perfect alternative music, shifting the landscape of what's possible whilst always remaining relevant. I don't apologise for this. They are that good.

• Chart updated: 02/07/2024 05:15
• (Created: 07/04/2016 14:26).
• Chart size: 100 albums.

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Tunes 2011-2019 
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 Burial

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This album has entered my list at the expense of Burial’s EPs on their own which gives me room to add other deserving albums. I want to highlight Kindred and Truant/Rough Sleeper as the 2 EPs on this compilation that tower above the others. They have so much to offer the avid, immersive listener of electronic music. They really do seem to tell a story, but not the same story. There is always a new story floating throughout with each new listen.

As the English writer Mark Fisher so evocatively puts it;
“Burial's London is a wounded city, populated by ecstasy casualties on day release from psychiatric units, disappointed lovers on night buses, parents who can't quite bring themselves to sell their Rave 12 inches at a carboot sale, all of them with haunted looks on their faces, but also haunting their interpassively nihilistic kids with the thought that things weren't always like this. It is like walking into the abandoned spaces once carnivalised by Raves and finding them returned to depopulated dereliction. Muted air horns flare like the ghosts of Raves past. Broken glass cracks underfoot. MDMA flashbacks bring London to unlife in the way that hallucinogens brought demons crawling out of the subways in Jacob’s Ladder’s New York. Audio hallucinations transform the city’s rhythms into inorganic beings, more dejected than malign. You see faces in the clouds and hear voices in the crackle. What you momentarily thought was muffled bass turns out only to be the rumbling of tube trains”.

Some of the purely ambient tracks kick off this album which makes for a long intro to the subtle beats of my preferred tracks and prevent the album from being a top 10 contender for me. [First added to this chart: 01/23/2024]

Year of Release:

2019

Appears in:

30 charts

Rank Score:

356

Rank in 2019:

51

Rank in 2010s:

728

Overall Rank:

4,024

Average Rating:

 80 (35 votes)

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Untrue 

 Burial

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This was my first exposure to Burial's music. After seeing it mentioned so often in the year after its release as being a defining album in electronic/dubstep music. I listened to it distantly at first, in the background, as I carried on with other household stuff. My first impression was a bit 'meh', I wasn't a big fan of R&B vocals and it seemed to be choc full of it. And the electronic beats were so subtle that they didn't have much of an impact on me. But I persevered, knowing that you must give good music time to seep in, and surely all those experts weren't wrong. Of course it was the headphones that took me there eventually. The vocals were, in fact, used ingeniously, taking snippets of cut samples that melded into the layers of electronica perfectly. And those subtle beats were actually like a painter's brush strokes that required close observance to appreciate the art. I never looked back after this and much of his best work appears on EPs which makes it hard to know where to place them in the scheme of GOAT lists. But Untrue is a pure album that has no fillers and it thoroughly deserves to be recognized as one of the GOAT albums.

RATING: 94/100

ALBUM HIGHLIGHT: Each song has it's own argument for being the highlight of the album but I think Archangel best encapsulates the feel of Untrue . [First added to this chart: 07/05/2016]

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

493 charts

Rank Score:

5,160

Rank in 2007:

8

Rank in 2000s:

55

Overall Rank:

349

Average Rating:

 81 (600 votes)

Comments:

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Burial 

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I love this album. It seeps into your subconscious. It has a darker element to it than his other work giving it an overall atmospheric that has you feeling like you’re walking the city at night alone in an unfamiliar neighbourhood. Spaceape is kinda cool but falls into the album at the wrong spot. [First added to this chart: 08/08/2016]

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

87 charts

Rank Score:

438

Rank in 2006:

60

Rank in 2000s:

582

Overall Rank:

3,358

Average Rating:

 76 (132 votes)

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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade	Albums	%
1930s	0	0%
1940s	0	0%
1950s	0	0%
1960s	7	7%
1970s	7	7%
1980s	5	5%
1990s	29	29%
2000s	34	34%
2010s	17	17%
2020s	1	1%

Artist	Albums	%
Radiohead	8	8%
Metallica	4	4%
The Beatles	4	4%
Aphex Twin	4	4%
The National	3	3%
Portishead	3	3%
Nirvana	3	3%
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	42	42%
	41	41%
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	5	5%
	3	3%
	1	1%
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From Timooosterink 08/30/2019 10:38

Love your chart! I agree on amok it is a very underated album.

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From Granny-Smith 06/26/2019 12:36

I like your chart. Have a lot Artists and Albums in common.

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From Paule 03/06/2019 11:36

Good list! We share the Radiohead "problem". I suggest you to dive into some older Krautrock and Ambient music. You will find a lot of Radioheads work is influenced by that stuff and there are some gems to be found.

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From Kurtco 01/29/2019 18:22

We have 31 albums and 21 artists in common... It's very funny!

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From Kurtco 01/29/2019 18:18

I find your chart very interesting and complete. You have musical tastes very similar to mine. Radiohead is one of my favorite bands!
I'm glad you like Icelandic music: Sigur Rós and Björk. I agree with you that "Vespertine" is Björk's best album: It's a real masterpiece. You put a lot of recent music in your chart and it's nice to see AMOK of Atoms For Peace in your rankings. This is surely one of Thom Yorke's underrated albums. I'm really happy to see artists not very well known as Burial, Nick Cave or Amon Tobin who are part of my favorite artist. The 90s are really well represented in your chart with great artists like Nirvana, Aphex Twin, Tool or Massive Attack. Really very good job and very good choice!

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From guzguzgarbit 01/21/2019 20:08

Good choices, great descriptions, great diversity (even with 8 Radiohead albums!). I particularly appreciate the presence of some electronic (Four Tet, Jon Hopkins, Burial...) among all the rock picks.

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From jhuik 11/16/2018 14:00

I don't agree with your top ten, or some other picks, or (as has been noted by others) the excess of Radiohead, but who gives a shit about my opinion. I love the passion in your descriptions and the personalized responses. Great chart!

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From Strangel 07/19/2018 01:19

Ahh well, what can you do? They're that good. It's not like Pablo Honey is on the chart just coz Radiohead. Pablo Honey was an objectively average to good album and thus hasn't got anywhere near this chart. Their subsequent albums were all objectively created to a much higher level and the artistic merit of each universally critically acclaimed. Subjectively (which is what this chart mainly expresses), the music deeply resonates with me so why wouldn't their very best be difficult to supplant by another artist's work?

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From fps74 07/18/2018 05:04

Radiohead! Radiohead everywhere!

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From foxytreeko 07/09/2018 14:11

Great list, love your descriptions. We have 13 albums and 16 artists in common

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