The Strange, The Obscure, The Great
by Hayden

And sometimes the lost.

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"How can those terrified vague fingers push
The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
And how can body, laid in that white rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?" - Yeats
[First added to this chart: 02/14/2019]
Year of Release:
1982
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67
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Year of Release:
1982
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116
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"You dagger-words, that I tempered and tested,
Gladly I'll draw from my breast where you rested,
But it is my heart to the purpose applying,
I'll shape a weapon with sparks from it flying,
Then I shall hang it up high on the wall
Others to gratify,
Ne to appall." - Ukrainka
[First added to this chart: 03/23/2018]
Year of Release:
2015
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Rank Score:
4
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"Into the furious lashing of the tides
More heedless than children's brains the other winter
I ran! And loosened Peninsulas
Have not undergone a more triumphant hubbub" - Rimbaud
[First added to this chart: 03/23/2018]
Year of Release:
2007
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Rank Score:
11
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"That's all. I'm alone. Walking,
combing the cape, still choking back the hope
of getting to the end and, just once, saying the hell with it
from this fourth beach, embracing the last, the final sob." - Anwar
[First added to this chart: 11/13/2018]
Year of Release:
1980
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Rank Score:
144
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"Then, suddenly, the image broke apart.
She stood, as though distracted, near the window
and felt the violent drum-beats of her heart." - Rilke
[First added to this chart: 02/10/2019]
Year of Release:
1972
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4
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"It has been ten years since her husband left like a hornet.
The husband has not returned,
And her little daughter left to the stone tomb, for she liked bellflowers." - Seok
[First added to this chart: 09/15/2018]
Year of Release:
1999
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4
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"I’d have to be really quick
to describe clouds -
a split second’s enough
for them to start being something else." - Szymborska
[First added to this chart: 08/22/2016]
Year of Release:
1996
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118
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"Let the press be free;
The truth, however crushed to Earth,
Shall rise again.
For us, we shall speak the truth,
if bullets to our breasts!" - Dempster
[First added to this chart: 07/06/2018]
Year of Release:
1971
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5
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"There was the Door to which I found no key;
There was the Veil through which I might not see." - Khayyam
[First added to this chart: 01/23/2021]
Year of Release:
2019
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Rank Score:
100
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Total albums: 100. Page 1 of 10

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The Strange, The Obscure, The Great composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 5 5%
1960s 9 9%
1970s 19 19%
1980s 21 21%
1990s 8 8%
2000s 8 8%
2010s 24 24%
2020s 6 6%
Country Albums %


United States 12 12%
Mixed Nationality 11 11%
United Kingdom 6 6%
France 6 6%
Canada 5 5%
Ireland 4 4%
Japan 3 3%
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Compilation? Albums %
No 92 92%
Yes 8 8%
Live? Albums %
No 99 99%
Yes 1 1%

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From 03/12/2025 13:16
Certainly lives up to its title. Really like charts like this as they provide me with ideas of albums that I might want to check out
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From 03/02/2023 14:52
Incredible chart......I think. Don't know many of these, but weird and strange is right up my alley, so will investigate thoroughly.
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From 02/16/2023 09:32
Found this chart via Itoh Masyitoh & Rineka Swara's Naon Margina. Only familiar with a handful of albums on this list, but what I do know is entrancing. Can't wait to dive in!
#294076 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
From 10/07/2021 05:05
Awesome! This is right up my alley, as someone always on the look out for weird obscure stuff. I've added it to my favourites, looking forward to checking a bunch of them out.
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From 10/13/2018 02:29
Juggalos? In the Netherlands? In 1971!?!

The ICP Orchestra sounds interesting.
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From 10/07/2017 05:01
Love the look of some of these albums. Will be checking some out. Awesome chart!
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