Top 37 Greatest Music Albums
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Bands/artists in their prime. Arranged according to release dates.
(BTW. Since the boxes below only allow for 1024 characters to try to sum up why you too should listen to these fine records if you haven't already, I'm probably less inclined to write anything at all. Well, whatever, never mind.)
- Chart updated: 12/22/2014 21:15
- (Created: 02/28/2012 16:39).
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1986 III 3
_The_ reference metal record: everything else came either before Puppets or after it. And possibly much better crash course introduction to real politics than anything you'd find from an average bookstore. [First added to this chart: 02/28/2012]
_The_ reference metal record: everything else came either before Puppets or after it. And possibly much better crash course introduction to real politics than anything you'd find from an average bookstore. [First added to this chart: 02/28/2012]
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1986
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1987 XII 14
Suddenly Cobain seems positively cheery compared to J Mascis. A sort of a "Nevermind 1.0" if you will.
For me YLAOM is just about a perfect blend of rawness, pop sensibilities and guitar-driven rock. Boy, am I glad I found this record!
I get a distinct feeling that this is probably close to what the great, late Mr. Cocaine would have wanted to do had he known how to play guitar better. Naturally I'm glad he didn't know and just decided to work around those obstacles instead like so many before and after him.
The force of Kurt is strong on this one (anachronistic statement - I know - sue me).
For contrast: the Pixies certainly have a moment here and there but overall I can't really see myself ever enjoying their full-length albums no matter how much I'd give them my tender loving and care, where as I'm pretty positive that, in time, I can appreciate Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" as an album rather than just two or three outstanding songs off of it. If I'm being honest. Naturally, YMMV. [First added to this chart: 03/27/2013]
Suddenly Cobain seems positively cheery compared to J Mascis. A sort of a "Nevermind 1.0" if you will.
For me YLAOM is just about a perfect blend of rawness, pop sensibilities and guitar-driven rock. Boy, am I glad I found this record!
I get a distinct feeling that this is probably close to what the great, late Mr. Cocaine would have wanted to do had he known how to play guitar better. Naturally I'm glad he didn't know and just decided to work around those obstacles instead like so many before and after him.
The force of Kurt is strong on this one (anachronistic statement - I know - sue me).
For contrast: the Pixies certainly have a moment here and there but overall I can't really see myself ever enjoying their full-length albums no matter how much I'd give them my tender loving and care, where as I'm pretty positive that, in time, I can appreciate Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" as an album rather than just two or three outstanding songs off of it. If I'm being honest. Naturally, YMMV. [First added to this chart: 03/27/2013]
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1987
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1990 VII 24
Few bands can truly reinvent metal music. Pantera just might have done it better than anyone else, and it all started with this record. True, the follow-up album might be the angriest album ever recorded, but it only hints at what Phil Anselmo's vocal range is capable of. [First added to this chart: 03/16/2012]
Few bands can truly reinvent metal music. Pantera just might have done it better than anyone else, and it all started with this record. True, the follow-up album might be the angriest album ever recorded, but it only hints at what Phil Anselmo's vocal range is capable of. [First added to this chart: 03/16/2012]
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1990
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723
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1991 IX 17
Apparently all the primo tunes on II & I were conceived years earlier (even before -87). Guess the rest were written as fillers.
I have this theory that most musicians can't really sustain their creativity beyond few years and this certainly seems to be the case with G'NR, too. The energy and naivety doesn't last much past mid twenties - thank god.
Still playing rock music when most of your contemporaries are having "real" careers and "real" families, the appeal of banging drums, smashing guitars, yelling to a microphone, getting shitfaced and sleeping in a tour bus (I don't care how expensive it is) has got to mean that much less to you each passing day. Even if you do have groupies.
An aging rocker is one of the sorriest sights on Earth.
Still, Axl was without a doubt the greatest r'n'r singer (and a true rockstar!) in his heyday. IMHO, there's only a handful of respectable pastime pleasures suited for a 50-year-old bloated "rockers". Namely painting, writing or singing country. [First added to this chart: 02/28/2012]
Apparently all the primo tunes on II & I were conceived years earlier (even before -87). Guess the rest were written as fillers.
I have this theory that most musicians can't really sustain their creativity beyond few years and this certainly seems to be the case with G'NR, too. The energy and naivety doesn't last much past mid twenties - thank god.
Still playing rock music when most of your contemporaries are having "real" careers and "real" families, the appeal of banging drums, smashing guitars, yelling to a microphone, getting shitfaced and sleeping in a tour bus (I don't care how expensive it is) has got to mean that much less to you each passing day. Even if you do have groupies.
An aging rocker is one of the sorriest sights on Earth.
Still, Axl was without a doubt the greatest r'n'r singer (and a true rockstar!) in his heyday. IMHO, there's only a handful of respectable pastime pleasures suited for a 50-year-old bloated "rockers". Namely painting, writing or singing country. [First added to this chart: 02/28/2012]
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1991
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1991 IX 24
Always return to this record. If you can't appreciate Nevermind, you can't appreciate good music.
Even before Nevermind was officially out the r'n'r bedrock was already showing signs of gigantic tremors. MTV's up-and-coming VJ threatened to quit if they won't air it. Even a competing record company big whig said he needs to circulate the record because people deserve to hear it. It was that good.
Well, I don't need anybody telling me otherwise. The hairs that still rise on my arm when I listen to Nevermind are an undeniable signal that somebody did something _just_ right.
Nevermind came at a time when Cobain hadn't yet totally bought his own drug-enhanced bullshit about the total wretchedness of life, fame, love and everything. Such a waste of a perfectly good life. They never learn, do they?
In the alternative universe this balding lovable jerk is still driving around aimlessly in his old beat-up Volvo pulling pranks on innocent bystanders and getting wasted on... well, whatever, ne [First added to this chart: 03/16/2012]
Always return to this record. If you can't appreciate Nevermind, you can't appreciate good music.
Even before Nevermind was officially out the r'n'r bedrock was already showing signs of gigantic tremors. MTV's up-and-coming VJ threatened to quit if they won't air it. Even a competing record company big whig said he needs to circulate the record because people deserve to hear it. It was that good.
Well, I don't need anybody telling me otherwise. The hairs that still rise on my arm when I listen to Nevermind are an undeniable signal that somebody did something _just_ right.
Nevermind came at a time when Cobain hadn't yet totally bought his own drug-enhanced bullshit about the total wretchedness of life, fame, love and everything. Such a waste of a perfectly good life. They never learn, do they?
In the alternative universe this balding lovable jerk is still driving around aimlessly in his old beat-up Volvo pulling pranks on innocent bystanders and getting wasted on... well, whatever, ne [First added to this chart: 03/16/2012]
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1991
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1992 VII 14
Their first and probably only album where everything just locked into its place. If Puppets was a Political Science 101 course, then after Countdown you've got all the credits in for a Master's Degree in Social Sciences.
I feel there's no great art without bitterness, and few artists have been as bitter as Mustaine. Often his words are as venomous as they are true. Masses don't appreciate folks who speak their mind. I've never much cared for people who never say anything about anything that matters. Makes me wonder if they can think at all.
Every thinking (wo)man is bound to err once in a while. Thinking is like playing with fire: it doesn't "only" cost friendships and careers, it costs lives too.
What happened to Dave after CTE, is anyone's guess. To me the man was never as intellectually sober and honest as when he wrote CTE. If jesus is your preferable choice of drugs then so be it. Just keep it to yourself, bro. [First added to this chart: 02/28/2012]
Their first and probably only album where everything just locked into its place. If Puppets was a Political Science 101 course, then after Countdown you've got all the credits in for a Master's Degree in Social Sciences.
I feel there's no great art without bitterness, and few artists have been as bitter as Mustaine. Often his words are as venomous as they are true. Masses don't appreciate folks who speak their mind. I've never much cared for people who never say anything about anything that matters. Makes me wonder if they can think at all.
Every thinking (wo)man is bound to err once in a while. Thinking is like playing with fire: it doesn't "only" cost friendships and careers, it costs lives too.
What happened to Dave after CTE, is anyone's guess. To me the man was never as intellectually sober and honest as when he wrote CTE. If jesus is your preferable choice of drugs then so be it. Just keep it to yourself, bro. [First added to this chart: 02/28/2012]
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1992
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803
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1993 V 17
Wow. Just wow. My love for all things metal in my tender years pretty effectively narrowed down what kinda music I could enjoy listening to. And that my friends is one of the sorriest things in life. Open up, it's never too late, and it will be transcending experience - trust me.
Shoegazing definitely fits the description here. Stone Roses had an outstanding tune, "I Wanna Be Adored", but other than that, meh. My Bloody Valentine? Sorry, didn't do anything for me. [First added to this chart: 05/12/2013]
Wow. Just wow. My love for all things metal in my tender years pretty effectively narrowed down what kinda music I could enjoy listening to. And that my friends is one of the sorriest things in life. Open up, it's never too late, and it will be transcending experience - trust me.
Shoegazing definitely fits the description here. Stone Roses had an outstanding tune, "I Wanna Be Adored", but other than that, meh. My Bloody Valentine? Sorry, didn't do anything for me. [First added to this chart: 05/12/2013]
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1993
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1993 VII 27
As with Nirvana, it took one album to perfect their art. Corgan has one of the most unusual singing voices in rock history. He's no Axl or Mercury, for sure, but in this album at least it's right there where it needs to be. [First added to this chart: 02/28/2012]
As with Nirvana, it took one album to perfect their art. Corgan has one of the most unusual singing voices in rock history. He's no Axl or Mercury, for sure, but in this album at least it's right there where it needs to be. [First added to this chart: 02/28/2012]
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1993
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1993 IX 28
In Paradise Lost we, once again, observe just what is possible when singer stops being afraid of hearing themselves sing (or band being afraid of hearing their singer sing).
Rule #1: If you can't sing, learn how. Likewise if you can't play an instrument, learn how.
Rule #2: If you can't be bothered, then just get a day job and leave music creation to folks who will endure the excruciating four week period or so that it takes to learn to sing and play an instrument.
Icon also proves that in music too, and in music particularly I must stress, less is more. This is exactly why no one listens to progressive rock music. It's just too f*cking convoluted for its own good. Let me put it this way: if you can't image a 40-year-old trucker guy being able to sing your songs, don't bloody make 'em!
Last I heard they were desperately imitating Depeche Mode or something. Now they're probably making disco. Or grind metal. Or jingles. I couldn't care less. I have my Icon and it's good enough for me. [First added to this chart: 02/28/2012]
In Paradise Lost we, once again, observe just what is possible when singer stops being afraid of hearing themselves sing (or band being afraid of hearing their singer sing).
Rule #1: If you can't sing, learn how. Likewise if you can't play an instrument, learn how.
Rule #2: If you can't be bothered, then just get a day job and leave music creation to folks who will endure the excruciating four week period or so that it takes to learn to sing and play an instrument.
Icon also proves that in music too, and in music particularly I must stress, less is more. This is exactly why no one listens to progressive rock music. It's just too f*cking convoluted for its own good. Let me put it this way: if you can't image a 40-year-old trucker guy being able to sing your songs, don't bloody make 'em!
Last I heard they were desperately imitating Depeche Mode or something. Now they're probably making disco. Or grind metal. Or jingles. I couldn't care less. I have my Icon and it's good enough for me. [First added to this chart: 02/28/2012]
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1994 V 10
So sweet, so funny, so sincere and played like they've been doing this for ages (and maybe they had). You simply can't go wrong with a combination like that.
First they all want success, then they all reject it, then they either die (Nirvana/Kurt) or accept it (Weezer/Cuomo).
Bitchin' about how you're tired of having sex with groupies is such a cliche, although Cuomo might have just been a smartass in the follow-up album. Never the less the passive-aggressive defensive attitude kinda sorta killed the original playfulness of Weezer for me, even if he did continue to write more catchy tunes later on.
For most bands something like Pinkerton would have been major breakthrough, even a magnum opus. Only Weezer already nailed it the first time around. I mean seriously, how to topple something like the Blue Album? It just can't be done. Not ever. You hear me Cuomo? With your superduper IQ I'm sure you can save the world too - if you wanted to. [First added to this chart: 03/16/2012]
So sweet, so funny, so sincere and played like they've been doing this for ages (and maybe they had). You simply can't go wrong with a combination like that.
First they all want success, then they all reject it, then they either die (Nirvana/Kurt) or accept it (Weezer/Cuomo).
Bitchin' about how you're tired of having sex with groupies is such a cliche, although Cuomo might have just been a smartass in the follow-up album. Never the less the passive-aggressive defensive attitude kinda sorta killed the original playfulness of Weezer for me, even if he did continue to write more catchy tunes later on.
For most bands something like Pinkerton would have been major breakthrough, even a magnum opus. Only Weezer already nailed it the first time around. I mean seriously, how to topple something like the Blue Album? It just can't be done. Not ever. You hear me Cuomo? With your superduper IQ I'm sure you can save the world too - if you wanted to. [First added to this chart: 03/16/2012]
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1994
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Top 37 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1970s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1980s | 2 | 5% | |
| 1990s | 24 | 65% | |
| 2000s | 9 | 24% | |
| 2010s | 2 | 5% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins | 1 | 3% | |
| Type O Negative | 1 | 3% | |
| Queens Of The Stone Age | 1 | 3% | |
| Paradise Lost | 1 | 3% | |
| Mansun | 1 | 3% | |
| Tori Amos | 1 | 3% | |
| Weezer | 1 | 3% | |
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Top 37 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
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| Up 13 from 37th to 24thDeserter's Songs by Mercury Rev |
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| Down 1 from 24th to 25thMutations by Beck |
| Down 1 from 25th to 26thShowbiz by Muse |
| Down 1 from 26th to 27thAnola by Penniless |
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Great chart man! I really need to listen to souvlaki!
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A very Good Chart With Taste To Metal To Rock
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