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Normally I don't like ranking albums. Let alone my favorites. My tastes change very often. Not to mention that I don't connect to music via note progression, I do with an emotional connection and/or my head space in that moment. However, I can easily say that this is probably my favorite record for a number of reasons but one stands out and is the most important one. It helped save my life.
I remember when this first came out. I was getting in some indie but was primarily into metal like Tool and such. (I think my username then was ThrowBackG?) I remember listening to it and not understanding it. "How could this be rated so high when Meat Is Murder is lower than it should?" I thought. Time went by. One day I came back home from my walk to the store to hear that a old family friend had killed himself. He was 13. He was a very tender and sweet kid, I remember him being a baby... there was once a point where him and my youngest sister wanted to be married in the future and he wanted a good connection between him and his future brother in law- though this was unspoken the feeling was still there. At the time I just couldn't understand why he would take his own life. I still don't. I was never given the whole story and I don't need it now. But at the time I couldn't help but acknowledge his supposedly strong faith toward God. I believe the same thing and I just didn't get it then. I was confused. "What would bring him to that when he had something to turn to?" I thought. I gave this record another listen the day of his funeral. I still didn't get it. Months past, some relative issues, a bad church and a twist in my best friend later and I was about to witness the hardest thing in my life. My grandfathers passing. Since spring the year prior I had been mowing his lawn and tending his plants weekly. We used to work together in the fruit fields pruning branches, thinning premature fruits and picking fruit. Talking to picking crews, illegally playing scratchers, you know...everyday stuff. He was the only relative I had where his love for my family wasn't just unconditional. He listened to everything you had to say and he really tried to make things up with my dad before he passed away. He was a different person to my dad then and he wanted to do the best he could for him...even if he wasn't there to experience it with him in the long run. As the weeks went by he got worse. Slowly his shiny hair and smooth skin turned flaky and pale, his hair turned pure white a week before he died. I wasn't there for his death and I still hate a bit of myself for not being there...but a part of me knows he wouldn't have left if I had stayed.
He was all I had.
My relatives weren't to much. One told me THE DAY HE DIED that life just moves on. (F*ck you too) On top of some other things I plan to elaborate in the next few albums I was depressed. Alone. I had my wonderful parents and sisters but I felt like a burden. I got to thinking about my old friend. I realized one day I was probably in a similar state of mind. To be honest it was just me and God and even then I felt like he had suddenly become distant in my life. I started drinking at least a liter of soda a day to hit a "sugar crash" of sorts so things could slow down. I often hid in my room. I contemplated death. I often took walks in the middle of the night in a gang riddled neighborhood. I just didn't care. I was conflicted inside. I was told by this church that feelings like these were a sin but another part of me said that that church was always wrong to begin with. This caused more eternal strife. My only way of comfort was gardening (we had inherited his house and some plants) and this album. Sufjan is also a Christian. to see that a fellow Christian had these same thoughts was comforting cause it reminded me that someone in a world with 6 billion people...there was someone who was or had gone through the almost exact struggle.
Grief isn't a 1-2-3 process. Its slow and bitter. I'm not in that place anymore but I still feel utterly alone. I get tired of the people around me seemingly having it all and in all of this I have little to nothing despite being told how good of a person I may be from my peers. "My ----- cheated on his wife and he's still married and I can't get a girlfriend...what am I doing wrong?" Its rooted in envy and it isn't right but the emotion is still there. I still miss him with all my heart. Even if he didn't give advice I felt like I was a person and not just a kid. He had nothing to gain. There we're no strings attached...
My two favorite songs (despite having a connection to every song like Eugene reminding me of my time in those fields) is "The Only Thing" and "John My Beloved". The Only Thing was probably the sole song that kept me going. I see it as me reaching out to my grandfather. About my thoughts of pointlessness and suicide, all rooted in me wanting to save him:
"I want to save you from your sorrow. The only reason why I continue at all...faith in reason."
But him affirming me that this is what he signed up for years ago:
"I wasted my life playing dumb...blind faith, gods grace, nothing else left to impart. Do I care if I survive this? Bury the dead where they're found." Its comforting in a odd way. Its my only way of sorts of him reaching out to me.
John My Beloved is different because my relatives have also signed up to horrible deaths or fates. From millions in debt to dementia to untreated diabetes. They've said some sh*t but I can't help but care for them. I still love them even with their garbage. I'm the last one to carry the last name and its been pushed on me since I was little.."You're gonna do great things!" I was told.
"Jesus I need you. Be near me, shield me from fossils that fall on my head."
They're all gonna go and it isn't going to be pleasant. Family will fight for materials that won't matter in the long run. I don't want that for my future and maybe that's the great I may do. That's what keeps me going. This is just a phase and hints of what I truly want pop up from time to time (second half of "Should Have Known Better" for a hint) I want to provide something better...I jsut wish it was a bit more available.
Theres more but I only have so much space. Basically this was (and to extent still is) my only way of relating to something. I've moved on from a lot of these feelings but loneliness and grief still lurks in my life and I just need something to connect to when everything here on earth fails. On earth mind you...
"Don't back down...there is nothing left."
Three Favorite Songs:
1. The Only Thing
2. John My Beloved
3. Eugene [First added to this chart: 04/16/2018]
I remember when this first came out. I was getting in some indie but was primarily into metal like Tool and such. (I think my username then was ThrowBackG?) I remember listening to it and not understanding it. "How could this be rated so high when Meat Is Murder is lower than it should?" I thought. Time went by. One day I came back home from my walk to the store to hear that a old family friend had killed himself. He was 13. He was a very tender and sweet kid, I remember him being a baby... there was once a point where him and my youngest sister wanted to be married in the future and he wanted a good connection between him and his future brother in law- though this was unspoken the feeling was still there. At the time I just couldn't understand why he would take his own life. I still don't. I was never given the whole story and I don't need it now. But at the time I couldn't help but acknowledge his supposedly strong faith toward God. I believe the same thing and I just didn't get it then. I was confused. "What would bring him to that when he had something to turn to?" I thought. I gave this record another listen the day of his funeral. I still didn't get it. Months past, some relative issues, a bad church and a twist in my best friend later and I was about to witness the hardest thing in my life. My grandfathers passing. Since spring the year prior I had been mowing his lawn and tending his plants weekly. We used to work together in the fruit fields pruning branches, thinning premature fruits and picking fruit. Talking to picking crews, illegally playing scratchers, you know...everyday stuff. He was the only relative I had where his love for my family wasn't just unconditional. He listened to everything you had to say and he really tried to make things up with my dad before he passed away. He was a different person to my dad then and he wanted to do the best he could for him...even if he wasn't there to experience it with him in the long run. As the weeks went by he got worse. Slowly his shiny hair and smooth skin turned flaky and pale, his hair turned pure white a week before he died. I wasn't there for his death and I still hate a bit of myself for not being there...but a part of me knows he wouldn't have left if I had stayed.
He was all I had.
My relatives weren't to much. One told me THE DAY HE DIED that life just moves on. (F*ck you too) On top of some other things I plan to elaborate in the next few albums I was depressed. Alone. I had my wonderful parents and sisters but I felt like a burden. I got to thinking about my old friend. I realized one day I was probably in a similar state of mind. To be honest it was just me and God and even then I felt like he had suddenly become distant in my life. I started drinking at least a liter of soda a day to hit a "sugar crash" of sorts so things could slow down. I often hid in my room. I contemplated death. I often took walks in the middle of the night in a gang riddled neighborhood. I just didn't care. I was conflicted inside. I was told by this church that feelings like these were a sin but another part of me said that that church was always wrong to begin with. This caused more eternal strife. My only way of comfort was gardening (we had inherited his house and some plants) and this album. Sufjan is also a Christian. to see that a fellow Christian had these same thoughts was comforting cause it reminded me that someone in a world with 6 billion people...there was someone who was or had gone through the almost exact struggle.
Grief isn't a 1-2-3 process. Its slow and bitter. I'm not in that place anymore but I still feel utterly alone. I get tired of the people around me seemingly having it all and in all of this I have little to nothing despite being told how good of a person I may be from my peers. "My ----- cheated on his wife and he's still married and I can't get a girlfriend...what am I doing wrong?" Its rooted in envy and it isn't right but the emotion is still there. I still miss him with all my heart. Even if he didn't give advice I felt like I was a person and not just a kid. He had nothing to gain. There we're no strings attached...
My two favorite songs (despite having a connection to every song like Eugene reminding me of my time in those fields) is "The Only Thing" and "John My Beloved". The Only Thing was probably the sole song that kept me going. I see it as me reaching out to my grandfather. About my thoughts of pointlessness and suicide, all rooted in me wanting to save him:
"I want to save you from your sorrow. The only reason why I continue at all...faith in reason."
But him affirming me that this is what he signed up for years ago:
"I wasted my life playing dumb...blind faith, gods grace, nothing else left to impart. Do I care if I survive this? Bury the dead where they're found." Its comforting in a odd way. Its my only way of sorts of him reaching out to me.
John My Beloved is different because my relatives have also signed up to horrible deaths or fates. From millions in debt to dementia to untreated diabetes. They've said some sh*t but I can't help but care for them. I still love them even with their garbage. I'm the last one to carry the last name and its been pushed on me since I was little.."You're gonna do great things!" I was told.
"Jesus I need you. Be near me, shield me from fossils that fall on my head."
They're all gonna go and it isn't going to be pleasant. Family will fight for materials that won't matter in the long run. I don't want that for my future and maybe that's the great I may do. That's what keeps me going. This is just a phase and hints of what I truly want pop up from time to time (second half of "Should Have Known Better" for a hint) I want to provide something better...I jsut wish it was a bit more available.
Theres more but I only have so much space. Basically this was (and to extent still is) my only way of relating to something. I've moved on from a lot of these feelings but loneliness and grief still lurks in my life and I just need something to connect to when everything here on earth fails. On earth mind you...
"Don't back down...there is nothing left."
Three Favorite Songs:
1. The Only Thing
2. John My Beloved
3. Eugene [First added to this chart: 04/16/2018]
Year of Release:
2015
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Rank Score:
17,042
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[First added to this chart: 04/15/2018]
Year of Release:
2012
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23,824
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Comedy albums okay? I gotta fill the rest of these soon.
[First added to this chart: 04/24/2018]
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[First added to this chart: 07/28/2018]
Year of Release:
2017
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Rank Score:
2,634
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"Sold my red horse for a venture home
To vanish on the bow
Settling slow"
Isolation is a double sided sword. On one hand I want it all with people. Love, passion, even just a good conversation. On the other I get sick of everyone's bullsh*t. Maybe I've just been raised around interesting characters but I often find myself wanting to be back home or anywhere but "here".
Its very easy to sound like one of those people like:
"Oh, Skinny Love! Fml, I like totally relate!"
No. For those who don't know this album was completely written by Justin Vernon in a hunting camp during the winter. He went there hoping to be alone. At first he wrote the melodies without lyrics in which he later added. That's something to note. Kinda like Henry Davis Thoreau's writing style, Justin tends to advocate what he's feeling twos ways. The first is the obvious and unsurprisingly the lyrics. Often I try to understand what he's singing through that wall of layered falsetto. The second is the actual melody. It fits well with the lyrics but when you think about it emotionally...it doesn't connect...in a good way though. It's like Justin is trying to distract you by over complicating what he's feeling or even just straying from the topic to hide what he really feels which is in the melody. Not the say there's a disconnect between the two, there isn't and they flow really well together! But deep down I think there is a bit of conflict rooted in Justin.
"How much of myself do I put into lyrics and melody?"
Also, little tid bits like hearing him walk around or putting down his guitar really give this thing a life of its own. You feel like your in his cabin to an extant or at least somewhere else...even for a small moment.
Often I overthink things.
"Did I overstay my welcome?"
"Was I staring into their eyes too long?"
"Did I say that right?"
"Did I sound rude?"
"Do I look professional?"
Its something I've done to myself my whole life and I'm very bitter towards myself for it. Often when I want isolation its because I need to think things through about my character. Somedays I just want to live in the back of a car for a few days just for some quiet. I find isolation to be comfortable at times, sometimes I just need that quiet whether its something drastic like the car or just a few minutes of gardening with Nick drake in the background. However, life does get lonely. I want to chat with people, maybe get a coffee sometime, but I don't know anyone that would anymore. Isolation for me is as comfortable as it is bitter. When I come home from work I listen to my sisters, chat with my mom but I don't talk about my day. I don't have anyone to talk to yet but that may because of my weird relationship with isolation which gets me thinking about myself...which makes me want my space for a bit...I used the live in the mountains believe it or not. I was young...about 12 or 13. It snowed a few days before my birthday and I decided to plan my birthday as a snow birthday but the snow melted the next day. I guess you can never really predict your outcome.
"I am my mothers only one, its enough."
Three Favorite Tracks:
1. Lump Sum
2. Creature Fear/Team
3. For Emma [First added to this chart: 04/16/2018]
To vanish on the bow
Settling slow"
Isolation is a double sided sword. On one hand I want it all with people. Love, passion, even just a good conversation. On the other I get sick of everyone's bullsh*t. Maybe I've just been raised around interesting characters but I often find myself wanting to be back home or anywhere but "here".
Its very easy to sound like one of those people like:
"Oh, Skinny Love! Fml, I like totally relate!"
No. For those who don't know this album was completely written by Justin Vernon in a hunting camp during the winter. He went there hoping to be alone. At first he wrote the melodies without lyrics in which he later added. That's something to note. Kinda like Henry Davis Thoreau's writing style, Justin tends to advocate what he's feeling twos ways. The first is the obvious and unsurprisingly the lyrics. Often I try to understand what he's singing through that wall of layered falsetto. The second is the actual melody. It fits well with the lyrics but when you think about it emotionally...it doesn't connect...in a good way though. It's like Justin is trying to distract you by over complicating what he's feeling or even just straying from the topic to hide what he really feels which is in the melody. Not the say there's a disconnect between the two, there isn't and they flow really well together! But deep down I think there is a bit of conflict rooted in Justin.
"How much of myself do I put into lyrics and melody?"
Also, little tid bits like hearing him walk around or putting down his guitar really give this thing a life of its own. You feel like your in his cabin to an extant or at least somewhere else...even for a small moment.
Often I overthink things.
"Did I overstay my welcome?"
"Was I staring into their eyes too long?"
"Did I say that right?"
"Did I sound rude?"
"Do I look professional?"
Its something I've done to myself my whole life and I'm very bitter towards myself for it. Often when I want isolation its because I need to think things through about my character. Somedays I just want to live in the back of a car for a few days just for some quiet. I find isolation to be comfortable at times, sometimes I just need that quiet whether its something drastic like the car or just a few minutes of gardening with Nick drake in the background. However, life does get lonely. I want to chat with people, maybe get a coffee sometime, but I don't know anyone that would anymore. Isolation for me is as comfortable as it is bitter. When I come home from work I listen to my sisters, chat with my mom but I don't talk about my day. I don't have anyone to talk to yet but that may because of my weird relationship with isolation which gets me thinking about myself...which makes me want my space for a bit...I used the live in the mountains believe it or not. I was young...about 12 or 13. It snowed a few days before my birthday and I decided to plan my birthday as a snow birthday but the snow melted the next day. I guess you can never really predict your outcome.
"I am my mothers only one, its enough."
Three Favorite Tracks:
1. Lump Sum
2. Creature Fear/Team
3. For Emma [First added to this chart: 04/16/2018]
Year of Release:
2007
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Rank Score:
11,550
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[First added to this chart: 04/16/2018]
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[First added to this chart: 04/24/2018]
Year of Release:
2017
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Rank Score:
2,630
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[First added to this chart: 07/28/2018]
Year of Release:
2002
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Rank Score:
1,387
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[First added to this chart: 07/14/2018]
Year of Release:
2018
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1,032
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[First added to this chart: 04/16/2018]
Year of Release:
1975
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Rank Score:
22,173
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Top 36 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 1 | 3% | |
| 1960s | 1 | 3% | |
| 1970s | 2 | 6% | |
| 1980s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1990s | 8 | 22% | |
| 2000s | 8 | 22% | |
| 2010s | 16 | 44% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Alvvays | 2 | 6% | |
| Belle And Sebastian | 2 | 6% | |
| Father John Misty | 2 | 6% | |
| Headlights | 1 | 3% | |
| Fleet Foxes | 1 | 3% | |
| Gregory And The Hawk | 1 | 3% | |
| Kendrick Lamar | 1 | 3% | |
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20 | 56% | |
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5 | 14% | |
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3 | 8% | |
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2 | 6% | |
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1 | 3% | |
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Top 36 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 27 from 38th to 11th Pure Comedy by Father John Misty |
| Up 22 from 37th to 15th Crack-Up by Fleet Foxes |
| Up 17 from 34th to 17th The Mantle by Agalloch |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 11 from 15th to 26th Kill Them With Kindness by Headlights |
| Down 3 from 26th to 29th The Boy With The Arab Strap by Belle And Sebastian |
| Down 3 from 27th to 30th Black Tambourine by Black Tambourine |
| Leavers |
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 The Lonesome Crowded Westby Modest Mouse |
| Let's Get Out Of This Country by Camera Obscura (UK) |
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From boppare 02/07/2019 23:05
Cool indie/twee focused list. If you can scrape up the money, you should try to go to the Boatie Weekender this year. B&S, Alvvays, and Yo La Tengo are playing, it will be a show of a lifetime.
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From DommeDamian 06/30/2018 17:08
DommeDamian 06/30/2018 17:08
Adding number 2 in too, the Pink Moon description is undeniably poetic!
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From DommeDamian 05/26/2018 19:13
DommeDamian 05/26/2018 19:13
*reading your description for C&L* ;_;
This description and story have managed to scale BEA. Stay strong, homie, I'm here too. ;-)
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Antonio-Pedro 04/19/2018 11:44
Jesus this is fucking beautiful, the C&L note made me cover myself with emotional clouds, and the bon iver one just buried the sentence that this is a lovely chart, and since I'm a noteaholic it would be against my golden law to not give this the perfect score, simply lovely <3
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