Top 40 Greatest Music Albums
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- Chart updated: 05/22/2012 16:04
- (Created: 04/30/2012 01:08).
- Chart size: 40 albums.
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After the "most acclamated British american rock n' roll driven boy band ever" period, after the "fourth time around" Dylanesque period and just before someone gave a name to psychedelia thanks to the forthcoming Strawberry Fields, Lucy in the Sky and Walrus, Revolver is just perfect, expecially thanks to: the most imitated song ever ("Tomorrow Never Knows"), the most balanced Macca elegy ("Eleanor Rigby") and one of my favourite lazy songs ever: "I'm only sleeping". Also George has a little bit of room here, even if his best songs still have to come.
[First added to this chart: 04/30/2012]
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1966
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49,623
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I understand a lot of people hate U2. And I also understand that Bono is much more a politician than a singer as well as Edge is more a sound freak than a traditional guitar player. However, honestly, I don't care. I love U2, from Boy to Horizon, even if with alternate intensity) and still think that Achtung Baby is the perfect album. The message is great (how much media infect our lives, today more than in 1991), the communication is great (Zoo tour shows were a fantastic mix between Pink Floyd, Lou Reed and... U2 !), but most of all, the songs are great. My favourites: "Who's gonna ride your wild horses", "Until the end of the world", "Love is blindness". But, really, all the album is great.
[First added to this chart: 04/30/2012]
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1991
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11,823
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To try a comment on a Bob Dylan album without at least being English mothertongue is something like a crime, so I'll try to be as generic as possible. I felt in love with the album at first for "Love Minus Zero" and then for the fantastic dicotomy between "Subterranean Homesick Blues"/"Maggie's farm" and "Mr. Tambourine Man"/"It's all over now baby blue". And then when you listen to anything like "It's all right ma", words will never be enough. Just listen !
[First added to this chart: 04/30/2012]
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1965
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11,842
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When I was 14 I thought that PF were just the band of The Wall. I must have been listening to The Wall a thousand times in one year and I loved it. Than someone told me that PF were most known for having published the most famous album of rock history and surprisingly it was not The Wall, but The Dark Side of the Moon ! I suddenly bought the album and honestly it was not the same. Dark Side is so different, less intimate to me in some way. However for how every song flows deep into the next without any similarity unless wanted by the band, for its epic starting, through the mix of ideas, sounds, atmospheres, until the liberating final where at last Roger's voice appears and after all these years of listening (including attending to 2000s live RW gigs) I "must" confirm this is one of the best albums ever !
[First added to this chart: 04/30/2012]
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1973
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60,088
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I was a Michael Jackson fan before introduction to rock n' roll. Then I've been a Queen fan, a Guns n' Roses, a Nirvana and finally a U2 fan. Through all these temporary lovestories the Beatles and Pink Floyd have always been with me. And then came Radiohead. I was probably too old to become such a devoted fan of the band as I have been for the others. Nevertheless this is the band one could go crazy for. And Ok Computer is in the middle between the powerful grunge affected first two albums (which I love anyway!) and the following experimental rock dismanteling couple of albums. It was also the first album of the band I knew and think that "Paranoid Android" is one of the best songs ever. After some years of delusions (I'm not a big fan of Kid A/Amnesiac) I finally enjoyed the return of "my Radiohead" with both Tom Yorke's album and the fantastic "In Rainbow". However "OK Computer" is still my favourite.
[First added to this chart: 04/30/2012]
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1997
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63,592
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I have a problem. I don't know what's my favourite music "category" (what an horrible definition, I know, but it's the Web!). When I listen to folk, I feel like Dylan, when I'm in a club I realize I looove pop and if by chance, it happens to hear a Beethoven symphony in the air, I neeeeed to buy the CD 9 symphony collection ASAP !!! The same happened to me when I first listened to Genesis' Selling England by the Pound. I thought I've never listened to anything that beautiful before. And honestly everytime I do it (it's not often, I admit... maybe 3/4 times per year lastly) it's always the same. This is epic but intimate, poetry, classical, progressive, atmospheric, eccentric, pastoral music that you might think not to be able to acknowledge when you hear it. But later on, at unexpected moments of times you find yourself whisteling the notes of "Dancing with the moonlit Knight" and "Firth of Fifth". Fantastic !
[First added to this chart: 04/30/2012]
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1973
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7. (=)
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The right songs at the right time: if I were 20th in the sixties "my Nevermind" would have probably been "Help" or "Sgt. Pepper" while in the 70s "Never mind the bulloks". In the 90s, unless not necessarily THE BEST, it was the perfect album. Quick, powerful, depressed, intense, commercial, deep songs perfect for a drunk night drive surrounded by the city lights or a star lighted sky. It recalls the perfumes of being young, it smells like teen spirit !
[First added to this chart: 04/30/2012]
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1991
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There are some reasons why I've put Ziggy so high in the chart: the first is that it has been so influential for the future of rock and roll. The second is that its image is cult, as well as Andy Warhol's covers for the Velvet and the Stones. But the main reason, as usual, are the songs. And the album is full of great songs, such as "Five Years", "Starman" and "Rock n' roll sucide". Great.
[First added to this chart: 04/30/2012]
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1972
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Bruce is not one of those guys whose main gift is synthesis (you might try one of his gigs to confirm). Whereas a number of pearls are spread around bootlegs, special editions, b-sides etc., his albums not necessarily include all the best tracks of the period (e.g. "Born to run"), while in other cases they honestly include too much (e.g. "The River"). "Darkness" instead is a well balanced collection of consistent and beautiful songs, powerful and dark classics, from "Badlands" to "Candy's room", from "The Promised Land" to "Prove it all night", to the fantastic title track.
[First added to this chart: 05/02/2012]
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1978
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While I clearly rate the Stones as one of the three / five best phenomenon in rock n' roll history thanks to a neverending number of great songs, not the same I would say regarding their albums which I often find sometimes inconsistent (e.g. "Aftermath") or, afterall, boring (e.g. "Exile on main street". "Sticky Fingers" is instead consistent and powerful, from the beginning to the end, even through the 7.16 minutes of the Santanesque "Can't you hear me knocking". "Bitch" is another song not always appearing in the various collections, which is a masterpiece of rythm with an amazing guitar riff. "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses" are the two album's classics, but also "Sway" and "Sister Morphine" have nothing to envy.
[First added to this chart: 05/02/2012]
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1971
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Top 40 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 3 | 8% | |
| 1970s | 13 | 33% | |
| 1980s | 4 | 10% | |
| 1990s | 14 | 35% | |
| 2000s | 5 | 13% | |
| 2010s | 1 | 3% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Queen | 1 | 3% | |
| Radiohead | 1 | 3% | |
| Foo Fighters | 1 | 3% | |
| Beck | 1 | 3% | |
| Michael Jackson | 1 | 3% | |
| Genesis | 1 | 3% | |
| Kings Of Leon | 1 | 3% | |
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14 | 35% | |
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2 | 5% | |
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Stevie Wonder>Rolling Stones? YES!
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| Best Artists of 1960 | |
|---|---|
| 1. Miles Davis | |
| 2. John Coltrane | |
| 3. Etta James | |
| 4. Charles Mingus | |
| 5. Elvis Presley | |
| 6. Joan Baez | |
| 7. Max Roach | |
| 8. Wes Montgomery | |
| 9. Muddy Waters | |
| 10. The Everly Brothers | |
| 11. Hank Mobley | |
| 12. Bill Evans | |
| 13. Bill Evans Trio | |
| 14. Ella Fitzgerald | |
| 15. Johnny Cash | |
| 16. John Lee Hooker | |
| 17. Bo Diddley | |
| 18. Miriam Makeba | |
| 19. Eddie Cochran | |
| 20. The Ventures |
