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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49,420
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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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60,003
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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]
Year of Release:
1997
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63,511
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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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10,548
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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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43,279
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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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16,888
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The first time I heard the Zeppelin I was kinda shocked. I was in my Guns n' Roses period and therefore at my first date with rock. After the first listening, the Zeppelin collection, the one with the alien drawings on the cornfields on the cover, slept in a drawer for something like a year. Only later, after consolidating a robust knowledge of some higher level rock n' roll hero, the Zeppeling started appearing listenable to me. At the beginning it was "Starway to Heaven" obviuosly, and then, slowly, all the rest. The amazing thing about Led Zeppelin, is that they make the hardest thing appear easy, travelling across music genders that at the time did not even exist. Zeppelin III was my first Zeppelin album and I was happy to find so much psychedelic music in there like in "Gallows Pole" and "Tangerine" where it is no pure rock and roll like in "Immigrant Song" and "Celebration Day" and the fantastic "That's the way".
[First added to this chart: 05/02/2012]
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1970
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8,012
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As well as Nirvana's Nevermind this album has been the soundtrack of a year of my life, together with the next Oasis album. I was in London for the summer that year and England was going crazy for the Gallaghers really. And I was too. Honestly I didn't hear the similarity with the Beatles back then. Oasis was the new rock n' roll band, modern and traditional at the same time. And cool, very cool. "Live Forever" is my Oasis favourite song, and sadly it will remain the same.
[First added to this chart: 05/02/2012]
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1994
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[First added to this chart: 05/07/2012]
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1971
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21,016
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If there was a prize for the best musicians of all rock and roll time, I think that Dire Straits would rather win it. Unfortunately they weren't cool enough. Too many youngsters at the time preferred the "jumping, playing bands" that Knopfler was accusing in his masterpiece "Sultans of Swing". But "Tunnel of Love" is amzing, as well as "Romeo and Juliet". These two songs are so much better than the whole punk thing all together, that this alone explains why the album is here in my chart.
[First added to this chart: 05/02/2012]
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1980
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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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| Dire Straits | 1 | 3% | |
| Bob Dylan | 1 | 3% | |
| Manu Chao | 1 | 3% | |
| Santana | 1 | 3% | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins | 1 | 3% | |
| Pink Floyd | 1 | 3% | |
| Fiona Apple | 1 | 3% | |
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16 | 40% | |
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14 | 35% | |
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2 | 5% | |
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