Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by KitchenSink

From Hayden TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/27/2021 16:19 | #265180

Really dug the Lacelot Layne comp. Jimmy and I had a quick note on it in the 'what album are you listening to' thread, but that gets buried within a second. Great stuff. Also gave Cree Records' recent Ben Molatzi comp a spin too and really dug that (total different genre, just... same label).

As for Amalia, fado in general might be one of the rare genres of music that doesn't translate directly to disc very well (which may be why there aren't too many fado records...), but the live recording makes it explode. Helps that she put on a stellar performance (and that somebody actually recorded it). It needs that layer overtop of humanity watching to make it pop. Not sure there's ever been a better example of the genre in album form (Busto, Encontro & Com Que Voz are all excellent too though, and Celeste Rodrigues' 1958 live record Lisbon's Great Celeste Rodrigues comes in a solid second for me). If you ever have the chance to stop by Lisbon or Porto and catch a live fado performance at some sort of weird underground cramped hole in the wall bar after a couple shots of whoknowswhat, I'd recommend it. It isn't stadium concert stuff, it's important it's intimate.

I'll keep refining the poems. Should be able to be happy with them all eventually. As new entries come along, they get something written for them as well.

From Hayden TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/21/2021 16:25 | #264773

Those would be mine! Some are... um... not great... and I wish most were about twice the length, but I'm glad you enjoyed them. I try to write each poem in one go, but I'll admit there's been changes from time-to-time (as there will be in the future...). The only two I didn't write are the ones for Donuts (which is more of a 'found poem' from Wikipedia), and the one for Roast Fish Collie Weed & Corn Bread, which is my jotted recipe for mannish water taken from whoknowswhere years ago. I've always been adverse to detailed reviews, especially for music, but I feel like it's appropriate to write something about an album if it lands.

Really need to go through this chart... 65 unlistened. Love seeing It's Your World, Pygmy Love Song, Under Heavy Manners, Abner Jay, The Cake (I feel like this one could grow in popularity as time goes on) and Amália Rodrigues among other favourites. That Lancelot Layne comp is going in the queue right away.

From Mercury TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/12/2021 18:46 | #264310

too many albums here I haven't heard of and that offends me personally. 100/100

This is really the rare true one-of-a-kind chart, and I love seeing that because it is so rare and so interesting.

For a start, the combination of genres is utterly unlike anything I have ever seen before on this site or any other, and one hardly knows from whom it is “coming” upon reading it, especially without notes (and the lack of notes is really one of only two quibbles about this chart). Secondly, I have never really seen a chart with so much music so completely unknown to myself, even with some albums where I have actually heard of the relevant artist. Thirdly, in a manner that reminds me slightly of the numerous rare live albums in David Keenan’s 2003 “The Best Albums Ever...Honest” this chart is notable for the presence of several remix albums that are very rarely seen on any sort of greatest album chart.

As an all-time chart, I do not really quibble about the numerous compilations on this list as they can often be the only or merely best way to represent many artists. I do have more reservations about various-artists albums, because they are likely to be much less unified statements than even a compilation by one artist.

As a last word, re Messiaen, ‘Catalogue d‘Oiseaux’ is undoubtedly my favorite classical recording, but I wonder if you have heard the 1994 rendition by Carl-Axel Dominique or the 2001 by Paul Kim which I have been exceedingly impressed by without having heard it fully?

From LedZep TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/06/2025 12:38 | #307437

Genuinely one of the coolest lists around. Could easily imagine my overall chart looking something like this (in spirit, at least) if it was focused more on the recent discoveries and forgotten gems, rather than on the stuff I've been loving since the high school lol.

Also this is maybe the first chart on BEA where there are only 3 metal albums (if I counted right), and I haven't heard 2 of them. Good shit, gotta finally listen to that Sortsind album and research Abruptum (have no idea who they are).

I'm not too big on house, but that Frankie Knuckles set is killer. I'll surely give it another go someday. (Edited)