Top 50 Greatest Music Albums
by rubysmith 
A love letter.
- Chart updated: 11/08/2022 02:15
- (Created: 04/02/2021 11:16).
- Chart size: 50 albums.
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I am trying to say
What I want to say
Without having to say
"I love you"
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I get giddy with excitement whenever I hit play on this album, it is so jam-packed with joy and love. Stars embraces mess and earnestness nearly the full run time, with their weakest moments coming when they try for seriousness or the musical high-brow. Side-A doesn’t let up for a moment (besides “The Big Fight”, but it’s decent enough to get a passing grade), and I feel my heart rate spike every time I reach the title track’s “let’s roll”, let alone What I’m Trying To Say, which is my second-favourite love song of all time. And then they finish off the album with Calendar Girl! There is no other possible way to end this album then scream-singing along to “I’m alive!” [First added to this chart: 04/11/2021]
What I want to say
Without having to say
"I love you"
--
I get giddy with excitement whenever I hit play on this album, it is so jam-packed with joy and love. Stars embraces mess and earnestness nearly the full run time, with their weakest moments coming when they try for seriousness or the musical high-brow. Side-A doesn’t let up for a moment (besides “The Big Fight”, but it’s decent enough to get a passing grade), and I feel my heart rate spike every time I reach the title track’s “let’s roll”, let alone What I’m Trying To Say, which is my second-favourite love song of all time. And then they finish off the album with Calendar Girl! There is no other possible way to end this album then scream-singing along to “I’m alive!” [First added to this chart: 04/11/2021]
Year of Release:
2004
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505
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When daddy comes home you always start a fight
So the neighbours can dance in the police disco lights
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God. Ok. What a fucking shame that they are the new Coldplay-lite (looking back in 2022 I don't think that covers their issues anymore), because there is no greater disappointment than a band who’s whole ethos was caring to end up bored and boring. The fear also remains that their new “too cool for school tech bro” schtick would dampen the effect of Funeral, but thank god it doesn’t. So what if all of my favourite music falls into the category of “music that makes you feel like a human being that is alive with a heart and everything”. Funeral maybe does it best of all, and that particular shine doesn’t wear off after 100 listens, it just starts to feel lived in and comfortable - in a way even better. A painfully Canadian album, which is part of why I love it (and why CBC radio played it almost exclusively throughout my whole childhood). The kind of music you can only make if you spend 9 months of the year under a layer of ice, fighting off seasonal depression and trying to remind yourself that life is out there. [First added to this chart: 04/11/2021]
So the neighbours can dance in the police disco lights
--
God. Ok. What a fucking shame that they are the new Coldplay-lite (looking back in 2022 I don't think that covers their issues anymore), because there is no greater disappointment than a band who’s whole ethos was caring to end up bored and boring. The fear also remains that their new “too cool for school tech bro” schtick would dampen the effect of Funeral, but thank god it doesn’t. So what if all of my favourite music falls into the category of “music that makes you feel like a human being that is alive with a heart and everything”. Funeral maybe does it best of all, and that particular shine doesn’t wear off after 100 listens, it just starts to feel lived in and comfortable - in a way even better. A painfully Canadian album, which is part of why I love it (and why CBC radio played it almost exclusively throughout my whole childhood). The kind of music you can only make if you spend 9 months of the year under a layer of ice, fighting off seasonal depression and trying to remind yourself that life is out there. [First added to this chart: 04/11/2021]
Year of Release:
2004
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32,853
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When your skin is shed
Find a pile of your head
Now then, I'll look so smart
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Alice Glass can have my firstborn if she wants it. Ethan Kath can have death by my hands. "Vanished" is a perfect synth line. [First added to this chart: 04/11/2021]
Find a pile of your head
Now then, I'll look so smart
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Alice Glass can have my firstborn if she wants it. Ethan Kath can have death by my hands. "Vanished" is a perfect synth line. [First added to this chart: 04/11/2021]
Year of Release:
2008
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1,471
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Just before our love got lost you said
"I am as constant as a northern star"
And I said, "Constantly in the darkness
Where's that at?
If you want me I'll be in the bar"
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I am Canadian and so is my mother! What of it! [First added to this chart: 04/11/2021]
"I am as constant as a northern star"
And I said, "Constantly in the darkness
Where's that at?
If you want me I'll be in the bar"
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I am Canadian and so is my mother! What of it! [First added to this chart: 04/11/2021]
Year of Release:
1971
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15,594
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'Cause I can't love you
And you can't love me
But I can love you
And you can love me
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A staple of the record store I used to work at, one of us would play this min. once every couple of weeks, and it was good every time! [First added to this chart: 04/11/2021]
And you can't love me
But I can love you
And you can love me
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A staple of the record store I used to work at, one of us would play this min. once every couple of weeks, and it was good every time! [First added to this chart: 04/11/2021]
"Be safe", you say
Whatever the mess you are, you're mine, okay
If that is the custom, I'm down
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You always end up in the city! [First added to this chart: 04/11/2021]
Whatever the mess you are, you're mine, okay
If that is the custom, I'm down
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You always end up in the city! [First added to this chart: 04/11/2021]
It’s about. Having emotions that are too big for your very small human body. Looking up and out into the universe and remembering that it is infinite. Looking at the ocean and being terrified of it. Looking at the ocean and wanting to feel it. Holding a very small bird in your hands. Being awake in the country at dawn. Being in the middle of a corn field during a thunderstorm.
[First added to this chart: 04/11/2021]
Year of Release:
2000
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12,407
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I've seen your death on television
Cue immortal childlike times
Separation is divine
Here is a strike beneath your knees [First added to this chart: 11/07/2022]
Cue immortal childlike times
Separation is divine
Here is a strike beneath your knees [First added to this chart: 11/07/2022]
Year of Release:
2002
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5,358
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Top 50 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 1 | 2% | |
| 1970s | 1 | 2% | |
| 1980s | 3 | 6% | |
| 1990s | 8 | 16% | |
| 2000s | 24 | 48% | |
| 2010s | 12 | 24% | |
| 2020s | 1 | 2% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
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| Band Of Horses | 2 | 4% | |
| Mitski | 2 | 4% | |
| The National | 2 | 4% | |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor | 1 | 2% | |
| Frightened Rabbit | 1 | 2% | |
| Life Without Buildings | 1 | 2% | |
| The Magnetic Fields | 1 | 2% | |
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From seb7 10/27/2021 02:20 | #275429
seb7 10/27/2021 02:20 | #275429
Damn what a cool and interesting list. I love your little diddles about each album. Righteous!!
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From Arthurknight 04/17/2021 09:50 | #268649
Arthurknight 04/17/2021 09:50 | #268649
Great list Ruby!
There's a really good attention to some of the really under-appreciated works of the 2000s here. The Dears and Stars are super underrated, and then the esoteric A.A. Bondy pick makes sense in the context of Frightened Rabbit/Mountain Goats being in the top 10, themselves also being great choices. Ride are a personal favourite of mine too, In a Different Place and Vapour Trail are just incredible tracks off that record (to name only a couple). Some things I'm totally unfamiliar with like Dazey And the Scouts, and then there's a couple weird choices like a pretty contrarian New Pornographers pick, and then the odd Laurie Anderson pick (both still good records, just not the ones by them I'd expect). I look forward to hopefully seeing it grow to 100!
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