Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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I've been on BEA in various forms over the last decade. I'll have an account, use it for a year or so, then forget it for a year...then come back and realize my old rating system is impossible to fix so I start all over. Nothing has had a greater impact on me musically from the ages of 14-24 than this website. The most important thing I've learned is that I haven't heard anything and I will never, ever feel like I have. The sheer volume of music out there is impossible to comprehend.
- Chart updated: 07/16/2022 04:15
- (Created: 02/05/2022 22:06).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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I know that my mid-20s is a bit young to be too old for anything, but I don't relate to this album anymore. I just don't. Twin Fantasy soundtracked a very specific moment in my life: a period where I was reflecting on a long-term relationship, coming to terms with feelings of extreme indifference towards my higher education, and facing down the fact that maybe I'm being way too dramatic about all of this shit.
And that's what Twin Fantasy is: a reflection on what it means to mythologize your relationships. Will Toledo set out to re-record his 2011 opus Twin Fantasy with proper studio equipment (and, more importantly, 6 or 7 more years of recording experience), but had more in mind than improving the sound. Through new lyrics and the careful injection of melodic callbacks, Toledo managed to capture exactly how it feels to come to terms with your younger self's failure to successfully process romantic trauma. It's a reflection on a prior attempt at reflection.
Given that, it's amusing that the 2011 original was dubbed "Mirror to Mirror" while the substantially more meta revision is "Face to Face." What the 2018 version succeeded in doing was helping me come face to face with my own tendency towards self-mythologizing, a message that seems lost on many of Toledo's fans.
The whole point of Twin Fantasy Face to Face is helping you no longer relate to Twin Fantasy. It's making you a better partner, a better ex-partner, and a person who lives in the present rather than making a vision-quest of the past. [First added to this chart: 02/05/2022]
And that's what Twin Fantasy is: a reflection on what it means to mythologize your relationships. Will Toledo set out to re-record his 2011 opus Twin Fantasy with proper studio equipment (and, more importantly, 6 or 7 more years of recording experience), but had more in mind than improving the sound. Through new lyrics and the careful injection of melodic callbacks, Toledo managed to capture exactly how it feels to come to terms with your younger self's failure to successfully process romantic trauma. It's a reflection on a prior attempt at reflection.
Given that, it's amusing that the 2011 original was dubbed "Mirror to Mirror" while the substantially more meta revision is "Face to Face." What the 2018 version succeeded in doing was helping me come face to face with my own tendency towards self-mythologizing, a message that seems lost on many of Toledo's fans.
The whole point of Twin Fantasy Face to Face is helping you no longer relate to Twin Fantasy. It's making you a better partner, a better ex-partner, and a person who lives in the present rather than making a vision-quest of the past. [First added to this chart: 02/05/2022]
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2018
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[First added to this chart: 02/05/2022]
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2019
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7,603
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[First added to this chart: 02/05/2022]
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2013
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10,315
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[First added to this chart: 02/07/2022]
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2014
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2,613
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[First added to this chart: 02/05/2022]
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2010
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[First added to this chart: 02/05/2022]
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2017
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1,022
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[First added to this chart: 02/05/2022]
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2017
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2,545
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[First added to this chart: 02/07/2022]
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2015
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3,867
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[First added to this chart: 02/06/2022]
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2011
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 1 | 1% | |
| 1960s | 8 | 8% | |
| 1970s | 18 | 18% | |
| 1980s | 20 | 20% | |
| 1990s | 14 | 14% | |
| 2000s | 15 | 15% | |
| 2010s | 18 | 18% | |
| 2020s | 6 | 6% |
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| Talking Heads | 1 | 1% | |
| Charley Pride | 1 | 1% | |
| The Decemberists | 1 | 1% | |
| Elton John | 1 | 1% | |
| Camera Obscura (UK) | 1 | 1% | |
| Julien Baker | 1 | 1% | |
| Uncle Tupelo | 1 | 1% | |
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63 | 63% | |
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24 | 24% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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| Down 1 from 51st to 52ndThe Velvet Underground by The Velvet Underground |
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| Leavers |
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| ! | 01/15/2025 17:28 | Exist-en-ciel | 147 | 98/100 |
| ! | 01/05/2023 15:21 | uphill | 4 | 93/100 |
| ! | 03/16/2022 16:00 |  Cytoma | 171 | 90/100 |
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From uphill 01/05/2023 15:22 | #292519
Discovered Alvvays by this chart
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From seb7 03/01/2022 05:07 | #282056
seb7 03/01/2022 05:07 | #282056
I really don't agree with most of your choices. I can, however, appreciate the diversity and the care put into this chart. On a site full of so similarly-minded individuals, it's so nice to see a chart that stands out. Some great notes for the first few albums!!
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From pctrooper 02/07/2022 22:20 | #280928
Not a huge fan of everything on here but I do really like around 50 or so of your choices. It's nice to see charts like this that are actually interesting and don't just copy the overall picks, plus there are some new albums to discover which I have not heard of before.
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Larcx13 02/07/2022 18:59 | #280921
Larcx13 02/07/2022 18:59 | #280921
Speaking of blind spots... 0 albums in common. Perfect!
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From kynes 02/06/2022 07:35 | #280833
kynes 02/06/2022 07:35 | #280833
Why do we have an unreal number of albums in common?
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