Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by araidernomore 
- Chart updated: 04/21/2025 14:45
- (Created: 04/11/2024 17:17).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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The best example, in my opinion, of an album seamlessly weaving together multiple themes into a vivid snapshot of modern life (especially if you have a latent fear of machines!) You've got commentary on government oppression (Karma Police, Lucky), insanity (Subterranean Homesick Alien, Climbing Up the Walls), transportation (Airbag, Let Down) as well as a couple self-contained narratives (Exit Music, The Tourist). It's a haunting stew of disillusionment. That's all before even mentioning the music, which moves between headbangers to depth and sadness to chilled-out piano-driven tracks and gets every single vibe right. The songwriting is fantastic, the band's signature layered instrumentation is present, and there's an edge to this album that just hits hard without sounding plaintive in a way I don't think Radiohead ever quite recaptured. Perfect.
90+ tracks: Karma Police, Airbag, Let Down, Lucky, Paranoid Android, Subterranean Homesick Alien, No Surprises [First added to this chart: 04/11/2024]
90+ tracks: Karma Police, Airbag, Let Down, Lucky, Paranoid Android, Subterranean Homesick Alien, No Surprises [First added to this chart: 04/11/2024]
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1997
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Radiohead have always been masters of using a song's instrumentation and tone to complement its lyrics, and this album is the peak of the form. It's subtle things, like dueling keys on Nude symbolizing a angel-vs-devil-on-the-shoulder battle or the rushed climax to Jigsaw Falling Into Place filling in the gaps left by the narrator's hazy memories of a drunken night out, that stick in your brain even if you don't quite consciously know why. Fantastic imagery abounds, too, from a pair of bright eyes at the bottom of the sea (Weird Fishes) turning into a parasitic, toxic relationship (All I Need) to the hands of Mephistopheles clutching at Thom as he attempts to make his way into heaven (Videotape). It's lustful, it's beautiful, and above all else, it's human. I wish it was 20 tracks long.
90+ tracks: Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, Bodysnatchers, Reckoner, Jigsaw Falling Into Place, 15 Step, Nude, House of Cards [First added to this chart: 04/11/2024]
90+ tracks: Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, Bodysnatchers, Reckoner, Jigsaw Falling Into Place, 15 Step, Nude, House of Cards [First added to this chart: 04/11/2024]
Year of Release:
2007
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46,287
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The most straightforward and listenable album ever produced by my favorite band. Using Thom Yorke's falsetto to great effect whether it's angst (Fake Plastic Trees) or yearning (High and Dry), the album is catchy track after catchy track to have you rethinking your romantic relationships - or lamenting your lack thereof. The riffs hit hard (Just, My Iron Lung) and the dissatisfaction is ever-present (The Bends, Black Star), swirling into a cocktail that'll have you thinking to yourself "wow, this guy really needs some therapy" even as you bob your head and tap your foot. The closer, Street Spirit, does a wonderful job foreshadowing Radiohead's future darker direction while remaining exceptionally well-crafted. We're all still 16 years old deep down.
90+ tracks: The Bends, High and Dry, Fake Plastic Trees, Street Spirit (Fade Out), Just [First added to this chart: 04/11/2024]
90+ tracks: The Bends, High and Dry, Fake Plastic Trees, Street Spirit (Fade Out), Just [First added to this chart: 04/11/2024]
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1995
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[First added to this chart: 09/18/2024]
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2003
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8,403
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[First added to this chart: 09/18/2024]
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2000
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1970s | 2 | 2% | |
| 1980s | 8 | 8% | |
| 1990s | 23 | 23% | |
| 2000s | 29 | 29% | |
| 2010s | 34 | 34% | |
| 2020s | 4 | 4% |
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| Radiohead | 5 | 5% | |
| Kendrick Lamar | 4 | 4% | |
| Arctic Monkeys | 3 | 3% | |
| The Strokes | 3 | 3% | |
| CHVRCHES | 3 | 3% | |
| Arcade Fire | 3 | 3% | |
| Kanye West | 3 | 3% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
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| Up 14 from 46th to 32nd The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths |
| Up 13 from 90th to 77th Channel Orange by Frank Ocean |
| Up 13 from 44th to 31st Pure Heroine by Lorde |
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| Down 20 from 31st to 51st Damn. by Kendrick Lamar |
| Down 20 from 69th to 89th Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco |
| Down 19 from 43rd to 62nd Narrow Stairs by Death Cab For Cutie |
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From DeusExMackia 01/10/2025 11:16
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17 artists in common counts for something!
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