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1971-EPIC
Produced by RON RICHARDS & THE HOLLIES


1. What A Life I’ve Led
2. Look What We’ve Got
3. Hold On
4. Pull Down The Blind
5. To Do With Love
6. Promised Land
7. Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress
8. You Know The Score
9. Cable Car
10. A Little Thing Like Love
11. Long Dark Road


The Hollies showed up in 1965, and built a legacy of singles that has always suggested that they were a much better band than their seemingly endless string of lackluster albums would indicate. The number of greatest hits packages made by The Hollies speaks volumes, and if you want to appreciate this band, that’s going to be the best way for you to go. By 1971, Graham Nash had long since departed for the much greener pastures of Crosby, Stills and. The band was left with the also soon to leave Allan Clarke, and they still couldn’t put together a full albums worth of quality material to save their lives. Distant Light is one of the below average efforts that kept their string of hits alive in the early seventies, with “Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress” joining the likes of “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” and “The Air That I Breathe”. Like most of the Hollies records, everything here sounds very dated…except for the hit. (“Long Dark Road” was also a minor, and long forgotten, hit as well).

Throughout the album, Clarke’s vocals sound as if they were piped in through a tin can. The songs here are not terrible, just completely unmemorable and very dated. It’s listenable, but just barely, and there’s not really any good reason to have this, unless you’re a big fan of the band. Get one of the many, much better, greatest hits packages instead. The Hollies would continue on…their next album, Romany (with the exact same album cover only in a winter setting) was a dud, but that didn’t stop them…The Hollies would make 10 more albums over the next decade before calling it a day. They never did make a really good album, though, and their legacy as one of the great bands of the 60’s and early 70’s is built solely on the fact that they had some hit singles. Distant Light is not highly recommended: there were much better bands in the era to hang your hat on, without having to endure too much of these guys.
[First added to this chart: 05/23/2015]
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1971
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23
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[First added to this chart: 06/03/2014]
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1968
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9,395
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[First added to this chart: 09/26/2024]
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1976
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3,089
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21 
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2011 – XL
Produced By JIM ABBIS, ADELE, PAUL EPWORTH, RICK RUBIN, FRASER T SMITH, RYAN TEDDER & DAN WILSON

1. Rolling In The Deep
2. Rumour Has It
3. Turning Tables
4. Don’t You Remember
5. Set Fire To The Rain
6. He Won’t Go
7. Take It All
8. I’ll Be Waiting
9. One And Only
10. Lovesong
11. Someone Like You

As simply as I can put it: what the world needs now is more, more, more Adele. What the music business needs is more albums like 21. Adele was discovered on myspace, and her first album (19) was a hit. But this album? If you haven’t taken the plunge and immersed yourself into 21 (her age when the album was recorded), you’re really in for a treat. This is not your ordinary pop star: Adele writes her own songs, has a voice that shuts down autotune, uses real musicians, and has more soul than Beyonce ever dreamed of having. This album rejuvenated album sales in 2011, and made her a huge star. The thing is, all of the hype about Adele is justified. All of the records this album broke are well deserved. She doesn’t just say she’s influenced by different types of music, you can HEAR the jazz, Motown, country, folk and blues oozing from every song, from every note she sings, and from every note the musicians play. This is not just a great album: this is one of the greatest albums.

“Rolling In The Deep” is soul at its finest…a truly great song. Not far behind is the powerful “Rumour Has It”. These two tracks alone will win you over, but the rest of this album is simply fantastic. Her version of The Cure’s “Lovesong” is stunning, and the closer, “Someone Like You”, will bring you to tears if you listen closely enough. “Turning Tables” and “Set Fire To The Rain” are also standouts. 21 is simply a great album…I cannot find enough praise for the quality and excellence of this disc…something that is not as common with newer music for me. This is powerful and exceptional from the first to the last note. Music could use another shot in the arm that comes with an Adele album...the follow up to this is now four years in the making with no release date anytime soon. In the meantime, you should have this album. It’s not only a great reminder of how albums used to be made, it’s also amazing proof that great albums can still be made. Adele is no joke…21 is a perfect album.
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2011
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3,145
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1977-COLUMBIA
Produced By NICK LOWE

1. Welcome To The Working Week
2. Miracle Man
3. No Dancing
4. Blame It On Cain
5. Alison
6. Sneaky feelings
7. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
8. Less Than Zero
9. Mystery Dance
10. Pay It Back
11. I’m Not Angry
12. Waiting For The End Of The World
13. Watching The Detectives

Bonus Tracks:
14. Radio Sweetheart
15. Stranger In The House
16. Imagination (Is A Powerful Deceiver)
17. Mystery Dance
18. Cheap Reward
19. Jump Up
20. Wave A White Flag
21. Blame It On Cain
22. Poison Moon

Elvis Costello was initially wanted by Sire Records as a songwriter for Dave Edmunds. Nick Lowe got him into the studio, recorded this album, and persuaded them to utilize him as a solo artist instead. My Aim Is True had all the right timing. His angry young man sneer fit in well with the blossoming punk scene, and more than anything else, Costello was proving to be a master songwriter. “Alison” and “Watching The Detectives” made him a huge star, but it was the other songs that made him Elvis Costello. “Mystery Dance” is a great punk song: “Red Shoes”, “Blame It On Cain”, and “Less Than Zero” are top notch songs, and “Waiting For The End Of The World” (which was the vehicle for naming The Legendary Hitchhikers) is maybe his best song.

Bonus tracks. The best thing about them here is that they give an indication as to just how country Costello actually was. The first 3 are interesting, decent songs that didn’t make the cut: the rest are interesting one time, boring acoustic demos that were intended to stay on the cutting room floor. None of what Rykodisc threw onto the end of this fine album (10 tracks) is vital or necessary. Find a version without bonus tracks unless you must have them.
[First added to this chart: 06/21/2018]
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1977
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3,438
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1987 – BLANCO Y NEGRO
Produced By WILLIAM REID, BILL PRICE & JOHN LODER

1. Darklands
2. Deep One Perfect Morning
3. Happy When It Rains
4. Down On Me
5. Nine Million Rainy Days
6. April Skies
7. Fall
8. Cherry Came Too
9. On The Wall
10. About You

In 1985, The Jesus And Mary Chain changed the course of British music with their stunning debut album, Psychocandy. It was a dark, loud and sonically mesmerizing album, and it stood out amazingly in the midst of the eighties. The band had always (and always have had) problems keeping the drummer spot filled (they have had twelve different drummers to date) , so when they went into the studio to record the follow up to Psychocandy, they decided to just use a drum machine and make a more intimate acoustic album. The resulting album, Darklands, is a thing of beauty, and set the course they would follow for the rest of their careers. Darklands is just that…it’s dark. But it’s also got a certain warmth to it, which makes it a lot more relatable than their debut album.

The Chain is led by the Reid brothers, William and Jim. In the synth laden atmosphere of the late eighties, this album is all guitar, and it’s beautiful. The title track is a stunning introduction to the new sound of the band. “April Skies” is wonderful, and “Happy When It Rains” is one of their very best songs. They have never matched the quality of their first two albums, so the ones to own from this band are definitely Psychocandy and Darklands (although 1994’s Stoned And Dethroned comes close). It’s rare when such downward gazing music like this sounds so melodic and grooves like this, which is what makes this album more special. Maybe someday they will duplicate this sound…if they are able to, we will all be in for quite a treat.
[First added to this chart: 11/16/2025]
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1987
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2,098
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1979-VERTIGO
Produced By JERRY WEXLER & BARRY BECKETT

1. Once Upon A Time In The West
2. News
3. Where Do You Think You’re Going?
4. Communique
5. Lady Writer
6. Angel Of Mercy
7. Portobello Belle
8. Single Handed Sailor
9. Follow Me Home

The second Dire Straits album has its ups and downs, mainly in trying to follow up the sudden and huge success of their debut. The album is the last to feature Mark Knopfler’s brother David on guitar, and was the first album to hit number one in Germany in its first week of release. The formula is basically the same as the debut, but the songs are not as consistent or fine. The high points are “Once Upon A Time In The West”, which could have fit in easily on the debut, and the album’s lone hit “Lady Writer”, a song not unlike “Sultans Of Swing”.

Despite the album’s lack of commercial success, it is still very solid, as are all of the early Dire Straits releases. Mark Knopfler’s guitar playing carries the album, even with lesser overall material. The band followed up with the much more successful Making Movies, and continued to be successful into the mid 1980’s. Communique is lesser known that Dire Straits, Making Movies, and Brothers In Arms, and it’s not quite as good as any of those, but it’s still a solid release by one of the periods better bands.
[First added to this chart: 06/03/2014]
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1979
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837
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[First added to this chart: 02/13/2025]
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2009
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11
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[First added to this chart: 01/30/2025]
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1971
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1,667
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[First added to this chart: 11/25/2024]
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1991
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33
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Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 1 1%
1960s 5 5%
1970s 28 28%
1980s 16 16%
1990s 27 27%
2000s 21 21%
2010s 2 2%
2020s 0 0%
Country Albums %


United States 63 63%
United Kingdom 27 27%
Canada 4 4%
Ireland 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
New Zealand 1 1%
Mali 1 1%
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Compilation? Albums %
No 98 98%
Yes 2 2%
Live? Albums %
No 93 93%
Yes 7 7%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 98 98%
Yes 2 2%

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I thought you had forgotten R.E.M. but here they are. Master of Puppets are ranked very low but why not ;)
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