Fucking spot on.

#142.



Can - Future Days

Year: 1973

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: n/a

Charting Singles: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #31 (year), #249 (decade), #759 (all-time)

AMG Says: "Damo Suzuki's final effort is Can's most atmospheric and beautiful record, a spartan collection of lengthy, jazz-like compositions recorded with minimal vocal contributions. Employing keyboard washes to create a breezy, almost oceanic feel (indeed, two of the tracks are titled "Spray" and "Bel Air"), the mix buries Suzuki's voice to elevate drummer Jaki Liebezeit's complex rhythms to the foreground; despite the deceptive tranquility of its surface, Future Days is an intense work, bubbling with radical ideas and concepts."

Ranked Highest By: Pavement Ist Rad (#22)

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#141.



Lou Reed - Berlin

Year: 1973

US Chart Position: #98

UK Chart Position: #7

Charting Singles: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #10 (year), #87 (decade), #240 (all-time)

AMG Says: "But if Berlin is largely a failure of ambition, that sets it apart from the vast majority of Reed's lesser works; Lou's vocals are both precise and impassioned, and though a few of the songs are little more than sketches, the best -- "How Do You Think It Feels," "Oh, Jim," "The Kids," and "Sad Song" -- are powerful, bitter stuff. It's hard not to be impressed by Berlin, given the sheer scope of the project, but while it earns an A for effort, the actual execution merits more of a B-."

Ranked Highest By: BertBertBertBertBertBertBertBert (#9)

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I've never got into Future Days as much as the other two big Can albums. I'm sure that's my fault and not there's.

lol. Only SOMB would vote Band on the Run higher than Let it Be.

#140.



Faust - Faust So Far

Year: 1972

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: n/a

Charting Singles: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #50 (year), #494 (decade), #1792 (all-time)

AMG Says: "Faust's second album moves closer to actual song structure than their debut, but it still remains experimental. Songs progress and evolve instead of abruptly stopping or cutting into other tracks [...] In terms of scope and the wealth of ideas, this is probably the most balanced of their first four albums."

Ranked Highest By: Burzum (#22)

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Folk-rock that is not Dylan is taking a pounding in this poll.

#139.



David Bowie - Aladdin Sane

Year: 1973

US Chart Position: #17

UK Chart Position: #1

Charting Singles: "The Jean Genie" (#71 US, #2 UK), "Drive-In Saturday" (#3 UK)

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #20 (year), #145 (decade), #416 (all-time)

AMG Says: "For all the pleasures on Aladdin Sane, there's no distinctive sound or theme to make the album cohesive; it's Bowie riding the wake of Ziggy Stardust, which means there's a wealth of classic material here, but not enough focus to make the album itself a classic."

Ranked Highest By: Velocity (#6) (also ranked #9 by Cereberal Caustic)

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#138.



The Sonics - Here are the Sonics!!!

Year: 1965

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: n/a

Charting Singles: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #18 (year), #132 (decade), #740 (all-time)

AMG Says: "The Sonics that Wailers bassist Buck Ormsby took into a small studio and unleashed on the world show a live band at the peak of its power, ready to mow down the competition without even blinking twice."

Ranked Highest By: No Magnets (#6) (also ranked #10 by Nic)

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That's because most haven't heard the other records. Not much you can do about it really. Hopefully many here explore the back end of this list. I'm sure some already are.

#137.



Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Vol. 4

Year: 1972

US Chart Position: #13

UK Chart Position: #8

Charting Singles: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #31 (year), #286 (decade), #895 (all-time)

AMG Says: "Black Sabbath, Vol. 4 is just a cut below its two indisputably classic predecessors, as it begins to run out of steam -- and memorable riffs -- toward the end. However, it finds Sabbath beginning to experiment successfully with their trademark sound on tracks like the ambitious, psychedelic-tinged, multi-part "Wheels of Confusion," the concise, textured "Tomorrow's Dream," and the orchestrated piano ballad "Changes" (even if the latter's lyrics cross the line into triteness). But the classic Sabbath sound is still very much in evidence; the crushing "Supernaut" is one of the heaviest tracks the band ever recorded."

Ranked Highest By: Avatar_Ackbar (#19)

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Gareth, you were saying Bowie wasn't overrated on this board? If you go by your beloved Acclaimed Music stats, there is clearly an answer:

#136.



Silver Apples - Silver Apples

Year: 1968

US Chart Position: #193

UK Chart Position: n/a

Charting Singles: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

AMG Says: "The music on Silver Apples was unlike anything anyone had previously heard. Simeon layered his oscillators to create a collage of sounds that seemed to be recorded in outer space and then transmitted back to earth for your listening pleasure. The lead oscillator produced a tone akin to a theremin, contributing not only to the out-of-this-world quality, but its shaky, hyper-quiver added an air of tension. A hypnotic one- or two-chord rhythm pattern of bass notes held the tunes together, while Simeon played counter- and counter-counter-rhythms."

Ranked Highest By: Simulated Stereo (#2) (also ranked #4 by Nic)

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#135.



Al Green - I'm Still in Love With You

Year: 1972

US Chart Position: #4 Pop / #1 R&B

UK Chart Position: n/a

Charting Singles: "I'm Still in Love With You" (#3 Pop / #1 R&B US / #35 UK), "Look What You Done for Me" (#4 Pop / #2 R&B US, #44 UK)

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #16 (year), #158 (decade), #449 (all-time)

Rank on Our All-Time Albums List: #378

AMG Says: "I'm Still in Love With You shares many surface similarities with its predecessor, Let's Stay Together; from Al Green and Willie Mitchell's distinctive, sexy style to the pacing and song selection. Despite those shared traits, I'm Still in Love With You distinguishes itself with its suave, romantic tone and its subtly ambitious choice of material. "

Ranked Highest By: Burzum (#4)

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That, folks, is how you do an album cover.

hahahahah yeah

#134.



Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again

Year: 1967

US Chart Position: #44

UK Chart Position: n/a

Charting Singles: "Bluebird" (#58 US)

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #14 (year), #69 (decade), #302 (all-time)

AMG Says: "Due in part to personnel problems which saw Bruce Palmer and Neil Young in and out of the group, Buffalo Springfield's second album did not have as unified an approach as their debut. Yet it doesn't suffer for that in the least -- indeed, the group continued to make major strides in both their songwriting and arranging, and this record stands as their greatest triumph."

Ranked Highest By: Velocity (#3)

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Funny, but this disc just happens to be playing as I read this. Glad to see that this is the highest placing Al Green LP so far as it happens to be my favorite. Top 25, easily, in my house.

They haven't heard the records? Given the breadth of some of the lists I've seen, that would suprise me. Unless some people voted for albums based on reputation rather than actual experience from owning and listening. I'm sure that's not the case . . .

My guess for why these did so poorly would be a combination of:

1. Overplayed, classic rock, dad rock bashing. Which I can understand, and even fully support when it's something like Jackson Browne, but I think gets overdone. Sometimes things get overplayed for a reason.

2. Indie hipster snobbishness. Where obscure avant-garde krautrock gets votes because of its supposed influence on future post punk despite is basic unlistenability.

3. Personal taste. No southern rock on my list, for instance (or Bowie, so I get to stay out of that little spat). Although I think I'll find a spot for The Outlaws on the next poll (but still no Bowie).

think this one should maybe be a bit lower...some unaccounted for votes. Hard to tell.

#133.



Yes - Fragile

Year: 1971

US Chart Position: #4

UK Chart Position: #7

Charting Singles: "Roundabout" (#13 US)

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #22 (year), #195 (decade), #557 (all-time)

AMG Says: "The band's breakthrough album, dominated by science-fiction and fantasy elements and new member Rick Wakeman, whose organ, synthesizers, Mellotrons, and other keyboard exotica added a larger-than-life element to the procedings. Ironically, the album was a patchwork job, hastily assembled in order to cover the cost of Wakeman's array of instruments."

Ranked Highest By: No Magnets (#18)

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This bears mentioning: The GDB is on a freaking tear. Nice job, brother.


(Plus, anything that hastens the appearance of the singles list is fine by me.)

Lower or higher?

#132.



The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace of Sin

Year: 1969

US Chart Position: #164

UK Chart Position: n/a

Charting Singles: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #10 (year), #34 (decade), #138 (all-time)

AMG Says: "While The Gilded Palace of Sin barely registered on the pop-culture radar in 1969, literally dozens of bands (the Eagles most notable among them) would find inspiration in this music and enjoy far greater success. But no one ever brought rock and country together quite like the Flying Burrito Brothers, and this album remains their greatest accomplishment."

Ranked Highest By: BertBertBertBertBertBertBertBert (#15)

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thanks, no plans this weekend + desire to get to the singles list + need to get both polls done by the end of the month = yeah, this is probably as fast as I'll ever go, barring the year-end marathons.

Word.



not sure what you thought I was referring to, I was responding to Waylon's comment.

I pretty much forgot to put this on my list. It happens I guess. Fine record.

#131.



Nick Drake - Bryter Layter

Year: 1970

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: n/a

Charting Singles: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #13 (year), #75 (decade), #195 (all-time)

Rank on Our All-Time Albums List: #197

AMG Says: " Demonstrating the abilities shown on Five Leaves Left didn't consist of a fluke, Bryter Layter featured another set of exquisitely arranged and performed tunes, with producer Joe Boyd and orchestrator Robert Kirby reprising their roles from the earlier release [...] As his performances on keyboards and celeste help set the atmosphere, Drake reaches for a perfectly artful reflection on loss and loneliness and succeeds wonderfully."

Rankekd Highest By: Gareth Kenan Invetigates (#7)

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and no doubt the vastly inferior Pink Moon will be much higher. Tut. Ah well.

Impressed that SOMB agreed with Acc Music last time out!

#130.



The Beach Boys - Surf's Up

Year: 1971

US Chart Position: #29

UK Chart Position: #15

Charting Singles: "Long Promised Road" (#89 US)

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #18 (year), #147 (decade), #418 (all-time)

AMG Says: "The Beach Boys' catalog is littered with forgotten 1970s LPs that barely scraped the charts upon release but matured into solid fan favorites despite -- and occasionally, because of -- their many and varied eccentricities [...] Wrapped up in a mess of contradictions, Surf's Up defined the Beach Boys' tumultuous career better than any other album."

Ranked Highest By: Undercooked Sausagė (#14)

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#129.



Mott the Hoople - Mott

Year: 1973

US Chart Position: #35

UK Chart Position: #7

Charting Singles: "All the Way from Memphis" (#10 UK), "Honaloochie Boogie" (#12 UK)

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #22 (year), #165 (decade), #467 (all-time)

AMG Says: "Apart from the New York Dolls (who, after all, were in a league of their own), glam never sounds as rock as it does here. To top it all off, Hunter writes the best lament for rock ever with "Ballad of Mott the Hoople," a song that conveys just how heartbreaking rock & roll is for the average band. If that wasn't enough, he trumps that song with the closer "I Wish I Was Your Mother," a peerless breakup song that still surprises, even after it's familiar. It's a graceful, unexpected way to close a record that stands as one of the best of its era."

Ranked Highest By: Undercooked Sausagė (#6)

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#128.



Grateful Dead - American Beauty

Year: 1971

US Chart Position: #30

UK Chart Position: n/a

Charting Singles: "Truckin'" (#64 US)

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #15 (year), #97 (decade), #266 (all-time)

AMG Says: "A companion piece to the luminous Workingman's Dead, American Beauty is an even stronger document of the Grateful Dead's return to their musical roots [...] Climaxing with the perennial "Truckin'," American Beauty remains the Dead's studio masterpiece -- never again would they be so musically focused or so emotionally direct."

Ranked Highest By: Paul (#12)

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Top 50 easily. Such a beautiful record.

Damn dirty hippie.

Nothing hippy about it. Just some of the strongest songs ever recorded.

fixed.

Scarymuppet looses two from his top 20 pretty quickly there. Hopefully you'll get Issac in the top 100 after your delightful pimping of Hot Buttered Soul

At least that means that We're Only In It For The Money finished ahead of those Dead albums. I consider that to be some sort of personal triumph.

10-4 good buddy

just ran across this:

http://www.cmt.com/artists/news/1528202/04...equestid=114722

Fallen Angel, a documentary about Gram Parsons' life and influence, will be released on June 20 by Rhino Entertainment. Directed by Gandulf Hennig and written by former Long Ryders member Sid Griffin, the film includes interviews with bandmates Emmylou Harris and Chris Hillman, guitarist James Burton, manager Phil Kaufman, close friend Keith Richards, Dwight Yoakam and R.E.M.'s Peter Buck. Research and filming for Fallen Angel took more than seven years. It will also be screened in select cities prior to the DVD release.

#127.



Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic

Year: 1972

US Chart Position: #8

UK Chart Position: #37

Charting Singles: "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" (#4 US), "Pretzel Logic" (#57 US)

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #5 (year), #102 (decade), #275 (all-time)

AMG Says: "While the shorter songs usually indicate a tendency toward pop conventions, that's not the case with Pretzel Logic. Instead of relying on easy hooks, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen assembled their most complex and cynical set of songs to date. Dense with harmonics, countermelodies, and bop phrasing, Pretzel Logic is vibrant with unpredictable musical juxtapositions and snide, but very funny, wordplay."

Ranked Highest By: TerryKath'sBrain (#10)

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#126.



Curtis Mayfield - Curtis

Year: 1970

US Chart Position: #19 Pop / #1 R&B

UK Chart Position: n/a

Charting Singles: "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All Gonna Go" (#29 Pop, #3 R&B US), "Move On Up" (#12 UK)

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #24 (year), #166 (decade), #468 (all-time)

AMG Says: "The first solo album by the former leader of the Impressions, Curtis represented a musical apotheosis for Curtis Mayfield -- indeed, it was practically the "Sgt. Pepper's" album of '70s soul, helping with its content and its success to open the whole genre to much bigger, richer musical canvases than artists had previously worked with."

Ranked Highest By: Terremoto (#6)

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This reminds me of the time my youngest brother used the term "upskirt" at the Thanksgiving dinner table.

#125.



Cream - Disraeli Gears

Year: 1967

US Chart Position: #4

UK Chart Position: #5

Charting Singles: "Sunshine of Your Love" (#5 US, #25 UK), "Strange Brew" (#17 UK)

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #9 (year), #40 (decade), #170 (all-time)

Rank on Our All-Time Albums List: #497

AMG Says: "Each of Disraeli Gears' list of 11 tunes is original in format, containing it own unique brands of dashing blues-laden guitar riffs by Clapton, as well as thick basslines and smashing drum leads. Highlights of the record feature Clapton's awe-inspiring and soul-gripping guitar leads, including hits such as "Sunshine of Your Love" and "Tales of Brave Ulysses." The latter is a magical poem laced into a line of mesmerizing chordal changes. Disraeli Gears is a definitive staple of early British rock and a sensational addition to the avid classic rock listener."

Ranked Highest By: Jmmrsn (#5)

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#124.



The Kinks - Muswell Hilbillies

Year: 1971

US Chart Position: #100

UK Chart Position: n/a

Charting Singles: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #37 (year), #335 (decade), #1085 (all-time)

AMG Says: "Throughout it all, Davies' songwriting is at a peak, as are the Kinks themselves. There are a lot of subtle shifts in mood and genre on the album, and the band pulls it off effortlessly and joyously -- but it's hard not to hear Dave Davies' backing vocals and have it not sound joyous. Regardless of its commercial fate, Muswell Hillbillies stands as one of the Kinks' best albums."

Ranked Highest By: Terremoto (#11)

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good to see a Kinks album where abpos isn't the highest votegetter. For a long time, I considered that my favorite Kinks album. It still is, when I 'm in the right mood. I'm impressed with it's position, even if top 100 was deserved.

#123.



Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention - Freak Out!

Year: 1966

US Chart Position: #130

UK Chart Position: n/a

Charting Singles: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #6 (year), #77 (decade), #324 (all-time)

AMG Says: "It's the first salvo in his career-long project of synthesizing popular and art music, high and low culture; while these pieces can meander, they virtually explode the limits of what can appear on a rock album, and effectively illustrate Freak Out!'s underlying principles: acceptance of differences and free individual expression. Zappa would spend much of his career developing and exploring ideas -- both musical and conceptual -- first put forth here; while his myriad directions often produced more sophisticated work, Freak Out! contains at least the rudiments of almost everything that followed, and few of Zappa's records can match its excitement over its own sense of possibility."

Ranked Highest By: Agrimorfee (#1)

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looks like a transvestite wannabe to me...lol

#122.



Derek & the Dominoes - Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs

Year: 1970

US Chart Position: #16

UK Chart Position: n/a

Chart Position: "Layla" (#51 in '71 / #10 in '72 US, #7 in '72 / #4 in '82 UK), "Bell Bottom Blues" (#91 in '71 / #78 in '73 US)

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #3 (year), #25 (decade), #63 (all-time)

Rank on Our All-Time Albums List: #398

AMG Says: "what really makes Layla such a powerful record is that Clapton, ignoring the traditions that occasionally painted him into a corner, simply tears through these songs with burning, intense emotion. He makes standards like "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" and "Nobody Knows You (When You're Down and Out)" into his own, while his collaborations with Bobby Whitlock -- including "Any Day" and "Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?" -- teem with passion"

Ranked Highest By: Petey (#9) (also ranked #10 by Paul)

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Yeah but I want a dramatization....that's the magic his bio needs

#121.



Bob Dylan - John Welsey Harding

Year: 1967

US Chart Position: #2

UK Chart Position: #1

Charting Singles: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #15 (year), #72 (decade), #313 (all-time)

AMG Says: "Bob Dylan returned from exile with John Wesley Harding, a quiet, country-tinged album that split dramatically from his previous three. A calm, reflective album, John Wesley Harding strips away all of the wilder tendencies of Dylan's rock albums [...] Although the lyrics are somewhat enigmatic, the music is simple, direct, and melodic, providing a touchstone for the country-rock revolution that swept through rock in the late '60s."

Ranked Highest By: Avatar_Ackbar (#4)

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shoulda listened to this one earlier.

#120.



Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star

Year: 1973

US Chart Position: #86

UK Chart Position: n/a

Charting Singles: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #30 (year), #235 (decade), #695 (all-time)

Rank on Our All-Time Albums List: #413

AMG Says: "Stylistically, there may not be much new -- he touched on so many different bases on Something/Anything? that it's hard to expand to new territory -- but it's all synthesized and assembled in fresh, strange ways. Often, it's a jarring, disturbing listen, especially since Rundgren's humor has turned bizarre and insular. It truly takes a concerted effort on the part of the listener to unravel the record, since Rundgren makes no concessions [...] it's one of those rare rock albums that demands full attention and, depending on your own vantage, it may even reward such close listening."

Ranked Highest By: Terremoto (#2) (also ranked #8 by Pavement Ist Rad)

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So many Lp's to comment on and hate trying to cut and paste it all....

Comments:
Stop dissing the Dead...love em or hate em...respect what they did for music and for the concert experience...

I remember when the 50 to 64 countdown was going down ..when I came out of lurker status to join you folks....and now the same unbridled passion swept over me...it is just so freakin' great to share my passion for music with such an equally passionate group....I love you guys....and gals...ummmm....gals....is there any in this poll? So be it....



Todd - A Wizard....

Oddly enough I used to get off listening to this while tripping back in college...omg....what an experience....of course it made my top 100 list....

I find it funny how many are now commenting who regret not having voted....in fact I find it amazing that there are so many members who just ignore this poll stuff....maybe that's a good thing....me....can't waste my time yacking about dead my space folks...that is morbid....or much of the trivial tripe threads that end up here.....it's all about the music for me...as I've said... it's my life....in work and in leasure....I am blessed....Ok....a bit drunk and rambling...sorry............................

"Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest" is one of the 5 best Dylan songs.

real surprised this one missed the top hundred, can't say I'm too upset about it though:

#119.



John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

Year: 1965

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: n/a

Charting Singles: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #4 (year), #22 (decade), #66 (all-time)

Rank on Our All-Time Albums List: #76

AMG Says: " A Love Supreme clocks in at just over 30 minutes, but if it had been any longer it could have turned into a laborious listen. As it stands, just enough is conveyed. It is almost impossible to imagine a world without A Love Supreme having been made, and it is equally impossible to imagine any jazz collection without it."

Ranked Highest By: The Eyes (#1)

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Montana, how come you're complaining about how low so many records are on this list, and yet you didn't give them the highest vote? If other people value them more than you, how come you're the one who's whinging about their placement on the list?

#118.



Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline

Year: 1969

US Chart Position: #3

UK Chart Position: #1

Charting Singles: "Lay Lady Lay" (#7 US, #5 UK), "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You" (#50 US), "I Threw It All Away" (#85 US, #30 UK)

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #30 (year), #114 (decade), #575 (all-time)

AMG Says: "While there are a handful of lightweight numbers on the record, at its core are several excellent songs -- "Lay Lady Lay," "To Be Alone With You," "I Threw It All Away," "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You," as well as a duet with Johnny Cash on "Girl From the North Country" -- that have become country-rock standards. And there's no discounting that Nashville Skyline, arriving in the spring of 1969, established country-rock as a vital force in pop music, as well as a commercially viable genre."

Ranked Highest By: Voodoodaddy (#2) (also ranked #7 by DrewW)

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#117.



Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Year: 1970

US Chart Position: #23

UK Chart Position: #8

Charting Singles: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #34 (year), #252 (decade), #763 (all-time)

AMG Says: "Sabbath's slowed-down, murky guitar rock bludgeons the listener in an almost hallucinatory fashion, reveling in its own dazed, druggy state of consciousness. Songs like the apocalyptic title track, "N.I.B.," and "The Wizard" make their obsessions with evil and black magic seem like more than just stereotypical heavy metal posturing because of the dim, suffocating musical atmosphere the band frames them in. This blueprint would be refined and occasionally elaborated upon over the band's next few albums, but there are plenty of metal classics already here."

Ranked Highest By: Burzum (#14)

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