Balls yeah.



I CAN SWIM
I CAN'T SWIM
I CAN SWIM
I CAN'T SWIM
I CAN SWIM
I CAN'T SWIM

HANG BY A MARITIME
A MARINE AT NIGHT TIME
WAITING WATERLOGGED
DOWN BY THE HIGH SEA
WADING WATERLOGGED
FOR THAT GUY TO ARRIVE
OH HE DON'T KNOW THAT!!!

Finally caught up. Good list so far.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Uu9lUbf5GQ0

thank me later.

I didn't click on the link, but is that the video where Yow gets hit in the head with a bottle?

I've seen it. It's amazing.

#50.



Bjork - Debut
(1067 Points, 19 Votes)

Year: 1993

US Chart Position: #61

UK Chart Position: #3

Charting Singles: "Big Time Sensuality" (#88 / #1 Dance US, #17 UK), "Human Behaviour" (#2 Modern Rock US, #36 UK), "Violent Happy" (#4 Dance US, #13 UK), "Venus as a Boy" (#29 UK)

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #2 (year), #21 (decade), #130 (all-time)

Rank on Our All-Time Albums List: #427

AMG Says: "Freed from the Sugarcubes' confines, Björk takes her voice and creativity to new heights on Debut, her first work after the group's breakup. With producer Nellee Hooper's help, she moves in an elegantly playful, dance-inspired direction, crafting highly individual, emotional electronic pop songs like the shivery, idealistic "One Day" and the bittersweet "Violently Happy." Despite the album's swift stylistic shifts, each of Debut's tracks are distinctively Björk. "Human Behaviour"'s dramatic percussion provides a perfect showcase for her wide-ranging voice; "Aeroplane" casts her as a yearning lover against a lush, exotica-inspired backdrop; and the spare, poignant "Anchor Song" uses just her voice and a brass section to capture the loneliness of the sea. Though Debut is just as arty as anything she recorded with the Sugarcubes, the album's club-oriented tracks provide an exciting contrast to the rest of the album's delicate atmosphere [..] Possibly her prettiest work, Björk's horizons expanded on her other releases, but the album still sounds fresh, which is even more impressive considering electronic music's whiplash-speed innovations. Debut not only announced Björk's remarkable talent; it suggested she had even more to offer."

Ranked Highest By: Helmet52 (#3)

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Yep, shit's so good. They need some video on there of him hanging from different parts of the Metro that I've heard so much about.

1987
All I wanna do is get stoned


#49.



Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
(1113 Points, 17 Votes)

Year: 1987

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: n/a

Charting Singles: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #24 (year), #194 (decade), #992 (all-time)

AMG Says: "Drawing together some earlier material and a slew of new songs, Spacemen 3 tied everything together on the brilliant Perfect Prescription, the clear point of departure from tribute to psych inspirations and finding its own unique voice. Planned as a concept album, Perfect Prescription works where so many other similar efforts failed due to the strength of the individual songs, as well as the smart focus of the concept in question -- a vision of a drug trip from inception to its blasted conclusion, highs and lows fully intact. The bookending of the album makes that much clear -- "Take Me to the Other Side" is a brash, exultant charge into the joys of the experience, a sharp, tight performance. "Call the Doctor," meanwhile, is a pretty-but-wounded conclusion, husky singing and a drowsy mood detailing the final collapse. The many highlights in between beginning and end are so striking that the album is practically a best-of in all but name."

Ranked Highest By: Nic (#9)

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AMG Says:

how does this miss the top 50, at least????

check the AM ratings on that bad boy. Simply Red's Stars is higher.

Ranked second highest by PAVEMENT IST RAD (#10), btw fyi

Fantastic record. Without it, we would have no Brian Jonestown Massacre. And without the Brian Jonestown Massacre, we would have no Dig!, a fantastic movie. I would like to thank Spacemen 3 for this contribution to society.

AAAAWWWWW, TAKE ME FOR A RIDE
TAKE ME TO THE OTHER SIDE!!!!!!!!!


As is a Lenny Kravitz album. Awesome.

LOL a concept album about weed

Go get yourself some toilet paper
'Cos your lyrics is butt


#48.



A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
(1154 Points, 17 Votes)

Year: 1991

US Chart Position: #45 / #13 R&B

UK Chart Positon: n/a

Charting Singles: "Scenario" (#57 / #6 R&B US), "Check the Rhime" (#1 Rap US), "Jazz (We've Got)" (#19 Rap US)

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #10 (year), #42 (decade), #265 (all-time)

Rank on Our All-Time Albums List: #347

AMG Says: "While most of the players in the jazz-rap movement never quite escaped the pasted-on qualities of their vintage samples, with The Low End Theory, A Tribe Called Quest created one of the closest and most brilliant fusions of jazz atmosphere and hip-hop attitude ever recorded. The rapping by Q-Tip and Phife Dawg could be the smoothest of any rap record ever heard; the pair are so in tune with each other, they sound like flip sides of the same personality, fluidly trading off on rhymes, with the former earning his nickname (the Abstract) and Phife concerning himself with the more concrete issues of being young, gifted, and black [...] It's a tribute to their unerring production sense that, with just those few tools, Tribe produced one of the best hip-hop albums in history, a record that sounds better with each listen. The Low End Theory is an unqualified success, the perfect marriage of intelligent, flowing raps to nuanced, groove-centered productions."

Ranked Highest By: Hector Gilberto (#8)

Amazon Link

Impressive. Wow, Master of Puppets is going to place higher than I thought it would.

#47.



Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
(1161 Points, 19 Votes)

Year: 1991

US Chart Position: #100

UK Chart Position: n/a

Charting Singles: "Girlfriend" (#4 Modern Rock US), "Divine Intervention" (#23 Modern Rock US)

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #24 (year), #194 (decade), #1034 (all-time)

Rank on Our All-Time Albums List: #173

AMG Says: "Matthew Sweet's third album is a remarkable artistic breakthrough. Grounded in the guitar pop of the Beatles, Big Star, Byrds, R.E.M., and Neil Young, Girlfriend melds all of Sweet's influences into one majestic, wrenching sound that encompasses both the gentle country-rock of "Winona" and the winding guitars of the title track and "Divine Intervention." Sweet's music might have recognizable roots, but Girlfriend never sounds derivative; thanks to his exceptional songwriting, the album is a fresh, original interpretation of a classic sound."

Ranked Highest By: Chocothunder (#6)

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Ha, I love how Sims just walks past Yow

#46.



Jeff Buckley - Grace
(1165 Points, 16 Votes, One #1 Votes)

Year: 1994

US Chart Position: #149

UK Chart Position: n/a

Charting Singles: "Last Goodbye" (#19 Modern Rock US)

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #3 (year), #13 (decade), #99 (all-time)

Rank on Our All-Time Albums List: #48

AMG Says: "Jeff Buckley was many things, but humble wasn't one of them. Grace is an audacious debut album, filled with sweeping choruses, bombastic arrangements, searching lyrics, and above all, the richly textured voice of Buckley himself, which resembled a cross between Robert Plant, Van Morrison, and his father Tim. And that's a fair starting point for his music: Grace sounds like a Led Zeppelin album written by an ambitious folkie with a fondness for lounge jazz. At his best -- the soaring title track, "Last Goodbye," and the mournful "Lover, You Should've Come Over" -- Buckley's grasp met his reach with startling results; at its worst, Grace is merely promising."

Ranked Highest By: Dogear (#1) (also ranked #2 by Qwerty and #4 by Dano)

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Spacemen 3 are awesome.

Dan so otm in this thread.

the funniest part is how i discovered them. I was like "last.fm radio? oh neat" and i clicked on it and it started playing me a bunch of Spacemen 3 saying I'd love them. Well, they were right.

You suckas better vote for Spiritualized in the next one

Brah, it is on the fucking list.

No shit.

voted for spacemen and spiritualized. Is perfect prescription the only one that will chart on this list??

I'm concerned.

Lazer Guided Melodies and Playing With Fire both placed already, FOR YOUR INFORMATION.

#45.



Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
(1199 Points, 16 Votes, One #1 Vote)

Year: 1991

US Chart Positon: n/a

UK Chart Position: #26

Charting Singles: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #14 (year), #102 (decade), #570 (all-time)

AMG Says: "Virtually ignored upon its initial release, Laughing Stock continues to grow in stature and influence by leaps and bounds. Picking up where Spirit of Eden left off, the album operates outside of the accepted sphere of rock to create music which is both delicate and intense; recorded with a large classical ensemble, it defies easy categorization, conforming to very few structural precedents -- while the gently hypnotic "Myrrhman" flirts with ambient textures, the percussive "Ascension Day" drifts toward jazz before the two sensibilities converge to create something entirely new and different on "New Grass." The epic "After the Flood," on the other hand, is an atmospheric whirlpool laced with jackhammer guitar feedback and Mark Hollis' remarkably plaintive vocals; it flows into "Taphead," perhaps the most evocative, spacious, and understated piece on the record. A work of staggering complexity and immense beauty, Laughing Stock remains an under-recognized masterpiece, and its echoes can be heard throughout much of the finest experimental music issued in its wake."

Ranked Highest By: Helmet (#1) (also ranked #3 by Avatar Ackbar)

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Lazer Guided Melodies = #159
Playing With Fire = #134

I've never heard this album.

You wouldn't like it.

You should hear it anyway just to confirm this.

listened to it for the first time recently

didn't like it at all

Who was the highest vote for Girlfriend?

It's like Hex without good songs.

Hey, didn't I rank it pretty high up there? It's at least in my top 5. This album is damn-near perfect. Can't believe only 16 fucking people voted for this.



I so disagree with you on this.

whoops, added

Yeah it is. And Yeah, it is.

#6

Well, close enough. Thanks for checking for me!

Last Goodbye is one of the 60 or so best songs ever

confirm/deny

top 20 for me.

I missed Goat. Goat is the best thing ever. Without the Jesus Lizard, I wouldn't like anything.

only the songs are good, and the singer can actually carry a note.

wait are you talking about Laughing Stock? Fucking fantastic album.

hell yes

I'm with you.

This is so stupid and fucked on so many levels.

@ jeff buckley

The high regard for Grace has benefitted greatly from Jeff Buckley's death.

It's a good record, not much more.

Kurt Cobain Syndrome®

"Jeff Buckley" is the "Phil Ochs" of our generation

It's a real nice album.. although not anything that warrents releasing multiple live records with the same songs over and over again posthumanously. That's when it got to be too much.

kind of agreed (I think it's just a good record, at least), but I can definitely see why some people would be in love with it, regardless of his death.

Partially true, but Grace has been shamelessly drooled over ever since it first came out.