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| Cursive – Noble Soldier/Dystopian Lament Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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"Push it out of your head now." An album 50% combat rock, 50% melodic composition, and 100% resistance. Once there were a great many bands who made music of the age to inspire thought, now they are few and far between. The finest album of 2018. |
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| St. Vincent – Masseduction Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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A breakup song (maybe) off a breakup album (maybe) that reminds the previous lover what they had while telling (warning?) future lovers just what they're in for. 2017's best release and to date St. Vincent's best start-to-finish record. Don't ever turn off what turns you on, Annie. |
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| Metallica – Spit Out the Bone Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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With the song Spit Out The Bone, Metallica provides the perfect soundtrack to a year that may have been far darker than anyone realizes. The best track from the best album of 2016. |
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| Grimes – Flesh Without Blood Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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The greatest album released in 2015 and a masterpiece which may take many years to be fully appreciated by the music industry and music lovers, Art Angels is a creative demonstration by Grimes of her talent of using sound to evoke emotion. The epic Flesh Without Bones may well stand as her finest moment, as the choruses and the verses alike rise and rise to heights unmatched by a vast majority of artists. |
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| Embrace (UK) – Refugees Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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Embrace's return album featured an inspired amount of songcraft both sonic and lyric, and the track 'Refugees' captures the feel and message of the entire album perfectly. The entire track is a plaintive progression towards a message of fleeing/escaping ("wishing me gone as I'm running away") just as the entire album does. The best album of 2014 and an impressive achievement for a band that was thought to have peaked a decade earlier. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – While I'm Still Here Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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An incredibly heartbreaking track off a creative album, While I'm Still Here brings to mind mortality, not only of the listener but also of the artist. Reznor's words sound applicable to his career, his relationships, his very life. The best album of 2013, Hesitation Marks reminds the listener of the passage of time; not only directly as on this track but also indirectly by the similarity of the sound of the album compared to works nearly 20 years old (The Downward Spiral). Invoking the past, whether intentional or not, gives the listener the intense feeling of an end approaching to what was begun long ago. |
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| Lana Del Rey – Video Games Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Sweeping, epic. Insolent, childish? Lana Del Rey's music has polarized, but Born To Die is without question the best album of 2012. "It's you, it's you, it's all for you" she pleads, to remind that art is made not for the artist. |
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| The Get Up Kids – Regent's Court Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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An ambitious album that careens from track to track, There Are Rules is at times overwhelming. But in a relatively weak year (2011), it is the finest album and a reminder that sometimes a band must take chances with its sound to find something brilliant. The track "Regent's Court" propels the listener into the album and provides something of a mission statement, or at least an advisory, with Matt Pryor pleading "have to up the medicine." |
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| Deftones – Risk Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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A full decade after their masterpiece White Pony, at a point where it seemed unlikely the Deftones would make another contribution to music at a level that high, the band creates another solid and remarkably cohesive album. Created after the tragedy that befell their bassist Chi Cheng, the Deftones find an outlet for their grief in crafting an album that is consistently on-point without fault - an album that stands as the best of 2010. The entire album evokes feelings of nighttime rides, solitude, occasionally peace, and occasionally violence. 'I will save your life' indeed. |
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| Robbie Williams – Morning Sun Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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After appearing primarily in tabloids for the better part of 2 years, Robbie Williams returns to the soulful ballads and lyricism he is known for. Despite everything stacked against it: having a throwaway tongue-in-cheek title, being released after a largely unliked experimental album (2006's Rudebox), and being a complex pop album in a musical age of heavy rhythm and simple choruses; Reality Killed The Video Star is Robbie's finest album start-to-finish and the best album of 2009. A completely unexpected achievement for a pop star that seemed on the verge of fading out of the music industry. |
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| Panic! at the Disco – Nine In The Afternoon Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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In a year where Coldplay dominated the airwaves and music news headlines, a band unfairly criticized for their similarity to Fall Out Boy releases the nearest to a sequel to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as is ever likely to be produced. A stunning, confusing album, and the best of 2008. |
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| Modest Mouse – Invisible Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Modest Mouse's We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank fully keeps the promise of their previous release (2004's Good News For People Who Love Bad News). Both inventive and creative sonically and highly open to interpretation lyrically (a sinking ship - internal? external? personal? global?), it is the best album of 2007. |
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| Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Turn Into Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Show Your Bones, which could sadly be their last LP, combines the band's musical savvy and erudite lyrics perfectly, making it the best album of 2006 as well as their finest release. The song 'Turn Into,' a meditation on personal change, shows the band's ability to communicate complex emotions with the simplest of phrases: "...turn into, hope I do, turn into you." |
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| Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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A surprisingly strong album given the weakness of its first single (The Hand That Feeds), Nine Inch Nails' With Teeth provides a consistent soundtrack of self-loathing, deviancy and anger as strong as The Downward Spiral, making it the best album of 2005. |
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| Matthew Good – Empty Road Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Despite it's thematic lacking, Matthew Good's White Light Rock And Roll Review is an excellent showcase of great songwriting and performing, and possibly 2004's best album. The songs display Good's venomous delivery (Alert Status Red), tongue-in-cheek sarcasm (Put Out Your Lights) and soft melodies (Empty Road) in a way that brings to mind (and surpasses) 1999's Beautiful Midnight. |
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| Alanis Morissette – Can't Not Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Ridiculously good song off a gem of an album, the lyrics arguably evoke the songwriter's personal thoughts from a variety of situations: a falling out between friends, the recognition of a dependency, shame over an embarrassing moment. |
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| Matthew Good – Pledge of Allegiance Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Not only the best album of 2003 but also one of the greatest albums ever made, Matthew Good's Avalanche will sadly go unheard by a majority of music lovers due to Good's relative obscurity.
Avalanche is a sprawling epic with lyrics general enough to allow for multiple themes to be interpreted, a perfect example being the track 'Pledge of Allegiance,' which could be viewed as a simple protest song or a metaphor for the deep differences between two people. |
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| System of a Down – Prison Song Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Bringing to mind the Pixies in their heyday, the frenetic pacing of Toxicity makes delivery of System Of A Down's message that much more poignant. In a year where America's entire frame of reference was changed, Toxicity almost sounds like a premonition. The best album of 2001. |
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| Eminem – Kill You Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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One of the most creative rap albums ever produced, Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP, his finest work to date, is arguably the best album of 2000.
Although a fine case could also be made for Radiohead's Kid A, Eminem's effort is given the nod due to the frankness with which Mathers observes both the environment of being a 'pop star' at the turn of the 21st century and his own reactions to that situation. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Underneath It All Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Nine Inch Nails' The Fragile is permeated with a theme of fighting to move on from loss. The best album of 1999, and along with The Downward Spiral the finest work by Trent Reznor to date.
The song 'Underneath It All', prior to the final coda, with it's repetition of 'all I do, I can still feel you' provides a focal point for the thematic elements of the album. |
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| Radiohead – Let Down Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Radiohead's OK Computer asks the question 'in a world where everywhere is here, where are we?', and nowhere more powerfully than on the track 'Let Down.' OK Computer is not only the best album of 1997, but one of the greatest albums ever made. |
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| Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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There's a theme in A Rush Of Blood To The Head of a bittersweet ending to a love that surpassed religions, politics, science, everything. Coldplay's finest work to date and the best album of 2002. |
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| Elbow – Grounds for Divorce Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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When I hear 'there's a tiny cigarette case and the rest you can keep' that brings to mind occasions where I've doled out my share of cigarettes to needers at the bar. |
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