People will worship Syd but this is pretty mediocre after Flaming.
Everything from Let There Be More Light to Corporal Clegg is incredible and everything from the last 3 minutes of A Saucerful of Secrets to the end is phenomenal. If you can ignore the absolute travesty that is the first 9 minutes of A Saucerful of Secrets this is basically a perfect album.
The divisiveness of this hemorrhages the the user score but this is still a great album even though it's barely Pink Floyd. Poles Apart and High Hopes are both some of my favorite Pink Floyd songs, and the rest of it holds up fairly well.
A man with that haircut had no right to create the most beautiful album of all time
Probably due for a re-listen soon, but I don't really care for anything here save for News and Lady Writer
Without a doubt Elton & Bernie's best work. This album legitimately has no reason to be good at all, two English dudes in 1970 making Civil War Americana country songs sounds like a recipe for disaster but somehow this record rolls a 20 every time and is absolutely incredible from front to back. Amoreena and My Father's Gun are all-time favorites and recently Where to Now, St. Peter? has been able to swoop in as one of my favorites.
Interestingly though, possibly the two would-be best ... read more
I've never been as disappointed in this site as I was when I looked at the tracklist rating and saw No Shoe Strings on Louise with a 63. What are we doing here guys, fake music fans.
Not the best Zeppelin album, Houses of the Holy holds that title for me, but this is an excellent and extremely cohesive piece of work. Always something new to appreciate here, and each of these songs feels like they've been one of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs at some point or another.
Title track is one of my all-time favs, rest of the album does not disappoint either.
Mark Knopfler did it, he created the perfect Dire Straits album. It's time for us as a society to recognize that a) this is the best Dire Straits album, b) Tunnel of Love is the best Dire Straits song, and c) this is one of, if not the best pop albums of the 80's. There is not a minute of this album's runtime that is wasted.
Best Song(s):
Tunnel of Love
Romeo and Juliet
Expresso Love
Solid Rock
My god the start of this album. Money for Nothing and Your Latest Trick are both individually some of my very favorite Dire Straits songs. Any album that goes 1-2-3-4 with So Far Away, Money for Nothing, Walk of Life, and Your Latest Trick is basically impossible to mess up, but this still somehow almost does.
The second half of this record is really just a trainwreck. The songs just drag on much too long and don't really explore anything interesting. The exception here is One World, which is ... read more
Near-perfect. Basically half of my favorite Dire Straits songs are from this album alone, lol. So hard to pick a favorite from here because the level of quality is just so consistently high, you really can't go wrong with anything on here. Mark Knopfler is a guitar god and he casually just writes and sings incredibly too. Who does this guy think he is? Still not the best DS album somehow.
Best Song(s):
Down to the Waterline
Southbound Again
Sultans of Swing
Wild West End
This is far from the best Pink Floyd album, but this is still an excellent album and a very interesting look into a collapsing band's last hurrah together. Pink Floyd at this point were running on fumes, cocaine, and hatred for each other. This is basically a perfect album through the first three sides, featuring some of the band's undeniably best work. This whole thing flows together incredibly through tragedy and triumph, but mostly just tragedy. It's unfortunate that this just kinda falls ... read more
Why doesn't every artist just put all of their best songs onto one album? Are they stupid or something?
They don't want me spreading the truth, but Rubber Soul is considerably better and more consistent than its successor, Revolver. The tracklist definitely starts to wane a little near the end but I have so much nostalgia attached to this album and some tracks are just so good that it doesn't really matter. In My Life has a very good argument for my favorite Beatles song. My only issue with this is that a lot of the songs don't really have much time to stretch out, which all things considered is ... read more
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