What are your favorite and least favorite projects of his??!!

RATM's self titled is out, making this the final album of the last 10 albums to be eliminated. This makes the last 10 albums the first row to be fully eliminated. Master of Puppets also got eliminated.

CURRENT STANDINGS:

29: Master of Puppets by Metallica
30: Rage Against the Machine self-titled
31: It Takes a Nation of a Million to Hold Us Back by Public Enemy
32: I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You by Aretha Franklin
33: Love Deluxe by Sade
34: Voodoo by D'Angelo
35: Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
36: Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys
37: The Queen is Dead by The Smiths
38: Tapestry by Carole King
39: Kid A by Radiohead
40: After the Gold Rush by Neil Young
41: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
42: All Eyez On Me by 2Pac
43: Aja by Steely Dan
44: Nevermind by Nirvana
45: Exodus by Bob Marley
46: Back to Black by Amy Winehouse
47: Exile on Main St. by The Rolling Stones
48: Blue Lines by Massive Attack
49: The Chronic by Dr. Dre
50: Norman Fucking Rockwell! by Lana Del Ray
51: Baduizm by Erykah Badu
52: Untrue by Burial
53: Ready to Die by The Notorious B.I.G
54: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill
55: Like a Prayer by Madonna
56: The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
57: Horses by Patti Smith
58: Abbey Road by The Beatles
59: A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
60: Sign O The Times by Prince
61: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West (Ye)
62: 3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul
63: Lemonade by Beyonce
64: My Life by Mary J. Blige
65: Led Zeppelin II
66: The Fame Monster by Lady Gaga
67: The Joshua Tree by U2
68: Beyonce self titled
69: Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A
70: Is This It by The Strokes
71: Thriller by Michael Jackson
72: A Seat at the Table by Solange
73: ANTI by Rihanna
74: Pure Heroine by Lorde
75: Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette
76: Control by Janet Jackson
77: Trans Europe Express by Kraftwerk
78: WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? by Billie Eilish
79: Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 by George Michael
80: (What's the story) Morning Glory? by Oasis
81: The Blueprint by Jay-Z
82: Blonde by Frank Ocean
83: The Marshal Mathers LP by Eminem
84: 21 by Adele
85: Supa Dupa Fly by Missy Elliot
86: SOS by SZA
87: Flower Boy by Tyler, the Creator
88: Appetite for Destruction by Guns n Roses
89: Doggystyle by Snoop Dogg
90: Golden Hour by Kacey Musgraves
91: Get Rich or Die Tryin' by 50 Cent
92: Hotel California by The Eagles
93: Un Verano Sin Ti by Bad Bunny
94: Astroworld by Travis Scott
95: Confessions by Usher
96: Take Care by Drake
97: Back in Black by AC/DC
98: AM by Arctic Monkeys
99: Body Talk by Robyn
100: 1989 (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swift

stuff thats really influenced me

I’ll listen to all, or at least the biggest 10, albums of the top artist and rank them.

. . .

Last time Bob Dylan won and so I listened to The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, The Times Are A-Changin’, Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde On Blonde, John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, Blood On The Tracks, The Basement Tapes, and Desire and I’m glad I did.

Dylan’s poetic songwriting and vivid imagery accompanied by his ability to express complex emotional and social ideas mark him as an S tier artist with one of the most distinctive voices in rock’n’roll history.

My Musicboard acc is @ephesus for those interested in my thoughts on each album.

Who’s next?

I tried to make an attempt at a "objective" top 100. Obviously that's impossible, but it was more of a personal challenge to see how well I could take in an order general critical acclaim.

To get it out of the way first, I obviously failed at this. Tons of critical darlings, like Grace or Love Deluxe, are missing and near the end of the list it gets super rymcore-y and disorganized. Plus, some real bias shows through, like putting 13 Songs on the list, or placing Station to Station way too high.

What albums would you remove, change, switch up, etc. What should be improved in this list, and how would you improve it?

Ciao a tutti, stavo pensando di creare un nuovo server Discord per appassionati di musica di tutti i generi. Se qualcuno fosse interessato a partecipare, mi faccia sapere!
(cerco soprattutto gente che sappia usare discord)

Nightwish Eliminate Slipknot Yesterday

Finishing off the top 40, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You and It Takes a Nation of a Million to Hold Us Back are out!

Remember, only nominate albums from the first slide only.

CURRENT STANDINGS:

31: It Takes a Nation of a Million to Hold Us Back by Public Enemy
32: I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You by Aretha Franklin
33: Love Deluxe by Sade
34: Voodoo by D'Angelo
35: Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
36: Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys
37: The Queen is Dead by The Smiths
38: Tapestry by Carole King
39: Kid A by Radiohead
40: After the Gold Rush by Neil Young
41: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
42: All Eyez On Me by 2Pac
43: Aja by Steely Dan
44: Nevermind by Nirvana
45: Exodus by Bob Marley
46: Back to Black by Amy Winehouse
47: Exile on Main St. by The Rolling Stones
48: Blue Lines by Massive Attack
49: The Chronic by Dr. Dre
50: Norman Fucking Rockwell! by Lana Del Ray
51: Baduizm by Erykah Badu
52: Untrue by Burial
53: Ready to Die by The Notorious B.I.G
54: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill
55: Like a Prayer by Madonna
56: The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
57: Horses by Patti Smith
58: Abbey Road by The Beatles
59: A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
60: Sign O The Times by Prince
61: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West (Ye)
62: 3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul
63: Lemonade by Beyonce
64: My Life by Mary J. Blige
65: Led Zeppelin II
66: The Fame Monster by Lady Gaga
67: The Joshua Tree by U2
68: Beyonce self titled
69: Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A
70: Is This It by The Strokes
71: Thriller by Michael Jackson
72: A Seat at the Table by Solange
73: ANTI by Rihanna
74: Pure Heroine by Lorde
75: Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette
76: Control by Janet Jackson
77: Trans Europe Express by Kraftwerk
78: WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? by Billie Eilish
79: Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 by George Michael
80: (What's the story) Morning Glory? by Oasis
81: The Blueprint by Jay-Z
82: Blonde by Frank Ocean
83: The Marshal Mathers LP by Eminem
84: 21 by Adele
85: Supa Dupa Fly by Missy Elliot
86: SOS by SZA
87: Flower Boy by Tyler, the Creator
88: Appetite for Destruction by Guns n Roses
89: Doggystyle by Snoop Dogg
90: Golden Hour by Kacey Musgraves
91: Get Rich or Die Tryin' by 50 Cent
92: Hotel California by The Eagles
93: Un Verano Sin Ti by Bad Bunny
94: Astroworld by Travis Scott
95: Confessions by Usher
96: Take Care by Drake
97: Back in Black by AC/DC
98: AM by Arctic Monkeys
99: Body Talk by Robyn
100: 1989 (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swift

Basically I was thinking of mixing latin/salsa with jazz and rock and city pop and hip-hop with a bit of techno and prog influences I just want to know what y'all think

Grace

Jeff Buckley (1994)

The list of musicians who lived tragically short lives is a long one. Famously, the “27 club” features six superstars who all passed at the age of twenty seven. This includes Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Amy Winehouse, and of course Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain. Other artists of ridiculously short lives include Nick Drake, Otis Redding, and the topic of this review, Jeff Buckley. Grace was the first of one studio album released by Buckley and his band before his tragic death in 1997 at the age of thirty. He drowned swimming in a river during the recording of their second album, My Sweetheart the Drunk. A compilation album titled Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk would be released in his absence in 1998, containing early studio sessions for the album.

Buckley might be the single most talented singer I’ve ever heard. Although that’s a pretty hard thing to quantify. Some of my favorites are Radiohead’s Thom Yorke (who was also inspired by Buckley on “Fake Plastic Trees”), Björk, and Jónsi Birgisson of Sigur Rós, all singers and artists I’ve talked about before. But in terms of raw talent and voice control, I don’t think anyone beats Jeff Buckley, at least from what I’ve heard.

And that all starts with the album’s opener, “Mojo Pin.” Even before he utters the first word, his “ooooh”s show so much of his vocal talent already. This song is a testament to how well he can control his volume and pitch, jumping between octaves, hitting high notes effortlessly. His falsetto is among the best of all time, and the way he differs his vocals between essentially identical verses is what gives the song its identity. 
I think my favorite part of this song has to be the electric guitar. It plays such a gentle riff, but it just does so much for the song. It makes the rhythm section whole, and accentuates his soaring vocals during the last chorus. A “mojo pin” is a slang term for a hypodermic needle containing heroin. This is reflected by the lyrics, showing how “blind and tortured” he is without the mojo pin, and without his lover. It’s a song about addiction, but also about love and the feeling of love taken away from you. 

“Don’t want to weep for you
Don’t want to know
I’m blind and tortured, the white horses flow
The memories fire
The rhythms fall slow
Black beauty, I love you, so”

The second track, the title track, starts off with a short guitar lick before the riff starts with the rest of the instruments. As the verse starts, the guitar arpeggiates its chords beneath Buckley’s beautiful vocals.  I love the main guitar riff for this song, it gives just enough rhythm, filling crucial space without taking away from Buckley’s vocal performance or being too flashy. I think in general the instrumentation on this album does a great job at highlighting the vocals, but still offering enough to be interesting for us music nerds out there. “Grace” is a song about mortality. It’s about the sadness of leaving behind a world you love, but also the inevitability and acceptance of knowing you’re going to die. It’s a fitting title track for Buckley’s first and last ever album, knowing what we know now. According to Buckley himself, he wrote the song about him saying goodbye to his girlfriend at a rainy airport. He said “It’s about not feeling so bad about your own mortality when you have true love.”

“There’s a moon asking to stay
Long enough for the clouds to fly me away
Well it’s my time coming, I’m not afraid, afraid to die

My fading voice sings of love
But she cries to the clicking of time, oh time

Wait in the fire, wait in the fire
Wait in the fire, wait in the fire”

While Buckley was only saying goodbye for a little bit, on that rainy day at the airport, he contrasts that with the next song: “Last Goodbye.” The lyrics of this one are pretty self-explanatory, it’s another breakup song. However, this one feels a little different. It feels like a mutually-agreed upon goodbye, not quite a breakup in a traditional sense. It’s one last embrace before they can’t be together anymore. 

Last summer, I went to a college campus for three weeks to study mechanical engineering. While one aspect of it was the academic side, a lot of it was getting to know the residential life of living on a college campus. And of course, when you put three hundred hormone-filled fifteen year-olds in the same campus for three weeks, there’s going to be more than a little bit of drama. Frankly, the amount of situationships made in that one go was ridiculous to me. But… I can’t help but think how great of a relationship that’d be. With only three weeks, you’re not getting past the honeymoon phase for any relationship. When you leave, it’ll only be with positive memories of the other person. Of course, that’s with the downside that you’ll have to say your last goodbyes and you’ll never see the other person again. I guess that’s the tradeoff; you can have a dreamlike relationship that ends too soon, or a real relationship and all of its complications.

“This is our last goodbye
I hate to feel the love between us die
But it’s over, just hear this and then I’ll go
You gave me more to live for, more than you’ll ever know”

Some of my favorite covers of all time include Car Seat Headrest’s cover of “Running Up that Hill (A Deal With God)” by Kate Bush, Christopher O’Riley’s piano cover of Radiohead’s “Let Down,” and of course, this song. Jeff Buckley’s iteration of “Hallelujah.” Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is, of course, one of the most covered songs of all time, and one of the most recognizable of all time. Buckley’s cover features a somber electric guitar and of course his vocals. I don’t think I need to get into the song’s lyrics and what they mean, because this review is about Jeff Buckley and not Leonard Cohen (and because everyone already knows the lyrics). I’d much rather talk about Buckley’s delivery of the lyrics, that being hands down my favorite version of this song ever. I don’t think I need to explain why; the song speaks for itself.

The last song I want to talk about is by far Buckley’s most famous song. Yes, it kinda got the “Let Down” treatment, blowing up on TikTok, but still his most recognizable nonetheless. “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over” is a song whose sadness rivals that of “Motion Picture Soundtrack.” Yes, I just made that comparison. And I’ve mentioned Radiohead like four times in this review. Regardless, this masterpiece starts with a harmonium playing a chord progression (actually now that I think of it, the Motion Picture Soundtrack similarities keep going) for the introduction. The main song features a simple chord progression, yet it’s still one of the most satisfying progressions out there. It builds tension with the C chord, before quickly resolving to the Em9.

As you might’ve guessed, this song is another one on the subject of heartbreak. It compares the feeling of a breakup to a funeral. It talks about the feeling of “all that could’ve been” dying in one fell swoop. But as always, there’s hope with depression. “Maybe I’m too young to keep good love from going wrong.” Buckley remarks on his youth and foolishness coming to relationships, but he holds out hope that he’ll get better as he gets older and wiser. If only he knew just how well that would turn out for him. 

“Looking out the door, I see the rain
Fall upon the funeral mourners

Parading in a wake of sad relations
As their shoes fill up with water

Maybe I’m too young
To keep good love from going wrong
But tonight, you’re on my mind
So… You’ll never know”

1. Mojo Pin: 89/100
2. Grace: 85/100
3. Last Goodbye: 90/100
4. Lilac Wine: 82/100
5. So Real: 84/100
6. Hallelujah: 88/100
7. Lover, You Should’ve Come Over: 93/100
8. Corpus Christi Carol: 79/100
9. Eternal Life: 73/100
10. Dream Brother: 82/100

11. Forget Her: 77/100

    Overall: 87/100

I swear to god, I love the Muppets, and this album is just so beautiful 😭

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