Music RedCafe's Favourite Albums Of All Time Contest (THE RESULTS)

Dirty Schwein

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Ok, finally it's time to reveal the results!

After a bunch of grueling rounds and some questionable choices, we've finally come down to the top 40!

I will post 10 albums per day throughout this week (excluding Xmas day).

If I tag you in the reveal of an album, it means you are the person that had it highest on your final list, so it would be good if you chimed in with a few words about why you selected the album being revealed.

I will also fill in the list below for convenience, in case you simply want to see the results in list view.

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21. Unknown Pleasure (Joy Division)
22. To Pimp a Butterfly (Kendrick Lamar)
23. Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (Arctic Monkeys)
24. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
25. Hybrid Theory (Linkin Park)
26. Abbey Road
27. Never Mind the Bollocks (Sex Pistols)
28. Discovery (Daft Punk)
29. Disintegrated (The Cure)
30. Is This It (The Strokes)
31. The Suburbs (Arcade Fire)
32. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (Arctic Monkeys)
33. good kid, m.A.A.d city (Kendrick Lamar)
34. Random Access Memories (Daft Punk)
35. The Bends (Radiohead)
36. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles)
37. Take Me Back to Eden (Sleep Token)
38. In Rainbows (Radiohead)
39. No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead (Godspeed You! Black Emperor)
40. Did You Know There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd? (Lana Del Ray)

Alrighty, that's me out for the night, I just wanted to get the thread set up.

The first batch of results will be released tomorrow.​
 
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Thanks it was entertaining and made me discover a few albums I'd not listened to.
 
No. 40 - Did You Know There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd? (Lana Del Ray)
Total Points: 0
Number Of Lists: 0
Highest Position: N/A
Voter Of Highest Position: No voters
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No. 39 - No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead (Godspeed You! Black Emperor)
Total Points: 2
Number Of Lists: 1
Highest Position: 9
Voter Of Highest Position: @Bobade
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Anthony Fantano had the above album as number 2 on this 2024 best albums list. I had a listen... I don't get it.
 
Dirty Schwein said:
Glad we added that 2020-Present round.
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It was good for giving me recent albums to listen to, but not good for this sort of list. With no time for consensus to emerge it was basically just a random selection of albums.
 
sullydnl said:
It was good for giving me recent albums to listen to, but not good for this sort of list. With no time for consensus to emerge it was basically just a random selection of albums.
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One of my favourite albums of all time is from that period and it made the top 40 so I'm not complaining.

Weird that it came third in the round but will end higher than the two that beat it.
 
Dirty Schwein said:
No. 39 - No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead (Godspeed You! Black Emperor)
Total Points: 2
Number Of Lists: 1
Highest Position: 9
Voter Of Highest Position: @Bobade
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I only recently knew they had released this, I used to listen to these a lot years ago but not so much now. Kind of fell off my radar. This album is beautiful though, and harrowing, given the subject matter - and it all builds up to that final gorgeous track.

Not quite sure what happened with that Lana album :lol:
 
I'm just glad it made it to the finals and didn't embarrass itself like Lana :lol:

I know everyone here laughs at my taste but I would urge y'all to give this a try. It really is fantastic and one of my favourite albums ever. The Summoning is great (especially from 5 minutes on) and I also love Granite, Aqua Regia, The Apparition and Euclid. The rest of the album is good too but those track are just next level.
 
No. 36 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles)
Total Points: 18
Number Of Lists: 5
Highest Position: 6
Voter Of Highest Position: @peridigm
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Do think it's the weakest of the three Beatles albums that'll be on the list.
 
Dirty Schwein said:
I'm just glad it made it to the finals and didn't embarrass itself like Lana :lol:

I know everyone here laughs at my taste but I would urge y'all to give this a try. It really is fantastic and one of my favourite albums ever. The Summoning is great (especially from 5 minutes on) and I also love Granite, Aqua Regia, The Apparition and Euclid. The rest of the album is good too but those track are just next level.
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I don't mind their lore, cheesy as it is. The music doesn't work for me at all though - it's all too arena sounding and polished. The pop elements they mix in just put me in mind of the terrible shit I hear sometimes from bands that I don't know the name of. Not imagine dragons as such, but that is the only one with a name I can put to any songs.
 
Bobade said:
I don't mind their lore, cheesy as it is. The music doesn't work for me at all though - it's all too arena sounding and polished. The pop elements they mix in just put me in mind of the terrible shit I hear sometimes from bands that I don't know the name of. Not imagine dragons as such, but that is the only one with a name I can put to any songs.
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Yeah I've seen many criticisms of them being too "polished". I don't really see that as a bad thing personally.

I also don't mind Imagine Dragons.

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Dirty Schwein said:
No. 35 - The Bends (Radiohead)
Total Points: 19
Number Of Lists: 3
Highest Position: 2
Voter Of Highest Position: @Superunknown
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A very worthy entry for one of the greatest British bands of all time. After the success of 'Creep' for their debut album, 'Pablo Honey', The Bends is the album that propelled the band forward and further into the mainstream, as well as receiving critical acclaim with the music press, who began to sit up and take notice. Along with Ok Computer, this album scores highly on most notable album releases of the 90s and remains a hugely popular album amongst their hardcore fans. It is my personal favourite of theirs, and I miss this early energy and concoction of optimism, pessimism, hope and hopelessness that is all rolled into one. That opening quadruple of Planet Telex, The Bends, High and Dry, and Fake Plastic Trees goes from garage rock band to a festival anthem, to a love song, and back down to despair, all within the space of four tracks.

If this album should be singled out for one particular track, that track surely has to be Street Spirit (Fade Out). It's a song that is stuck within its own time bubble. It sounds just as fresh, haunting, full of despair and darkness now as it did back in 1995. Some songs transcend space and time, and this surely has to be one of them. What a brilliant stroke of genius to finish this album with that track, and what a far cry from the opening track. It's an excellent and memorable closer to a fantastic album. One of the greatest of its era and an album that really deserves far more recognition that it actually receives. Time will be very kind to this album.
 
BeforeKeanetherewasRobson said:
Already has Britney Spears. Not much further to drop (until his love of Steps comes out)
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Funny you should say that.

When I was a kid, Steps was the first CD I bought. I went to hmv with a couple of quid and it was the only one I could afford. I didn't even like the song.

My brother has never let me live that down to this day.
 
Superunknown said:
A very worthy entry for one of the greatest British bands of all time. After the success of 'Creep' for their debut album, 'Pablo Honey', The Bends is the album that propelled the band forward and further into the mainstream, as well as receiving critical acclaim with the music press, who began to sit up and take notice. Along with Ok Computer, this album scores highly on most notable album releases of the 90s and remains a hugely popular album amongst their hardcore fans. It is my personal favourite of theirs, and I miss this early energy and concoction of optimism, pessimism, hope and hopelessness that is all rolled into one. That opening quadruple of Planet Telex, The Bends, High and Dry, and Fake Plastic Trees goes from garage rock band to a festival anthem, to a love song, and back down to despair, all within the space of four tracks.

If this album should be singled out for one particular track, that track surely has to be Street Spirit (Fade Out). It's a song that is stuck within its own time bubble. It sounds just as fresh, haunting, full of despair and darkness now as it did back in 1995. Some songs transcend space and time, and this surely has to be one of them. What a brilliant stroke of genius to finish this album with that track, and what a far cry from the opening track. It's an excellent and memorable closer to a fantastic album. One of the greatest of its era and an album that really deserves far more recognition that it actually receives. Time will be very kind to this album.
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Always struggled to get into them although I appreciate I'm in the minority and they are very good.

That song however is one of my favourites,
 
Superunknown said:
A very worthy entry for one of the greatest British bands of all time. After the success of 'Creep' for their debut album, 'Pablo Honey', The Bends is the album that propelled the band forward and further into the mainstream, as well as receiving critical acclaim with the music press, who began to sit up and take notice. Along with Ok Computer, this album scores highly on most notable album releases of the 90s and remains a hugely popular album amongst their hardcore fans. It is my personal favourite of theirs, and I miss this early energy and concoction of optimism, pessimism, hope and hopelessness that is all rolled into one. That opening quadruple of Planet Telex, The Bends, High and Dry, and Fake Plastic Trees goes from garage rock band to a festival anthem, to a love song, and back down to despair, all within the space of four tracks.

If this album should be singled out for one particular track, that track surely has to be Street Spirit (Fade Out). It's a song that is stuck within its own time bubble. It sounds just as fresh, haunting, full of despair and darkness now as it did back in 1995. Some songs transcend space and time, and this surely has to be one of them. What a brilliant stroke of genius to finish this album with that track, and what a far cry from the opening track. It's an excellent and memorable closer to a fantastic album. One of the greatest of its era and an album that really deserves far more recognition that it actually receives. Time will be very kind to this album.
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Not my favorite album from Radiohead, but you are right to single out Street Spirit; it sort of hinted at their path forward…if that makes any sense.

 
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