Consensus Top 350 Albums of All-Time: 68. Automatic for the People – R.E.M. (201 Viewers)

[shuke]

I'd go My Hero or Everlong, but those are the more mainstreamy songs. Enough Space if you want a deeper dive.

Thank you for the excuse to post my favorite clip in the history of television.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Of course of all the albums in the last few days, the only one I'm not sure I've listened to start to finish is Let It Be.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Of course of all the albums in the last few days, the only one I'm not sure I've listened to start to finish is Let It Be.

Do it. They're no "boy band" by that time.

They're grizzled veterans of the music industry and sick of each other.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Of course of all the albums in the last few days, the only one I'm not sure I've listened to start to finish is Let It Be.

Do it. They're no "boy band" by that time.

They're grizzled veterans of the music industry and sick of each other.

I will. I've been wanting to watch the Disney doc for awhile too.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

I will.

It's the 21st best album of all-time after all.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

161 (tie). Illinois – Sufjan Stevens (152 points)

@Ilov80s #4
@Juxtatarot #23
@kupcho1 #41
@Nick Vermeil #64

Illinois (styled Sufjan Stevens invites you to: Come on feel the Illinoise on the cover; sometimes spelled as Illinoise) is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens. It features songs referencing places, events, and persons related to the U.S. state of Illinois. Illinois is Stevens' second based on a U.S. state—part of a planned series of fifty that began with the 2003 album Michigan and that Stevens has since acknowledged was a joke. It was adapted into a musical, Illinoise, in 2023 and, after playing smaller venues, opened at the St. James Theatre on Broadway in April 2024.

 

[Idiot Boxer]

Who is Surfjan Stevens

 

[Dr. Octopus]

161 (tie). Illinois – Surfjan Stevens (152 points)

@Ilov80s #4
@Juxtatarot #23
@kupcho1 #41
@Nick Vermeil #64

Illinois (styled Sufjan Stevens invites you to: Come on feel the Illinoise on the cover; sometimes spelled as Illinoise) is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens. It features songs referencing places, events, and persons related to the U.S. state of Illinois. Illinois is Stevens' second based on a U.S. state—part of a planned series of fifty that began with the 2003 album Michigan and that Stevens has since acknowledged was a joke. It was adapted into a musical, Illinoise, in 2023 and, after playing smaller venues, opened at the St. James Theatre on Broadway in April 2024.

I really like this album a lot, but haven't listened to it enough times yet for it to crack my Top 70. Maybe if we do this again in 5 years.




Not it.

 

[Dennis Castro]

I'd go My Hero or Everlong, but those are the more mainstreamy songs. Enough Space if you want a deeper dive.

Thank you for the excuse to post my favorite clip in the history of television.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

163. Let It Be – The Beatles (150 points)

@Dr. Octopus #21
@jwb #29
@krista4 #42
@Eephus #54
@timschochet #64
@Uruk-Hai #66

Let It Be is the twelfth and final studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 8 May 1970, nearly a month after the official announcement of the group's public break-up, in tandem with the documentary of the same name. Concerned about recent friction within the band, Paul McCartney had conceived the project as an attempt to reinvigorate the group by returning to simpler rock 'n' roll configurations. Its rehearsals started at Twickenham Film Studios on 2 January 1969 as part of a planned television documentary showcasing the Beatles' return to live performance.

In January 1970, four months after John Lennon departed from the band, the remaining Beatles completed "Let It Be" and recorded "I Me Mine". The former was issued as the second single from the album with production by George Martin.

This was the lowest rated Beatles on my list (out of five I included). But holy hell, what a great album. I love your choice for the song, Dr. O.

So your five Beatle albums lie between 1 — it would be foolish to assume otherwise — and 42.

I do not have a Stones album as my #1 album. My highest is actually #3.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

I've had 2 of my Top 10 albums go off the board (Being There and Quadrophenia) so far (and my #11).

 

[Dr. Octopus]

and now the first album to appear from the mighty mighty...

 

[Dr. Octopus]

161 (tie). Led Zeppelin III – Led Zeppelin (152 points)

@jwb #31
@turnjose7 #35
@Uruk-Hai #44
@Mt. Man #46
@shuke #52
@timschochet #66

Led Zeppelin III is the third studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released on 5 October 1970. It was recorded in three locations. Much of the work was done at Headley Grange, a country house, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio. Additional sessions were held at Island Studios and Olympic Studios in London. As with the prior album, the band eschewed the use of guest musicians, with all music performed by band members Robert Plant (vocals), Jimmy Page (guitars), John Paul Jones (bass, keyboards), and John Bonham (drums). The range of instruments played by the band was greatly enhanced on this album, with Jones especially emerging as a talented multi-instrumentalist, playing a wide range of keyboard and stringed instruments, including various synthesizers, mandolin and double bass, in addition to his usual bass guitar. As with prior albums, Page served as producer on the album, with mixing done by Andy Johns and Terry Manning.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

There may be more.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I will.

It's the 21st best album of all-time after all.

Says who?

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

I will.

It's the 21st best album of all-time after all.

Says who?

a bunch of old people

 

[zamboni]

My Hero will always be immortalized in the awesome scene from The Other Guys movie.

Was amazing when Taylor’s son Mason sat in on drums for the Foos right after Taylor passed.

https://youtu.be/P2KnD7sfpoA?si=PXvJ_dapbrAZr-GL

 

[Eephus]

163. Let It Be – The Beatles (150 points)

@Dr. Octopus #21
@jwb #29
@krista4 #42
@Eephus #54
@timschochet #64
@Uruk-Hai #66

Let It Be is the twelfth and final studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 8 May 1970, nearly a month after the official announcement of the group's public break-up, in tandem with the documentary of the same name. Concerned about recent friction within the band, Paul McCartney had conceived the project as an attempt to reinvigorate the group by returning to simpler rock 'n' roll configurations. Its rehearsals started at Twickenham Film Studios on 2 January 1969 as part of a planned television documentary showcasing the Beatles' return to live performance.

In January 1970, four months after John Lennon departed from the band, the remaining Beatles completed "Let It Be" and recorded "I Me Mine". The former was issued as the second single from the album with production by George Martin.

@Dr. Octopus My vote for Let It Be was for a different album with the same title.

 

[SayChowda]

and now the first album to appear from the mighty mighty...

...Bosstones?

 

[Dr. Octopus]

163. Let It Be – The Beatles (150 points)

@Dr. Octopus #21
@jwb #29
@krista4 #42
@Eephus #54
@timschochet #64
@Uruk-Hai #66

Let It Be is the twelfth and final studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 8 May 1970, nearly a month after the official announcement of the group's public break-up, in tandem with the documentary of the same name. Concerned about recent friction within the band, Paul McCartney had conceived the project as an attempt to reinvigorate the group by returning to simpler rock 'n' roll configurations. Its rehearsals started at Twickenham Film Studios on 2 January 1969 as part of a planned television documentary showcasing the Beatles' return to live performance.

In January 1970, four months after John Lennon departed from the band, the remaining Beatles completed "Let It Be" and recorded "I Me Mine". The former was issued as the second single from the album with production by George Martin.

@Dr. Octopus My vote for Let It Be was for a different album with the same title.

So this one would move down a few slots.

Burned again by the spreadsheet not differentiating albums by same name but different bands.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

I will.

It's the 21st best album of all-time after all.

Says who?

a bunch of old people

Just one sort of old guy ranked it at 21.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I will.

It's the 21st best album of all-time after all.

Says who?

a bunch of old people

Just one sort of old guy ranked it at 21.

I didn't even look at the rankings, i thought you were talking about a Rolling Stone type list. I'll blame it on too much sun

 

[New Binky the Doormat]

There may be more.

there's always more

 

[Eephus]

Burned again by the spreadsheet not differentiating albums by same name but different bands.

There must have been other voters for the other Let It Be

 

[kupcho1]

Burned again by the spreadsheet not differentiating albums by same name but different bands.

ETA, I'll take a look at it sometime, but I don't think there's any way this can happen. The total score just sums the row the album is listed on (just like the book spreadsheet, for those that have the link).

Given the process we used, there should be (or have been) a unique line copied from the submitter's list with the other band.

It's more like one of us deleted that unique line thinking it was a duplicate.

 

[New Binky the Doormat]

Burned again by the spreadsheet not differentiating albums by same name but different bands.

There must have been other voters for the other Let It Be

It was close for me - and I have 5 Beatles albums in my top 70

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Burned again by the spreadsheet not differentiating albums by same name but different bands.

There must have been other voters for the other Let It Be

I’ll double check - but I don’t think so.

 

[landrys hat]

Burned again by the spreadsheet not differentiating albums by same name but different bands.

There must have been other voters for the other Let It Be

It was close for me - and I have 5 Beatles albums in my top 70

I think hes talking about the Mats

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Burned again by the spreadsheet not differentiating albums by same name but different bands.

It’s happened a few times where the spreadsheet complied all albums with same name together and didn’t differentiate by different artists who had albums by same name - it went under whichever artist was chosen first. It happened often with Unplugged for example.

 

[kupcho1]

Burned again by the spreadsheet not differentiating albums by same name but different bands.

It’s happened a few times where the spreadsheet complied all albums with same name together and didn’t differentiate by different artists who had albums by same name - it went under whichever artist was chosen first. It happened often with Unplugged for example.

:smacksforeheademoji:

Yep. Guess this never happened with books.

I think for whoever does the next ranking, make sure if there's a title used more than once (e.g., for movies think "Crash"), you list the lookup cell as "Crash 1996" or something like that).

 

[krista4]

So your five Beatle albums lie between 1 — it would be foolish to assume otherwise — and 42.

 

[krista4]

From Let It Be, I always liked the retro sound of One After 909. It sounded like they were actually having fun for a change.

Same with "For You Blue" with the banter "go Johnnie go" and "Elmore James got nothing on this baby" when John plays a lead.

There's something about One after 909 that I don't connect with in the Beatles version, but I LOVE Willie Nelson's cover (sorry, KP). I do love For You Blue and the banter in that one.

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

I think for whoever does the next ranking, make sure if there's a title used more than once (e.g., for movies think "Crash"), you list the lookup cell as "Crash 1996" or something like that).

you could always just link to the movie, show, song and leave no doubt as to the one you want

 

[krista4]

Of course of all the albums in the last few days, the only one I'm not sure I've listened to start to finish is Let It Be.

Do it. They're no "boy band" by that time.

They're grizzled veterans of the music industry and sick of each other.

Perhaps this has been covered ( ), but they were never a boy band and only morons would think otherwise.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Burned again by the spreadsheet not differentiating albums by same name but different bands.

It’s happened a few times where the spreadsheet complied all albums with same name together and didn’t differentiate by different artists who had albums by same name - it went under whichever artist was chosen first. It happened often with Unplugged for example.

:smacksforeheademoji:

Yep. Guess this never happened with books.

I think for whoever does the next ranking, make sure if there's a title used more than once (e.g., for movies think "Crash"), you list the lookup cell as "Crash 1996" or something like that).

for the unpluges I would do things like "Unplugged (Alice in Chains)".

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Of course of all the albums in the last few days, the only one I'm not sure I've listened to start to finish is Let It Be.

Do it. They're no "boy band" by that time.

They're grizzled veterans of the music industry and sick of each other.

Perhaps this has been covered ( ), but they were never a boy band and only morons would think otherwise.

I think that was just kp's initial impression long ago. I was playing with that.

 

[krista4]

I know it's insane that I always did the countdown tabulations manually, and I wouldn't suggest anyone else to do that, but my ridiculous perfectionism makes me happy not to have dealt with the spreadsheet problems. Doing it manually made all the changes people requested after submitting their lists even more of a PITA, though, among other PITA parts to it.

 

[kupcho1]

I think for whoever does the next ranking, make sure if there's a title used more than once (e.g., for movies think "Crash"), you list the lookup cell as "Crash 1996" or something like that).

you could always just link to the movie, show, song and leave no doubt as to the one you want

There was no problem with Eephus' submission.

The problem was the spreadsheet is set up to lookup the album title on each participant's list. Two different artists have albums entitled Let It Be.

Again, spreadsheet deficiency, not a problem with the submission.

 

[krista4]

Of course of all the albums in the last few days, the only one I'm not sure I've listened to start to finish is Let It Be.

Do it. They're no "boy band" by that time.

They're grizzled veterans of the music industry and sick of each other.

Perhaps this has been covered ( ), but they were never a boy band and only morons would think otherwise.

I think that was just kp's initial impression long ago. I was playing with that.

I thought I had seen something about this recently, but admittedly am not sure, and I don't know who it was. I thought you were playing off whatever the recent stuff was, which again I might have simply imagined occurred.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Burned again by the spreadsheet not differentiating albums by same name but different bands.

There must have been other voters for the other Let It Be

I checked and just you. Sorry bud.
So the Beatles lost 14 points and about 8 slots.

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

oh ok

 

[krista4]

Burned again by the spreadsheet not differentiating albums by same name but different bands.

There must have been other voters for the other Let It Be

I checked and just you. Sorry bud.
So the Beatles lost 14 points and about 8 slots.

They are going to be crushed.

 

[kupcho1]

I know it's insane that I always did the countdown tabulations manually, and I wouldn't suggest anyone else to do that, but my ridiculous perfectionism makes me happy not to have dealt with the spreadsheet problems. Doing it manually made all the changes people requested after submitting their lists even more of a PITA, though, among other PITA parts to it.

If you had 46 (or more) lists, you're either a saint or a masochist.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Burned again by the spreadsheet not differentiating albums by same name but different bands.

There must have been other voters for the other Let It Be

I checked and just you. Sorry bud.
So the Beatles lost 14 points and about 8 slots.

They are going to be crushed.

Kind of thing that can make a band lose its confidence and its way. What may have been?

 

[Dr. Octopus]

159 (tie). Sea Change - Beck (155 points)

@KarmaPolice #5
Jeb #5
@Mt. Man #48

Sea Change is the eighth studio album by American musician Beck, released on September 24, 2002, by Geffen Records. Recorded over a two-month period in Los Angeles with producer Nigel Godrich, the album features themes of heartbreak and desolation, solitude, and loneliness. For the album, much of Beck's trademark cryptic and ironic lyrics were replaced by simpler, more sincere lyrics. He also eschewed the heavy sampling of his previous albums for live instrumentation. Beck cited the breakup with his longtime girlfriend as the major influence on the album.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

159 (tie). Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park (155 points)

@Tau837 #5
@BLOCKED_PUNT #12
@Yo Mama #41

Hybrid Theory is the debut studio album by American rock band Linkin Park, released on October 24, 2000, by Warner Bros. Records. Recorded at NRG Recordings in North Hollywood, California, and produced by Don Gilmore, the album's lyrical themes deal with problems lead vocalist Chester Bennington experienced during his adolescence, including drug abuse and the constant fighting and eventual divorce of his parents. Hybrid Theory takes its title from the previous name of the band as well as the concepts of music theory and combining different styles. It is also the band's only album in which bassist Dave "Phoenix" Farrell does not play, however, he is credited as a member of the band as well as a songwriter on some of its tracks.

 

[krista4]

I know it's insane that I always did the countdown tabulations manually, and I wouldn't suggest anyone else to do that, but my ridiculous perfectionism makes me happy not to have dealt with the spreadsheet problems. Doing it manually made all the changes people requested after submitting their lists even more of a PITA, though, among other PITA parts to it.

If you had 46 (or more) lists, you're either a saint or a masochist.

We had 46 in the UK countdown. I think the US and the world ones were closer to 40, but I'd have to go count them.

 

[Eephus]

Burned again by the spreadsheet not differentiating albums by same name but different bands.

There must have been other voters for the other Let It Be

I checked and just you. Sorry bud.
So the Beatles lost 14 points and about 8 slots.

How unsatisfying

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

159 (tie). Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park (155 points)

@Tau837 #5
@BLOCKED_PUNT #12
@Yo Mama #41

Hybrid Theory is the debut studio album by American rock band Linkin Park, released on October 24, 2000, by Warner Bros. Records. Recorded at NRG Recordings in North Hollywood, California, and produced by Don Gilmore, the album's lyrical themes deal with problems lead vocalist Chester Bennington experienced during his adolescence, including drug abuse and the constant fighting and eventual divorce of his parents. Hybrid Theory takes its title from the previous name of the band as well as the concepts of music theory and combining different styles. It is also the band's only album in which bassist Dave "Phoenix" Farrell does not play, however, he is credited as a member of the band as well as a songwriter on some of its tracks.

I didn't think this would make it. Way to go guys. @Tau837 I get, I think we have similar tastes but @Yo Mama? You don't see us match up that often. Might of had a few tv shows together.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Of course of all the albums in the last few days, the only one I'm not sure I've listened to start to finish is Let It Be.

Do it. They're no "boy band" by that time.

They're grizzled veterans of the music industry and sick of each other.

Perhaps this has been covered ( ), but they were never a boy band and only morons would think otherwise.

I think that was just kp's initial impression long ago. I was playing with that.

Oh, I hope I wasn't ignorant enough to post that, but I wouldn't put it past me either.

For me it's not a hate or can't hear the talent, it's just not my thing in general. I had a couple albums of theirs and I listened to them a decent amount, but outside of those it was very hit or miss. I've grown to appreciate them a bit more in the last decade or so thanks to draft appearances and krista's playlist, but I would still choose to listen to dozens of artists over them from that late 60s/70s era. More my occasional grumpiness about them is that they soak up so much of the glory and dominate all lists and personally don't find them THAT good.