Let's poll... RYM's Top 50 Albums of All Time

51-100 has a lot more interesting records. Homogenic, Hounds of Love, Tago Mago, Close to the Edge, SAW 85-92, Hot Rats, Long Season (!!!!), Future Days, Music Has the Right to Children

Yeah tbc I don’t think Godspeed are an outlier here, it’s exactly what Cam said plus it’s very high on the list. Is anything an outlier? Endtroducing maybe the only one I was at all surprised to see

voted In the Court because that's the only one here that makes my own personal list. Remain in Light was on there too but I probably tossed it for some shitty vaporwave album

I loved Ágætis byrjun when it came out, but haven't listened to it in at least 15 years now, and doubt I will again.

same, though I did listen to it once recently and remember thinking "lol are you fucking kidding me" a lot
feel like that entire album is an attempt to recreate "Leb Wohl" on Neu! 75

80s RYM Charts are really very odd, a few of the expected canon albums, then loads of thrash metal, classical recordings and post-punk from around the world. Which I suppose is good? Not sure.

I am surprised by the lack of LCD Soundsystem, do RYM hate them like they love Death Grips?

Surprised Charlie Mingus made the list with the word "lady" in the title

51-100 has a lot more interesting records. Homogenic, Hounds of Love, Tago Mago, Close to the Edge, SAW 85-92, Hot Rats, Long Season (!!!!), Future Days, Music Has the Right to Children

Agreed. I'll poll that one next.

first 3 LCD Soundsystem albums are bolded (though I'm sure the 'bonus disc' factors into the first one), SoS is in the Top 250

I just knew Radiohead would be number one before I clicked but I didn't expect quite so much Radiohead.

*votes Radiohead, probably*

51-100 has a lot more interesting records. Homogenic, Hounds of Love, Tago Mago, Close to the Edge, SAW 85-92, Hot Rats, Long Season (!!!!), Future Days, Music Has the Right to Children

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I do really like the Fishmans obsession on RYM. Long Season will be in the top 10 one day.

Full disclosure: I already voted for OK Computer.

for every album on this list, there's a related or adjacent one I prefer more

went for Black Saint and The Sinner Lady cos I'm sick of most of the others

wasn't RYM literally Geir Hongro: The Site

lol, RYM is typically not into hypermelodic Europop.

I see no five albums of Genesis in the top 10 so.

don't remember Geir being into Euro pop tbh

Think I'll vote for Joni Mitchell or Aretha Franklin...oh, wait...

Geir would hate most of these.

yeah 51-100 has several of my favorite records on it whereas 1-50 doesn't really have any

I do really like the Fishmans obsession on RYM. Long Season will be in the top 10 one day.

its one of the most endearing parts of that site. amusingly I've been seeing something similar happen with Kyuusai no Gihou, it had like 15 ratings when I 5-starred it and now it's bold with over 800

don't remember Geir being into Euro pop tbh

I must be misremembering then. I thought his whole shtick was that melody rules supreme and that all other musical parameters must subside into the background in order to let the melodic line sing in all of its unvarnished purity.

As for this poll, eh, I can't decide. TPAB vs Loveless vs Abbey Road

Yeah, he was decidedly not a stan for Metallica, Slint, and GYBE.xp

Oh yeah Spiderland is up there too

wait a minute, jazz exists????

kind of blue

Endtroducing maybe the only one I was at all surprised to see

I listened to it a lot when I was also listening to a lot of these a lot so it didn't surprise me.

Thinking of voting for KC just bc it's good to see them on a list. My joke about Close to the Edge might actually apply with this list.

Mingus

My joke about Close to the Edge might actually apply with this list.

Oh, OK, it was at 68.

Ugh, I like almost all of these, but they're super boring as an aggregate

Checked the top 200 for female artists. There’s only three albums in there:

154 Joanna Newsom Ys
158 Bjork Post
163 Joni Mitchell Blue

I guess Portishead, Fleetwood Mac partially count too since they have a frontwoman.

56 Bjork Homogenic
69 Kate Bush Hounds of Love
79 Bjork Vespertine
81 The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland (mentions ladys in the title)

RS's list is more progressive in some ways.

but, more significantly: The Queen Is Dead

I enjoy a lot of this list but ultimately voted for the last one on the list, 'Ride the Lightning.'

xp

more xs and ps

Loveless I guess

I guess, if I'm being honest, Dark Side of the Moon is my boring pick. It's been a reliable album this year.

gut instinct went with pet sounds, cause i've loved re-learning all those songs on the piano recently

They're inderectly responsible for a whole lot of generic "cresndocore" post-rock but Lift Your Skinny Fists holds up for me, beautiful album

more xs and ps

but, more significantly: _The Queen Is Dead_

voting for the album that features the most ODB verses

every album on this list that I like, I like a little less because of it appearing on this list

lol is it because it's RYM or because seeing them all huddled so close together is too normative for comfort?

Four Beatles albums sounds ok but four Radiohead albums? That is ridiculous. And there isn't even their by far best album - Amnesiac - there!

It's my second fave but its omission is indeed unforgivable.

This list looks like it was made by the Radiohead forum I used to post on in 2000/2001 (GYBE, Sigur Ros, Boards of Canada etc.)

Whatever happened to Melissa btw? She was the ultimate RH stan back in ILM's early days, fighting the good fight.

It's sort of what I like about it? There's no real pretence of objectivity. It just looks like someone's favourite albums from their collection. If you really like Radiohead, Pink Floyd, and King Crimson, there's a good chance you'll like the whole list. Not everything has to be Pitchfork.xp

I surprised myself and went with the first Doors album. Don't @ me.

No nuclear war option no vote.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Not the result I was expecting, but I approve.

Ha, I was one of the two votes for Daydream Nation.

I listened to the first Doors album last night, still rules

Wasn't expecting Kid A and Unknown Pleasures to get 0 votes.

baaahahaha, awesome results!

who voted for dark side of the moon???? let's be friends.

Me, I think? I could easily have gone with several others (Kind of Blue or Loveless maybe), but DSOTM is speaking to me these days, I dunno.

I did vote Wu-Tang in the Rolling Stone revamp poll.

cool, now let's figure out who voted animals and start a pink floyd power trio cover band.

also, i'm down to do a mashup cover of "money" and "c.r.e.a.m." if you are.

ok so who voted for neutral milk hotel i'm not mad i just wanna know

clearly ned

ok so who voted for neutral milk hotel i'm not mad i just wanna know

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4 votes for Master of Puppets ?

On reflection, Mingus is the correct answer. I know there's a significant cadre of Cure people on here but the number of votes for Disintegration still surprises me.

also, i'm down to do a mashup cover of "money" and "c.r.e.a.m." if you are.

Man, every good idea's been taken.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYCk6Zq6wds

WEAK!! WE CAN DO BETTER.

That's the spirit!

At least In the 36 Chambers Over the Sea is still available.