#62

:freak:

 

There're so many albums that I miss the most important ones :wacky:

38. Keane - Under The Iron Sea

 

 

Year: 2006

 

RateYourMusic status: 3.25 (2006: #504 / all-time: n/a)

 

2785 points

9 votes

highest rank: #6 - winnie, #10 - coldgeorge

 

Under the Iron Sea is the sophomore studio album by English piano rock band Keane, released in 2006. During its first week on sale in the UK, the album went to #1, selling 222,297 copies according to figures from the Official Chart Company. In the United States, the album came in at a respectable #4 on the Billboard 200, selling 75,702 units in its first week. As of January 22, the album had sold above 2,200,000 copies worldwide.

 

The band describes Under the Iron Sea as a progression from Hopes and Fears with electronic influences, describing the record as a "sinister fairytale-world-gone-wrong".

 

What they have done' date=' to their credit, is take the best elements from those bands--Radiohead's soaring melodies, U2's scope and volume, Coldplay's dogged earnestness--and combine them into something that, for much of Under The Iron Sea's running time, is a perfectly respectable alternative to, say, the likes of Train or The Goo Goo Dolls or to Coldplay's comparatively bland X&Y.[/quote']

 

The Highlight

 

"Atlantic"

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kkG7a3GQnSg

^ :nice: .. oh and very smart choice there, with Atlantic!

btw Hopes and Fears hasnt been mentioned yet, am i right?

37. Snow Patrol - Eyes Open

 

 

Year: 2006

 

RateYourMusic status: 3.44 (2006: #334 / all-time: n/a)

 

2874 points

9 votes

highest rank: #4 - Plug_in_Coldplaying, #4 - Rad-Cold

 

Eyes Open is Snow Patrol's fourth album. It was released May 1' date=' 2006 internationally, and May 9, 2006 in the United States. [/quote']

 

Eyes Open is composed of broad' date=' obvious songs with broad, obvious hooks, aimed straight for the hearts of as many people as the band can manage. All of this would be bad, horrible even, if it didn't work. But it does.[/quote']

 

The Highlight

 

"Chasing Cars"

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zxXwIIBlSgw

now thats a good one! great choice for the Highlight too ;)

#36 will probably disappoint many of you...

@ snow patrol - eyes open ^ i was saying to someone the other day that aus tv and radio play this song way too much it feels like it's following me lol ^ i guess it is.

36. The Beatles - Rubber Soul

 

 

Year: 1965

 

RateYourMusic status: 4.38 (1965: #4 / all-time: #25)

 

3060 points

7 votes

highest rank: #1 - Areej, #1 - Loretin, #3 - TracieMorgan, #3 - yellowish, #9 - burningmonk

 

Rubber Soul is the sixth album by the Beatles' date=' which was first released in December 1965. It was recorded in just over four weeks to make the Christmas market, and was a major achievement, with reviewers taking note of the Beatles' developing musical vision. Like most Beatles albums, the record was produced by George Martin and achieved widespread commercial success.[/quote']

 

While the Beatles still largely stuck to love songs on Rubber Soul' date=' the lyrics represented a quantum leap in terms of thoughtfulness, maturity, and complex ambiguities. Musically, too, it was a substantial leap forward, with intricate folk-rock arrangements that reflected the increasing influence of Dylan and the Byrds. The group and George Martin were also beginning to expand the conventional instrumental parameters of the rock group, using a sitar on "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)," Greek-like guitar lines on "Michelle" and "Girl," fuzz bass on "Think for Yourself," and a piano made to sound like a harpsichord on the instrumental break of "In My Life." While John and Paul were beginning to carve separate songwriting identities at this point, the album is full of great tunes, from "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" and "Michelle" to "Girl," "I'm Looking Through You," "You Won't See Me," "Drive My Car," and "Nowhere Man" (the last of which was the first Beatle song to move beyond romantic themes entirely). George Harrison was also developing into a fine songwriter with his two contributions, "Think for Yourself" and the Byrds-ish "If I Needed Someone."[/quote']

 

The Highlight

 

"In My Life"

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RQbiynRY2k4

oh my! i thought its gonna be Sigur Ros or something.. :nice:

:O NO WAY! it's the best Beatles record

#35 will be quite disappoiting for many as well, i think... considering the greatness and importance of that album....................

woha. its getting intense

the list is eventful enough, your comments make things way too suspenseful.

I CANT BELIEVE THIS!!

 

How is Rubber Soul number 36! This is insane!

It seems my modem got fixed at the perfect time.

Don't tell me it's OkC :uhoh:

35. U2 - Achtung Baby

 

 

Year: 1991

 

RateYourMusic status: 4.01 (1991: #14 / all-time: #671)

 

3199 points

8 votes

highest rank: #1 - Briggins, #2 - RA-D, #3 - tilkingdomcome, #7 - chuck kottke

 

Achtung Baby is the seventh studio album by Irish rock band U2' date=' released on November 19, 1991. The album arrived nearly two years after lead vocalist Bono announced the band would have to "go away and dream it all up again", following the mixed response to 1988's Rattle and Hum. The album marks a dramatic change in the band's sound, taking on alternative and dance influences in the rhythms, denser, more detailed production, and more guitar effects, as well as darker and more personal lyrical content. The effect reflecting the textures of then-emergent techno and electronic music as well as the innovations of younger post-punk and noise-rock groups such as Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine and the trippy dance-rock fusions of then-contemporary Madchester groups. The results were considerably more adventurous and less traditionally rock-based as their previous efforts, and opinion seems generally divided between this and The Joshua Tree album as U2's defining record.[/quote']

 

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Bono has never been as emotionally naked as he is on Achtung Baby, creating a feverish nightmare of broken hearts and desperate loneliness; unlike other U2 albums, it's filled with sexual imagery, much of it quite disturbing, and it ends on a disquieting note. Few bands as far into their career as U2 have recorded an album as adventurous or fulfilled their ambitions quite as successfully as they do on Achtung Baby, and the result is arguably their best album

 

The Highlight

 

"One"

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JFWPeVfWB9o

I have a feeling its radiohead....

@AB ^ Briggins will be very disappointed...

Don't tell me it's OkC :uhoh:

 

lol

oh thank god!

Carole would be devastated! (but she should've voted lol)

#34 should be a disappointment for many of you, too, i think...

 

#34 is often described as "the best album of 90s"

 

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i hope its not nirvana!

damn, you are really scaring me now! :stunned:

i really hope it's not Automtaic For The People!!