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Part two of my journey of listening to all RS500 albums

2012-08-31
450: Jackson Browne, For Everyman - 6/10
449: Big Star, Third/Sister Lovers - 7/10
448: The Police, Synchronicity - 8/10
447: Stan Getz & João Gilberto, Getz/Gilberto - 8/10
446: MC5, Back in the USA - 6/10

2012-09-03
445: Steve Miller Band, Fly Like An Eagle - 6/10
444: War, The World Is A Ghetto - 6/10

2012-09-04
443: Cheap Trick, In Color - 6/10
442: Devo, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! - 6/10
441: Suicide, Suicide - 7/10
440: The Pogues, Rum, Sodomy & The Lash - 5/10
439: Sam Cooke, Live At The Harlem Square Club, 1963 - 8/10

2012-09-05
438: The Cure, Boys Don't Cry - 7/10
437: Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III - 2/10

2012-09-06
436: Beck, Sea Change - 7/10
435: Nirvana, In Utero - 7/10
434: Big Star, #1 Record - 6/10
433: George Harrison, All Things Must Pass - 7/10

2012-09-07
432: Brian Eno, Here Come the Warm Jets - 7/10
431: PJ Harvey…

Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 2000s (Sep 28, 2009)
Rank　Year　Artist – Album
1　2000　Radiohead – Kid A
2　2004　Arcade Fire – Funeral
3　2001　Daft Punk – Discovery
4　2002　Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
5　2001　Jay-Z – The Blueprint
6　2000　Modest Mouse – The Moon & Antarctica
7　2001　The Strokes – Is This It
8　2000　Sigur Rós – Ágætis byrjun
9　2007　Panda Bear – Person Pitch
10　2000　The Avalanches – Since I Left You
11　2000　Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientele
12　2001　The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
13　2000　Outkast – Stankonia
14　2009　Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
15　2006　The Knife – Silent Shout
16　2005　Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
17　2007　LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
18　2005　Kanye West – Late Registration
19　2002　Spoon – Kill the Moonlight
20　2002　Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights
21　2007　Radiohead – In Rainbows
22　2007　M.I.A. – Kala
23　2002　Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It In People
24　2003　Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell
25　2004　Madvillain – Madvillainy
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Under the Radar list: Beck

Beck
Guero
The Information
Mellow Gold
Midnite Vultures
Modern Guilt
Mutations
Odelay
One Foot In The Grave
Sea Change
Stereopathetic Soulmanure

See also: Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of all time (2010 Edition)

Rank (2012/E)　　Year　Artist – Album (featuring the highest-ranking track on the list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of all time, if it includes)
1　1967　The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, featuring "A Day in the Life"
2　1966　The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds, featuring "God Only Knows"
3　1966　The Beatles – Revolver, featuring "Eleanor Rigby"
4　1965　Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited, featuring "Like a Rolling Stone"
5　1965　The Beatles – Rubber Soul, featuring "In My Life"
6　1971　Marvin Gaye – What's Going On, featuring "What's Going On"
7　1972　The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main Street, featuring "Tumbling Dice"
8　1979　The Clash – London Calling, featuring "London Calling"
9　1966　Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde, featuring "Just Like a Woman"
10　1968　The Beatles – The Beatles, featuring "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
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I’m more predictable than I like to think.

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1. Thurston Moore – “Demolished Thoughts”

“There’s lots of secrets and lies in these songs that I probably won’t ever be able to talk about.” – Moore talking about "Demolished Thoughts"

I’m a new Sonic Youth fan. Intimidated by its expansive catalog I’ve attempted to get into them a few times since college. But the last two years I’ve immersed myself with their music. I was struck by the anxiety and pain in the lyrics of Demolished Thoughts, reminiscent of Beck’s “Sea Change”... who produced "Demolished Thoughts". The arrangements are beautifully haunting and are as sparse as they are full. The album made much more sense later in the year when we found out about he and Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon were splitting after 20 some years. I was disappointed to think that waiting till now to get into Sonic Youth would cost me seeing them live… but…

Radiohead - In Rainbows

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Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

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Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.

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Jeff Buckley - Grace

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The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

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Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

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Portishead - Dummy

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Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left

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The Beatles - The Beatles

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At the Drive-In - Vaya
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Rebel Yell
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Rediffusion
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Another Green World
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Twin Peaks Archive
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Rated R
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Parallax
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Jonas Reinhardt
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Matrimony Remixes
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Glass Swords
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Lumiere
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Blanck Mass
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Tarot Sport
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So, im making this "provisional" and totally personal list about the albums i have enjoyed the most and i consider my favourites, my own essentials discs.

I dont know how many im gonna post here and i will be (probably) changing this time to time, but well, right now, it goes this way.

The Destruction of Small Ideas
Thirteenth Step
Dirt
Jar of Flies
We're Here Because We're Here
Falling Deeper
Baby Darling Doll Face Honey
Sea Change
Midnite Vultures
Homogenic
Black Mountain
The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
Traced in Air
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
The Contino Sessions
You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
The Seldom Seen Kid
Fever Ray
Lungs
Remind Me Where The Light Is
Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Black Cherry
Felt Mountain
Eingya
Turn on the Bright Lights
Our Love to Admire
Ritual De Lo Habitual
Fordlandia
In the Court of the Crimson King
Welcome to Sky Valley
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