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Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicAl Green Greatest HitsBlack Sabbath Master of RealityBob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob DylanBob Dylan Blood on the TracksBob Dylan DesireBob Dylan The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Live 1966Bob Dylan Bob Dylan's Greatest HitsBob Dylan and The Band The Basement TapesBruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of TownCurtis Mayfield SuperflyA harder version of What's Going On. Beautiful.Eagles Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)Elton John Greatest HitsFleetwood Mac RumoursGrateful Dead Europe '72Jeff Buckley GraceKanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted FantasyLed Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IVLed Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IIMeat Loaf Bat Out of HellNeil Young DecadePink Floyd The Dark Side of the MoonPink Floyd Wish You Were HerePink Floyd The WallPrince Purple RainSteve Miller Band Greatest Hits 1974-1978The Beach Boys Pet SoundsThe Beach Boys The Smile SessionsThe Beatles Abbey RoadThe Byrds Mr. Tambourine ManThe Doors Strange DaysThe Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric LadylandThe Pharcyde Bizarre Ride II the PharcydeThe Rolling Stones Sticky FingersThe Rolling Stones Let It BleedTom Waits Nighthawks At The Diner4.5 superbAlice Cooper Love It To DeathBlack Sabbath ParanoidBlack Star Black StarBob Dylan Bringing It All Back HomeBob Dylan Blonde on BlondeBob Dylan Highway 61 RevisitedBob Dylan Nashville SkylineBob Dylan Another Side of Bob DylanBob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin'Bob Dylan John Wesley HardingCountry Joe And The Fish Electric Music for the Mind and BodyDigable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)Dire Straits Brothers in ArmsEagles Hell Freezes OverEarl Sweatshirt EARLFleet Foxes Fleet FoxesGram Parsons Grievous AngelGrateful Dead American BeautyGrateful Dead Workingman's DeadJackson Browne The PretenderMy Morning Jacket CircuitalNeil Young HarvestNeil Young After the Gold RushOFWGKTA The OF Tape Vol. 2Best Songs From The Album:r-"Ya Know"/The Internet.r-"Forrest Green"/Mike G (previously released).r-"Analog 2"/Tyler The Creator, Frank Ocean & Syd.r-"Rella"-Hodgy And Tyler.r- "Real Bitch"-MellowHype & Taco.r-"White"-Frank.r-"Sam (Is Dead)/Domo & Tyler).r- "Doms"/Domo.r-"We Got Bitches"/Taco, Jasper & Tyler.r-"Oldie"---------->every verse on it is fucking amazing.rOne of the best OF releases yet.Radiohead In RainbowsShabazz Palaces Black UpSimon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled WaterSteve Miller Band Fly Like an EagleThe Band The BandThe Beatles Rubber SoulThe Beatles Let It BeThe Beatles The BeatlesThe Byrds Sweetheart of the RodeoThe Doors The DoorsThe Rolling Stones Exile on Main St.The Rolling Stones Beggars BanquetThe Rolling Stones Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!The Rolling Stones Their Satanic Majesties RequestThe Rolling Stones The Rolling StonesTom Waits The Heart of Saturday NightTyler, the Creator BastardTyler, the Creator GoblinWintersleep UntitledWintersleep Welcome To The Night Sky4.0 excellentAerosmith Toys in the AtticAerosmith RocksBlack Sabbath Vol. 4Bob Dylan Bob DylanBob Dylan Hard RainBob Dylan Slow Train ComingBob Dylan The Essential Bob DylanBob Dylan The Best of Bob DylanBruce Cockburn HumansLong regarded as Bruce Cockburn's finest moment on record, Humans, issued in 1980, is easily the most revealing of his tomes as well.rCockburn's marriage had fallen apart, he'd moved from the country to a gritty inner-city section of Toronto called Cabbagetown, and he'd begun to explore in earnest the reggae rhythms that had underscored his hit single "Wondering Where the Lions Are" from Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws. The record of a restless travelogue that has become his stock in trade as a wandering observer, activist, and minstrel with deep wanderlust, Humans is the result of great turmoil and pain, and reveals Cockburn's musical, spiritual, and emotional worldview as all in flux.. Humans is universal in its confusion and hard-won willingness to endure without seeking creature comforts or easy answers. Its musical and lyrical adventure would be a watermark for any artist; for Cockburn it became the first step to musical and poetic freedom. It sounds as harrowing, beautiful, and ethereal 20-plus years later as it did when it was first issued, and offers a uniquely universal message for seekers of personal, social, and spiritual truth. This is the one to start with. It is also the one to end with.Bruce Cockburn Stealing FireOne of the most satisfying albums by Cockburn, "Stealing Fire" puts forth a full album of the beauty and outrage at the depredations of dictators, rebels, and Reagan's political machine. Among the nine songs that comprise the album, two of them are recognised as Cockburn greats, "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" and "Lovers in a Dangerous Time".Bruce Cockburn Dancing in the Dragon's JawsRounding out the 1970s and completing a trilogy of acoustic jazz-folk albums that included In the Falling Dark and Further Adventures Of, Bruce Cockburn's Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws stands as both an era-ending album and a cumulative release that neatly built on the strengths of its predecessors. It also serves as a high-water mark for Cockburn in several respects. Featuring some of his finest guitar work ever, the album was voted an "essential" recording by Acoustic Guitar magazine, putting Cockburn in the prestigious company of such revered pickers as Django Reinhardt, Andr?Segovia, Bill Frisell and Mississippi John Hurt. It also provided Cockburn with a commercial breakthrough on the strength of his buoyant "Wondering Where the Lions Are,"which became a Top 40 hit in both Canada and the United States. Bruce Cockburn In the Falling DarkWith every album he released during the first half of the '70s, Bruce Cockburn continued to evolve and show signs of greatness, and with his seventh, In the Falling Dark, he makes good on these promises. As a whole, this record trumps anything that its predecessors had to offer, almost to the point where it's difficult to imagine that it followed the release of Joy Will Find a Way by only a year. The sound that was merely suggested on his previous recordings is fully realized here: check out the flute and trumpet interplay on the jazz inflected instrumental "Giftbearer," the hypnotic "I'm Gonna Fly Someday" with its irresistible flute, horn, and voice line, and Fred Stone's fl?horn on "Silver Wheels." Furthermore, the songwriting is without a doubt his most consistent; "Lord of the Starfields" and the evocative title track are the pinnacle of his Christian mysticism, whereas the aforementioned "Silver Wheels" is one of his keenest social observations to date. There's still the occasional slide into the sort of hippie-ish sentiments that have plagued his recordings from time to time, but even at its most mawkish, there's a sweetness and warmth to the material. His first U.S. release since 1972, In the Falling Dark may not have made Bruce Cockburn a household name, but it did mark his emergence as an important artist.Eagles Hotel CaliforniaElton John Madman Across the WaterGrateful Dead Grateful DeadGrateful Dead In the DarkGrateful Dead Live at the Cow Palace: New Years Eve 1976Guns N' Roses Appetite for DestructionJackson Browne Running on EmptyMichael Jackson ThrillerN.W.A. Straight Outta ComptonNas IllmaticPink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of DawnPink Floyd AnimalsPink Floyd MeddlePrince 1999Ryan Adams HeartbreakerRyan Adams Easy TigerSteely Dan Can't Buy a ThrillSteve Earle Guitar TownThe Byrds Younger Than YesterdayThe Internet Purple Naked LadiesThe Police Reggatta de BlancThe Police Zenyatta MondattaThe Rolling Stones Tattoo YouThe Rolling Stones Goats Head SoupThe Rolling Stones AftermathThe Rolling Stones Some GirlsTom Petty and the Heartbreakers Damn The TorpedoesTom Waits Heartattack and VineWintersleep New Inheritors3.5 greatAlice Cooper School's OutBob Dylan Modern TimesBruce Cockburn Bruce CockburnBruce Cockburn's self-titled debut's blend of diversity, enthusiasm, and innocence never quite resurfaced again in his work, especially in his more clinical, politically inclined tracts of later decades. The opening number, "Going to the Country," still evokes that hippie-esque, back-to-the-earth movement as well as any song ever recorded, complete with a sly wink that keeps it fresh to this day. And since this was 1970, the album also comes equipped with some of those quaint excesses of the period; try the nasal tone poem gracing "The Bicycle Trip." "Musical Friends" remains a lively, happy-go-lucky classic with piano signature lifted from Paul McCartney's playbook; it's difficult to picture the dour Cockburn of more recent years ever having this much fun. In contrast, "Thoughts on a Rainy Afternoon" offers a trance-like, introspective atmosphere reminiscent of British folkie legend Nick Drake.Bruce Cockburn High Winds, White SkyA remarkably fresh and timeless recording, Bruce Cockburn's second album concentrates far more on roots music than its predecessor. There's the ragtime blues of "Happy Good Morning Blues," the ambitious minor-key troubadour folk of "Love Song," and the slide guitar country of "One Day I Walk" to kick things off. And over the album's original ten songs it just becomes more ambitious. "Golden Serpent Blues," with its poignant and percussive piano lines, is something out of a Western Canadian barrelhouse where the piano player has heard and loved "Lady Madonna." Overall, however, this album -- like Sunwheel Dance that follows it -- presents a far more mystical Cockburn. His tenderness and poetic vision are almost pastoral on these early recordings, something that would get burned off and become hard-bitten (if no less romantic and more dramatic) as his music and social vision grew.Bruce Cockburn Joy Will Find a WayThough it will appeal to the converted, Joy Will Find a Way, Bruce Cockburn's sixth album, won't do much to garner support outside of these circles. As always, Cockburn is never less than literate, and his guitar is consistently impressive throughout (check out the instrumental "Skylarking"), but there remains the tendency to become overwrought lyrically, as well as to get bogged down musically in the sort of folkish repetition that can be more tiresome than entrancing. Still, like his previous efforts, Joy Will Find a Way contains the usual handful of scattered gems that keep the faithful coming back. His songwriting and acoustic guitar are once again at the center of economical, tasteful production, which, though grounded in folk, suggest touches of jazz, pop, and world music -- all of which are reflected in the feel of much of the material. Songs such as "A Long-Time-Love Song" and "January in the Halifax Airport Lounge," with its jazz-inflected electric piano, are warm and charming meditations on love, while "Joy Will Find a Way (A Song About Dying)" is built around a hypnotic, Indonesian-inspired arrangement, and "Burn" (the only real social statement here) is a moderately effective indictment of U.S. foreign policy, wrapped in island-flavored, folk-pop. Though he hadn't quite hit his stride at this point, this is the best of Bruce Cockburn's first half-dozen albums.Bruce Cockburn Circles in the StreamReleased shortly after the transitional In the Falling Dark, Circles in the Stream seemed to serve as the final chapter in Bruce Cockburn's promising yet inconsistent early career. Recorded live in Toronto, the record brings together some of Cockburn's best songs from this period, including the beautiful meditation "All the Diamonds in the World," the bluesy "Mama Just Wants to Barrelhouse All Night Long," and "Lord of the Starfields" from his previous release. And while there isn't anything drastically different here, many of the tracks are more assured and fully realized than their studio counterparts, with Cockburn's guitar and voice front and center -- solo or backed by subtle bass, percussion, and piano or marimba. There are also a scattering of new tunes that mix nicely with the older material, with the Native American tribute "Red Brother, Red Sister" and the instrumental "Deer Dancing Round a Broken Mirror" the true standouts. Strong performances and a good selection of songs help Circles in the Stream succeed not only as a good live album, but also as a decent retrospective of Cockburn's first seven years.Elton John Elton JohnFleet Foxes Helplessness BluesHowlin Wolf The Howlin' Wolf AlbumJackson Browne For EverymanSimple Minds Sparkle in the RainThe Band Music from Big PinkThe Beach Boys Surfer GirlThe Byrds Fifth DimensionThe Police SynchronicityThe Rolling Stones Emotional RescueThe Strokes AnglesTom Waits Small Change3.0 goodBob Dylan Planet WavesBruce Cockburn Salt, Sun and TimeAfter coming across with a band, Bruce Cockburn pulled back and came up with an album that recalls his first release. That's not to say that the sound is folky, it's not. There's a much more complex feel to what's here, especially the instrumental title track which shows a strong John Martyn influence. And while the songs are complex in texture and feel, they aren't hard to get into. In fact, this album grows on you the more you play it. Truly something that has endured.Bruce Cockburn Further Adventures of Bruce CockburnFurther Adventures Of, though it may contain Bruce Cockburn's usual mix of beautifully intricate acoustic work and pastoral mysticism, along with the occasional touches of anger and irony, continues the growth that was so evident on his last studio outing In the Falling Dark. And while it may lack anything quite as powerful as "Lord of the Starfields" or the title song from that record, the use of his electric guitar, which is at the forefront on a couple of tracks, brings a bit more of an edge to the proceedings. Lyrically, his odes to God and nature can still at times be as soft as his social relevance can be heavy-handed, but cuts such as the joyful "Rainfall," the bilingual "Pernons La Mer," and the Eastern meditation "Nanzen Ji" get by on their sheer beauty, while "A Montreal Song" and the pensive "Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand" are sharp and effective. The latter, with its lyrical urgency and effected electric guitar, shows a toughness in his songwriting, as well as the direction of his sound, both of which would become even more prevalent in the coming years. Like much of Cockburn's earlier output, Further Adventures Of, though not a major work in his catalog, shows flashes of brilliance among some fairly ordinary material that's distinguished only by his excellent guitar. Beyond this, it serves as another steppingstone to what would be the most impressive period of his career -- including the gorgeous Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws (1979) and his stunning work of the early '80s -- and is worth a listen.Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick RoadLL Cool J RadioMotley Crue Girls, Girls, GirlsMotley Crue Theatre of PainThe Band Stage FrightThe Rolling Stones Black and BlueThe Rolling Stones Steel Wheels2.5 averageBruce Cockburn Sunwheel DanceShowing a decidedly English traditional feel in spots, Sunwheel Dance is a suprise for those who were looking for more of the same. It takes on different textures and hues depending on the song playing, from simple folk ("Feet Fall on the Road"), jazz-influenced instrumentals ("Sunwheel Dance") to a country-folk blues in "Dialogue with the Devil." Cockburn has begun to show that he couldn't be categorized, and while that made listening to his music so enjoyable, he had a hard time at the retail level. But if you're willing to take a little time and listen with an open ear, you'll find much here to celebrate.Bruce Cockburn Night VisionA little darker this time out (hence the title), Bruce Cockburn's fourth album find even greater rewards. Backed by a complete band, many of the songs hold up better through time. Sure, there's still the light-hearted folksy bits like "The Blues Got the World...," but there's also a gutsier sound exemplified in "You Don't Have to Play the Horses" and even a trick out of the Tom Waits song-style on "Mama Just Wants to Barrelhouse All Night Long." No matter what type of music you're looking for, there's something here that will tickle your fancy.The Rolling Stones It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
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