By Marvin Marks on Feb 2, 2011 in Features | 0 Comments
I like to keep an eye on the charts over at RateYourMusic.com to get ideas for new music to check out. These are some of the favorites of 2011 just one month into the year (I skip over metal related genres as I have no patience for that kind of music.) Destroyer – Kaput Got [...]
By Marvin Marks on Jan 11, 2011 in Features | 0 Comments
Take a look back: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, & 1990s. Now it’s time to finish this up: The top ten pop/rock albums of the 2000s according to the users of RateYourMusic.com: #01 – Radiohead – Kid A (#1213 on Amazon’s Bestselling List) #02 – Arcade Fire – Funeral (#575) #03 – Godspeed You! Black Emperor – [...]
By Marvin Marks on Jan 2, 2011 in Features | 1 Comment
This is the third in a series of posts on the top 10 pop/rock albums of each decade beginning with the 1960s according to the users of RateYourMusic.com. You can find the first two installments here (1960s) and here (1970s.) #01 Pixies – Doolittle (#4695 on Amazon’s bestsellers list.) #02 The Smiths – The Queen [...]
By Marvin Marks on Dec 8, 2010 in Music Trivia | 1 Comment
Beatles legend John Lennon was shot and killed in New York City 30 years ago today by a deranged lunatic who doesn’t deserve to be named. To celebrate John Lennon’s life today I will share RateYourMusic.com‘s (yes I’m still addicted to this site) perspective on each on each of his solo albums (the Lennon Signature [...]
By Marvin Marks on Dec 5, 2010 in Features | 1 Comment
Continuing the series I started with the 1960s, this is the top 10 pop/rock albums of the 1970s according to the ratings of the users of the RateYourMusic.com website (one of my favorite music related sites.) For the 1970s edition I’m adding the current ranking of each album on Amazon’s best selling music list. It’s [...]
By Marvin Marks on Nov 30, 2010 in Features | 0 Comments
***Due to my obsessive nature I am editing this article with Amazon.com sales rankings included because I’m obsessed with them right now for some sick reason.*** According to the users of the website RateYourMusic.com, these are the top 10 pop/rock albums of the 1960s: #01 The Beatles – Abbey Road (1969) – #82 on Amazon [...]
By TheRoboticMushroom on Feb 2, 2010 in Features | 1 Comment
Today I’m continuing my series for “three great albums” for each year beginning in 2007 and working backwards (I’m planning on keeping at this until I reach 1964.) I’m at 1997 today and this is a year I’ve been looking forward to as I think it’s my personal favorite year for music for the last [...]
By BrainFace on Oct 7, 2009 in Music News | 0 Comments
According to this listing on Amazon.com, Animal Collective will be releasing their second album of 2009 on December 8th: Fall Be Kind. There’s no information about this album except that it’s out on December 8th and that it’ll be available in both CD & vinyl (along with download versions I’m sure.) Merriweather Post Pavillion was [...]
By Long Bong on Sep 15, 2009 in Features | 0 Comments
I find it interesting to see how music fans from the US and from the UK differ in their opinions and the “custom chart” tool at RateYourMusic.com makes it easy to make these kind of comparisons. What I did was sort the top 10 albums of all time first only using the ratings of people [...]
By BrainFace on Aug 1, 2009 in Features | 0 Comments
The Pink Floyd CD Box Set “Oh, By the Way” includes all of the studio albums from Pink Floyd’s long career beginning with 1967′s brilliant Syd Barret era Piper at the Gates of Dawn through 1994′s The Division Bell. Basically this a good “one stop” way to buy the entire Pink Floyd discography in a [...]
