That's the thing about first impressions. It remains the Sabbath magnum opus, and an album that few others could have even attempted to pull off. Sure, there was great music around before and beyond them, but it seems that rock was not truly evil until Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill delivered a wild, confident and solid mixture of rock and roll, blues, heavy metal and pop ("Paranoid" and "Iron Man", regardless of what you may think, are pop songs through and through, albeit very heavy ones).įrom the mammoth E chord that signals the arrival of "War Pigs", to Ozzy's confession that fairies do, indeed, wear boots, this album effortlessly turned the musical world on its head. It's something very few Australian musicians, let alone Ben himself, can one-up. This still continues to amaze, intrigue and impress after all these years. A well-produced and impeccably written left-of-centre pop gem filled with samples, diverse arrangements and an eye for lyrics and melody well beyond his years.
Three albums in, pop whizkid Ben Lee created his masterpiece. Make this album your most valuable posession.
Perceived as the band's most mature and serious work, it still brought out the very best in these three musicians and provided a soundtrack to anyone looking for answers when they've run out of questions. Few records hit quite as close to home as The Unauthorized Biography: a stunning, honest portrayal of life's unfairness complete with internal struggles, failure and the responsibilities that come with dealing with all of this. Right before the turn of the century - and right before their own implosion as a band - Ben Folds Five threw in an incredibly late contender for the best album of the nineties. But little else was more deserving of the hype it received than this very album.īen Folds Five The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner Cliche'd "album of the year" choice? Maybe. It's nearly been twelve months since its release, and possibly one of the very few disappointing things about 2009 was the fact that even with such an early release, nothing else came close to matching what MPP had to offer - intelligent, boundary-shoving explorations through time, space and a brief history of both experimental and popular music.
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Merriweather gleans a series of shining, blissed out moments of eerily relative euphoria and arranges them in a way that you can pick up the record at any point from its beginning to its conclusion and invariably find something that relentlessly stuns and amazes. The yin-and-yang harmonies soar over the adventurous "My Girls", a didgeridoo backs the dizzying sway of "Lion in a Coma", "Brother Sport" provides one of the most infectious conga-line singalongs of the year. Merriweather Post Pavilion may come from Animal Collective, a group that is fearlessly eclectic and confrontingly experimental, but the highs of the album recall an outlandish, technicolor pop summer that exudes a wide-eyed awe of the world around it. When we put together a time capsule to remember 2009 by, we're going to put in a picture of Michael Jackson, the box set of Glee, a swine flu mask, Matt Bellamy's messiah complex.and this. Always remember this Amy, and not the one the tabloids want you to remember.Īnimal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion An unforgettable, decade-defining masterpiece that will resonate for generations to come.
You can also thank this record for making Mark Ronson an international star - his work here is flawless. How could something so polished still maintain such grit? On her breakaway sophomore, Winehouse delivered eleven heartfelt and dark tales of lust, addiction and need that encompasses both classic soul and modern pop in a damn-near-perfect amalgamation. Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name 5.0 classic
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