Classic Albums Revisited
Welcome to our classic album section.
We've all seen those 'Greatest Albums of All-Time' lists in publication after publication, but do you ever agree? We don't.
Sure, there are some albums that will be at or near the top of the pile in just about every list you come across (Pet Sounds, Revolver, OK Computer etc) but we test them out and grade each album track by track, and then apply our meaty algorithm to give an overall percentage based on our view.
It throws up some interesting results; albums we didn't necessarily recognise as being the best of the best perform well, but in contrast, albums that we always thought were our favourites just through memory alone take a bit of a tumble when analysed track by track.
Various anomalies are also taken into consideration, for example the Oasis album '(What's the Story) Morning Glory?' contains two 'interlude' type tracks that are mere musical snippets and therefore cannot be considered as having the same impact as a full track. Such examples are ignored for grading purposes.
Feel free to voice your opinion here, we always like a good debate about music.
Assessments are run decade by decade, follow the links below.
We've all seen those 'Greatest Albums of All-Time' lists in publication after publication, but do you ever agree? We don't.
Sure, there are some albums that will be at or near the top of the pile in just about every list you come across (Pet Sounds, Revolver, OK Computer etc) but we test them out and grade each album track by track, and then apply our meaty algorithm to give an overall percentage based on our view.
It throws up some interesting results; albums we didn't necessarily recognise as being the best of the best perform well, but in contrast, albums that we always thought were our favourites just through memory alone take a bit of a tumble when analysed track by track.
Various anomalies are also taken into consideration, for example the Oasis album '(What's the Story) Morning Glory?' contains two 'interlude' type tracks that are mere musical snippets and therefore cannot be considered as having the same impact as a full track. Such examples are ignored for grading purposes.
Feel free to voice your opinion here, we always like a good debate about music.
Assessments are run decade by decade, follow the links below.
