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By limiting most of the points to albums that made lists top 100 largely for reasons of practicality years that had a lot of great records that didnt necessarily hit the critics zeitgeist simply didnt register. I looked at several top 100 albums of all-time lists some compiled by critics, others by public voting or based on sales data and allocated points based on each albums position on the list. Whenever The Wall appeared second, it scored 99 points for 1979, and so on down to a single point for albums ranked 100th. I also used 15 years of my own listening data from last.fm to allocate points in a similar way, and lastly added one point for each song in my own 15,000-strong song collection this way years that had a lot of great records which didnt crop up in the critics and publics lists got recognised. Most of its points came from the presence of a few good singles Skeeter Davis The End Of The World the best, with the Tornados Telstar and the Beatles debut Love Me Do among them but without any albums of great significance, theres not a lot to say really, except that things would soon get a whole lot better. BestEverAlbums, for example, has it 1 for the year but only 430th overall. But again, no classic records anyone still bothers to listen to (and is willing to admit it). The top-ranked album of 1956 doesnt even make the top 400 of all-time on BestEverAlbums. Theres one particular jazz classic in the late 1950s which towers above all others, propelling its year high in the list but its not 1957, which languishes near the bottom with the rest of the decades entries. John Coltranes Blue Train made the only significant impact on the scoreboard. I have four songs from the year in my own collection two of them by a pre-fame Beatles. ![]() I know it came out in the 1970s, but one of the first lists I looked at said it was largely recorded in 1954, so thats where I put it. Like having a centre-right head of state, its an oasis of mediocrity when compared to what came immediately before and after. Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway did well in public lists, and when a Genesis album is the best a year has to offer, you know its going to struggle. Perhaps a coincidence its the most recent classics can take time to digest, after all but that would ignore the recency bias some public-voted lists have. Miles Davis Kind of Blue towers over everything else like a colossus. Its ranked inside BestEverAlbums top 40, nearly 300 places ahead of its closest competitor. Im doing a chronological listen to all those 15,000 tracks I mentioned earlier, and am currently up to 2001. Of Kendrick Lamars Damn, Tyler the Creators Flower Boy and Lordes Melodrama the most popular across the sites none feature in the all-time top 400 on BestEverAlbums, and on RateYourMusic, none of them even get four stars out of five. None of this was enough to elevate 2016 higher than 51st, but history might be kinder ( not politically, just musically). The music I dug in 2014 a rare good one from Weezer, NZ legends Shihad returning to their 90s roots, and an emo band frontmans great debut is nowhere to be seen on these lists. The stuff that tops BestEverAlbums and RYM didnt exactly hit the top 100s I used to make this ranking either. The next year on this list would have none of those excuses for its poor showing. The Soft Bulletin by the Flaming Lips drove 1999s score, alongside Sigur Ros gtis byrjun.
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