Board 8 > Rank the Albums Volume 4: Results

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Here is the list of participants:
FoolFantastic
HBJDubs
Johnbobb
MetalmindStats
neonreaper
Raetsel_Lapin
rwlh
Seanchan
Snake5555555555

As a reminder, these are the 25 albums being ranked:
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not
The Ataris - So Long, Astoria
Backstreet Boys - Millennium
Bad Religion - No Control
The Birthday Massacre - Walking With Strangers
black midi - Hellfire
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
La Dispute - Rooms of the House
Duke Ellington - Far East Suite
Green Day - American Idiot
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual
Kylie Minogue - Fever
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Nas - Illmatic
Protest the Hero - Palimpsest
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Sigrid - Sucker Punch
Slipknot - Vol. 3 The Subliminal Verses
Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
Lindsey Stirling - Warmer in the Winter
Tool - 10,000 Days
Ween - Quebec

Results were determined by a win-loss-tie formula where every pair of albums faced off directly. Ties were broken by average rank.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt6Lkgs0kiU

25. The Ataris - So Long, Astoria (2003)
Win-Loss-Tie: 1-23-0 (Score: 1)
Average Rank: 18.87/25
Top Three Tracks: The Boys of Summer, So Long Astoria, Takeoffs and Landings

Individual Rankings:
Raetsel_Lapin: 4
Seanchan: 4
HBJDubs: 19
Snake5555555555: 21
neonreaper: 23
MetalmindStats: 21/22
FoolFantastic: 25
Johnbobb: 25
rwlh: 25

rwlh: I did not finish this album. Specifically, I got up to the beginning of track 5. The singers voice was so unpleasant to me that it physically hurt to listen to. Apologies if you liked or nominated this - its just not for me.

Seanchan: I had such trouble ranking this one, and actually moved it further up after a re-listen. Thing is, this is my personal list and should reflect the fact that Ive continued to come back to this pop-punk album over the years. Is it as objectively good as some of the albums I have ranked below it? No. But this is one of those albums Ive heard so many times I cant help but start to sing along.

FoolFantastic: There were three albums in this set I outright disliked, compared to I believe one from the first 75 albums. So Long Astoria takes a genre I already don't care for, makes it as generic as possible, and tops it off by dragging on for over 50 minutes.

As usual, a low-ranking for me doesn't always indicate I hate or even dislike an album. It's a solid pop punk album with one of the best covers of all time on it if you ask me. As a singular listening experience, it wears thin but if sprinkled in a playlist, it's golden.

This was a lot of fun to compile! I don't often participate in the main topics, because for me at least ranking individual, often similar-sounding songs is tough. I found it much easier to rank all these albums against each other because they were so different, and I could take each album as a total experience.

I found a lot of great music, so thanks to you all for nominating it.

edit: So Long, Astoria was the only album of the 25 that I didn't finish.

Also, I knew 2 of the albums prior to this project, and 2 more I participated in their rankings. Everything else was new.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEb2CecR11I

24. Backstreet Boys - Millennium (1999)
Win-Loss-Tie: 2-22-0 (Score: 2)
Average Rank: 18.44/25
Top Three Tracks: Larger Than Life, I Want It That Way, Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely

Individual Rankings:
Raetsel_Lapin: 7
HBJDubs: 14
Johnbobb: 14
rwlh: 14
Seanchan: 19
FoolFantastic: 24
neonreaper: 24
MetalmindStats: 22/22
Snake5555555555: 25

rwlh: Perfectly serviceable turn of the millennium pop. Some real gems in here!
Favorite song: Its Gotta Be You

Seanchan: Better on a relisten than I remembered. Theres half or three quarters a decent/good pop album and then a bunch of snoozer tracks that bring it down.

FoolFantastic: I would rather leave the boy band era behind. Not a fan of even the 'best' songs here.

I Want It That Way is fine, but holy hell is the rest of this thing bland and forgettable.

Figured The Ataris would clock in last based on the publicly submitted lists plus Fools dislike of pop punk, but damn!

BSB being near the bottom was inevitable as well.

My guess going in was that Green Day would take #1 easily but Im not so sure after seeing some of the lists. I think Tool is likely very high up as well. Maybe Black Sabbath as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGMQjTwSRSQ

23. Bad Religion - No Control (1989)
Win-Loss-Tie: 3-21-0 (Score: 3)
Average Rank: 18.43/25
Top Three Tracks: I Want to Conquer the World, No Control, You

Individual Rankings:
FoolFantastic: 13
Snake5555555555: 14
MetalmindStats: 14/22
Seanchan: 17
HBJDubs: 18
rwlh: 18
neonreaper: 22
Johnbobb: 23
Raetsel_Lapin: 25

rwlh: I know some songs by Bad Religion but this is a rawer sound than Im used to by them! An enjoyable listen but it all blended together for me.
Favorite song: You

Seanchan: (I Have No Idea - Punk Edition) Im probably repeating myself with what I said when we ranked the tracks, but while I generally like the soundscape here it all just gloms together in a way that makes this kind of forgettable overall. Not bad, just something thats hard to remember which tracks are which even a few days later..

FoolFantastic: My favorite new discovery of the batch, though also an album where I feel like ranking the tracks was to its detriment. Like many of the best punk albums, this is a singular burst of frantic energy better taken as a whole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-dwmYeLLng

22. Lindsey Stirling - Warmer in the Winter (2017)
Win-Loss-Tie: 3-21-0 (Score: 3)
Average Rank: 17.62/25
Top Three Tracks: Christmas C'mon, What Child is This, Carol of the Bells, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

Individual Rankings:
rwlh: 8
Seanchan: 13
Raetsel_Lapin: 15
Snake5555555555: 15
HBJDubs: 20
neonreaper: 21
MetalmindStats: 19/22
Johnbobb: 22
FoolFantastic: 23

rwlh: I loathe Christmas so I was looking forward to this one the least, but its not at all what I expected, it doesnt feel like traditional Christmas music at all. Easily the most pleasant surprise of the list. Seriously this might be the first time I have EVER enjoyed Christmas music. Big appreciation for whoever nominated this.
Favorite song: Angels We Have Heard On High

Seanchan: A solid Christmas album thats elevated for me by the addition of some great little holiday pop songs.

FoolFantastic: The general problem for me is that I have preferred versions of all the classics and I don't care for the originals.

The Ataris - every 25 albums there's only like 1 or 2 albums I actually don't enjoy at all. This was one of them.
Backstreet Boys - I mean I like them but I can totally get it not clicking for most
Bad Religion - alright but not very memorable
Lindsey Stirling - Stirling is incredible and is the only reason a christmas album didn't rank last for me

Hm ok, I guess I'll post my thoughts on the albums too.

So Long, Astoria: One of the two albums I never even planned a relisten of. I liked it most at its cutest, shaggiest, and least overtly punk, but that still wasn't saying much.
Millennium: To me, this was what Spice seemed to be to many of us: listenable, all-too-carefully commercially crafted dreck.
No Control: A pleasant surprise, probably in part because I never tried ranking its tracks. I found it considerably more propulsive, and the fairly punk-inherent aural repetition considerably less detrimental, than And Out Come the Wolves.
Warmer in the Winter: I actually like Christmas music in general, but the originals underwhelmed me and it overall just wasn't as compelling as I'd hoped.

No big surprises so far. I think every album revealed so far is one I moved higher on a re-listen for the album rankings.

I'm glad I also submitted my favorite song from each of the albums. Since I didn't follow most of the ranking topics, I don't really know what songs did well. For example: It's Gotta Be You was clearly my favorite from Millennium, like not even close, but it didn't make the overall top 3!

No Control - A solid punk album.

Warmer in the Winter - One of my favorite Christmas albums, a seamless blend of classical and modern sensibilities that dusts off the old classics with energy & vigor.

I'm figuring the Top 5 will be, in some order,

Green Day
Tool
Elton John
Black Sabbath
David Bowie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mqNfLDwtm8

21. Protest the Hero - Palimpsest (2020)
Win-Loss-Tie: 3-21-0 (Score: 3)
Average Rank: 17.49/25
Top Three Tracks: From the Sky, The Fireside, All Hands

Individual Rankings:
Raetsel_Lapin: 10
Snake5555555555: 11
Johnbobb: 16
HBJDubs: 17
FoolFantastic: 18
neonreaper: 20
MetalmindStats: 18/22
rwlh: 22
Seanchan: 23

rwlh: Not my thing in any capacity at alluntil I got to the last song, which I LOVED. That was a nice reward for sticking with it!
Favorite song: Rivet

Seanchan: LIked this metal album a little bit more on a relisten. When we did the track ranking, I think I said that the singing didnt match the instruments. I still think thats true but its not quite as bad as I remembered. The yelling/screaming parts are very grating but his regular tone is fine (though a far cry from the best in the genre).

FoolFantastic: Gonna be honest, I don't remember much of anything about this album (...which is still enough to beat out seven of the other albums)

Seanchan posted...

I'm figuring the Top 5 will be, in some order,

Green Day
Tool
Elton John
Black Sabbath
David Bowie

Yeah I'd agree with that, with maybe Michael Jackson and Arctic Monkeys in contention as well

This album's themes and lyrics are amazing, but the band really outdid themselves when it came to the complex instrumentation, its intricacies exploring the cinematics of Rody Walker's soaring and at times anguished voice.

Even though I didn't like any of the other songs on Palimpsest, I've revisited Rivet a lot since I listened to the album. I even woke up with it in my head today!

Definitely enjoyed Palimpset more than I thought I would

FoolFantastic posted...

I still think thats true but its not quite as bad as I remembered. The yelling/screaming parts are very grating but his regular tone is fine (though a far cry from the best in the genre).

just want to put out there that i do think he's the best in the genre

EDIT: presuming by the genre we mean either metalcore or progressive metalcore. don't think i'd say he's the best in all of metal but in my top 3 or so.

Yeah Rody Walker is an insane vocalist, I'm really surprised at the criticism.

I'm not all that into metal, so all the metal albums in this batch didn't thrill me, but one thing I appreciated was how they were all pretty different from each other. The albums by Protest the Hero and Sonata Arctica have very distinct sounds, for example. It was a neat to get sort of a metal sampler.

Steiner posted...

just want to put out there that i do think he's the best in the genre

EDIT: presuming by the genre we mean either metalcore or progressive metalcore.

*will hear howard jones as an argument
will not hear dan tompkins

Steiner posted...

just want to put out there that i do think he's the best in the genre

EDIT: presuming by the genre we mean either metalcore or progressive metalcore. don't think i'd say he's the best in all of metal but in my top 3 or so.

FYI, that was me who said that, not Fool.

I havent the diversity to be able to pin down metal to its smaller sub genres. When I think of amazing metal vocalists, Im thinking about Symphony X and Dream Theater. Which may not be fair because they might be the truly exceptional in the larger metal genre. Even less classically amazing vocalists, whether were talking Metallica or System of a Down or Avenged Sevenfold, have a sound that, for me, merges with the guitars, drums, etc.

With Protest the Hero, I was just struck by what, to my ears, sounded dischordant. Thats probably not the right musical term but I think you get the idea. It was so bizarre that it was hard for me not to focus on that. On the relisten it wasnt as bad, though that somewhat comes from knowing what Im going to hear.

James Labrie has never had praise like that in his life. Exceptional in the genre? I'm not convinced he's the best singer in his band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIriwVhRPVA

20. Sigrid - Sucker Punch (2019)
Win-Loss-Tie: 5-18-1 (Score: 5.5)
Average Rank: 16.97/25
Top Three Tracks: Strangers, Don't Kill My Vibe, Sucker Punch

Individual Rankings:
Seanchan: 6
Raetsel_Lapin: 9
MetalmindStats: 13/22
FoolFantastic: 16
neonreaper: 18
Johnbobb: 20
HBJDubs: 22
rwlh: 23
Snake5555555555: 24

rwlh: Not my thing, sorry!
Favorite song: Never Mine

Seanchan: Easily the biggest surprise of this cycle. As a general lover of pop music, I shouldnt have been surprised but this is an enormously solid album with no bad songs. Ive continued to come back to this album since our ranking week, with Dont Kill My Vibe really standing out as a modern pop classic.

FoolFantastic: Perfectly good electropop, but nothing here particularly wows me. I think a large portion of our choices represent the best of their respective genres, so one that is merely a solid entry looks weak in comparison. In another context, I could see myself raving about this as an overlooked gem.

Not very good!

I enjoyed it but then kinda forgot it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR7USljBVWE

19. La Dispute - Rooms of the House (2014)
Win-Loss-Tie: 7-17-0 (Score: 7)
Average Rank: 15.82/25
Top Three Tracks: Woman (in mirror), Woman (reading), The Child We Lost in 1963

Individual Rankings:
Snake5555555555: 1
MetalmindStats: 10/22
HBJDubs: 15
neonreaper: 16
Johnbobb: 17
rwlh: 17
FoolFantastic: 20
Raetsel_Lapin: 20
Seanchan: 25

rwlh: Really rough start. While there were some nice highlights, overall I struggled to get into the style.
Favorite song: First Reactions After Falling Through The Ice

Seanchan: This one easily rocketed to the very bottom of my album rankings. Its just a chore to listen to with what has to be the worst singer on any album weve covered. Maybe some of that is just the screaming/yelling delivery of like 90% of the lyrics, but ye god my ears. To whomever nominated this album, Im sorry for being so negative but this one REALLY wasnt for me.

FoolFantastic: This album felt too densely packed for me to really process and not captivating enough sonically for me to want to invest the necessary energy.

Ill say after the fact that I thought about Ben Folds, at least on the album the we covered, as amongst the worst singers. Still, its funny to me how we could have someone rank this as their favorite and someone else as their least favorite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c18441Eh_WE

18. Kylie Minogue - Fever (2001)
Win-Loss-Tie: 7-17-0 (Score: 7)
Average Rank: 15.02/25
Top Three Tracks: Can't Get You Out of My Head, Love at First Sight, Love Affair

Individual Rankings:
HBJDubs: 5
Raetsel_Lapin: 5
Seanchan: 8
FoolFantastic: 14
MetalmindStats: 16/22
neonreaper: 19
rwlh: 20
Snake5555555555: 22
Johnbobb: 24

rwlh: I didnt connect with this at all.
Favorite song: Whenever You Feel Like It

Seanchan: A disco pop album of high highs but that is ultimately brought down by some middling songs in the middle. Its still pretty damn good overall but on the full album level just isnt as consistent as Sucker Punch.

FoolFantastic: In many ways, Fever feels like a precursor to a more mellow form of pop music that blew up during the 2010s. As such, it feels more relevant now than it did at release, though I also prefer a lot of the albums that followed in its footsteps.

La Dispute I don't have much to say about aside from the title track being great

Kylie I didn't care for much

Seanchan posted...

I'm figuring the Top 5 will be, in some order,

Green Day
Tool
Elton John
Black Sabbath
David Bowie

IMO American Idiot, 10000 Days, and Black Sabbath are the shoo-ins, to the point where I almost expect them to be our top three. As for the other two, I'll guess jagged little pill and Rage Against the Machine.

Also, let's see here...

Palimpsest: I think its lyrics are very cleverly written, part of a meticulous narrative in general. To me, PtH are clearly good at switching up the tempo and delivery too, and each vocal song has a markedly memorable moment or two, but the sound here still isnt for me.
Sucker Punch: I was comparatively very positive during its week, but my relisten proved something of a comedown from that ceiling.
Rooms of the House: There's lots here I still don't get, but I've latched onto the parts that make me think of people I'm close to, and the intimate sentiment they carry with them.
Fever: Enjoyable enough but felt too workmanlike and nondescript to really stick with me, I guess.

Whoops I forgot to write the last two up:

La Dispute - Rooms of the House - Yeah, I said my big piece about it in the actual topic. This is an easy top 5 or 10 album for me. This thing DEVASTATES. Intergenerational trauma and detachment in the face of one's life crumbling around them is explored through powerful, dynamic, and propulsive rhythms that envelope the listener in every emotion, as Jordan's desperate vocals and vivid poetry brings to life equal parts horror, tragedy, and an attempt to find that shred of light to be able to move on. This album brings tears to my eyes and makes me think about my life in new ways each time, and even on a more visceral level, can be just plain fun to rock out to if you need that in your life.

Kylie Minogue - Fever - I'm actually a Kylie fan but more her earlier albums prior to Fever. Still a catchy, fun time, and Can't Get You Out of My Head is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGNS9flNwiU

17. Duke Ellington - Far East Suite (1967)
Win-Loss-Tie: 9-15-0 (Score: 9)
Average Rank: 14.91/25
Top Three Tracks: Mount Harissa, Blue Pepper (Far East of the Blues), Tourist Point of View

Individual Rankings:
rwlh: 4
FoolFantastic: 10
Johnbobb: 10
MetalmindStats: 9/22
neonreaper: 12
Snake5555555555: 19
Seanchan: 20
Raetsel_Lapin: 24
HBJDubs: 25

rwlh: Very strong album with lots of variety.
Favorite song: Mount Harissa

Seanchan: (I Have No Idea - Jazz Edition) Im probably repeating myself with what I said when we ranked the tracks, but while I generally like the soundscape here it all just gloms together in a way that makes this kind of forgettable overall. Not bad, just something thats hard to remember which tracks are which even a few days later..

FoolFantastic: An absolutely outstanding jazz album and one I'm happy to have revisited after not paying it much attention before. Ellington paints such a strong image purely through sound.

Booooo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waw-PAfWSnM

16. The Birthday Massacre - Walking With Strangers (2007)
Win-Loss-Tie: 9-15-0 (Score: 9)
Average Rank: 14.6/25
Top Three Tracks: Science, Looking Glass, Kill the Lights

Individual Rankings:
MetalmindStats: 3/22
Snake5555555555: 4
HBJDubs: 11
neonreaper: 13
Johnbobb: 18
Seanchan: 18
Raetsel_Lapin: 21
rwlh: 21
FoolFantastic: 22

rwlh: This was fine I guess. I really liked one song but I wasnt into anything else.
Favorite song: Goodnight

Seanchan: (I Have No Idea - Pop Edition) Im probably repeating myself with what I said when we ranked the tracks, but while I generally like the soundscape here it all just gloms together in a way that makes this kind of forgettable overall. Not bad, just something thats hard to remember which tracks are which even a few days later..

FoolFantastic: This is a sound I generally enjoy, but nothing here was really pushing boundaries and most of it blurred together. Feels like an album where you could show me any of the songs as a sample and I'd think I would like it, but the album as a whole is too much of the same.

Duke Ellington - Far East Suite - This is why I hate ranking albums sometimes because this slaps so hard, but jazz is a situational genre for me.

The Birthday Massacre - Walking With Strangers - A downright Gothic delight - perfect for brooding nighttimes & wallowing in blissful misery. Shimmering synths coupled with hard rock guitars and Chibi's vocals guiding you through her world of dark fantasy and twisted wonderlands make this an album I come back to time and time again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYpn8yUnX_c

15. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not (2006)
Win-Loss-Tie: 10-13-1 (Score: 10.5)
Average Rank: 14.41/25
Top Three Tracks: I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor, When the Sun Goes Down, Mardy Bum

Individual Rankings:
FoolFantastic: 5
rwlh: 6
Seanchan: 10
neonreaper: 14
Johnbobb: 15
Snake5555555555: 16
Raetsel_Lapin: 17
MetalmindStats: 20/22
HBJDubs: 24

rwlh: Lots of great, consistent energy; every song adds to the overall experience.
Favorite song: I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor

Seanchan: Whatever People Say I am, Thats What Im Not - Theres something about the general sound on offer here that I enjoy. I wouldnt say theres many stand out songs, but on re-listen I was surprised at how many little bits and pieces that I remembered.

FoolFantastic: Arctic Monkeys arrived just at the tail-end of the post-punk/garage rock revival scene, but they landed with one of the best albums to come from the movement. A solid third of the tracks here are all-timers for me, and the rest help form a very consistent experience. This is pretty much the best mainstream rock had to offer in the 2000s.

Well I drastically overpredicted the performance of that one

I considered listening to all the rest of the albums I hadn't heard just so I could do a full ranking to put the arctic monkeys last

Far East Suite: I think I fundamentally agree with both Fool and Sean's writeups, strangely enough. I find this album more than mildly evocative in the moment, and jazz has a high floor for me - even so, I'm left with those mental images lingering in lieu of the music itself, and so I'm not sure if it's truly testing my ceiling.

Walking With Strangers: To me, it's musically and lyrically unified enough to feel like a concept album without even being one, all while the individual songs stand out even more for that. Perpetually pretty and on point vocal performances further propel an album I have difficulty describing - an ineffability which seems to help it stick in my head.

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not: From a listeners perspective, its perfectly creditable and even catchy at times. Still, theres something missing from what comes off to me as a peculiarly slight, rather insubstantial and yet seemingly self-important effort.

Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not - Don't have much to say but i do like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D3TrpQ_nFo

14. black midi - Hellfire (2022)
Win-Loss-Tie: 12-12-0 (Score: 12)
Average Rank: 13.12/25
Top Three Tracks: Sugar/Tzu, Eat Men Eat, Welcome to Hell

Individual Rankings:
FoolFantastic: 7
MetalmindStats: 8
Snake5555555555: 8
Johnbobb: 9
rwlh: 12
neonreaper: 15
Raetsel_Lapin: 16
HBJDubs: 21
Seanchan: 21

rwlh: Big and ambitious and weird and terrific.
Favorite song: Sugar/Tzu

Seanchan: Manic. Distressing. Kinda jazzy? I wouldnt exactly call this an easy listen. Just didnt quite land for me the way I might have wanted it to.

FoolFantastic: A big chaotic journey that never lets you ease into its sound. Hallucinatory and enthralling, shifting drastically between moods yet never losing its step.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI8A14Qcv68

13. Nas - Illmatic (1994)
Win-Loss-Tie: 11-11-2 (Score: 12)
Average Rank: 12.92/25
Top Three Tracks: N.Y. State of Mind, The World is Yours, Life's a Bitch

Individual Rankings:
rwlh: 1
Johnbobb: 4
FoolFantastic: 9
Raetsel_Lapin: 11
HBJDubs: 13
neonreaper: 17
Snake5555555555: 18
MetalmindStats: 17/22
Seanchan: 24

rwlh: After a slowish start, I really got into this. Illmatic has an incredible sense of time and place. Its really stuck with me, more than most on this list.
Favorite song: Lifes a Bitch

Seanchan: Rap is a genre where you have to really do something special for me to take notice. While I know this is considered a classic, it just didnt do much for me.

FoolFantastic: Obviously a classic hip hop album, though there are a few dozen I would take over it, both before and after its release. It's hard for me to put my finger on why, but I think I simply prefer the production on most other major rap albums. Having it constantly talked up as an all-time greatest by some people makes me feel less into it than I am.

Hellfire - What Fool said

Illmatic - Nothing wrong with this album at all, the lyrical and storytelling prowess is impressive as Nas honestly raps about inner city living, adversity in childhood, and violence. Instrumentally I just prefer other albums on here.

I decided to actually check if I had 'a few dozen' hip hop albums I rank higher than Illmatic or if I was exaggerating, but it came in at #38 among hip hop albums in my last list update. Which is still high enough to land in my 9/10 zone!

Anyway, here are my top 38 hip hop albums since I took the time to comb through my list; maybe I should actually nominate some of these sometime (some may be edge cases):
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Madvillain - Madvillainy
M.I.A. - Kala
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Kanye West - The College Dropout
Eric B. and Rakim - Paid in Full
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Death Grips - The Money Store
Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
Tyler, the Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost
The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
OutKast - Stankonia
Kanye West - Late Registration
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
M.I.A. - Arular
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
Missy Elliot - Supa Dupa Fly
OutKast - Aquemini
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Kanye West - Yeezus
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
Missy Elliot - Miss E...So Addictive
Run the Jewels - RTJ4
Nas - Illmatic

hell yeah Little Simz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyxBBFNqXCo

12. Ween - Quebec (2003)
Win-Loss-Tie: 12-11-1 (Score: 12.5)
Average Rank: 13.31/25
Top Three Tracks: Transdermal Celebration, Tried and True, Happy Colored Marbles

Individual Rankings:
Johnbobb: 6
neonreaper: 7
MetalmindStats: 6/22
Raetsel_Lapin: 14
FoolFantastic: 15
Seanchan: 15
rwlh: 16
Snake5555555555: 17

rwlh: Decent enough, but nothing really stood out. I tended to enjoy the weirder songs more.
Favorite song: So Many People in the Neighborhood

Seanchan: If variety is the spice of life, Quebec really emptied the rack. This album is all over the place, and thats sometimes good and sometimes bad. But its at least interesting, even if I have a hard time thinking that any single person would like everything on offer here.

FoolFantastic: Just one of those wild albums that showcase a band doing whatever they want. A lot of fun, but little of it stuck with me.