Yes, yet another one of these! My taste is a bit weird, although not as diverse as a lot of people's here, but I hope that there'll be some cool albums for people to check out/hate me for including on here nonetheless. I actually have this list typed up basically already, so I do plan to actually finish this.
ONWARDS!
Disclaimer: For reasons of not having the entire top 10 being taken up by about 3 or 4 bands, I've limited myself to 1 entry per artist here!
50. Oasis – What’s The Story Morning Glory (1995)
– Oasis have always seemed to me to be a band more suited to ‘greatest hits’ style efforts than actual cohesive albums, and if I was allowing myself to include that kind of thing on this list, they’d be a lot higher up on it. As it stands, thought, Morning Glory has the band’s best three songs all in one place, and some other great tracks that showcase Noel Gallagher’s songwriting at its absolute best. So, a really good album, but not quite cohesive enough to claim more than spot number 50 here.
49. Bohren & Der Club of Gore – Sunset Mission (2000) 
– As you’ll come to learn throughout this list, I’m a bit of a noir fanboy. Be it in films, music or games, I like my atmosphere to be murky and evocative, the kind of thing I could sip an espresso (no homo), or wander the night streets, to. This album is perfect for that kind of mood, with its tempo being so slow as to almost come to a standstill at points, and its amazing and hypnotic double bass lines evoking a stream of mental images ripped straight out of a 40s detective film. My only complaint here is that it does become a bit of a slog to actually concentrate on and listen through, due to the extended running time and repetitive nature, but as background, or thinking, music, it can’t be beaten.
48. Susanne Sundfor – The Brothel (2010) 
– Another noiry, atmospheric pick here, I have Seth to thank for discovering this one. This is probably one of the most evocative albums of all time, with the cover art and the eerie reverb, let alone Sundfor’s incredibly strong voice and unusual instrumentation, all adding to the feel of being in a murky backstreet, slightly paranoid, but still enthralled nonetheless. The title track of this album would probably place in my top 20 songs of all time, but even aside from that, there are some wonderful tracks on here and, most importantly, one of the most perfectly judged flows of all the albums on this list. A real ‘album’s album,’ it’s let down slightly by a couple of weaker tracks.
I'll try and update this every other day, maybe a bit quicker depending on the response! Let's see how much hate number 50 gets me first.
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