It's a 5 for me

Ha thank you for your support

Can you give albums higher than a 5.0?

Hmm no...but I could un5 all my 5s apart from Spiderland, Feedbacker and Shouso Strip

Bjork is special, Johnny. wtf has gotten into you.

Ok, it's more like a 5.5. I just checked.

Bjork's holy trinity is obviously golden, but this is the only album in it that doesn't feel significantly of its time - and the drop of quality after this, when she goes off the trip-hop/indietronica roadmap and plays a more assertive role in cutting out her style, is pretty yikes

Yeah, Bowie took some outlandish detours in his time, too, but that doesn't make his legacy any more tarnished imo. Greatness is defined by peaks, not by consistency (I don't care what anyone says).

And, for what it's worth, Volta is significantly better than most people say, and Vulnicura is great, no additional qualifiers needed.

I also don't think Homogenic sounds undeniably "90s". Post and (defnitely) Debut, sure, but not Homogenic. It didn't even sound like a product of the 90s in the 90s.

"hidden place" is fucking nuts. when those choir vocals "introduce" the chorus and it's this perfect ineffable sort of expression of something being opened up, of a new environment being unveiled, all in three seconds, all without actual words to represent the concept, yeesh, sheesh, jeez, the fucking power of music

Album Rating: 5.0

i. fucking. love this album.

@tectac agree that Homo sounds the most original of those three, but All Neon Like, 5 Years, Alarm Call (trip-hop), Pluto (glitch/IDM) and Immature (that album literally came out the same year as Dots and Loops) in particular all jump out as cuts that seem self-explanatory cropping up in the time and place they did - even if we were much the better for them
"Greatness is defined by peaks, not by consistency"
Hmm I mean great peaks are always gonna be great peaks, but you don't see duds in a partially great discography being elevated by superior material in the way that you do equally solid releases raising each other's profile by appearing in succession imo

Alarm Call.... I'll give you that one. (No coincidence it is my least favorite track from Homogenic by a reasonable margin.)

(And re the second point e.g. Neutral Milk Hotel only needed one album to cement their legacy in the indie-folk canon, which is still going strong over twenty years later with no other supporting content thereafter.)

Album Rating: 4.5

please don't speak of that band itt

okay, sub in 'Slint' for 'Neutral Milk Hotel' and 'post rock' for 'indie-folk'.

Album Rating: 4.5

yeah

NMH make the boys cry

Album Rating: 4.5

and the men fill their ears with concrete

Album Rating: 4.5

No album is safe from the Mangum gang

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