is this the album with the highest number of ratings in the site?

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I’m pretty sure yeah. It has the most ratings on RYM as well.

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It's the best album ever so makes sense

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Will there ever be an album as iconic as this again? Maybe a couple rap albums have come since since but that’s about it.

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Nah I don't see much of anything from the 2010s so far having the lasting impact that something like Dark Side or this does. To Pimp a Butterfly is the closest I can think of, but it's not even that comparable imo and not really part of the mainstream in the way that classic and alt. rock was in the 70s and 90s.

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TPaB not mainstream? I beg to differ there. Almost everyone I know irl knows Kendrick regardless of how much they care about music. But yeah that’s probably closest anything as come to the level of iconisicsm as this album.

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This probably was the last of the truly monumental albums in terms of impact, pretty clear looking back now



Closest since?



'Funeral', 'Dark Twisted Fantasy', 'Pimp a Butterfly'...I'm struggling, but they're the 'still nowhere near close' closest

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If we’re being honest Kid A is the biggest since this but I guess that doesn’t really count.

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Sure lots of music fans in their 20s, but not like everyone's going to end up having a copy of a CD from the 2010s in their basement like with Dark Side or a Beatles album (well maybe an Mp3 copy in the music section of their tiny hard drive implanted in the brain). The profanity of so much of it alone makes it unlistenable to lots of areas of the mainstream. Ever since this came out actually, but really the late 90s, the really artistically minded and innovative music got more and more niche, and it's only going to go further in that direction it seems.

"i give low ratings to this album that people who have spent 40 years critiquing music agree is a masterpiece and which has influenced dozens of quality bands". ~ parksungjoon

Except the overwhelming majority of albums in the top 1000 are from 1970-1990

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Boney - Sort of I guess, and In Rainbows caused a lot of interest due to the way it was released and had zero build up

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It's the classic argument and sadly rings very true - if Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd existed in modern times, they would be a niche band probably no more popular than like Muse or Foals or something. Not that either of those bands are on the level of Led Zeppelin or Floyd obviously, but that they wouldn't really be able to break out of that level of exposure. I suppose Radiohead is a major exception given how huge they are.

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I think having music libraries at your fingertips has changed music listening entirely.



Listening to 'old music' used to be more a conscious effort, you still mostly listened to 'new music' because that was what was out there, and it was being made by people not too much older than yourself, etc. As a 15 year old in the '90s you might know 30 old albums absolute max.



The whole culture has changed, the freedom of choice, it's good but has also killed the sense of belonging to a huge youth movement that's smashed through the mainstream barrier

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True, that sort of makes it better so that you can't really compare anyways. Those kinds of bands helped shape all the music that has been made since, so the argument of where they would be now doesn't actually make a lot of sense anyways. Having basically all music be so readily accessible also creates a quicker burnout and a saturation of how much there is, making everything more challenging for bands to succeed while at the same time easier, given how fast Internet popularity can spread and do so much work itself, which was instrumental in how Arcade Fire and Arctic Monkeys each got popular.

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OPEN UP YOUR SKULLLLLL

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I'LL BE THEEEEEEEEEEEERE

Album Rating: 4.0

Airbag's bassline grooooooooovveeesss.

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lmao 5 it you pussies

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This is like my 5th fave Radiohead man.

Album Rating: 4.0

not a 5