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This is the section of the 'My Personal Best Albums Ever'-journal where the entire list of best albums is presented. At first, all the reviews and highlights were included in this main article too. It made the journal a little bit oversized though, so I decided to split the journal up in parts. Before I begin this journal, I'll give you the links to the other parts of the journal.

Score 7,000 - 5,751: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (1)
Score 5,750 - 5,001: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (2)
Score 5,000 - 4,701: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (3)
Score 4,700 - 4,401: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (4)
Score 4,400 - 4,201: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (5)
Score 4,200 - 4,000: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (6)


Introduction and Explanation

Thanks for reading this journal! I've put a lot of work into making this journal, so it's really nice to see when people enjoy reading it. Before you begin to read though, I think I have some things to explain.

First of all, this is just my personal view of the best albums that exist. I explicitly do not say that these áre indeed the best albums around (I don't know how to say that objectively anyway), it's just my personal taste. And ofcourse, there probably are a lot of albums that deserve to be in this list, but I just haven't heard them yet.

When writing this journal, it was meant to be read by people with kind of the same taste of music as I have. I happen to listen to a mixture of downtempo, drum and bass, idm, trip-hop, ambient, breakbeat & jazz. When you do happen to have the same taste, you will see a lot of albums you enjoy yourself also, but probably there are some artists and albums you've never heard of. Well, check them out, because there's a big chance you will like them too! I think a lot of people on last.fm are constantly busy looking for new good listening material. I figured out that by letting you all know what my personal favourite albums are it would be the easiest way to let you know what music you would be 'missing'. So enjoy the list, I hope you will find some new future alltime favourites. And when you do, please tell me, I'd really like to know!

Just underneath this introduction you will see my album ranking. Each album has his own score. The score is calculated this way: In my iTunes I rate each song I listen to. When I don't like the song I will rate it with just one star. I've designed my playlists in a way that songs with one star will never be played again when I listen to my music on shuffle. Songs with two stars get a playcount of 1, songs with three stars get a playcount of 2, songs with four stars get a playcount of 4 and five star songs get a playcount of 7. So when I listen to shuffle, a *****-song will come along 7 times as much as a **-song. I decided to rate my albums using this playcount system.

When an album with just two tracks for example has one ***-rated song of 1:24 and one *****-rated song of 3:20, his score will be calculated like this; it has a song of 84 seconds with playcount 2 and a song of 200 seconds with playcount 7, so it had an average playcount of (84*2+200*7)/(84+200)=1568/284=5,521. So it's score will be 5,521. All albums are ranked using this system. The consequense is that 7 is the maximum score (just *****-tracks). I've decided to put all the albums on the list which have a minimum score of 4. So theoreticly an album with just ****-tracks will júst make the list.

At the bottom of this list I've added a seperate section for every album. It will eventually include the release date, the length, the number of tracks, a personal review and the highlights of the album (which are the tracks I rate with five stars). It might take a while for me to add a review for every album in this list, so for now this journal is a journal with 'work in progress'-signs. But still this journal might already be a good source of new music for you, so don't let this 'work in progress' prevent you from discovering some new quality music!

Now there's only a little thing left to say: If you enjoy what you're reading, if you've found some good music with help of this list, if you think some albums are missing in this list or if you think some albums don't deserve to be in this list --> post it! Especially when you think something is missing in this list I'm all ears, because I'm always on the hunt for good new music (well, at least new for me I mean).

Enjoy!


My Personal Best Albums Ever

001) Score: 6,762 Bonobo - One Offs... Remixes & B-Sides
002) Score: 6,748 Amon Tobin - Permutation
003) Score: 6,737 Portishead - Roseland NYC Live
004) Score: 6,716 Amon Tobin - Foley Room
005) Score: 6,657 Bonobo - Dial 'M' for Monkey
006) Score: 6,655 Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where
007) Score: 6,547 Amon Tobin - Chaos Theory
008) Score: 6,367 Bonobo - Animal Magic
009) Score: 6,309 Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic
010) Score: 6,294 Wisp & Denizen - Quest for Excalipur!
011) Score: 6,285 Wisp - About Things That Never Were CD1
012) Score: 6,264 Amon Tobin - Bricolage
013) Score: 6,208 Four Tet - Rounds
014) Score: 6,122 Amon Tobin - Supermodified
015) Score: 6,051 Cujo - Adventures in Foam (2CD)
016) Score: 5,997 Portishead - Dummy
017) Score: 5,879 Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
018) Score: 5,850 Peace Orchestra - Peace Orchestra
019) Score: 5,847 remus - The 5th Season
020) Score: 5,784 Amen Andrews - Volume 01, Volume 02, Volume 03, Volume 04 & Volume 05
021) Score: 5,782 Massive Attack - Mezzanine
022) Score: 5,698 St. Germain - Tourist
023) Score: 5,663 Massive Attack - 100th Window
024) Score: 5,656 Wisp - In a Blue Face
025) Score: 5,649 The Flashbulb - Réunion
026) Score: 5,612 Yonderboi - Shallow and Profound
027) Score: 5,611 Saltillo - Ganglion
028) Score: 5,539 Four Tet - Pause
029) Score: 5,530 Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions™ (2CD)
030) Score: 5,498 Aphex Twin - Drukqs (2CD)
031) Score: 5,404 Amon Tobin - The B-Sides (Bootleg) (2CD)
032) Score: 5,288 Radiohead - In Rainbows CD1
033) Score: 5,231 Chris Clark - Empty the Bones of You
034) Score: 5,228 Wolfgang Frisch - The Hundred
035) Score: 5,180 Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
036) Score: 5,164 Koop - Sons Of Koop
037) Score: 5,162 Portishead - Portishead
038) Score: 5,152 Röyksopp - Melody A.M.
039) Score: 5,076 Wisp - Honor Beats
040) Score: 5,071 Deftones - White Pony
041) Score: 4,998 Tipper - Surrounded
042) Score: 4,957 Jega - Spectrum
043) Score: 4,944 Chris Clark - Clarence Park
044) Score: 4,940 Wisp - Building Dragons
045) Score: 4,925 LTJ Bukem - Producer 01
046) Score: 4,898 Pilote - Kingfood
047) Score: 4,895 Faithless - Reverence
048) Score: 4,890 Elsiane - Hybrid
049) Score: 4,888 Various Artists (Humanworkshop) - 1
050) Score: 4,875 Clark - Turning Dragon
051) Score: 4,874 Thom Yorke - The Eraser
052) Score: 4,835 Frank Riggio - Noise Thinking
053) Score: 4,815 Gorillaz - Gorillaz
054) Score: 4,812 The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
055) Score: 4,805 The Cinematic Orchestra - Les Ailes Pourpres
056) Score: 4,795 Amon Tobin - The Mixes (Bootleg) (2CD)
057) Score: 4,775 Red Snapper - Our Aim is to Satisfy Red Snapper
058) Score: 4,770 The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
059) Score: 4,733 Various Artists (Shadow Records) - Joint Ventures
060) Score: 4,724 DJ Cam - Mad Blunted Jazz CD1
061) Score: 4,701 The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Mutations
062) Score: 4,696 Underworld - 1992-2002 (2CD)
063) Score: 4,682 Clark - Body Riddle
064) Score: 4,671 Coldplay - Parachutes
065) Score: 4,651 Pilote - Doitnowman
066) Score: 4,626 Sureshot - Underground Symphony
067) Score: 4,610 Blockhead - Music By Cavelight
068) Score: 4,604 Radiohead - Kid A
069) Score: 4,597 Plug - Drum 'n' Bass for Papa CD1
070) Score: 4,585 Kruder & Dorfmeister - DJ-Kicks
071) Score: 4,571 The Cinematic Orchestra - Remixes 98-2000
072) Score: 4,559 Björk - Homogenic
073) Score: 4,553 Red Snapper - Making Bones
074) Score: 4,549 Faithless - Outrospective
075) Score: 4,546 Amon Tobin - Verbal Remixes & Collaborations
076) Score: 4,505 Red Snapper - A Pale Blue Dot
077) Score: 4,467 Moby - Play
078) Score: 4,467 Moby - 18
079) Score: 4,446 Blackfilm - Blackfilm
080) Score: 4,440 Pest - Necessary Measures
081) Score: 4,432 Emancipator - Soon it Will be Cold Enough
082) Score: 4,419 PFM - Producer 02
083) Score: 4,403 Red Snapper - Red Snapper
084) Score: 4,384 Davide Swarup - Music For Hang
085) Score: 4,378 Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
086) Score: 4,376 Calyx & Teebee - Anatomy
087) Score: 4,361 Radiohead - OK Computer
088) Score: 4,316 Gigi D'Agostino - Tecno Fes Vol. 2
089) Score: 4,308 Venetian Snares - My Downfall (Original Soundtrack)
090) Score: 4,277 Dido - No Angel
091) Score: 4,276 Alanis Morissette - MTV Unplugged
092) Score: 4,273 Distance - Repercussions CD2: Chestplate
093) Score: 4,266 Clint Mansell - The Fountain OST
094) Score: 4,258 Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby
095) Score: 4,226 Room Eleven - Six White Russians And A Pink Pussycat (2CD)
096) Score: 4,225 Alphawezen - L' Après: Midi d'Un Microphone
097) Score: 4,225 Teebee - The Legacy CD1
098) Score: 4,208 Frank Riggio - Anamorphose
099) Score: 4,206 Syl Kougaï - La fille verte
100) Score: 4,193 DJ Krush - Krush
101) Score: 4,178 Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
102) Score: 4,149 The Cinematic Orchestra - Motion
103) Score: 4,144 Four Tet - Dialogue
104) Score: 4,141 Archive - Londinium
105) Score: 4,123 The Cranberries - No Need To Argue
106) Score: 4,110 Dusted - When We Were Young
107) Score: 4,097 The Cinematic Orchestra - Every Day
108) Score: 4,094 Moby - Play: The B-Sides
109) Score: 4,058 Orbital - In Sides CD1
110) Score: 4,050 Kruder & Dorfmeister - Conversions: A K&D Selection
111) Score: 4,045 The Cinematic Orchestra - Man With a Movie Camera
112) Score: 4,030 SlowHill - Fennika
113) Score: 4,018 Mandalay - Empathy
114) Score: 4,011 N*E*R*D - In Search Of...
115) Score: 4,006 Photek - Modus Operandi
116) Score: 4,003 Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Angles

Reviews & Highlights

If you follow the links below, you will find my personal opinion about the albums mentioned above, including a little review and the highlights of the album.



Score 7,000 - 5,751:





Score 5,750 - 5,001:





Score 5,000 - 4,701:





Score 4,700 - 4,401:





Score 4,400 - 4,201:






Score 4,200 - 4,000: