Moonbeam

This album is good! Glad she made such a satisfying album from top to bottom. I think I'd rank the songs as follows: Aquamarine Fame Is a Gun Headphones On New York In the Rain Diet Pepsi Summer Forever Times Like These High Fashion Money Is Everything The interludes are decent, too!

Kylie collabs that make my personal top 100 among her released songs: #27 Where the Wild Roses Grow #75 Still Feels Like the First Time #92 Kiss of Life #100 Really Don't Like U

Wow, I really like Tension II, but this pretty handily clears every song in it.

Faves so far are "Taboo", "Someone for Me", "Good as Gone", and "Shoulda Left Ya". Woo hoo!

This is a lot better than it has a right to be, and I am relieved! Of the 9 new ones, "Loghts Camera Action" is my least favorite, but it's at least decent. Honestly, all 16 released from Tension are at least good, with "Tension" and "Story" ranking among her top 10 songs ever and several others being outstanding ("Things We Do for Love", "Padam Padam", "Heavenly Body", "Drum", "Hands", "Somebody to Love"). It's a very high bar. The collabs that followed (other than "Edge of Saturday Night") were such a massive step down that I feared the worst here, but she came good in the end!

I LOVE the leaked "Hello". Was gutted to hear it didn't make the cut, but hopefully I like the one that made it even more!

Ooh, I'm happy to hear the good reception! Can't wait to hear the album. I was worried as only "Edge of Saturday Night" among the first 5 released songs is up to the standard of Tension, IMO, but it sounds like I'm in for a treat!

To me, this is the best album of the century so far. Truly magical and it's power is even more potent given her backstory.

Ooh, that CD is a must have. I can stop playing after Track 10 and be quite happy!

This won't be an album I can listen to from start to finish if "My Oh My", "Midnight Ride", and "Dance Alone" are on it, but I'm pumped that we are getting 9 (well maybe 8 if "Hello" is the same as the Tension leak) new songs!

Hark, a good Kylie song in 2024! What a relief after 3 consecutive duds.

That her team is flogging the worst song on the album this much is kind of hilarious. It's been a dud for 4 months now.

Taylor's music is generally atrocious, so no thank you.

Nope, it's incredible. I'm really happy she's having this big moment with such a great album. There's a lot of depth to it and it has multifaceted impact across various media.

Burning Up!

Hoping beyond hope for Disintegration by The Cure.

Among the albums revealed so far, I've heard 41 in full enough times to assign a rating, and there's only one disaster in the list! That's pretty good. These are also in my top 120: Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation 1814: 10 Madonna - Like a Prayer: 10 Kylie Minogue - Fever: 9.9 Prince - Sign o' the Times: 9.8 Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life: 9.7 Bjork - Post: 9.7 Prince - Purple Rain: 9.7 Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid: 9.6 Kylie Minogue - Impossible Princess: 9.5 David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars: 9.3 Stevie Wonder - Innervisions: 9 The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead: 9 These are great albums (in my top 300) and I'm happy they made the list: Donna Summer - Bad Girls: 8.9 Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor: 8.8 Madonna - Erotica: 8.7 Aaliyah - Aaliyah: 8.6 Sade - Love Deluxe: 8.5 Kylie Minogue - X: 8.3 Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You: 8.3 Charli XCX - Brat: 8.3 Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time: 8.2 Kate Bush - Hounds of Love: 8.2 These are good albums (top 700) and I don't mind them being here: Kate Bush - The Dreaming: 7.9 Aaliyah - One In A Million: 7.9 Robyn - Body Talk: 7.9 Michael Jackson - Thriller: 7.7 FKA Twigs - LP1: 7.7 Madonna - American Life: 7.7 Radiohead - OK Computer: 7.7 Gwen Stefani - Love. Angel. Music. Baby.: 7.4 My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade: 7.2 Billie Eilish - hit me hard and soft: 7 Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell: 7 These aren't bad by any means: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours: 6.9 Frank Ocean - Blond: 6.5 Radiohead - Kid A: 6.1 Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly: 6 Marina & The Diamonds - The Family Jewels: 5.4 Joni Mitchell - Blue: 5.3 Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill: 4.8 And then there's this: The Beatles - Abbey Road: 2.4 I'm intrigued by several others that I haven't heard in full. I've heard some songs from each and should really check them out: Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever Charli XCX - Pop 2 Fiona Apple - When the Pawn FKA Twigs - Magdalene Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials Florence + The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful Frank Ocean - Channel Orange Kelela - Take Me Apart Rina Sawayama - Sawayama Rosalia - Motomami SZA - SOS SZA - CTRL Tame Impala - Currents And then there are these by disaster artists that I'll gleefully avoid despite being hammered by several of their songs due to their unfortunate ubiquity: Adele - 21 Avril Lavigne - Let Go Beyonce - B'Day Hillary Duff - Dignity Katy Perry - Prism Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway Nelly Furtado - Loose Shania Twain - Come On Over Taylor Swift - Lover Taylor Swift - Reputation Taylor Swift - Evermore Haven't heard anything by these artists so might give them a spin: Natalia Hills - Trouble Utada Hikaru - Deep River

Thriller being so high is interesting given the overall nature of the list. It's a good album, but I'm surprised to see it so high. That said, it is mercilessly weighed down by "The Girl Is Mine", so I think there are better MJ albums.

Lots of albums I like a lot but couldn't include in a top 20. Glad to have 3 albums made it at least! Don't know that there will be any more for me lol. In a list littered with Taylor Swift, be a Rhythm Nation 1814, everyone!

A third straight miss for Kylie. After Tension being so excellent, her 2024 stuff has been a massive letdown. Hope the other songs on the reissue are worthwhile.

These results are kind of hilarious, and I am here for it! Seeing Sufjan below Hilary Duff and albums like The Dreaming, The Queen Is Dead, and Purple Rain being in this range is intriguing. Not a single album I've voted for has appeared yet - wonder if any will place? Lol Many would make my extended list, however. 20 spots was very limiting!

Taylor Swift being Sign o' the Times and the top 2 Stevie albums is hilarious.

#28 in the UK This song is so incredible and a highlight of the decade. I hope it takes off!

The collages of album covers are fun to look at! Here's my top 85:

My top 888 from last October here: http://acclaimedmusic.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=186335#p186335 There are lots of albums since then I'd add now, but none that would threaten the top 20.