The goal of this list is to contain every album, including compilations, which has garnered a 5-star rating on the Allmusic.com website.
To find more 5 star albums, try googling this:
site:allmusic.com “star_rating(9)” -“allmusic.com/song”
In other words, tell google.com to search only allmusic.com for occurrences of 5 star (star_rating (9)) albums and leave out all the citations referring only to a song. “star_rating(9)” is what you see when you hover your cursor over the 5 stars on an album’s page.
If you set your google search preferences to display 100 items per page, and copy and paste the search results of each page of results into Notepad (or any plain vanilla word processor that strips out hyperlink formatting), you will have a huge list of allmusic.com 5 star albums to play with. In my document, I edited out the junk info in each google result, separated the album name and artist name with a Tab (that’s the key above Caps Lock!), and pasted the resulting 2 column list into a new spreadsheet. If you do this, you can then look up the album on allmusic.com by copying and pasting the album name into the allmusic.com search box at the top of any allmusic page and choosing ‘Album’ (rather than ‘Artist/Group’) in the dropdown box. Then you can add other info about the album into your nifty spreadsheet. I did the “copy and paste into Notepad” thing with the date, genre and style fields on each of the many many album pages, copied and pasted the results from each album into my spreadsheet, and now i can sort my spreadsheet by genre (pop/rock, jazz, country, etc) and search for all the 5 star ‘blues-rock’ albums, for example. Then I “could” go to thepiratebay.org, and find 5 star albums to download (hypothetically, of course).
I just realised Dopethrone by Electric Wizard was also upgraded to 5/5. It looks like Allmusic started to appreciate underground metal
Both in the sense that you have thousands upon thousands of items to enter into the list before it’s fairly complete, and in the sense that if anyone wants to actually complete the list by consuming the items, they’ll be old and poor (or have a huge criminal record) before doing so. Not to mention the nightmare of maintaining it.
A bit of a kamikaze project, really, though I appreciate your trying. Good luck.
are these just five star reviews or the album picks with the check mark?
Unless I missed it, there’s no Radiohead on this list, but allmusic rated The Bends and OK Computer as 5 stars…. I guess it’s unrealistic to expect a complete list, though.
i wonder if this list really needed so many similar + repetitive greatest hits/best of selections representing certain artists. And 5 by Elton but not Goodbye Yellow Brick Road?! Or did i miss it somehow?
A search for the above will produce the correct CD of “Belafonte at Carnegie Hall”…
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