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Tuesday, August 23, 2016

The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (if you say so)

Of course, always room for debate here, 500 albums is a lot to deal with, and if you and I both thought up
our, say top ONE hundred, there is a good chance there would be some overlap......Rolling Stone magazine attempted a few years back to put this into some sort of perspective, and, as usual, it kind of completely falls apart......nevertheless, it is a damn ambitious effort, does discuss many of the classic rock albums of all time, and is nothing if not a debate-starter.......I think it's worthy of inclusion here, it should be discussed/debated/changed until the end of time. So, here's the fun part......what do YOU personally think are the FIVE "best" (or, more accurately, your five favorite) rock albums of them all? I would absoultey LOVE to see people's lists, I think it would be an amazing topic for discussion, I hope it takes off just a bit.....if one of your faves is something obscure let me know and we'll be certain to post it. Here are my ten faveorites/"bests":

1. LOVE-Forever Changes
2. THE CLASH
3. NIRVANA-Nevermind
4. THE MC5-Kick Out the jams
5. THE VELVET UNDERGORUND-White Light White Heat
6. DAVID BOWIE-Ziggy Stardust
7. THE WHO-Live at Leeds
8. LIZ PHAIR-Exile In Guyville
9. ROXY MUSIC-Siren
10. SLEATER KINNEY-One Beat

Really, you think I don't know how silly "Exile In Guyville" looks on this list? Well, I patiently await YOUR personal lists......really I do, I hope to get some responses/feedback, this is a great topic as always!

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10 comments:

  1. I have eight out of ten there I think. I have some SK, but I don't think I've got one beat. II would choose a Who studio album over a live one, but I don't know which-a bit hard to choose. For me in my top ten would be u2 joshua tree radiohead the bends counting crows august and everything after pink floyd-hard to choose but I think I'd go with the wall r.e.m. that's just off the top of my head. I'd have to think on it to round out a top ten.

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  2. I have eight out of ten there I think. I have some SK, but I don't think I've got one beat. II would choose a Who studio album over a live one, but I don't know which-a bit hard to choose. For me in my top ten would be u2 joshua tree radiohead the bends counting crows august and everything after pink floyd-hard to choose but I think I'd go with the wall r.e.m. that's just off the top of my head. I'd have to think on it to round out a top ten.

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  3. My favorites, and I could only narrow it down to these, in no particular order:

    Sonic Youth - Evol
    David Bowie - Blackstar
    Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
    Talking Heads - Remain In Light
    PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
    Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    Cat Power - You Are Free
    The Replacements - Let It Be
    Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!
    R.E.M. - Reckoning
    Prince - Dirty Mind
    Pixies - Doolittle
    Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town
    Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted
    Neil Young - After The Goldrush
    The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
    Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Love And Hate
    Joni Mitchell - Hejira
    Husker Du - Zen Arcade
    Gang Of Four - Entertainment
    Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
    The National - Boxer
    The Clash - The Clash
    Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
    Radiohead - OK Computer

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  4. Stooges funhouse
    Jmc psychocandy
    Ramones ramones
    Stones. Sticky fingers
    Fu manchu king of thr road
    Favorite find on your blog. Men of porn( thanks)
    Favorite undiscovered. The D 4 sake bomb
    Honorable mention Killing joke l. Loop. Primal scream

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  5. I had a terrible time narrowing down to 25:

    Stooges: Fun House
    Chrome: Half Machine Lip Moves
    Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance
    Fall: Hex Enduction Hour
    Wire: Chairs Missing
    Damned: Machine Gun Etiquette
    Bram Tchaikovsky: Strange Man, Changed Man
    English Beat: I Just Can't Stop It
    Replacements: Sorry Ma...
    Embarrassment: Heyday
    Bad Brains: S/T
    Die Kreuzen: S/T
    Minutemen: Double Nickels on the Dime
    A Tribe Called Quest: The Low End Theory
    Digable Planets: Blowout Comb
    Jungle Brothers: Done By The Forces Of Nature
    Figgs: Low Fi at Society High
    Redd Kross: Third Eye
    You Am I: Hi Fi Way
    Lucinda Williams: S/T
    Elliott Smith: S/T
    dEUS: Worst Case Scenario
    Wye Oak: The Knot
    Shirley Horn: Here's To Life
    Little Axe: If You Want Loyalty, Buy A Dog

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  7. A friend of mine did a top 10 post a short while ago, and I'll be damned if I didn't wrack my brain trying to put one together, but it went something like this:

    1) Dir En Grey - Uroboros
    2) The Who - Who's Next
    3) Pink Floyd - The Wall
    4) The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
    5) Boom Boom Satellites - To The Loveless
    6) The Clash - London Calling
    7) The Marmozets - The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets
    8) My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
    9) O'Brother - Endless Light
    10) Mastodon - Crack the Skye

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  8. Here's my Top 10

    1. Prince - 'Sign 'o' the Times
    2. The Clash - 'London Calling'
    3. Queen - 'A Night at the Opera'
    4. The Jam - 'Snap!' (vinyl version!!!)
    5. Cheap Trick - 'Heaven Tonight'
    6. Prince - 'Parade'
    7. Talking Heads - 'The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads'
    8. The Band - 'The Band' ("The Brown Album")
    9. Peter Gabriel - 'Peter Gabriel' ("III: Melting")
    10. Bruce Springsteen - 'Born to Run'

    Scott Keller - Ifmyrecordscouldtalkdotme.wordpress.com

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    1. My next 10, in no particular order...

      Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
      Talking Heads - Remain in Light
      R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pagaent
      Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
      The Police - Ghosts in the Machine
      Tom Petty - Hard Promises
      Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club
      Parliament - Mothership Connection
      Paul Simon - Graceland
      Cheap Trick - In Color

      Scott Keller - ifmyrecordscouldtalkdotme.wordpress.com

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    2. Scott, I can't find your blog. What's the correct address? I thought you might have mistyped it, but there's nothing at ifmyrecordscouldtalktome.wordpress.com, and ifmyrecordscouldtalk.wordpress.com has no public posts. Just curious.

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