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George vader
24-06-2004, 12:11
From last Sundays Observermusicmonthly, here's the Top 10 for those interested;
1. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
2. Revolver - The Beatles
3. London Calling - The Clash
4. Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
5. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
6. The White Album - The Beatles
7. Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones
8. Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones
9. Blue Lines - Massive Attack
10. Metal Box - Public Image Limited
Full Top 100
here (http://www.observermusicmonthly.co.uk/#)
Radiohead
24-06-2004, 12:18
I can't see how Definitely Maybe goes ahead of OK Computer for starters....
Like all lists this is very subjective but the articel in the paper was very good but the best bit was the fact that Bez produced a Top 10 containg 7 albums that were not by british artists :nuts:
What a load of rubbish that list (and all lists for that matter) was. And I wasted £1.40 on the observer for the music mag before I realised it was just a big list. I can see why magazines like them, cos they're cheap, easy to compile and provoke a response, and much less trouble than actually going to the trouble of paying someone for writing something interesting.
Johnny Vodka
24-06-2004, 13:12
Q did one recently too.
Both lists missed out either of the 1st two Suede albums and Spiritualized's Ladies and gentlemen... :oh-hum: Leftism as well, I think.
Radiohead
24-06-2004, 13:54
Originally posted by KRW
What a load of rubbish that list (and all lists for that matter) was. And I wasted £1.40 on the observer for the music mag before I realised it was just a big list. I can see why magazines like them, cos they're cheap, easy to compile and provoke a response, and much less trouble than actually going to the trouble of paying someone for writing something interesting.
The OMM is usually pretty good, but this was the poorest issue yet.....
They are losing loads of money though, so maybe that's something to do with it.
Morrissey's list consisted of one album! (a Roxy Music one I think)
Weaselbert
24-06-2004, 14:14
I agree that all lists are subjective and we can all find something to disagre with in any of them.....
....having said that this has to be the worst one I have ever seen. 2 Dexy's Midnight Runners Albums :thinking: :brickwall :suspect:
It did seem a bit indie-centric, but as a rock fan I would say that ;) (still had around 15 of the albums though!)
shangrispa
24-06-2004, 14:29
You'll find far far superior albums in this thread:
http://www.thedvdforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=296519
Originally posted by Radiohead
The OMM is usually pretty good, but this was the poorest issue yet.....
They are losing loads of money though, so maybe that's something to do with it.
It's usually very good, but I won't be buying it again if next months is '100 best American Albums of all time' etcetc.
LouBarlow
24-06-2004, 15:47
Astral Weeks smells of stale guffs for starters!
Blue Lines is a good album, but one of the top 10 ever recorded by a British artist/group?
Get bent!
London Calling should top that list out of the records there...
Originally posted by LouBarlow
London Calling should top that list out of the records there...
No matter how many times I try to make it through this album in one sitting I can't. I'll have to give it another try tonight. Maybe it will block out my moronic housemates' obession with 22 over-paid idiots kicking a piece of leather around a field. :|
That top 10 is pretty strange IMO, but then they're odd. Not sure what would be in my top 10 if we're only choosing British Albums, though.
Off hand:
OK Computer
Blur
Hunky Dory
... :thinking:
Originally posted by Weaselbert
....having said that this has to be the worst one I have ever seen. 2 Dexy's Midnight Runners Albums :thinking: :brickwall :suspect:
Quite right. They should have included all 3 of their long players ;)
The interesting thing with these lists isn't the albums that crop up time after time but the more, unusual entries.
A quick glance shows :
Unhalf Bricking - Fairport Convention
Handsworth Revolution - Steele Pulse
Just Another Diamond Day - Vashti Bunyan
Penguin Eggs - Nic Jones
Basket of Light - Pentangle
...which I've never seen make this sort of list, let alone listened to.
Anyway, I'm a big Bunnymen fan so it's great to see Ocean Rain get its dues.
LouBarlow
24-06-2004, 17:18
Originally posted by TheoGB
No matter how many times I try to make it through this album in one sitting I can't.
:nuts: ;)
Originally posted by LouBarlow
:nuts: ;)
:lol:
True to my word I'm giving it another try as we speak. Got as far as Track 12 out of 19!! :nuts: This album's just too long on CD (I'm guessing there were four sides to the vinyl?).
Anyhow, I'm obviously in the right mood tonight and enjoying it, even if it's in a Manics sort of way - where you love the lyric but think the music's verging on the utter rubbish half the time.
Still, not sure I can see why it should be in the top 10, but there you go. :)
off topic - is this the hiding place of those with the sense to be avoiding the footy, then? I might go and listen to Londons Calling as well, in a bit.
'best albums of <i>all time'</i> Would that include the ones not yet released, then? That list is better than I thought.
Originally posted by KRW
off topic - is this the hiding place of those with the sense to be avoiding the footy, then? I might go and listen to Londons Calling as well, in a bit.
'best albums of <i>all time'</i> Would that include the ones not yet released, then? That list is better than I thought.
:lol:
It's as good a place as any I think. London's Calling has finished now, but the football has only just begun so it's time for "at Action Park" - not British but awesome nonetheless! :notworthy
Originally posted by TheoGB
Anyhow, I'm obviously in the right mood tonight and enjoying it, even if it's in a Manics sort of way - where you love the lyric but think the music's verging on the utter rubbish half the time.
:eek:
...release the hounds...
George vader
24-06-2004, 19:32
Originally posted by KRW
'best albums of <i>all time'</i> Would that include the ones not yet released, then? That list is better than I thought.
I presume when you're not studying porn you're studying grammar :oh-hum:
LouBarlow
24-06-2004, 19:37
Originally posted by Whiting
:eek:
...release the hounds...
Indeed, with this and his 'Love' comments last week, and his insistance that blur's eponymous duffer is one of the greatest 10 British records ever recorded, I have to seriously question his taste :lol:
;)
LouBarlow
24-06-2004, 19:38
Originally posted by TheoGB
True to my word I'm giving it another try as we speak. Got as far as Track 12 out of 19!! :nuts: This album's just too long on CD (I'm guessing there were four sides to the vinyl?).
:lol:
Yes Theo, it was a double album and so quite likely to have 4 sides :thinking: ;)
Originally posted by LouBarlow
:lol:
Yes Theo, it was a double album and so quite likely to have 4 sides :thinking: ;)
Which is what I meant. It doesn't actually say it was a double vinyl album anywhere on my CD. I was simply assuming as much, given the length. :p
Blur's fifth album is a fantastic effort! :D
Originally posted by Weaselbert
....having said that this has to be the worst one I have ever seen. 2 Dexy's Midnight Runners Albums
It's all about opinions......in my opinion "Searching For The Young Soul Rebels" would warrant a higher position than 54. :thumbs:
Originally posted by Whiting
The interesting thing with these lists isn't the albums that crop up time after time but the more, unusual entries.
Unhalf Bricking - Fairport Convention
That pops up in 'best' album lists a fair amount. Usually classed as the classic British folk album of the 60s/70s.
Originally posted by agnetha
That pops up in 'best' album lists a fair amount. Usually classed as the classic British folk album of the 60s/70s.
<cough>...I stand corrected....
...is it any cop ? :searchme:
Radiohead
25-06-2004, 20:38
It's usually very good, but I won't be buying it again if next months is '100 best American Albums of all time' etcetc.
You and me both....
Piper at the Gates of Dawn better than Dark Side of the Moon ?!
I don't think so....!
Piper at the Gates of Dawn better than Dark Side of the Moon ?!
I don't think so....!
I do.
George vader
30-06-2004, 19:39
What! no Ride-Leave Them All Behind, shoegazing 90's indie-pop classic.
No sign of The Cure, Iron Maiden, Marillion.... They just picked album names out of a hat, didn't they!
OK Computer imho isnt a great album. I own a copy and I hardly ever listen to it.
LouBarlow
30-06-2004, 22:46
OK Computer imho isnt a great album. I own a copy and I hardly ever listen to it.
Methinks its an album to be admired rather than listened to...
Methinks its an album to be admired rather than listened to...
Methinks albums are for listening to.
You know what irritates me about it every time I hear it? The drums sound screwed up, they just dont sound "right". It really gets on my tits.
Methinks albums are for listening to.
You know what irritates me about it every time I hear it? The drums sound screwed up, they just dont sound "right". It really gets on my tits.
They sound the same as when I play drums to me. :?:
I think it's a great album, and one I've listened to, and continue to listen to, a lot.
What I find most interesting about the list is how few votes it must have taken to get in. After all, if only one hundred people voted, there must have been a lot of albums that only got one or two mentions. I would guess that getting in only as few as two people's lists would have got you a place in the final poll.
The best thing about this is the last paragraph of Paul Morley's introduction - these lists should exist purely to encourage us to get hold of albums which would otherwise be lost if they didn't appear in them, and which also remind us of other albums which we think ought to appear in them.
On of the main reasons I became interested in artists like Gang Of Four, Nick Drake or The Fall was from seeing their albums in one of these types of lists. It's also the reason that next time I'm record shopping I might take a punt on Steel Pulse, Vashti Bunyan or the Young Disciples.
What! no Ride-Leave Them All Behind, shoegazing 90's indie-pop classic.
Leave them all behind is a single from the indie pop classic Going Blank Again ;)
Johnny Vodka
01-07-2004, 14:54
Methinks its an album to be admired rather than listened to...
Not at all, my man. I swear I played that album at least once every day for two years or so! :D
LouBarlow
01-07-2004, 15:02
Maybe it's just me, but whenever I hear it I think - oooooOO that's clever - that's admirable; it just doesn't touch me in the parts other music reaches...
As someone said above, music is to be listened to...erm... ;)
The squealing guitar and anger of Electioneering gets me every time. Lucky is one of my all time favourites too...
George vader
01-07-2004, 16:46
Leave them all behind is a single from the indie pop classic Going Blank Again ;)
God I'm an idiot, that's what I meant!!
:doh:
What a fine Top 10. Personally I think that second coming is a better album than their first.
What a fine Top 10. Personally I think that second coming is a better album than their first.
Second Coming is a fine album but Straight to the Man almost brings a tear to my eye when i hear it. Has any other album suffered from the inclusion of such a terrible song?
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