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Post by dolly on Oct 20, 2005 12:16:03 GMT -5
Oops - I've amended as I'd only put 20 - doh! Thanks Ken - LC will ALWAYS be my number 1 no matter what. No Beatles though - sorry  Hey Tunes - couldn't resist a list - and now it's half term - hooray! |
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Post by luke on Oct 20, 2005 12:51:40 GMT -5
A mix of faves and "all-time greats." Think this one is going to be the finalized version for me.
25. The Strokes- Is This It?
24. The Lemonheads- It's a Shame About Ray
23. Jesus and Mary Chain- Psychocandy
22. Joy Division- Closer
21. The Clash- London Calling
20. Metallica- Master of Puppets
19. New Order- Substance
18. TOOL- Aenima
17. The Smiths- The Queen is Dead
16. Stone Temple Pilots- Purple
15. U2- War
14. Nirvana- In Utero
13. Alice in Chains- Dirt
12. Modest Mouse- The Moon and Antarctica
11. The Pixies- Surfer Rosa
10. The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds
9. Stevie Wonder- Innervisions
8. Faith No More- Introduce Yourself
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers- Uplift Mofo Party Plan
6. The Rolling Stones- Exile on Main Street
5. Guns ‘N Roses- Appetite For Destruction
4. The Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
3. The Velvet Underground- s/t
2. The Pixies- Doolittle
1. The Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream
Were I to eliminate the two bands with more than one album, I'd have had room for The Downward Spiral and Shout at the Devil. Couldn't bring myself to do that, though.
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Post by georgeltirebiter on Oct 20, 2005 15:44:02 GMT -5
1. Highway 61 Revisited-Bob Dylan
2. Abbey Road- The Beatles
3. Velvet Underground-Velvet Underground
4. Streetcleaner- Godflesh
5. Pet Sounds- Beach Boys
6. White Album- The Beatles
7. White Light/White Heat-Velvet Underground
8. Low- Bowie
9. Anatomy of Addiction-God
10. Unknown Pleasures- Joy Division
11. Last Rites- Skinny Puppy
12 Definitely Maybe- Oasis
13. Homogenic-Bjork
14.Fear Of Music-Talking Heads
15. Mass Destruction- Curse of the Golden Vampire
16. Shipwrecked- Chris Connelly
17. Innervisions-Stevie Wonder
18. Daydream Nation- Sonic Youth
19. Another Green World- Eno
20. Complete Discography- Minor Threat
21. Discipline- King Crimson
22. On the Corner- Miles Davis
23. Jesu- Jesu
24. Beers, Steer, and Queers- Revolting Cocks
25. Love and Theft- Bob Dylan
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Post by rockysigman on Oct 20, 2005 15:44:50 GMT -5
I haven't started working on mine yet, but I sort of suspect that mine will also be devoid of Beatles albums. Hopefully my inclusion of London Calling at #2 will spare me of Ken's wrath.
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Post by Kensterberg on Oct 20, 2005 16:01:28 GMT -5
Rit -- is that the order you want? You know that your choice for number one will recieve many, many more points than your pick at number 25, right? (I can't say exactly what the scoring system will be, but it will be something similar to what I used for the bands lists).
Rocky -- I have a feeling that I'm not gonna be too upset with your choice for number one, either. I'm just finding it interesting that, after dominating the Greatest British Bands list, the Beatles aren't getting too much love on this poll. Very interesting ...
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Post by Rit on Oct 20, 2005 16:50:26 GMT -5
no, Ken, that's not the order it will be in... i'll put them in order by tonight.
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Post by georgeltirebiter on Oct 20, 2005 17:28:25 GMT -5
Opps, I got a jazz album on my list. Guess I don't follow instructions very well.
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Post by Mary on Oct 20, 2005 18:45:55 GMT -5
Ooooh, this should be fun.
Definitely won't be any Beatles on my list, either. But Rubber Soul might make a top 50 cut.
I'm actually feeling really torn about how to top this list off. I still worship ol' St. Nick, of course, but my period of single-minded fanaticism has waned, as it inevitably does with anyone who I develop an irrational religious fervor about, so I'm now reconsidering putting London Calling back at numero uno. Plus, given that this category does specify "rock and roll" - I dunno, there's something so bloody fuckin' rock and roll about that album, in a way that nick cave just isn't even trying for...
other random considerations for my list:
- not gonna include any rap albums. not because i think they have to be excluded from a rock and roll list, but rather because i feel like my own knowledge of rap is pretty weak and perfunctory, just including the big huge albums that every white person knows about, and thus i think including the utterly predictable public enemy album would really amount to a kind of vacuous tokenism. so, it's actually out of respect for rap that i'm not going to include rap on my list.
- not gonna include any live albums or greatest hits sets. this will have the painful result of banishing johnny cash and leonard cohen from my list, but i just think there's something fundamentally off about trying to compare a greatest hits set (especially) to something which was conceived as a coherent set of songs intended to go together.
- if indeed nick gets dethroned to make way for joe strummer once again, i will repay him in the end by being probably the only person on here to include a birthday party album in my top 25 list. thought maybe rit would.... but that chance has passed....
Cheers,
M
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Post by rockysigman on Oct 20, 2005 18:58:02 GMT -5
Rocky -- I have a feeling that I'm not gonna be too upset with your choice for number one, either. I get the feeling that you probably already know what it is. |
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Post by Kensterberg on Oct 20, 2005 19:03:24 GMT -5
Opps, I got a jazz album on my list. Guess I don't follow instructions very well. Go back and read the first several posts. The rules are, there are no rules. I think I said something like "if enough people think that Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is a great rock and roll album, then it will make the cut." Or somethin' ... |
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Post by Rit on Oct 20, 2005 19:38:52 GMT -5
Mary, go ahead and include the Birthday Party.
i forgot to, but if i had to choose one, i'd pick Junkyard
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Post by phil on Oct 20, 2005 21:16:04 GMT -5
"if enough people think that Miles Davis' Kind of Blue
is a great rock and roll album,...
Those people if they ever existed
really ought to have their head
(mostly their ears and brain) examined !!
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Post by Kensterberg on Oct 20, 2005 21:22:34 GMT -5
LOL Phil! I'm really enjoying some of the comments that this board has inspired ... though I'm (already) beginning to regret my "the rules are there are no rules" stance.
See, I started working on my own list today ... and came up with over sixty "worthy" albums right off the bat. I think that I'm gonna omit greatest hits sets from my list, with the possible exception of allowing forcompilitions of singles artists from the fifties or sixties (i.e. Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Motown, etc.). But I think live LPs should be included, and that's presenting lots of problems for me. All Mod Cons (currently my favorite Jam studio LP) or Dig the New Breed? How do I fit four Dylan studio LPs AND Live: 1966 into the top 25? How do I pick a reasonable number of Beatles and Springsteen LPs ...
Maybe I should have stuck with the original suggestion and allowed a hundred albums ... or at least fifty or somethin' ...
What do you guys think? Should we amend the rules? Suggestions? Sympathy?
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Post by Rit on Oct 20, 2005 21:30:22 GMT -5
25!
any more and the logistical ramifications would be too high. it would almost lose meaning as a project, as it would be a rather large list of albums... seeing as how people are picking a fairly diverse setlist for more than half of their individual lists..
imo, o'course.
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Post by Kensterberg on Oct 20, 2005 21:41:27 GMT -5
Yeah Rit, I'm afraid you're right ...
but I'm still hating cutting my list back to 25!
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