100 Greatest Albums

Originally posted by Shadow Leader@Apr 16 2005, 02:07 PM


I've never heard of half the stuff you bang on about so they can't be that good!
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Thats because i actually SEARCH for the music i buy,i try and look for underground acts that haven`t been stripped bare by corporate record companies.I dont just read the fucking NME and listen to what they tell me to.
 
Originally posted by BrianH@Apr 16 2005, 10:46 AM



Rolling Stone's Top 500 albums of All Time (The first 100)
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Er is it me or was there a distinct lack of albums post 1985 on that list.Pathetic....where was Radiohead and The Smiths.Yanks have no idea about music,i mean how can they have The Clash in the top ten and the Pistols nowhere???
 
No need to be so patronising, Euronymous.....I also have the ability to pick out music that isn't so well known. My point being that if the stuff you listen to was so fabulous, more people would listen to it - you are ever so quick to rubbish the music other people listen to.

Oh, and I never read NME, I don't rate it, so again, don't patronise me on that front.
 
Originally posted by Shadow Leader@Apr 16 2005, 04:18 PM
No need to be so patronising, Euronymous.....I also have the ability to pick out music that isn't so well known.  My point being that if the stuff you listen to was so fabulous, more people would listen to it - you are ever so quick to rubbish the music other people listen to.





Oh, and I never read NME, I don't rate it, so again, don't patronise me on that front.
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Well the whole ethos behind the underground bands i listen to is to stay underground.My favourite band are called Darkthrone,they have been releasing albums since 1989 and are quite popular (in a cultish way...you`ll find their CD`s in HMV for example).But they dont want mass popularity and there music is incredibly grim,dark and in the main very unpalatable.Nowt to do with an inability to be popular...simply a lack of desire.




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The point of my posts on this thread is to wonder why bands like AC/DC,Sabbath even Iron Maiden are always totally ignored on these sort of lists DESPITE vast popularity.

I didn`t mean to be patronising,i`m just a bit over-passionate about music sometimes.But i have listened to a lot of indie over the years and consider The Pixies,Husker Du and The Smiths to be amongst the finest bands of the last quarter century.The current indie scene however (Franz Ferdinand excepted) seems dull to me and all very samey.
 
Fair enough - I like indie music though and I'm not a fan of the likes of Black Sabbath, AC/DC etc either. I like a lot of the stuff that Will mentions, and more besides. I like a good band that play their own instruments & I cannot abide a lot of the poppy stuff that is in the charts now.

As for the greatest albums - Pink Floyd's The Wall would be my vote, it's fantastic. Brothers In Arms would have to be up there too. Personally I think the COunting Crows' August And Everything After is one of the best albums made bu I can't see it making the line up somehow!
 
Hmmm, the stuff that Morrissey is churning out these days is diabolical, dull and dirge-like. The man himself is an idiot, too.
 
he does have some random song titles....Morrissey.

The new oasis song is poor by the way, i was gonna add another p word in front of poor but better not...
 
Originally posted by archie@Apr 17 2005, 06:43 PM
Any survey which has Forever Changes only at 83 is hopelessly flawed.
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As well as any list that contains horsepoo like The Police and Eminem
 
voted by the public guys so dont expect miracles...i doubt Jeff Buckley Grace will be in it, what can you do...
 
"Happy Mondays one of the greatest Rock n Roll bands ever"...Tony Wilson is a twat....Happy Mondays were totally sh1te.
This list is so bad...Happy Mondays ahead of Marvin Gaye.Unbelievable.

But is Wilson as big a nomark as Noel Gallagher? He really excelled himself with the Libertines best since Oasis comment.
mmmm Libertines.If i commented on them i would be barred from this forum.
think happy thoughts think happy thoughts
 
There is something about mary on itv, if this is getting to you so much. U know, u dont have to watch it......
 
Originally posted by Will@Apr 17 2005, 08:35 PM
There is something about mary on itv, if this is getting to you so much. U know, u dont have to watch it......
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I know,i just cant help myself :angry:
 
I own 50 of the albums from the Rolling Stone top 100, and 28 from the Ch4 one. You can draw your own conclusions as to how I feel about the Ch4 one from that.
 
For those who don't know, this was the final 100. Frank got in at 43, though The Wee Small Hours should have made it as well. But there are much better complaints than that to be made...

1. RADIOHEAD - OK Computer
2. U2 - The Joshua Tree
3. NIRVANA - Nevermind
4. MICHAEL JACKSON - Thriller
5. PINK FLOYD - Dark Side of the Moon
6. OASIS - Definitely Maybe
7. THE BEATLES - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
8. MADONNA - Like a Prayer
9. GUNS N' ROSES - Appetite For Destruction
10. THE BEATLES - Revolver
11. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
12. THE BEATLES - The White Album
13. QUEEN - A Night at the Opera
14. COLDPLAY - Parachutes
15. OASIS - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
16. ALANIS MORISSETTE - Jagged Little Pill
17. LED ZEPPELIN - Led Zeppelin IV
18. THE VERVE - Urban Hymns
19. JIMI HENDRIX - Are you Experienced
20. THE SMITHS - The Queen Is Dead
21. JOHN LENNON - Imagine
22. RADIOHEAD - The Bends
23. BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS - Exodus
24. THE STONE ROSES - The Stone Roses
25. SIMON AND GARFUNKEL - Bridge Over Troubled Water
26. BJORK - Debut
27. THE DOORS - The Doors
28. ABBA - Arrival
29. MICHAEL JACKSON - Off the Wall
30. DURAN DURAN - Rio
31. SEX PISTOLS - Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
32. DAVID BOWIE - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
33. THE BEACH BOYS - Pet Sounds
34. JOY DIVISION - Closer
35. THE ROLLING STONES - Let It Bleed
36. BLUR - Parklife
37. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Born to Run
38. BILLIE HOLIDAY - Lady Sings the Blues
39. THE WHITE STRIPES - Elephant
40. BLACK SABBATH - Paranoid
41. THE SPECIALS - Specials
42. THE ROLLING STONES - Exile on Main Street
43. FRANK SINATRA - Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
44. THE CLASH - London Calling
45. THE PRODIGY - The Fat of the Land
46. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - The Velvet Underground and Nico
47. DIRE STRAITS - Brothers in Arms
48. PIXIES - Doolittle
49. ARETHA FRANKLIN - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
50. THE LIBERTINES - The Libertines
51. HAPPY MONDAYS - Pills 'N' Thrills and Bellyaches
52. PATTI SMITH - Horses
53. THE WHO - Tommy
54. LOU REED - Transformer
55. BOB DYLAN - Blood on the Tracks
56. PRINCE - Sign 'o' the Times
57. DIDO - No Angel
58. AIR - Moon Safari
59. ELTON JOHN - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
60. THE JAM - All Mod Cons
61. JEFF BUCKLEY - Grace
62. FLEETWOOD MAC - Rumours
63. MOBY - Play
64. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
65. THE POLICE - Synchronicity
66. JONI MITCHELL - Blue
67. CURTIS MAYFIELD - Superfly
68. ELVIS PRESLEY - The Sun Sessions
69. OUTKAST - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
70. PULP - Different Class
71. KRAFTWERK - Trans-Europe Express
72. MASSIVE ATTACK - Blue Lines
73. BECK - Odelay
74. STEVIE WONDER - Songs in the Key of Life
75. KATE BUSH - Hounds of Love
76. TALKING HEADS - Fear of Music
77. EMINEM - The Marshall Mathers LP
78. MARVIN GAYE - What's Going On
79. GEORGE MICHAEL - Faith
80. SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER - The Original Movie Soundtrack
81. PRIMAL SCREAM - Screamadelica
82. JOHN COLTRANE - A Love Supreme
83. LOVE - Forever Changes
84. PAUL SIMON - Graceland
85. NICK DRAKE - Five Leaves Left
86. MEAT LOAF - Bat Out of Hell
87. DUSTY SPRINGFIELD - Dusty in Memphis
88. DE LA SOUL - 3 Feet High and Rising
89. THE STROKES - Is this It
90. MADNESS - One Step Beyond...
91. ROBBIE WILLIAMS - I've Been Expecting You
92. NEIL YOUNG - After the Gold Rush
93. PUBLIC ENEMY - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
94. BLONDIE - Parallel Lines
95. THE EAGLES - Hotel California
96. JAMES BROWN - Sex Machine
97. THE STREETS - A Grand Don't Come for Free
98. DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
99. ROD STEWART - Every Picture Tells a Story
100. The HUMAN LEAGUE - Dare!
 
Meat Loaf only scrambled in at 86 - For an album that was in the charts for decades that seems extraordinary. I've bought 5 copies of it myself. one record got scratched from overplaying, the second was upgraded to CD, then the CD got scratched. The next went missing, around the time we had a tiler in, and I glared at him daily till he was finished, only to find, months later, that the CD had been slotted into a small gap at the back of my PC, by small fingers, along with a few coins and keys. So I now have one at home and one for the car.

I have a total of 3 (maybe 4) of the above albums - although I have a fair few of the songs from greatest hits albums.
 
That's the worst Top xyz list I've ever seen. OK Computer is not as good as The Bends. Nevermind at 3??? No Bob Dylan anywhere. Shocking. Not to mention a comlpete lack of Crowded House and Smashing Pumpkins. :D

Mellon Collie for instance in addition to being brilliant sold around 10 million copies. DISGRACE.

Also, what retard on the judging panel only put in Blood On The Tracks, probably not one of Dylan's top 5.

I'm beginning to think the general public shouldn't be allowed decide stuff.
 
I thought that the programme was entertaining due to the fact that it was a bit 'all things to all people'. There is no way that this was a 'voted' list. Robert Mugabe would have come up with a more democratic list than this.

Having said that, it was fairly good TV and people are talking about it, so it was a success.
 
I'm seething about that programme for several reasons but mainly because The Who only get in for the relatively mediocre Tommy (not even one of their top three albums), while their magnum opus Who's Next is nowhere to be seen :angry:

Nick Drake should have been much, much higher with Five Leaves Left (Bryter Layter should also have been included).

Also - Pet Sounds no higher than 33? Pah.
 
Who's Next is a great album. Not complaining about it being out of the top 100 but Deloused In The Comatorium by The Mars Volta is an excellent album for anyone interested in interesting music. :D
 
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