USA Today's top 40 albums
12-06-03, 12:51 PM
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USA Today's top 40 albums
Pretty boring but a couple interesting picks.
Here are some thoughts.
1. I'm amazed/apalled at some of the albums they chose in light of the artists' other work*.
2. I also don't understand the point in roundly dismissing concept albums (especially considering The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust is about as conceptual as you get).
3. The arbitrary dismissal of Sgt. Pepper's doesn't seem like an attempt to really place any value on other albums, but an effort to seem alternative (while laying down Revolver and Pet Sounds and Exile on Main St. and and and... like shotgun blasts - hey hey).
4. Wouldn't a top 40 list -listed by year- make more sense if it was from, say, the last 40 years. I guess '85 just wasn't Tom Waits year...
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*What I'm really trying to say is that I can't believe she ranked Automatic for the People but not Murmur.
Here are some thoughts.
1. I'm amazed/apalled at some of the albums they chose in light of the artists' other work*.
2. I also don't understand the point in roundly dismissing concept albums (especially considering The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust is about as conceptual as you get).
3. The arbitrary dismissal of Sgt. Pepper's doesn't seem like an attempt to really place any value on other albums, but an effort to seem alternative (while laying down Revolver and Pet Sounds and Exile on Main St. and and and... like shotgun blasts - hey hey).
4. Wouldn't a top 40 list -listed by year- make more sense if it was from, say, the last 40 years. I guess '85 just wasn't Tom Waits year...
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*What I'm really trying to say is that I can't believe she ranked Automatic for the People but not Murmur.
12-06-03, 02:23 PM
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What's the difference between a "formal" concept album and a "daring" concept album, other than the fact that one isn't allowed, and the other made the list?
12-06-03, 04:52 PM
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I was going to give this list a 
based on the absence of any Eminem album...
...until I saw number 39...
And re: Sign 'O' the Times...if you want to get really technical...that is a soundtrack. Granted, it's a "Concert" film...but, still...
based on the absence of any Eminem album......until I saw number 39...
And re: Sign 'O' the Times...if you want to get really technical...that is a soundtrack. Granted, it's a "Concert" film...but, still...
12-06-03, 08:39 PM
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Originally posted by sararekuforever
Why in the world is Eminem always on these lists? An autobiography only matters when someone is of importance, not some vulgar freak from Detroit
Why in the world is Eminem always on these lists? An autobiography only matters when someone is of importance, not some vulgar freak from Detroit
no jashua tree???
12-09-03, 08:27 AM
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No freakin Elvis Presley?
Any record from the 50's deserves to be on every and any list..
No freakin Elvis Presley?
Any record from the 50's deserves to be on every and any list..
ETA - I hit send too early. A hearty
for the first album. It's long been one of my favorites.
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good one!
12-09-03, 09:51 PM
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Originally posted by wendersfan
Only if you allow compilations or greatest hits. His 50's albums had a lot of filler. And before you bring it up, The Sun Sessions may have been recorded in the 50's, but it's really a compilation album released in the mid-70's.
Only if you allow compilations or greatest hits. His 50's albums had a lot of filler. And before you bring it up, The Sun Sessions may have been recorded in the 50's, but it's really a compilation album released in the mid-70's.
Yes, I know the sun sessions is from the 70's...even so..its an essential to rock n roll.
Sure Elvis had some filler, but who didnt? Even the Beatles had some fillers..
Back then a "record" was a single with a B-side..
So they technically should just list "Thats all right"..
Or just about any of his singles from 56
