Farin Posted August 2, 2006 Report Posted August 2, 2006 The Top 50 Albums of Our Time We're tired of "Best Ever" album lists that ignore everything we've ever heard in favor of some obscure record from a neo-jazz futurist who played the zither back in the '60s. Hey, here's a news flash: There actually WAS good music recorded after 1990. Great music, in fact. Like, um, maybe...ALL OF RAP. Sheesh. Here at UGO, we're celebrating revisionist thinking and the now (or, near-now) and listing the Top 50 Albums of Our Time. See where your favorites stand and prepare to debate as we count 'em down. there are a lot of albums, besides Rap, but all from past 1990... I think it would be interesting to hear your comments/thoughts about it... The Top 50 Albums of Our Time
MotoRacerX36 Posted August 2, 2006 Report Posted August 2, 2006 I absolutely agree that TLC - CrazySexyCool should be in the top 50 of all time. WTF ever. Time for a new list.
The Seeker Posted August 2, 2006 Report Posted August 2, 2006 Well, actually this is my time too, and it's scary to see how few I know.
Tenacious_Peaches Posted August 2, 2006 Report Posted August 2, 2006 I think it's a fine list. I don't agree with all of it, but I am glad to see some good rap albums in there. And I loved "CrazySexyCool", by the way. Just because it isn't your scene doesn't mean it isn't relevant or influential.
Batman Posted August 2, 2006 Report Posted August 2, 2006 In my opinion... In The Aeroplane Over the Sea should be a lot higher Speakerboxxx/The Love Below should be replaced by Stankonia Siamese Dream should be replaced by Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Chronic definitely should not be higher than It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back The Holy Bible should be somewhere on the list Doolittle should be somewhere on the list Disintegration should be somewhere on the list Daydream Nation should be somewhere on the list Endtroducing... should be somewhere on the list That's all for now
TheLizard Posted August 2, 2006 Report Posted August 2, 2006 Absolution should be somewhere on the list.
Lucky Posted August 3, 2006 Report Posted August 3, 2006 What should or shouldn't be there, I don't really know. What surprised me was that I actually owned at least 10 of them. I'm more up to date than I thought...and Peaches, I liked CrazySexyCool too.
Shawna Posted August 3, 2006 Report Posted August 3, 2006 Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers: Americano! Sonoran Hope and Madness Honky Tonk Union Real to Reel And The Refreshments Bottle and Fresh Horses Fizzy Fuzzy Big and Buzzy and Wheelie should be on that list, too.
Batman Posted August 3, 2006 Report Posted August 3, 2006 Absolution should be somewhere on the list. By Muse? It's good, but it's not that good. It also seems to be showing little/no influence.
MindCrime Posted August 3, 2006 Report Posted August 3, 2006 It's nice to see they included Rancid's 1995 album ...And Out Come the Wolves. One of my all-time favorite punk albums that is often overlooked on these lists. The list would've been more complete with Dirt ~ Alice in Chains; Aenema ~ Tool; OK Computer ~ Radiohead; & a few others that didn't make it in. {IMO}
Farin Posted August 3, 2006 Author Report Posted August 3, 2006 OK Computer is actually on #15, but I agree with Tool, and I would have liked maybe Foo Fighters~ Doo Fighters, but I could be biased on that one...
RonJonSurfer Posted August 3, 2006 Report Posted August 3, 2006 My age is once again revealed by my lack of knowing many of these albums or artists. However, i will say the number one pick of Nirvana's "Nevermind" was very predictable. It may be the right pick, and I think it's pretty good, but I figured it had to be the top album.
blind-fitter Posted August 3, 2006 Report Posted August 3, 2006 (edited) In my opinion... Doolittle should be somewhere on the list Daydream Nation should be somewhere on the list Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation: fantastic album, released in 1988, so does not meet the "Albums Of Our Time" criteria. Pixies' Doolittle: very good album, released in 1989, so does not meet...etc., etc. P.S. However, "It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back" by Public Enemy, another album I rate very highly, does make it into this chart, despite being released in 1988. Edited August 3, 2006 by Guest Addition of P.S.
Levis Posted August 3, 2006 Report Posted August 3, 2006 My age is once again revealed by my lack of knowing many of these albums or artists. However, i will say the number one pick of Nirvana's "Nevermind" was very predictable. It may be the right pick, and I think it's pretty good, but I figured it had to be the top album. Ditto. I expected to see it at number one. Predictable, but that was the biggest sound of the 90s.
MindCrime Posted August 3, 2006 Report Posted August 3, 2006 Oh Ok farinu, thanks for pointing that out, I guess I must've overlooked it at #15 when scrolling down the list. There's a few albums from the 90's that I could think of that were well-deserving on that list, & a few on there, that I haven't heard of before.
blind-fitter Posted August 3, 2006 Report Posted August 3, 2006 I can relate to this selection much better than I usually do to "Top 50 Albums" lists. Plenty of my "top albums" in there: Ill Communication, It Takes A Nation Of Millions..., Odelay, Nevermind, as well as SuperUnknown which i've only got into more recently. Mind you, it's pretty Americo-centric: it's interesting (to me) to see how small is the impact of music from the UK (and elsewhere) on US tastes past and present. Off the top of my head, I would suggest Pulp's "Different Class" as an outstanding album of the 90s, also PJ Harvey's "To Bring You My Love". More recently there have been Franz Ferdinand's debut and The Arctic Monkeys "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not", Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds "Abattoir Blues/Lyre Of Orpheus". Also: shouldn't The Butthole Surfers be represented here? "Electric Larryland" maybe?
Farin Posted August 3, 2006 Author Report Posted August 3, 2006 Mind you, it's pretty Americo-centric: it's interesting (to me) to see how small is the impact of music from the UK (and elsewhere) on US tastes past and present. Welcome to my world...
MindCrime Posted August 3, 2006 Report Posted August 3, 2006 Was Bush's 16 Stone on the list? That album had enough airplay to make it in, since it's a pretty trendy mainstream list based on ratings & such. :sick:
blind-fitter Posted August 3, 2006 Report Posted August 3, 2006 Bush. Funnily enough, even though they're British hardly anybody over here likes Bush . They're relatively unheard of. More often than not, they were treated as a bit of a joke. Personally, I thought they were OK. "Everything Zen" is a cracking track. And they had sufficiently good taste to get Steve Albini in to produce them.
daslied Posted August 3, 2006 Report Posted August 3, 2006 They were pretty big here post-Nirvana. I hated them.
Jenny Posted August 3, 2006 Report Posted August 3, 2006 I only have 8 from that list....I made big list of what I want to get or listen to, though....
Danielj Posted August 4, 2006 Report Posted August 4, 2006 "All of RAP".. . Is that even gramatically correct?
TheLizard Posted August 4, 2006 Report Posted August 4, 2006 Even if it is, the complete sentence isn't. "Like, um, maybe...ALL OF RAP." It's hard to make a good case for "all of rap" when one uses a sentence like that.
HardRain Posted August 4, 2006 Report Posted August 4, 2006 Some weird choices there. Pulp Fiction soundtrack over Singles? Midnight Marauders over The Low End Theory? Tom Joad over The Rising? Illmatic? Grace? Ready To Die? Crooked Rain? Bee Thousand? Did they forget '94 happened? Some others: Dirt, Elliott Smith, Time Out Of Mind, The Moon & Antarctica, Steady Diet of Nothing, Funeral, Exile In Guyville, Angel Dust, Loveless, and so on.
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