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1001 albums before you die

i shit and i stinki shit and i stink Posts: 1,122
edited January 2009 in The Porch
I've just looked at this list and, as usual with these things, it is largely subjective, quite obvious and utterly pointless. Normally, I'd pay it no mind, but I got looking for the PJ entries and then I got mad - there is only (predictably!) 'Ten'.

So, just from the 1990's... I should run out and buy Ride, St Etienne, KD Lang, a lot of Morrisey albums, Sebadoh and the Boo Radleys but won't bother with VS or VITALOGY?!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1001_Album ... re_You_Die
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  • say_hisay_hi Posts: 312
    timmyshee wrote:
    So, just from the 1990's... I should run out and buy Ride, St Etienne, KD Lang, a lot of Morrisey albums, Sebadoh and the Boo Radleys but won't bother with VS or VITALOGY?!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1001_Album ... re_You_Die

    You sould get a lot of Morrissey albums, he is AWESOME!!!
    4/30/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/8/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03, 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05, 5/4/06 (Letterman Mini-Concert), 5/5/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09, 5/15/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10
  • i shit and i stinki shit and i stink Posts: 1,122
    Yes, I have almost all Morrisey albums and some of the above, but what I wanted to say was that if someone landed from another planet and wanted to get 1001 albums to listen to, I reckon VS would be a better listen than St Etienne or Ride.
    we're all going to the same place...
  • pretextpretext Posts: 1,294
    Oh my god! I am so unlearned!
    There's always plenty to debate with these lists. Pleasant surprises, like Gillian Welch's Time (The Revelator), which I think everyone should listen on every fall evening. Ridiculousness, like Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie...over anything else by PJ. Multiple Public Image, Ltd? And strange selections from any given artist: Tom Waits - Bone Machine and Swordfishtrombones, but no Closing Time, Small Change or even Mule Variations?!?
    Anyway.
  • i shit and i stinki shit and i stink Posts: 1,122
    lralle wrote:
    Oh my god! I am so unlearned!
    There's always plenty to debate with these lists. Pleasant surprises, like Gillian Welch's Time (The Revelator), which I think everyone should listen on every fall evening. Ridiculousness, like Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie...over anything else by PJ. Multiple Public Image, Ltd? And strange selections from any given artist: Tom Waits - Bone Machine and Swordfishtrombones, but no Closing Time, Small Change or even Mule Variations?!?
    Anyway.

    Agreed, there is plenty to debate. I suppose 1001 isn't many when you start talking about 50 odd years of music.

    The Tom Wiats selections are strange, I couldn't see Blue Valentine. It also seems strange that Meat Puppets 2 is there and not 'Up On The Sun'... or that there are so many Morrisey albums, but only 'Meat Is Murder' and 'The Queen Is Dead'...

    Nice to see Neu 75 in there, very much underrated group. When people think Germany they get as far as Rammstein, Can and Kraftwerk, but Neu were great.
    we're all going to the same place...
  • Dirt Like MeDirt Like Me Posts: 204
    Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water?

    Goodbye list.
    Let the ocean swell, dissolve 'way my past
  • i shit and i stinki shit and i stink Posts: 1,122
    Dirt Like Me wrote:
    Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water?

    Goodbye list.

    Oh God, I hadn't seen that!
    You're right, goodbye list, 'cos if that is better than Vitalogy this selection isn't worth wiping my ass with.
    we're all going to the same place...
  • JP180351JP180351 Posts: 14
    Alot of that list is BS.
    I think I could lie comfortably in my grave w/o ever suffering through a whole album of Mariah Carey's dog whistle squeaks or Tori Amos's breathless whimpers.

    Missing from that list is Frank Zappa/Butthole Surfers - Bongo Fury.
    This disk will def get you off your death bed and back on the dance floor.
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