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Just stayed up to watch 4 hours of the top 100 albums of all time while supping half a bottle of JD.
There were some fantastic albums reviewed including some that I’d never heard of before like Nick Drake’s ‘Five Leaves Left’ and the and ‘Forever changes’ album from Love.
And yet, after all that, the band that was recognised (by UK channel 4 viewing dickheads) as the best album of all time was the album ‘Oh Computer’ by the classic protagonists of depressing drivel, Radiohead!!
Bunch o’bastards. Albums like Close To The Edge, Mezmerize (possibly too new to be included), Aqualung, Year of the Cat, Anything from Velvet Revolver (although they only have one album) didn’t even get a look-in – and worse still, absolutely no recognition for Mutter!!!!!
What the fuck is that all about?
St. Peppers only rated number 7!! Made be feel old 🙂
Well the people voting are for the most part younger than you. 😀 Also, they almost never get it right, even the people voting will disagree.
VH1 does shows about various songs like ’50 Best Power Ballads’ and ‘100 one hit wonders’ and the one I disagree with the most, ’50 Most Awsomely Bad Songs.’ Lookat this list, there are lots of songs in here that I like. And lots more that I may not have loved, but did not make me immediately change the radio station. 😆
You can hear clips of them here.
http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/50_most_awesomely_bad_songs/series_countdown.jhtml50 Sunglasses at Night Corey Hart <<< I like this one, listen to it occasionally even now.
49 I’ll Be Missing You Various Artists
48 Can I Touch You…There? [Album Version] Michael Bolton – Okay, this one does suck.
47 Something in Common Bobby Brown
46 Two Princes Spin Doctors
45 Sorry 2004 Ruben Studdard
44 We Didn’t Start the Fire Billy Joel <<< I like this one, listen to it occasionally even now.
43 Make Em Say Ugh, Pt. 2 Master P
42 Cotton Eye Joe Various Artists <<< YEE HAW Sucks really bad!
41 Some Girls (Dance With Women) JC Chasez
40 What’s Up? 4 Non Blondes –
39 Informer Snow
38 Mesmerize Ja Rule
37 From a Distance Bette Midler <<< I like this one, listen to it occasionally even now.
36 I Wanna Sex You Up Color Me Badd
35 Heartbeat Don Johnson
34 Butterfly Crazy Town
33 Jenny from the Block Jennifer Lopez
32 Broken Wings Mr. Mister <<< I liked this one.
31 You Remind Me of Something R. Kelly
30 Pimp Juice Nelly
29 I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That) Meat Loaf
28 Never Gonna Give You Up Rick Astley <<< I don’t know how this one could have been so horrible, I know lots of people who liked it.
27 Rump Shaker Wreckx n Effect
26 The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You Bryan Adams
25 You Rock My World Michael Jackson
24 Sussudio Phil Collins <<< This was not that bad. Made no sense, but did not prompt me to change stations.
23 Thong Song Sisqó
22 Dancing on the Ceiling Lionel Richie <<< Hey it was the 80’s lots of people liked this one.
21 I’ll Be There for You [Theme from Friends] Various Artists
20 Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American) Toby Keith
19 You’re the Inspiration Chicago <<< Not a thing wrong with this one.
18 Pumps and a Bump Hammer
17 I’m Too Sexy Right Said Fred
16 The Final Countdown Europe <<< I loved the hook on this one, too bad the other lyrics bit.
15 MMM, MMM, MMM, MMM Crash Test Dummies
14 Will 2k [Featuring K-Ci] Will Smith
13 Barbie Girl Aqua
12 Hangin’ Tough New Kids on the Block
11 Rico Suave Gerardo
10 The Heart of Rock & Roll Huey Lewis <<< Bouncy little tune, Huey Lewis, what’s not to like?
9 Don’t Worry, Be Happy Various Artists <<< This was a kids song for crying out loud. TheNeices loved it.
8 She Bangs Ricky Martin <<< I like the William Hung cover better.
7 Party All the Time Eddie Murphy
6 Breakfast At Tiffany’s Deep Blue Something
5 Ice Ice Baby Vanilla Ice
4 Rollin’ (Urban Assault Vehicle) Limp Bizkit
3 Everybody Have Fun Tonight Wang Chung
2 Achy Breaky Heart Billy Ray Cyrus
1 We Built This City Starship <<< I liked this one, how can it be worst?Here’s a link to that Channel 4 list of so-called Greatest Albums: http://www.xs4all.nl/~fsgroen/Top100’s/2005Channel4.html
The Channel 4 panel of music industry experts selected 125 classic albums for the listeners to chose from – a list that contained classic works from the likes of Elvis Presley, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Sex Pistols and Dusty Springfield, right through to current chart acts The Streets and Scissor Sisters. The list was [originally] broadcasted [sic] on Sunday April 17th 2005.
So-called “Greatest” lists do tend to irritate me. How does one make it truly objective? Favourites as selected by whomever are fine.
While some of my favourite albums are there, and quite a few of my fave bands, it certainly doesn’t coincide that much with my tastes.
No Yes, no Jethro Tull, no King Crimson, no Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, no Rush, no Roxy Music, and no classic Genesis (which is what I’m mostly listening to these days).
Though I would probably rate Sgt. Peppers at number one (think Abbey Road is my fave), my favourites list would be on the prog rock heavy side (and like Sgt. Peppers, Dark Side of the Moon, Tommy etc., it would be on the concept album heavy side).
Yes, Fragile; Genesis, Selling England By the Pound and Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and a few others; Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Tarkus; Jethro Tull, Aqualung; King Crimson, In The Court of the Crimson King; Rush, Hemispheres, Alan Parson’s Project, Tales of Mystery and Imagination and I Robot would make my list. As would Gary Numan’s Replicas.
As for listed bands: Pink Floyd and the Who being a couple fave bands: a great album, but Dark Side of the Moon bores me a bit these days. Rather see Wish You Were Here, Animals, Medley, or The Wall. For The Who, Tommy is another great album, but I may prefer Quadrophenia and Who’s Next. As for Bowie, good choice.
Hmmm.
I can’t figure out why The Odd Couple’s cover of You’re So Vain and Milton Berle singing Yellow Submarine (I even hate the Beatle’s version of this) aren’t on the worst list.
Um, Fabio’s Love Attack, maybe, too.
The albums I recognise from the good list seem to be influential in some way. As in they started a new sound trend (or were the first to break through with an underground sound), however long or short that trend lasted. None of them sound like any other album on the list, for instance.
In fact, for many of them I can remember the first time I heard a release from them and thinking things like, “Hey, this is going to change things.” Then listening in horror when lame imitators showed up a few months later to cash in.
Here’s a prog list that coincides pretty closely to my tastes… In fact, I discovered several great albums and rediscovered many more half-rememberted ones from it — and similar lists…
From http://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp
YES
Close to the Edge
GENESIS
Selling England By The Pound
PINK FLOYD
Dark Side of the Moon
JETHRO TULL
Thick As A Brick
GENESIS
Foxtrot
PINK FLOYD
Wish You Were Here
KING CRIMSON
In the Court of the Crimson King
GENESIS
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
YES
Fragile
GENESIS
Nursery Cryme
CAMEL
The Snow Goose
RUSH
Moving Pictures
KING CRIMSON
Red
DREAM THEATER
Scenes From A Memory Metropolis Part II
RUSH
Hemispheres
YES
Relayer
PINK FLOYD
Animals
VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR
Pawn Hearts
CAMEL
Mirage
RIVERSIDE
Second Life Syndrome
KING CRIMSON
Larks’ Tongues in Aspic
GENTLE GIANT
Octopus
PORCUPINE TREE
In Absentia
PINK FLOYD
Meddle
GENTLE GIANT
In a Glass House
CAMEL
Moonmadness
ANGLAGARD
Hybris
PINK FLOYD
The Wall
JETHRO TULL
Aqualung
MARILLION
Script for a Jester’s Tear
CARAVAN
In The Land Of Grey And Pink
RUSH
A Farewell to Kings
DREAM THEATER
Images And Words
YES
The YES Album
TOOL
Lateralus
GENESIS
A Trick Of The Tail
VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR
Still Life
FOCUS
Hamburger Concerto
SUPERTRAMP
Crime of the Century
RUSH
2112
OPETH
Ghost Reveries
GENTLE GIANT
The Power And The Glory
PORCUPINE TREE
Coma Divine Live
GENTLE GIANT
Free Hand
EMERSON LAKE & PALMER (ELP)
Brain Salad Surgery
VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR
H to He, Who Am the Only One
VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR
Godbluff
RUSH
Permanent Waves
PAIN OF SALVATION
The Perfect Element Part 1
AYREON
The Human Equation
MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA
Birds of Fire
ZAPPA, FRANK
Hot Rats
MARILLION
Misplaced Childhood
GENTLE GIANT
Playing The Fool – The Official Live
LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT
Liquid Tension Experiment 2
PAIN OF SALVATION
Remedy Lane
HATFIELD AND THE NORTH
The Rotters’ Club
EMERSON LAKE & PALMER (ELP)
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
YES
Yessongs
PREMIATA FORNERIA MARCONI (PFM)
Per Un Amico
GENESIS
Seconds Out
HACKETT, STEVE
Voyage Of The Acolyte
PORCUPINE TREE
The Sky Moves Sideways
GENTLE GIANT
Three Friends
YES
Going for the One
OPETH
Still Life
GENESIS
Trespass
IQ
Dark Matter
QUEENSRYCHE
Operation: Mindcrime
ORME, LE
Felona e Sorona
GENESIS
Wind And Wuthering
OPETH
Blackwater Park
EMERSON LAKE & PALMER (ELP)
Trilogy
CAMEL
A Live Record
DREAM THEATER
Live at Budokan
RIVERSIDE
Out Of Myself
GRYPHON
Red Queen to Gryphon Three
HARMONIUM
Si on avait besoin d’une 5ième Saison
JETHRO TULL
Songs From The Wood
OLDFIELD, MIKE
Tubular Bells
DREAM THEATER
Awake
WAKEMAN, RICK
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
PREMIATA FORNERIA MARCONI (PFM)
Storia Di Un Minuto
KANSAS
Leftoverture
PARSONS PROJECT, ALAN
Tales of Mystery and Imagination – Edgar Allan Poe
QUEEN
Queen II*
MARS VOLTA, THE
De-loused in the Comatorium
BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO
Darwin!
GENTLE GIANT
Acquiring The Taste
PORCUPINE TREE
Deadwing
TOOL
Ænima
YES
Tales From Topographic Oceans
ARK (NOR)
Burn The Sun
MUSEO ROSENBACH
Zarathustra
IQ
The Seventh House
UK
U.K.
MOSTLY AUTUMN
The Last Bright Light
OLDFIELD, MIKE
Amarok
COLLAGE
Moonshine
IQ
EverSome particual favourite 70’s prog albums du jour: Camel’s Mirage, The Snow Goose, and Moonmadness. Gryphon’s Red Queen to Gryphon Three and Midnight Mushrumps. Caravan’s In the Land of Grey and Pink (Nine Feet Underground is awesome), and an old band that I’ve only recently got into in a really big way is Gentle Giant, and I would list pretty much any of their first seven abums as extremely good (though, sadly, not that well-known).
Great List Logan, thanks – I’ll have tyo check some of those out – I’m a big Prog Rock fan but haven’t heard opf some of the bands.
In the meantime guys, why not checkout the wonderfully cool http://www.pandora.com
It’s prolly the best site in the world for discovering new music similar to stuff you like.
It’s by the people who setup the Music Gnome Project. You can simply enter the name of a song or artist and it automatically creates your own personal radio station of similar songs! You can mark ones you don’t like and it takes them (and songs like them) out of the playlist.
Amazingly, you can have up to 100 personal radio stations so you can listen you your fave music whatever mood yer in.
Been away from the site for a little while and only just read your post now. What a cool service. Just starting it now so it’ll take me a little while to get to know it more (must register now).
I’ll say for now that one reason I love that progarchives link is that they have streaming songs hosted for the bands they list if you check on the album pages. A feature I han’t used ’til now due to an agressive program running on my non Sad-friendly browser (i.e hasn’t JAP funning) that edits it out.
For instance, at a Genesis page (click) they have 9 songs including, a personal favourite of theirs, The Cinema Show.
Decided to try The Cinema Show at pandora (a Gabriel prog-era Genesis song) and the song it came up with as similar was a poppy Collins’ Genesis song on my first attempt. Still, I’m sure I’ll discover a lot of great music I like with it as I use the program more, thanks for the link!
Forgot to mention Hamburger Concerto by Focus in my personal list before
Yep, it takes some tweeking but you can give a thumbs up or thumbs down to songs (it then re-jigs the list taking this into consideration).
Also, you can add other fave songs to this list.
By the way (non US peeps), you need to register and because of licensing, you need to enter a zip code to prove that you are resident in the US 😀
Hehe. Of course, all I did was type a 5 figure number beginning with 100 which is somewhere in New York, and it let me in no problem. I now have three different personal Radio Stations – one for heavy, one for Prog and one for easy listening.
We need something like this for Sci Fi shows!
I find http://www.last.fm/ a better service than pandora for discovering music I like, but the overall Pandora service is good.
Sad, if you enjoy prog and are not that familiar with the group, I suggest you give Gentle Giant a chance (I like the first eight albums of theirs). It is something of an acquired taste though.
I really wish the list hadn’t skipped one of my all-time favourite albums, Focus’ Hamburger Concerto. Some call Focus a one hit wonder for Harem Scarem (that classic rock yodelling song)… I don’t equate quality with commercial success (e.g. radio hits) — they came out with some great 70’s albums.
We should come out with a Sadgeezer’s Guide to Cult Albums. 😛
not really in the same subject, but kinda:
http://www.milinkito.com/los80.php
has tons of 80’s videos. They play real easy, not lag time uploading or anything.
enjoy!
Ahhhh…….just watched A-ha’s “Take on Me”,
good times, good times
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