Just make a list of your top 50 favorite albums, ranked by preference.
Don’t post the list here; instead, message it directly to @Woob_woob.
Have fun.
The N&G Top 500 Albums of All Time!!!
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Just make a list of your top 50 favorite albums, ranked by preference.
Don’t post the list here; instead, message it directly to @Woob_woob.
Have fun.
No rules, just come up with your 50 favorite albums and don’t publish your list until instructed (we’re still figuring out if lists will be made public before or after a master list). Other than that, hang out and talk about all the reasons why Wesley Willis deserves a spot on the top 500.
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Gavaxeman
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Mtcvinyl
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DM to @Woob_woob by December 1st!
RULES
Other than that have fun. From now til 12/1/2020 feel free to talk up albums, post your list (or dont), talk about albums you think will make the main list but shouldn't, or really anything you'd like. Let's have fun talking about music.
- Voting will be done in private, only votes Dmed to me will count
- Votes will be in the form of list of 50 Greatest Albums lists (50 points for #1, 49 for #2....1 point for #50)
- There are no restrictions on what is considered an album
- All votes are due by 12/1/2020
- Votes can be DMed to me at any time from now til the due date, but once a vote is entered it can't be edited
Other than that have fun. From now til 12/1/2020 feel free to talk up albums, post your list (or dont), talk about albums you think will make the main list but shouldn't, or really anything you'd like. Let's have fun talking about music.
whatwhatsaywhat
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that makes it haaaaaaaaaaaard...but, fortunately, cos only votes dm'd will count, i think i might be the first to share!
last time i did this was 2014...
| The Order | Artist | Album | Year | Nationality |
| 1 | Bob Dylan | Blood on the Tracks | 1975 | American |
| 2 | Television | Marquee Moon | 1977 | American |
| 3 | Bob Dylan | Blonde On Blonde | 1966 | American |
| 4 | The Beatles | Revolver | 1966 | English |
| 5 | The Velvet Underground | The Velvet Underground & Nico | 1967 | American |
| 6 | Bob Dylan | Highway 61 Revisited | 1965 | American |
| 7 | The Beatles | A Hard Day's Night | 1964 | English |
| 8 | The Rolling Stones | Beggars Banquet | 1968 | English |
| 9 | Neil Young | On the Beach | 1974 | Canadian |
| 10 | The Doors | The Doors | 1967 | American |
| 11 | Neil Young | Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere | 1969 | Canadian |
| 12 | The Kinks | Something Else By The Kinks | 1967 | English |
| 13 | Radiohead | OK Computer | 1997 | English |
| 14 | The Beatles | Abbey Road | 1969 | English |
| 15 | The Smiths | The Queen is Dead | 1986 | English |
| 16 | Joy Division | Closer | 1980 | English |
| 17 | Joy Division | Unknown Pleasures | 1979 | English |
| 18 | Pink Floyd | The Dark Side of the Moon | 1973 | English |
| 19 | David Bowie | The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | 1972 | English |
| 20 | The Stooges | Fun House | 1970 | American |
| 21 | Pink Floyd | Wish You Were Here | 1975 | English |
| 22 | Bruce Springsteen | Born to Run | 1975 | American |
| 23 | My Bloody Valentine | Loveless | 1991 | Irish |
| 24 | The Avalanches | Since I Left You | 2000 | Oztrayan |
| 25 | Neil Young | After the Gold Rush | 1970 | Canadian |
| 26 | PJ Harvey | Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea | 2000 | English |
| 27 | Bruce Springsteen | Darkness On the Edge of Town | 1978 | American |
| 28 | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin IV | 1971 | English |
| 29 | The Stone Roses | The Stone Roses | 1989 | English |
| 30 | Crosby, Still & Nash | Crosby, Still & Nash | 1969 | Cosmopolitan |
| 31 | Joni Mitchell | Blue | 1971 | Canadian |
| 32 | The Beatles | The Beatles | 1968 | English |
| 33 | The Rolling Stones | Sticky Fingers | 1971 | English |
| 34 | Bruce Springsteen | Nebraska | 1982 | American |
| 35 | Bob Dylan | Bringing It All Back Home | 1965 | American |
| 36 | PJ Harvey | Let England Shake | 2011 | English |
| 37 | The Velvet Underground | Loaded | 1970 | American |
| 38 | The Beatles | Let It Be | 1970 | English |
| 39 | REM | Murmur | 1983 | American |
| 40 | Talking Heads | Remain in Light | 1980 | American |
| 41 | Massive Attack | Mezzanine | 1998 | English |
| 42 | The Stooges | The Stooges | 1969 | American |
| 43 | Pink Floyd | The Piper At the Gates of Dawn | 1967 | English |
| 44 | The Beatles | Rubber Soul | 1965 | English |
| 45 | Nirvana | In Utero | 1993 | American |
| 46 | The Smiths | Meat Is Murder | 1985 | English |
| 47 | The Rolling Stones | Aftermath | 1966 | English |
| 48 | Jeff Buckley | Grace | 1994 | American |
| 49 | The Kinks | The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society | 1968 | English |
| 50 | Portishead | Dummy | 1994 | English |
quick, to the tinker machine!
Marquee Moon, The Queen Is Dead, Stories from the City..., and Stone Roses are definitely on my list! Dummy and Village Green are maybes. Love seeing A Hard Day's Night up high.
The running list that I had been keeping on my phone was limited to one per artist, but I don't think I'll restrict myself this time around.
BjorgenFjorgen
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Anyone got any tips for how you're assembling your list? Just going through your record and digital collections and making a Google Doc that you can drag stuff around to rearrange, using a third-party website, etc.?
Thackeraye
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I created a list in Google docs, which I've added a ranking cell to at the side of each one. Plan is to then sort by that column to get my final order. I have all my digital files in a NAS, so I was able to go through that to pick out my albums, then add the records.
waruv
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So after Dedicated, Dedicated Side B, Emotion, Emotion Side B, Kiss, and Tug of War, I just need to find 44 more CRJ albums to round out this list. Cool cool cool.
oldschoolkirby
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Just saw this thread - FUN!!! I will get to work doing this.
jamieanderson1968
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Similar to @Thackeraye I just started a spreadsheet with Artist and album and started to go through my collection. I figure I would make a long list and then start paring it down over the next couple of weeks with the plan to submit by Nov 1
supahypeag
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We have 6-7 albums overlapping. Also, bold to go with In Utero over Nevermind!
BjorgenFjorgen
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NAS?
whatwhatsaywhat
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and i think it'll be higher in 2020!
Thackeraye
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Network Attached Storage. Basically a box with 4 hard drives in it that gives me loads of storage and an element of backup. Got 8 or 9TB which has music, movies and other files.
Thackeraye
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+1 for In Utero over Nevermind.
They're both great albums of course, but I do think it's hard to have Nevermind as a favorite given how overplayed it was. Remember, this is not a "greatest" albums list.
So I have 50 now. I might want to tweak with the order before I reveal all, I think I might do a reverse play through on Insta for my reveal, cross posting here in groups of 10 might be fun...
Anyway here’s a list of considered ones that didn’t quite make the grade. The near misses if you will. This isn’t exhaustive and of course there may well be some Beatles, Dylan, Bowie, Radiohead, etc. ones that come higher but I’ve only included the odd bigger one by those artists here as they are well represented in my top 50 and regurgitating their discography is no fun for anyone.
So, in no particular order, my honourable mentions are:
The Beatles - Revolver
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
Arctic Monkeys - AM
The Band - Songs From Big Pink
The Clash - London Calling
Buzzcocks - Love Bites
Tom Waits - Mule Variations
The War On Drugs - Lost in the Dream
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Travelling Willburys - Volume 1
Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
Morrissey - Viva Hate
Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
Nirvana - In Utero
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Idlewild - Hope Is Important
The Coral
Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run
The Stone Roses
The La’s
Suede - Dog Man Star
Prince - Sign “O” The Times
Prince - Purple Rain
Pulp - Different Class
Elastica
Joni Mitchell - For The Roses
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Anyway here’s a list of considered ones that didn’t quite make the grade. The near misses if you will. This isn’t exhaustive and of course there may well be some Beatles, Dylan, Bowie, Radiohead, etc. ones that come higher but I’ve only included the odd bigger one by those artists here as they are well represented in my top 50 and regurgitating their discography is no fun for anyone.
So, in no particular order, my honourable mentions are:
The Beatles - Revolver
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
Arctic Monkeys - AM
The Band - Songs From Big Pink
The Clash - London Calling
Buzzcocks - Love Bites
Tom Waits - Mule Variations
The War On Drugs - Lost in the Dream
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Travelling Willburys - Volume 1
Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
Morrissey - Viva Hate
Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
Nirvana - In Utero
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Idlewild - Hope Is Important
The Coral
Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run
The Stone Roses
The La’s
Suede - Dog Man Star
Prince - Sign “O” The Times
Prince - Purple Rain
Pulp - Different Class
Elastica
Joni Mitchell - For The Roses
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command