The N&G Top 500 Albums of All Time!!!

15-11 has a couple unpopular or unheard of choices 😂


15. This has a whopping 120 Spotify plays per month, it’s been a favorite for a long time but I don’t expect anyone else to find attachment to it. The band is called The Return and the album is Build me a Reason. 50DA23BE-5CED-454E-8559-803EA1523CB0.jpeg

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11. No regrets. Fun fact, I have a covered up Alkaline Trio tattoo. I felt personally abandoned as an emo kid when they came out with the atrocity that was Crimson and covered it up in protest (is there anything more petulant and emo then that 🤣?). That doesn’t change the fact that this album has meant a lot to me through the years.

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Alright, after MUCH hand-wringing and hair-pulling, I believe I've finally narrowed down my list! It was rough, and before I do the slow-drip reveal, I wanted to give a special shout-out to some honorable mentions; these were the ones I had the hardest time removing from my top 50

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cbl said:
15 & 11 in your top 5...14 in top 50?
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13 and 11 in top five (though that may have to change to top ten.... aaagh, decisions!), and 15 in top 50! I'm gonna have to go back and revisit that Tom Waits album sometime soon, I remember digging it when I first checked it out but it sorta slipped my mind once I was introduced to the madness that is Rain Dogs and onward
 
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Joe Mac said:
Has there not always been a fairly sizeable train of thought that his music was technically proficient but boring as hell?
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Ive always found his solo works pretty damn boring... with the exception of Unplugged which is one of the best live albums ever recorded and works specifically because it allows the melodies and skill inherent to his music to shine through.

I know we are doing top 50’s but I’m working on a top 100 that I’m going to post and Unplugged may wind up on it in part because I’m limiting myself to 1 album per artist but also because it was such a go-to during HS as one of the few albums that both my parents and I enjoyed (anything Simon and Garfunkel or The Beatles + Moondance being the others).

Considering how deep my parents love of music runs (mom was a touring backup singer, dad sold high end stereo equipment at a shop in Denver for 30 years), their taste in music is exceptionally bland and singer / songwriter heavy. Basically, they don’t like anything that strays from a melody.

Unplugged might be “white suburban music”, but there is something to be said for the way it crossed generations in it’s appeal. As evidenced by the fact that I know numerous millennials who have a copy in their record collection. It’s also an album that could be enjoyed by people who like their music simple and people who like their music more technical and instrument driven.
 
I'm loving this; reading your guys' lists is awesome and I'll be making a list of stuff to listen to from your lists.

So it's time to start listing mine I think. I can't wait to see the big list.
You rock @Woob_woob

Also, of these five I'm missing two on vinyl with one of them never having been pressed.

50 Chris Smither - Live as I'll Ever Be
49 Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Couldn't Stand the Weather
48 Velvet Underground & Nico - S/T
47 Willie Nelson - Teatro
46 Phish - Picture of Nectar
 
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