Interference's Top 100 Albums of All Time - Results Thread

[Irishteen]

#9 - The Beatles - Revolver

Irishteen made three alters to get this album up here.

Nicely played LM

They certainly have gotten huge faster than even they probably would have liked, but they're still pretty much no names for your average person. Regardless, they are an indie band, Merge honestly didn't even push them at first, you seriously could NOT find the album anywhere when it was released in 2004. Love or hate em, Pitchfork completely made Arcade Fire.

Not here at all, here they're seriously insanely popular. Neon Bible spent forever in the charts, Intervention was a massive single and mainstream radio played it so so much. It makes no sense but Arcade Fire are so mainstream here and it wasn't Pitchfork that made them. It was a performance at a festival that every newspaper has been talking about for like 3-4 years

 

[onebloodonelife]

That all said, it still saddens me to think this is going to be the most highly rated indie album on the list, when I could name numerous indie albums from just the last 8 years that didn't even make the 100 list that are far more impressive, enjoyable, important.

 

[LemonMelon]

#8 - Led Zeppelin - IV

The one with Stairway To Heaven on it.

*Yawn* This album is predictable and boring. The first opening 3 minutes of When The Levee Breaks is just stunning though. Easily the highest point in Zeppelins plagiaristic overrated career.

I am absolutely sick of hearing Stairway to Heaven and When the Levee Breaks... so overplayed. And I never really liked them to begin with. Too boring.

Here's what to do if you get bad service in a dinner.

Before you leave, put dollar in the jukebox and select Stairway To Heaven 3 times.

Plant must be the worst singer ever!

Kind of epitomizes everything I hate about music, the suburbs, and white men over 40.

 

[onebloodonelife]

Moar Zeppelin?!?

 

[bono_212]

 

[Screwtape2]

Houses of The Holy and Zep 2 run circles around 4.

 

[onebloodonelife]

I would have put The Shins way higher than Arcade Fire, for example...and I like Arcade Fire.

I had two Shins albums and no Arcade Fire albums.

 

[u2popmofo]

Not here at all, here they're seriously insanely popular. Neon Bible spent forever in the charts, Intervention was a massive single and mainstream radio played it so so much. It makes no sense but Arcade Fire are so mainstream here and it wasn't Pitchfork that made them. It was a performance at a festival that every newspaper has been talking about for like 3-4 years

Look at your timelines. They WOULDN'T have even had the album sold in stores in Ireland or performed at ANY festival had their Pitchfork lovefest not happened.

 

[Irishteen]

Look at your timelines. They WOULDN'T have even had the album sold in stores in Ireland or performed at ANY festival had their Pitchfork lovefest not happened.

It still surprises me that anyone actually takes a pitchfork review seriously...

I've never even heard of Pitchfork off the internet...seriously, it's not as big here as it is over there

 

[LemonMelon]

#7 - U2 - The Unforgettable Fire

The REAL opiate of the masses.

What's the point of hiring Brian Eno to produce your record if you keep doing the same old tired meat'n'potatoes "rawk"? (Okay, so Eno gets his head on "Elvis Presley And America". Uh-oh.)

Ironically, the album is pretty much forgettable. It's not all that bad it's just that U2 are one of the most overrated bands around, and even though this was produced by Brian Eno, this release doesn't really do much for me. The most recognisable track is Pride (In The Name Of Love) which you often hear when turning on the radio, and it's alright but defiantly no classic. Vocally, Bono is weak in a few places and I just found this a bit bland – there’s much better doing the rounds than this.

I can't even get past the first song.
Listening to it felt like drowning very slowly in a swamp.
I just had to get out.

Brian Eno's production here is both a good and bad thing: on the one hand, he releases their more experimental side, allowing the band to construct interesting aural experiments that are definitely an antidote to their God-bothering bore October. On the other hand, U2 the post-punk band were far more focused and disciplined; here, songs can tend towards freeform avant-garde jams, and, despite what pretentious people may claim, nobody really enjoys freeform avant-garde jams. Pretentious people are liars.

I don´t like U2 at all.. It´s just a teenage phenomenom. And this album is pretty boooooooring, but there is something good, too. Some of those songs have some potential, like the opener, "A Sort of Homecoming". And another enjoyable thing is Bono´s great vocal performances. I´m ashamed for admitting that but it´s true.

After all, this album doesn´t give anything special. Few good sounds and so on... Sounds like average album to me. Not shit but not good either. U2 will always be pretty lame band for me.

For teens, this is a dream come true.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Zeddy Leppelin!

This list better be over before my Selma Blair show starts. And we've got The Office and 30 Rock comin up after that. helllllllllz yeah. i love television.

 

[bono_212]

 

[Axver]

GO TUF!



clf

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

who the fuck is U2? seriously?

 

[Irishteen]

This list can only go down hill from here

 

[Axver]

Yeah, UF is the real #1. LM miscounted.

 

[bono_212]

GO TUF!



clf

Good job team Axohly

 

[onebloodonelife]

TUF, right in the top 10 where it belongs.

 

[LemonMelon]

#6 - Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon

Meh.

Impossible to listen to. Radio and stoopid Pink Floyd fans have made this impossible to hear. It's not really that great.. Good for drugs that need to listen to something while they are being used. Just impossible. Impossible to rate this. Can't help but give it a bad rating because it is like Disneyland or something.. Avoid this album at nearly all costs (and by that I mean, of course, do not spend money on it! You can practically 'breathe' this one in.. )

nasty highly dated hippy shit

AVOID

ROGER WATERS CRIES.

ROGER WATERS CRIES ABOUT FUCKING EVERYTHING.

He as cried about having a loving mother.

He has cried about being lucky enough to have an education at all, much less a good education in one of the richest countries on earth.

He has cried about being born into wealth.

He has cried about being a popular musician.

And on this album he cries about fucking time itself. Yes, Roger, the world is conspiring against you to make you old. No one else can feel your pain you little bitch.

Oh, and he cries about the evils of money but he sure doesn't have a problem spending the profits from one of the five best-selling albums in history. Hey, if you don't want your money to be evil, why don't you spend your billions of fucking pounds helping build infrastructure in the third world instead of putting on *the most expensive stage shows in history*.

Roger Waters is the worst human being ever to have existed. No one is a greater representative of self-importance and victim complex. He has willingly embraced all of humanity's worst excesses. The Pink Floyd discography is the description of hell: Focused self-importance, arrogance, misanthropy and an unending sense of entitlement. I am a lesser person for living in the same world as Pink Floyd.

The most obnoxious, pretentious piece of crap you're ever likely to hear. I hate Pink Floyd!

Whoever decided that this 42 minutes of cocky, uneventful guitar-vomit warranted the label of "greatest album of all-time" was obviously a child-porn fanatic, who wanted some "spacey shit to set the mood".

The completely meaningless and dull shit entrenched within Dark Side would however, along with the chloroform, also be pragmatic in putting the kids to sleep afterwards. I suppose the fact that it's wholly forgettable would also be another positive aspect. I mean, for the molester and all.

 

[Axver]

who the fuck is U2? seriously?

Some guys who rip off Girls Aloud and Christ Martin.

 

[cdisantis83]

Sorry, but I cannot believe that an album with "Elvis Presley & America" on it can rank in the top 10 of all time. Top 25, perhaps - but not top 10.

 

[Irishteen]

Yeah, UF is the real #1. LM miscounted.

FACT

For all I disagree with Axver, he's 100000000% right in this regard

 

[bono_212]

meh indeed.

 

[joyfulgirl]

This is the classic rock top 100. :snore:

 

[Screwtape2]

My prediction for the next five:

5. Born To Run
4. OK Computer
3. Abbey Road
2. The Joshua Tree
1. Achtung Baby

 

[Irishteen]

This is the classic rock top 100. :snore:

Funeral sure got old fast

 

[bono_212]

still

 

[Axver]

Both Animals and WYWH should be ahead of DSOTM. Well ahead.

 

[joyfulgirl]

My prediction for the next five:

5. Born To Run
4. OK Computer
3. Abbey Road
2. The Joshua Tree
1. Achtung Baby

...looks about right

 

[LJT]

I think I have about 10 of the albums in this list that were in my top 50.....