cobl04
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Not something we've done in a very, very long time. What's your top 10 albums of all-time? (I'm listing 11 cos I can't boot one mine, lol.)
List yours, but please, let's also try and discuss a little bit. Everyone welcome, not just us random circlejerks. Also, try to order them. Makes it that much harder.
1. U2 - Achtung Baby
2. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
3. Radiohead - In Rainbows
4. Steely Dan - Aja
5. U2 - The Joshua Tree
6. Outkast - Aquemini
7. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
8. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
9. Destroyer - Kaputt
10. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
11. The Who - Quadrophenia
I had a rock solid top five for years - Dark Side / Achtung / JT / Aja / Quadrophenia but I just constantly continue to grow more fond of Achtung Baby. I always know what I'm gonna get with DSOTM, which is an unmatched and incredibly life-affirming listening experience, but every time I go back to Achtung it just blows me away. Mysterious Ways is my least favourite track on it, which should say something.
A note that in the past say two years, the amount of times I have listened to Achtung/DSOTM/JT/Aja/Quadrophenia cumulatively is like five or six times. I do find it weird that I very rarely listen to albums I love so much, but - and Quadrophenia has dropped off a little for me, as you can see, and been comfortably replaced by In Rainbows - I find that I can't just play my absolute favourites whenever I want. Like just now, I just tried to put on In Rainbows and within five seconds of 15 Step starting up I got anxious and turned it off, because it means SO much to me, and to listen to these albums, I really have to be mentally prepared. Is that weird? Does anyone else do that?
Quadrophenia is a record I've not listened to in a long time, but I keep it here because it was top five for me and I know whenever I do listen to it I'm awe of how good it is - easily The Who's best record.
Aquemini is probably the ~least best~ album here, but it's fucking Outkast, and even when they were making an album that is about 15 minutes too long and not especially cohesive, it was still the best hip-hop record ever made.
Of the recent stuff, Kaputt is a vision completely and totally realised and one that succeeds in spite of those 80s soft rock knockers. MBDTF is without any shred of a doubt a modern masterpiece and an album that we will absolutely be talking about in 10, 20, 50 years time. TPAB is even more expansive and whilst I consider it to absolutely be the equal of MBDTF - maybe (even probably) better - I honestly think it's going to take quite a few years until it really reveals all of itself to us. It rises in my estimation constantly, and it's cinematic (fuck you iYup). And then there's TWFM, and I know I'm probably in the minority thinking it's the best National album, but there you have it. Whenever I listen to it, I'm completely stunned by how many really, really fucking good songs it has; there's at least eight in my mind, which might be the highest number of any album on my list.
The main apologies go to Sufjan's Age of Adz, Abbey Road & The White Album, The Soft Bulletin (even though I prefer Embryonic), Jon Hopkins' Immunity, Another Green World, Bon Iver Bon Iver, of course OK Computer, and a few I'm blanking on. I also note that there's not a single woman involved in any of my above records. I don't buy into the argument that's inherent sexism, because your taste is your taste and there's plenty of female artists I love, but it does concern me a little.
As for David Bowie. U2 is and always will be my favourite band of all time, but David Bowie is my favourite artist (if that makes any sense). And the reason he's not here is because I have never been able to pick my favourite of his, out of like, six or seven albums. All of them are immense but I just can't choose and so as such I can't put any of them top 10, even though they all deserve to be.
Anyway, over to you, my friends
perhaps we'll even find some new albums to listen to!
List yours, but please, let's also try and discuss a little bit. Everyone welcome, not just us random circlejerks. Also, try to order them. Makes it that much harder.
1. U2 - Achtung Baby
2. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
3. Radiohead - In Rainbows
4. Steely Dan - Aja
5. U2 - The Joshua Tree
6. Outkast - Aquemini
7. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
8. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
9. Destroyer - Kaputt
10. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
11. The Who - Quadrophenia
I had a rock solid top five for years - Dark Side / Achtung / JT / Aja / Quadrophenia but I just constantly continue to grow more fond of Achtung Baby. I always know what I'm gonna get with DSOTM, which is an unmatched and incredibly life-affirming listening experience, but every time I go back to Achtung it just blows me away. Mysterious Ways is my least favourite track on it, which should say something.
A note that in the past say two years, the amount of times I have listened to Achtung/DSOTM/JT/Aja/Quadrophenia cumulatively is like five or six times. I do find it weird that I very rarely listen to albums I love so much, but - and Quadrophenia has dropped off a little for me, as you can see, and been comfortably replaced by In Rainbows - I find that I can't just play my absolute favourites whenever I want. Like just now, I just tried to put on In Rainbows and within five seconds of 15 Step starting up I got anxious and turned it off, because it means SO much to me, and to listen to these albums, I really have to be mentally prepared. Is that weird? Does anyone else do that?
Quadrophenia is a record I've not listened to in a long time, but I keep it here because it was top five for me and I know whenever I do listen to it I'm awe of how good it is - easily The Who's best record.
Aquemini is probably the ~least best~ album here, but it's fucking Outkast, and even when they were making an album that is about 15 minutes too long and not especially cohesive, it was still the best hip-hop record ever made.
Of the recent stuff, Kaputt is a vision completely and totally realised and one that succeeds in spite of those 80s soft rock knockers. MBDTF is without any shred of a doubt a modern masterpiece and an album that we will absolutely be talking about in 10, 20, 50 years time. TPAB is even more expansive and whilst I consider it to absolutely be the equal of MBDTF - maybe (even probably) better - I honestly think it's going to take quite a few years until it really reveals all of itself to us. It rises in my estimation constantly, and it's cinematic (fuck you iYup). And then there's TWFM, and I know I'm probably in the minority thinking it's the best National album, but there you have it. Whenever I listen to it, I'm completely stunned by how many really, really fucking good songs it has; there's at least eight in my mind, which might be the highest number of any album on my list.
The main apologies go to Sufjan's Age of Adz, Abbey Road & The White Album, The Soft Bulletin (even though I prefer Embryonic), Jon Hopkins' Immunity, Another Green World, Bon Iver Bon Iver, of course OK Computer, and a few I'm blanking on. I also note that there's not a single woman involved in any of my above records. I don't buy into the argument that's inherent sexism, because your taste is your taste and there's plenty of female artists I love, but it does concern me a little.
As for David Bowie. U2 is and always will be my favourite band of all time, but David Bowie is my favourite artist (if that makes any sense). And the reason he's not here is because I have never been able to pick my favourite of his, out of like, six or seven albums. All of them are immense but I just can't choose and so as such I can't put any of them top 10, even though they all deserve to be.
Anyway, over to you, my friends
perhaps we'll even find some new albums to listen to!
