COUNTDOWN: Top 50 Music Albums Of All-Time.

BonnieSituation

Reberetta wrote: »

25th 33 pts

Def Leppard
Hysteria (1987)

Chart Peak Ireland /UK/ USA: 89?/1/1
Singles: "Animal","Women", "Pour Some Sugar on Me", "Hysteria", "Armageddon It", "Love Bites", "Rocket"
Nominated by Kolido, bubblypop, bigtimecharlie



Ten things you didn't know about Hysteria.

The awesome secret hiding in Def Leppard's Hysteria singles.

I watched a documentary on the making of Hysteria a few years back and it has to be one of the best music docs I've ever seen.

Elliot talking about writing "Pour Some Sugar..." is gas.

Sheridan81

The Colour and the shape by Foos
Velvet Underground's debut
Unknown Pleasures by JD

I approve. I like the last track on Foos album alot, forget it's name now. "I felt like this on my way home, I'm not scared.."

BonnieSituation

Reberetta wrote: »

24th 33 pts

Stevie Wonder
Songs In The Key Of Life (1976)
Playlist and documentary.
Chart Peak Ireland /UK/ USA: ?/2/1
Singles "I Wish", "Isn't She Lovely", "Sir Duke", Another Star", "As"
Nominated by Pretzill, Plentyohtoole, The Floyd P



Inside story of the album.

This album has always left me cold. He just does very little for me.

BonnieSituation

Sheridan81 wrote: »

The Colour and the shape by Foos
Velvet Underground's debut
Unknown Pleasures by JD

I approve. I like the last track on Foos album alot, forget it's name now.

New Way Home

Sheridan81

BonnieSituation wrote: »

This album has always left me cold. He just does very little for me.

Haven't listened to it. Some, like Lionel Richie and Boy George, say he's not even blind :pac:

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Sheridan81 wrote: »

The Colour and the shape by Foos
Velvet Underground's debut
Unknown Pleasures by JD

I approve. I like the last track on Foos album alot, forget it's name now. "I felt like this on my way home, I'm not scared.."

New Way Home. One of their greatest songs, IMO.

Reberetta

22nd 35 points

The Beatles
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band (1967)

Chart Peak Ireland /UK/ USA: 2/1/1
Singles: None?
Nominated by Plentyohtoole, splashthecash, Pretzill

Portions of Sgt. Pepper reflect the Beatles' general immersion in the blues, Motown and other American popular musical traditions.

The author Ian MacDonald writes that when reviewing their rivals' recent work in late 1966, the Beatles identified the most significant LP as the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, which Brian Wilson, the band's leader, had created in response to the Beatles' Rubber Soul. 

McCartney was highly impressed with the "harmonic structures" and choice of instruments used on Pet Sounds, and said that these elements encouraged him to think the Beatles could "get further out" than the Beach Boys had. He identified Pet Sounds as his main musical inspiration for Sgt. Pepper, adding that "[we] nicked a few ideas", although he felt it lacked the avant-garde quality he was seeking. Freak Out! by the Mothers of Invention has also been cited as having influenced Sgt. Pepper. According to the biographer Philip Norman, during the recording sessions McCartney repeatedly stated: "This is our Freak Out!" The music journalist Chet Flippo stated that McCartney was inspired to record a concept album after hearing Freak Out!

Indian music was another touchstone on Sgt. Pepper, principally for Lennon and Harrison. In a 1967 interview, Harrison said that the Beatles' ongoing success had encouraged them to continue developing musically and that, given their standing, "We can do things that please us without conforming to the standard pop idea. We are not only involved in pop music, but all music."

McCartney envisioned the Beatles' alter egos being able to "do a bit of B.B. King, a bit of Stockhausen, a bit of Albert Ayler, a bit of Ravi Shankar, a bit of Pet Sounds, a bit of the Doors".He saw the group as "pushing frontiers" similar to other composers of the time, even though the Beatles did not "necessarily like what, say, Berio was doing".

“Sgt. Pepper” was not universally adored when it appeared. The New York Times panned it, not entirely incorrectly, as “busy, hip and cluttered.” As pop tastes have swung between elaborate musical edifices and back-to-basics reactions, “Sgt. Pepper” has been by turns embraced, reviled and simply ignored.

“Sgt. Pepper’s was the first album I ever bought,” the Modfather told the Guardian in 1995. “I much preferred The Beatles when they dropped all their moptop nonsense and just became themselves. It was real. I loved everything about them - their clothes, their music and, when I was a little older, their attitude.”-Paul Weller

“Sgt. Pepper is special for me because I was born on the 29 May, and it came out on the 1 June,” he said. “So when I was being born in St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, it was being played on hospital radio. It still contains some of the greatest Beatles songs, like a Day in the Life, and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.”-Noel Gallagher

Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne explained the enduring appeal of Sgt Pepper’s in a 2009 interview with Music Radar. “It was a special record – and still is,” he said. “Sgt. Pepper has amazing music, but it’s really about more than the music. It’s of a time, and now it evokes that time. And the amazing thing is, it lasts – there’s nothing retro about it. It’s still very hip, fresh music.”

Who's who on the album cover.

Sgt Pepper at 50: still full of joy and whimsy.

The influence of the album.

The greatest thing you've ever heard or just another album?

BonnieSituation

Reberetta wrote: »

22nd 35 points

The Beatles
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band (1967)

Chart Peak Ireland /UK/ USA: 2/1/1
Singles: None?
Nominated by Plentyohtoole, splashthecash, Pretzill



Who's who on the album cover.

Sgt Pepper at 50: still full of joy and whimsy.

The influence of the album.

The greatest thing you've ever heard or just another album?

And don't get me started on them...

* runs *

speckle

Sheridan81 wrote: »

Haven't listened to it. Some, like Lionel Richie and Boy George, say he's not even blind :pac:

Great advances being made in eye diseases over the last ten years for some conditions... some only restore sight partially. I wonder if it has been partially restored how that might affect his music making? eg Could it overwhelm a person psychologically, affect how one would hear/sense music... Certainly would improve independence ...from tripping over leads...

Arghus

Not my favourite Beatles album, but a damn good album.

Electric Nitwit

Reberetta wrote: »

22nd 35 points

The Beatles
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band (1967)

Just looked at the track listing. It's crazy, I'm sure I've never actively played this album, possibly any Beatles, but I know them all so well. They really are an institution

Arghus

The Beatles are overrated and underrated.

Overrated because they were just a band.

Underrated because there's still loads of people who'll just have them dismissed without even really listening to them.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Arghus wrote: »

The Beatles are overrated and underrated.

Overrated because they were just a band.

Underrated because there's still loads of people who'll just have them dismissed without even really listening to them.

Agreed

Reberetta

21st 36 Pts

REM
Automatic For The People(1991)

Chart Peak Ireland /UK/ USA: 24?/1/2
Singles: Drive, Man On The Moon, The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite, Everybody Hurts, Nightswimming, Find The River
Nominated by Bonniesituation, BPKS, bigtimecharlie, bubblypop, Sheridan81

Despite R.E.M.'s initial desire to make an album of rocking, guitar-dominated songs after Out of Time, music critic David Fricke noted that instead Automatic for the People "seems to move at an even more agonized crawl" than the band's previous release.

Peter Buck took the lead in suggesting the new direction for the album.The album dealt with themes of loss and mourning inspired by "that sense of  turning 30", according to Buck. "The world that we'd been involved in had disappeared, the world of Hüsker Dü and The Replacements, all that had gone . We were just in a different place and that worked its way out musically and lyrically." "Sweetness Follows", "Drive", and "Monty Got a Raw Deal" in particular expressed much darker themes than any of the band's previous material and "Try Not to Breathe" is about Stipe's grandmother dying.

“It was kind of a down record with a lot of minor keys, and we were at the age when Michael was thinking a lot about mortality, so I didn’t expect it to be a huge hit,” said Peter Buck.

The songs "Drive", "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite", "Everybody Hurts" and "Nightswimming" feature string arrangements by former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones. Fricke stated that "ballads, in fact, define the record", and noted that the album featured only three "rockers": "Ignoreland", "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" and "Man on the Moon".

Buck helped turn Bill Berry’s chord sequence for a song with the working title “C Slide To D” into one of REM’s best-known singles, Man On The Moon. The only problem was, with the album already into mixing time it had no lyrics so, under duress from the band, Stipe was sent out to walk laps of downtown Seattle with the track on his Walkman. It worked, Stipe returning with an inspired, surreal narrative centred around comic Andy Kaufman. Recorded and delivered to the record company in a single day, it completed a singular, thought-provoking album that was destined to be massive.

"It pretty much went according to plan," Litt reported. "Compared to Monster, it was a walk in the park. Out of Time had an orchestral arrangement—so, when we did Automatic, judging where Michael was going with the words, we wanted to scale it down and make it more intimate."

"I'm not so crazy about 'The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite'," Peter Buck reflected in 2001, "but overall I think it sounds great.We included it on Automatic in order to break the prevailing mood of the album. Given that lyrically the record dealt with mortality, the passage of time, suicide and family, we felt that a light spot was needed. In retrospect, the consensus among the band is that this might be a little too lightweight."

The now-universal heartbreaker Everybody Hurts, envisaged by Stipe as a duet with Patti Smith, was brought to the studio by Berry, the band eventually settling on a “Stax, Otis Redding Pain In My Heart kind of vibe”. The melody of the album’s sublime piano-led penultimate song Nightswimming, meanwhile, was written by Mills on the same piano that Jim Gordon teased the coda of Derek and the Dominoes’ Layla from.

“Listening back to Automatic, it doesn’t sound like anything else that came out that year,” says Buck. “Looking back at something a relatively young group of people did, I’m proud of them. I think they did a good job.”

A slice of the credit for the fact the record was a commercial success must go to actress Meg Ryan, who dropped in at Bad Animals studio while filming Sleepless In Seattle and persuaded the band the album would sell better if they changed the title of the song “**** Me Kitten” to “Star Me Kitten”.

It has sold over 18 million copies worldwide.

REM reflects on Automatic For The People.

The genius of Automatic For The People.

Never listened to Sgt Pepper's in full either, I'd say I know about 3/4 of the songs there. I do really like most of the ones I know, though "When I'm Sixty-Four" is a bit crap, let's be honest!

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Automatic For The People... excellent choice, can't believe I forgot it when making my choices.

Sheridan81

I got one!! and they owed it all to Meg Ryan.

Sheridan81

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

New Way Home. One of their greatest songs, IMO.

Nothing will ever beat Everlong of course, in my humble opinion.:)

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Sheridan81 wrote: »

Nothing will ever beat Everlong of course, in my humble opinion.:)

Yes, Everlong is the best of course, I'd probably have New Way Home as a close second though.

Reberetta

Everlong, David Letterman's favourite song from his favourite band.

Arghus

Deleted User wrote: »

Never listened to Sgt Pepper's in full either, I'd say I know about 3/4 of the songs there. I do really like most of the ones I know, though "When I'm Sixty-Four" is a bit crap, let's be honest!

McCartney could lean in too far into the whimsy at times. But, yeah, loads of good - A Day in The Life is the best song on it IMO. I remember hearing it for the first time as a kid and been blown away.

REM are one of those bands whose singles I generally really enjoy but have never properly listened to a full album by.

I know five songs on Automatic For the People, two of which I do really like ("Drive" and "Nightswimming"), two that are 'grand' ("Man on the Moon", Everybody Hurts") and one that I'm not a fan of ("The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite", I just find it a bit irritating).

Electric Nitwit

[Deleted User] wrote: »

REM are one of those bands whose singles I generally really enjoy but have never properly listened to a full album by.

I know five songs on Automatic For the People, two of which I do really like ("Drive" and "Nightswimming"), two that are 'grand' ("Man on the Moon", Everybody Hurts") and one that I'm not a fan of ("The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite", I just find it a bit irritating).

Try it, for sure. The singles really aren't the best on it

It's the first album I really remember. I knew music before then, but that's the first one I remember as a whole. I don't listen to it much these days but I still love it

Sheridan81

Sheridan81 wrote: »

Nothing will ever beat Everlong of course, in my humble opinion.:)

I wouldn't really be much of a Foo Fighters fan (don't dislike them, just was never very excited by them) but there's no denying that "Everlong" is an absolute beast of a tune.

speckle

Think I prefer Out of Time by REM,,, radio song.. losing my religion...low...near wild heaven.. and shiny happy people for fun.

Arghus

I think the Foo Fighters in general absolutely suck, but, yeah, Everlong is a good song.

Reberetta

Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite might just be my favourite R.E.M song. Interesting that the band were not enamoured with it themselves. All wrong and me right. :P

Electric Nitwit

speckle wrote: »

Think I prefer Out of Time by REM,,, radio song.. losing my religion...low...near wild heaven.. and shiny happy people for fun.

You forgot Country Feedback, might be my favourite REM song. Definitely in the top something!

Reberetta

Arghus wrote: »

I think the Foo Fighters in general absolutely suck, but, yeah, Everlong is a good song.

I'm not their biggest fan, but I like Friend Of A Friend.

BonnieSituation

Reberetta wrote: »

21st 36 Pts

REM
Automatic For The People(1991)

Chart Peak Ireland /UK/ USA: 24?/1/2
Singles: Drive, Man On The Moon, The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite, Everybody Hurts, Nightswimming, Find The River
Nominated by Bonniesituation, BPKS, bigtimecharlie, bubblypop, Sheridan81



REM reflects on Automatic For The People.

The genius of Automatic For The People.

Woohoo.

That's no. 2 pour moi.

Adore this album obviously, but if you don't know it please get to know "Monty Got a Raw Deal". It's such a phenomenal song and deserves more kudos.

Reberetta

20th 37 pts

Lloyd and the Commotions
Rattlesnakes (1984)
Playlist.
Chart Peak Ireland /UK/ USA: ?/13/?
Singles:"Perfect Skin" (#26 in UK), "Forest Fire" (#41 in UK) and "Rattlesnakes" (#65 in UK)
Nominated by gammygills, Zaph, Hesh's Umpire

The bulk of the album was written by frontman Lloyd Cole, who formed the band while a student at the University of Glasgow. Cole cites Bob Dylan and Booker T. & the MGs as major influences, but also notes the impact of his studies in English and philosophy on both the album's title, a reference to the novel Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion, and its lyrics, which also reference Renata Adler, Simone de Beauvoir and Norman Mailer.

The album's songs were written at Glasgow Golf Club, where Cole's father worked as club master and where the family lived. Cole recalled:

"'Perfect Skin'" and 'Forest Fire' were written one weekend in the basement, underneath the golf club where we used to live and my parents used to work. We'd got our publishing deal so we bought a Portastudio, a DX7 and a drum machine. I demo-ed both of them that weekend and we had a record deal within a month of that; it was that quick. Every single song on Rattlesnakes was written within a year of the record coming out."

Cole described the songs on Rattlesnakes as "about the things people do when they are in love. People get in all sorts of weird scenarios and I quite like the idea of that. I write about that more than anything. Sometimes it is comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes funny and tragic at the same time. After years of trying to deny it, I'm also starting to realise that I basically write about myself."

He later reflected,

"It's like most of [the characters in the songs] live in that same basement flat. It's very romanticised."

After the Commotions broke up, he would later admit to being embarrassed by some of his lyrics on Rattlesnakes:

"'She looks like Eve Marie Saint/In On the Waterfront'. Yes, some of the earlier lyrics were very naive. But I was a young man! I really was. You can just imagine me trying to wear a French trenchcoat at the time, thinking I looked very cool when, in fact, I looked really stupid. But maybe that's why people liked it."

The track "Speedboat" was inspired by the novel of the same name by Renata Adler. In the book the narrator is startled when a rat runs across the table in the restaurant where she and her partner are dining and her partner says, 'You were all right there until you lost your cool": Cole admitted that he stole the line and included it in the song because he loved the phrase.

Cole stated that "Down on Mission Street" is "about a character who says he'll never look back and will step all over other people".The character in "Charlotte Street" is "based very closely on me. My idea of romance obviously is meeting a wonderful, beautiful girl in the library. I wrote that song and it took me a year to realise that I hadn't actually mentioned that it was set in a library. I forgot to put that in, which is a bit stupid really."

Of the album's closing track "Are You Ready to be Heartbroken?", he said, "It's about being so in love there's only one way to go – if you get so happy then you're ready to be heartbroken".

The album was recorded during the British summer of 1984 in The Garden studio in Shoreditch in east London (built and owned by former Ultravox frontman John Foxx), with Paul Hardiman producing. All the band members remembered the recording of Rattlesnakes as a very easy and relaxed process: bass player Lawrence Donegan later said,

"Every day we'd arrive at the studio, lay down a few backing tracks, nip along to Brick Lane for a curry and some pints, then head back and record some more. The album was finished in a month. Happy days indeed."

Guitarist Neil Clark added,

"It was great... Paul Hardiman was great to work with and the weather was great. We just went in and did our stuff. It was like the best job ever at the time. We'd start at 10 am and finish at 6 pm, though I did the 'Forest Fire' solo late one night but that was an exception. We were well organized and we'd played the songs in."

Sounds stated, "Rattlesnakes is a wonderful LP, the most refreshing, uncontrived gorgeous lump of gold to be mined from Scotland in ages, pursuing the alternately vibrant and tender pop courses discovered by 'Perfect Skin' and the classic 'Forest Fire'. And it still finds time for excursions into Dylanesque string-embellished balladry, age-old blues licks or eloquent country melody, all led on by the infinitely capable guitar of Neil Clarke (sic)."

Record Mirror felt that they could "forgive Lloyd Cole his pretentions towards poetry; his band and he have made one of the best debut albums for a long time".

NME ranked it number 21 among the "Albums of the Year" for 1984  and said, "Is there anyone who doesn't like Cole and his cronies, who have made the Velvets do a part C&W album and part deep-south blues-funk – gentle, self-mocking, inoffensive and superbly balanced. Every song is instantly memorable."

 Melody Maker was somewhat more critical, believing that "like Orange Juice's Texas Fever and ABC's The Lexicon of Love, Rattlesnakes is an album of cynicism masquerading as romance. It's about past pop's legacy to the present, rather than love or hate or any of the emotions it feigns. It's about how modes of expression haven't moved on one iota from early Bob Dylan, how a generation bereft of its own voice falls back on playing with the language of its peers."
However, the review went on to state that the album had much to commend it and admitted that it "had been too hard here on purpose because this record's good enough to stand it. Compared to most else around, it's a gem but Rattlesnakes cried out to shed some of that perfect skin. Then, maybe, we'd believe as well as admire."

In the US the reviews were also favourable. Spin claimed that "Lloyd Cole and the Commotions are the most interesting new band since Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, and Rattlesnakes is a brilliant first album... This is the first album I've heard of late that rejects the techno-pop banality we've been drowning in without being overly self-conscious in its minimalism or wearing a chip on its shoulder."

Rolling Stone felt "too much of Rattlesnakes [...] sounds like Lou Reed, Tom Verlaine and Bob Dylan doing the best of Lloyd Cole... But if Rattlesnakes arrives critically short of the greatness claimed for it in the British rock press, its promise is not so easily dismissed... A few more songs like ["Perfect Skin"] and the man really could start a commotion."

Reviewing the 2004 reissue, Mojo hailed Rattlesnakes as "a timeless pop album".Q was less enthusiastic, observing that "the results were, and remain, equal parts irritating and beguiling".

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions: How we made Rattlesnakes.

BonnieSituation

Sheridan81 wrote: »

Nothing will ever beat Everlong of course, in my humble opinion.:)

Everlong has always been my "favourite song" when put on the spot but I think wrt the Foos, it's now in a constant cycle of Everlong, Good Grief, X-Static, Exhausted, Aurora, Low, and The Pretender". Probably.

How bad is it that I've never even heard of Lloyd and The Commotions before?

BonnieSituation

speckle wrote: »

Think I prefer Out of Time by REM,,, radio song.. losing my religion...low...near wild heaven.. and shiny happy people for fun.

I think Up is their best. Lotus is still a gem.

But the rules stepped in and AFTP got the vote for me on the basis of the lifetime memory effect.

NewbridgeIR

Rattlesnakes - great choice! Was bubbling under in my list. Short and no filler.

Sgt Pepper is underrated nowadays - I much prefer it to Revolver.

Automatic top class, only beaten by Fables

NewbridgeIR

BonnieSituation wrote: »

I think Up is their best. Lotus is still a gem.

But the rules stepped in and AFTP got the vote for me on the basis of the lifetime memory effect.

Up is savage; 4th behind Fables - Automatic - Murmur for me

BonnieSituation

Reberetta wrote: »

20th 37 pts

Lloyd and the Commotions
Rattlesnakes (1984)
Playlist.
Chart Peak Ireland /UK/ USA: ?/13/?
Singles:"Perfect Skin" (#26 in UK), "Forest Fire" (#41 in UK) and "Rattlesnakes" (#65 in UK)
Nominated by gammygills, Zaph, Hesh's Umpire



Lloyd Cole and the Commotions: How we made Rattlesnakes.

Another artist/band that always washes over me and I don't get.

S.M.B.

[Deleted User] wrote: »

How bad is it that I've never even heard of Lloyd and The Commotions before?

First album on the list that I'm pretty sure I've never heard a single song from as like you I have no idea who they are.

Electric Nitwit

[Deleted User] wrote: »

How bad is it that I've never even heard of Lloyd and The Commotions before?

I'm glad someone else said it

BonnieSituation

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Up is savage; 4th behind Fables - Automatic - Murmur for me

It'll be going on now as soon as herself goes on a group zoom with her Tan friends in the bedroom and I pour myself a dram of Method and Madness.

speckle

My favorite version of 'with a little help from my friends' is a cover with Joe Cocker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfLyK2DVVUU

Rock n roll never dies

Electric Nitwit

Agree with the love for Up, Walk Unafraid is incredible. It was going to be my tattoo if I ever got one

Reberetta

19th 38 pts

Linkin Park
Hybrid Theory (2000)

Chart Peak Ireland /UK/ USA: 4/4/2
Singles: "One Step Closer", "In the End", "Crawling" and "Papercut"
Nominated by Sawduck, Necro, Y0ssar1an22, Sheridan81

Recorded at NRG Recordings in North Hollywood, California, and produced by Don Gilmore, the album's lyrical themes deal with problems lead vocalist Chester Bennington experienced during his adolescence, including drug abuse and the constant fighting and divorce of his parents. Hybrid Theory takes its title from the previous name of the band as well as the concept of music theory and combining different styles.

The music of Hybrid Theory draws from diverse inspirations. Bennington's singing style is influenced by acts such as Depeche Mode and Stone Temple Pilots, while the riffs and playing techniques of guitarist Brad Delson are modeled after Deftones, Guns N' Roses, U2, and The Smiths.

The song ‘One Step Closer’ was written about the person who signed the band to Warner Bros, after he tried to convince frontman Bennington to leave the band and go solo. The album was a learning curve for frontman Chester Bennington, who had recently joined the band and was “still green and imitating his favourite singers”. Bennington had never screamed in a song before Linkin Park and that they had to loan him CDs to get tips on how to do it. He eventually found it “fun to let all that energy out” when screaming.

The band played for “every major label and most of the indies in LA” before Hybrid Theory and each had rejected them.The album has now been certified by the RIAA for reaching the 12 times platinum mark.

Inside story behind the album.

Interview with Chester Bennington about the album.

BonnieSituation

Reberetta wrote: »

19th 38 pts

Linkin Park
Hybrid Theory (2000)

Chart Peak Ireland /UK/ USA: 4/4/2
Singles: "One Step Closer", "In the End", "Crawling" and "Papercut"
Nominated by Sawduck, Necro, Y0ssar1an22, Sheridan81



Inside story behind the album.

Interview with Chester Bennington about the album.

I hated them.

Then I actually gave this album a chance. It's fantastic. A Cure for the Itch is still a stunning piece of work.

That LP have two albums in the top 50 is mad.

That it's 20 years old is even madder.

lassykk

Deleted User wrote: »

How bad is it that I've never even heard of Lloyd and The Commotions before?

You're not alone

Electric Nitwit

BonnieSituation wrote: »

I hated them.

Then I actually gave this album a chance. It's fantastic. A Cure for the Itch is still a stunning piece of work.

That LP have two albums in the top 50 is mad.

I always loved them but felt that was kinda frowned upon, they were uncool. Then recently I just see more and more people liking them. I suspect its just my perception that was wrong, rather than time changing the world's opinion but I'm delighted that they seem so popular now

BonnieSituation

lassykk wrote: »

You're not alone

If only Olive had an album-worth...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4oZdUV-G-Y

Also Starring LeVar Burton

2 Linkin Park albums in the Top 50... Nice!

I had debated on whether to go with Meteora or Hybrid Theory myself, and Meteora had just a slight edge, but love both albums more or less equally. If I hadn't restricted myself to 1 album per artist, I probably would've had both included in my list.

lassykk

This is a cracking thread I have to say. I think I only nominated one album as I'm not an album sort of music listener in general.

Delighted to see two Linkin Park Albums in the Top 50. I wouldn't have expected that. A brilliant band and I've recently started listening to them all over again and enjoying reliving my teenage years

BonnieSituation

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

I always loved them but felt that was kinda frowned upon, they were uncool. Then recently I just see more and more people liking them. I suspect its just my perception that was wrong, rather than time changing the world's opinion but I'm delighted that they seem so popular now

They were incredibly popular then. They were just in a scene that was empirically naff, or so it seemed from the outside. Anything angsty back then was lumped into the same pile.

I'm glad I made the effort. Can't say I was gone on much of what they did after that, but I would never poo-poo any band that throw out a quality record regardless of its provenance.