Best album of every year since....

Nick this one is fine - lists for the people who like them, fites for the people who don't.

rebuttal to Leonard Bernstein's late 80s remark that James Brown had destroyed pop music (he didn't mean it postively)

I would like to find above quote?. Do you know where I can find it, prefer web, if not book

Dear Matos,
Ocean of Sound is that the cd that accompanies Toop's book?

Dear Geir,
I find your remarks on black music lacking in knowledge

Reggae is a product of the union of West African rythms and European melody and harmony.

Jan

As for GH...oh dear oh dear oh dear. Matos, Blount, I take it all back - let him have it.

geir is mentioned...

More on Geir

here all my second favourite albums from each year then:

1988: Pet Shop Boys 'Introspective'
1989: New Order 'Technique'
1990: Public Enemy 'Fear Of A Black Planet'
1991: U2 'Achtung Baby'
1992: Altern 8 'Full On Mask Hysteria'
1993: Senser 'Stacked Up'
1994: Massive Attack 'Protection'
1995: Tricky 'Maxinquaye'
1996: Underworld 'Second Toughest In The Infants'
1997: Chemical Brothers 'Dig Your Own Hole'
1998: Lo Fidelity All Stars 'How To Operate With A Blown Mind'
1999: Chemical Brothers 'Surrender'
2000: Doves 'Lost Souls'
2001: Zero 7 'Simple Things'
2002: Cassette Boy 'The Parker Tapes'

The Beatles found the perfect formula and future musicans should stick to that one. No need for "innovation".

OK, perhaps nog in Geirs case, but personally I enjoy lots of black music, but the love is mostly for singles rather than albums.

I think his views on 'black music' are completely wrongheaded, but I think that they also expose a little the problems with accepting the linkage of music and race in the first place. IIRC from my old clashes with Geir, tangling with him on his own terms led you to advocate either a kind of pop-taste quota system, or to defend a more flattering version of the idea of 'natural rhythm', or both.

You mean like Please Please Me?

My theory:
Albums are needed because it is the only way to promote cult of personality. People buy records because they identify with the artists.

Singles: singles are better at capturing the mood of the moment. This is why I mainly buy compilations.

Albums I do like are by individuals rather than groups. I guess this has to do with my natural aversion towards groups.

In an MP3 world, the loser will be the album. Singles will thrive (just like ringtones).

Geir,
What was the first consistent rock album?

You mean like these:
"Everybody Loves a Winner"
"You Don't Miss Your Water"
"Do Right Woman - Do Right Man"
"The Dark End of the Street"
"A Change is Gonna Come"
"These Arms of Mine"
"I've Been Loving You Too Long"
"Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)"
"The Happy Song"
"I've Got Dreams to Remember"
"Share Your Love With Me"
"When a Man Loves a Woman"

I'll spare those for my Top 20s of each year coming up later on. :-)

Wow, OK. To each his own. I'll just leave you with this: There's a big wide world of music out there, and I think it's sad that you're able to appreciate only this much of it (holds thumb and forefinger a millimeter apart).

and Geir: first rock album (consistent)? Which was it?

So why not jazz?

Some jazz (particularly the slower songs on several classic jazz albums) is OK, but generally, there is too much inprovisation in jazz.