SPIN's Top 125 Albums of the Past 25 Years

i do kinda wish i had a copy of disintegration though. my cure love was pretty much all 80's and all vinyl. and that was their first album that i didn't go out and buy right away on vinyl. i always think of it as a cd. (plus, sad to say, i wasn't the hugest fan of kissme3x, and wasn't really eagerly anticipating their next album.)

(loved parts of kissme3x, but i thought it was way too long.)

("never enough" was the last thing i loved by them. which makes me a big fan of their first decade. never really listened to what came after that.)

HoTD seems almost as hit-or-miss as The Top to me, even if the hits are better (though I don't like the hornless version of "Close To Me" on it much). Prefer the albums before and after those two as wholes, would have even expected KMKMKM over Head, but then this is a list that declares Achtung Baby the best/most influential album of the last 25 years.

What? No Bandwagonesque at number 1?

you know what's funny, i really like achtung baby! it's definitely my fave u2 album by a long shot. i just sold u2 and cure records to a guy, like, five seconds ago. he seemed happy.

yeah, it's good, but no. 1 of the past 25 years?!?

this is a stupid list.

xpost Bandwagonesque: It's defiantly there, which it wasn't always in their lists...

Achtung Baby sucks and it's a great list.

u2 albums sell so good. i always try and have some on hand. u2, smiths, cure, rem. i can sell them forever. if i get 4 or 5 smiths records in they are gone in a week or two.

achtung baby doesn't suck. it's got the fly on it! i love the fly!

i hate to hate on this list, though. Aside from some hippie-indie shit and technoid fuckery I'm at least down with the singles on the overwhelming majority of these albums (achtung probably is my fave u2 album!). It'd be a perfectly fine list for canon-hungry kids if not for the plodding format, lazy text and constant threat of a sun chips pop-up if your mouse dare wander.

they also did a great job of ignoring emo!

well, there is that.

emo is horrible.

if my eyes don't deceive me, there's nary a sop to Hot Topic unless you want to count American Idiot. That's more of a line in the sand than leaving out Kid A.

meh. on second viewing, this list is better than i thought. no. 1 is crazy. nos. 2 -- 3 make sense.

pete's right, this is a real 40 year old person's list. it does have good stuff on it. all basically crit faves since day one. kollege klassics!

I laughed out loud when I saw No. 1, and I love that album (but come on). And the mag reads as being written by 40-year-olds who seem perfectly comfortable w/their age, not trying to act younger. (xpost)

"This Is Not a Fugazi Article" reads one of many sub-headlines in what is most definitely a Fugazi article from SPIN in 1991.

I prefer my Cure writing three-minute pop songs instead of nine-minute dirges about crocodiles that rhyme "pain' with "rain."

I am so with you on this...plus "The Blood" is top 10 Cure song for me.

And the mag reads as being written by 40-year-olds who seem perfectly comfortable w/their age, not trying to act younger.

no problem with that. forty-year olds should write like forty-year olds.

word up.

i'm 41 and i write like i'm 17. but i was writing like i was 10 when i was in my 30s, so i'm making some progress.

That was too much math for me.

i'm 42 and i write like i'm 62, but i'm gonna regress over the next 20 years.

of all the bjork albums, they go for Debut?

that's right spin, The Battles Of Los Angeles IS better than the soft bulletin, fables of the reconstruction, endtroducing, rain dogs, american recordings...*gives up*

lol. just give in. THE BATTLES OF LOS ANGELES IS BETTER THAN THE SOFT BULLETIN, FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION, ENDTRODUCING, RAIN DOGS, AMERICAN RECORDINGS.

Congratulation to Rage Against The Machine on their excellent LP

http://www.artsjournal.com/dewey21c/51052rage-against-the-machine-posters.jpg

even better:

http://www.comicartcollective.com/artImages/AFC1771E-08C4-45BF-84EB3CAE28FF3CC2.jpg

that one dude who was always climbing things at awards shows just to prove that you couldn't keep him down! i loved that guy. he was truly raging.

he just had ants in his pants.

actual independent record labels represented on that list? like, six? i can't count them all. i see kill rock stars, sst, dischord, um, matador... oh who cares. tiny labels mostly suck anyway. too emo.

you couldn't hold that guy down with your RULES! with your "corporate award show" RULES. wasn't gonna happen. that dude was gonna climb something. you never knew when, but he would do it.

wait waht? no! so many good small labels. like small wineries.

is their an animated gif of that doofus from nirvana getting bonked in the face with his bass on mtv awards night? i still remember that fondly.

you know what was cool? when the nirvana guy climbed up the side of the MTV studios after their set. f--k a RATM.

I never understood Kid A. I can dig older Animal Collective and Sonic Youth's bizarrest of bizarre, but Kid A seems to be only an album one respects if they're familiar with the rest of Radiohead... as in you're astonished at their progression, or their change of pace. Otherwise, taken as a sole album it just doesn't do very much to impress me.

― kelpolaris, Friday, April 23, 2010 10:09 PM Bookmark

naaaw, I'm an infamous Radiohead playa hata and even I like Kid A

yeah, the nirvana bass player was a doofus. he's a state senator now, right?

well, apparently there weren't a whole lot of GREAT albums put out by tiny labels in the last 25 years. spin says so.

x-post

spin is all-knowing, all-seeing.

i just sold a copy of hello nasty and a tears for fears 12 inch to a woman in her 30's.

tears for fears. i dunno. i'm torn on that band. i mean, shout and everybody wants to rule the world, okay, but after that . . .

i'm a hurting fan 4ever.

sowing the seeds of love! how deranged was that thing? god bless them.

yeah, 'saright. a little too hippie-ish for me.

mind you, i like the politest of the polite indie (iron & wine, the clientele, f--k buttons, bands like that).

they also did a great job of ignoring emo!

http://www.goldensounddist.com/images/Emo%20Phillips/emo_philips_birthday_party.jpg

"... inventing sorrowful anthems ("Oh lordy, trouble so hard")... "

do they not know that MOBY didn't write that?

who reads this magazine? is it like Q?

the only people who read spin are 40 year old men who explode after they fist bump.