pretty cool that the darkthrone album is up there though. can't say I'm at all familiar with Norwegian music outside a few black metal bands.
― Mark Clemente, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 13:26 (sixteen years ago) link
no JAGA JAZZIST, no ULVER, NO FUCKEN' WAY
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 13:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Mm-yeh, Jaga Jazzist-less-ness sorta hurts the eye. A bit.
― t**t, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 13:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I would say that Timothy's Monster is the most important Motorpsycho album, but Blissard is usually my favourite, and along with Let Them Eat Cake all three probably deserve a place in this list.
― myopic_void, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 14:45 (sixteen years ago) link
As does De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas by Mayhem.
― myopic_void, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
does this magazine not feature Extreme / Black Metal ?
― djmartian, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
apart from Darkthrone !
― djmartian, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link
No Emperor, Enslaved, Ulver
― djmartian, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
another list 4 years ago... count how many albums are on both lists
The 40 Best Norwegian Albums of All Time (Spirit magazine) http://tinyurl.com/2c2otp
Voted by 37 Norwegian music journalists. Printed in the Norwegian tabloid Dagbladet, May 31, 2003.
― djmartian, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link
count how many albums are on both lists
Okay! The number is 16. Reasonably large overlap, I think. In addition alternative choices for Raga, Biosphere, Madrugada.
I suspect the Nye Takter list was designed by committee rather than by votes. Spirit's list (a hip-hop album notwithstanding) seems narrower in scope than NT's, which possibly by design includes one album each from genres like 70s rock (Prudence), metal (Darkthrone) and utterly nonhip semifolkish rural norwericana mumpop (Nordstoga) etc (nb that last one may be way off, I'm really at a loss for how to put it across). NT seems to have gone out of their way to avoid two albums by the same artist, except for the "unavoidable" deLillos pair.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
NT seems to have gone out of their way to avoid two albums by the same artist, except for the "unavoidable" deLillos pair.
And yet they left out "Et Hundeliv", "Neste Sommer", "Blodig Alvor Na Na Na" and "Varme Dager".
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
and what about bel canto? and grieg? and jan garbarek? that list stinks. from the bottom to the top.
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Garbarek (possibly also Jaga Jazzist) must have been left out on purpose, in that jazz has been defined out (Terje Rypdal was still a rock act by 1968 when "Bleak House" was released). Seems weird then that jazz singer Radka Toneff is in there though.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
The Spirit list seems a tad less subjective, even though there is a 90s/00s bias very typical of Spirit.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Absolute Steel?
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I know the big four— Röyksopp, A-ha, Darkthrone and Turbonegro.
― I eat cannibals, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link
The Jaga Jazzist album I own (when they were actually just called Jaga), "What We Must", isn't so much jazz as progressive-post-pop with loads of brass instrumentation.
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link
"What We Must" was in the Spirit Top 40 4 years ago.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Geir, It was actually "A Livingroom Hush"
[What We Must - was released in 2005]
― djmartian, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 22:50 (sixteen years ago) link
hmmmm, i know that the list is probably deliberately scant on black metal, but no mention for 'in the nightside eclipse' is a little baffling.
― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link
thanks for this thread, geir
― mitya, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Tell me about This Is The Kung Fu Beat - Kung Fu Girls.
― DavidM, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Apparently they were a "fuzz pop band". I remember the name, not much more, but those who were into them were huge fans apparently. They didn't last long though, only released one more album in 1995 and then no more.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 27 September 2007 07:54 (sixteen years ago) link
None of these have released anything as good as A Blaze In The Northern Sky and you know it.
― Siegbran, Friday, 28 September 2007 12:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I wonder if there is an updated list.
― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, 6 January 2024 22:20 (three months ago) link
i don't know much about norwegian music, but i have no doubt that Cheater by Pom Poko would belong on that list
― tremolo, Sunday, 7 January 2024 13:25 (three months ago) link