Top 30 best Norwegian albums of all time according to Nye Takter critics

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.

no JAGA JAZZIST, no ULVER, NO FUCKEN' WAY

Mm-yeh, Jaga Jazzist-less-ness sorta hurts the eye. A bit.

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.

As does De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas by Mayhem.

does this magazine not feature Extreme / Black Metal ?

apart from Darkthrone !

No Emperor, Enslaved, Ulver

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.

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.

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".

and what about bel canto? and grieg? and jan garbarek? that list stinks. from the bottom to the top.

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.

The Spirit list seems a tad less subjective, even though there is a 90s/00s bias very typical of Spirit.

Absolute Steel?

I know the big four— Röyksopp, A-ha, Darkthrone and Turbonegro.

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.

"What We Must" was in the Spirit Top 40 4 years ago.

Geir, It was actually "A Livingroom Hush"

[What We Must - was released in 2005]

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.

thanks for this thread, geir

Tell me about This Is The Kung Fu Beat - Kung Fu Girls.

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.

No Emperor, Enslaved, Ulver

None of these have released anything as good as A Blaze In The Northern Sky and you know it.

I wonder if there is an updated list.

i don't know much about norwegian music, but i have no doubt that Cheater by Pom Poko would belong on that list