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

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